Random Picture Thread

I looked at the region on Google Earth. It seems to be large, possibly multi-dwelling buildings and commercial property or parks from what I can discern.

 

My friends lived in this tiny house (link below) at the junction of Pilgrim Street and Mount Street, Liverpool, a long time ago. See attached picture, and from Google Street View:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4...4!1sxQrgG9N3P2R99XNSvT06_g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I can't get the attachment loader to fire up at the moment - I'll attach a screen shot when I can, but the link above should take you right there. [edit: picture attachment successfully uploaded now]

The house was built onto a small strip of land at the end of a terrace. To be clear, it runs from the corner (the right hand edge of the 'Mount Street' plaque) to the black painted drainpipe to the left, an external distance of 8 feet, 2.4 metres. The internal dimension is some 7 feet.


Given these constraints, it seems remarkable that the stair, complete with a notional landing at top and bottom, runs within this short dimension, from the front door behind the battered 'no entry' sign. It is nearly a ladder.


AND... The smallest house in Britain, on the seafront at Conwy, North Wales:



from https://schetzelsintheuk.wordpress.com/2013/02/

There's a decent pub just along the front - a lovely place for a beer on a mild evening.


https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2...qGdOMdKgN2LkilWy-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1


If you swivel the street view around, you can see some boats, too!

 

there's something interesting going on at the left of the photo, half way up. It might possibly be older battlements from some sort of fortification,which have subsequently been incorporated into an outhouse, or a series of primitive chimneys? (a fish smokery?) I can't see why so many chimneys over one large one though, so I'd go with the fortification. It looks to be a different and rougher construction than the rest of the buildings - possibly stone rather than brick.

 

There is a copyrighted image available on this commercial image site, taken from a little further East. the houses above can be seen in the distance.

http://www.francisfrith.com/london/london-lambeth-the-riverside-c1865_l130100

(do not embed directly)

 

This is just wonderful! Only just started looking at it, but had to share. It seems to be a heavily illustrated and detailed investigation into the life of George Parleton, living in houses on the riverfront in Lambeth, from 1851 to 1871:

http://partleton.co.uk/George1851in1871.htm

from an extraordinary, much larger piece of work:

http://partleton.co.uk/index.html

 

The same houses as the original photograph, in an etching from the Illustrated London News, via
http://partleton.co.uk/George1851in1871.htm



The houses were knocked down in 1866 onwards, to make way for the Albert Embankment, designed to alleviate floodling. The Parleton website gives a great deal of background to this

 

That's not quite the smell I was imagining.

 

Those are the same houses from the same vantage point. Amazing! There must have been a bridge that the artist and photographer worked from, or the artist used the photo to make the drawing.

 

Its fascinating, isn't it? The photo was c1850-55, and the etching is, as best as I can read, November 22nd 1867, so its completely possible the illustrator was working from the photo.

Lambeth bridge opened in 1862, so it was in place at the time of the etching, but not the photo.

The piles for the Albert Embankment were evident in the c1865 photo I linked to, so perhaps the etching was done from the embankement structure shortly before the houses were demolished?

You can see the Vauxhall bridge in the background of the etching.

The dates would suggest that the photograph was taken from a boat, though as there was no structure in place at that time. I bet you're right and the etching was an artistic interpretation from the photo

 

A good, sharp image of R Bain, Boat Builder, c1865, pictured in the etching.

Phoot on the Lambeth Local Government site:

http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/display_page.asp?section=landmark&id=444

 

I used to work in a building approximately the same age - 1862 onwards down on Wapping Wall. It's still there, though a tad expensive, a two bed flat is more rent per calendar month than our rent per annum 20 odd years ago...
We had a studio on the top floor and had to keep the drawing boards away from the drips coming through the roof......

At least 'The Prospect of Whitby' was close..

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/industrial/8.html

 

Real estate value is high. "Legoland" is on or very near the spot.

 

The five of total six built 'Heavy Submarine Cruisers' (as they were called in Russian) AKULA Class submarines (Typhoon Class in Nato), the largest and possibly most dangerous submarines ever made, at their base on the Kola peninsula. With the break up of the USSR Russia found it could not support this class and quickly mothballed the subs before dismantling. The sixth is still sailing however due for decommissioning in 2016. Good riddance. The USS Seawolf (SSN-21) class were built by the US in response to this class but were quickly scaled back to just three subs when it became apparant the Akula class was no longer a threat. They were replaced by the smaller Virginia-class (SSN-774) submarines, which were expected to be about 10% cheaper.

 

From the Library of Congress Collection. WWII Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs.

 

Ah, the old do you have a Prince Albert in a can joke....