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Top Featured Piece Of The Day in the Live, Love, Dream group, 12th Nov, 2008. / Featured in the Rivers, Lakes and Dams group, 12th Nov, 2008. Early one January morning, I got out of bed before dawn and headed in to London and the Thames. I knew where I wanted to get the shot from. I set up the tripod and camera and waited. I hoped the sun would be visible, but had nothing more to base the possibility on other than the sky had been red at sunset the night before. My luck was in!
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Homepage Feature – 12th July, 2009. / / Probably one of the most famous time-pieces in the world. It is the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world. / /
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Stonehenge
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/ A pond in the outside corner of The Royal Palace of La Almudaina in Palma de Mallorca. The pond is inhabited by a single black swan (well, I only saw one) that has its own ramp and ‘kennel’ that can just be seen at the top left of the pond.
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The Square
by A90Six/ The Square in Palma de Mallorca!
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/ Once a large promontery fort in Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, now mostly forgotten. It stands on an almost inaccessible ‘island’, split from the mainland by a ten foot wide cleft some thirty feet deep. The place can only be accessed by walking through fields and along the cliffs some mile or more form the nearest road.
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/ A road bridge at Kilrush, Co Clare, Ireland.
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The Lartigue railway ran the 10 miles form Listowel to Ballybunion in Co. Kerry, Ireland. It was a monorail system that much has been written about on the internet. This shot shows the last remaining bridge over what was part of the Lartigue Railway line. /
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Husett Mill on the Norfolk Broads, England.
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A very odd building in Swiss Cottage, London, designed by S&P Architects. Some consider it a carbuncle. The leaning frontage gives the illusion that the floors are sloping. /
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Add A90Six to your WatchList! BLACK & WHITE | BUILDINGS & ARCHITECTURE | FLOWERS | IRELAND | LONDON | MALLORCA | PLAYING with PICTURES | RED !I took shots of the New Wemvley Stadium showing the changing colours of the lights that surround the area and light up the Wembley Arean. This was my attempt to show some of the different light colours in one visually pleasing shot. And so, the butterfly. /
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The Prime Meridian is the line at 0º longitude from which both International and Universal time is measured on Earth. The line runs through the centre of the Peter Harrison Planetarium at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and is shown here running through the roof which is angled to point directly at the North Star and match the plane of the Universal Equator. /
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Add A90Six to your WatchList! BLACK & WHITE | BUILDINGS & ARCHITECTURE | FLOWERS | IRELAND | LONDON | MALLORCA | PLAYING with PICTURES | RED BEST VIEWED LARGE / Benidorm at night! /
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Featured in Dilapidated Buildings 25th November, 2008. This church in Doon, Ballybunion closed it’s doors to its congregation a few short years after the new, St John’s, church opened in the town centre on 1st August, 1897. The parish could not afford to keep two churches going. / Doon church is used these days as a storage building for farm equipment.
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Looking up at 30 St Mary Axe, more commonly known by its nickname, The Gherkin. The building is a wonderful feature on the skyline on the north side of the Thames river in London. this shot is taken looking up from the base of the building. / Designed by Lord Norman Robert Foster, Ken Shuttleworth and Arup engineers. /
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Some shots I took at the Ace Café in Northwest London. /
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A look at the houses down the hill in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. In the 11th century King Canute rewarded the services of Orca, his steward, with land in Abbotsbury, Portesham and Hilton. It’s believed there was already a religious community in Abbotsbury, and Orca and his wealthy wife Tola built an Abbey here. The Abbey dominated life in Abbotsbury for 500 years, but was destroyed in the dissolution. The barn survived and is the largest thatched building in the world. / Until the dissolution, Abbotsbury would have been one of the most important villages in the county, and the settlement is laid out around a wide market area. After the decline of its monastery, Abbotsbury became the quiet village it is today. / In 1664, during the English Civil War, Roundheads and Cavaliers clashed at Abbotsbury. Cavaliers besieged the Roundheads in the church tower of St. Nicholas’ church, which still bears the scars of musket fire. / During the Second World War, the coastal front was fortified and defended as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. Later, the Fleet was used as a machine gun training range, and Bouncing bombs were tested there, for the Dambuster sortie (Operation Chastise). More info /
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There are references to the “Whitemill” (the building of ‘A Bridge on the River Stour adjacent to the White Mill) in the year 1175 and again in 1326. What is, perhaps, significant is that other places appear to have taken their names from Whitemill (Whitemill Farm, Whitemill Bridge) rather than the mill taking its name from the village. In 1326 we find a deed: “John Chyke to Peter le Boyt – all his tenements at Wytemull… together with part of his mill” which hints that the mill may once have been “Wytemull Mill”. It is possible that an earlier building on the site, presumably of timber framed construction, might have been limewashed. A more likely explanation ties in with the fact that a former chalk pit (now the car park) behind the mill, and that the west end of the building appears to stand on an artificial island made largely from chalk. So it wouldn’t just have been the mill that was white, the whole area would have been white from all the chalk. The mill was rebuilt in 1776 on much older foundations, on a site that is older still. The present mill worked under water power until 1866 when a severe winter flood breached the diversionary works in the river so severely that they were deemed beyond economic repair. By this time the miller was also the local baker so, rather than simply closing the mill, he converted one half of it to run from a portable steam engine in order to keep his bakehouse supplied with flour. Commercial milling however appears to have ended with the flood. With the retirement of the last miller, around the end of the Nineteenth century, the working life of the mill came to an end and the millstones came to rest. After the turn of the century, the tenancy changed hands a couple of times in quick succession and the building spent the next 85 years rotting away as little more than a farm shed. Whitemill, along with the rest of the Kingston Lacy estates, was bequeathed to the National Trust by Ralph Bankes in 1982, but it wasn’t until 1994 that the Trust found the resources (£300,000) to begin the painstaking conservation of the property. The body of the current mill is built of brick, but the Wheelchamber is of quality stone construction. This stonework dates, we are told, to sometime in the fourteenth century, around the period when the Duke of Lancaster held the manor as a grant from the King. It is clear that when it came to the 1776 re-build, the builders considered that the power-plant was good enough to retain even though the superstructure (probably timber framed) was ruined. This fourteenth century dating is reinforced by the discovery of timbers in the foundations, during the underpinning of the river end wall, which have been radio-carbon dated to the same era. It is probable that the current mill is simply the last in a long line of rebuilds on the same foundations.
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/ A couple of cottages in front of St. Mary’s Church in Frampton, Dorset, England. The south arcade to the nave and the chancel arch are 15th Century. The unusual tower with Tuscan columns, seen behind the cottages, was built in 1695 by Robert Browne, who also added the North Aisle and the Vestry between 1725 and 1734. The present structure is mostly of 19th Century restoration by Marcia Maria and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. / There are some wonderful Alms House further along the road, but by the time I got there the light was fading. / Another trip is on the cards for shots of the Alms Houses and the church exterior (and interior if I’m lucky).
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/ A look along the side of The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe, London, to see the buildings that stand behind. / this was a very early morning shot, just after sunrise. The almost triangular slotches of light on the buildings are from the sun reflected off the triangular windows of The Gherkin.
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