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Segment 4 of 5 of the carport extension is nicely finished and starting to set. The wooden form in the foreground will hold it in place before we remove it tomorrow to pour the final segment. Note the three prior segments in various stages of drying in the distance.
Interstate 70, Kansas: Coming from Colorado, I-70 enters flat plains in Kansas. This portion of I-70 was the first segment to start being paved and to be completed in the Interstate Highway System. It is given the nickname "Main Street of Kansas" as the interstate extends from the western border to the eastern border covering 424 miles (682 km) and passing through most of the state's principal cities in the process.
I-70 crossing on the Lewis & Clark Viaduct over the Kansas River from Kansas to Missouri in Kansas City.
In Salina, I-70 intersects with I-135, the longest "spur" route in the Interstate system[5], forming the latter's northern terminus.
In Topeka, I-70 intersects I-470, twice. At the eastern intersection, the Kansas Turnpike merges, with I-70 becoming a toll road. This is one of only two sections of I-70 that are tolled. (The other is part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.) I-70 carries this designation from Topeka to Bonner Springs, the eastern terminus of the turnpike. There is also a third child route in Topeka, I-335, which runs from I-470 south to meet up with I-35 in the Flint Hills town of Emporia. Just past the Bonner Springs Toll Plaza I-70 crosses I-435 for the first time, which allows travelers to bypass the downtown traffic via I-435, which encircles the Kansas City metropolitan area. Further down the highway in Kansas City, Kansas, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) before the 18th Street Expressway, I-70 is intersected again by another child route. This route, I-635, runs from I-35 at its southern terminus up to I-29, just about 5 miles (8.0 km) across the Missouri river, at its northern terminus. From I-635 to just past the 7th Street (US 169) exit, I-70 runs adjacent Union Pacific's Armourdale Yard. Here I-670 (also designated "Alternate 70" on some signs) diverges, providing a more direct route that rejoins I-70 proper a few miles east in Missouri. The highway passes over the former stockyards and rail yard when it crosses the Kansas River on the Lewis & Clark Viaduct into downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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03.12.2018 Official opening ceremony of COP24/CMP14/CMA1.3 and high-level segment
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A look around the Coventry Canal Basin at the end / start of the Coventry Canal. The canal is just north of the Coventry Ring Road. And the basin itself runs alongside Leicester Row.
The towpath near the canal warehouses on the right is a dead end, so you have to head over to the towpath on the left. Although that ends near the bridge. But you can head over the bridge on Draper's Fields and re-enter the towpath on Leicester Row.
The Canal Warehouses of the Coventry Canal Basin. This view to the left, near the end of the basin (close to where the canal goes past the bridge).
Coventry Canal Basin, warehouse and loading docks
Now used as clubs and a community arts venue.
Grade II listed buildings.
Listing Text
LEICESTER ROW
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Canal Warehouse
GV
SP 37 NW 17/11
Canal Warehouse. 1787, C19 and 1914. Brick with Welsh slate roofs. One to four
storeys. Extensive frontage following Leicester Row, with four different roof heights. Dentil eaves cornice. Elevation to Leicester Row from left to right. The first section has two altered basket arched openings and a segmental arched window to ground floor. The upper floors have two pairs of giant round-arched panels containing three tiers of horizontal strip windows and round-arched windows above. Then a gabled bay with keyed segmental arched entrance and keyed lunette window. Slightly lower section to the right has a large segmental arched entrance flanked by smaller segmental arched entrances. Three segmental arched windows above and above again, and five round-arched windows above. All have iron casements. Lower section to right has two tiers of segmental arched windows and lunette windows above, divided into groups of 3-6-3 by large segmental arched entrances. Lower range to right again has repeated tripartite motif of segmental arched entrances flanked by blind half segmental arches. The rear elevation gives onto the canal basin. The elevation at the time of inspection was under scaffold and in the process of being renovated. Projecting canopy continuing the pitch of the main roof. Various basket arched doorways and windows. The Warehouse flanks the canal basin of the Coventry Canal Navigation which was completed in 1769 by James Brindley.
Listing NGR: SP3333879601
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
John Sinclair House is on the right.
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note the missing segment of fence. going down that embankment sideways was exciting. didn't roll, at least.
A section of the Berlin wall showing the final design that was installed around West Berlin. Hard to climb and hard to crack by driving into it.
Nikon D4 + 24-70mm f/2.8G | Roque de los Muchachos Obs, La Palma, Canary Islands, 12 July 2012
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MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes) is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes situated at about 2200 m above sea level. MAGIC detects particle showers released by gamma rays, using the Cherenkov radiation, i.e., faint light radiated by the charged particles in the showers. With a diameter of 17 meters for the reflecting surface, it was the largest in the world before the construction of H.E.S.S. II.
