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More archival digging...
The much photographed Fairbairn Crane down on the Harbourside. It was such a bright sunny day, yet the combination of iron and glass is almost monochromatic. I think it must have been the texture and the geometry that caught my eye on the day though...
This is the ONLY surviving Fairbairn Steam Crane in the world; patented in 1850 and designed by Sir William Fairbairn.
One of the older houses in Handen will soon be just be a memory. You can never guess what they will build there now.
I started out using the Ultimate Collector Series X-Wing Windscreen piece, but then I realized it was going to be too big for my MOC, also the shaping of it is different from the actual U-Wing window...
The Cathderal of St Etienne, Metz, Lorraine.. Built between 1220 and 1550, very tall gothic and containing stained glass from seven centuries, surprising when one considers that Lorraine and Alsace have been more-or-less war-torn over this long period of history. But some of the empty windows from past conflicts give us the chance to see contempory glass of great quality, such as this Genesis window by Marc Chagall, 1963.
From left to right:- The Creation of Adam & Eve; The Garden of Eden; The Original Sin; Adam & Eve expelled from Paradise.
Jobs-worths prevented me from using a tripod, sadly, so hand held is the best I can do.
Another window in memory of a member of the Hales family ; this time it is to Robert Turner Hales ( 1853 - 1931), a local doctor and also a benefactor of the church. The window illustrates the procession of pilgrims from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". It was designed by Francis Spear in 1933.