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Completed in 1674 .It is one of the Oldest surviving complete Lighthouses in England ..Built from Chalk but it was never lit and is now a Grade II Listed Building , It is situated half a Mile from the Present Day Lighthouse at Flamborough Head ..
The Peacock public house.
A Victorian gem from pre-1875, with interesting (and unusual) stepped design.
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This Grade II-listed former village school with its adjacent school-house is now a private residence in Achurch, Northamptonshire. It is on the lane that leads to the 13th century Church of St John the Baptist. Like so many of our old village schools, virtually all of which have now been converted into private homes, it dates from the middle of the 19th century. The children of the village would normally have been taught in the one school-room, and the schoolmaster lived in the attached house. Schools built in that era were normally sponsored by the Church of England.
Continuing with my personal 50mm challenge. With this lens you fill the frame. Here is a 19th century building with a fascinating facade. Each of these five faces are not exactly the same. And then there are the lion heads and a pigeon sits sentinel at the top.
Albion House (also known as "30 James Street" or the White Star Building) is a Grade II* listed building located in Liverpool, England. It was constructed between 1896 and 1898 and is positioned on the corner of James Street and The Strand across from the Pier Head.
Designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle, it was built for the Ismay, Imrie and Company shipping company, which later became the White Star Line. The facade is constructed from white Portland stone and red brick. The design closely follows the architect's earlier work of 1887, the former New Scotland Yard building in London.
In 1912, when news of the disaster of the Titanic reached the offices, the officials were too afraid to leave the building, and instead read the names of the deceased from the balcony.
Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire. Once one of the UK's most productive coal mines, Bestwood Colliery closed in 1967. It is open every Saturday morning as a visitor attraction.
victorian grandeur: adelaide arcade, built 'in the italian style' in 1885, adelaide, south australia
Many of the large houses from the Victorian era have been converted into several smaller apartments. But they still maintain the grace and monumentality they originally possessed.
Up on the hill to the right we get into the very historic precinct of Battery Point. You can just see the bell tower of the historic St George's Anglican Church.
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In 1851 the Great Exhibition, organised by Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, was held in Hyde Park, London. The Exhibition was a success and led Prince Albert to propose the creation of a permanent series of facilities for the benefit of the public, which came to be known as Albertopolis. The Exhibition's Royal Commission bought Gore House and its scheme was slow, and in 1861 Prince Albert died, without having seen his ideas come to fruition. However, a memorial was proposed for Hyde Park, with a Great Hall opposite.
The proposal was approved, and the site was purchased with some of the profits from the Exhibition. The Hall was designed by civil engineers Captain Francis Fowke and Major-General Henry Y. D. Scott of the Royal Engineers and built by Lucas Brothers.[3] The designers were heavily influenced by ancient amphitheatres but had also been exposed to the ideas of Gottfried Semper while he was working at the South Kensington Museum. The recently opened Cirque d'Hiver in Paris was seen in the contemporary press as the design to outdo. The Hall was constructed mainly of Fareham Red brick, with terra cotta block decoration made by Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth.
The dome (designed by Rowland Mason Ordish) was made of wrought iron and glazed. There was a trial assembly made of the dome's iron framework in Manchester; then it was taken apart again and transported to London by horse and cart. When the time came for the supporting structure to be removed from the dome after reassembly in situ, only volunteers remained on-site in case the structure collapsed. It did drop – but only by five-sixteenths of an inch.
Around the outside of the building is 800–foot–long terracotta mosaic frieze, depicting "The Triumph of Arts and Sciences"
The hall was originally supposed to have been called the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences, but the name was changed to the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences by Queen Victoria upon laying the Hall's foundation stone in 1867 in memory of her husband, Prince Albert, who had died six years earlier.
Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. It is the venue for the Proms concerts, which have been held there every summer since 1941.
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The painted ceiling of the presbytery of St Davids Cathedral, in the city of St Davids (Pembrokeshire, in southwesternmost Wales), visited on a morning in late October 2024.
