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Installing Silva Cell frames outside of the Mitchell Library and Community Center. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
Trees of the Mitchell Library and Community Center during their third growing season. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
The lovely old Mitchell Library in Glasgow. Is this still the biggest reference library in Europe like wot it used to be?
Not a great photo, but as I suspected, unique on Flickr as I write this, thanks to my cunningly discovered vantage point on top of a lap dancer. Sort of. (There's a set of stairs near the entrance to Charing X station which lead up to the roof of Shaven Haven Seventh Heaven, which gave me a slightly more elevated view than most folks.)
Ask me how much that big motorway lamp-post in the left of the photo annoys me. Go on, ask me. If I could be bothered I'd try to clone stamp the damn thing to oblivion.
Dome of Glasgow's Mitchell Library (North Street) with sculpture ("Literature") by Thomas John Clapperton (1879-1962)
He was always ready with a smile. Never said much, just smiled, waved hello and then returned his attentions to his garden. As a kid he was safe, not like the other adults. They would shout and yell, chase you out of their gardens after yet another careless ball hit yet another precious plant. ‘Play somewhere else’ they would shout, or ‘go play in your own street why don’t you?!?!’. As if my own street was any safer, any less riddled by these angry housebound men and women with their twitching curtains and angry glares.
He never seemed to mind. He would just smile, slowly amble over to get our ball and gently pass it back to us with a nod or a wink. He lived alone. We all knew that and we all knew that there was sad story behind this, what that was we did not know, but we certainly guessed. Murdered wives and fallen angels were all put forward not as theory but as fact as each of us pretended to have some deeper insight into the workings of that grown up land.
Our parents would tell us to stay away, not to go into his house, not to take sweets from him, not to go near that pristine garden where our ball would so often land. But then again, they told us not to be rude to people, to talk when spoken to, to say thanks when given a present. So, when caught in-between this scattergun etiquette we would stand mutely and stare if he tried to pass anything over the fence that hadn’t just been put there by our clumsy playing. We would shout thank you but only from a distance, a childish compromise that seemed to suit us all and we would never, ever go into his garden, not near the house, not where the murdered wife and the fallen angel lay waiting for our company.
Still, despite all of this, the next time around he would smile, amble that rambling walk to his ruined flowerbed and gently pass the ball back to us. Patiently waiting the ten or twenty seconds it took for us to reach our designated ‘thank you’ distance before nodding his head in return. Looking back now you have to wonder, what were we to him? What little pleasure would he have taken if we had even stopped for just one day and found out his name? It’s hard to know if its’ memory that now puts the sadness in his eyes, difficult to avoid slipping my own rejections and dejections into the quiet rooms of that empty house or maybe it’s just awareness. Experience showing you what was always there, a lonely man with too much time on his hands just waiting for a chance.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910. By 1869 the subscription library was hopelessly in debt, and the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100 (£1500 for the books and £3600 for the building). In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20 000 volumes.
The Mitchell Wing: The Library soon outgrew its premises, and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s. By the turn of the century this too was outgrown, and plans were prepared for a completely new ‘national’ library building. The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell’s offer of his immense and unrivalled collection of Australiana to the people of New South Wales. One condition of his offer was that a new building be erected to house the collection as a separate library. Work on the Mitchell Wing started in 1906 and was completed in 1910. It houses the Mitchell Library reading rooms, work areas and galleries.
The Dixson Wing: It was another 20 years before more building took place on the site of the national library. The Dixson Wing, completed in 1929, was added to the south side of the Mitchell Wing to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of historical paintings presented by Sir William Dixson.
In 1939 work began on the central portion of the building, which includes the portico, the ornate vestibule with its reproduction of the Tasman Map in marble mosaic, and the main reading room. The building was ready for occupation in June 1942, and the Library was at last under one roof.
In 1964, the final section of the sandstone Mitchell Wing, uniform in style, was added to the south east corner. Within 10 years the Library had outgrown this space too.
