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Hatteras, NC. October 2023.
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The start of a new day on our travels on the isle of man and the sun was shining.
We headed from our Northerly cottage down south to Peel.
Peel Castle (Cashtal Purt-ny-Hinshey in Manx Gaelic on the Isle of Man, was originally constructed by Vikings.
The origins of the castle date back to the eleventh century and are of Viking origin. The Castle is built on St Patrick’s island which is now connected by a small causeway. Pre-dating the castle are also remains of a Celtic monastery.
The castle was originally built of wood, but by the early fourteenth century most of the fortifications where converted to local sandstone.
The site continued to be used for both religious uses with the cathedral of St German developing inside the fortifications. The cathedral fell into ruin in the eighteenth century and today these are the ruins that can be seen on site.
The Castle continued to be used as a military stronghold up to 1860
Excavations of the grounds in the 1980’s reviled a 10th century grave of "The Pagan Lady" which included a fine example of a Viking necklace and a cache of silver coins dating from about 1030.
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The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles of Scotland).
The long trail of light in the water on an already spectacular sunset made this whole thing pretty awe inspiring.
The Hotel Portmeirion opened in 1926 as the focal point of Clough Williams-Ellis' proposed idea village. Artists, writers and Albanian royalty have stayed here not to mention various politicians, tycoons and other swindlers, however everyone is special at Portmeirion and all are welcome.
The main building of the hotel was built around 1850 (extended by Clough Williams-Ellis in 1926 & 1930; listed Grade II 1971) was the original mansion of Aber Iâ.and first described by Richard Richards in 1861 as "one of the most picturesque of all the summer residences to be found on the sea-coast of Wales."
When Clough discovered it in 1925 he was faced with dereliction and an overgrown wilderness. "I obviously had to use the old house on the sea's edge for something and, if I wanted a village, it would have to have an economic basis and the obvious thing seemed to be tourism. It was at Easter 1926, after less than a year's preparation, that the original old house, little altered, opened somewhat tentatively as an unlicensed hotel."
Clough's first extension of the old house was drawn in October 1926. This tower-like wing added to the west of the old house rises close to the cliff face. The wing was originally limewashed with yellow, and its subtlety depends on the use of external window shutters painted in the green which became synonymous with the village. Clough added a new dining room in 1930. Instead of reproducing the Victorian style of the original structure, here Clough exploited a curved, highly glazed plan of clearly Modern concept. It opened at Easter 1931, as noted in an early edition of the guide book: "The big brand-new curvilinear restaurant on the sea-edge, opened a little doubtfully for Easter, was, by August, hopelessly inadequate for its dual purpose of serving both residents and day-visitors."
As Richard Haslam points out, with this addition Clough achieved two of his ideals: "a placeTea on the lawn 1929 which, because of its sheltered outlook over the sea and its airy position, calls for lightness of construction; and a space defined only by curves in its plan. It is made almost entirely of wood; the outer walls are mostly window, the simple joinery of its flat roof is shown on the drawing, and the columns are cut from sections of mast from a dismantled Porthmadog schooner."
Clough later added a new entrance and offices in a similar style around 1935. These additions to the front of the hotel continued in use until their destruction in the fire of 1981. Conceived as superimposed glazed walls on curved plans under flat roofs, they were fluent and modern spaces, which enabled the functions of a hotel to coexist with a Victorian house hemmed in by a cliff.
On the night of Friday 5 June 1981 the hotel was gutted by fire, the flames fanned by a stiff Easterly wind. Reconstruction commenced almost immediately and eventually all its main rooms were substantially restored to their former state as evidenced by Clough's description of the original interior: "As you enter the hall past a massive carved Italian renaissance fireplace, you see beyond it the wide and easy flight of a typical eighteenth century stair with an elegant balustrade...No one knows whence it came, but we do know where the library at its foot came from, and it was the Great Exhibition of 1851 - all complete with its intricately carved doors and mantelpiece - to be built straight into the house that was then, presumably, just ready to receive it. The Mirror Room, next it, reflects as you enter the view outside the wrong way round; the mantelshelf is supported by the functional haloes of a pair of carved saints and the inlaid parquet is that surviving the room's use as a curs' kennel - strangely without a mark. The big room at the end of the hall was originally the billiards room - pleasant enough with a bay window towards the sea and a wide alcove opposite... It was the dining room when the house first became an hotel and so continued until I built out a new curvilinear one beyond it." The hotel reopened on 29th April 1988 and in 1990 was awarded the Good Hotel Guide's César Award for "Brilliant restoration of a great hotel to former glory".
The Hotel enjoyed a celebrated clientele such as H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Noël Coward and Sir Kenneth Clark.
I had cause to use the outer circle 11 today, although this isn’t quite what I rode, this is 6135 and not 6134, and it’s on the anti-clockwise 11A as opposed to the 11C which I caught.
These MMC’s (6118-6145 currently at Acocks Green) are already on their second employment here, they were new for Route 50 which has already been upgraded. The 11A/11C currently feature these alongside a motley assortment of Volvo B7’s.
This was taken at Pineapple Bridge as the bus runs into Kings Heath.