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The little cottage, composting toilet, cold water from the well ... Fireplace for heating
Browsing B l a c k M a g i c, this image LOBB
Built by the Public Works Department for a princely £7,000.00, the Mount Buffalo Chalet was opened in 1910 by the Victorian State Government as Australia’s first ski lodge, and it quickly became a popular destination within the alpine region. Initially leased to private enterprise as a guest house, The Chalet was taken over by Victorian Railways in October 1924. Described as the “last word in luxury”, The Chalet featured large sitting rooms, ample fireplaces, a smoking room, well ventilated rooms of capacious size and hot and cold baths. They offered holiday packages with train services running to Porpunkah railway station and then a connecting Hoys Roadlines service. It was a very popular destination for newlyweds as the perfect place for a honeymoon, and over the years traditions began to emerge such as an elegant dress code within The Chalet, a dinner gong to announce dinner, costume parties and grand balls in The Chalet’s ballroom.
Originally intended to be built in granite, cost blowouts of £3,000.00 meant that instead The Chalet was built of timber. To this day, it is still the largest timber construction in Victoria. It was designed in the fashionable Arts and Crafts style of the period. Reminiscent in style to northern European Chalet architecture, the Mt Buffalo Chalet is built on a coursed random rubble plinth, with a series of hipped and gabled corrugated iron roofs. Originally designed as a symmetrical, gabled roof building, early additions were carried out in a similar style and continued the symmetry of the front facade. The second storey addition to the central wing altered the appearance of the building, however the bungalow character was retained. Slender rough cast render chimneys with tapering tops and random coursed rubble bases, a decorative barge board over the main entry, decorative timber brackets supporting timber shingled gable ends, exposed rafters and double hung, paned windows are all typical architectural details of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was constructed over a thirty year period during which time extensions, extra wings and outbuildings were added and removed with the changing times and its tourism demands. Improvements were made soon after construction and these included a golf links in 1911, a north wing addition in 1912 and a south wing and billiard room in 1914. Heating and lighting in The Chalet was improved and upgraded in 1919. Between 1921 and 1922, an addition to the south wing increased bedroom and bathroom facilities. The billiard room was moved to the front of the house and the terraced garden, with rubble granite retaining walls, was laid out at the front of The Chalet. The present dining room, the kitchen and billiard room wings were constructed in 1925, and the original dining room was converted to a ballroom, with a stage. Balustrading along the front of the building was removed and large windows inserted to provide uninterrupted views. Between 1937 and 1938 major alterations were made with the extension of the south wing and a second storey added to the central wing of the building. At this time the provisions for two hundred guests at The Chalet was noted as more than equalling the best Melbourne hotels. Internally, some remnants of decoration remain, reflecting various stages of The Chalet’s development, and these can be viewed through The Chalet’s large windows, where several suites, the lounge and the dining room are all set up to display what the accommodation was like. The formal terraced gardens built around the Mount Buffalo Chalet were seen as a civilising image within the context of the wild and relatively harsh Australian landscape. The key built features if the gardens seen today remain intact. The garden’s shape and form remain largely unchanged from when they were created including the stonewalling, terracing, central set of stairs and exposed bedrock.
The Mount Buffalo Chalet is lovingly sometimes referred to as the “Grand Old Lady”. If nothing else, she is a unique survivor of the earliest days of recreational skiing in Australia. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Register in 1992 and is maintained today as a time capsule to show what life was like when tourism was done on a grand scale.
MAR.1st Aurora ...
After monitoring this relatively stable arc, it was pretty thrilling when this twisting, flaring surge heralded the onset of a substorm ...
And I thought the summer is over as we approach September; I guess I'm wrong because the temperature is quite high in Vancouver in the past few days, especially at noon.
After my haircut in Burnaby, I decided to drop by at the Burnaby Mountain Park. I just stayed there for an hour or so and I already sweated like I just went for a jog.
The only thing I can priase about this weather is that it is not as humid as in Hong Kong. I guess after few more weeks Raincouver will be back :)
Location: Burnaby, BC (Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area)
I rather got my churches in Seal mixed up, there is a much more ancient church in the main part of the village, but St Lawrence is a very fine Victorian church, situated at the edge of a large wood, and was found open.
Despite coming here by accident, I have a soft spot for Victorian churches and glass, so this was one of those good mistakes!