The Chimney Rock segment of the Crooked Wild and Scenic River is becoming increasingly popular for all kinds of recreation. Thousands of people visit each year to enjoy the incredible fishing, camping, and scenic views.
The area provides for many types of recreation activities including: camping, fishing, hiking, and driving, or bicycling on the Crooked River Backcountry Byway. A paved portion of the 43-mile long Crooked River Back Country Byway winds its way through the river canyon. It’s got it all!
Check out this amazing stretch of river and start your adventure right here:
blm.gov/d8ld
Photos: Bob Wick, BLM
A visit in Biddulph Grange Garden in late July 2021. The heatwave seemed to have ended, and was much cooler here, but was warm in certain areas.
More views of the house from the gardens.
Biddulph Grange was developed by James Bateman (1811–1897), the accomplished horticulturist and landowner; he inherited money from his father, who had become rich from coal and steel businesses. He moved to Biddulph Grange around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall. He created the gardens with the aid of his friend and painter of seascapes Edward William Cooke. The gardens were meant to display specimens from Bateman's extensive and wide-ranging collection of plants.
Biddulph Grange "started life as a bog-standard rectory, but around 1840 it was bought by James Bateman...he and his wife Maria had a passion for plants and the money to indulge their interests, and as the house was enlarged they began work on the surrounding gardens. In this they were helped by an artist friend, Edward William Cooke, who was not just a keen designer but whose father-in-law owned one of the biggest plant nurseries of the day, Loddiges of Hackney." The gardens "were designed by James and Maria Bateman. Bateman...bought specimens brought back by the great Victorian plant-hunters and became an expert on orchids."
Bateman was president of the North Staffordshire Field Society, and served on the Royal Horticultural Society's Plant Exploration Committee. The gardens "were meant to display specimens from Bateman's extensive and wide-ranging collection of plants." He especially loved Rhododendrons and Azaleas. Bateman was "a collector and scholar on orchids," He had a number of notable sons who grew up at Biddulph Grange, including the painter Robert Bateman.
His gardens are a rare survival of the interim period between the Capability Brown landscape garden and the High Victorian style. The gardens are compartmentalised and divided into themes: Egypt, China, etc.
In 1861 Bateman and his sons, who had used up their savings, gave up the house and gardens, and Bateman moved to Kensington in London. Robert Heath bought Biddulph Grange in 1871. After the house burnt down in 1896, architect Thomas Bower rebuilt it.
The post-1896 house served as a children's hospital from 1923 until the 1960s; known first as the "North Staffordshire Cripples' Hospital" and later as the "Biddulph Grange Orthopaedic Hospital" (though it took patients with non-orthopaedic conditions as well. Under this latter title the hospital's role expanded to accommodate adults, continuing in operation into the mid-1980s.) The 15 acres (6.1 ha) garden became badly run-down and neglected during this period, and the deeply dug-out terraced area near the house around Dahlia Walk was filled in level to make a big lawn for patients to be wheeled out on in summertime. The Bateman property was (and still is) divided: the hospital got the house and its gardens, and the uncultivated remainder of Biddulph Grange's land became the Biddulph Grange Country Park.
Until 1991 the house and gardens "housed an orthopaedic hospital, whose managers (understandably enough) were more concerned with their patients than the weird stuff looming out of rocky outcrops in the grounds. For the best part of a century the gardens decayed, visited only by passing vandals and, more rarely, intrepid folly-hunters."
Grade II* Listed Building
Description
BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE
SJ 85 NE
7/2 Biddulph Grange
20.3.74
GV II*
Country house. The house of 1848-60 for John Bateman overlays an earlier
farmhouse; virtually replaced by the present grandiloquent mansion of
1897 by John Bower. The former is yellow brick and render with slate
roofs, the latter is built of sandstone ashlar with lead roofs and brick
chimneys. The style employed is a revived English Baroque. Garden front:
in 3 parts: the Main Elevation is 3 storeys rising in centre to attic
storey under pediment; second floor cill-string, cornice and parapet,
balustraded between sides and centre which have urn finials. 10-bay
front with outer and central 2-bay breaks flanked by pilasters, the centre
break has also a central pilaster. Glazing bar sashes in architraves,
cornices to first floor centre windows, antae to centre of window heads
of outer bays; alternate triangular and segmental pediments to ground
floor windows in pairs; understated entrance to left in architrave and
with bracketted cornice. Irregularly placed balustraded tower (?belvedere
or water tower) to right of centre and set back unbalances the composition.
