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Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
I snapped this old fashioned "service station" a couple of years ago (see comments section) and was surprised to see that it's now closed and up for sale.
I wonder if the new owner will continue to sell fuel, or will the pumps (and a little bit of history) be removed?
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To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart.
(Psalm 95:7-8)
"Winchester Cathedral" is an older David Austin rose introduced in 1984. It features pure-white, very durable flowers with a tight cluster of petals which occasionally get a blush of pink. It has dark green foliage is a wonderful foil for the continual mass of fragrant flowers. "Winchester Cathedral" is named after one of the finest cathedrals in Britain.
Spring has finally come to Melbourne, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours after a wetter than usual winter.
This old windmill is about all that survives of a once proud northern Illinois farm. It continues to turn, a little slower now, but provides only memories now...
Happy windmill Wednesday all!
The doorway still looks inviting. I think this empty 18th century farmhouse is one of the buildings sometimes used for history tours and demonstrations given by volunteers.
My Papa Meilland rose has been preparing to burst forth beautiful fragrant blooms for several days now, and then the first one finally opened up. Now I know that spring is finally here. It looks like I will have a fine showing looking at all the buds about to burst out in the first flush of blooms.
Papa Meilland is a magnificent French hybrid tea rose. Named in honour of a Doyen in the rose breeding world by his Grandson, the now famous Allain Meilland, Papa Meilland has dark, velvety crimson coloured petals and a magnificent, strong, old rose fragrance. This rose was bred in France and introduced in 1963. I have two of these bushes in my front garden, and although white roses are my favourite type of rose, the Papa Meilland rose would come a very close second!
Spring has finally come to Melbourne, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours after a wetter than usual winter.
This is an old Bakelite telephone I came across whilst visiting the Pierhead building in Cardiff Bay. A far cry from the handheld mobile phones that are used today. I can't begin to imagine the conversations that have been had on this telephone!
I love the old wind power mills and this Snowy Owl added the perfect touch. He didn't stay too long hanging on in a strong wind.
This is a sign proudly proclaiming Yorky, a small steam engine built in 1901 by Savage Brothers of King’s Lynn, now restored and used to power the historic Excelsior Steam Yachts ride at Carter’s Steam Fair. Originally part of Waddington’s fairground setup, Yorky was later salvaged by showman Harry Lee before being sold to Carter’s in the early 1980s as a replacement for the original engine lost to scrap. With its compact design, polished brass, and tall funnel, Yorky is both a mechanical heart and a visual centrepiece beneath the ride’s platform.
Yorky drives two elegantly swinging boats—Britannia and Columbia—which arc dramatically into the air as the engine pistons build momentum. This rare example of a working steam-powered fairground engine not only preserves a piece of Edwardian engineering but brings it vividly to life. Still running on steam more than a century later, Yorky stands as a living reminder of the travelling showmen’s era, when steam power moved, lit, and thrilled the fairground.
The old fashioned way of waiting to speak to someone on the phone... put the handset on the table... shout for who is ever wanting.... and wait for them to get to the phone. How quaint.
My very first attempt at canning and preserving this past weekend. I made several jars of "Bread and Butter" pickles. The ingredients begged to be a still life, so I gave my first try and an old fashioned, classic still life to commemorate it. The cucumbers were from my mother's garden, and the recipe was from an old 1950's cook book I found in an antique shop years ago.
From an ongoing series of Black and White photos exploring a now outdated and almost forgotten technology in and around the Toronto Canada area.
On Islington Ave north of Bloor St W.
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My Papa Meilland rose has been preparing to burst forth beautiful fragrant blooms for several days now, and then the first one finally opened up. Now I know that spring is finally here. It looks like I will have a fine showing looking at all the buds about to burst out in the first flush of blooms.
Papa Meilland is a magnificent French hybrid tea rose. Named in honour of a Doyen in the rose breeding world by his Grandson, the now famous Allain Meilland, Papa Meilland has dark, velvety crimson coloured petals and a magnificent, strong, old rose fragrance. This rose was bred in France and introduced in 1963. I have two of these bushes in my front garden, and although white roses are my favourite type of rose, the Papa Meilland rose would come a very close second!
Spring has finally come to Melbourne, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours after a wetter than usual winter.
just to let you know, i'll be off-line for a little bit.
getting my eye "fixed" but i'll be back before you know it :)
ANSH scavenger18 "old-fashioned"
The Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge lights shine with the Empire State Building on a quiet colorful night in NYC. Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began almost a decade before the light bulb was even invented.
See more of the Timeless New York series highlighting the historical sights of NYC by blending modern and vintage photography elements: flic.kr/s/aHskhx5bPm
Ezekiel 28:5-7 “Because of your great skill in trading, you’ve made yourself very wealthy. You have become arrogant because of your wealth. ‘This is what the Almighty LORD says: You think you are wise like God. That is why I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless foreigners among the nations. They will draw their swords against your fine wisdom and dishonor your greatness.’”
