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... we had to drive without using the wipers for a while to get the shot I wanted :-D. A rainy evening in London tonight
Alnwick's Tenantry Column in its Christmas colours.
Built in 1816 by the tenants of the Duke of Northumberland. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Duke’s tenants, who included farmers, mine owners and factory owners, benefited from increased prices for their products due to the demands of the Army. As profits increased, rents too were raised. The peace of 1815, however, saw a fall in demand, with the resultant drop in both prices and profits. The tenants struggled to pay the higher rents, and so the Duke of Northumberland reduced his rents by a quarter. His tenants, thankful for this, jointly subscribed to construct the column.
There's a tale, possibly apocryphal, that when the Duke saw that tenants were able to afford to erect such a monument, he promptly put their rents back up. The truth? Who knows??
As this will be my final upload before Christmas Day, I would like to wish all my friends, followers & visitors a very and happy and blessèd Christmas-time.
100x 2023 edition - Northumberland revisited - 74/100
Nachdem ich meine Olympus M1 verkauft habe bin ich nun mit dem iPhone unterwegs. 😀 aber meine Nikon habe ich noch. 😀😀 so schlechte Bilder macht das Handy garnicht. 😊
The San Francisco Bay Area comprises nine northern California counties and contains four of the ten most expensive counties in the United States. Strong economic growth has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, but coupled with severe restrictions on building new housing units, has resulted in an extreme housing shortage which has driven rents to extremely high levels. San Francisco alone has several thousand homeless residents, despite extensive efforts by city government to address the issue.
In the Tenderloin District, San Francisco, CA, USA.