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Built by Islingon Council as a retirement home for the elderly it later became a temporary hostel for some of Islington's homeless. It was demolished a couple of years ago but the tradition of urine-coloured facades on this side of Green Lanes lives on in the new student flats on Collins Road.
Quadrant Range from Ring Road South at the University of Birmingham.
This direction on a sunny November afternoon from the path towards the Lapworth Museum of Geology (wasn't going there this time).
As usual had to find my way into the Chancellors Court, that meant heading round to the right and eventually up close to the Bramall Music Building.
This is the listing below for the main buildings of the Quadrant Range.
Grade II* listed building
Listing Text
UNIVERSITY ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
Great Hall and
Quadrant Range
formerly listed as
Birmingham University
(Main Buildings)
SP 08 SW 11/4 21.1.70
II*
2.
1900-1909 by Sir Aston Webb and Ingress Bell, the D plan group main university
building of which only part were completed to the original design. The Great
Hall opposite the tower is the central axial building, to its front is a square
entrance hall with a giant round arched mullioned window, above an ornate
frieze over the loggia doorways, flanked by tapering square corner turrets
(to rear as well) which are topped by small ribbed domes. Over the hall rises
a low octagonal drum supporting a large ribbed dome and a miniature lantern.
Red brick and stone and buff terracotta dressings, but the conception is more
Byzantine than Renaissance. Behind the domed and galleried entrance hall with
ornate Renaissance grotesque relief carving, lies the Great Hall itself, a
vast tunnel vaulted space with cross vaulted
2 storey side galleries. Rich grotesque carving. Lavish stained glass by
T R Spence. The centrepiece of the hall has 2 storey quadrant links forming
the wing pavilions, 2 to the west but only one completed to the east. These
relate on a smaller 2 storey scale to the Great Hall being square on plan and
with similar ribbed domes but with round corner turrets, wings extending
behind. Flat lintelled window ranges on ground floor and large frescoed
friezes by Anning Bell below the parapets on the first floor level. The link
ranges have segmental arched windows. Modern part to east not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SP0472283539
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
This group is the first of a series of kaleidoscopes that were made from photos at the Wisconsin State Fair in August of 2025.
Wisconsin State Fair
West Allis, Wisconsin
August 8, 2025
Roydon Common was the location for a wartime bombing/artillery range. The ground marks indicating the target have long since worn away. The remains of two quadrant towers used for plotting the accuracey on-target can still be found on the edges of Grimston Warren. The following NHER records are relevant (and contain links to other records).
Astronomical Quadrant by John Bird (1709-1776) - 1767 - postcard scan. 12- inch astronomical quadrant believed to have been used by Captain James Cook during his observations of the transit of Venus in Tahiti, made by British instrument maker John Bird, 1767.
Astronomical quadrants were used to measure the angle of a celestial object from the zenith. Operated in conjunction with a transit instrument, they could be used to check the running rate of astronomical clocks known as regulators. At sea a quadrant can be used to help fix a ship's position and to determine latitude.
This is the exact location and size of a brick well unearthed in July 1978 during construction of this mall. The well supplied water to Richard Whites stables and the Launceston Hotel.
1973 Noble Venture
Name 2 2003 West Venture
Name 3 2011c Quadrant Warrior
Builder Frostad Boat Works Ltd. Measurement (metric) 11.73m x 4.63m x 0.91m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 14.7
Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 10
Engine 460bhp diesel engine (1973)
Propulsion Twin Screw
Fraser River, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Quadrant Range from Ring Road South at the University of Birmingham.
This direction on a sunny November afternoon from the path towards the Lapworth Museum of Geology (wasn't going there this time).
As usual had to find my way into the Chancellors Court, that meant heading round to the right and eventually up close to the Bramall Music Building.
This is the listing below for the main buildings of the Quadrant Range.
Grade II* listed building
Listing Text
UNIVERSITY ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
Great Hall and
Quadrant Range
formerly listed as
Birmingham University
(Main Buildings)
SP 08 SW 11/4 21.1.70
II*
2.
1900-1909 by Sir Aston Webb and Ingress Bell, the D plan group main university
building of which only part were completed to the original design. The Great
Hall opposite the tower is the central axial building, to its front is a square
entrance hall with a giant round arched mullioned window, above an ornate
frieze over the loggia doorways, flanked by tapering square corner turrets
(to rear as well) which are topped by small ribbed domes. Over the hall rises
a low octagonal drum supporting a large ribbed dome and a miniature lantern.
Red brick and stone and buff terracotta dressings, but the conception is more
Byzantine than Renaissance. Behind the domed and galleried entrance hall with
ornate Renaissance grotesque relief carving, lies the Great Hall itself, a
vast tunnel vaulted space with cross vaulted
2 storey side galleries. Rich grotesque carving. Lavish stained glass by
T R Spence. The centrepiece of the hall has 2 storey quadrant links forming
the wing pavilions, 2 to the west but only one completed to the east. These
relate on a smaller 2 storey scale to the Great Hall being square on plan and
with similar ribbed domes but with round corner turrets, wings extending
behind. Flat lintelled window ranges on ground floor and large frescoed
friezes by Anning Bell below the parapets on the first floor level. The link
ranges have segmental arched windows. Modern part to east not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SP0472283539
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
This was the in camera panoramic.
A 1956 artist's schematic of Plum Brook reactor primary buildings with a cutaway of the containment vessel revealing the quadrants, the reactor pressure tank, and the lily pad. It was called the lily pad because, with water in the quadrants, the circular center resembled "a lily pad floating on water."
Credit: NASA
Image Number: CS-30642
Date:
AQAL Diagram of Six Long Waves of Techno-Economic Development (1770-2060) with some representations in the Four Quadrants (via)