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It seems that they are wearing orange. How cool.
At least they are working together.
Happy Macro Mondays
Just outside our Mira Loma, California terminal I noticed a guy pushing branches into a woodchipper, part of a tree trimming crew. Didn't think much about it until I looked up and saw a guy way up in one of the trees. The light was red, so I quickly grabbed my camera from the case I store it in, and got this shot off just as the light turned green. Then this evening when I downloaded the picture I noticed another "surprise".
100 Years Old. Picturedrome, 286 Kensington, Liverpool 7. 2010 photo.
Opened 26 December 1910
This was built on the site of Lindley's Kensington Brewery which dated from at least the 1840s, and closed about 1905.
(The boundary wall on the right of the building must date from this period).
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In 1909 at the height of the Roller Skating craze, a rink was proposed to be built on the site, and in September it was stated that "The Old Brewery site being laid out as a Roller Rink. Work not yet complete. Application (for approval of plans) withdrawn." The withdrawing of the application tells us that the scheme had been abandoned, and the skating rink never opened. The craze had quickly come and gone.
Instead, on 11 August 1910 a plan was submitted of a "New Cinematograph Hall".
The argument surrounding Liverpool's first purpose-built cinema has to be raised again. It has been stated that the Bedford Hall in Walton opened on Boxing Day, 1908, exactly two years before the Kensington Picturedrome. This is definitely wrong, and I hope to prove that both cinemas opened in December 1910.
(it's since been discovered that J. F. Wood - the original owner - hoped to open it on Boxing Day, 1910.)
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Regarding the Bedford, the Wood family (who were the original owners), Frank Unwin, Derek Whale, and other local historians have all said that it opened in 1910, but the actual date remained hard to prove, although Derek Whale said it was on Boxing Day. (The Kensington certainly opened on Boxing Day [in 1910], and I believe that this is where the confusion over the opening date of the Bedford originates.)
The Cinematograph Act, which came into force on 1 January 1910, dictated, among other things, that the projection equipment should be in a fireproof room, outside the auditorium. This prompted the building of purpose-built cinemas. Nearly all cinemas before 1910 were conversions of existing buildings.
The first purpose-built cinema anywhere near Liverpool was the Southport Picturedrome, on Lord Street. It opened on 9 May 1910 (since demolished). The second didn't open until 17 December 1910, and that was the Widnes Picturedrome (the basic shell survives, but the front has been demolished). Campbell & Fairhurst, the Southport firm of architects designed the above two cinemas, as well as the Kensington, and at least another ten cinemas to be built on Merseyside before the First World War. The Kensington Picturedrome was built by L.Marr & Son.
The plan of the Kensington Picturedrome was submitted on 11 August 1910 and was plan number 29705. The plan of the Bedford was number 29676, and was submitted no earlier than late July 1910.
The Cinematograph Act of 1910 was also responsible for the introduction of Cinematograph Licenses, and premises wanting to show films could not do so without being issued with a license. The licence for the Kensington was granted on 23 December 1910, and the cinema opened, by invitation only, on Saturday, the 24th, and to the public on Monday, the 26th. (There was no Sunday opening for cinemas in those days, not that it would have opened on Christmas Day). Unfortunately the opening of the Bedford was neither advertised, nor reported on in the local press, but the licence was issued on December 24th. With Boxing Day being a favourite time of year for places of public amusement to be opened, it seems very likely that the Bedford did indeed open on that day, but in 1910, certainly not in 1908. If further proof is needed, Kelly's Directory of Liverpool for 1911, published at the end of 1910, states in its entry for Bedford Road: "site for new Picture Theatre", and the Bedford's first Cinematograph Licence wasn't issued until 24 December 1910.
The company formed to operate the Kensington Picturedrome was called The Liverpool Picturedrome Ltd, and the Licensee was Rex Dooley. There were seats for 860, and they were all on one level. There were nine exits. The Liverpool Picturedrome Ltd lasted until the cinema closed in 1958.