The cathedral, known in Welsh as Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, is located on the site of a monastic community established during the 6th century by Dewi Sant – the Welsh name of St David – who became the patron saint of Wales. Bishop Peter de Leia began the construction of the current building in 1181, during the reign of Henry II. By then, the place had official papal privilege as an important pilgrimage destination. Repairs, redesign, and expansion continued through 1540, but pillaging and destruction resulted from periods of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the (so-called “English”) Civil War.
Noted church architect George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) restored most of the building, including a redesigned tower; the painted ceiling seen today is thus a Victorian element. St Davids continues to be active as an Anglican cathedral as well as a historic site welcoming visitors.
The cathedral city of St Davids (also spelled St David’s, based on the Welsh Tyddewi, or House of David) has the official status of a city, the UK’s smallest city by population and urban area, even though its size corresponds to that of many a large village.
(Historical information from panels in the cathedral church as well as the official website of St Davids Cathedral and Wikipedia, both last consulted 24 December 2024).
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A very stylish line of Victorian houses.
This photo was taken by a Zenza Bronica S2 medium format film camera with a NIKKOR-H 1:3.5 f=5cm lens and Zenza Bronica 82mm L-1A filter using Fuji 400-H film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Albion House (also known as "30 James Street" or the White Star Building) is a Grade II* listed building located in Liverpool, England. It was constructed between 1896 and 1898 and is positioned on the corner of James Street and The Strand across from the Pier Head.
Designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle, it was built for the Ismay, Imrie and Company shipping company, which later became the White Star Line. The facade is constructed from white Portland stone and red brick. The design closely follows the architect's earlier work of 1887, the former New Scotland Yard building in London.
In 1912, when news of the disaster of the Titanic reached the offices, the officials were too afraid to leave the building, and instead read the names of the deceased from the balcony.
San Diego's Heritage County Park, with added cloudscape from another photo and graphic novel filter at 81% opacity in Photoshop Elements.
The beauty of this Victorian pier now restored to it's former glory. Taken in Clevedon, Somerset during the warm evening of a mid-summer's night.
Visitors to Henley-on-Thames arriving by train will get an immediate glimpse of the Imperial Hotel as they walk to the centre of the riverside town. It was built in 1897 to the designs of William Theobalds but has been closed since 2006. The building is Grade II Listed.
Guildhall is an 18th-century municipal building in Bath city centre, with Victorian extensions. It is a Grade I listed building.
The earliest mention of a guildhall here was in 1359, where it used to be the meeting place of the powerful trade guilds. The medieval guildhall (situated behind the modern building) was mentioned by Elizabeth Holland in 1602 as a timber-framed building with a tiled roof and stone floors strewn with rushes. This building was replaced by a Jacobean guildhall, on approximately the same site, in 1625. The building consisted of a council chamber and an armoury (where weapons were stored prior to the civil war) on the first floor. By the end of the 17th century, the room was used for social gatherings, concerts and plays.
The building was considerably enlarged to a design by William Killigrew in 1725, and a series of specially commissioned paintings by Jan Baptist van Diest was subsequently put on display.
The current Bath stone building, designed by Thomas Baldwin, was built between 1775 and 1778 and extended by John McKean Brydon in 1893. The central facade has four Ionic columns and the building is surmounted by the figure of Justice. The central dome and the north and south wings were added in 1893 and form a contiguous building with the Victoria Art Gallery, which was also built around the same time.
The building now houses the council chamber for Bath and North East Somerset Council and the register office for Bath and North East Somerset; the building is also used as a wedding venue, and the record office also houses the Bath and North East Somerset Archives and Local Studies services.
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset. With a history going back to Roman times, when it first became a centre for bathing, much of its famed architecture dates from the Georgian era, when it became a fashionable place for wealthy Londoners to take the waters, connected by the ever faster stagecoach network.
