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The Roger Stevens Building, 1970, by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon for Leeds University South Campus is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Designers: the architectural practice of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon is recognised as significant for their work at Golden Lane and the Barbican in London, and New Hall, Cambridge, and the Roger Stevens Building represents the high point of their Leeds University work * Architecture: the building is an outstanding and individual design with bold external shapes and carefully designed interiors * Planning: the internal spaces are the result of extensive research on the requirements of the university and introduce innovative and influential features such as individual doors into the lecture theatres, and external links intimately with other buildings on the campus by means of multi-level walkways * Intactness: despite the changing requirements of universities, the building has remained largely unchanged, proving the success of its design * Group Value: the building provides a fitting centrepiece to the group of university buildings on the South Campus at Leeds, also recommended for designation
Two M420Ws work hard to get their train up to the crest of the grade just past Werth Road. Alpena, MI.
The westbound track separates to provide a less severe grade, the line climbs 2000 feet in 30 miles.
A grader goes by my driveway pushing snow to the middle of the road . The blower and dump trucks come by after and pick up the snow. Wednesday January 24 2024.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The sun casts shadows on a switchback along Red Grade Road. This steep road is closed to cars in the winter and becomes a popular, snowmobile, ski, and snowshoe trail.
Our peaceful, Grade 1 registered garden is unlike any other with its romantic design and architecture, combining formality with nature and magnificent rural views across an unspoilt valley, whilst beautifully framed architectural gems and antiquities punctuate your visit throughout. Set on the last hill of the Cotswolds, within the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, we hope that all who visit leave here feeling relaxed and inspired.
From its origins in the wool industry, through Georgian gentrification, then Harold Peto’s Edwardian structures, and right up to the present period, the passion of Iford’s inhabitants and its history are inextricably bound up in the beautiful garden’s unique design.
Today, Iford’s story continues to be written in this secluded corner of ‘Olde England’ with a new generation of owners, William and Marianne Cartwright-Hignett, who are taking the garden forward. Their appointment of Troy Scott Smith as Head Gardener (previously Head Gardener at Sissinghurst, Bodnant and The Courts) ensures there is much of horticultural interest throughout the season, as well as architectural and design. The gardens will be expanded yet further over the coming years, whilst refreshing the planting and preserving the heritage within the main garden itself. There will therefore be something new to discover on every visit.
The structural design seen today was largely created by Harold Peto, who lived at Iford from 1899-1933. A man of exquisite taste, with a talent for placing objects sympathetically to their surroundings, he designed gardens for royalty and aristocracy around the world. Trained as an architect, working in partnership with Sir Ernest George, Harold Peto ‘discovered’ a real passion for plants when undertaking work at Gravetye Manor, then home to ‘the father of gardening’ William Robinson.
Learning much about gardening directly from Robinson, Peto subsequently travelled the world, including Japan, Canada, America, Egypt and across Europe, learning about garden design and bringing back plants from all over the world. His skill for garden design, planting and architecture meant that he was in demand, especially on the Cap Ferrat in France where many of the world’s most expensive houses are today. Peto was the architect for several of those villas and gardens, to the extent that the Cap Ferrat was nicknamed ‘Peto Point’ in Edwardian times. Working for royalty, aristocracy and tycoons, his main patrons were the then Countess of Warwick and Isabella Stewart-Gardner.
Influenced mainly by his love of Roman, Italian and Japanese design, he was a promoter of the renaissance period and had a strong influence on the Arts and Crafts period. Striking the balance between formal and informal gardening, between soft planting and hard structure, Harold Peto’s work was appreciated in writings by Gertrude Jeykll and William Robinson.
During the past 55 years, today’s owners, the Cartwright-Hignett family, have lovingly restored the garden (once thought 'lost' after WW2) and continued to develop it, saving the buildings therein, finishing the Oriental Garden area designed by John Hignett and redesigning areas of the garden as they age, 100 years after Peto’s original plantings
NR25 and DL40 leading 4SA8 'Indian Pacific' tackle up the grades through Lawson. This is the first time in two weeks that an IP liveried loco has lead the Indian Pacific out of Sydney.
Lawson, NSW.
Wednesday 18 September 2013.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - After the snow storm ended on Saturday I went snowshoeing up Red Grade Road. Rime ice was sticking to all the trees.
Ayana has been an active participant in her learning this year and has worked carefully and thoughtfully through her assignments. She has performed consistently above grade level expectations throughout the school year in language arts and is proficient in her math skills. Her writing skills are very advanced, as she needs hardly any editing or feedback to improve her written pieces. Her artwork is amazing and inspiring to others. Ayana has a quiet demeanor but she has always been willing to participate and share during discussions and morning meetings, and her contributions have been greatly valued. I have enjoyed learning about her interests and watching her grow in confidence and creativity. I have come to know her as a sensitive and thoughtful individual who takes her learning seriously. It has been a pleasure working with Ayana this year. I am confident that she will continue to do very well in third grade and in the years to come.
2nd Grade, 3rd Trimester Comments.
I have a load of many, many more edits to make from my two eDDie treks but I want to edit and post more of my Switzerland Trail trek during this autumn's aspen color.
I snapped more shots after rounding the curve above Lefthand Canyon but all these curves are above the highway. I captured this shot across another gully beyond the spot where I left off last year where the view opened again after my recent posts. The grade across the gully shown, is on the way to Brainerd's Curve and road down to Brainerd's Mill on LeftHand Road to Ward. This is a colorful spot along the continuing Switzerland Trail narrow gauge railroad grade. Along the grade here, the grade scenery is typical until the view opens up to views beyond.
It's easy to see how much rock was pushed aside from the grade where I am standing at the bottom of the scene. At least the rock shores up the old grade turned back country road. The rock looks like that shown in my recent (four back) Rock ledge shot. Boy, this 1/20/th of a second exposure should be far shakier.
