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In Dutch we call this an Unster, I could not find a suitable English word (apart from steelyard, but this weighing device works with a spring, not levers).
I don't know how old it is, probably came via my grandfather. So for this Macro Monday occasion I took it out of the garden (where the birdfeeder hangs off it), gave it a Brasso treatment and checked the weight of my Tamron 600mm lens, weighing in at just over 2Kg, which is only about 200 grams too much, so still quite accurate....!
On a golden evening, the NKP 765 deadhead to the CVSR, NS 099, continues through Olmsted Falls, OH eventually making its way to the Steelyard. The steam behind the train is illuminated by the sun creating a cool effect.
Well I have to say that last night I was struggling to motivate myself to choose between an ice cold beer, or going out to catch a potential sunset... Well eventually the potential of a nice sunset won out, and man what a sunset it was too... Made all the better knowing that the ice cold beer was still waiting in the fridge for me when I got home... :)
Seen at SteelYard Kelham, Bardwell Rd in Neepsend.
BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-62892125
Cannon Street station, also known as London Cannon Street,[3] is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Travelcard zone 1 located on Cannon Street in the City of London and managed by Network Rail. It is one of two London termini of the South Eastern main line, the other being Charing Cross, while the Underground station is on the Circle and District lines, between Monument and Mansion House. The station runs services by Southeastern, mostly catering for commuters in southeast London and Kent, with occasional services further into the latter.
The station was built on a site of the medieval steelyard, the trading base in England of the Hanseatic League. It was built by the South Eastern Railway in order to have a railway terminal in the City and compete with their rivals, the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. The City location of the station necessitated a new bridge across the River Thames, which was constructed between 1863 and 1866. The station was initially a stop for continental services from Charing Cross, and that route was convenient for travel between the City and the West End, until the construction of the District Railway. It remained popular with commuters, though its off-peak services were discontinued in the early 20th century, leading to it being closed on Sundays for almost 100 years. The original hotel on the station was unsuccessful, and eventually closed. The station was controversially renovated in the late 1950s by John Poulson, while further construction on top of the station building occurred during the City's 1980s property boom. The Poulson building was replaced in 2007 as part of a general renovation of the station to make it more accessible. As part of the Thameslink Programme development in the 2010s, it was re-opened on Sundays and began to offer more long-distance services in place of Charing Cross.
Verticals, horizontals, diagonals and curves. Every kind of line is there. This is the image I selected to publish here because of the seriousness on his face between the playfulness of light and shadow, the gamut of lines and the excellent figure to ground relationship between subject and background. The image radiates movement.
King’s Lynn’s historic riverfront, seen beside the broad, tidal River Great Ouse. The river flows northwards into The Wash and gave Lynn direct access to the North Sea, allowing the town to develop into one of medieval England’s most important ports from the 12th century onwards. By the 14th century, it was ranked as England’s third most important port, behind London and Southampton.
For centuries, ships used this waterfront to import wine, salt, timber, fish and luxury goods, while grain, wool and other agricultural produce from Lynn’s extensive hinterland were exported. The Great Ouse and its tributaries also connected the port with inland East Anglia and the Midlands, making the town an important meeting point between river, coastal and international trade.
Lynn’s prosperity was closely linked to merchants trading around the North Sea and Baltic. German Hanseatic merchants had secured trading privileges in the town by 1271 and were later permitted to maintain their own premises. Their surviving Hanse House, begun in the late 15th century, is regarded as the only surviving Hanseatic business headquarters or steelyard in England.
The river’s influence can still be read in the townscape. Historic merchants’ houses, warehouses, yards and narrow lanes extend towards the quays, reflecting the need to move goods quickly between ships, stores and markets. Although much of the commercial harbour later shifted farther north, this central waterfront preserves the pattern and character of the medieval and early modern port.
Near the centre of the photograph is Purfleet, one of the waterways around which the port developed. At its entrance stands the Custom House, built in 1683 to the designs of local architect Henry Bell. Now listed at Grade I, it originally served as a merchants’ exchange before becoming the customs house and remains one of King’s Lynn’s best-known landmarks.
King’s Lynn Minster, founded as the Priory Church of St Margaret in 1101, rises prominently among the buildings inland from the river. Its scale reflects the wealth and importance achieved by the medieval mercantile town. The surrounding streets, quays and surviving historic buildings form one of England’s most significant maritime townscapes, shaped over many centuries by the tides, commerce and shipping of the Great Ouse.
Het onderwerp is ontspanning. Even weg uit kantoorland/betondorp en ontspannen bij het geluid en aangezicht van water. Alleen. Vandaar de titel; solitude.
Qua compositie zijn de diagonalen, lijnen onderwerp-achtergrond relatie (figure-ground) wn vlakverdeling aanwezig.