To left, one of the surviving portions of Bateman's house, 2 storeys,
raised quoins, Italianate, irregular 2+2 window arrangement with 2 full-
height hipped square bays (tripartite windows); principal feature is the
projecting semi-circular-headed domed porch to left with paired columns
and full entablature marking the position of Bateman's study; the left-
hand wing is set back and has round-headed plate-glass sashes in rusticated
surrounds. To right, further projecting irregular bay of 2 round-arch
windows and corbelled balcony, decorative frieze and cornice all built
out over a garden path. Entrance front: 3 parts to right of 3 storeys
project progressively towards the centre and elaborate port-cochère round-
arched with twinned Corinthian columns set back from angles surmounted
by balustraded parapet with urn finials. Interior: the 1897 house has
a splendid staircase with massive marble Ionic columns embraced by semi-
circular bays of a balustraded landing and 3-tiered staircase behind with
stained glass lighting first landing; coffered ceiling to otherwise
plain hall. More important is Bateman's study to the south, French-
inspired. Parquet floor, part-mirrored walls, flat-domed centre to
ceiling and much gilt enrichment; pedimented doorcases. The room is
set behind the domed porch and over the cascade of steps (q.v.) which
lead out to Bateman's miniature landscape park. John Bateman, the
horticulturist, started Biddulph Grange in 1848 from an unpromising
farmhouse set in a marsh. He had already commenced his horticultural
career at his Father.'s house, Knypersley Hall (q.v.), notably the culture
of orchids. Although the architect of Biddulph Grange is unknown, much of
Bateman's enterprise was worked out with his friend, the painter E.W. Cooke,
with whom he shared a passion for ferns. Work was completed to both house
and gardens by 1860; Bateman, having exhausted his funds derived from his
Father's pump manufactury, was forced to relinquish it. Heath, a mine
owner purchased the house and had it considerably enlarged after a severe
fire, completing the work in 1897, the year of Bateman's death.
Listing NGR: SJ8923459207
You could get to The Parterres from the Dahlia Walk, but not back up to the tearooms, had to go back via the Italian Garden.
Also one part of The Parterres was closed off.
We came across an interesting oddity from the realm of consumer electronics: a fake seven-segment LED display. Just for fun, we made our own version too.
Read more about this project here.
Welcome to the Lower Crooked Wild and Scenic River, which was designated a Federal Wild and Scenic River in 1988. Located along the Crooked River National Back Country Byway, the 8-mile Chimney Rock segment boast diverse scenery and wildlife and provides access to year-round recreational activities.
The Chimney Rock Campground has 15 campsites on a first come, first serve bases and it is open year-round. There are accessible toilets and water.
For more information contact call 541-416-6879 or visit www.blm.gov
Photo: Gavin Hoban, BLM, December 19, 2017
Caliper Studio fabricated and installed custom cladding system for a private pool hall. Mesh is a stainless and brass metal fabric. Twelve panels cover fifty linear feet of wall.
Designed by Selldorf Architects.
General Contractor is Bernsohn & Fetner.
الجامع العُمري الكبير Omari mosque Beirut / Lebanon
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03.12.2018 - First part of the high-level segment
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WTDC-17 High-level segment H.E. Mr Rashid Ismailov
Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications
Russian Federation
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Statutory Address: BRIDGE AT TEIGNBRIDGE CROSSING, TEIGNBRIDGE CROSSING
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1334129
Date first listed: 23-Aug-1955
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish: Teigngrace
National Grid Reference: SX 85654 73308
Details: TEIGNGRACE TEIGNBRIDGE CROSSING SX 87 SE
8/228 Bridge at Teignbridge - Crossing 23.8.55 - II
Road bridge over Stover Canal. Dated 1798. Coursed stone to impost level with rusticated stone jambs. Flemish bond buff-coloured brick above. Segmental brick arch with yellow terracotta keystones with goats head mask on north side and Neptune mask on south side. Brick string course at road level and pilaster strips flanking in abutments. Brick parapets with rounded granite coping. Parapet appears to be rebuilt on the south side. Tablet at centre of north parapet inscribed:- "Erected by order of Thomas Taylor Esq., Thomas Love Esq., Thomas Kitson and Rev.B.W.Wrey. Magistrates of this County 1798". 2 pairs of cast iron circular moulded tie plates in the spandrels. Stover Canal was built by James Templer of Stover House q.v. 1790-92, the engineer was Thomas Gray of Exeter. It was improved by George Templer in 1824 when the locks were rebuilt in granite. The canal was nearly 2 miles long and joined the River Teign at Jetty Marsh near Newton Abbot where barges passed through the dredged Whitelake Channel to the estuary of the River Teign. The canal was a private venture and was built to transport Haytor granite after the Haytor granite tramway had been built in 1820. Reference: Charles Hadfield, The Canals of South West England, pp.118 to 122.
Listing NGR: SX8565473308
The Stover Canal is a canal located in Devon, England. It was opened in 1792 and served the ball clay industry until it closed in the early 1940s. Today it is derelict, but the Stover Canal Society is aiming to restore it and reopen it to navigation.
