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"In the entire time you've been here have you said thank you once?" she asked in a rebuke to my manners.
This majestic Gothic Revival schoolhouse was designed and built by W.W. Eldridge in 1889. It served the community until 1986 when the school was relocated to a modern building. Renovations were carried out and it was converted into Council Chambers until the Town Council was amalgamated with the larger Northern Midlands Council in 1993.
But the building still serves the community as a tourism information hub, and importantly continues to house Evandale's valuable historical archival material.
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London's Royal Albert Hall in winter's afternoon sunlight. A concert hall opened in 1871 by Queen Victoria in memory of her late husband, Albert.
Victorian craftsmanship, resting tabby cat and an old man looking out at me (I did not see him at the time), wondering why the hell I am pointing a camera at his home.
LR4151 © Joe O'Malley 2021
A soggy evening in Lockdown 2 provided a chance to get a nice shot of these buildings, often difficult to photograph with the incessant parked cars.
Located on the west side of the Market Square of Devizes in Wiltshire (population 15,500), the Bear Hotel, dates back at least to the 16th Century, but reached both its current form with Doric front and stucco pillars, and the height of its popularity towards the end of the 18th Century, when it provided lodging and alimentation for the then rapidly expanding coach traffic transiting the town between London and Bath or Bristol. The statue of the bear above the front door was removed from its previous perch in the Market Square and placed here around 1800.
Freightliner 'Shed' 66514 catches the intermittent sunlight while rolling through Northwich earlier today with the 11.16am Runcorn Folly Lane - Brindle Heath RTS (6Z34) empty domestic and industrial waste containers.
The brickwork beyond the end of the canopy is slightly lighter than the rest of the building following a partial collapse of the ticket hall area in 2021. Thankfully no-one was hurt, and the cause eventually put down to vegetation growth both on and around the building. The lighter brick represents the rebuild area, which was done in a style replicating the original building. The section of platform awning lost in the collapse, which extended to just short of the footbridge, was not replaced.
I've given this a bit of an arty tweak to add vibrancy and show off the Victorian architecture - which may not be everyone's cup of tea.
12.10pm, 23rd April 2025
As the sun dips low, the pier stands on rusted legs, its ornate railings recalling the grace of the Victorian era. Once filled with laughter and brass bands, now only quiet echoes of seaside grandeur
Please enjoy the Victorian details in Large.
Thank you so much for your visit!
This handsome six story building on a prominent corner site opposite Belfast's City Hall was designed by Young and Mackenzie Architects as the Royal Irish Linen Warehouse for Royal Irish Linen. It was built 1886-8 by H and J Martin with carvings by Harry Hems of Exeter.
Robinson and Cleaver opened their department store in 1874 and eventually moved to this building sometime in the late 19th Century. Long Belfast's most upmarket retail outlet, it shut finally in 1984. The building continues to house various retail establishments and was bought for £16 million in 2017.
St. Pancras International Station
London
This monumental 20m high writing is suspended from the spectacular steel and glass roof of the Victorian station.
‘I want my time with you’...Hanging in the concourse where people reunite after months apart, these words make the intimate feelings a public thing. It is also a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London’.
Voyage - Zoë Më
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🎶One day you’ll understand
That flowers are more beautiful
When you water them
You’ve cut me so many…
…times
If you want I’ll go
With you on a journey
Go on a journey, journey
Go on a journey with you 🎶
An alternative view of the late 19th century Leaderfoot Viaduct, part of the Berwickshire Railway, Scottish Borders, UK
Galveston est une ville construite sur une île dans le golfe du Mexique, dans le sud du Texas. Elle se distingue par la présence de nombreuses demeures victoriennes surnommées les Broadway Beauties et classées historiques comme le Bishop’s Palace construit de granit texan en 1886.
La ville est aussi célèbre pour avoir été victime de l'ouragan de Galveston en 1900 qui, avec environ 8 000 morts, reste la catastrophe naturelle la plus meurtrière des États-Unis. Aujourd'hui, la ville compte 57 000 habitants pour une superficie de 540 km2, dont seulement 119 km2 de terres. Elle a été à nouveau menacée le 23 septembre 2005 par l'ouragan Rita et en 2008, l'ouragan Ike a encore durement frappé la ville.
Barmouth Bridge, or Barmouth Viaduct is a Grade II* listed single-track wooden railway viaduct across the estuary of the River Mawddach near Barmouth, Wales. It is 900 yards long and carries the Cambrian Line. It is the longest timber viaduct in Wales and one of the oldest in regular use in Britain.
Barmouth Bridge was designed by and constructed for the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway on its line between Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. Work was authorised in 1861 and commenced in 1864. On 10 October 1867, the completed bridge was officially opened.
On W. Broadway in Bangor, Me. One of the first places I photographed on my recent New England vacation.
The iconic 1970s vintage HST sets are scheduled to finish their final passenger duties down in the South West by the end of the year and, in this shot, 'Castle' class power cars 43187 and 43004 are seen leaving Par top and tailing respectively GWR's 11.28am Exeter St Davids - Penzance service (2C20). The formation is the usual '2+4' used on this route.
Sadly, the notice in the signal box poignantly announces that, at 11.00pm on 3rd March 2024, the bells fell silent and Par Signal Box, opened in 1879, finally closed.
The semaphore legacy still just about hangs on in these parts however. Around the corner at St Blazey, on the otherwise quiet Newquay branch, a few examples can be found still doing service signalling the trains.
1.39pm, 30th June 2025
The Lansdowne Monument near Cherhill is a dominating feature of the countryside between Devizes and Calne in central Wiltshire, being 38 metres high and atop a high hill. An 1845 folly, built by the 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne. It is photographed here from the Wansdyke near Baltic Farm.
