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The Quadrant on Warwick Road in Coventry.
Saw my first plaque here as I arrived in the City Centre. Made a minor detour to have a close look!
It is a Grade II listed building.
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5105 THE QUADRANT
WARWICK ROAD
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Nos 1 to 4 (consec)
SP 3378 NW 10/334
II GV
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Mid C19. Stucco, Welsh slated roof. 3 storeys, 2nd floor entablature with modillion
cornice. Sash windows. Recessed 1 window wing on left; 3 canted 2 storey bay
windows, 1 single storey canted bay on right. 1:3:2:3:2:3:3 windows at 1st floor
level with cast iron balcony railings. Rusticated quoins. Ground and 2nd floor
windows segmental headed, ground floor archivolts, 1st floor eared architraves.
No 4 has rusticated ground£floor, 1st floor segmental headed windows. Included
for group value.
Nos 1 to 10 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SP3324278667
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Black plaque on The Quadrant.
It was near some artillery stuff - so I'm guessing it's used for determining elevation.
Revolutionary War Reenactment
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November 2008
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An up CityRail Endeavour set approaches three aspect automatic signal 66.8. At left is signal 67.1's Distant that can display only 2 aspects - vertical green/green (clear - pictured) or 45 degrees green/red (caution). Top lamp is fixed at green, while an older type one-piece spectacle plate sports green and red domed glasses, with the unused lens position covered. A standard pressed metal arm is fitted. Kilometrage is marked on a plate affixed to the mast. Bridge in the background carries the Hume Freeway over the railway line.
In the Good Future, When you go outside from the City Mines you get a take a fresh air in the City of the Kingdom.
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I thought that some of you might like a look at the Quadrant since it's been refurbished.As can be seen,more and more comfortable seating and loads of information everywhere.If you're still stuck there are local and National Express enquiries offices,constantly manned at the back wall and a Co-op,Greggs and a nice coffee bar included in the redevelopment too.
As for the manouvreing area it's still much the same,buses drive forward onto the 26 bays.They each have a large concrete buffer at the front though.Locals will well remember the incident when a National shot through the front of the building about 35 years back now.All in all a big improvement on the old one.There is a buslane too and a central reservation on the Kingsway so pictures are easy to get.Remember too,First Cymru buses come from all over the country ,so it's quite a bit more interesting than it might appear too.........
The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
A pair of very tall brick Observation Towers dating from World War Two stand on Grimston Warren. Both of the quadrant towers are built from four brickwork columns, connected approximately half way up with steel tie rods, the columns are also connected at the top with a concrete ring beam.
Usually there is a concrete superstructure on top, used by the observers, in this case the tower probably held a wooden superstructure attached by bolts to the concrete ring beam sitting on top of the columns. Some of the wooden remains and fixings can be seen. Both of the towers show some concrete foundations at the base indicating where a staircase was mounted for access.
Nearby are some cropmarks of a large circle with a large central ''bullseye'' at reference TF 6780 2214, this is believed to represent the remains of a World War Two bomb target.
INFORMATION BOARD -
This tower and its twin, which can be seen in the distance to the north, were constructed by the army and date from the Second World War.
They were used for artillery training by the Royal Observation Corps. Guns fired shells at a target and observers measured the shell trajectories and determined the accuracy of each shot. The two view points were necessary to pi point the exact position each shell fell.
This tower was entirely hidden within a dense conifer plantation from the 1960’s. It was only the felling of trees in 2009 as part of Norfolk Wildlife Trust's heathland restoration project that has once again revealed the tower. For the first time in decades the original sight-line between the two observation towers has been opened up.
BEWARE ORDNANCE ‼️
There are also the remains of other military features dating from around the time Second World War, including slit trenches, and gun emplacements. Occasionally the remains of shells and other ordnance are found here. Should you find any metal objects which you think may be ordnance please do not handle them but safely mark the location and report your findings to Norfolk Wildlife Trust on 01603 625540.
Information from the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
The Quadrant:MK - Network Rail HQ in Milton Keynes (This is the car park)
Part of my 365 project - Day 9
RD7927. An impressive bracket signal outside Cockcrow Hill station on the Great Cockcrow Railway. The signals indicate that we have the through road which continues past the station to the loop round Cockcrow Hill.
The Great Cockcrow Railway is an impressive and extensive fully signalled 7¼” gauge line near Chertsey in Surrey. It has two intertwined routes, each giving a ride of around 20 minutes, and six or more trains can be in operation at any one time; there are also some steepish gradients to make the engines work hard.