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A romantic story and one of the most atmospheric Victorian churches in Kent. The story starts with the death of the six-year-old daughter of the local landowners whilst on holiday on the Isle of Wight. The daughter, Rachel was buried there at the Church of St Lawrence and here at Seal her parents started to build a church that resembled it. The architect was Howell and the builders Constable of Penshurst (both of whom were working on the patron's house to the north of the churchyard). The church - plain nave and chancel - opened in 1868. In 1876 two transepts were added in memory of another daughter of the patrons who had died aged 14 and the tower was a later addition of 1888. Today the interior is a period piece of late Victorian art. The east window designed by Henry Holliday is by Lavers and Barraud. In the south transept the faces in the glass represent the deceased daughter. Over the choir stalls are fine Venetian lamps, whilst the chandeliers in the nave were gifts from the patrons when the church was built.
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St Lawrence church is named after the parish of St Lawrence on the Isle of Wight - it was there that the 6-year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilkinson of Frankfield (the house you can see across the field to the north of our church) had died in 1866 while on holiday.
In Mary Rachel's memory, the Wilkinsons built our St Lawrence's Church in 1867/8, and once completed, Mary Rachel's remains were exhumed and re-buried in our churchyard as the first entry in St Lawrence's Burials Register.
(You can see a picture of Mary Rachel here as depicted in the top window in our chancel. File size is 1MB!)
Indeed, the original building was modelled on Old St Lawrence Church, Isle of Wight
(a tiny 12th Century church - see the pictures on the windowsill at the west end of the church.)
867Foundation stone laid on 8th October 1867
St Lawrence District was established (4 November, out of the chaplaincy of Seal, originally part of the large parish of Kemsing) by an Order of Her Majesty in Council, and the Revd B P Thompson, M A, was appointed Incumbent on the nomination of Horace Wilkinson, Esq.
1868Church built from Kentish Ragstone from the local Foxbury Quarry, and lined with soft yellow Speldhurst stone.
The Pulpit is also of Speldhurst stone; The white roof of the porch is made of blocks of Otford chalk.
Nave, chancel and open belfry. ( The architect was C H Howell of London)
Church consecrated on 20 June 1868 - our annual Dedication Festival is held on a Sunday on or near this date..
1876Two transepts added in memory of the Wilkinsons' third daughter, Annie Clare, who had died that year, aged 14
1877St Lawrence's established as a separate parish
2-manual pipe organ, built by A Gern of London, hand-pumped!
1888Nave lengthened, and addition of the tower and peal of 6 bells (Tenor 10 cwt) in memory of Sarah Wilkinson (sister to Horace and Conrad Wilkinson)
The previous porch was removed and now forms the lychgate
1909Lectern provided (donated by Joseph Matthews)
1912Enlargement of vestry; Addition of dormer windows to the nave
1918/19Addition of dormer windows to the chancel, dedicated on 15 January 1919 (the anniversary of the day the commemorated son fell at the Somme)
1959Church Council discusses electrification of the church
1960Removal of the front transept pews (to widen the available space; one of the pews is now the one in the porch)
1960sElectricity arrives!
1967Complete rebuild (most recent rebuild) of organ, which was converted to electric pump
1988Radiant (infra-red) heating installed
1998Removal of two pews from the back of the nave (to create a more open meeting area)
2000Removal of one pew from the North transept to allow space for an electric piano
2002Toilet provided (with disabled facilities; it's actually located at the church end of the adjacent school building)
2005Church struck by lightning (select here for details of the fire, and of the restoration work)
November: worship resumes in the nave
2006Fire damage completed, and chancel reordered (removal of inner pews) - celebrated at a re-opening service on 10th December
2009Plans for a second Garden of Remembrance (space for the burial of Ashes) in our churchyard
On Bank Holiday Monday, 30th May 2005, at approx 12:15 pm, St Lawrence’s church was struck by lightning.
The ensuing fire severely destroyed the roof of the chancel (East end of the church), and caused secondary (e.g. smoke)
damage to the rest of the church
Worship and other services continued!
Repair work was undertaken; we were able to return to the cleaned nave by the end of November 2005, and the remaining repairs (including some re-ordering) were completed by late 2006
The church was (and still is) fully insured for the major direct costs
We have lots of Thank You's to share
Our celebration service to mark completion of the repairs took place on Sunday 10 December 2006
During a severe thunderstorm on 30th May 2005 (Bank Holiday Monday) lightning appears to have entered St Lawrence Church at the junction of the vestry roof and the lower edge of the chancel roof. (NB The church did/does have a lightning conductor on the tower, and we had just received a month earlier the certificate indicating it had passed all tests. Moral: Lightning conductors only reduce the chance of damage!)
