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Nottingham Trent University's Newton Building, which also holds The Nottingham Business School and The Nottingham Conference Centre; as viewed from Goldsmith Street, Nottingham.
The Newton building was designed in art-deco style by by Thomas Cecil Howitt, who also designed the Council House (Nottingham's city hall) and the Portland Building at Nottingham University. Construction began in 1956 and the completed building was opened by HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent in June 1958.
Between 2008-2011 the Grade II listed Newton and Arkwright buildings underwent a £90 million redevelopment, and now the complex represent a mixture of gothic, art-deco, brutalist and modern architecture.
Taken with a Nikon D40, fitted with a Nikkor AFS DX 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6G II lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of postwar French cinema's biggest stars, whose charismatic smile illuminated the screen for half a century, has died aged 88 in his Paris home.
When I was 11 Mum bought a house in the town and we moved to Ventspils. New friends, new life style, new interests..
Not far away was a cinema theatre and twice a week we were allowed to go to the cinema. That was a Soviet period in our country but apart from Russian and Latvian movies we could see something else. Especially popular were French, Indian and Italian movies. Jean Paul Belmondo was among my favourites...RIP now
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A postwar plantation of pines in Blidworth Woods, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, UK.
The trees were originally planted to provide pit props for local collieries, and are still periodically felled or thinned for timber by Forestry England.
The woods have a wide variety of native broadleaves and plantation pine species, and are open to the public via footpaths and bridleways.
"La Folie des Grandeurs" Post-War
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Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille
Château de Chantilly
Chantilly
France - Frankrijk
September 2024
A Spanish-built version of the Bf 109, the HA-1112 features a distinctive Rolls-Royce Merlin engine and served with the Spanish Air Force into the 1960s.
1946 Ford Super Deluxe, at Big M Auto Dismantlers in Williams, California. Visit the set page for more information. Shot during me and Joe's top secret Night Photography and Light Painting workshop, last weekend.
Night, 120 second exposure. Full moon, natural LED flashlight.
Reprocessed and replaced, August, 2024.
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Aquesta és una de les primeres càmeres de cinema que sortiren de la factoria austriaca de Eumig a Viena després de la destrucció provocada durant la Segona Guerra Mundial. Data aproximadament d'entre 1948 i 1950, tot i que la producció continuà uns quants anys després. Això es veu perquè a la part frontal de la càmera, en negre tota ella, encara no hi ha una plaqueta que indiqui C-3, com sí passa a partir de 1951.
En el lateral, just a la palanca per carregar el motor de molla, hi ha el text "Made in Austria Pat. Reg.". Aquest text, entre 1938 i 1939 havia estat substituit per "Made in Germany" per el Anschluss nazi que provocà l'expansionisme nazi.
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This is one of the first film cameras to leave the Austrian factory of Eumig in Vienna after the destruction caused during the Second World War. It dates from approximately 1948 to 1950, although production continued for several years after that. This can be seen because on the front of the camera, which is all black, there is still no plate indicating "C-3", as it happened from 1951 onwards.
On the side, right on the lever to load the spring motor, there is the text "Made in Austria Pat. Reg.". This text, between 1938 and 1939, had been replaced by "Made in Germany" by the Nazi Anschluss which dissolved Austria into Germany till 1945.
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The Kunstmuseum Den Haag, in collaboration with the Tate, presents the major retrospective exhibition "London Calling." For the first time in the Netherlands, highlights of postwar British painting are presented in a single overview—paintings by artists including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, and Paula Rego.
Flemings at night, central Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The building is a typical example for the architectonical style in Germany of the after war 50ies
Das Hotel Flemings ist ein typisches Gebäude der 50iger Jahre im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Es hat sich auch innen den architektonischen Stil bewahrt und bietet eine grandiose Aussicht von der vorgelagerten Terrasse im 7. Stock auf den Frankfurter Innenstadtbereich am Eschenheim Turm und die moderne Skyline im Hintergrund.
Robin Hood Gardens, Peter & Alison Smithson. Un-listed (Part Demolished) 1970
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Nikon D750 | Nikkor 18-35 f3.5-4.5
Jupiter-8 a postwar Soviet copy of the prewar Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f/2, stopped down to F'4.0 and using the focus peaking feature
Postwar "Advanced Design" Chevy at Pearson's, March 2009. Never online before. 2 minutes of full moon with red and green gelled LED.
