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Post by philbirch on Feb 6, 2015 17:43:48 GMT -5
Once again, BRAVISSIMO! Mickey Look what I have to admire in my beautiful Toronto. A howling blizzard. Even the snowplough had to stop for a temporary whiteout. And more to come. Huh! thats nothing our snow ploughs can't even get through an inch of snow
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Post by genazzano on Feb 8, 2015 3:01:58 GMT -5
Bah! I lived in a small town south of Buffao, Silver Creek, in a notorious narrow region off Lake Erie known as the "snow belt". Two meters of snow over night and I still was in my lab at Roswell in the morning. Mickey's picture looks like home to me. The muffled scraping of aluminum snow shovels in the morning, the sound of neighbors scraping ice from their wind screens, the labored sound of cold engines turning over and coughing into life... Never thought I would miss it but I do. It does snow here though it is rather rare. A couple years ago we were hit with over a meter of snow that made me feel at home, except for the fact that we have no plows and the area was paralyzed for a week. The dogs loved it. David
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Post by belgiumreporter on Feb 9, 2015 9:34:07 GMT -5
David inspired me with his wonderfull images of his home village. I went out and took some pictures of the village i live in, it's called Deurne-village and is the oldest part of Deurne wich is in it's turn part of the district of the city of Antwerp. The village itselve dates back to the 16th century, but the majority of houses only goes back some 150 years as they were build to house the workers of the brewery. Some alleys are very narrow and mostly run to a dead end so traffic is very limited. A series of wooden houses still remain and are well maintained, in the period before the first world war it was forbidden to build stone houses as the village was within the canon range of the city's fort, so in case of war the houses needed to be easy to tear down to get a better view of the enemy approaching. Nowadays it's not the war but project developing that tears down our village. Most of the houses are not considdered to be of historic value and are replaced by "modern confort"... On the West side of the village is the river "the schijn" wich was a natural barrier trough the ages and was the main cause of the founding of the village because a toll bridge needed to be crossed to either get in or out the city of Antwerp so travellers and merchants held up before going in the city could find a place to rest. The street where i live narrow indeed... Need some gasoline for your "automobile"? Rue de la soif = street of thirst Every year less and less is left of th village The "river" Wooden houses loading space of the brewery
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Post by philbirch on Feb 9, 2015 18:08:07 GMT -5
Lovely. We get used to our own home towns and their beauty is lost with familiarity. It's fascinating seeing the streets where you live.
I like the wooden houses photo. Hmmm... number 44 has a wheelie bin and a bike but number 42 has a beer barrel and a seat. I reckon No.42 are more relaxed.
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Post by genazzano on Feb 10, 2015 4:59:21 GMT -5
Beautilul! I hope others will also share images of their home towns. I love this thread.
David
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Post by genazzano on Feb 22, 2015 12:30:38 GMT -5
Awhen one lives in such an ancient town, one finds such interesting things left from past centuries. This is a wall in a small apartment that my wife is renovating. She is preserving the medieval walls when possible and a niche was uncovered after removing the centuries of plaster and mortar. The niche in the center turns out to be a medieval toilet that empties out directly from the walls outside. It it likely that it was covered up about 700 years ago. David
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Post by philbirch on Feb 22, 2015 18:07:54 GMT -5
Are you going to restore it to working order?
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Post by genazzano on Feb 22, 2015 18:47:54 GMT -5
Unfortunately, since it was built, a city has grow up in the valley below. Not good for maintaining good relationships with neighbors. Unless....
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Post by Stephen on Feb 22, 2015 21:58:00 GMT -5
I remember a moutain top cafe near Pertisau in Austria, which featured such loo's, and a firm decision was made not to walk back down that side of the mountain....... Stephen.
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Post by genazzano on Feb 23, 2015 6:14:56 GMT -5
There are stories written by people like Gregorovius that tell of times of plague here in our town when the bodies of the dead were left in the street during the night to be gathered. The bodies were thrown over the side of the cliffs at the end of some of the alley ways just a few meters from where I live. They were left on the slope of the western side of town and that side was never visited and nothing was built on that side to this day. I intend to go around and photograph these and other areas as soon as I am able. The town isn't a good place in which to wander in a wheelchair, as ccan be imaged.
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Post by genazzano on Mar 13, 2015 9:17:12 GMT -5
The niche that had been uncovered in the wall shown above wasn't built for some statue. It was a medieval toilet. After freeing the wooden base of the niche from ancient plaster, I found this, a toilet seat with its cap. Cleaned it and treated it with linseed oil and finally bees wax. An interesting remnant of medieval life.in Genazzano. David
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Post by belgiumreporter on Jul 20, 2015 5:36:47 GMT -5
Rome isn't exactly my little town, but when i was there on holidays, i couldn't resist making a picture of what is probably the most famous spiral staircase in the world. ( as you all know i'm a big fan of (spiral) staircases)
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 20, 2015 13:35:18 GMT -5
Rome isn't exactly my little town, but when i was there on holidays, i couldn't resist making a picture of what is probably the most famous spiral staircase in the world. ( as you all know i'm a big fan of (spiral) staircases) That is spectacularly beautiful and it is perfectly framed. Mickey
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Post by philbirch on Jul 21, 2015 13:53:46 GMT -5
Those stairs must be a pain to walk down. There is a similar (Smaller) one in Liverpool and I always use the lift. Mickey - a lift is an elevator
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 21, 2015 23:45:36 GMT -5
Those stairs must be a pain to walk down. There is a similar (Smaller) one in Liverpool and I always use the lift. Mickey - a lift is an elevator How wrong I can be! I always thought a lift was a ride given a lucky hitchhiker. Mickey
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