Two walkers who had been sheltering under the church lychgate from the thunderstorm saw the initial strike. Though without a phone themselves, they alerted a group of young people from local Sevenoaks Churches who (Praise the Lord!) had volunteered to spend their Bank Holiday Monday to prepare a children's garden area at the adjacent St Lawrence School. Like all young people, they had plenty of mobile phones to start making those necessary calls to the emergency services and contacts. (We had a month earlier updated the list in the church porch of our “Who’s Who” of church contacts – keeping an up-to-date noticeboard has always been one of our priorities of demonstrating we are a living church!)
One fire engine was already attending another lightning strike (fortunately much less severe) at Lower Frankfield, so was on site within minutes. Eventually five appliances attended, with attention divided between getting irreplaceable items (altar frontals, etc) out of the church, and stripping off tiles from the roof to expose the burning timbers. Thanks to the fire crews’ great care in using the minimum amount of water, the resulting water damage has not been great.
The chancel arch acted in effect as a fire break, and helped keep the fire to the chancel and vestry roofs. But there was considerable smoke damage throughout the church. On first inspection, there was no damage to the stained glass.
A tin roof was been erected over the chancel, to help repair of its roof
Safety screening was been placed around the damaged chancel and vestry area (with loose tiles and scaffolding etc it was a dangerous area!)
A wooden screen was erected to completely separate chancel from nave. This was so that professional cleaning of the nave could take place independently (and sooner) than the longer-term repairs to the chancel and vestry. This screen was decorated by members of St Lawrence School and our own Sunday School
3 'roundels' by school and two by Sunday School)
The organ was been completely dismantled, cleaned and rebuilt
The electrical system in at least the chancel and vestry had to be replaced (inc. new heaters and lights). Again, we needed also to learn how much damage there may be to the electrics in the rest of the church
Some of the church contents, for example linens and altar frontals, had some slight smoke or moisture damage; these were sent away to be professionally cleaned and/or restored.
We began to consider some additional works which it would be prudent to undertake while workmen are on site. (e.g. since much of the electrical system needs replacing, what about better lighting, or improved heating?) We therefore expected and planned that in the end St Lawrence’s would emerge as an even better church!
We were fully insured for all the obvious up-front costs (building repairs, cleaning, additional hiring costs of e.g. Village Hall, loss of fees or other income). NB We were obviously not covered for additional works which we felt we should take the opportunity of doing
A letter of information was sent to all parish residents, to those on the Church Electoral Roll, and to others connected with the church
A long running service in the East Midlands was the flow of heating oil to Charringtons depot at Anglesea Sidings, Brownhills.
Here 6M65 05:23 MWFO Lindsey - Anglesea Sidings coughs its way past TV Junction with 31202 and 31117 at the helm - the latter a former long term OC loco.
31202 reached the zenith of its career in 1988 when in the company of 31226 it plunged to its death in the North Circular road at Chimney Corner (Cricklewood) after vandals let off the brakes and the locos ran away.
The Up Home bracket signal 44/41 stands to the side of the former Up Refuge Siding.
March 1986.
Dracula teasing School Time last week. I had a lot of fun that day even if I did have to use up half of it at work.....
THIS IMAGE WAS NOT EDITED USING PHOTOSCAPE
I still like the pure black background best. Best viewed On Black
Small folded leaflet on the Unity Electric heating system with the Unity thermostat. Young Osmond & Young, London [c.1930]
St Martin’s Church in Zillis, Canton Graubünden, CH
The earliest preserved, figuratively painted wooden ceiling in Europe can be seen above the nave of St Martin's Church in Zillis. Today only three other painted ceilings from the Middle Ages remain: they are located in Hildesheim (St Michael's), in Peterborough Cathedral and in Dadesjo (Sweden). The Swedish church in Sodra Rada was destroyed by fire in 2001.
The ceiling paintings in Zillis demonstrate such a rich variety of form and contents as is only found in great works of art.
And so today the ceiling serves to illustrate the Gospel, Sunday for Sunday, from spring to autumn. In winter the parishioners do without heating in the church for the sake of the paintings and hold their services in the parish hall. Only funeral services and the school Christmas celebrations on Christmas Eve take place in the moderately heated church during the cold season.
St Martin's Church is situated below the historic centre of Zillis. At first, the church possibly stood directly above the wide bed of the Hinterrhein River. Zillis is one of the two settlements nestling at the bottom of the Schams Valley (Romansh: Val Schons), an inner-Alpine valley basin, through which a route has traversed the Alps at least since the Roman era. It used to link Bregenz with Milan, Lake Constance with Lakes Como and Maggiore. The Schams is the secondhighest section of the Hinterrhein Valley. It lies directly south of the Viamala Gorge, which on the northern side of the Alpine ridge represented the main obstacle on the route from Chur over the Splugen Pass to Chiavenna, resp. over the San Bernardino Pass to Bellinzona and Locarno. Throughout all the centuries Zillis occupied a very peripheral position on the inner border of the Alps, but was always on a route connecting the major settlements flanking the Alpine ridge.