The arrival of the new cinema was the subject of the following article which appeared in the "Liverpool Daily Post & Mercury" dated Monday, 26 December 1910:
"The Picturedrome, Kensington."
"Kensington folks desiring a couple of hours enjoyment of a really first-class "moving-picture" show need not henceforth depart from their own neighbourhood, for the elegant Picturedrome, which has been erected in Kensington near the junction of that thoroughfare with Holt Road, bids fair to become one of the most popular halls devoted to this class of entertainment in Liverpool and district. Structurally the building leaves nothing to be desired, the architects Messrs. Campbell and Fairhurst, of Southport, having succeeded most admirably in designing a really comfortable hall. The appointments are luxurious, the ventilation perfect, and the scheme of decoration most pleasing. The management proposes to show the best class of pictures only, whilst the prices of admission to the three performances to be given at 3, 7 and 9 o'clock will be the moderate prices which obtain elsewhere. An entire change of pictures will be made twice each week - on Mondays and Thursdays. On Saturday last a large number of people attended the hall at the special invitation of the proprietors, and a capital programme was sustained. In addition to a number of excellent story films, several current events were pictured on the screen, these including scenes at the Hulton Colliery after the terrible explosion, and views of the funeral of the brave London police officers who were shot. Solos and duets were given by Miss Wilmot and Mr W.H. Atkinson. The hall will be opened to the public today."
Films were far from being a novelty in the area as the Sun Hall - almost opposite - had shown occasional films as far back as June 1905. On 22 October 1907 "Cinematograph Entertainments (were) sanctioned for 12 months" by the Licensing Committee. This permission was repeated on 20 October 1908 and again on 19 October 1909. (Note that even though Cinematograph Licenses didn't exist before 1910, premises showing films still needed official permission to operate, and a music license to cover the piano or orchestra. The fact that the Bedford doesn't feature in any of the Licensing Records before 1910 is yet further proof that it didn't then exist.) On 25 October 1910, the Sun Hall was due to make an application for a Cinematograph licence, but didn't do so, and as far as can be ascertained films were never again shown there.
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In 1918 a new waiting room was built for the Kensington Picturedrome. This was situated at the left side of the rear of the building, and was demolished in 1988.
In September 1921 the premises were enlarged by building an extension at the rear with a new stage area, (and consequently a new screen). The seating capacity was subsequently increased to 1,100, and the architects in charge of the alterations were the Liverpool firm of Gray & Evans.
Mr Dovenor was a director by March 1922.
By 1929 the Kensington was part of the North Western circuit of cinemas, and had dropped the old-fashioned sounding "Picturedrome" part of its name. It was then called the Kensington Cinema. It remained part of the North Western circuit for the rest of its days.
British Thomson-Houston talkie equipment was installed in April/May 1930 under the supervision of Gray & Evans.
In 1935 the seating capacity was 1,050.
The Kensington closed on 6 December 1958 with (local boy) Frankie Vaughan in "Wonderful Things" plus "Johnny Bravo".
Television was claimed to be the major cause of closures of cinemas in the late 1950s, and, as if to rub salt in the wound, workmen moved into the former cinema in January 1959 to convert it into offices and stores for Stuart & Dorfman, a television rental firm! The foyer was then used for Offices and Rentals, and Hire Purchase accounts. The auditorium was partitioned off to form Maintenance Workshops and a store. 30 Males and 15 Females were to be employed, and the building was renamed (shades of the past) Teledrome. Stuart & Dorfman seem to have left the premises in 1970.
The building remained unused until Seldons took it over about 1977 and converted it into an Amusement Arcade and Bingo Hall. While the work was going on the original prices from 1910 (3d, 6d & 1/-) could be seen - carved in stone - over the entrance.
During the summer of 1980, the building had a £100,000 facelift. It was then called Seldon's Arcadia. A sign reading "The World in Motion" was uncovered above the main arched entrance. This slogan can be seen on an early photograph of the Southport Picturedrome, as well as some other early cinemas, and may well indicate a circuit of early cinemas (it's since been discovered that this was the Weisker Circuit). It is hoped that the sign was left where it was. The area in question was covered over again.
