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Street Saxophonist

nobody@flickr.com (shando.) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:41:11 -0800

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Water Lily

nobody@flickr.com (Mike J Maguire) — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:12:26 -0700

Mike J Maguire posted a photo:

A water lily in one of the fountains in Washington DC's Malcolm X Park, also known as Meridian Hill Park.

Drink in the History

nobody@flickr.com (Chicago Man) — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:20:09 -0700

Chicago Man posted a photo:

Many people walk past this fountain without knowing its historical significance. In the 1870s, when safe water could be the difference between life and death, the Human Society erected these much-needed sanitary drinking fountains all over the city. At the top is a fountain for humans. In the center is a trough for horses. At the bottom is a smaller trough for small animals. This one is still in use today on East Tower Court. (Or as local 18th District police sometimes call the street, "Little Michigan.")

Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Rochdale canal Manchester

nobody@flickr.com (Gillie..) — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:37:12 -0700

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Night time walkabout in central Manchester..bridge over the canal complete with tram!

Trenitalia Frecciarossa Train 9529 to Napoli Centrale from Milano Centrale, Lombardy

nobody@flickr.com (David McKelvey) — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:49:12 -0700

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High-speed rail in Italy consists of two lines connecting most of the country's major cities. The first line connects Milan to Salerno via Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples, the second runs from Turin to Venice via Milan, and is under construction in parts. Lines are designed for a top speed of over 300 km/h. 25 million passengers traveled on the network in 2011. The Milan to Salerno corridor is the major north-south corridor of the high-speed network.

The Milan-Bologna segment opened on 13 December 2008. Its construction cost was about 6.9 billion euro. The 182 km (113 mi) line runs parallel to the Autostrada del Sole, crossing seven provinces and 32 municipalities. There are eight connections with historic lines. At the Reggio Emilia interconnection a new station designed by the Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava was opened in June 2013. Calatrava has also designed a signature bridge where the line crosses the A1 motorway. The line travels through a new multi-level station at Bologna (Italy's principal railway junction) designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

The Bologna-Florence segment opened on 12 December 2009, allowing a 37-minute journey between the two cities. The Bologna-Florence high-speed section was particularly complex to build mainly because about 93% of its 78.5 km (48.8 mi) runs through tunnels under the Apennines range. The line has nine tunnels, from 600 meters to 18.5 km (11.5 mi) long, separated by short surface stretches (less than 5 km in total). Florence will have a major new multi-level high speed station at Belfiore designed by British architect Norman Foster.

The Florence-Rome segment consists of the older "Direttissima" (literally: most direct) line between the two cities, with a length of 240 km (150 mi). The first high-speed line in Europe, the "Direttissima" was completed in between 1977 and 1986. This segment is being upgraded by Treno Alta Velocità. Entering Rome, high-speed trains have the option of stopping at either the new intermodal station at Tiburtina, developed by architects ABD Associate led by Paolo Desideri, or Termini station.

The Rome-Naples segment heads south from the Italian capital. Service on the first new high speed segment of the project started in December 2005. This line runs through 61 municipalities in two regions (Latium and Campania) and connects with the existing national rail network at Frosinone Nord, Cassino Sud and Caserta Nord. On 13 December 2009 Work was completed on the last 18 km of the line between Gricignano and Napoli Centrale. Source: en.wikipedia.org

St Olave's Church, Hart Street, City of London

nobody@flickr.com (Brokentaco) — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 08:59:45 -0800

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St Olave Hart Street is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on the corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane near Fenchurch Street railway station.

John Betjeman described St Olave's as "a country church in the world of Seething Lane." The church is one of the smallest in the City and is one of only a handful of medieval City churches that escaped the Great Fire of London in 1666. In addition to being a local parish church, St Olave's is the Ward Church of the Tower Ward of the City of London.

The church is first recorded in the 13th century as St Olave-towards-the-Tower, a stone building replacing the earlier (presumably wooden) construction. It is dedicated to the patron saint of Norway, King Olaf II of Norway, who fought alongside the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred the Unready against the Danes in the Battle of London Bridge in 1014. He was canonised after his death and the church of St Olave's was built apparently on the site of the battle. The Norwegian connection was reinforced during the Second World War when King Haakon VII of Norway worshipped there while in exile.

