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The Millenium marker is located in East Berm near the water tower. Here at what feels like the highest point of the cemetery you can look out over Auckland. The marker stone indicates points of interest both within the cemetery and within Auckland such as the crematorium, soldiers lawn, and Corbans Mausoleum. It points out Glen View Rd, Auckland city, Avondale race course, and landmarks that can be seen on the horizon such as the Hunua ranges also Rangitoto Island, Mount Eden, Mount Albert, and One Tree Hill.
The inscription reads:
Millennium Marker
A Gift to Waitakere City from the Friends of Waikumete
1st January 2000
Created by Thompson Memorials and Trethewey Granite and Marble.
Photo: Cathy Currie
All from around the same area, as the tube stops at 00.30,
what i cant figure out here is why the dome on St Pauls is listing to one side
the picture is straight, I have cropped a high rise from the image near St Paul's that was straight, so St paul,s was not near the edge of the frame
weird
The Millenium of the Battle Of Clontarf - Brian Boru wins again but with so many Viking friends coming over they can't be all bad.
4 September 2005. The Millenium Bridge, London. Looking across to St Pauls from the Tate Modern. Getting to be something of a cliche, this view, and there are far better examples on flickr, but hey!
Millenium Bridge, with a view of London, shot a few years ago from the top of St Paul's Cathedral. Taken with an EOS1-n, using Agfa Scala 200.
Millenium Mills and SS Robin at Royal Victoria Docks. SS Robin was built in 1890 and is the world's last remaining steamcoaster www.ssrobin.com London. Saturday 24 September 2011
Gateshead Millenium bridge....in its blue phase. Thought this worked well against the blue of the tyne and evening sky.
Operated by Celebrity cruises, the Millenium can carry 1,950 passengers.
You can see a lot of detail in the "original" image.
Children play in Jaume Plensa's portion of Millenium Park in Chicago
A selection from my book, "Riding Around America: A Photo Collection & Travelogue" available in iBook and PDF formats at www.ridingaroundamerica.com
In the summer of 2004, I traveled around the perimeter of the country by train - an 8,000 mile journey which included stops in New Orleans, Tucson, Oxnard, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Chicago. This book is a photo collection featuring over 100 of my best images taken on the trip along with the text of my 16,000-word travelogue. This book will delight readers who enjoy trains, travel, history, baseball, architecture, and stunning black and white photography.
Read about my travels along some of Amtrak's most famous routes: Empire Builder, Sunset Limited, Coast Starlight, Crescent, Cascades, and Lakeshore Limited. Learn about the history and see the sights of each city through the lens of my camera. Other highlights of the book include my encounters with rattlesnakes outside of Tucson, a visit to Channel Islands National Park, a tour of New Orleans' French Quarter, a descent into underground Seattle, and my experiences at four major league ballparks in Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis.
I like the look of this 21st century bridge: I think they have managed not to make it too fancy. I guess, though, that its style must have been very popular amongst bridge designers around the time of the Millenium!
The current (and derelict) Millenium Mills building dates back to 1934, built for Spillers Ltd, replacing the original mill constructed in 1905 for William Vernon & Sons millers (the mill was named after a blend of flour that won the 1899 'The Miller Challenge Cup'). The mill, and two neighbours, were sited on the dock to allow grain imported from oversea to be ground into flour as soon as possible. The mills were badly damaged in the Second World War, reopening in 1953 and continuing until the 1980s, the end brought about following the closure of the Royal Victoria Dock.
The Victoria Dock opened in 1855 (the 'Royal' was granted in 1880). This was the first dock designed to accommodate steam ships, the first with rail links to the national rail network and the first to use hydraulic machinery.
By 1860, the shipping was estimated to total 850,000 tonnes, larger than any of the other London ports. Although badly damaged throughout the Second World War, the Royal Victoria Docks were restored and returned to its former strength. The decline came in the 1960s with containerisation and larger ships shifting traffic to Tilbury. The docks closed in 1980.