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Petersburg Borough. Photo by J Gallagher, Aug. 2002.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
One more photo with the post before we start walking down. Next time we'll bring a flag and do one of the bigger ones!
Die Alte Post in Hamburg ist ein 1847 vollendetes Gebäude an der nach ihr benannten Poststraße in der Hamburger Neustadt. Es wurde nach dem Großen Brand von 1842 nach Plänen von Alexis de Chateauneuf aus dem Bedürfnis errichtet, mehrere der in der Stadt vertretenen Postanstalten in einem Haus zusammenzufassen. Der seinerzeit größte Verwaltungsbau der Stadt gilt als herausragendes Beispiel der sogenannten Hamburger Nachbrandarchitektur und ist eines der ältesten Postgebäude vor Gründung der einheitlichen Reichspost in Deutschland.
Quelle: Wikipedia
Located along the old Tōkaidō road, not too far from the Fujikawa shuku (post town) in what was the province of Mikawa, Hōzō-ji temple is famous for two things. The temple first became famous as it was where a young Matsudaira Takechiyo began his early education. This boy would later become Tokugawa Ieyasu, who unified Japan in 1600, and for this reason, it received special patronage from the Tokugawa Bakufu (shogunate), which Ieyasu established in 1603. Because of this, plus the fact that many of the things that young Ieyasu used where housed there, the temple was a popular place for people to stop at as they traveled this once great road that connected the imperial capital of Kyoto with shogun’s capital of Edo (present-day Tokyo).
It was during the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate that Hōzō-ji received yet another item of historical importance—except this time, this was an item that wasn’t interred in the temple’s store-house or hall of worship, but rather the cemetery. Hōzō-ji is the final resting spot for the head of Kondō Isami, leader of the Shinsengumi. The Shinsengumi was a crack security unit of gifted but ruthless pro-shogunate swordsmen whose sole purpose was to help keep the peace in Kyoto at a time when it was being infiltrated by equally dangerous pro-imperial ronin (masterless samurai). So in order to rid Kyoto of its pro-imperial thug problem, the Shogunate brought in its own group of thugs—the Shinsengumi—who were very effective at killing, drinking and basically living fast and dying young.
In the fighting that marked the collapse of the Shogunate and the ushering in of the Meiji Restoration, Kondō managed to get himself captured. It goes without saying that as leader of the Shinsengumi, he wasn’t the most popular guy with imperial forces, and he was brought to Itabashi in Tokyo, where he was sentenced to death by beheading on April 25, 1868 (lunar calendar; May 17 Gregorian calendar). Call this a coincidence, but as I am posting this on April 25, 2009, today "kind of" marks the 141st anniversary of Kondō’s death. Freaky!
After Kondō’s head was displayed in public for three days, it was salted and sent to Kyoto where it was re-spiked for public viewing at the Sanjō Bridge. As gruesome as this sounds, this was how things were done back then, but how the head wound up at Hōzō-ji is a mystery. Perhaps a Shinsengumi/Bakufu sympathizer tried to return the head to Kondō’s family that lived close to Tokyo, but gave up along the way. As Hōzō-ji is a Shogunate affiliated temple, it’s kind of fitting that it should be the final resting spot for one of its more infamous supporters.
New Post Office building for Lego City. To be more precise, it is a better fit for a small town :)
Interior is divided into three parts - an office with a small window to contact customers. Inside the room you can see two clerks, some equipment and a coffee express. The next part is the hall for waiting in que with a place to sit. That room is very bright, because the front wall is built mostly from glass elements. The last one - storage where packages and letters are waiting for postmans :) Behind the back door you can spot a postman who is carrying packages to his truck.
‘Post Early’, one of a series of posters for the General Post Office (GPO) in the 1950s.
Image by permission of the Henrion estate.
A cannibalized rifle in a post-apocalyptic setting. (NO ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, I'M FRIGGIN' SICK OF ZOMBIES). Those mags up there have been modded so they can be used in this gun.
No dust cover for this one!
Chips are tiny bits of tape. I think they work as scratches and such.
I`ve been waiting for weeks for a big high tide so i could shoot these post..Happy with the result and worth the wait :-)
Grafton County. Photo by J Gallagher, Sept. 1979.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
A wall mounted large-sized ‘Ludlow’ type King George V letter box outside Warcop Post Office. Tuesday 10th July 1990
Ref no 11605
Aquí en tiempo completo hasta con vídeos una Aphonopelma aberrans mudando de piel (este proceso tardo 3 horas