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I exited Hudson River Park at Canal and walked in toward Sixth Avenue to get some street views of the Tribute lights. This was shot through a fence on Laight Street.
As I was walking back across the bridge after taking the previous shot this sight cought my eye just over the edge of the bridge down in St Johns park. They remind me of bicycle spokes.
I exited Hudson River Park at Canal and walked in toward Sixth Avenue to get some street views of the Tribute lights. It would have been nice to shoot from the bridge, but the gaps between the slats are too narrow.
View from St John's Park to Church Street, Parramatta
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Over the last few weeks a number of wooden sculptures have been appearing in St John's Park in Chipping Sodbury.This morning I caught Chipping Sodbury's answer to Banksy hard at work on his latest creation in broad daylight! Before I could ask him what he was playing at, Bella bolted at high speed, spooked by the noise of the chainsaw and I had to chase after her before she reached the M4 motorway. She later said that she thought the noise was the beginning of a zombie apocalypse so I was forced to forgive her.
The church at the end of my old road on St Johns Park. Its an imposing place and viewable from a fair distance away
A nice park not far from Crossharbour station. Photo taken April 2008.
Owner: London Borough of Tower Hamlets (website).
Art by Gary Breeze, in St John's Park, Fair Street.
Originally posted to the Guess Where London group.
Not really a park in the usual sense, but it's close enough... The River Frome is off to the left of this capture - I was facing westwards when I took it.
Historic aerial photo, taken in 1953, of the Sydney suburbs of St Johns Park at left, Canley Heights at top right, with Bonnyrigg at lower left, and Cabramatta West at right bottom.Cabramatta Creek winds diagonally across at right.
The small-farm rural area to the left of Cabramatta Creek is now fully small-block residential. See Google maps view: maps.google.com.au/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=Edensor+Rd+Pre-Sch...
[Image: 6760 x 7200 px].
City of Liverpool, United Kingdom
28 September 2013
La ville de Liverpool,
Royaume Uni
28 septembre 2013
Decorative metalwork on archway at entrance to St John's Park, Cubitt Town, Isle of Dogs, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Keeney Park was located between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida, near the intersection of Race Track Road and US Highway 1. It ran meets under the auspices of the Florida Jockey Club. The majority stockholder of the club was Frank A. Keeney, a former silent movie producer. According to Dorothy Ours' book, "Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse," Keeney sold his three Brooklyn vaudeville theaters to build the racetrack. Its first racing meet took place in 1929, but was shut down early because betting on horse racing was illegal in Florida at the time. Ours explains that for the second meet, taking place in the winter of 1929-1930, an "envelope system" was used for betting, which technically qualified as private wagering. The famous horse Battleship (a son of Man O' War) raced on the 3rd day of this winter meet, for a purse of only $800, winning easily. (If you aren't familiar with Battleship, Wikipedia states that he is the only horse to have won both the American Grand National and the Grand National steeplechase races.) The Keeney Park ractrack closed just three days later (three weeks before the meet was supposed to end), due to the ongoing issues with parimutuel wagering - it wasn't until 1931 that betting on horse races in Florida became legal.
William Vincent "Big Bill" Dwyer, who was a bootlegger during the Prohibition era and owner of the New York Americans hockey club, bought Keeney Park (for a sum believed to be around $150,000) in 1930, renaming it St. John's Park. Dwyer was also owner of the Coney Island racetrack in Cincinnati (later known as River Downs) and the Mount Royal racetrack in Montreal, Canada.
There is a bit of a gap in the history of the track at this point. Newspaper articles from 1946 indicate that the Ponce de Leon Raceway Association took over control of the track at some point, and applied for a permit to reopen the now shuttered track for harness racing. Further information on the track again goes dark around this time. Currently, the facility is shut down and the gate locked, preventing me from getting a closer look at the former track site than what you see in these photos. Its last iteration was as a 100 acre Bestbet Poker Room, which one newspaper article says has a "huge building better suited for a grandstand than poker." A small track oval (presumably for dogs?) is still visible on Google Earth, with a housing development nearby.