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I take my hat off to built & natural environments, heritage, townscapes & the arts - 'Recorder of the unusual', using #fujifilm #X100VI Follow my contributions to the Missing Places Project at https://historicengland.org.uk/profile/272036/RobertWalton/
At 10:15, the Northern departure for Sheffield on platform 1 at Filey Railway Station - 1846 by GT Andrews, grade II*.
Ingenious artwork in window panels by students at Calderdale College, Halifax, installed 2024.
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Moviedrome night of French cinema in Scarborough, with a 80th anniversary hosted screening of the restored 1946 La Belle et la Bete, a romantic fantasy by artist/poet/filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Haunting images, trick shots & astonishing effects - the surrealism of Beast’s dwelling - magnifique!
This morning at the dry stone wall maze in Dalby Forest, where the stones are hosting interesting collections of mosses & fungi.
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In Little Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire, the 1860 parish church is by ecclesiastical architect Robert J. Withers. Beside the spring-fed chalk stream, Colonial Cottage is a prefabricated bungalow by Norwich manufacturer Boulton & Paul, erected here in 1910 - made for the Empire market, a rare survivor.
Legsby Village Hall was built in 1850 as a school. It closed 1911 & for many years derelict. However, plans are afoot by villagers to raise funds for restoration of the listed building. Legsby is a remote rural community in Lincolnshire where, in WWII, conscientious objectors settled & farmed.
In English countryside near Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, a monument erected in 1844 by landowner Col. Richard Elmhurst. Granite obelisk, 36 feet high, with a bust of the Duke of Wellington. The adjacent Waterloo Wood was planted from acorns sown immediately after the 'memorable' Battle of Waterloo".
St. Michael's, Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire, England, was re-built 1835 (retaining a C14 tower + some stained glass in its windows) by Edward James Willson, a noted local historian & architect It has a C13 recumbent effigy of a knight. Now a redundant church, but protected by grade II* listing,
In Lincolnshire, England, the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in Alford in 1864 by architect Wm. Botterill - he practiced from Hull, where he designed some fine buildings. Closed in 1985, it became a retail space in 1994 & is now a successful furniture showroom & the building is well cared for.
Views of Scarborough from Oliver's Mount today, nice to have some sunshine.
It's amazing that there's been a watermill here in Alvingham, Lincolnshire, England, since 1155, taking water from the River Lud. The present 1782 mill ceased working in 1960s, restored 1972 & is grade II* listed for its protection. The attached miller's cottage is late-C18 & listed too, grade II.
The historic 11¾-mile Louth Canal, Lincolnshire, opened in 1768 & was abandoned in 1924. Listed Ticklepenny Lock is by civil engineer John Grundy (1719-83), who also engineered the Driffield Navigation in East Yorkshire + others.
Hubbards Hills park in Louth, Lincolnshire, is dedicated to the memory of Annie Pahud by her husband Auguste Alphonse Pahud, a Swiss who came here in 1875 to teach at the grammar school. Architect of the 1907 memorial shelter was RH Fowler.
Today in Willingham Woods, east of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.
The former RAF Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, England - was home to the Dambusters' 617 squadron in 1943. The airfield closed in 1967 & is now a commercial forest (Ostlers Plantation), but wartime buildings remain beside the former concrete runways - fuzing, incendiary & pyrotechnic buildings.
Woodhall Spa is an elegant small town in Lincolnshire, England, renowned for its Edwardian character, pine woods, spa culture & World War II history - RAF Squadrons & army battalions were based here. There's shopping, tearooms, a cinema in the woods, a lido, tennis, bowls & national golf course.
Street scenes in Lincoln, a historic city that has embraced modernization.
Pictured today, at 130m above sea level on the Lincolnshire Wolds, overlooking the Belmont transmissions mast, is a Bronze Age funeral barrow - protected as a Scheduled Monument first listed 1963.
Built on top, in 1959, remains a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post, decommissioned in 1976.
Lincoln, street scenes where the modern sits comfortably in its historic surroundings.
Pictured today in the #Lincolnshire resort of Sutton-on-Sea, three remarkable #seaside holiday cottages constructed in 1901 using Great Eastern #railway carriages. They are rare survivors of #Victorian repurposing, so are protected by grade II listing.
Ageing well: alabaster effigies of family figures from Tudor times at St. Laurence's, Snarford, are 'some of the most spectacular in Lincolnshire'. Eerily life-like, rakish, ample-faced & aristocratic (a rich dynasty of lawyer-politicians). The church is grade I listed.
John Hassall created his famous Jolly Fisherman poster for Skegness in 1908. Today, statues of the character stand in the public realm of the seaside resort.
It was a privilege today to visit the Officers Mess of 617 Squadron (Dambusters) at the Petwood Hotel - it was RAF Woodhall Spa, 1943-45. Above the bar, a tree bough found impaled in the fuselage of a Lancaster on return from an attack on the Tirpitz.
Serendipitous discovery in dreary weather at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, where there's plenty in shop windows (& on the pavement) to catch the eye.
The railway terminus at Cleethorpes was built in
1880s & much survives relatively intact.
Listed grade II as 'a well-preserved example of Art Deco architecture, and the best surviving in Humberside', is the 1937 former electricity showrooms in Cleethorpes by Leonard Pye, the Borough Engineer & Architect.
Tackling Steep Hill in Lincoln today.
The 1963 church of St John, Lincoln has a concrete hyperbolic paraboloid roof, covered externally in
aluminium sheets. It's by local architect & exponent of this type of shell structure, Sam Scorer. Listed grade II* for its 'major contribution to church architecture of this period'. Terrific it is.
Nice today to visit St Giles Church in Lincoln, built 1935. It was here that the founder (in 1953) of the Samaritans charity, Rev. Chad Varah, had been its first curate (& his first appointment after ordination in 1936). Varah's first funeral was for a 13-year-old girl who had taken her own life.