Saint Olave's was rebuilt in the 13th century and then again in the 15th century. The present building dates from around 1450. According to John Stow's Survey of London (1603), a major benefactor of the church in the late 15th century was wool merchant Richard Cely Sr. (d. 1482), who held the advowson on the church (inherited by his son, Richard Cely, Jr.). On his death, Cely bequeathed money for making the steeple and an altar in the church. The merchant mark of the Cely family was carved in two of the corbels in the nave (and were extant until the bombing of World War II). No memorial to the Celys now remains in the church.

Saint Olave's survived the Great Fire of London with the help of Sir William Penn, the father of the more famous William Penn who founded Pennsylvania, and his men from the nearby Naval yards. He had ordered the men to blow up the houses surrounding the church to create a fire break. The flames came within 100 yards or so of the building, but then the wind changed direction, saving the church and a number of other churches on the eastern side of the City.

The church was a favourite of the diarist Samuel Pepys, whose house and Royal Navy office were both on Seething Lane. A regular worshipper, he referred to St. Olave's in his diary affectionately as "our own church" In 1660, he had a gallery built on the south wall of the church and added an outside stairway from the Royal Navy Offices so that he could go to church without getting soaked by the rain. The gallery is now gone but a memorial to Pepys marks the location of the stairway's door. In 1669, when his beloved wife Elisabeth died from fever, Pepys had a marble bust of her made by John Bushnell and installed on the north wall of the sanctuary so that he would be able to see her from his pew at the services. In 1703, he was buried next to his wife in the nave.

However, it was gutted by German bombs in 1941 during the London Blitz. and was restored in 1954, with King Haakon VII of Norway returning to preside over the rededication ceremony, during which he laid a stone from Trondheim Cathedral in front of the sanctuary.

Between 1948 and 1954, when the restored St Olave's was reopened, a prefabricated church stood on the site of All Hallows Staining. This was known as St Olave Mark Lane. The tower of All Hallows Staining was used as the chancel of the temporary church.

The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950. St Olave's has retained long and historic links with Trinity House and the Clothworkers' Company.
St Olave's has a modest exterior in the Perpendicular Gothic style. with a somewhat squat square tower of stone and brick, the latter added in 1732. It is famous for the macabre 1658 entrance arch to the churchyard, which is decorated with grinning skulls. The novelist Charles Dickens was so taken with this that he included the church in his Uncommercial Traveller, renaming it "St Ghastly Grim".

The interior of St Olave's only partially survived the wartime bombing; much of it dates from the restoration of the 1950s. It is nearly square, with three bays separated by columns of Purbeck limestone supporting pointed arches. The roof is a simple oak structure with bosses. Most of the church fittings are modern, but there are some significant survivals, such as the monument to Elizabeth Pepys15 and the pulpit, said to be the work of Grinling Gibbons. Following the destruction of the organ in the blitz, the John Compton Organ Company built a new instrument in the West Gallery, fronted by a large wooden grille; this organ, and the Rectory behind, is ingeniously structured between church and tower.

In the tower, there is a memorial with an American connection. It honors Monkhouse Davison and Abraham Newman, the grocers of Fenchurch Street who shipped crates of tea to Boston in late 1773. These crates were seized and thrown into the waters during the Boston Tea Party, one of the causes of the American War of Independence.

Perhaps the oddest "person" said to be buried here is the "Pantomime character" Mother Goose. Her burial was recorded by the parish registers on 14 September 1586. A plaque on the outside commemorates this event. The churchyard is also said to contain the grave of one Mary Ramsay, popularly believed to be the woman who brought the Plague to London in 1665. The parish registers have the record of her burial, which was on 24 July 1665. Thereafter, in the same year, the victims of the Great Plague were marked with a 'p' after their names in the registers.

On the east side of St Olave's, there is a stained glass window depicting Queen Elizabeth I standing with two tall bells at her feet. She held a thanksgiving service at St Olave's on Trinity Sunday, 15 May 1554, while she was still Princess Elizabeth, to celebrate her release from the Tower of London. She had originally given bell-ropes of silk to the All Hallows Staining Church because its bells had rung the loudest of all London bells on the day of her freedom, but, when All Hallows Staining was merged with St. Olave's in 1870, the bell-ropes went with it.

On 11 May 1941, an incendiary bomb was dropped by the Luftwaffe on the tower of the church. The tower, along with the baptistry and other buildings, was "burned out" and the furnishings and monuments destroyed. The heat was so great that even the peal of the eight bells were melted "back into bell metal". In the early 1950s, the bell metal was recast into new bells by the same foundry that created the original bells – the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, in 1662 and 1694. The new bells were then hung in the rebuilt tower.