Many of the streets and squares were laid out by John Wood, the Elder. Jane Austen lived in Bath in the early 19th century. Further building was undertaken in the 19th century and following the Baedecker Blitz of 1942.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
The two rooms that Cheddar Village Hall initially comprised of were built in 1894 by CàC Beadon on memory of her father Richard à Court Beadon. It was originally a set of offices for St Andrew's Church, just across the street, and known as Church House.
Either side of the little laneway stand two of Cheltenham’s finest Regency buildings, both purpose-built shopping primises. On the right, Montpelier Arcade dates to 1831-2, and was designed by brothers Robert and Charles Jearrad. To its left, Hanover House, built as premises for the National Westminster bank with shopping units, dates from around 1840, so technically Victorian rather than Regency. Its architect, W. H. Knight, designed. among other local buildings and churches further afield, Cheltenham’s Ashkenazi Synagogue. Both buildings are Grade II* listed.
Grantham Railway Station, Lincolnshire — an important stop on the East Coast Main Line between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh.
Opened in 1852 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR), the station originally stood at the junction of the GNR’s main line and its Nottingham–Grantham branch. The present station buildings, designed in Victorian Italianate style, still display much of their 19th-century character, despite several modern additions.
Grantham became a busy railway hub during the steam era, serving routes to Lincoln, Nottingham, Boston, and Skegness. For much of the 20th century it was a key stop for expresses between London and the north, and it remained famous for its water troughs, where locomotives scooped up water at speed. The station also handled significant freight, particularly agricultural produce from the surrounding Lincolnshire countryside.
The current layout has four platforms and multiple through lines, accommodating both high-speed and regional services. Today, London North Eastern Railway (LNER) operates frequent inter-city trains, with typical journey times of around 70 minutes to London and 100 minutes to York, while East Midlands Railway (EMR) provides regional services to Nottingham and Peterborough.
The distinctive modern footbridge with lifts, installed in the 2010s, connects all platforms and replaced the earlier iron bridge. The adjacent sidings and car parks occupy part of what was once a larger goods yard.
In railway history, Grantham is remembered for the tragic 1950 derailment, when an express train from King's Cross left the line at speed, killing 14 people — one of Britain’s early post-war rail disasters.
Today, Grantham Station remains a Grade II-listed building, a fine example of mid-Victorian railway architecture still serving over one million passengers per year.
.... Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood located on the east side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It comprises "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian architecture and housing in all of North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association. Cabbagetown's name derives from the Irish immigrants who moved to the neighbourhood beginning in the late 1840s, said to have been so poor that they grew cabbage in their front yards ....
The 1,500 feet (460 m) pleasure pier opened in May 1869, it was designed by John Anderson, the engineer for the
Stockton and Darlington Railway.
The line which arrived in Saltburn from Redcar on 17 August 1861, prompted a growth in day trippers and holiday travellers, as per many other seaside towns that became fashionable in Victorian times.
The design followed the new pier format developed by Eugenius Birch in his ground breaking design for Margate Pier, by specifying iron screw-piles to support a metal frame and wooden deck.
The pier has undergone a number of restorations and repairs over the years. In 2000, the council was successful in gaining a £1.2M National Lottery Heritage Grant, enabling the cast iron trestles that support the pier to be conserved, and the steel deck beams replaced with traditional hardwood timber to reflect the pier’s original appearance. The pier was reopened as a Grade II* listed building on 13 July 2001, and is now the last of the iron piers surviving on the North East coast of Britain.
The seaside piers around the coast of Britain stand as a powerful reminder of the achievements of Victorian engineers and entrepreneurs. At the turn of the last century, almost a hundred piers existed: now only half remain and several face an uncertain future.
Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool
Zebu, formerly Ziba, was a historic tall ship. Built in Sweden in 1938, she was used as a trading vessel until the late 1960s, before circumnavigating the globe in the 1980s. She has been based in Liverpool since the 1980s. She sank in 2015, and was subsequently restored. She partially sank again in 2021 after running aground on Holyhead breakwater after slipping her anchor, and had masts and sails removed to reduce weight so the hull could be moved. On 21 May 2021 after suffering further damage due to a storm, she was declared a wreck.
