Just a few good Writing Competition photographs I discovered:
Image from page 98 of “Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company’s illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland” (1908)
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Title: Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company’s illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Shrubsole, Edgar S
Subjects: Donegal (Ireland : County) — Description and travel
Publisher: London : W. Cate, Limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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drives and an iron. A collection of hillocks guard the inexperienced.All spherical is great pure {golfing} floor. Number seventeen, The Hearth (559 yards), is a fullthree shot gap, with good lies between the drives, the second ofwhich is over a typical sand bunker. The third should carry asecond bunker. Number eighteen, Rosapenna (300 yards), is inside viewof the lodge. A drive and an iron gap. The floor is muchbroken up, and a big sand gap gives difficulties on the verythreshold of dwelling. An admirable inexperienced. TlTe par reads thus :— Out : 3, 5, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 3, 5=39 ) _^-,In : 5, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 4=42 f -^^ Visitors to the lodge are charged for the use of the hyperlinks—Is. per day, 5s. per week, 10s. for a household ticket. Memberssubscription, 21s. Caddies should be engaged by way of the caddiemaster. An expert golf participant is in attendance : price forplaying 2s. 6d. per spherical. Ladies are permitted to play. NoSunday play. Weekly competitions happen from March tillSeptember. Sheep Haven Bay.
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47 SHEEPHAVEN BAY.
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Library Photography Competition 2011 entry
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By Sachin Patel
Police, Fire and Courts Complex, Accrington, Lancashire
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Sir Percy Edward Thomas OBE (13 September 1883 – 19 August 1969), was an award-winning British architect, based mostly in Wales for the majority of his life. He was twice RIBA president (1935-37 & 1943-46).
Percy Edward Thomas was born on 13 September 1883 in South Shields, the son of a sea captain from Narberth in Pembrokeshire, with whom the household usually travelled. The household moved to Cardiff throughout the Eighteen Nineties, and Captain Thomas died at sea in 1897.
Percy Thomas started work in a transport workplace, however modified to a profession in structure on recommendation from a phrenologist. In 1903 he received the structure competitors at the (98) Eisteddfod of Wales in Llanelli. After a number of years working in England, he started collaborating with Ivor Jones of Cardiff, and they went into partnership in 1913
Wikipedia
Listed Building
GV II
Fire station, 1933, by Sir Percy Thomas, in simplified and streamlined
classical type. Ashlar, flat roofs on 2 ranges. Single storey of 2
completely different heights. Essentially symmetrical facade of 3 components; a
massive rectangular central block with decrease wings as a mirrored pair.
The predominant block has a colonnade of piers framing 5 tall storage doorways
and a workers entrance, a square-panelled frieze. The wings have 3
comparable however small doorways and a window at the interior finish. At rear
and hooked up by a wall to the predominant constructing is a hose-drying tower of
six storeys, totally plain aside from the prime storey, which has
pilaster strips and pedimented roof, giving the impact of a small temple.
Designed en suite with Police Station (q.v.)
Listing NGR: SD7635128200
Source: English Heritage
Listed constructing textual content is © Crown Copyright