By 1988 a Snooker Club was operating in the building as well as Seldons and that phase lasted until 1995, at least.
About 1997 the cladding which for years (since 1980?) had covered the upper part of the facade was removed, revealing once again the first floor windows. The building was then renamed the Kensington Palace.
Wetherspoons have since converted the building into one of their pubs. *
The facade is one of only about four from the first year of purpose-built cinemas to survive in its original condition in the UK. Two others being the Picture House in Birmingham (now the entrance to the Piccadilly Arcade), and the Duke of Yorks in Brighton, and possibly the Electric Theatre in Portobello Road, London (although it's been said that that's been altered at some stage).
Unfortunately, nothing remains of the interior of the Kensington Picturedrome's auditorium.
Original research by Philip G Mayer.
* Edit: 2021.
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Wetherspoons has left the building.
I still don't believe that over 66,000 people have viewd this photo.
Edit: January 2024.
80,000+ 'Views', but more 'faves'.
Workmen at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California, June 1942.
From a black and white negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information.
Once a workmen's hut for Dubs Quarry at the top of the Honister Pass, the Dubs Hut was renovated in 2016-17 by the Mountain Bothies Association (MBA). www.mountainbothies.org.uk/
The purpose of the MBA is "To maintain simple shelters in remote country for the use of all who love wild and lonely places." And this is most definitely one such place.
The deep cleft beyond the hut is the path down to Gatesgarth and the southern end of Buttermere Lake.
Day two in Venice was cloudy. We started off with an early wander around then ferry hopped to the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello.
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Workmen seen boarding up windows and doors on the west side of the Illinois State Capitol Building on Saturday, January 16, 2021, as U.S. state capitals and Washington brace for potentially violent pro-Trump armed protests in wake of the U.S. Capitol Attack. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Friday activated 250 National Guard troops following warnings from the FBI of potential threats to state capitols leading up to the presidential inauguration. The troops are being stationed at Camp Lincoln in Springfield, minutes away from the State Capitol Building should their presence be needed.
Workmen from the current improvement works on the Seacombe Ferry Terminal, add a little dimension in the foreground ,to the departing Saga ship the Spirit of Discovery .
The Old Curiosity Shop in Holborn. Probably the oldest surviving shop in central London, dating from the 1567, but not the one that inspired Dickens. A 19th century owner decided to cash in on the books' success after Dickens death.
Preparing beach hut ready for winter.....
I walked along the beach path and could hear a radio but had no idea where it was coming from. I then caught this view out of the corner of my eye. I walked back and took a shot.....
You have a good day.
Take care out there.....
I'm sharing three photos of sights seen on my walk today. To and fro took me 30 minutes. There was a dampness in the air, feeling like - 7 C. These workmen seemed to be vaccumming this drain.
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The last few days I was reminded that my travel through Central Asia also involved a long drive along the Afghanistan border, and I still remember my feelings about that drive. The other side was always near, and sometimes (like in this shot) not further away than 100 meter or so. It was like looking into an other world, (it was clear that Afghanistan was and is a country very poor compared to even Tajikistan), a forbidden world too. Although at that time it would have been possible to go into it, we were told that because of the situation in that area, it was wiser not to go. We were dreaming of driving that part, but as you can see, the shape of it means a hell of a drive.
This shot here shows a group workmen who are working on the road on the other side. My thoughts about what happens and happened in Afghanistan the last few decades are going in all sorts of directions. Poverty, politics, the role of the superpowers, and the role of religion on the one side, and on the other side friendly people everywhere. Why can't we live in peace?
20 September 2019 I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming
Workmen seen erecting this light-up contraption which in now sitting in Hulls Princes Dock. Its purpose is to project light and sound based on the real-time weather in the City,,Every 15 minutes it contacts the Met Office and displays a weather omen showing what people can expect in the following hour..
Street workmen. While waiting for some friends to finish their shopping, I saw this scene. I wanted to see how it would look in bw, so here ya go.
