Historical Pictures

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Medieval church door in Gloucestershire believed to be the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien's entrance to Moria

 

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This is where the Great Wall of China ends.

 

I sea.

 

With the newly built County Hall across the river likely to be late 1920s...

 

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John Galt photographed the slum conditions in Little Collingwood Street, Bethnal Green where residents faced each other across a 2.74m (9’) gap

 

Viewed from the outside...

 

What an amazing piece of architecture..................... which could not be replicated today.

 

It is an amazing space, but is it your professional builder’s view that it could not be replicated today because we lack the building skills (we certainly don’t lack the design skills)? Or is it something to do with personal taste, share the Prince Charles view about modern architecture?

Why would you want to replicate something that already exists anyway? There are some incredible modern public spaces around, the more diversity the better for me. Here’s the atrium from BBC Scotland in Pacific Quay in Glasgow.

Although my favourite public spaces are probably the medieval squares you find all over Europe. Here’s one in the Ghetto in Venice

 

Wouldn't be replicated today because it might cost 5 pounds more than building it out of concrete

 

Sb, l think its a combination of time taken to achieve the result and the skills to achieve such amazing workmanship.
Really skilled trades are a dying breed.
Apprentices aren't being taught because of time constraints and lack of desire from all involved.
I know of apprentices who have spent their whole apprenticeships on a single job and can only hang a door, nothing else.
There good at getting lunches and cleaning up rubbish etc.
Just my opinion from what l've witnessed here in Oz.

 

My lad who is in your trade and who is 23 tomorrow seems to be building up a wide range of skills after about 2 years in, though it’s joinery he wants to specialise in (he’s a good bricklayer, loves building intricate fireplaces, but not so keen on the outside work....). He started as a general labourer rather than as an apprentice, which was good because he had to pull his weight immediately. However, the jobs he is on seem to take forever. He’s been on a small housing development for about 18 months now, which is great because he gets to do a bit of everything, and was subbed off to convert an attic, which took 3 months. He reckons it’s down to undermanning and poor scheduling. He loves it though, having had a range of office and service/bar/restaurant jobs from the age of 18, never wants to go back to that.

I’m urging him to get a move on and get a qualification in joinery, then get over to your neck of the woods where there seems to be plenty of work for blokes with genuine building skills. I’ve got a mate in Perth (Aussie who was a neighbour over here for a bit because of his wife’s job) who is a chippie with his own firm and is constantly saying ‘when is your lad coming over, I need blokes who will work and have a laugh at the same time, not as separate and mutually exclusive activities’

 

Tell him to come to nz
They are all door hangers in Australia

 

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This is the "Via Dolorosa," the path in Jerusalem along which Jesus carried His cross to be crucified.