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Marine Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex. We got back home late last night, after a fabulous five day break.
Nice and flat and full of benches - just what we oldies want.
Designed by Jesse Hartley, Stanley Dock opened on 4 August 1848. The dock is the only one in Liverpool which was built inland, all the others being built out from the foreshore. The original quay warehouses are of a similar design to those at Albert Dock and are grade II* listed buildings. The warehouses were built to five storeys, covering an area of 12,000 sq yd (10,000 m2). Between 1897-1901, the southern part of the dock was filled in to build the large Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse by Anthony George Lyster. The northern warehouse has since been developed in to a hotel devoted to the White Star Line's RMS Titanic liner, which has strong links to the area's history of docks and shipping.
The Samuel Kidder (S. K.) Whiting House is located at Main and High Streets in Ellsworth, Maine. The French Empire Revival house was built in 1871. When built, it had the first bathroom in the city.
The house now contains the offices of an insurance agency.
The photo was taken in July 1984.
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There's a whole lot of irony on the poster that says, "Set your choice free in 2020!" Little did they know what would happen to our freedom in 2020 when this display was set up. But I won't go there. We all have had our ways of dealing with the situation.
This is one of the early enclosures for the big cats from the 19th century. It might well be the last remaining piece of the Victorian era zoo. And it is left there for a purpose. The building itself is beautiful, but for a big animal like a lion is no better than an old circus cage. The lions are today cared for in a way unimagined by the 19th century zoo keepers, and thank goodness for that.
So this enclosure is a display that reminds us all of how far we have come in animal welfare, but also how far we have to go. For the message (enlarge the photo and read it for yourself) is a clear one. Products like palm oil are often sourced from rainforest environments and as a consequence animals like the precious Orang-utan is losing its habitat.
It is imperative that we support campaigns like this one and demand our governments require accurate labels that tell us exactly where a produce came from. And of course we should NOT buy products from unsustainable sources. Time is short for many in the animal kingdom folks, unless we act.
Victorian-era commercial buildings in Cohoes, NY. On one of them is a faded ghost sign advertising an indecipherable brand of biscuits.
I saw this fascinating Victorian office building in Washington, DC.
I was especially drawn to the corner tower with its clock. Quite attractive!
I saw this attractive, but oh so tiny Victorian shotgun house during a walkabout in New Orleans.
The house was located on the 700 block of Gov. Nicholls Street.
Churches and pubs might not at first seem to have much in common. But both are community meeting places, both are houses of spirits (I couldn't resist that awful pun), and in the late 20th century many of them began closing their doors. In 19th century Evandale there were plenty of pubs and churches to go around. Today it's a struggle for those still open.
Built in 1836 and classified by The National Trust, this lovely Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is now an attractive place to stay when visiting Evandale. Like most Free Churches the basic design is simple, apart from the arts and crafts timber work. I've been in plenty of little church buildings like this in my life.
From a photographic point of view I was interested in the play of shadows on the building from the trees across the street.
P.S. I can imagine the sound of Charles Wesley's hymns emanating from there in the past. The Methodists were founded by John Wesley (1703-1791), but it was Charles' hymns that made them famous. "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing my Great Redeemer's praise."
The Decatur Davis House is in downtown Richmond, Virginia.
The Second Empire-style mansion has a mansard roof. It was built in 1879.
The house is part of the Valentine Museum and is open for tours.
During my walkabout in downtown Frederiksted, on St. Croix of the US Virgin Islands, I noticed this building with its first floor colonnade.
On the second story, you can see a fanciful Victorian balcony enclosure.
The town was destroyed by fire in 1878 during a labor revolt. Many of the 1700's buildings were destroyed. The town was rebuilt during the Victorian era, resulting in buildings with "gingerbread" trim.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust founded in 1282. The bridge was constructed to give better access to the East End of London, which had expanded its commercial potential in the 19th century. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra, Princess of Wales in 1894.
The Landes-McDonough House is located in Galveston, Texas, at 1602 Post Office Street.
Henry Landes built the Richardsonian Romanesque House in 1887-88.
During famous 1900 storm, some 200 people took refuge here.
In 1911 the house was sold to John P. McDonough.