There are currently nine bells at St Olave's Hart Street consisting of one sanctus bell and eight bells hung for full circle ringing, with the tenor of the eight weighing 11-3-23. The bells are usually rung for practices, which take place on Thursday evenings between 7:00pm and 8:30pm during term time, and for Sunday service between 10:15am and 11:00am on the 1st and 3rd Sundays in the month. The bells are currently rung by the University of London Society of Change Ringers (ULSCR) who have a healthy band consisting of past and present members of London Universities.

Peter Turner was a notable physician in the 16th early 17th century and adherent of Paracelsus, was buried in the church along with his father William Turner, also a famed physician and naturalist. When he died in 1614, a memorial bust was crafted and placed in the south-east corner of the church. When the church was gutted during the Blitz, the bust went missing. It was not seen until April 2010 when it reappeared at a UK art auction. When it was recognised, the sale was frozen and negotiations took place via The Art Loss Register to return the bust to the church. It was finally returned to its original location within St Olave's in 2011 after an absence of more than 70 years.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Olave_Hart_Street

Vacances_1541

nobody@flickr.com (Joanbrebo) — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 10:39:16 -0700

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Lindau am Bodensee, Baviera, Deutschland.

Lindau am Bodensee es una ciudad alemana de 24 487 habitantes, en el estado de Baviera. La parte antigua se encuentra enclavada en una isla sobre la costa noroeste del lago Constanza (Bodensee), unida a tierra firme, por un viaducto y un puente, donde se desarrolla la ciudad nueva.

Fue hasta 1803 ciudad imperial independiente, para pasar posteriormente a ser anexionada a Baviera.

El barrio Aeschach (en tierra firme) muestra trazos de colonización romana del siglo I, aunque Lindau no aparece mencionada por primera vez hasta 882 en un documento del monasterio de Sankt Gallen.

El edificio más antiguo en la isla Lindau se llama Heidenmauer, un muro de fortificación colosal, cuyo uso es aún dudoso. Debido a una antigua inscripción se supone que fue construido por los romanos o los langobardos; de ahí su nombre popular "muro de los paganos". Obras más recientes mostraban un origen medieval después del siglo VIII.

Alrededor de 1180 se construyó la iglesia de St. Stephan, mientras que en 1224 los padres franciscanos fundaban un monasterio en la isla.

Tras la Reforma, Lindau se convertiría en 1528 al protestantismo. La ciudad representaba en 1529 la minoría protestante en el Reichstag de Speyer. Los habitantes se unían a la Tetrapolitana (fórmula del credo de Bucer) que intentaba forzar la extinción de la fe reformada.

En la guerra de los Treinta Años Lindau fue atacado entre 1646 a 1647 por los suecos. Bajo las órdenes del barón Max Willibald de Waldburg-Wolfegg, comandante del ejército imperial, los ciudadanos derrotaron a los suecos al destruir las armas de asedio en una incursión de madrugada. Hoy en día los restos de esta lucha están enterrados en la isla. Tras esta guerra se festeja en 1655 la primera fiesta para los niños inaugurada por Valentin Heider, para dar esperanza a la juventud.

Cada año, en todas las escuelas, los cánones anuncian en la mañana la fiesta. A los alumnos se les da un pastel tradicional llamado Butschelle. Después de un desfile, el alcalde pronuncia un discurso frente los jóvenes en la plaza del ayuntamiento, terminando con la exclamación "Lindau", contestada por la gente con "Hoch" (Viva). El día termina con una fiesta folclórica.

Tras la ocupación por Napoleón Bonaparte, Lindau perdió en 1802 sus privilegios imperiales. El rey baron August de Bretzenheim cedía en 1804 la ciudad y el monasterio a Austria. 1806 Austria regalaba ambos al rey de Baviera.

En 1853 se construyó la vía de ferrocarril entre la isla y la tierra firme. En 1856 el único puerto de Baviera se construyó en esta ciudad, con la estatua del famoso león en el muelle, el animal simbólico de Baviera.

En 1922 bajo el mandato del alcalde Ludwig Siebert los siguientes pueblos fueron incorporados al municipio de Lindau (Aeschach, Hoyren y Reutin). Ludwig Siebert, siendo miembro del Partido Nacionalsocialista Alemán de los Trabajadores, fue nombrado Gauleiter (Líder de región) de Baviera en 1933.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial tropas francesas ocuparon Lindau el 30 de abril de 1945 sin resistencia alguna. La ciudad y el distrito fueron separadas de Baviera y convertidas en una zona de derecho extraordinario en la zona de ocupación francesa. En 1946, el gobierno del distrito de Lindau fue empleado sin dependencia ni de Baviera ni de Baden-Württemberg. Durante casi diez años Lindau sirvió para conectar la zona de ocupación francesa en Alemania con la misma en Austria. El 1 de septiembre de 1955 Lindau fue reubicada en el estado de Baviera.

