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Architecture, Buildings, and Structures
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pegelli
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Royal Bathing pavilion in "Paleispark Het Loo" near Apeldoorn (Netherlands)
Tea pavilion in the same park
Both A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
Paleispark Het Loo is a small part of the entire Royal Domain "Het Loo" where queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands lived. She is the great-grandmother of the current Dutch king Willem-Alexander. The entire area she owned at that time was about 100 square km. It is now owned by the Dutch state but the royal family still has the right to use it.
Tea pavilion in the same park
Both A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
Paleispark Het Loo is a small part of the entire Royal Domain "Het Loo" where queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands lived. She is the great-grandmother of the current Dutch king Willem-Alexander. The entire area she owned at that time was about 100 square km. It is now owned by the Dutch state but the royal family still has the right to use it.
pegelli
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I think this memorial is a true "structure", the Brothers in Arms Memorial in Zonnebeke (Belgium)
An impressive private initiative to honour fallen Australian soldiers in WW1
1: At the entrance
2: A very long plinth
3: Mark Knopfler gave permission to use the lyrics of the Dire Straits song "Brothers in Arms" at the memorial
4: The statue
5: Statue detail
6: Johan Vandewalle, the initiator of the memorial and the person who found the buried body John Hunter in 2006, 89 years after it was buried there by his brother Jim Hunter during the battle of of the Polygone Woods
7: After being identified in 2007 John Hunter was re-buried in a proper grave on the Buttes New British Cemetery, close to where he died and was buried in 1917, and his name was removed from the Menin Gate (which only holds names of commonwealth soldiers who's body was never found/identified).
All except 4: A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD,
4: Leica M246M + VM Nokton 50/1.2
More on John and Jim Butler can be found here
An impressive private initiative to honour fallen Australian soldiers in WW1
1: At the entrance
2: A very long plinth
3: Mark Knopfler gave permission to use the lyrics of the Dire Straits song "Brothers in Arms" at the memorial
4: The statue
5: Statue detail
6: Johan Vandewalle, the initiator of the memorial and the person who found the buried body John Hunter in 2006, 89 years after it was buried there by his brother Jim Hunter during the battle of of the Polygone Woods
7: After being identified in 2007 John Hunter was re-buried in a proper grave on the Buttes New British Cemetery, close to where he died and was buried in 1917, and his name was removed from the Menin Gate (which only holds names of commonwealth soldiers who's body was never found/identified).
All except 4: A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD,
4: Leica M246M + VM Nokton 50/1.2
More on John and Jim Butler can be found here
pegelli
Well-known member
I september we spent a day in Rocroy, France. An old bastion town founded in the mid 1500's by Henry II and many times extended since then.
The old remparts that housed the soldiers are still in a reasonable shape and can be visited 24/7
Facade I
Facade II
Inside
Hallway connecting the rooms on the inside
All A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
The old remparts that housed the soldiers are still in a reasonable shape and can be visited 24/7
Facade I
Facade II
Inside
Hallway connecting the rooms on the inside
All A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
pegelli
Well-known member
An old building, De Waag in Doesburg (Netherlands), built in 1478, used to weigh goods coming into the town for determining the import tax that the town levied. These days in use as a café
Facade
Top part
And classified as an official monument
All A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
Facade
Top part
And classified as an official monument
All A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
pegelli
Well-known member
There is an old saying you shouldn't throw away your old shoes before you have new ones, but apparently the city of Wijnegem had a different tactic with the bridge connecting the two parts of the city located on both sides of the King Albert canal.
Two photos taken the same day (Januari 27 2024):
The demolition of the old bridge is in full swing and half the bridge is gone
A7ii + Tamron Adaptall 2 MC BBAR 28/2.5
While they are still working on the bridgehead of the new one
A700 + Min 100/2.8 macro D
In the meantime the old bridge is fully gone and the new bridge is in operation since June last year
Two photos taken the same day (Januari 27 2024):
The demolition of the old bridge is in full swing and half the bridge is gone
A7ii + Tamron Adaptall 2 MC BBAR 28/2.5
While they are still working on the bridgehead of the new one
A700 + Min 100/2.8 macro D
In the meantime the old bridge is fully gone and the new bridge is in operation since June last year
pegelli
Well-known member
"Scott Post" in the Polygon Woods (Zonnebeke, Belgium)
A German WW1 bunker built in 1916 and captured by an Australian Batallion in september 2017 and was named after their commander Lieutenant Colonel Alan Humphrey Scott, who died there on oktober 1, 1917.
The bunker came through WW1 "unscathed" but was severely damaged when many unexploded shells that were found in the area of the Polygon Woods were brough in there to explode them in a safe environment.
A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
A German WW1 bunker built in 1916 and captured by an Australian Batallion in september 2017 and was named after their commander Lieutenant Colonel Alan Humphrey Scott, who died there on oktober 1, 1917.
The bunker came through WW1 "unscathed" but was severely damaged when many unexploded shells that were found in the area of the Polygon Woods were brough in there to explode them in a safe environment.
A7ii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
Once in a while, one gets kicked out for trespassing when taking pictures of interesting sites, as (inadvertently) happened to me today. Need to be more careful next time.
Always in search of interesting 19th and early 20th century industrial locations. A former textile factory in the "Industrieviertel" of Lower Austria. XT/32
Industry One Zero - my new website
Always in search of interesting 19th and early 20th century industrial locations. A former textile factory in the "Industrieviertel" of Lower Austria. XT/32
Industry One Zero - my new website
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