New Brighton evokes a sense of nostalgia for its Victorian past. As the sun dips low, the sky transforms into a canvas of soft oranges and cyans, illuminating the historic buildings. The fading light casts long shadows, inviting a moment of reflection on the beauty and history that still linger in this seaside gem.
Please enjoy the golden details in Large. Thank you so much for your visit!
Pepper and Perrins was a drapery business established in 1870 as we see here on this building. The architecture, however, dates from 1898, as the original building was seriously damaged by fire earlier that year, and the shop front we see here is the rebuild. Unlike the building we saw yesterday, this one is lovingly cared for. We can also see the building across the street reflected in its windows.
Pacific Grove Inn
Pacific Grove, CA
05-01-2018
Processed: 04/17/22
I took this somewhat prescient photo on my birthday in 2018 when visiting Pacific Grove for the first time. Looks like the place was up for sale back then. It's operating nicely now in 2022 cause I booked a one night stay there for my birthday eve for Spring Birthdaycation 2022!
I'll be turning 69 this Mayday and I always take my Spring "Birthdaycation" around that time.
I visited San Francisco in 2021 but the cable cars weren't even active because of Covid. My itinerary for this year:
April 29th: Morro Bay
April 30th: Pacific Grove
May 1st-3rd: Eureka
May 4th-6th: San Francisco
I'll be visiting places north of San Francisco I've never photographed, like Point Reyes, Bodega Bay, Mendocino, Trinidad, and Eureka.
And I'll be staying at this quaint Victorian Inn when in Pacific Grove!
As I walked up to this old schoolhouse a man was working in the garden. We got talking and it turns out he was a Queenslander who bought this old school at auction not long after it was closed in 1999. He and his wife had come over for their usual summer holidays, and after the border closures were declared found themselves spending the whole winter here as well. He kindly let me look around and take this photograph.
I think I found the perfect spot for my composition. As soon as I saw this I thought of Emily Brontë's great novel "Wuthering Heights". All that gothic sensibility on the Yorkshire moors. The tree, the Victorian building and the light just made a black and white the logical choice.
This schoolhouse was built between 1875 and 1877, and it was the first state school in the area. We have already seen the earlier St John's School. It was put up for sale after being closed in 1999 because of low enrolments. www.visitross.com.au/interactive-map-of-ross/
GBRf 'Shed' unit 66770 nears journey's end as it rolls south through the elegant St Denys station bang on schedule heading the 3.56pm Hams Hall (Birmingham) - Southampton Western Docks (4O32) container train. The extent to which export traffic like this will suffer over the coming months given recent political developments remains unclear.
Per Wiki: The station buildings are fine examples of the Victorian Italianate classical style architecture introduced to the LSWR by William Tite. The original 1867 station building on platform 1 is Grade II listed, now privately owned and renamed Drummond House. Platforms 2 and 3 (seen in this shot) house the waiting room and ticket window, whilst the old station buildings on platform 4 house The Solent Model Railway Group.
The yellow bin in the foreground is of rather more recent vintage, and holds grit for use on the platform surfaces during icy weather.
Techie stuff: Canon EOS 5DMkIII, 24-105mm lens, 25600asa, 1/320s @ F5.0
Comments off for this one, thanks.
8.52pm, 20th March 2025
Christ Church in the Wiltshire village of Worton, near Devizes, was built in 1841; before that villagers had to walk around 2 km into Potterne to go to Church, and the nearby Methodist Chapel at Marston was much closer. The site of the church is on the south side of the village to enable it to serve Marston as well as Worton. The two villages today have a total population of around 800. The Wesleyan Chapel a few hundred metres away and now disused, was completed in 1848 despite being an easy stroll from Marston. The 1840s obviously witnessed a bit of an Anglican-vs-Methodist ecclesiastical arms race in these villages!
This is a simple but handsome preaching box with box pews; the pulpit may be 18th Century, and therefore older than the church. It was built to designs of T.H. Wyatt, in ashlar blocks, with an octagonal stone bellcote. Christ Church is Grade II listed. Pevsner described its windows as "oddly tall, slim".
St Anne's Pier is a Victorian era pleasure pier in the English seaside resort of St Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire. The pier was originally intended to be a sedate promenading venue for the resort's visitors, but attractions were later added. Changes made to the estuary channels to improve access to Preston Dock left the pier on dry land and ended its steamer services to Blackpool and Liverpool.
The village of St Germans is situated on the River Tiddy in the south-east of Cornwall. In Victorian times it was a busy fishing port and cargoes of timber, limestone and coal were loaded onto ships at St Germans Quay. The former warehouse on the quay (now the premises of the local sailing club) dates from 1850 and is Grade II-listed. I would imagine that these pretty little cottages on the side of the quay date from around the same time and would originally have housed staff who managed the quay.
A pair of beautiful mid-19th Century semi-detached cottages in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney (pop. 644). These are Grade II listed.
This is the grand entrance to Lilford Park and Lilford Hall, a Grade I-listed country house with park land in Northamptonshire. The hall was first built as a Tudor mansion in 1495, and later greatly extended as a Jacobean-style gentry house of the 1630’s. The two gate lodges date from around 1850 and - quite remarkably in my opinion - are not listed buildings.
Longfellow-Hastings Octagon House
Heritage Square
Los Angeles, CA
11-01-20
From the Heritage Square website: More than 1,000 of these unique structures were built in the United States. Only twenty are known to have been built in California. The Hastings-Longfellow Octagon House is one of less than 500 octagon structures left in the United States and is one of the remaining, unaltered examples of this style in Southern California.
Heritage Park
San Diego, CA
04-15-18
A monochrome treatment photographed among the restored Victorian homes in San Diego's Heritage Park.
The building, which incorporates the former Shanklin Town Hall, is a Grade II listed building built in 1879.