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The clock tower at the site of the Enka plant, the tower is all that is left of a plant that one time employed over 5,000 workers.
One of four two-family structures constructed in the late 19th century to house workers of the nearby Kreischer Brick Factory. The homes are now mostly unoccupied and listed as historic landmarks.
Chamonix 045N-2, Schneider 135/5.6, Kodak Ektar
(Explore: 198 on Friday, July 31, 2009)
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their roles of producing honey and beeswax and pollination. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.
A sight that saddened me when we were walking along to Bolton's Bench is this derelict hotel. It's hard to imagine why it's not still open and thriving in such a great location in the New Forest between the shops of Lyndhurst and Bolton's Bench. Some background info below.
The origins of the present structure date back to the 19th century, when George Buck built it as a home for him and his wife.
It later passed into the possession of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole. Stacpoole ran a local smuggling ring from the house and in 1847 newspapers reported he barricaded himself in the property when it was raided by authorities.
Later in the 19th century the mansion became a home for railway entrepreneur Charles Castleman, and it was not until 1895 that it was sold as the Grand Hotel. During the works to convert it into a hotel, construction workers said they could see the face of Duc de Stacpoole staring through the windows of the house.
Fitzgeorge is also said to haunt the hotel every year on the date of his death. Legend has it that music can be heard in parts of the building from the annual ball he holds for the dead.
Perhaps one of the hotel's most famous guests was Arthur Conan Doyle, who became a regular visitor. He also sketched out designs for a third storey extension and a new façade to the building. These plans were later made into a reality when an extension to the hotel was made using his designs.
This historical significance was used by campaigners to try and halt the development by Hoburne after Conan Doyle's sketched from 1912 were unearthed. Olivia Stockdale, conservation adviser for the Victorian Society, said the sketches were "the only known surviving example of Conan Doyle’s solo architectural work and a tangible representation of his spiritualist beliefs.
"This bizarre yet fascinating feature should be protected and championed in a redevelopment scheme not swept away."
In 1970 the property was renamed as the Lyndhurst Park Hotel and had extensions added to develop it into a 60-bed hotel.
Notable guests who reportedly stayed at the hotel over the years include Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, pop royalty The Beatles and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle.
Since 2014 the hotel has laid empty and parts of the building started to collapse in 2020.
An update: A major scheme to redevelop the site of the derelict Lyndhurst Park Hotel has secured planning permission for 79 new homes.
Looking a bit moody here, probably monday morning on a winter's day!
The image shows a bald, bearded man, likely a workman, standing in an outdoor industrial or workshop setting. He is wearing a yellow and grey high-visibility zipped hoodie with reflective stripes and dark grey work trousers with pockets on the sides. His hands are in the pockets of his hoodie, and he has a serious expression as he looks directly at the camera.
The Humble Worker
To make a break from my landscape posts I thought I'd try my hand at a little macro wildlife.