BFC, 600 E.-2 Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai
The Bund Financial Centre (BFC) is one of the most exclusive shopping centres in Shanghai. However, since its completion, it has had very few customers. Today was another unusually hot day and there were hardly any customers in the BFC. There are only a few outdoor workmen using the benches in the corners of the mall to take a lunch break - after all, the mall is air-conditioned and much more comfortable than the outdoors.
In 1910, part of the lake that had been created originally as a clay pit was transformed into the Japanese Gardens by the third Baron Egerton. He brought over Japanese workmen to undertake the design and layout, together with authentic stone lanterns, a tea house and a Shinto shrine. Here you can just see the tea house behind the acers.
The workmen arrived cut lines in the tarmac, dug up the road and shut off our cul-de-sac for cars for 10 days
This little wooden shelter was built under the viaduct to protect workmen if something was happening above their heads. The viaduct crosses the River Almond just outside Edinburgh
The term corporate hierarchy refers to the arrangement of individuals within a corporation according to power, status and job function.
The heat has brought out the dragonflies and I found this gem in the pond behind the workmen's parking lot in Las Gallinas.
In 1845 two shepherds discovered copper in separate locations at Burra in South Australia and by1850 Burra was the largest metal ore mine in Australia, producing five percent of the world’s copper up until 1860. More than 1,000 men were employed during this period. Pumping and winding engines were imported from Cornwall and most of the workmen were Cornish. This windinghouse was located adjacent to a corresponding enginehouse on the southern end of the mine site. The rusted boiler in the foreground was once part of the mine’s boiler house.
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Gweithwyr yn y glaw / Workmen in the rain - George Square, Glasgow
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07/02/2026
"As Labour goes into deep-dive (or pretends to) on what kind of apparatus was Mandelson and/or McSweeney involved in, inside the Labour Party, it would be interesting to know if they ever come up with how it was decided to throw people out of the party where alleged 'antisemitism' was based on tweets or even 'likes' going back at least several years.
It would also be interesting to know how 'antisemitism' was being defined in these cases, why being Jewish was no bar to being determined as being 'antisemitic', who provided the information on those being expelled (and why), what systems of appeal were or were not in place and...what was achieved from all this.
That said, I suspect absolutely none of this will come to light."
- Michael Rosen
Workmen in Barcelona installing a large photo of the Spanish dictator Franco, as part of an outdoor exhibition entitled "Repression and Resistance". The exhibition featured huge photographs displayed at the exact spots they had been taken decades before.
3600 Jacob Street c.1891
This building was occupied in the 1890s by August Helmbrecht, merchant tailor. In 1898, the third story was the Ancient Order of United Workmen (AOUW) Hall. The three-story building sits on a generally rectangular plan except that the northwestern corner is clipped. It has a flat roof with parapet wall. The building sits on a sandstone block foundation, and the walls are red brick laid in running bond. A wooden storefront in the façade faces Jacob Street and returns around the angled corner and continues for one bay along the north elevation that faces 36th Street.
Engaged cast iron columns divide the storefront lights. The transom level and some of the lights are covered with
wood panels that formerly held signage. Access to the building is via a wooden one-light entrance door with intact
transom. Two brick pilasters flank the entrance to the upper stories, which has been covered by painted wood panels.
The storefront is topped by a cornice with egg and dart molding and a sandstone belt course. Additional sandstone
belt courses unify the upper story windows, with some of the courses acting as window sills. The window openings
feature flat arch rowlock lintels with decorative sandstone hoods. The second story window openings are partially
bricked in and have non-original concrete sills under awning windows. Window openings at the third story are
slightly arched with sandstone hoods.
Three workmen take a break outside the ancient Roman hot sulphur baths in the Old Town of Tbilisi, Georgia.
SMC PENTAX-M 28mm f2
Oakdale Workmen's Institute is a public building originally erected at Oakdale, Caerphilly, Wales, in 1917 and now located at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff. It once was a focal point of the Oakdale community, and included a library, billiards room and meeting hall. Later it also contained a cinema.