Putting the Puppet Show shots up on my stream reminded me of just how much the first visit had fired my imagination. So, when I was car less and fancy free this Friday, I took a wee wander back to the Mitchell Library (more on that soon) and re-visited Mr Blundall and his puppets.
If I’m honest, Mr Blundall had no clue who I was when I turned up smiling and expectant at his door. Given the number of visitors who come through his doors each week and given that it had been nearly 4 months since my last visit, I’m not sure what I was expecting. Regardless, your intrepid explorer started up a conversation with the ever welcoming Mr Blundall who proceeded to tell me all about another photographer who had been in to visit. He told me that this chap took some shots that really captured the soul and energy that lies within these puppets and had also written some very nice words to go with it. Being fuelled partly by oxygen and partly by ego, I was quietly let down by the gentle eulogy flowing from Mr Blundall. That was until he showed me the shots in question and they turned out to be my own. I was genuinely touched and pleased, not only for myself as a photographer but because the person who knew the puppets best saw something in those shots that he could relate to.
Mr Blundall was then kind enough to allow to take some more shots, guiding me around the room, sharing the stories of various puppets and masks. We then spent an hour or two swapping stories and looking at some of the fabulous art and archive material that lie in there.
It is a very quiet pleasure to spend days like this, being welcomed into another persons world, especially when they are as generous with their time and emotion as Mr Blundall. He is a fine gent and the curator of a very fine establishment: all the best to you sir.
The dome of Glasgow's Mitchell Library lit by winter sun, The Mitchell Library building has been described as pompous Edwardian baroque.
Architect: William B. Whitie (1906-11).
Allegorical figure of Literature: Sculptor: Thomas J. Clapperton (c.1909).
Installing Silva Cell frames outside of the Mitchell Library and Community Center. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
Trees of the Mitchell Library and Community Center during their third growing season. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
The Mitchell LIbrary, Glasgow. This facade was originally St. Andrew's Halls, a 4,500 seat concert venue. The halls were destroyed by fire in 1962, leaving just its facade. An 1980 extension behind filled the gap between the original Mitchell Library and this facade. The whole structure is now The Mithell Library which holds over 1 million items.
Trees of the Mitchell Library and Community Center during their third growing season. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910. By 1869 the subscription library was hopelessly in debt, and the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100 (£1500 for the books and £3600 for the building). In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20 000 volumes.
The Mitchell Wing: The Library soon outgrew its premises, and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s. By the turn of the century this too was outgrown, and plans were prepared for a completely new ‘national’ library building. The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell’s offer of his immense and unrivalled collection of Australiana to the people of New South Wales. One condition of his offer was that a new building be erected to house the collection as a separate library. Work on the Mitchell Wing started in 1906 and was completed in 1910. It houses the Mitchell Library reading rooms, work areas and galleries.
The Dixson Wing: It was another 20 years before more building took place on the site of the national library. The Dixson Wing, completed in 1929, was added to the south side of the Mitchell Wing to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of historical paintings presented by Sir William Dixson.
In 1939 work began on the central portion of the building, which includes the portico, the ornate vestibule with its reproduction of the Tasman Map in marble mosaic, and the main reading room. The building was ready for occupation in June 1942, and the Library was at last under one roof.
In 1964, the final section of the sandstone Mitchell Wing, uniform in style, was added to the south east corner. Within 10 years the Library had outgrown this space too.
On either side of the entrance dome of Glasgow's reference library is an installation for the fringe of the COP26 climate change conference. A sign explains that -
"After ten years on tour round the UK, Ellie Harrison's four rotating 'climate / change' signs are re-united at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow for COP26."
Whilst I was there the sign saying 'change' did not move, but the other one was rotating, so I also photographed 'change - change'.
Trees of the Mitchell Library and Community Center during their third growing season. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910. By 1869 the subscription library was hopelessly in debt, and the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100 (£1500 for the books and £3600 for the building). In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20 000 volumes.