Gracias a su privilegiada posición y clima suave atrae gran número de visitantes. Posee un puerto a cuya entrada destacan el faro y una estatua del León de Baviera.

Esta ciudad jardín cuenta con un centro medieval y un bello Ayuntamiento. Otros lugares de interés son la casa Cavazzen (museo de arte) y la iglesia San Pedro (con frescos de Holbein).

Gracias a las Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (reuniones entre científicos laureados con premio Nobel y jóvenes investigadores) y las semanas de la psicoterapia, Lindau se convierte dos veces al año en un centro de las ciencias aunque no exista una universidad.

Lindau am Bodensee is a German city of 24,487 inhabitants, in the state of Bavaria. The old part is located on an island on the northwest coast of Lake Constance (Bodensee), linked to the mainland by a viaduct and a bridge, where the new city develops.

It was until 1803 an independent imperial city, to later be annexed to Bavaria.

The Aeschach neighborhood (on the mainland) shows traces of Roman colonization from the 1st century, although Lindau is not mentioned for the first time until 882 in a document from the Sankt Gallen monastery.

The oldest building on Lindau Island is called Heidenmauer, a colossal fortification wall, the use of which is still doubtful. Due to an ancient inscription it is assumed that it was built by the Romans or the Langobards; hence its popular name "wall of the heathen". More recent works showed a medieval origin after the 8th century.

Around 1180 the Church of St. Stephan was built, while in 1224 the Franciscan Fathers founded a monastery on the island.

After the Reformation, Lindau would convert to Protestantism in 1528. The city represented in 1529 the Protestant minority in the Reichstag of Speyer. The inhabitants joined the Tetrapolitana (formula of Bucer's creed) that tried to force the extinction of the Reformed faith.

In the Thirty Years War Lindau was attacked between 1646 to 1647 by the Swedes. Under the orders of Baron Max Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg, commander of the Imperial Army, the citizens defeated the Swedes by destroying the siege weapons in an early morning raid. Today the remains of this fight are buried on the island. After this war, the first party for children inaugurated by Valentin Heider was celebrated in 1655, to give hope to the youth.

Every year, in all schools, the canons announce the party in the morning. Students are given a traditional cake called Butschelle. After a parade, the mayor makes a speech in front of the young people in the town hall square, ending with the exclamation "Lindau", answered by the people with "Hoch" (Viva). The day ends with a folk party.

After the occupation by Napoleon Bonaparte, Lindau lost its imperial privileges in 1802. King Baron August of Bretzenheim ceded the city and the monastery to Austria in 1804. 1806 Austria gave both to the King of Bavaria.

In 1853 the railway line between the island and the mainland was built. In 1856 the only port in Bavaria was built in this city, with the statue of the famous lion on the quay, the symbolic animal of Bavaria.

In 1922 under the mandate of the mayor Ludwig Siebert the following towns were incorporated into the municipality of Lindau (Aeschach, Hoyren and Reutin). Ludwig Siebert, being a member of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, was appointed Gauleiter (Region Leader) of Bavaria in 1933.

During World War II French troops occupied Lindau on April 30, 1945 without any resistance. The city and the district were separated from Bavaria and turned into a zone of extraordinary right in the zone of French occupation. In 1946, the Lindau district government was employed without dependence on either Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg. For almost ten years Lindau served to connect the French occupation zone in Germany with the same one in Austria. On September 1, 1955 Lindau was relocated to the state of Bavaria.

Thanks to its privileged position and mild climate, it attracts a large number of visitors. It has a port at the entrance of which the lighthouse and a statue of the Bavarian Lion stand out.

This garden city has a medieval center and a beautiful Town Hall. Other places of interest are the Cavazzen house (art museum) and St. Peter's church (with frescoes by Holbein).

Thanks to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (meetings between Nobel laureate scientists and young researchers) and the weeks of psychotherapy, Lindau twice a year becomes a center of science even though there is no university.

Rail bridge

nobody@flickr.com (jr-transport) — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:05:46 -0700

jr-transport posted a photo:

If I'm hauling over an old rail bridge does that make me a road train? lol. This is up on the Railbed road in Ear Falls, On.