Originally named Ziba, she was built as a Galleass, and was used as a Baltic trading vessel, carrying cargo such as wood, paper, and iron ore.
She was converted back to a sailing ship in the 1970s, and relocated to the UK. She was purchased by Nick Broughton and chartered to Operation Raleigh, led by Colonel Blashford-Snell,[2] named after Walter Raleigh's first expedition to America 400 years earlier.[6] She was extensively refitted,[2] and the expedition was launched by Charles, Prince of Wales from St Katharine Docks in October 1984.[6] She circumnavigated the globe between 1984 and 1988, over which time she carried nearly 500 young people,[2] and visited 41 countries.
From the late 1980s for the next 27 years, she was based in Liverpool, and owned by the Mersey Heritage Trust. She was overhauled and refitted in 2000, and became known as the 'Flagship of Liverpool'.[2] She has Brigantine rigging, with the main mast, the second and tallest of the two masts, carrying at least two sails. The foremast is square-rigged.
On 13 May 2021, she was heading from Liverpool to Bristol for conservation works when she and a six-person crew were towed into Holyhead by the RNLI, due to concern over slow progress near the Holyhead shipping lanes.[13] She anchored in Holyhead harbour but subsequently drifted, and on the afternoon of Saturday 15 May[14] she was reported to be aground.On 21 May, a storm caused further damage, and Zebu was declared a wreck.[18]
Hamilton Square is a town square in Birkenhead, Wirral, England. This Georgian square, which was designed by Edinburgh architect James Gillespie Graham, has the most Grade I listed buildings outside London (after Trafalgar Square). It is named after the family of the wife of Scottish shipbuilder William Laird.
In 1801 Birkenhead was still a small, undeveloped village on the banks of the River Mersey. With a recorded population of 110, it was overshadowed by the huge maritime port of Liverpool. In 1824 William Laird established a boiler works at Wallasey Pool just north of Woodside. This site developed into a shipbuilding yard. By 1831 the population of Birkenhead had risen to 2,790. As Birkenhead's economy grew, Laird had great plans for the area. In 1824, he had already bought land around Birkenhead on which he planned to build a new town.Laird commissioned Gillespie Graham, a leading Edinburgh architect, to lay out a square and surrounding streets like Edinburgh New Town. Graham's design envisaged long and straight wide avenues lined with elegant town houses. Hamilton Square would be located where it would get the maximum benefit from the area's topography. This would ensure it would be visible from the Liverpool waterfront emphasising Birkenhead’s civic pride.Work started on the eastern side of the new town around Hamilton Square in 1825. However, due to the economic depression throughout the mid 19th century, this would become the only part of Graham's plan to be fully completed.
Die Trinity Church in der Stadt Boston ist ein nationales historisches Wahrzeichen, das von den Mitgliedern der American Association of Architects als eines der 10 besten Gebäude des Landes angesehen wird.
Trinity Church in the City of Boston is recognized for its National Historic Landmark building, considered by members of the American Association of Architects as one of this country's top 10 buildings.
Gastown is Vancouver’s oldest neighborhood, and it all started with a single tavern opened by John ‘Gassy Jack’ Deighton in 1867. Fast forward to today, and the area still has its historic charm, with Victorian buildings, cool fashion boutiques, unique galleries, and some of the best food in town. It’s a go-to spot for stylish locals, trendsetters, and visitors looking to soak up the vibe.
Built in 1870 by the Public Works Department of Victoria, public school 275 can be found on a rise along Morses Creek Road in the little alpine town of Wandiligong.
Built of brick, it demonstrates how prosperous and populous Wandiligong was during the Victorian Gold Rush, as many schools of this era in country towns were built of weatherboard. It features a smart hipped roof and a splendid bell tower with Victorian Gothic detailing. The school has been well maintained continues to operate as a school for the local area, more than a century after its establishment.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.