Category: england
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Afloat, Brighton torus
Title: Afloat Location: Groyne on seafront, near to the Palace Pier Artist: Hamish Black Date: 1998 ‘Afloat’ is a huge circular donut shaped globe cast in bronze. Situated at the seaward end of the groyne, its centre at eye level allows a view of our world through the sculpture. The donut or torus (a shape…
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Shoreham Wind Turbines
These wind turbines are installed in the harbour at Shoreham-By-Sea. They’re remotely managed from Spain.
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Camins del Priorat 2016
Es un buen vino. It’s not the best of the years, but to make this find where we did, was alegría. I had the pleasure of a tasting of Palacios’ wines in Berry Brus Y Rudd a few years ago given by Mr. Palacios himself. I knew liked him for a reason, he’s another Sanferminero…
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South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade
This is a picture of the South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade, founded January 1866. The Volunteer Life Brigade is a search and rescue organisation which assists HM Coastguard in the United Kingdom in coastal emergencies. Around 40 VLBs were established in the mid-to-late 19th century; today just three remain on the coast of…
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. The photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945 — excerpt from Wikipedia page
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Aliens and brothers
ALIEN By David Breuer-Weil Height: 6m (19’ 8”) An extension of the ‘Visitor’ series, Alien is a vast 6m tall work depicting a humanoid figure crash landed in the earth. It’s circling legs suggest that this a more permanent development as the figure struggles to free itself from the ground. “I have always been fascinated…
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J.P. Guivier & Co.
J.P Guivier, England’s oldest stringed instrument shop, established in 1863, located on Mortimer Street, London. It was established by Joseph Prosper Guivier. The ground floor houses the shop which has violins (“from £6,000 to £60,000) are on sale. The 1st and 2nd floor houses the music rooms where prospective clientele are able to play the…
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Ice Ice Bernard
This ice was formed on the surface of the canal during freezing weather.
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These machines look like they belong in Gibson’s Neuromancer, or some post-apocalyptic world. But they’re just road resurfacing machines.
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The Canal People
Location: On Regent’s Canal between Mile End Road Lock and Johnson Lock.
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Listen here sonny…..
The guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy is believed to be behind an artwork which has appeared on the side of a house in Cheltenham. The Gloucestershire Echo reported that the owner of the house, Karren Smith, 48, said she saw men packing a white tarpaulin into a van at about 7.30am on Sunday. She said: ‘They…
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Vhils work, Truman Brewery
Wonderful. Chiseled into the plaster and bricks. This is apparently the work of Vhils, a Portuguese graffiti/street artist Alexandre Farto. “He gained prominence when his work of a face carved into a wall appeared alongside a picture by street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008. A photograph of him creating the…