The other week, I was on a stroll on a rather summery March day, when a rose bush covered in blooms in multiple colours caught my eye so much that I had to cross a busy road to take a closer look at it. The single bush was displaying roses in shades of pale yellow with pink edges, vibrant pink, carmine and orange. Luckily I had my camera with me, as I usually do in case I see something I like, and I photographed some of the blooms. Whilst I was doing so, the owner returned home from shopping. We chatted and I asked her what variety it was. She said that she didn’t know, but that it had been part of the garden when she bought the house some two decades ago. After doing a bit of research, I think it might be a Desert Peace rose.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” is “Flowers in March”, where any flower is welcome, so long as the photo was taken in March. Luckily in Melbourne, there are often Indian Summer days that stretch into March, and there are always flowers in gardens. I could have chosen any flowers, but I chose this one in particular for its beauty, and because I saw it on the 16th of March, which was the day I saw the theme in the discussion thread. This week’s theme is also in honour of “Smile on Saturday” member, Marcy Schrum, who passed away in December last year. She liked beautiful flowers, so I hope she would have liked it and that it makes a fitting tribute. I hope that you like it too, that it brightens your Saturday and makes you smile.
The “Desert Peace” rose is a hybrid tea rose with yellow blend blooms, with pink edges. It was produced by Meilland International in France in 1991.
Fun with Photoshop. I took the image of E and I from Stable Diffusion and spent a good part of the day using photoshop to make another "Found Novel" book cover.
GUIMARÃES (Portugal): Centro Ciência Viva de Guimarães.
O Centro Ciência Viva de Guimarães – Curtir Ciência (uma alusão direta à tradição dos curtumes) ocupa o espaço da antiga Fábrica Âncora, em frente à Loja dos Registos, na Zona de Couros. Inaugurado a 17 de dezembro de 2015, o equipamento conta com uma exposição permanente com cerca de duas dezenas de módulos de sete áreas do conhecimento.
Edifício com história devolvido às pessoas
A antiga Fábrica Âncora apresenta-se como um ícone da tipologia construtiva de Couros, sendo um edifício de referência. Em 1269, foi constituída em Guimarães a Confraria de Sapataris, que terá estado na origem, em 1315, da Irmandade de S. Crispim e S. Crispiniano, fundada pelos mestres sapateiros João Baião e Pero Baião, que dotaram logo a instituição de uma fonte de rendimento ao legarem uma poça de curtumes na Rua de Couros, com sete pias de pedra.
A zona foi densamente povoada, tendo outrora faltado muitas vezes casas para as famílias operárias. A importância que então ostentava a atividade dos curtumes persiste ainda hoje em manifestações culturais vimaranenses. É o caso da Peregrinação Anual à Penha, uma das maiores celebrações religiosas do concelho que teve origem numa iniciativa de curtidores e surradores.
info: A inauguração – Centro Ciência Viva. ccvguimaraes.pt/a-inauguracao/. Acedido 7 de Dezembro de 2021.
Old telephone kiosk situated near the shopping centre car park.
Betws-y-coed is a village and community in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located in the historic county of Caernarfonshire, right on the boundary with Denbighshire, in the Gwydir Forest. It is now a very popular visitor destination in the Snowdonia National Park.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” is “bokeh in monotone”, where any monochrome photo that features bokeh may be used. I went out into my garden for this shot. We have had a very mild summer the sunny days of which have bled into Autumn, which gave me a wonderful opportunity to capture some bokeh in my silver birch tree. The rose is actually a Papa Meilland, and us a very deep red colour. As I had my choice of colours, I decided to use a restful green to reflect the green in my garden. I did also try this in red, but I didn’t like it as much. I hope you like my choice, that it brightens your Saturday and makes you smile.
Papa Meilland is a magnificent French hybrid tea rose. Named in honour of a Doyen in the rose breeding world by his Grandson, the now famous Allain Meilland, Papa Meilland has dark, velvety crimson coloured petals and a magnificent, strong, old rose fragrance. This rose was bred in France and introduced in 1963. I have two of these bushes in my front garden, and although white roses are my favourite type of rose, the Papa Meilland rose would come a very close second!
Old fashioned magnolia - many-petaled (and even a bit tatty looking), beautiful light perfume. Many in our area are looking very small and stunted - probably as a result on the ongoing drought, so it was nice to see these healthy-looking ones. The port-wine magnolias are very beautiful too, but I have yet to get a reasonable picture.
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Vintage Texaco gas station in Driftwood, Texas with a stone building and old-fashioned red gas pump.
Went to the Steaming Tender restaurant in Palmer, Massachusetts for lunch today. Delicious food in a the delightful atmosphere of an old railway station. These old fashioned shoeshine seats grace the front entry.
119 in 2019
#79 - Old Fashioned
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