Friday, October 16, 2020

Regent Terrace - Blackpool


 

 

Regent Terrace and Promenade Gardens Blackpool - showing the end of Bank Street.

 Regent Terrace and Promenade Garden, Blackpool - showing the southern corner on Bank Street - replaced in the 1960's by the multi-storey Regent Court.

Regent Terrace looking south towards the Metrepole Hotel - Londond Stereoscopic Company.

Regent Terrace
 



Regent Terrace, Promenade Blackpool - View of prom with turret on the notrth corner of Regent Square - now Cocker Square
 

Thursday, September 12, 2019

The Grove Inn _ Bury New Road

Sheet 10 1848

Hollinshead Bank House

Hollinshead Bank Farm

Ivy Cottage

Knolls House

The Grove Inn - Bowling Green and Quoiting Ground

Brought Grove Dye Works

Broughton Grove Print Works

Wilton Place

Fenny Street

Grove Street

Woodland Terrace

Tenneriffe Street






1914

Ashworth Street made through the site of Broughton Grove Print Works from the north of the Grove pub on Bury New Road.

Most of land east of Ashworth Street turned into "Brick Works"




2019

Only the stub of Ashworth Street survives now next to the site of the demolished Grove Inn on Bury New Road.

Sabrina Street - laid out on the site of the bowling green is now the entrance to a new building.


Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

soho arms pub everton brow soho street - recently st annes business centre . . .

1976 and 2009

from 2016 "Soon to be studio apartments"

Trinity Church St. Annes Street, Liverpool

A vanished church . . .

I mean - how can a church just vanish without trace ?

 "Trinity Church, St. Anne Street, was erected by private subscription in 1792." (written in 1911)

1955 (why so strangely cropped ?)

Wilton Street from St. Anne Street, 1966

Demolished (after fire ?) in 1970



Sunday, April 08, 2018

terrace 2

PATH TO SOUTH TRANSEPT STEPS

"DIANE DE GABIES" - Classical

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_de_Gabies&ei=fEPVT-eeMuij0QWhqLmvBA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddiane%2Bde%2Bgabies%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D887%26prmd%3Dimvns

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/529.jpg[/img]

[size=150]PATH TO SOUTH TRANSEPT STEPS[/size]

"SPINARIO" - Classical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_with_Thorn

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/0092.jpg[/img]

"SHEPHERD BOY" by Bertel Thorwaldsen.

http://www.p-synd.com/thorvaldsen.htm#top

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/Thorvaldsen-shepherd-boywickipedia.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/Untitled-Scanned-06.jpg[/img]

"VENUS DE MEDICI" - Classical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de%27_Medici

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/venusdemedici.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/vdeme.jpg[/img]


[size=150]SOUTHERN PATH TO CENTRAL TRANSEPT STEPS[/size]

DANCER by Antonio Canova.

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/agn_077.jpg[/img]

"MENDELSSHON" by Charles Bacon

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/mendsmall.jpg[/img]
Illustrated London News, 17 Dec 1859

"LOST LOVE?" by ?

"ANDROMEDA" by ?

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/awol2.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/1april2005.jpg[/img]

"DANCER" by Antonio Canova

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/agn_074.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/postcard.jpg[/img]

"DANCER IN REPOSE" by Antonio Canova

[size=150]FOUNTAIN #3  OCEANS[/size]

 "Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Atlantic".

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/atlanticraffaellemonticrystalpalace.jpg[/img]

[size=150]CENTRE PATH[/size]

"SCHILLER?" by ?

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/schillerworcestershirecrystalpalace.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/statues300804017.jpg[/img]

"DANTE" by ?

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/longfellow.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/dantefront.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/danteworcestercrystalpalacesydenham.jpg[/img]


"LATERAN SOPHOCLES" - Classical

[quote]the so-called Lateran Sophocles, which had been found at Terracina in 1839, presented to Pope Gregory XVI, and displayed in the Lateran Palace, before being transferred (along with the remainder of the Papal sculpture collection) to its present location in the Museo Gregoriano-Profano in the Vatican.

http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/the-mond-bequest/mond-bequest-sculpture/sophocles[/quote]

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/C141bsophocles.jpg[/img]

"PETRARCH" by ?

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/petrarchworcestershirecrystalpalace.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/petrarchthepleasuregardencrystalpal.jpg[/img]

[size=150]FOUNTAIN #4 - RIVERS[/size] -

"Ganges, Nile, Thames, Amazon."

