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Lighthouse construction came of age in the Victorian era (1837-1901). The most famous lighthouse builders in Britain were the Stevensons of Scotland, who started building their masterpieces in the 18th century. Yes, the very family of the famous writer, Robert Louis Stevenson. There is a fascinating book about them: www.harpercollins.com.au/9780007204434/the-lighthouse-ste...
The first lighthouse tower built by convicts in 1833, fell into disrepair within 50 years, and Marine Board architect Robert Huckson, designed this one with a with new lantern room and apparatus. The new tower was painted white. Just as it appears here. The stone building in front is a little keepers cottage that actually predates the 1888 tower.
These old terrace houses were built in the late 19th century. They still function today as city apartments. The spectacular feature is their old wrought iron balustrades.
Mortimer House on Castle Road is one of many iconic Victorian Gothic buildings in Nottingham, UK designed by the acclaimed local architect Watson Fothergill. It dates to 1883. Today it houses a bar and a restaurant, one of which is named 'Fothergills' after the architect.
We spent last night at the East Brother Light Station. The bed & breakfast inn sits on a small island located at the border of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay near Richmond. Innkeepers Bryan & Stephanie welcomed us with champagne & hors d’oeuvres upon arrival, served us a multi-course dinner with wine, and a gourmet breakfast the next morning. We learned about the history of the lighthouse, and got a demo of the very loud diesel powered foghorn. I took some night shots after everybody went to sleep.
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Heritage Square
Los Angeles, CA
11-01-20
A Hallowe'en prop at the Los Angeles Victorian Architecture Museum, fronting the Lincoln Ave. Methodist Church, from 1898.
Went up to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition last week. It would have been rude to ignore the wonderful architecture.
(note to self: take the wider lens next time)
A breathtaking view of the Ouse Valley Viaduct in West Sussex, showcasing its iconic arches and intricate Victorian design. This photo captures the scale and grandeur of the viaduct with a person standing at the center, offering a unique perspective on its architectural beauty. A must-see landmark for history, architecture, and photography enthusiasts.
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There may have been a church on this site as early as Saxon times, and while the tower is genuinely from the 15th Century, the rest of St George's Church in Preshute is an 1854 "restoration" that was in fact closer to a complete reconstruction.
The parish of Preshute, just west of Marlborough, consists almost entirely of farmland and downland and has a population of just 193, most of whom live in the hamlet of Manton.
Thank God for Victorian architecture.
Note the precariously placed glass bowl, as threatening as the Sword of Damocles . . .
A blast from the past, Wednesday 30th March 2016.
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The Old Divinity School, now part of St John’s College, Cambridge. Tudor revival, built by Basil Champneys in 1878-9 following a competition in 1876. The statue on the corner is of Erasmus.
Llandudno Pier, North Parade, Llandudno, North Wales LL20 2LP.
Llandudno Pier... Geolocation 53.33167° N, -3.825° E
Llandudno Pier is a Grade II* listed pier in the seaside resort of Llandudno, North Wales, United Kingdom. At 2,295 feet (700 m), the pier is the longest in Wales and the fifth longest in England and Wales. In 2005, was voted "Pier of the Year 2005" by the members of the National Piers Society.
The Opening
The pier was opened to the public on 1 August 1877 by director Dr Nicol. Although not completely finished by this time, the pier directors considered it was sufficiently complete to allow public access. According to The North Wales Chronicle, upon opening, "a throng of visitors flocked upon it and it presented quite a lively appearance". The first steamboat to land passengers on the new pier was the Prince Authur, which arrived in Llandudno at the start of May 1878.
Operation
The pier sustained its first damage during a heavy storm in November 1878, when the landing stage under the pier sustained light damage. The landwards extension to the same design, still in deep water and also supported on iron columns, was opened in 1884 and a new landing stage was added in 1891.
Towards the end of 1907, the owners announced intentions through an application to the Board of Trade to widen the pier, extend it by sea dredging and to construct pavilions and a tramway. By 1908, the pier would often be overcrowded during the summer season, causing inconvenience to passengers boarding and alighting from steamboats.