Repairing switch, Hranice, 06.01.2018

nobody@flickr.com (miroslav.volek) — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:29:55 -0700

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Pylons

nobody@flickr.com (LINCOLNOSE2®) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:26:12 -0700

LINCOLNOSE2® posted a photo:

Silhouettes of pylons against sunset at Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
( More pics by lincolnose at www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnose )

working at night

nobody@flickr.com (ciro@tokyo) — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:51:48 -0700

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Working at night.

nobody@flickr.com (Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious) — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:51:38 -0700

Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious posted a photo:

Totally pointless except I was just playing around with shooting photos at night. This is Mount Hermon Road in Scotts Valley, California.

HolidayTrain on the Yellow Line #3

nobody@flickr.com (artistmac) — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:42:44 -0800

artistmac posted a photo:

For the YouTube video, click here: youtu.be/fN4DkdiBY9E

Santa's Express had to head back to the North Pole to get ready for the big night, but the rest of the train and its light show made at least six runs on the Yellow Line, the CTA's shortest rail line, between the Howard terminal and the end of the line at Dempster. I was lucky enough to catch four of them.

Enjoy!

Damen (Blue Line) Reopens

nobody@flickr.com (Chicago Transit Authority) — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:06:06 -0800

Chicago Transit Authority posted a photo:

After nine weeks of work, the Damen station reopened on Monday, December 22, 2014. As part of the massive Your New Blue series of improvements to the O'Hare Branch of the Blue Line, the station was essentially gutted, platforms rebuilt with new materials, new lighting and nicer railings installed and, where available, historical elements (canopies structure, original lampposts, masonry, etc.) carefully restored to show their beauty.

Here are pictures showing the finished, renovated station.

Here's what was done:

Station House Entry/Plaza:
• Repainted elevated structure
• Upgraded lighting, including new LED lighting on elevated structure
• New concrete paving
• New bike racks

Station House:
• Restored historic masonry walls and entrance canopy
• New LED lighting
• Renewed interior wall and ceiling finishes
• New granite flooring
• New stainless steel Customer Assistant’s booth
• Improved signage, wayfinding and other communications amenities

Platforms:
• New wood deck with tactile edge
• Rehabilitated historic canopies
• New or rehabilitated historic railings
• New LED lighting, windbreaks, benches and signage

yournewblue.com

polarExpress2013_8

nobody@flickr.com (TurningAngles) — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:13:19 -0800

TurningAngles posted a photo:

Winter Storm Linus: Arriving now

nobody@flickr.com (dharder9475) — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:53:44 -0800

dharder9475 posted a photo:

With the light in the background and above, it's getting heavier. Twelve inches to come.

Advanced Test Reactor core, Idaho National Laboratory

nobody@flickr.com (Argonne National Laboratory) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:17:34 -0700

Argonne National Laboratory posted a photo:

Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory have announced a collaboration to study how to better recycle spent nuclear fuel. Read more »

Photo: Samples from Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) core will be sent to Argonne's ATLAS particle accelerator for analysis to learn the characteristics of the nuclear material. Powered up, the fuel plates can be seen glowing bright blue. The core is submerged in water for cooling. More on the ATR »

New delhi without electricity

nobody@flickr.com (elwillybobby) — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:57:55 -0800

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Madison, Wi- Christmas House

nobody@flickr.com (WisconsinKaasKop) — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:24:52 -0800

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Now with electricity!

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2013 CTA Holiday Train - 54th/Cermak

nobody@flickr.com (Chicago Transit Authority) — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:27:21 -0800

Chicago Transit Authority posted a photo:

The CTA Holiday Train is back for its 21st year, bringing season's greetings to all across the 'L' system.

More info and schedules:
transitchicago.com/holidaytrain

polarExpress2013_21

nobody@flickr.com (TurningAngles) — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:15:45 -0800

TurningAngles posted a photo:

It would be nice to run a three (or four!) car train for Polar, but the high level platform here only fits one and a half cars. That could be worked around with stairs. But most importantly, the parking lot is already full with two car trains- 90 passengers and their vehicles.

2012 Holiday train

nobody@flickr.com (yooperann) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:21:04 -0800

yooperann posted a photo:

Taken at the Damen Ave stop on the Blue Line.
Chicagoist "Extra, Extra" December 7, 2012.

Thanks, Samantha!

