Helensburgh. Scotland.
West Clyde street, on the sea front. 23/01/2014.
Helensburgh
Helensburgh (/ˈhɛlənzbərə/; Scottish Gaelic: Baile Eilidh, lit. 'town (or burgh) of Helen') is a town within the Helensburgh and Lomond Area of Argyll and Bute Council, Scotland.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow Four) - Design & Architecture - I
Glasgow School:
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow, 7 June 1868 -- London, 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist.
Whilst apprenticed to the architect John Hutchinson, he began attending evening classes in architecture at Glasgow School of Art, where he won many prizes and a travelling scholarship to Italy, France and Belgium. On his return to Glasgow, he met the two sisters Frances and Margaret MacDonald, and together with Herbert MacNair, they formed the Glasgow Four group. The group created a specifically Scottish variant of European Art Nouveau.
He was, quite literally, a comet streaking across the Glasgow horizon for ten years. By the end of the first decade of the twentieth century the fire had burned out and Mackintosh was well on his way to becoming an embittered man. In 1914 his association with Honeyman and Keppie was dissolved and soon thereafter he and Margaret left Glasgow and moved to England where they lived for the next eight years and where little work came his way. In 1923 the Mackintoshes took a long holiday in southern France and made the decision to stay. For the next five years Mackintosh painted masterful watercolors of the French countryside. Little is known of Margaret's activities during this period. On December 10, 1928 soon after being diagnosed with throat cancer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh passed away. Margaret wandered Europe and in 1932 she returned to Chelsea, England where she died on January 7, 1933.
Part I:
Glasgow School Of Art-1897-1907
The Willow Tea Rooms 1897-1903
120 Mains Street, Glasgow, 1900
6 Florentine Terrace later renamed: 78 South Park Avenue, Glasgow-1906-1914
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23 May 2014: Terrible day - Glasgow School of Art fire.
The world famous Glasgow School of Art has suffered devasting damage after a fire ripped through the listed Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.
Firefighters are still struggling to control the blaze, which appeared to have started in the basement of the building shortly after midday. Eye witnesses feared that the whole west wing of the old building has been lost, including the irreplaceable Mackintosh library and the Hen Run, a famous corridor running along the roof which linked the west and east wing.
The school was completed in 1909 and is considered by many to be Mackintosh's masterwork.
Abandoned Railway tunnel - St Michaels Tunnel on the Kent and East Sussex REVISITED
Comprising a single platform and small corrugated hut, the modest halt at St Michaels was added to the Kent & East Sussex Light Railway in 1912 to serve a small community on the outskirts of Tenterden. Its ticket office - if you could call it that - closed in 1938 and the local infrastructure's decline continued until services were withdrawn on 4th January 1954.
The line was engineered and operated by Colonel H F Stephens. One of his 'bigger' feats was St Michaels Tunnel, located just north of the halt. Opened in 1905 as part of an extension from Tenterden to Headcorn, it is just 31 yards in length and curves to the east on a radius of approximately 30 chains.
The portals are neat, brick-built affairs with a masonry string course and copings. Wing walls extend outwards parallel to the track - the east-side wall at the south end is cracked top to bottom. Horseshoe shaped in profile, the lining comprises four rings of brick and features a single refuge. Timber brackets supported telegraph wires.
Despite 60 years of redundancy, the structure remains in fair condition except for the cracked wing wall and some spalling of the north portal's headwall. The interior has found function as a wood store, used by the householder whose property it stands on.
Wollongong
Wollongong, informally referred to as The Gong, is a seaside city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong lies on the narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 82 kilometres south of Sydney. Wollongong's Statistical District has a population of 292,190, making Wollongong the third largest city in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle, and the tenth largest city in Australia.
The Wollongong metropolitan area extends from Helensburgh in the north to Windang in the south. It sits within the Wollongong Statistical District, which covers the local authority areas of Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama, extending from the town of Helensburgh in the north to Gerroa in the south Geologically, the city is located in the south-eastern part of the Sydney basin, which extends from Newcastle to Nowra.
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00:00:41 1 History
00:00:51 1.1 Name
00:03:00 1.2 Early history: baronies and kirks
00:04:18 1.3 Fishing villages, harbours and shipbuilding
00:07:49 1.4 Custom house and steamboats
00:09:59 1.5 Industry and railways
00:11:33 1.6 Victoria Tower
00:13:50 1.7 Villas
00:14:19 1.8 Battery Park and torpedoes
00:15:39 1.9 Old West Kirk
00:16:58 1.10 Second World War
00:18:14 1.11 Postwar years
00:19:07 2 Governance
00:19:45 3 Health
00:20:12 4 Geography
00:20:21 4.1 Areas and suburbs
00:20:51 5 Economy
00:21:45 5.1 Shipbuilding
00:24:24 5.2 Shipping
00:26:32 5.3 Sugar
00:28:47 5.4 Electronics
00:30:02 5.5 Trade and commerce
00:31:24 6 Transport
00:33:12 7 Culture
00:35:04 7.1 In television
00:35:36 7.2 In film
00:36:12 8 Media
00:36:49 9 Greenockians
00:38:13 9.1 People associated with Greenock
00:40:24 10 Sports
00:41:19 10.1 Public sports and leisure facilities
00:41:46 11 Climate
00:43:05 12 Twin towns
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Greenock ( (listen); Scottish Gaelic: Grianaig, pronounced [ˈkɾʲiənɛkʲ]) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It forms part of a contiguous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east.
The 2011 UK Census showed that Greenock had a population of 44,248, a decrease from the 46,861 recorded in the 2001 UK Census. It lies on the south bank of the Clyde at the Tail of the Bank where the River Clyde expands into the Firth of Clyde.