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Carson Mansion
Eureka, CA
06-17-24
I wanted to call this one "The Last Drone Shot". It was the last day of my Wyoming Road Trip. I'd awakened before sunrise, and loaded the rental SUV, ready to attack the 11 hour, 650 mile drive home.
When I was last in Eureka in 2021 I didn't get any drone shots of the Carson Mansion. The back side of the building is obstructed by a high fence, so I had wanted to get shots higher up. Sadly, I didn't get a good chance then. But now, I took a short detour into Eureka and found the area to be vacant of people. The sun was just coming up. And I sent the drone a short distance in the air.
The idea would be to circle the mansion, getting my shots of the rear of the building last, then packing up and heading back on the road.
Kismet had other plans. Or should I say I just wasn't looking too closely at all the things that could go wrong. The drone doesn't have side sensors, and although there was just the one palm tree on the Carson Mansion property, there were some tall trees in the yard of the lot across the street. I got two series of HDR images, then tracked the drone to the left to begin the circle of shots.
I neglected to look at the actual drone, which wasn't too far up or far away. I heard it's propellers turning, and I heard it crash into the trees across the street!
It was too early to rouse anyone, and nobody seemed to be rooming at the Bed & Breakfast where I crashed the drone. I left the drone in the yard, and continued home without her.
Thanks to the graciousness of the owners of the place where I crashed, the drone was retrieved and shipped back to me. At least the photo I got right before the disaster is a good one.
this Victorian train station, once the largest in the UK, seems to withstand the all changing tooth of time although it is much smaller nowadays than it used to be ...
If there is one thing you have to admire our Victorian ancestors for it is the sheer scale and vision in their infrastructure projects, many of which we still rely on today.
One such is the Elan Valley dam system, which supplies pure Welsh water to Birmingham. This is the Caban Coch dam which is the lowest dam on the system, and it is 120ft high by 610 ft wide. As you can see it was designed to turn into a giant waterfall when the reservoir behind it is full, and the experience of standing in front of it is a pure assault on the senses. I was fortunate that there were only a few people about when I visited, and one chap in a bright red coat was very obliging in standing in the very centre of the bridge over the River Elan just downstream from the dam.
Looking across Pollacappul Lough at Kylemore Abbey (County Galway, in western Ireland), on an afternoon of mixed sun, cloud, and rain in mid-September (2013).
Kylemore Abbey, in the Connemara region, was built 1867-1871 as the private home of Englishman Mitchell Henry, member of a wealthy Manchester family, and Margaret, his wife. The estate included the neo-Gothic Kylemore "Castle" and church, a family mausoleum, gardens, and woodland. Despite Margaret's death in 1874, as well as the death of his daughter, Henry stayed on until 1903, when he sold the estate to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who later sold it again. Since 1920, Kylemore has been an abbey, established by Benedictine nuns who had become World War I refugees from Ypres (Belgium); for decades, they ran a girls' boarding school. It is also open to visitors and has become a very popular tourist site.
In addition to the main building, Kylemore features an allée, restored late-Victorian walled garden, café, and gift shop. (The Irish name of the Abbey is Mainistir na Coille Móire.)
(Historical information from the Abbey website, last consulted 27 July 2020, and Wikipedia, last consulted 27 July 2020. Topographical information confirmed on Ordnance Survey Ireland map online, 26 July 2020.)
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The curved Victorian streetscape of Philbeach Gardens in London's Earl's Court district with its pollarded trees. The crucifix belongs to St Cuthbert's Church of England, another magnificent piece of Victoriana.
Werribee Mansion, wider view of the whole structure and additions. Showing the arches, windows and tower with flag flying. On a bright and hot day earlier this month.
For more information on its history - "Werribee Park Mansion was built between 1874 and 1877 in the Italianate-style by the pioneering pastoralists Thomas Chirnside (1815-1887) and his brother Andrew Chirnside (1818-1890), from Scotland, founders of the "Chirnside Pastoral Empire"" and "From 1923 to 1973, Werribee Park Mansion was a Catholic seminary, Corpus Christi College. The wings, which are now the Mansion Hotel were added during that period." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werribee_Park
Here's an image from the first two trips that mileage-wise took us nearly halfway around the world. This is the iconic Tower Bridge, which is often confused with London Bridge. We took a walk across the Thames from our hotel to Queen's Walk where I shot this.
