On the Queen's Walk beside the River Thames is Southwark Cathedral, the oldest Gothic cathedral in London. It has been a place of worship for 1,400 years, since Anglo Saxon times - says the sign out front.
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Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Southwark Cathedral
On the Queen's Walk beside the River Thames is Southwark Cathedral, the oldest Gothic cathedral in London. It has been a place of worship for 1,400 years, since Anglo Saxon times - says the sign out front.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
London Views 1
Monday, June 6, 2011
Digging Into the Past
While attending the JC graduates exhibition, I noticed a construction site across the road - a mosque building was being extended.
A construction crew had spent 6 weeks hand excavating behind the behind the building down to about 15 feet below grade. Access to the site was along a narrow alley way between buildings so no heavy machinery could be taken to the site. This conveyor belt carried the excavated soil up to grade level.
Micheal was one of the hard working people whose job was to run between the top of the conveyor and the skip outside on the street with a rotation of 2 wheel barrows, one being filled while he emptied the other.
Wherever I go I look for old glass and pottery shards, usually on beaches but I spied some in this skip. I got talking to Michael and checked that he didn't mind me looking for treasures in his soil. I told him he was like an archeological digging down into the past.
Then he told me about some of the things he had found. They had dug up many old glass and pottery containers and literally hundreds of animal horns.
Animal horns! I needed some for my art work. Micheal put aside some for me.
He also gave me this old pot that looks like what was used to hold beer and other fermented drinks. I was very interested in this because in the 18th century my family were malsters in London. I don't know exactly where they lived but other family members had lived nearby to this mosque in Hackney, when it was a trendy new suburb in the late 1700s.
So it was a great day for finding treasures.
I declared the cattle horns when I entered Canada because we have had major problems with mad cow disease. Even thought the horns are fossilized, the officer sprayed them with disinfectant and they are now drying out and bleaching on my balcony at home.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Students at Victoria College of Art
Here are the early twentieth century students in the Bank Street school . . .
Here are the twenty first century students in the school on Bank Street, 100 years later.
The 3 windows you can see . . .
. . . are the 3 lowest ones on the side of the school, in front of the girls' steps.
Here are the twenty first century students in the school on Bank Street, 100 years later.
The 3 windows you can see . . .
. . . are the 3 lowest ones on the side of the school, in front of the girls' steps.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Articulation in Bay of Fundy
I continue to sample the seafood chowders when we stop for a meal. I couldn't go past the beet salad so ordered just a cup of chowder (6/10).
Results of beach combing as the sun was setting.
The locals collect other things.
Results of beach combing as the sun was setting.
The locals collect other things.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Fundy Study
Isaac's Way in Saint John has a picturesque display of shellfish and fish on ice.
And I gave his seafood chowder an 8 - no potatoes, it was served on a brown rice/wild rice mix. Delicious.
Icons of the Bay of Fundy found in St Martins.
Fishing boats resting on the sea floor when the tide is out.
Covered bridges, tidal rivers, vernacular architecture.
Saint Martins has it all.
And I gave his seafood chowder an 8 - no potatoes, it was served on a brown rice/wild rice mix. Delicious.
Icons of the Bay of Fundy found in St Martins.
Fishing boats resting on the sea floor when the tide is out.
Covered bridges, tidal rivers, vernacular architecture.
Saint Martins has it all.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Fundy Study Session
We eat in a Chinese restaurant in Sussex....
... before beginning our AGM.
Saint John is full of interesting architecture. Here is one in the Second Empire style, popular with the French speaking Canadians long after Napoleon was deposed in Europe.
Donna and Leann in 'the oldest common law market in continuous use in Canada' (since 1867). Carpenters with shipbuilding skills made a roof like a ship's hull - very beautiful.
... before beginning our AGM.
Saint John is full of interesting architecture. Here is one in the Second Empire style, popular with the French speaking Canadians long after Napoleon was deposed in Europe.
Donna and Leann in 'the oldest common law market in continuous use in Canada' (since 1867). Carpenters with shipbuilding skills made a roof like a ship's hull - very beautiful.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Fundy Study
More local architecture - a Classic Revival/Gothic Revival mix of forms, possibly expanded as the family and fortune grew. With the front door a step from the road I don't think they use that door much.
When we arrived in Sussex a 'Take Back The Night' march was going on down Main Street.
So some of us joined in - a reminder of university days. It was fun but a bit sad that women feel they still need to march 35 years later.
We checked into the Jonah B 'n' B. Leann and I have a room up in the gables of a Victorian house, with a spa bath!
When we arrived in Sussex a 'Take Back The Night' march was going on down Main Street.
So some of us joined in - a reminder of university days. It was fun but a bit sad that women feel they still need to march 35 years later.
We checked into the Jonah B 'n' B. Leann and I have a room up in the gables of a Victorian house, with a spa bath!
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