2012 CTA Holiday Train

nobody@flickr.com (Chicago Transit Authority) — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:43:38 -0800

Chicago Transit Authority posted a photo:

At Southport on the Brown Line

The Space In Between - Thanks to Thomas Alva Edison!

nobody@flickr.com (Max_G6) — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 23:43:04 -0800

Max_G6 posted a photo:

This is the upper part of a light bulb.
Exactly: a Philips 12929B2 (12V, 4W).
It's used for a VW Lupo parking light. The height of the whole light bulb is round about 0,8 inch. I've connected it to a transformer (1,7V - 12V) of a model railroad to regulate the brightness of the tungsten wire.
Oh i love such small technical electrical tasks! :o)

Strathalbyn. High Street. Harringtons old store known as London House. Now an antiques shop. built 1867 with stables at rear for Cobb and Co coaches.

nobody@flickr.com (denisbin) — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:28:15 -0800

denisbin posted a photo:

Strathalbyn.
A Special Survey of 4,000 acres was taken out along the Angas River in 1839 for George Hall (secretary to Governor Gawler) and William Mein and others. Land was surveyed from the mouth of the Angas along the river to about where Macclesfield is now situated. Other contributors to the Mouth of the Angas Special Survey were Strathalbyn settlers including: 806 acres purchased by Dr John Rankine, Blackwood Park; 166 acres purchased by William Rankine, Glenbarr; 410 acres purchased by Donald McLean; 81 acres purchased by Edward and Charles Stirling of Hampton and later the Lodge. William and Nicol Mein kept 728 acres for themselves but George Hall (who kept about 930 acres) was a Colonial Office employee with an eye on speculation. He also paid £4,000 for the Great Bend Special Survey along the River Murray from Morgan to Blanchetown but it was claimed this was taken for Governor Gawler but in Hall’s name to avoid scandal! But the land was not worth £1 per acre! The Meins were graziers and also took out Occupational Licenses for leasehold land in 1843. They were Scots so they donated £600 for the building fund for the Presbyterian Church in Adelaide in 1840. But in 1843 they dissolved a business partnership in Adelaide and they appear to have left the colony perhaps to join their relatives in NSW. Meins did not stay on to become Strathalbyn pioneers unlike the Rankines, McLeans and Stirlings. The other prominent early founder was William Dawson- hence the creek flowing in front of Glen Barr is the Dawson Creek which enters the Angas River in Strathalbyn. Dawson Banks is another of the grand old properties in Strathalbyn.

Stirlings chose their land to the north of the town and built Hampden and the Lodge; John Rankine chose his land to the north of the town and built Blackwood Park whilst brother William Rankine chose land to the south on Dawson Creek and built Glenbarr house. The first public building in the fledgling town of Strathalbyn was the Strathalbyn Hotel erected in 1840 and the second was probably St. Andrews Presbyterian Church which opened in 1844 with additions in 1869. As most of the settlers were Scottish the name chosen for the town was Scottish and the first church was Presbyterian. The first farmer to produce a crop was David Gollan. His interest in wheat led him to open the first flour mill in 1850 in the centre of the town. Mill Bridge adjacent to the flourmill bridged the Angas River. As the town progressed quickly a local council was formed in 1854 with the Stirlings, Rankines and Archibald McLean (investor in Langhorne Creek) being among the first councillors. The Stirlings were especially important to Strathalbyn. Edward Stirling (the father) joined into a partnership with (Sir) Thomas Elder and Robert Barr Smith in 1855. Stirling stayed with the company as it funded the Moonta and Wallaroo copper mines in 1861 then he withdrew but remained as an investor in the mines. The company went on to become Elder Smith and Co the most successful SA 19th century company. Edward Stirling had two sons, (Sir) Edward Stirling a famed surgeon who lived at St. Vigeans at Stirling and (Sir) Lancelot Stirling, local Member of Parliament for the Strathalbyn district, sheep and cattle breeder and company director. The Stirlings lived in the family home Hampden until it burnt down around 1870. Then they moved into the Lodge which was extended and remained the family home for Sir Lancelot Stirling after his father Edward died in 1873. Lancelot lived there until he died in 1932. The Stirlings of Strathalbyn also owned and operated Nalpa Station on Lake Albert. The Lodge is now the centre of a new suburban development at Strathalbyn.