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/italianterracenorthcrystalpalacesyd.jpg[/img]

THAMES - BY Raffaelle Monti

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/PW002028.jpg[/img]

GANGES -Raffaelle Monti

[img]http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/9809/gangesmonti.jpg[/img]
[size=150]NORTHERN PATH TO CENTRAL TRANSEPT STEPS.[/size]

"DIANA DE VERSAILLES" - Classical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_of_Versailles

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/Y00101.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/statues300804012.jpg[/img]

"APOLLO BELVEDERE" - Classical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Belvedere

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/apollobelvedere.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/torso.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/base.jpg[/img]

"DISCOPHORUS" - Classical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discophoros

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/discophoros_replica_classicalbridge.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/statues300804028.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3364/189iy.jpg[/img]

"NEOPOLITAN GIRL WITH A TAMBOURINE" by Antoine Laurent Dantan.

[quote]"Jeune fille Napolitaine" first appeared at the Salon in plaster in 1837. A bronze version was exhibited the following year and is now in the Musée de Bordeaux. [/quote]

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/m006506_0000550_p.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/376/terrace2.jpg[/img]

"PSYCHE ABANDONED" by Pietro Tenerani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Tenerani

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/pietrotenerani.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/Crystalpalaceownphotos211.jpg[/img]

"VENUS WITH THE APPLE" by Bertel Thorwaldsen

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/thorvaldsen-venus1.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/218toppledvenusthorvaldsenbeaver.jpg[/img]

"DANCER" by Canova. [Not a mistake, they had two pairs of these figures.]

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/agn_074.jpg[/img]

[size=150]PATH TO NORTH TRANSEPT STEPS[/size]

"VENUS D'ARLES" - Classical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Arles

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/venusarles.jpg[/img]

"Dancer Reposing" by Canova

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/agn_077.jpg[/img]

[size=150]FOUNTAIN #4

[/size]"Love, Friendship, Hope, Mirth."

"LOVE"

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/loveraffaellemonticrystalpalacesyde.jpg[/img]

"FRIENDSHIP"

"HOPE"

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/hoperaffaellemonticrystalpalacesyde.jpg[/img]

"MIRTH"

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/mirthbyraffaellemonticrystalpalaces.jpg[/img]

EDGE OF THE LOWER TERRACE

[Going North to South]

"PIPING" FAUN – Classical

[img]http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2820/faunn.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/faun10beaver.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/1396/ipipingfaunpanlouvre.jpg[/img]

MELPOMENE? by ? [Taken at the 1957 sale of Crystal Palace statues.]


[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/16jul1957.jpg[/img]

NORTHERN lOWER TERRACE STEPS

[img]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/5391/terrace3b.jpg[/img]

PSYCHE WITH THE JAR OF BEAUTY - Bertel Thorwaldsen [Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen ]

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/smallpsychewithjarofbeauty.jpg[/img]

STEPS

GIUSTINIANI MINERVA - Classical [original in the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_Giustiniani

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/200px-PallasGiustiniani.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/koons057.jpg[/img]

DANCING BACCHANTE by Luigi Bienaime [Copy in the Hermitage, St Petersburg]

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/bienaimecropped.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/statues300804032.jpg[/img]

MAIN STAIRS. Initially the Diana de Versailles and the Apollo belvedere were placed either side of these, on the corners of the semicircular projections, but they were moved sometime later.

ASKLEPIOS - Classical

[img]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5085/45851700.jpg[/img]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/here8now/269471480/

VENUS ANODYMENE - [original in the Vatican Museum]

[img]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4192/006zzz0tab442a5u0006700.jpg[/img]
Delamotte.

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/3200669.jpg[/img]
http://dagr.univ-tlse2.fr/sdx/dagr/feuilleter.xsp?tome=5&partie=1&numPage=734&nomEntree=VENUS&vue=image

[img]http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8470/aphroditeanadyomenevati.jpg[/img]
http://dagr.univ-tlse2.fr/sdx/dagr/feuilleter.xsp?tome=5&partie=1&numPage=734&nomEntree=VENUS&vue=image
[img]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8996/aphroditeafb3.jpg[/img]
http://www.museumkennis.nl/lp.rmo/museumkennis/i000563.html

STAIRS

APPOLLINO - [original in Uffizi Florence]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollino
[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/apollino.jpg[/img]


ARISTIDES - Classical [original in Naples Archaeological Museum]

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/aristides.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/aristidesnow.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/aritidescrystalpalacesydenham.jpg[/img]

Borghese ARES - Classical [original in the Louvre]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_Borghese

[img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/ares.jpg[/img][img]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/ares-1.jpg[/img]

Statues and Fountains in Crystal Palace Park