Dating from 1874 this granite green painted plinth with a design of oak leaves and acorns with two climbing boys is just by Albert Bridge on Chelsea Embankment in London.
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Throwback Thursday: Climbing Boys, Sculptural Lamp Post, Chelsea Embankment
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, Chelsea, Chelsea Embankment, lamp post, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: 162 – 164 Bishopsgate
Opposite Liverpool Street Station in London, 162-164 Bishopsgate was built as a fire station in 1885 in a pastiche of the Tudor Gothic style using red brick and Portland stone. A really stunning building with some intricate decoration well above eye level.
Stonebridge City Farm, Nottingham
Stonebridge City Farm has been a lovely place to visit during all sorts of iterations of lockdown in England. They’ve lost a lot of money having to keep opening and then closing again so if you could donate a little something here that would be great. My last visit pre-Christmas was to see their new calf – Orion – as well as some of the other photogenic residents.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: bird, cow, farm, farm animals, hen, kunekune pig, nottingham, nottinghamshire, photo post, pig
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Throwback Thursday: Mersey Chambers, Liverpool
Mersey Chambers in Liverpool was built for the Harrison Shipping Line in 1878 and is now a Grade II listed building.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, Mersey Chambers, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Snow at Woodthorpe Grange Park, Nottingham
A few weeks ago we had the first snow of the season. As I had to be out and about that day anyway I decided to head to Woodthorpe Grange Park to take some photos. It was first opened as a park in 1922 but before that started off as grass and arable land that was eventually sold off to a local factory owner, Henry Ashwell. Ashwell built Woodthorpe Grange, pictured below, in 1874 (currently it houses the Sport, Culture and Parks Service of Nottingham City Council and is not open to the public).
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: photo post, snow, walk, woodthorpe grange park
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A Christmas Retrospective
As doing any kind of Christmas travelling this year has not been possible I decided to do a round up of some previous trips, using mostly photos I haven’t posted here before. First up is the trip I took with a friend to the Christmas Light Show at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in 2018.
Oriel Chambers, Liverpool
Oriel Chambers is a Grade 1 listed building in Liverpool that was built in 1864 from a design by Peter Ellis. It’s a particularly striking building and one of the first office buildings in the world to use an iron framed structure – possibly an inspiration for New York’s skyscrapers.
Categories: England, Liverpool
Tags: architect, architecture, oriel chambers, oriel windows, peter ellis
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The V&A Museum: Jewellery Edition
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has one of the best collections of jewellery in the world and back in January I had some time on my hands so I popped into the V&A as I nearly always do when nearby and headed up to the Jewellery Section. I hadn’t been there for ages and so hadn’t seen the new layout which is much better than the slightly cramped set-up I remembered from previous visits.
Categories: England, London
Tags: jewellery, museum, napoleon, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, victoria and albert
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Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London
With some time to kill while in the area (pre-COVID) I ventured into Holy Trinity Church which was designated as the Cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Sir John Betjeman. The message of the movement (members included William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones) was to revere nature through crafts, painting and architecture as demonstrated by the church which was designed by John Dando Sedding in 1888.
Categories: England, London
Tags: arts and crafts movement, church, london, photo post, stained glass window
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City Chambers, Glasgow
Glasgow’s City Chambers, the headquarters of Glasgow City Council, is an imposing building that was completed from 1888. There are (pre-COVID) free public tours twice a day Monday to Friday with tickets handed out on a first come first served basis. I got there about half an hour before the start time and was first in a group of about eight people.
Categories: Glasgow, Scotland
Tags: architecture, City Chambers, council, guided tour, marble, photo post, staircase
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