Fortunately I took it before I was told by a security guard that Queen's Walk is on private property and tripods weren't allowed.
Tower Bridge in London. A beautiful old Victorian bridge. As you can see there are very few people out and about in London due to Covid 19
An impressive Victorian House on a sandstone cliff face by the Park Tunnel, Nottingham, UK.
The tunnel was built in 1855 as the entrance to an exclusive Victorian Housing development, but it was abandoned as it was deemed too steep for a coach and horses. It now terminates in a car park.
Under the gaze of the soulless developer's, a remnant of the former Bishopsgate / Spitalfields Good's Yard.
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The parish of St James is its own small village under the hill south of Shaftesbury, a histoirc and picturesque town in Dorset, and is the oldest part of the town.
Although there has been St James' Church on this site since around 1138, the current building (Grade II listed) is not especially old, having been completely rebuilt in 1866-7 to designs by TH Wyatt, at a cost of £3,350. It was rebuilt in decorated or middle-pointed style in the local green sandstone with dressings of Bath stone. Wyatt also re-used much of the fabric of the old church. The rebuilding was needed to accommodate a rapidly growing population in the area, as the existing building was too small.
The church consists of a nave, chancel, vestry, aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower 21 metres/65 feet in height, with four pinnacles and containing a clock and six bells.
The beautiful Leadenhall Market building in London. It is one of the oldest markets in London, dating from the 14th century, and is located in the historic centre of the City of London financial district
We spent a night at the East Brother Light Station. The bed & breakfast inn sits on a small island located at the border of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay near Richmond. Innkeepers Bryan & Stephanie welcomed us with champagne & hors d’oeuvres upon arrival, served us a multi-course dinner with wine, and a gourmet breakfast the next morning. We learned about the history of the lighthouse, and got a demo of the very loud diesel powered foghorn. This is the desk upstairs of the lighthouse keeper.
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"Built to the design of a local architect, James A. Ellis, in 1887, this fire hall represents one of the new types of building that appeared in the nineteenth century as public services increased. Tall, wide doors were required for the apparatus, and a tall, slender tower for drawing up the canvas hoses to dry. The upper stage of the tower was rebuilt in its present form in 1908.
"The use of especially-large, round-arched openings is characteristic of the late 1880s and the 1890s. The fully-developed Romanesque Revival, with massive trim in carved stone and moulded brick, is rare outside Toronto, but is approached here in the overall effect of juxtaposed large and small openings and even in detailing like the arcaded corbelling in the parapet. The whole design is well co-ordinated and has a modest dignity."
From Ontario Towns, by Ralph Greenhill, Ken Macpherson, Douglas Richardson. Published by Oberon.
Contrasting 19th Century Victorian and Mid-Century brutalist Architecture on South Street, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Frank Moberly/Qua House 1887
This was the home of Frank and Mary Moberly. Frank was one of the local heroes cited for bravery in the rescue of all but eight of the crew and passengers of the steamship, The Mary Ward, which ran aground a few miles west of Collingwood on November 25, 1872. In 1896, Moberly sold the house to Captain William J. Bassett for $700. In 1913, Bassett sold the house to his daughter Jennie, wife of Alexander Qua, a Collingwood merchant. The home remained in the family until 1976 and became known as the “Qua House”.
Haight and Masonic SE
San Francisco, CA
05-02-21
Psychedelic sky produced as a pattern from the photo in Photoshop CC. I've been wondering when I'd first use the "patterns" tool in Photoshop CC which I just recently learned about. I've always used the kaleidoscope feature in Paintshop, and the patterns tool works much like it.
Since Haight-Ashbury is famous for "The Summer of Love" in 1967 and now sort of co-opts the "hippie" vibe, plus, there were no clouds in the sky so I had a "canvas" on which to paint a somewhat "psychedelic" vignette.
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Also known as the Coeymans School, built in 1874 by Acton Civill as a polytechnic institute and used as a school until 1963; currently a residence for the elderly. Coeymans, New York.