I have to learn to heavily study Weather Underground for current and upcoming weather conditions later in the day. I looked out the window and I saw a possibility of clearing to mixed clouds and blue. The fact is there are a few days open for shooting the best color up here and the Zinky-Dink crowd are promoting dig-and-burn to mix up the atmosphere. In any case, this is my shot. I made another foray up LeftHand Road a day or two later for more color. Unedited shots sit in another work directory.
This autumn snap along the Switzerland Trail to Ward, shows the railroad grade ahead. I trekked above Gold Hill, Colorado and veered along the railroad grade cut with aspirations of reaching the mountain-bound mining camp of Ward as its first true mountain mining town. This day started as a foray into the hills to search for aspen cloaked in showy fall coats. I thought Google maps showed more aspen on this side of the ridge. The color was generally at peak on that day but it may not look like it while along this old grade turned rough road. This is the narrow gauge railroad grade on the northern, Ward branch, west and north from Gold Hill Station atop the ridge. Sunset, Colorado was at the bottom of the ridge in the canyon left of me and was the division point on the Denver, Boulder & Western RR. You'll need your rock tires on if you plan on driving this track; it's been better and mostly smooth as a railroad. Well except when the snow avalanche slid the entire train down the mountainside above here. I chose the reliability of walking; I wanted a quiet stroll. It must have been a highly sought trip when the viewpoint would have been 10 feet higher while in a rocking passenger car. The original grading on the railroad named The Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific RR around the 1885 date made it west to Sunset. The Pacific was impossible. After reorganization, it was routed northwest to Ward and southwest to Eldora, Colorado from the Sunset division point. In the distance, the grade ducks to eventually swing left around the wooded hill.
We reached Eldora looking for the old narrow gauge railroad grade but we searched and never found traces of the grade. I researched the old Central City topo map closely and found it came into town at the south edge of town. I did trace it most of the way from Cardinal to Eldora on Google maps. The grade back down the road to Nederland was heavily trafficked and is probably gone, overlaid with the highway. Because of the dandy aspen, I shot this down canyon view east on Bryan Avenue. If this was the grade, it continued behind me just west of South 6th Street to the depot, gone now. It's interesting the grade hugged the south side of the valley where more snow would pile up in the winter. Eldora was listed as early as 1889 as a shipping point for Caribou silver, five years after Crofutt published his 1885 Colorado Encyclopedia.
Trains would have to back down the canyon until arriving at the wye where the grade from Cardinal and the grade down the canyon to Nederland met. That route was graded to supply Nederland, dodging town and ending at (Tungsten?) the proposed reservoir, with supplies used to build Barker Dam for the Boulder Water District. The Town of Tungsten was at the foot of the dam. It was discovered in the area but ferberite but had no value until WWI when it was found to harden steel for rifle barrels. Tungsten peaked at a population base of 20,000 as the price exploded and made fortunes until it was discovered elsewhere for reasonable prices. I will have to retrace the path when I get back. I'll just show as far north as the Central City topo shows and where the old narrow gauge grade curved into this valley, Eldora and Nederland.
eDDie and I parked on Eldora Street and scattered to seek opportunities. This was near where we parked and was obvious. We are west of Nederland, on the road up to Eldora plus more mining camps, Hessie and Grand Island(?) and up to the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area. Eldorado was the proposed name but the PO nixed it as already in use.
Colorado & Northwestern / Denver, Boulder & Western was popularly named The Switzerland Trail of America. The original RR slipped into bankruptcy when a flood swallowed the trackage up past Wall Street. The southern branch to Eldora was built after reorganization. This is the grade of the Denver, Boulder & Western Railroad grade. This railroad grade seems to remain intact for trail use. There ought to be some cinders around but clearly, there was not a lot of grade here and we only found a trace. The railroad was fondly nicknamed Switzerland Trail by the advertising department. Note that the clip from Crofutts GripSack Guide of 1885 mentions Caribou is 12 miles south from Sunset or “Penn. gulch,” the nearest railroad station. That would seem to be false, but George Crofutt wrote that about 1885. That original railroad was named The Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific around the 1885 date. During the heyday of railroad building, most paper, coupon and budding lines included the name, Pacific, in the hopes of garnering big funding. This line, too, had Pacific dreams. They started drilling a majestic tunnel through the Continental Divide at Yankee Doodle Lake on the Moffat Line. There is no way they could have climbed Pennsylvania Gulch up to the multitudes at their prospective tunnel anyway. Their terminus was Sunset, Colorado, west of Boulder before floods down the hillsides of Four Mile Canyon, denuded by various mining operations, took out all the insubstantial trestles in the valley and rendered the RR broke. The Colorado & Northwestern Railroad, The Switzerland Trail, was organized and the company relaid grade and track up to Sunset then switch backed north on the way up to Ward, Colorado then took a break until the reorganization as the Denver, Boulder & Western Railroad. It was then nicknamed the Switzerland Trail. The company started grading and laying rail up a second switchback south from Sunset to start gaining altitude on a new branch that headed through the New Cardinal area for Eldora. Naturally, Cardinal began migrating closer to the railroad grade. Usually rail development companies shook down the camps for bond sales as they surveyed and graded nearby.
In the classic style of the Rathole, northbound NS intermodal train 224 makes short work of the grade leading into the community of Pine Knot, KY, with the train behind the lead engines slowly trailing off over the horizon on the morning of May 30, 2020.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270183
Date First Listed : 20 June 1972
A mid 19th century shop with accommodation above, rendered with a slate roof, it has four storeys and one bay. In the ground floor is a shop front with a doorway at the left, and in the upper floors are sash windows, one rising to form a gabled dormer.