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Remains of Old Lighthouse, Isle of Little Cumbrae, Ayrshire, Scotland.
James Ewing built the first lighthouse on Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde in the year 1757.
It is sited some way from the coast, on top of what is now known as Lighthouse Hill, the highest point of the island.
The lighthouse was designed to ease the passage of shipping into the Firth and the port of Glasgow. Its tower is a circular stone structure standing 28 ft high with an external diameter of 18½ ft. Its internal diameter is 12½ ft. The lighthouse keepers were accommodated in a cottage about 9 metres north of the tower.
For the light, a coal fire was used, which burnt so fiercely that the grate on which it stood had to be replaced after only one year, and then regularly thereafter.
Ewing built the tower for £140.5.8d — considered a low amount. The light was to prove very profitable, and in March 1773 the dues from it were used to pay for the quelling of a mob of sailors who had brought business to a halt in Greenock and Port Glasgow for ten days.
The inherent limits of coal-fire lights, combined with the tower's position on top of a hill, meant that the Little Cumbrae light was often obscured by cloud or fog.
Complaints from seamen led to a plan in 1790 to replace the light in the tower. This eventually led in 1793 to the Little Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust commissioning another tower nearer the coast, the New Tower.
The original tower still stands. The Clyde Port Authority carried out restoration work on it in 1956.
Old Boston, c. 1909, looking south from Charlestown, approximately 100' above where my office building is currently located.
Very few of the buildings seen in this old photo still exist. One of the few that does is the one just above the center span of the bridge crossing the Charles River. It has recently been gutted and is being rehabbed as an office for Converse.
The Charlestown Bridge is still here, over 100 years after it was built, though the elevated train line down the center was removed in the late 1930s. The rail line that splits to the right across the river existed as the elevated Green Line on the MBTA until it was torn down in 2005. The left split was the old Atlantic Avenue Elevated, and was town down for scrap metal in 1942 for WWII.
The large round tank at the very left of the photo was a storage tank holding several million gallons of molasses for the Purity Distilling Company. About 10 years after this photo was taken, the tank burst and flooded the surrounding neighborhood with molasses, killing approximately 21 people.
Photos taken from the Library of Congress site.
So... I haven't done this for a while. Looking to get back on the horse so will be editing some of the old material I shot a couple of years ago to get back into the swing of things...
Old country barn near Cloverdale Indiana. I tried something different on this shot I set my camera on Vivid. I won't do that again. The colors didn't come out like I thought and it took much moore time to process.
Camera: D300
Lens: Tokina 11-16
Settings: A- f/10-ISO 200-Sutter Speed 1100 to start with-Auto WB-Auto Focus
Bracketing: 9 exposures
Processed: Photomatix
Edited: Photoshop CS4-Dodge&Burn-Sharpen Mask
It's too bad i'm not handy...otherwise I'd love to have a old house with alot of character and history. Unfortunately, I can barely hang blinds.
Autochrome stereo view taken at "Old Oaks", the Florida winter home of an unidentified Philadelphia family. Does anyone know their name & other details?
After watching some Old Republic game play, and trailers I was inspired to make some figs. Good figs will be posted soon as well. :)
I hope you enjoyed it.
JJ
The Old Caiwarro Homestead site is situated alongside the Corni Paroo Waterhole in Currawinya National Park in South West Queensland
The park service doesn't want you to find this tree. In fact, there used to be a road that drove past it decades ago but it has since been removed.
How did I find this? I was given direction to this location from a mysterious, elderly man. I struck a conversation with this man the day before as we talked about the park and all its scenic locations. On a whim, I had asked him about this tree I had seen before on the internet and did my best to explain what it looked like.
"Ah ha!" he said. "I know exactly where that is, want me to show you?" Sure enough, he slowly hobbled into his RV and came out with this impressively large topographic map of the park. "There!" he said, pointing his finger on the gigantic map. "Oh i see....." I didn't have a clue to what he was talking about and how the heck to interpret his intimating map. I am from the Y-Generation grandpa - I use Google Maps! After about 20 minutes of him explaining it to me, I was able to find it the next day. Respect to the old school.
The old St Lawrence Church in Catford at the junction of Bromley Road, and Catford Road. It was built in 1887, demolished in 1968 to make a car park. Municipal offices were built on the site in 1990.
A small church with the same name was built in Bromley Road.
An old Port Authority (Pittsburgh) Light Rail map, showing the old designations (number number letter) and the 52-Allentown (Brown Line) which no longer operates.
7DOS Broken Wednesday ....
I hang onto old broken plant pots as I use them when planting other pots. I place small broken parts of the old pots at the bottom of the new pot as it stops becoming saturated when watered or when we have lots of rain!
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An old Istrian house I found while walking in a small medieval village called Gračišće. The light was good so I snapped a few shots but wasn't expecting much of it. I started to like it later, when I previewed it on a big screen.
I don't know why but I love to capture images of old doors and windows. It always makes you wonder what is behind them.
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This old Commuter Rail map from around 1980 used to be in front of the Lowell Transportation Center, but has been removed recently. I hope it wasn't destroyed. Note the NH stops and the Woburn Line.