THE PAINTED CEILING
THE CONCEPT OF THE PAINTED CEILING
The Zillis ceiling comprises 153 painted panels. They are slotted into longitudinal battens, which until 1938 were attached to the ceiling beams by long nails. Cross-battens are inserted between the painted panels as a connecting link, forming a regular grid. Doubled longitudinal and cross-battens accentuate the junctions of the grid, creating the shape of the cross.
The ceiling is enhanced by a meander frieze which was created at the same time; the greater part of the frieze was restored in 1938-1940. In the frieze we see female busts, representing the Classical sybils, whose prophesies were taken fro(ll late Antiquity onwards as a reference to the Advent of Christ.
The 153 panels are arranged as on a medieval map of the world. There is a border representing the ocean surrounding the Continent, on which the Life of Christ and the legend of St Martin are portrayed.
The border
At the edges of the ceiling, resp. on the borders of the world, swim mythical fish-tailed creatures; there are even some manned boats and music-making sirens on a continuous band of wavy lines, which represent the sea in a simplified and abstract form. Only the angels sounding their horns in the corners, marked as the south wind Auster and the north wind Aquilo, stand on firm land.
The inner cycle
On the interior fields, i.e. the Continent, the Life of Christ is depicted on 98 panels. One half describes Christ's childhood and youth, the other half recounts his miracles, his teaching and Passion. The individual scenes frequently continue over several successive panels. Each half has seven rows with seven panels. The last row of the interior panels is dedicated to the church patron St Martin.
The choir is the best place from which to view the first half of the cycle portraying the Life of Christ. Since the 1940 rearrangement the visitor has been able to «read» the pictures like a text from this vantage point, in rows running from left to right. The cycle begins with a gallery of Christ's ancestors, the Kings of the Old Testament, and the personifications of Synagogue and Ecclesia. The story of Christ's Life begins with the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, followed by Joseph's Dream, the Visitation and the four panels on the Nativity.
15 panels describe the Journey of the Three Magi. This is followed by the Purification and the the Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple, the Flight into Egypt and the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem, the Miracle of the Clay Pigeons, the 72-year-old Jesus in the Temple and the Sermons of St John the Baptist.
The second part of the Christological cycle begins with the Baptism of Christ and the Temptation by the Devil. These are followed by cases of miraculous Healings: in addition to the Wedding Feast in Cana and the Raising of Lazarus, we see the Healing of physically and mentally sick persons. The mentally disturbed were considered to be possessed by demons. After the miracles follow the Teachings of Jesus, the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, the Entry into Jerusalem and the Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple, the Last Supper, the MOunt of Olives, the Betrayal by Judas, Christ before Pilate, the Mocking of Christ and the Crowning with Thorns.
The cycle then breaks off. There is no consensus among researchers on whether this was, in fact, the original end of the cycle or if the Crucifixion and the Rising from the Dead were formerly depicted on the north wall of the nave or in the former Romanesque choir.
The last seven panels of the interior fields describe episodes from the life of St Martin, commencing with the Sharing of the Cloak, probably the best-known element of the legend. This is followed by the Consecration and the Miracle of the Raising from the Dead. The conclusion comprises three panels on St Martin's Encounter with a King who pretended to be Jesus but turned out to be the Devil.
As mentioned above, the panels were rearranged on the ceiling in 1940, the 1938 sequence having been described by experts as «absurd» und «unsystematic». An attempt to reconstruct the original order, based on the sequence of the pictures before 1938, gives the following results: the panels were arranged to be read by following the rows in an S-shaped order. In the centre of the ceiling there was the depiction of Christ's Baptism; in front of this, the scenes with St John the Baptist; behind, the four panels on the Temptation of Christ by the Devil.
During the Reformation the sequence of the panels was probably altered. In the cycle depicting the Life of St Martin, the consecration scene was removed from the central axis. The sermons of St John the Baptist and the Temptation of Christ by the Devil disappeared from the central row and were replaced by the cases of miraculous healing and depictions of Christ's teachings. From the 16th century until 1938 the Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple, as a symbol of one of the Reformation's main tenets, was set in the centre of the ceiling replacing Christ's Baptism.
Step 3:
Heating vent to cure them backside exposed
The pics in order shows the simple process of doing it and having one of the older vented heating provides the dry heat to cure them and complete the process. In the past I had an old toaster oven that was used for these processes but as it sometimes leaves an unsavory smell so I don't advise it if you're still using the toaster oven for warming food or risk getting the wrath of your better half or family/friends.