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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
I'm sorry I don't have anything new to show. This five-month winter in Canada really sucks. February is the worst for me, argh!
A medieval grave cover in the south porch dated 1150, depicting a pair of cropper’s shears, provides the earliest evidence for the textile industry in Calderdale.
Although plague, which claimed the lives of three later vicars, caused considerable economic and social dislocation
in the late fourteenth century, during the fifteenth century the church was substantially enlarged in a magnificent perpendicular rebuilding in order to offer more spacious accommodation for the growing population of the parish sustained by the expanding textile
industry.
On a very rare day out without our children, my husband and I went to the Piece Hall in Halifax (the super narrow shops and very expensive, breakable things they sell mean that we can't really take them with us!)
It's a beautiful Grade 1 listed old building with lots of history (built in 1779 as a place to trade and sell "pieces" of cloth) and I wanted to capture some of its character so I took this 3-shot panorama, stitched in Photoshop, in an attempt to get as much into the image as I could.
There is a lot of information about the history of the Piece Hall here: www.thepiecehall.co.uk/heritage
I would have preferred that the sky was blue for a colour photograph but bright white was the only option so I thought the monochrome was a good choice for this very interesting design of a building.
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After taking this photo, I was questioned at length by two plainclothes policemen who thought that I might be taking inappropriate photos of children and posting them online. They insisted in viewing all of the two hundred or so photos I had taken that day. After doing so they realized that I wasn't a threat. I also think they didn't understand my photography--many people don't. When explained that I was trying to make the people look like ants, they stared at me blankly...
After a long day of rain, a view of the harbor at Halifax with a cruise ship cruising out of the harbor.
Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Only two days ago Halifax made the news in welcoming the largest container ship to ever take port on North America’s east coast.
This is a view of downtown Halifax from the community of Dartmouth which is situated on the east side of the harbour.
Take care and stay safe 😊
The Piece Hall is a Grade I listed building in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was built as a cloth hall for handloom weavers to sell the woollen cloth "pieces" they had produced.
The Halifax Odeon opened on 27th June 1938 with Errol Flynn in “The Perfect Speciman”. Designed by the architect George Coles it cost £59,727 to build. It had 1,344 stalls seats and 714 in the balcony giving a total of 2,058. A most unusual façade remains intact with three concave bays covered with buff faience tiles above the entrance each containing a convex window. The tall Art Deco style tower formerly had the Odeon lettering illuminated by neon. The cinema was not originally intended for the Odeon circuit, but was a subject to a takeover during construction, explaining the differences from the typical ‘Odeon’ style.
The cinema had a wide proscenium and a stylish interior with decoration dominated by two large bas-relief female figures on the splay walls either side of the screen (now removed). Lighting was entirely indirect.
The Odeon closed on 18th October 1975 with Robin Askwith in “Confessions of a Pop Performer”. It stood unused for a while and was later converted into a Top Rank Bingo Club which is still operating as a Mecca Bingo Club today.