It's been over 10 years since I visited this area and it has changed a lot! I seem to recall that it was a bit of a cesspit (like most of East London) the last time I visited the area. This building wasn't there at all.
(Actually, the part where the road turns into Shoreditch High Street is still a cesspit - just as I remembered it 10 years ago).
From WikiPedia:
Bishopsgate is a road and ward in the east part of the City of London.. It is named after one of the original seven gates in London Wall. Over 46,000 people work in the ward, but it has a resident population of only 48.
Originally Roman, the Bishop's Gate was rebuilt by the Hansa merchants in 1471 in exchange for the steelyard privileges. Its final form was erected in 1735 by the City authorities and demolished in 1760. This gate often displayed the heads of criminals on spikes. London Wall (which is no longer extant in this sector) divided the ward and road into an intramural portion called Bishopsgate Within and an extramural portion called Bishopsgate Without. The Bishopsgate thoroughfare forms part of the A10 and the section to north of the site of the original Gate is the start of Roman Ermine Street, also known as the 'Old North Road'.
An image full of contradictions. Light and shadow, sitting and walking, high and low, water and land.
The Steel Heritage Center was made possible through the
cooperation of many organizations, including ArcelorMittal,
Cleveland Metroparks, Western Reserve Historical Society, and First
Interstate Properties. The structure is an old-time clock building
and it was moved by First Interstate Properties and placed next to
the Towpath Trail in Steelyard Commons Shopping Center in 2006.
Inside the 600-square-foot building eight illuminated photographs
frame the space. ~ clevelandmetroparks.com/news-press/2012/may-2012/clevelan...
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As a result of a war settlement in 1474 the Hanseatic League was given permission to build a trading settlement (steelyard) within #kingslynn's town walls. The picture shows part of the street range (now Hanse House with a Georgian exterior) and the warehouse constructed around 1480. Around 1500 there were 40 German merchants trading in Lynn.
A memorial to William Ewart Gladstone, four-times British Prime Minister (1809-98). Gladstone had dominated the Liberal Party for decades and had served as Member of Parliament for Midlothian between 1880 and 1895. The statue depicts a robed Gladstone in bronze on a red granite base surrounded by allegorical figures representing his virtues (as four standing female figures):
Measure-holding a Roman steelyard;
• Fortitude - holding a shield on which is the face of Christ wearing a crown of thorns);
Vitality - holding a lamp with a lit flame
(the Lamp of Life);
Faith-holding a bible with Christ on the cross on the front of it.
On either side of the column on a scroll like buttress are two large seated female figures, Historia (right) and Eloquentia (left).
At the front, on a projecting platform are two naked boys holding ribbons and a victor's wreath of laurels balanced on a tripod formed by three red kites or 'gleds'. The red kites or 'gleds' are a punning allusion to the origin of the name Gladstone (from Gledstane).
The memorial was designed in 1902. Although originally sculpted for this site it was opposed by the proprietors and on completion it was placed on the West side of St. Andrew's Square, where it was officially unveiled there by the Earl of Rosebery on 18 January 1917.
The memorial was moved to Coates Crescent Gardens in 1955. The Greek inscriptions (added in 1922) are taken from the Iliad' and are translated as:
Whose eager heart and manly spirit excel (Book X, 1.244) and
From whose tongue also flowed speech sweeter than honey' (Book I, 1.249)
CMC Steel crew on a repowered Alco S2 brings a cut of cars out of the Cayce, SC facility. Meanwhile, PLCX SW900 #905 sits at the wrong end of a cut of cars having been replaced as power at the plant by the faux Alco.
What was once a bustling center for steel production in Cleveland now moves along at a much more sedate pace. I am sure during the booming days of steel factories, weeds were never able to grow like this on the train tracks.
08 832 shunts steel wire in the bottom yard at Wednesbury Steel yard, This view has now long gone
30th January 1987
Another Dunkirk 'Little Ship' seen on the River Thames during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012. A 30-foot steel-hulled motor cruiser, Wayfarer was built by the Salter Brothers in Oxford in 1928 for £250.
In August 1975, a decaying vessel, then called River Princess, was found on a bank of the River Medway in Kent. The wooden superstructure seemed past repair, but the fine lines of the steel hull aroused a desire in those who found her to save her.
The superstructure was indeed only fit for burning and the engine (originally a Morris Vedette) had long gone. Some of her plates had rusted through where the iron ballast had rested against the hull. Temporary repairs were effected and she was towed to a covered slipway downstream. There the worst of the iron plates were removed and used as templates by a local steelyard for replacements to be cut in steel. It was during the installation of these that her original name was discovered and reused.
Her restoration was finally completed in 1982, but it was only in 1990 that her owners, Michael and Vicky Cowles, discovered her participation in Operation Dynamo.