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Site of Wesleyan preaching place & schoolroom 1865 until Semaphore Wesleyan (now Uniting) church opened 1867. Listed in Directories: 1888-89 Day School, 1890 Day School – Miss Westover & Miss Shellam, 1891-92 Day School – Miss Strickland & Miss Shellam.
“In 1865 a small preaching place and a Sunday school were opened at the corner of Hall street, and Woolnough road when the neighbourhood was a dreary waste of spinifex and reeds, and when the houses were few and poorly built.” [Register 6 Oct 1927]
“In 1865 preaching services and a Sunday school were held in a small building, situated near where Hall Street and Woolnough Road now intersect, and owned by Mrs. Harvey. The building was used as a schoolroom, and was placed at the disposal of the people, and was worked in connection with Port Adelaide from the North Adelaide circuit. The room (about 20 x 14) was very low at the eaves, and an ordinary man could not stand upright near the wall; but the roof being pitched gave additional height in the centre, where the late Mr. John Millard (the local schoolmaster), a man of fine physique, stood and 'pitched the tunes'. At this time but few possessed hymnbooks, and the preacher gave out the hymns two lines at a time, which proceeding was not always 'favourable to the tune'.” [Aust Christian Commonwealth 14 Sep 1917]
“The Founding of the Church. In 1865, he said, a small preaching place and a Sunday school were opened on a block of land at the corner of Hall Street and Woolnough Road. Semaphore, at a time when the neighborhood was a dreary waste of spinifex and reeds, and when the houses were few, and poorly built.” [Port Adelaide News 7 Oct 1927]
“Miss Shellam, Woolnough road, Exeter.—Studies resumed Tuesday. April 7. Next quarter begins April 13.” [Advertiser 7 Apr 1891]
“Miss Shellam's School, Woolnough-Road, Exeter.—Studies resumed on Tuesday. January 19th. 1892.” [Advertiser 13 Jan 1892]
Europhoenix 37800 “Cassiopeia” in ROG livery thunders past the eastbound platform at Whittlesea working 0L46 Derby RTC to Ely MLF Papworth Sidings. Semaphore signals W4 and, in the distance, W5 are set to clear.
Image Caption: Semaphore (2005) by Ben Rubin, a site-specific public artwork on the Adobe Almaden Tower in San Jose, CA.
Credit: Photo courtesy of The Office for Creative Research.
San Jose Sempahore (2005).
Site-specific public artwork by Ben Rubin. Commissioned by Adobe Systems. Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affair’s Public Art Program.
Short description: A multi-sensory kinetic artwork that illuminates the San Jose skyline with the transmission of a coded message.
Abstract:
SEMAPHORE: a visual apparatus for communicating messages over distance.
San Jose Semaphore, by artist Ben Rubin, is a permanent public artwork commissioned by Adobe Systems Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affair’s Public Art Program.
Located within the top floors of Adobe’s Almaden Tower headquarters in San Jose, California, San Jose Semaphore is a multi-sensory kinetic artwork that illuminates the San Jose skyline with the transmission of a coded message. The content of the San Jose Semaphore’s message is a mystery; cracking the encryption technique and deciphering the message is posed as a challenge for the public. To the first person or group to successfully crack the code, Adobe will award bragging rights and acknowledgment on both the Adobe website (www.adobe.com) and the San Jose Semaphore website.
Project on OCR’s website: o-c-r.org/portfolio/san-jose-semaphore/
Artwork and photo © 2012 The Office for Creative Research, all rights reserved.
Semaphore signal gantry and the end of the line at Swanwick Junction, Midland Railway - Butterley during the Summer Diesel Gala, 17th June 2018.
Approaching Carrog is D5310, leading a train from Llangollen, 26 March 2011. Is it me, or does a McRat under lower quadrant semaphores confuse the sensibilitites?
In the 'olden days', apparently it was the habit to leave a shoe under the foundations of a new house to protect it from witches! This is the shoe under the house in Semaphore.
Taking our dog Bertie for his first visit to the beach on a cold wintery day at Semaphore beach.
05/07/2008