The canal was built at a time when the ball clay industry was expanding, but transport of the bulky product was difficult. James Templer (1748–1813) of Stover House, Teigngrace, saw this as an opportunity, and began to construct the canal at his own expense in January 1790. He planned to reach Bovey Tracey, passing through Jewsbridge, near Heathfield en route, and to construct a branch to Chudleigh. Having invested over £1,000 in the project, he sought an Act of Parliament which would allow him to raise more capital, but although the Act was passed on 11 June 1792, he did not invoke its powers, as the canal had already reached Ventiford, Teigngrace and he did not extend it further.
As built, the canal was 1.7 miles (2.7 km) long and included five locks. It was supplied with water from three feeders, one from Ventiford Brook, a stream which also supplies Stover Lake (now in Stover Country Park) and one from the River Bovey at Jewsbridge, both of which fed the top pound, and one from the River Teign at Fishwick, which entered the canal just below lock 4. The exit from the canal was on to the tidal Whitelake channel, and from there to the River Teign and the docks. The first three locks did not originally have side walls, but used earth banks instead, which were replaced with timber or brick walls in due course. The Graving Dock lock was only 56 ft (17 m) long, and so could take a single barge, but all the others were long enough to take two barges end to end. The first Jetty Marsh lock was much bigger, at 215 ft long and 45 ft wide (65m by 13.7m), but carries the inscription Duke of Somerset, 1841, and so it would appear that it was reconstructed as a basin, so that barges could wait in it for the tide. The Graving Dock lock is probably unique in the United Kingdom, in that it was reconstructed with a dock at its side, which could be used as a dry dock when the lock was empty. Both Jetty Marsh lock and Graving Dock lock are currently Grade 2 listed.
Having invested most of his capital in the project, James Templer was rewarded by the success of the canal. A major contract with Josiah Wedgwood and Sons was re-established in 1798. Wedgwood remained the major recipient of the ball clay until 1815, after which trade was established with other pottery manufacturers and other ports.
Route of the canal in relation to other relevant features
James' son, George Templer built the Haytor Granite Tramway to connect his granite quarries at Haytor Rocks to the canal basin at Ventiford. It opened on 16 September 1820,and for the next 40 years, the traffic in granite supplemented the ball clay trade. The canal was sold in 1829 by George Templer, along with the Stover estate and the quarries and tramway, to Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset (1775-1855).When plans to build the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway were proposed, his son the 12th Duke of Somerset, who by then had inherited the Stover estate, sought to sell both the canal and the trackbed of the derelict Granite Tramway to the fledgling railway company.It was duly sold for £8,000 on 4 June 1862, by which time the section above Teignbridge was effectively redundant, and so the railway company was not required to maintain it.However, the section up to Graving Dock lock was retained, so that users of the canal could still repair their barges, and it was at this point that the new dock was constructed which gave the Graving Dock lock its name. The canal was almost immediately leased to Watts, Blake and Co., a company who sank clay-pits.
The canal passed into the ownership of the Great Western Railway in 1877, but continued to be leased to Watts, Blake and Co., who paid a fixed price for its use, and were also required to maintain it. Traffic dwindled and finally ceased in 1937, but Watts, Blake and Company's latest 14-year lease did not end until 1942,and so it was not formally abandoned until March 1943. It remained in water until 1951, when one of the banks was breached, flooding a clay pit..
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A little late uploading a few of my easter pics. Hope everyone had a happy easter and has a great rest of the week.
Bouquet inspired by montreal confections.
TFL
This pub is the Saracens Head and Freemasons' Arms in Dudley. It is on Stone Street. at No. 18 Stone Street.
Grade II listed.
Mid-late C19. Red brick with stuccoed plinth; 3 storeys; 4 casement windows in
shaped stone surrounds with segmental heads and square cornices; plain pilasters
at sides; stone pilaster doorcase with segmental head, modern door and fanlight.
Ground storey windows modern casements but in keeping; eaves cornice, parapet
and low pedimental feature at centre. Gabled end to north incorporates part
of an earlier rubble wall. Included for group value.
Saracens Head, Dudley - Heritage Gateway
Pub sign - The Source Bar at the Saracens.
The pub might now be The Source Bar at the Saracens.
Opel startet eine einzigartige Influencer-Kampagne. Der Kick Off Event fand in Rüsselsheim statt. Mehr Infos im Opel-Blog: www.opel-blog.com/?p=16557
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The Chimney Rock segment of the Crooked Wild and Scenic River is becoming increasingly popular for all kinds of recreation. Thousands of people visit each year to enjoy the incredible fishing, camping, and scenic views.
The area provides for many types of recreation activities including: camping, fishing, hiking, and driving, or bicycling on the Crooked River Backcountry Byway. A paved portion of the 43-mile long Crooked River Back Country Byway winds its way through the river canyon. It’s got it all!
Check out this amazing stretch of river and start your adventure right here:
blm.gov/d8ld
Photos: Bob Wick, BLM