Sunday, 7th July, 2013. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
Framed by the magnificent array of lower quadrant signals at Radyr, 150278 departs via the Cardiff City Line with the 17.56 Merthyr to Coryton service
made after the description of Jamal al-Din al-Maridini
Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam' (Turkish: İstanbul İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Müzesi)
Technical Details of the Quadrant Shower
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Height 1850mm x Width 900mm x Depth 900mm
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Polished Chrome
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550mm radius
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Chrome Handle
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6mm frameless toughened safety glass
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The side panels have an adjustment each side of 30mm
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The Doors are Sliding
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The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
The painting depicts a young Dutch blonde girl standing at an open window, in profile, reading a letter. A red drapery hangs over the top of the window glass, which has opened inward and which, in its lower right quadrant, reflects her. A tasseled ochre drapery in the foreground right, partially closed, masks a quarter of the room in which she stands. The color of the drape reflects the green of the woman's gown and the shades of the fruit tilted in a bowl on the red-draped table. On the table beside the bowl, a peach is cut in half, revealing its pit.
Norbert Schneider indicates that the open window is on one level intended to represent "the woman's longing to extend her domestic sphere" beyond the constraints of her home and society, while the fruit "is a symbol of extramarital relations." He concludes that the letter is a love letter either planning or continuing her illicit relationship. This conclusion, he says, is supported by the fact that x-rays of the canvas have shown that at one point Vermeer had featured a Cupid in the painting. This putto once hung in the upper right of the piece before, for whatever reason, somebody closed the wall over it. This overpainting, which is now being reversed by restorators, seems to have taken place in the 18th century.
The draperies, hanging in the right foreground, are not an uncommon element for Vermeer, appearing in seven of his paintings. Even more common, the repoussoir appears in 25, with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, one of three which feature a rug-covered table or balustrade between the figure and the viewer. It was the last painting in which Vermeer featured this device.
This painting and Officer and Laughing Girl represent the earliest known examples of the pointillé (not to be confused with pointillism) for which Vermeer became known. John Michael Montias in Vermeer and His Milieu (1991) points out the "tiny white globules" that can be seen in the brighter parts of both paintings, including the still life elements of both and the blond hair specifically in this work. This use of light may support speculation among art historians that Vermeer used a mechanical optical device, such as a double concave lens mounted in a camera obscura, to help him achieve realistic light patterns in his paintings.
Vermeer completed the painting in approximately 1657–59. In 1742, Augustus III of Poland, Elector of Saxony, purchased the painting under the mistaken belief that it had been painted by Rembrandt. In 1826, it was mis-attributed again, to Pieter de Hooch. It was so labeled when French art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger came upon it, recognizing it as one of the rare works of the Dutch painter and restoring its proper attribution in 1860.
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was among the paintings rescued from destruction during the bombing of Dresden in World War II. The painting was stored, with other works of art, in a tunnel in Saxony; when the Red Army encountered them, they took them. The Soviets portrayed this as an act of rescue; some others as an act of plunder. Either way, after the death of Joseph Stalin, the Soviets decided in 1955 to return the art to Germany, "for the purpose of strengthening and furthering the progress of friendship between the Soviet and German peoples." Aggrieved at the thought of losing hundreds of paintings, art historians and museum curators in the Soviet Union suggested that "in acknowledgment for saving and returning the world-famous treasures of the Dresden Gallery" the Germans should perhaps donate to them Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window and Sleeping Venus by Giorgione. The Germans did not take to the idea, and the painting was returned. Well-preserved, it is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden.
83 x 64,5 cm
StanceWorks UK at the Quadrant, MK. Sunday 17th March 2013. Full write up at www.stanceworks.com/2013/03/stanceworks-uk-the-quadrant-mk/
Built on the site of the old County Goal, the store was originally much smaller than it is today. Built for £2721, it was an impressive building, fronted with red brick and white dressings. It was opened on 29th June, in 1881 by Thomas Hughes QC (author of Tom Browns School Days), for the sale of bread, grocery, shoes and drapery. By 1902 it was extended to include a larger grocery and a confectionery shop. This was opened by Daisy Warwick, Countess of Essex from Easton Lodge. Since then, over the years adjoining units were purchased until 1958 when work began to rebuild the entire store at a cost of £300 000. This was in fact the largest building project to be complete in Chelmsford since World War 11. The new store included a self service food hall, footwear, toys, lingerie, fashions, drapery, specialise baby linen and a floral department.
In 1969 the Society acquired the site of the London Road, Congregational Church and by 1973 opened a new unit (now Dansk) joined to the original store by a bridge. The double unit was then re-named Co-operative House. By 1990 a refurbishment added an impressive glass entrance to the New London Road unit, which gave rise to the new name ‘quadrant’. However, by 1995, due to recession, New London Road was taken over by Maples and then Allders until it was finally acquired by Dansk in 2010.
The final major change in the stores history came in 1995, when it added a third floor for beds, extended its fashion range and changed its colour scheme to the black and white theme as seen today. Chelmsford Star is now the only Co-operative Society in East Anglia to still have department stores and is proud to own Chelmsford’s only independent department store
Major rerfurbishment April 2006