E507
3.168 cc
V8
150 hp
Zoute Concours d'Elégance 25
Class : Steel & Speed - Post War '50 - '60
Entrant : H.M.G. Van Den Anker
Approach Golf - Het Zoute
Zoute Grand Prix Car Week 2025
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2025
Street photographer, postwar and contemporary artist, Ted Pushinsky (1946 -2018) has been called the “elder statesman” of San Francisco street photography. Pushinsky brought a photojournalist’s eye to crafting crisp, well-composed shots of complex, sometimes gritty, occasionally ambiguous street scenes. Pushinsky's candid images captured everyday moments of tenderness, bravado, youth culture, and urban change in the Mission District of SF — often focusing on Latino communities, street scenes, and the neighborhood's evolving character from the 1980s onward.
The postwar Studebaker was in its third model year in 1949. The 5-seat coupes were renamed as the Starlight series with a 3-seat business utility variation also available. The Champion had the 169.6 cubic inch six with 80 HP.
15,746 Champion Starlight Coupes (5-seat) coupes were built in the 1949 model year, with 5,917 in Deluxe trim and 9,823 as Regal Deluxe trim at $1,683 and $1,757 respectively (FOB South Bend, Hamilton or Los Angeles).
3.800 cc
6 in-line
265 hp
Class III : Post-War "1945 - 1965"
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2022
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2022
Un dels bunquers antitanc de la Linea P en la zona al oest de Martinet de Cerdanya. Formava part del sector CR-53 i suposo que estava preparat per encabir-hi un canó antitanc del 50 o 75mm, segurament d'origen alemany, com ara el Pak 40.
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Acabant'se la Segona Guerra Mundial, el regim feixista de Franco va temer (i per desgracia no fou així) una invasió aliada. Per això es fortificaren de punta a punta els Pirineus, amb una serie de fortificacions de formigó anomenades, amb "molta" imaginació, Linea P. Localment també s'ha conegut com Linea Gutierrez o Perez, potser com a broma. A Martinet de Cerdanya es pot visitar un sector de la linea, el CR 53, al Cabiscol.
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This antitank position lays abandoned just by the Segre River, in the Catalan Pyrenees. It was designed to house a 50 or 75mm AT gun, like the German Pak 40.
As the III Reich was losing World War II, their friends in the spanish fascist regime of Franco were afraid of an allied invasion (which never came, sadly). So they built a fortified line along the Pyrenees. It was much less impressive than the Maginot or Siegfried lines, but at least the mountains gave it a difficult terrain all arround. It was known as Linea P, "P-Line". In Martinet de Cerdanya, a sector of the line (the CR-53) is open to the public and restored.
Levi’s book caused an uproar in postwar Italy, and the Sassi became notorious as la vergogna nazionale, the disgrace of the nation. After a visit in 1950, Italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi was so appalled that he set in motion a draconian plan to relocate the Sassi’s entire population to new housing developments.
Italy was flush with funds from the Marshall Plan, and American experts such as Friedrich Friedmann, a philosophy professor at the University of Arkansas, arrived with Italian academics who had studied the mass rural relocation programs of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s. The new public houses were designed by Italy’s most avant-garde architects, in a misguided utopian vision that would actually isolate families in dismal, claustrophobic boxes.
Early-mid Victorian housing on the left and postwar (WW2) high density multi-level flats on the right.
LR2784
Secret Cinema Presents: The Third Man
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Two Rolls-Royce Merlin 113 two-stage supercharged V12s, 1,690-hp each
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Postwar, former bombsite housing.
Camera : Mamiya Super 23 (6x9cm Back)
Lens : 100mm f 3.5
Film : 120 Rollfilm, Kodak Portra 400
Handheld
LR4284 © Joe O'Malley 2019
The precursor to Keeling House by Denys Lasdun ( He of NT fame )
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Nikon D750, Nikkor 18-35 f3.5-4.5
The now timeless look of the Pointer 2 shines through even more in the current age of standardisation, Stagecoach still have a number running in Plymouth and Citybus despite having a last Dart day Saturday just gone have been out all the week, saw 3 in the space of 5 minutes today!
Anyway 34610 looking great in the new livery with decent blind passes through the Ham council estate built just post war the first houses going up in 1946.
Interior view of the 1950 6C 2500 Freccia d'Oro.
Due to a fire in the storage shed, most of the cars have become very dirty. The soot and dust is everywhere. In the engine compartment but also in the interior. As a visitor you could not touch anything without getting your hands and clothes dirty.
Picture is taken from the auction catalogue.
Photographer and date unknown.
This 2-door coach (or sport coupé) was called Freccia d'Oro (Golden Arrow). It was designed by Centro Style Alfa Romeo, Torino. The 6C 2500 Freccia d'Oro was the first new postwar Alfa.