From the beginning Strathalbyn prospered because of its access to water from the Angas River, its reliable rainfall, its genial climate for cropping and from the patronage of its wealthy founders. The town was laid out in 1840 and blocks sold at that time. The discovery of silver, lead and zinc at nearby Wheal Ellen mine in 1857 further boosted the growing town. The mine closed a short time later but re-opened in 1869 and operated until closure in 1888. It briefly re-opened from 1910-14 for the last phase. Until recently Strathalbyn had another zinc mine conducted by Terramin Mining which started operations in 2007. The zinc from here was sent to Nyrstar refinery at Port Pirie for smelting. The mining occurred 360 metres below the ground surface. The mine had a life of five years and closed in late 2013 ending the jobs of 115 local people. But Strathalbyn has always had a range of local industry. A foundry operated in the town from the mid 1850s as well as the usual businesses of blacksmith, saddlery etc, and the town handled coach services to Wellington via Langhorne Creek from around 1854. It was also one of the first towns in SA to have its own gas works started by David Trenouth in 1868. By 1870 the small urban centre of Strathalbyn had gas street lights! The gas works operated until 1917 when an electrical service took over power provision. From an early date Strathalbyn also had its own newspaper and printing press the Southern Argus housed in Argus House which was built 1867/68. The Southern Argus which is still published, is SA’s oldest country newspaper. In 1912 it established an offshoot - the Victor Harbor Times. In terms of transportation and the transport of goods Strathalbyn prospered as it was the terminus of the horse drawn tram service from Port Elliott and Goolwa in 1869. That is why the Terminus Hotel is so named. In 1884 that line was converted to a broad gauge rail line for steam engines and linked at Mt Barker with the line to Adelaide. Strathalbyn had a flour mill from 1850 as noted above and in the 1860s the town had its own brewery. The heyday of business boom for Strathalbyn was in the 1860s and 1870 when so many of the fine town buildings were erected. Heritage buildings are shown on map above and they include:
Commercial Street/Dawson Street.
•At the northern end of Commercial Street on the corner with North Parade is the Doctor’s Residence. 26 North Parade. Dr Herbert built a grand 8 roomed residence here in 1858. Dr Ferguson purchased it in 1869 and added and altered the verandas. Dr Shone bought it in 1897. Dr Formby took it over in 1907 and kept it until he sold it to Dr Fairley in 1979! Note the double chimneys and the ogee(S shaped) gutters above the bay windows and the 1850s French windows.
•On the northern end of Commercial Street is the Wesleyan Methodist Church which was built in 1874. It replaced the demolished Methodist church built in 1854. Built of random stone, semi rounded windows etc. It became the only Methodist church at the time of Methodist amalgamations in 1900 .It closed around the time of amalgamation with the Presbyterians and Congregationalists in 1977. The Hall was added in 1939.
•Blackwell House, 18 Commercial Street. A two storey bluestone structure from the 1860s. It was much altered in 1912 when the parapet along the roof was removed, the slate replaced with iron and the upper balcony added.
•The former Power House 1917 –when gas works closed. Became Council Chamber 1939 when ETSA arrived.
•Coleman Mill store. Fine stone building with few windows. Built 1864. Coleman bought the mill from Gollan.
•1850 flour mill which was sold to Laucke’s in 1938. Commercial Rd and Mill Street an imposing four storey structure. Note the four storeys, purple sandstone, and little windows.
•Beside the mill is Water Villa house. The earliest part dates from 1849 and the Italianate bay window sections are 1879. David Gollan the owner of the 1850 flour mill built this as his residence. It is a mixture of stones. Note the French doors in the old original part of the house onto the veranda.
•Argus House, 1868. 33 Commercial Street. It was a print works and residence and shop.
•Post Office 1911. 37 Commercial Street.
•Savings Banks of South Australia. A fine two storey structure for the bank and manager’s residence. Built in 1930. It has rough stone, prominent gables, repeating arches, wooden doors, and terra cotta tiles.
•Church of Christ. Opened in 1873.Limestone walls, arched windows.
•Masonic Hall built in 1896 but Lodge established 1866.Additons 1912 and 1957.

Rankine Street/Albyn Terrace.
•Strathalbyn Police Station (1855) and Court House (1865) now the National Trust Museum.
•National Bank 2 Albyn Terrace. Squared stone blocks, two storeys and a dominant building. Elaborate porch and balcony and decorative window surrounds etc. Erected in 1869. Nearby Norfolk Island pine was planted in 1895.
•Tucker & Sons solicitors at 8 Albyn Terrace. Have a look at all the shops along Albyn Terrace a great 19th century streetscape still largely intact. It was used in the film “Picnic at Hanging Rock.”