Jag var inte medveten om, förrän nyligen, att det fanns en svensk viktoriansk arkitekturstil, känd som Drottning Kristinas ...
This cropped 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 Reala 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
In 2005 the Mount Royal Hospital, which had been a centre for Geriatric Care since 1950, was incorporated into the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). www.thermh.org.au/about/about-rmh/our-history/history-roy...
However, its origins in the 19th century make for even more interesting stories. The Heritage Council of Victoria tells us that the main buildings, pictured here in what I call the Quadrangle, were built in 1874-75. The sepia look I have adopted might help us to imagine how a photographer in the late 1800s would have pictured the location.
I also find that white highlights in a sepia print tend to stand out more than in a normal grayscale image.
Phillips House
Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA
06-29-19
Here's a description of the Phillips House from the L.A. Conservancy website:
"Built in 1887, the imposing Phillips House was likely a project of local real estate developers George O. Ford and James B. Myer...
The house’s first owner was Aaron Phillips, an Iowa hardware merchant who came to Los Angeles in 1887. His wife, Maria, and daughter, Grace, had traveled to Los Angeles a year earlier to scout the area... Grace lived in the house until 1942, when her heirs sold the property to the current owner’s family.
One of the most ornate homes in Angelino Heights, the Phillips House blends two Victorian styles. The sharp angles, in both the shape of the house and its geometric decoration, typify the Eastlake style, while the overall decorative exuberance reflects the Queen Anne style."
I had a work-related course on the edge of Wilton the other day, a mild and sunny February day that reminded us that winter won't last forever, so I nipped into the village centre afterwards to take some photos.
St Mary and St Nicholas, better known as the Italianate Church, is the Church of England parish church for the large village of Wilton which had once been the county town of Wiltshire, is an enormous edifice, with a separate bell-tower reaching a height of 33 metres. It also has an interesting backstory.
By the mid-19th century, the old medieval church of Wilton was in a dreadful state of disrepair. The Hon Sidney Sidney Herbert, son of the Russian Dowager Countess of Pembroke and local aristocrat, loved Italian architecture—he'd been on the Grand Tour, innit—so, in 1845 he convinced his formidable mother to help build a new church in the Italian style, an undertaking that would cost them £20,000, a staggering sum for the time.
They called in young TH Wyatt, then only 34, the diocesan architect for Salisbury, for what would be his first really major commission.
Wyatt and his partner David Brandon created a stunning church, oriented on a southwest axis to front onto West Street. The chosen site had been home to the medieval church of St Nicholas, which was in ruins by the 15th century. There is a totally separate bell tower, or campanile, following Italian tradition. The church itself is on the Roman basilica plan.
The excellent www.britainexpress.com supplied some of the information for this description.
This beautiful train station, built in the early 1870s and once serving the picturesque town of Kent, Connecticut on Housatonic Railroad, and before that the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, is a fine example of historic Victorian New England architecture.
I photographed this on a sunny, warm Autumn day in October, 2024. I liked how the overhanging roofing details shadowed diagonally onto the building. Today this building is used as a pharmacy.
Shot with the Olympus E-M1, Mark II and the Olympus M.12-40mm F2.8 Pro lens.
This photo has been in Explore on November 2, 2024. Highest position = #62. This is my 222nd photo in Explore.
Holy Trinity was built in 1869-70 in the Dorset village of West Lulworth (pop. 714) to replace a very small Norman church that was said to be close to collapse. It was built from the designs of John Hicks of Dorchester, but owing to his death, was carried out by RG Crickmay of Weymouth.
The style is Early Geometrical Gothic, and it is built largely of local Purbeck stone, with the carved, moulded and highly finished portions of the stonework generally are of Bath freestone. The material of the old parish church was used as much as possible.
The Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. George Moberley, on 11th May, 1870, "In a fierce gale of wind accompanied by heavy rain", in the presence of twenty-five other clergy, the churchwardens and many parishioners and friends.
The battlemented tower was completed after the Church was consecrated. It was enlarged in 1888.
The parish of West Lulworth is now part of the Beaminster Area Team Ministry.
This description incorporates much information from the West Lulworth village website.