Only 680 units were built.
Imported from Sweden (documents present).
Seen at the viewing days of the Palmen Barnfind Collection Auction initiated by Gallery Aaldering, Brummen and provided by Classic Car Auctions, location Dordrecht.
See also: www.gallery-aaldering.com/nl/the-palmen-barnfind-collecti...
And: www.classiccar-auctions.com/nl/lot-details/18218/Main%20c...
2443 cc L6 engine.
Ca. 1400 kg.
Production Alfa Romeo 6C Series: 1927-1954.
Production 6C 2500 Series: 1938-1952.
Production 6C 2500 Freccia d-Oro: 1947-1951.
Original first reg. number: June 30, 1950.
Halfweg, May 30, 2023.
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Oakshott Court by Peter Tabori. Featured in Domus No.1048
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Nikon D750 | Nikkor 18-35 f3.5-4.5
3.800 cc
6 in-line
265 hp
Class III : Post-War "1945 - 1965"
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2022
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2022
Infamous for being the world's most expensive social housing, Branch Hill is a low-rise, high-density, estate built for Camden Architects' Department Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth.
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Restored postwar diesel locomotive stored at Niles Canyon Railway.
Night, full moon, 2 minute exposure, sodium and mercury vapor lights, yellow and blue-gelled strobe flash.
In the postwar years, Fiat was working on an eight-cylinder engine which was internally known as Tipo 106. Dante Giacosa originally designed the engine for a luxury sedan, but then that project stopped. Rudolf Hruska, at the time working at S.I.A.T.A., was given the task to design a car around the V8 engine. Development took place in absolute secrecy. To not stress the experimental department of Fiat, S.I.A.T.A took up the production of the chassis. Styled by chief designer Fabio Luigi Rapi, the Fiat 8V or OttoVù was presented to the Italian press in February 1952 and first exhibited in the following March at the Geneva Motor Show.
The Fiat 8V prototype used an art deco grill that extended into the hood. A second series was made featuring four headlights with some of the later cars have a full-width windscreen. A high-performance coupé destined to compete in the GT class, the 2-litre 8V model, was a departure from the usual Fiat production. It was well accepted by Italian private drivers and tuners and was the car to beat in the 2-litre class, also thanks to the unique versions built by Zagato or Siata. The Fiat V8 had a 70-degree V configuration of up to a 1996 cc of volume, at 5600 rpm the engine produced 105 hp (78 kW) in standard form with two two-barrel Weber 36 DCS carburettors giving a top speed of 190 km/h (118 mph). Some engines were fitted with substantial four-throat Weber 36 IF4/C carburettors offering 120 bhp, but the intake manifold was very rare. The Fiat 8V is the only eight-cylinder built by Fiat. The engine was connected to a four-speed gearbox. The shapes of the car have seen several changes over time: the prototype had an art deco grille that extended into the bonnet. A second series was made with four headlights; finally, some of the latest cars had a large windshield without divisions. Only 114 of this high-performance coupé were produced, 63 of which with a “Fiat Carrozzerie Speciali” body, 34 first-series and 29 second-series. It was made available in different body styles, offered by the factory and by various coachbuilders like Zagato, Pinin Farina, Ghia and Vignale. The production ceased in 1954.
Text from:
www.carrozzieri-italiani.com/listing/fiat-8v-carrozzerie-...
Postwar Contax III with an East-German CZJ 50mm/1.5 Sonnar
A beautiful camera that I borrowed for a few days
Coachwork by Zagato
Class III a : Post-War Closed Cars "The most elegant ones"
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2021
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2021
Postwar/Modernist Catholic Church still displaying Christmas decorations.
I'm seeing St.Joseph loading a large gourd into a shopping trolley, he and Mary are sensibly PPE'd up for Covid-19.
LR3865 © Joe O'Malley 2020
adding images of roots and sky to a textbook I had in 1989. The book explains postwar history from a GDR perspective.
Dortmund
The Landwehr colony is a mining settlement in the Bövinghausen district of Dortmund that belongs to the Zollern colliery.
The Zollern colliery was built as a model mine for the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG), and the Landwehr colony was built in parallel as a model settlement in the immediate vicinity. Like most of the mine complex, the buildings were designed in the historicist style and underline the ensemble character of the entire complex, which as such is registered as a monument in the city of Dortmund's list of monuments.