The Mitchell Wing: The Library soon outgrew its premises, and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s. By the turn of the century this too was outgrown, and plans were prepared for a completely new ‘national’ library building. The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell’s offer of his immense and unrivalled collection of Australiana to the people of New South Wales. One condition of his offer was that a new building be erected to house the collection as a separate library. Work on the Mitchell Wing started in 1906 and was completed in 1910. It houses the Mitchell Library reading rooms, work areas and galleries.
The Dixson Wing: It was another 20 years before more building took place on the site of the national library. The Dixson Wing, completed in 1929, was added to the south side of the Mitchell Wing to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of historical paintings presented by Sir William Dixson.
In 1939 work began on the central portion of the building, which includes the portico, the ornate vestibule with its reproduction of the Tasman Map in marble mosaic, and the main reading room. The building was ready for occupation in June 1942, and the Library was at last under one roof.
In 1964, the final section of the sandstone Mitchell Wing, uniform in style, was added to the south east corner. Within 10 years the Library had outgrown this space too.
Mark inadvertently finds himself involved in this shot at the rear of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow.
See Mark's own photo from this scene here and check out the other impressive photos on his stream.
Installing Silva Cell frames outside of the Mitchell Library and Community Center. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910. By 1869 the subscription library was hopelessly in debt, and the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100 (£1500 for the books and £3600 for the building). In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20 000 volumes.
The Mitchell Wing: The Library soon outgrew its premises, and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s. By the turn of the century this too was outgrown, and plans were prepared for a completely new ‘national’ library building. The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell’s offer of his immense and unrivalled collection of Australiana to the people of New South Wales. One condition of his offer was that a new building be erected to house the collection as a separate library. Work on the Mitchell Wing started in 1906 and was completed in 1910. It houses the Mitchell Library reading rooms, work areas and galleries.
The Dixson Wing: It was another 20 years before more building took place on the site of the national library. The Dixson Wing, completed in 1929, was added to the south side of the Mitchell Wing to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of historical paintings presented by Sir William Dixson.
In 1939 work began on the central portion of the building, which includes the portico, the ornate vestibule with its reproduction of the Tasman Map in marble mosaic, and the main reading room. The building was ready for occupation in June 1942, and the Library was at last under one roof.
In 1964, the final section of the sandstone Mitchell Wing, uniform in style, was added to the south east corner. Within 10 years the Library had outgrown this space too.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910. By 1869 the subscription library was hopelessly in debt, and the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100 (£1500 for the books and £3600 for the building). In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20 000 volumes.
The Mitchell Wing: The Library soon outgrew its premises, and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s. By the turn of the century this too was outgrown, and plans were prepared for a completely new ‘national’ library building. The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell’s offer of his immense and unrivalled collection of Australiana to the people of New South Wales. One condition of his offer was that a new building be erected to house the collection as a separate library. Work on the Mitchell Wing started in 1906 and was completed in 1910. It houses the Mitchell Library reading rooms, work areas and galleries.
The Dixson Wing: It was another 20 years before more building took place on the site of the national library. The Dixson Wing, completed in 1929, was added to the south side of the Mitchell Wing to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of historical paintings presented by Sir William Dixson.
In 1939 work began on the central portion of the building, which includes the portico, the ornate vestibule with its reproduction of the Tasman Map in marble mosaic, and the main reading room. The building was ready for occupation in June 1942, and the Library was at last under one roof.
In 1964, the final section of the sandstone Mitchell Wing, uniform in style, was added to the south east corner. Within 10 years the Library had outgrown this space too.
Installing Silva Cell frames outside of the Mitchell Library and Community Center. In fall 2011, 1,150 Silva Cell frames and 390 Silva Cell decks were installed in the parking lot of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in Palo Alto, California to support new trees and also process stormwater on-site.
The new center is highly sustainable, joint-use facility that serves the Palo Alto community as a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational activities.
This little girl and her father were sat on brightly coloured bean bags in the 'Young Scots' section.
The girl was reading very loudly and thoroughly enjoying herself and, thankfully, the library staff had the good sense not to shush her.
I only had a few moments sketching, then coloured the sketch at home later.
They were sat with their backs to a large window, through which the light was very bright.