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Designed by Jesse Hartley, Stanley Dock opened on 4 August 1848. The dock is the only one in Liverpool which was built inland, all the others being built out from the foreshore. The original quay warehouses are of a similar design to those at Albert Dock and are grade II* listed buildings. The warehouses were built to five storeys, covering an area of 12,000 sq yd (10,000 m2). Between 1897-1901, the southern part of the dock was filled in to build the large Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse by Anthony George Lyster. The northern warehouse has since been developed in to a hotel devoted to the White Star Line's RMS Titanic liner, which has strong links to the area's history of docks and shipping.
The Day Block Building is located in the Mill City District of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It was built in 1883 by Leonard Day, a local businessman of the lumber and flour milling trade.
The Ocean Buildings (now known as Pearl Assurance House) was designed by Young and Mackenzie Architects in the gothic-style for Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Ltd. The building was built in red sandstone by Robert Corry 1899-1902. It occupies a prominent corner site next to Belfas City Hall.
Kendrick Edwards designed the next door Imperial House which was built 1934-5. Sadly and disgracefully, art deco detailing, part of a limited art deco offering in Belfast, was removed in a 1990 renovation, following which the building was delisted.
On the left, and about half a kilometre away, is the tower of Bradford's grand Victorian city hall. On the right, just about 90 metres away, is the tower on top of St Peter's House, now home to the Kala Sangam arts centre, but built in 1886 as Bradford's central post office.
There are many beautifully restored shotgun houses in Key West, FL.
Many of the shotgun houses were built by cigar factory owners to house their Cuban cigar makers.
Most of these houses are now worth a million dollars!
We visited Washington, DC, on our vacation in 1984.
I took several pictures of the Victorian architecture in the city.
I liked the corner towers. The building was across from the FBI building.
I returned to the site of Nottingham London Road Low Level station a full 25 years after my original 1990 photograph of the former Great Northern Railway city terminus. Benefitting from Grade II listed status, the 1857 building that had been designed by Thomas Chambers Hine had been sympathetically restored as a fitness centre.
During a walkabout in the Irvine Park area, near downtown St. Paul, MN, I found this beautifully restored Victorian house.
It's the Henry Horn House.
The house was built in 1869 for pastor David Riddle Breed and was originally twice as big with a front door facing the river.
When Henry Horn acquired the house around 1884, he added the ornately carved woodwork to the exterior and moved the front door from the Mississippi Riverside to face the Irvine Park.
Eastbourne Pier and Ballroom just before the fire in the Summer of 2014 which destroyed the first 3rd of it, including the former ballroom
San Francisco's Postcard Row. It is probably the most photographed row of Victorian houses in the world.
The row is part of the Alamo Square Historic District. The photo was taken from Alamo Square.
In the distance is the San Francisco skyline.
It's almost a requirement that you get your picture taken in front of them. So, here's my picture!
It seems that Microsoft was not the first to create Windows. In fact, the pictured system has not crashed once since it was installed over 150 years ago.
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.
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A church in the village of Stanton St Bernard, which became the parish church of All Saints, was first mentioned in 1267, when it belonged to Wilton Abbey. However, a Norman font indicates it may be somewhat older.
The tower was added in the 15th century, then in 1832 all except the tower was rebuilt in Gothic style; a further rebuilding of the chancel became necessary in 1859. The church lost its resident vicar as early as 1929 and is now part of the Vale of Pewsey team.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Tower Bridge in London and not to be confused with the plain old London Bridge. I took this photo with my Canon camera from Butlers Wharf
Constructed between 1879 - 1880 to house the Eye & Ear Infirmary which was set up in 1820 ,it was in use till 1978 when the service was relocated to the Liverpool Royal Hospital.
The building itself is amazing, a beautiful red brick facade, a great example of Victorian architecture at its best
San Francisco has a very extensive public transit system.
The system includes electric trolleybuses. You can tell where they run, just by looking up and seeing their electric lines.
Here's a spiderweb of trolleybus electric lines.
The photo also includes an attractive Victorian house on the corner.
Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul, MN, was originally the Federal Courts Building.
The building was completed in 1892 in the Victorian Richardsonian Romanesque style.
In 1972, the City of St. Paul purchased the building for $1.00. In 1978 it opened as Landmark Center.