The first building in 1898 was a two-family house for Steiger on Grubenweg, which leads to the factory gate. In 1900 the director's villa was built for the manager on Rhader Weg. By 1904, additional apartment buildings followed on these two streets, totaling eight civil servants' houses with 29 apartments. The individual design was complex; Curved gables, bay windows and decorative framework. This part of the settlement was planned and carried out by Paul Knobbe, the GBAG architect, and by machine inspector Wenzel Köller.
In the second part of the settlement, on the eponymous Landwehrbach, are the 23 workers' houses planned by Knobbe alone with a total of 87 apartments. According to the idea of the garden city, there are five different types of houses for mostly four families. The houses are placed on one side of the street, have small front gardens and old plane trees. The properties are much larger and offered kitchen gardens and stables for self-sufficiency.
Because of the small number of residents and the immediate proximity of the Bövinghausen settlement, no separate infrastructure in the form of churches, schools or shops was planned.
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Dortmund is the largest city in the Ruhr area. It has a population of 593,000 inhabitants, making it the eighth largest city in Germany. Dortmund was founded around 882. Throughout the 13th to 14th centuries, it was the "chief city" of the Rhine, Westphalia, and the Netherlands Circle of the Hanseatic League. During the Thirty Years' War, the city was destroyed and decreased in significance until the onset of industrialization. The city then became one of Germany's most important coal, steel and beer centres. The town expanded into a city, with the population rising from 57,742 in 1875 to 379,950 in 1905. Sprawling residential areas like the North, East, Union and Kreuz district sprang up in less than 10 years. Dortmund consequently was one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany during World War II. The devastating bombing raids of 12 March 1945 destroyed 98% of buildings in the inner city center. These bombing raids, with more than 1,110 aircraft, hold the record to a single target in World War II. Post-war, most of the ancient buildings were not restored, and large parts of the city area were completely rebuilt in the style of the 1950s. A few historic buildings as the main churches Reinoldikirche and Marienkirche were restored or rebuilt, and extensive parks and gardens were laid out. The simple but successful postwar rebuilding has resulted in a very mixed and unique cityscape.
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After visiting the Ruhr area three years ago, I did a revisit, since there was still so much to see. In less than six days I visited six cities, two museums, and I did some extensive car spotting by bicycle. I have hundreds of car spots to share and took photos of the historic or interesting buildings.
The Ruhr area ('Ruhrgebiet') is named after the river that borders it to the south and is the largest urban area in Germany with over five million people. It is mostly known as a densely-populated industrial area. By 1850 there were almost 300 coal mines in operation in the Ruhr area. The coal was exported or processed in coking ovens into coke, used in blast furnaces, producing iron and steel. Because of the industrial significance, it had been a target from the start of the war, yet "the organized defences and the large amount of industrial pollutants produced a semi-permanent smog or industrial haze that hampered accurate bombing". During World War II, the industry and cities in the Ruhr area were heavily bombed. The combination of the lack of historic city centres, which were burned to ashes, (air) pollution, and urban decay has given the area and the cities a bad reputation.
Source: Wikipedia
A first-generation British-built Ford Anglia [E04A] 2-door, 4-passenger saloon, in wonderful overall condition, fitted w/ authentic six-character, London-area October 1946 black plate registration; “MMT 493”. Painted in typical black paint of the era. This particular car is intriguing as it is a remarkably well-preserved example of the first series of “sit-up-and-beg” Anglias - the E04A series, which - although quite a common car when new in postwar Britain, is indeed a very, very rare sight nowadays. The later E494A, 100E, 105E/106E/123E and Prefects are generally much more frequent sights at most car shows, but not the E04A. This example has some old black-and-white photographs displayed in the window of a very similar car which would’ve been from the owner’s personal family album. Another nice period-authentic touch is the original ‘Tops’ petroleum pump head globe prop in front of the car. Spotted at Malton agricultural show 2024.
Two Rolls-Royce Packard Merlin 225 two-stage supercharged 27-litre V12s, 1,635-hp each
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Markings: Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) 487 Squadron EG-Y/Y-EG late-WWII - Military Aviation Museum N114KA
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Hamilton Air Show, sponsored by Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM)
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Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm 1:2.8GII ED SWM VR ED IF
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This forward-looking “everyman” car from the postwar UK was designed with a uniquely British flair. Featuring chrome fenders and character elements, a distinctive grille shaped like an upside-down “T,” and a raked rear windscreen, it helped workers keep their daily commutes punctual and stylish.
More photos available in the build album. Thank you to The Lego Car Blog and The Brothers Brick for their humorous posts about this build and the peculiarities of 1950s British cars!
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