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I went up to Scrabo Tower tonight with the intention of capturing a few star trails. But the cold wind blowing at the top of the hill soon put stop to that idea.
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The Jubilee Clock Tower is a Moorish-style Jubilee clocktower located at the intersection of Light Street and Beach Street in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. Built to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (1897), the tower is sixty feet tall, one foot for each year of Victoria's reign. A corner of the wall surrounding Fort Cornwallis is situated behind the tower.
The clock tower is slightly tilted, a result of bombing during the Second World War.
The cruise terminal is just behind and a Chinese ship was docked for the night
Lincoln Cathedral
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Copenhagen is so children friendly with its many beautiful playgrounds. Our sons love them, and I have found myself a nice photo project.
This Tower Playground is one of our favourites.
Can you see which towers that have been recreated?
The tower is 560 feet (170 metres) high, and was opened in 2005. It has three observation decks just above 100 metres (the three sections enclosed in glass).
It has been sponsored in the past by Emirates Airlines, and more recently Macmillan Cancer Support.
On the lowest deck, there is a short walkway made of glass, so you can walk in the air above seemingly nothing.
This tower is in Nakhan Phanom, Thailand. There is another one across the Mekong in Thakhek, Laos. At this point of the river, it makes for a 3/4 of a mile (1.2km) power line gap. Once the lines are over the river they are so high the they disappear into the sky.
Designed by Gustave Eiffel.
The assembly of the supports began on 1st July 1887 and was completed 22 months later. All the elements were prepared in Eiffel’s factory located at Levallois-Perret on the outskirts of Paris. Each of the 18,000 pieces used to construct the Tower were specifically designed and calculated, traced out to an accuracy of a tenth of a millimetre and then put together forming new pieces around five metres each. A team of constructors, who had worked on the great metal viaduct projects, were responsible for the 150 to 300 workers on site assembling this gigantic Meccano set.
All the metal pieces of the tower are held together by rivets, a well-refined method of construction at the time the Tower was constructed. First the pieces were assembled in the factory using bolts, later to be replaced one by one with thermally assembled rivets, which contracted during cooling thus ensuring a very tight fit.
A team of four men was needed for each rivet assembled: one to heat it up, another to hold it in place, a third to shape the head and a fourth to beat it with a sledgehammer. Only a third of the 2,500,000 rivets used in the construction of the Tower were inserted directly on site.
The uprights rest on concrete foundations installed a few metres below ground-level on top of a layer of compacted gravel. Each corner edge rests on its own supporting block, applying to it a pressure of 3 to 4 kilograms per square centimetre, and each block is joined to the others by walls. On the Seine side of the construction, the builders used watertight metal caissons and injected compressed air, so that they were able to work below the level of the water.
The tower was assembled using wooden scaffolding and small steam cranes mounted onto the tower itself. The assembly of the first level was achieved by the use of 12 temporary wooden scaffolds, 30 metres high, and four larger scaffolds of 40 metres each. "Sand boxes" and hydraulic jacks - replaced after use by permanent wedges - allowed the metal girders to be positioned to an accuracy of one millimetre.
On 7th December 1887, the joining of the major girders up to the first level was completed. The pieces were hauled up by steam cranes, which themselves climbed up the Tower as they went along using the runners to be used for the Tower's lifts.
It only took 5 months to build the foundations and 21 to finish assembling the metal pieces of the Tower. Considering the rudimentary means available at that period, this could be considered record speed. The assembly of the Tower was a marvel of precision, as all chroniclers of the period agree. The construction work began in January 1887 and was finished on 31st March 1889. On the narrow platform at the top, Eiffel received his decoration from the Legion of Honour.
Veliky Novgorod, Russia
The 38,5 m high tower (apr. 126 feets, with the dome) is the tallest of the nine towers of the Veliky Novgorod Kremlin (Detinets) preserved to date. It received its modern appearance in the 17th century, was severely damaged during WWII and then carefully restored in the 1960s.
Башня Кокуй (Кукуй, Каланча, Каланчовская).
And a bit of the the main façade viewed from the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, Toledo, Spain.
The Primatial Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo (Spanish: Catedral Primada Santa María de Toledo), otherwise known as Toledo Cathedral, is one of the three 13th-century High Gothic cathedrals in Spain.
The tower was designed and built mostly by Alvar Martínez (work competed by 1422); it is Gothic, with some decorative Mudéjar influence and reaches a height of 92 m (301 ft). Four levels and a fifth of lesser height rise on a square elevated base which houses the chapel of the Treasury. The pinnacle with its buttressed arches rests on the octagonal barrel of the fifth level and is topped with a spire that supports three crowns imitating a papal tiara, all designed by the architect Hanequin de Bruselas. (Wikipedia)
Position: The roman catholic church of st. Peter and Paul in Mělník is one of the oldest churches in Bohemia. The gothic church is dominated by a 60 metres high tower of a square ground plan, with the baroque finish, which is the dominant feature of the city and rises above the confluence of the Elbe with the Vltava river.
The Scola Tower - or tower of St. John the Baptist - is a former military building located just beyond the northeastern tip (called tip Scola) of Palmaria island in Portovenere, in the Gulf of Poets in the province of La Spezia, Italy.As other coastal towers and lookout of the Ligurian coast, even the Scola Tower is part of that defensive system built by the Senate of the Republic of Genoa in the 16th and 17th century to protect the coast and, consequently, the towns and villages.
Amtrak #7 eases past Tower A-2 Interlocking just outside of Downtown Chicago. Built in 1907 Tower A-2 might be the busiest Tower still in existence averaging over 300 trains per day.
The Folsom Local makes its way out of Roseville with UP 1004 on point. This GP60 still wears its Cotton Belt paint and makes for a familiar scene in Roseville as it passes the Tower Theater.
Looking through part of "Le Mur pour la Paix" by Clara Halter in front of École Militaire, along the Champ de Mars to the Eiffel Tower.
The Skylon Tower located in Niagara Falls, Canada, stands at 520 feet from the street level and 775 feet from the bottom of the falls. The elevator can carry passengers to the top observation deck in 52 seconds. The tower also holds two restaurants - the lower Revolving Dining Room and the upper Summit Suite Buffet. The Revolving Dining Room revolves once every hour. Good thing it is slow moving - dinner and revolving don't always end well...
Shops Tower, which controlled the diamond of the C&IM and Wabash Railroads still stands in Springfield, Illinois. The Wabash is now NS' Springfield-Hannibal District which is in the foreground.
A view of the tower bridge from the south bank thames river & the 30 St. Marie Axe in the background