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Entering Steveston Marina (blue hour) on the Fraser River

BC Canada

 

Ross Park Carousel is a historic carousel located at Binghamton in Broome County, New York. The carousel is housed in a wooden, one story, 16-sided, pavilion topped by an eight sided cupola. The carousel has 60 horses standing four abreast, each of which is a "jumper," and two chariots. It was constructed by the Allan Herschell Company and contains its original Wurlitzer Military Band Organ. The carousel was purchased about 1920 and is one of six carousels donated to the citizens of Broome County by George F. Johnson (1857–1948), president of Endicott Johnson Corporation.

This historic house in St. Augustine, Florida, is known for its iconic gated entry. [Flickr Explore #63, June 21, 2021.]

Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany

Geo tag is not exact on the spot.

 

Lens: Minolta AF 70-210 f/4

 

Historic bridge over the river Alzette in the Grund district of the city of Luxembourg, where a craftsmen's quarter developed in the Middle Ages. Robert Schumann, a founding father of the European Union, grew up near here.

Exhibition rooms in an old manor in Uetersen / near Hamburg (Northern Germany)

Malcesine

Lake Garda

Italy

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The steam locomotive is on display opposite the local museum in Altenbeken, a town that is and has been dominated by the railway. The main sight of Altenbeken is the large limestone viaduct that used to be a key element of east-west railway lines in Germany.

Mamiya RZ67, Mamiya Sekor 4.5/50, yellow filter, Ilford HP5+ developed in Rodinal 1+25 using a Jobo tank, scanned on an Epson V800, cropped and adjusted in Lightroom.

Zabytkowy kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Stegnie.

Das Hafenbecken des bereits um 1570 angelegten »Alten Hafens«

Arizona - Early morning; a home from another era in the city's Historic District...

'Blow off a little steam'

  

World's first steam powered clock

 

Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada

 

The steam clock's plaque reads:

THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK

Designed and built by

Raymond L. Saunders

Horologist

The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.

 

A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.

 

The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.

 

Wikipedia and various other online sites.

*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate

 

Best experienced in full screen.

Colours and light slightly muted due to weather conditions.

 

Thanks so much for comments and visits

~Christie

  

Another example of the beautiful architecture in the Historic District of Savannah.

Ferris wheel in Dimitrie Gusti Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania.

San Francisco Square in the Historic Center of Quito.

 

From left to right, in the San Francisco building, you can see the doors of the Chapel of Cantuña, the Chapel of Villacísla, the main church, the convent and the museum.

  

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The Church and its chapels (La Iglesia de San Francisco), which were considered sacred places.

 

Together, Church and Convent encompass three hectares including 13 cloisters (six of them major), three churches, and a large courtyard. In total, about 40,000 square meters of construction. San Francisco follows the classical typology of medieval monasteries. The main Church is the guiding axis and from there the cloister galleries extend: the refectory, the chapterhouse, and winery. These define a quadrangular courtyard, with the four respective pandas, or galleries: that of the chapter room, the refectory, the converts, and the mandatum. In addition to the basic dependencies of a convent, there were areas devoted to health care, education, crafts, a garden, and even a jail (to maintain strict discipline). The kitchen and dispensery operated in the cloister of services.

  

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Walking from the Old Town’s narrow colonial streets into this open plaza reveals one of the finest sights in all of Ecuador: a sweeping cobblestone plaza backed by the mountainous backdrop of Volcán Pichincha, and the long, whitewashed walls and twin bell towers of Ecuador’s oldest church.

  

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The Public Square (Plaza de San Francisco) was a purely urban space, demarcated and connected to various public activities (teaching, market, water supply).

  

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Sad part of our History.

 

In pre-Hispanic Quito, the current lands of the Church and Convent of San Francisco were occupied by the royal palace of the Inca Huayna Cápac, before the advance of the armies commanded by the Spaniards from the south and the impossibility of defending the city the indigenous general Rumiñahui arranged the total destruction of it. In the city fire the palace was destroyed and buried under a huge amount of rubble and garbage. One of Rumiñahui's soldiers was the great-grandfather of the indigenous Cantuña, who as an eyewitness to the events had full knowledge of what was buried in the place. The construction of the church and convent of San Francisco began around 1537, just three years after the Spanish foundation of the city, with the completion of a provisional temple that was maintained until 1550, when construction of the current building began and which was completed around 1680. Although the building was officially inaugurated in 1705.

Another visit to the Ardenwood Historic Farm to check out the humming birds at the fountain

 

The Olde Bel at Hurley, allegedly Britain's oldest still-working Inn. Originally the guest house for Hurley Abbey, parts of the Inn date back to 1135

The entrance screen and gate piers date from ca1870

  

fantastic weather since we arrived ..

 

Sefton Park, Aigburth Road Entrance Gates

Creamery, Monroe County, WV.

Unesco World Heritage List : Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu

Kangaroo taken in Woodlands Historic Park.

I am going to take a break today from posting new shots. My family took a lot of photos and some how I ended up with an archive of 100's of old shots.. I have slowly been scanning them and thought I would share a few of my favorites with you. This is my grandfather (James Sr., I am the 3rd) and grandmother (Fannie) "courting". This was shot somewhere around Gainesville Texas in 1913 or 1914.

Aconitum napellus (Blauer Eisenhut, monk's-hood) Giglachseen, Steiermark, Austria. The mountains in the background show activity of mining (mainly nickel in the 19th century).

Laid out in 1857, Gilson was on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Rail Road in the days when the engines burned wood. By the time engines burned coal, the local timber had been pretty much decimated. Gilson Illinois.

Downtown Phoenix, Arizona

 

The Hanny building, 1947, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally a men's and woman's clothing store, it is now an eclectic, trendy restaurant.

This old hotel was originally built in 1910 in Stevensville, Montana. At that time it served as the Bitterroot Valley's first hospital.

 

Happy Monochrome Monday, everyone!

What remains of an antique Chevy truck (I have no idea the model or year) sits on display in the semi-ghost town of Shaniko, Oregon. I say "semi-ghost" because in 2016 the mayor, Goldie Roberts, insisted the town had a population of 24. If it were a ghost town it would be completely deserted or abandoned.

 

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