High Street.
•London House general store at 7 High Street 1867. Now an antiques shop. Cobb and Co used to use the stables at the rear for the daily coaching service to Adelaide. London House had the first telephone in Strathalbyn in 1883.
•Robin Hood hotel erected in 1855 and still standing. 18 High Street.
•The Strathalbyn library 9 High Street. Opened 1922 with a classical façade with good symmetry.
•The Town Hall at 11 High Street. 1874 opened as a two storey stone structure with fancy parapet as an institute building. The parapet is supported by paired brackets.

Other locations- Chapel Street, East Terrace and South Terrace.
•St. Andrews Uniting Church (formerly Presbyterian) 1844 for main church with transept added 1857. Manse erected 1854. 1869 tower completed, bell donated by Edward Stirling. Clock installed 1895. Church hall on the opposite corner was built in 1911.
•Former Primitive Methodist Church 1861 was sold to the Anglican Church as a church hall in 1901 following the Methodist amalgamation. It was sold to the Foresters Lodge in 1912(when Anglicans purchased the former Catholic Church) and much later it as sold to the Scouts.
•St. Barnabas Catholic Church 2 Chapel Street. This was a late addition to Strathalbyn being erected in 1913. But Catholic services began in 1881 when a Catholic church was consecrated in Rowe St. The first priest arrived in 1906. A presbytery as built 1911 in East Tce and then church two years later. The 1881 church was sold in 1913 as Anglican parish hall called St. Barnabas. It is on the corner of Rowe and Murray street.
•Christ Church Anglican Church 7 East Terrace. The tower on Christ Church was erected from donations on the death of Sir Lancelot Stirling in 1932. The tower opened in 1933 but the church was built in 1871.
•Railway Station on South Terrace erected 1883 in time for opening of broad gauge line to Adelaide and start of branch line trains to Milang from Sandergrove siding.
•Two storey residence attached to Rowe’s foundry in South Terrace. Britannia House as it is known was built in 1855.

Street Restaurant

nobody@flickr.com (edenpictures) — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:16:30 -0700

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Newsstand Night

nobody@flickr.com (picturing_it) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:46:03 -0700

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Chicago Profile

nobody@flickr.com (dok1) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:08:03 -0800

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When I took "Geography of Cities" at OSU in 1948, we drew profiles such as this one that I made with software. I'm sure most viewers will recognize it. If I had the ability, I'd draw one of my town.
I took this before sunrise from the 12th floor of the Belden Stratford Hotel.

Ft. Greene Farmer's Market

nobody@flickr.com (eoringel) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:07:25 -0700

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Ft. Greene Farmer's Market

Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, NY

Sat, June 21, 2008

Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@flickr.com (Daniel Weeks) — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:21:35 -0800

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Kite Aerial Photograph: The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. See www.phipps.conservatory.org/.

See my KAP Pittsburgh set

Taken using my gentled auto led, on my BBKK.

Thank you to my flicker KAP group colleagues for the repeated advice to "get closer": Motivated by this, we went out on the morning when a Wind Advisory had been forcast for Pittsburgh. My wife fortunately calmed my worries about launching in such windy conditions, and so we were able to fly much closer than ever before to the Phipps (as usually there is never enough wind here, in the 'wind shadow' of the building). Fortunately, all went well (although the kite did do an amazing frightening loop at one point), and we managed to get several very nice, closer, photographs! And we got the kite down well before the much higher winds & tornado watch later in the afternoon - there were gusts > 30 mph shortly after we were flying here - see this wind graph for that date from Carnegie Mellon University only a few block away.

Steam Engine

nobody@flickr.com (Pro-Zak) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:40:41 -0700

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This 100-year old 4-story steam-powered water pump engine is .... amazing. The harsh light from the windows made for difficult shooting, so I'll be going back during some overcast or stormy weather.

Tickford Bridge, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire

nobody@flickr.com (Ned Trifle) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:26:58 -0800

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One of the earliest iron bridges still in regular use.

I Want to Tell You How Much I Love You

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas Hawk) — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 05:36:38 -0800

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Kogen-Miller Studios #edgarmiller #oldtown #chicago

nobody@flickr.com (reallyboring) — Sun, 08 May 2016 07:26:57 -0700

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Chicago Green City Market Chef BBQ

nobody@flickr.com (Kirk Bravender) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:33:19 -0700

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Power Lines at Dusk

nobody@flickr.com (srslyguys) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:26:23 -0700

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Try as I might, I simply couldn't find any good subjects. I'm just starting this whole photo hobby, and haven't yet tried actually *creating* a subject. I'll probably need to try arranging some still lifes in the future, since my work hours and such don't really lend themselves to good daylight and beautiful sights. And in my area, well, this is the sort of scenery that's available : (