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Time Marches On
The American Clock Company, in Claremont California, is one of the few shops that can repair very old clocks.
Longtime owner and master clock repair technician, Vic Garcia, is the son of a master clock technician. He has a long waiting list.
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April 18, 2017
Berkeley
Road, Berkeley Hills
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I lived in San Francisco for two years and in Berkeley for about four beginning in 1978. Compared to the last 37 years I've lived in Seattle, this span seems like an instant. But it was six of the best years of my life. I loved living in California. And though San Francisco is a special city, I may have enjoyed living in the East Bay even more.
I took up cycling in the East Bay – I didn't have a car; couldn't afford one at the time – and probably my favorite rides were up in the Berkeley Hills. This is why this rather mundane photograph of a suburban-rural road has appeal to me. It reminded me of all of those rides, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends now long lost.
My usual route was to climb the hills in North Berkeley, then follow Grizzly Peak Boulevard south and along the crestline. For a shorter ride, I'd just drop down along Tunnel Road into Claremont, a 2-3 mile winding downhill cruise, and from there back to the house I lived in in South Berkeley. For longer rides, I'd continue down Grizzly Peak, though I think it changed names to Skyline Boulevard near the Berkeley-Oakland border. I might be wrong on this point. I'd drop down into various points in Oakland and pedal my way back through the city neighborhoods.
As a photographer these days, it's funny the things that trigger our mind's eye sometimes. I wish I owned a small 35mm pocket camera in those days, but I didn't. Almost everything from my Bay Area days is stored in my mind and memory.
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Urrbrae House Sth Aust. Ceiling panels in the grand hall with the music gallery. Urrbrae House built for Scottish born pastoralist Peter Waite in 1891.He bought the small original Urrbrae House in 1874. Demolished for this to be built.
Peter Waite- Urrbrae House. Peter Waite like many other pastoralists was born in Scotland but he did not arrive almost penniless like the Scottish pastoralists of the 1840s. He arrived in SA late in 1859 and in 1862 he purchased Paratoo station near Terowie with Sir Thomas Elder. Elder lived next door to Peter Waite’s Adelaide home at Birksgate. Birksgate, probably the most lavish and finest home in SA was demolished for the housing estate of Birksgate in the 1960s! Peter Waite quickly acquired other stations besides Paratoo- Pandappa, Beltana, Mutooroo and stations in NSW. He worked as a manager for Elder Smith and Company, was a board member of Broken Hill mines etc. He was a pastoral leader promoting scientific methods for the pastoral industry including the introduction of barbed wire fences. He acquired a city estate at Urrbrae in 1874 but he lived on Paratoo station most of the time until 1891 when his new Urrbrae House was completed. It replaced an earlier small dwelling on the property. The Waites and some of their 8 children lived here until Peter Waite died in 1922. He bequeathed the house and adjoining lands from Claremont Estate and Netherby Estate to the SA government for an agricultural school and to the University of Adelaide for an agricultural research centre. As a promoter of scientific methods Peter Waite had a refrigeration system installed in the basement of Urrbrae House in 1895- the first domestic refrigeration plant in an SA house. The director of the Waite Institute used to live in the house until 1973 and since then it has had a more public function as a museum, and concert venue.
Urrbrae House. Arts and crafts stairs to the musicians gallery . House built in 1891 for Peter Waite of Paratoo sheep station near Yunta.
Peter Waite- Urrbrae House. Peter Waite like many other pastoralists was born in Scotland but he did not arrive almost penniless like the Scottish pastoralists of the 1840s. He arrived in SA late in 1859 and in 1862 he purchased Paratoo station near Terowie with Sir Thomas Elder. Elder lived next door to Peter Waite’s Adelaide home at Birksgate. Birksgate, probably the most lavish and finest home in SA was demolished for the housing estate of Birksgate in the 1960s! Peter Waite quickly acquired other stations besides Paratoo- Pandappa, Beltana, Mutooroo and stations in NSW. He worked as a manager for Elder Smith and Company, was a board member of Broken Hill mines etc. He was a pastoral leader promoting scientific methods for the pastoral industry including the introduction of barbed wire fences. He acquired a city estate at Urrbrae in 1874 but he lived on Paratoo station most of the time until 1891 when his new Urrbrae House was completed. It replaced an earlier small dwelling on the property. The Waites and some of their 8 children lived here until Peter Waite died in 1922. He bequeathed the house and adjoining lands from Claremont Estate and Netherby Estate to the SA government for an agricultural school and to the University of Adelaide for an agricultural research centre. As a promoter of scientific methods Peter Waite had a refrigeration system installed in the basement of Urrbrae House in 1895- the first domestic refrigeration plant in an SA house. The director of the Waite Institute used to live in the house until 1973 and since then it has had a more public function as a museum, and concert venue.
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The Scaffold
Quite a criss-cross of scaffolding poles at the site of the Claremont Hotel, Eastbourne which was destroyed by fire in November 2019.
This lovely 300-year old National Trust property features a serpentine lake, an island with a pavilion, a turf amphitheater, and numerous pleasant viewpoints and vistas. Located within easy reach of London, these grounds are where many of England's best-k
This lovely 300-year old National Trust property features a serpentine lake, an island with a pavilion, a turf amphitheater, and numerous pleasant viewpoints and vistas. Located within easy reach of London, these grounds are where many of England's best-known gardeners have left their mark, most notably Capability Brown.
Other highlights include a grotto, Camellia Terrace, Belvedere Tower and a café. There's also the Victorian Thatched Cottage, a great place for younger kids to play and dress up in period costumes.
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Route 65 Running Day
Sunday 11 April 2021
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Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)
Lake Claremont, Perth, WA
RM 2208 in Claremont Road, Surbiton
In this view RM 2208 is seen at the southbound bus stop for routes 71, 281 and K1 in Claremont Road opposite the northern end of the leafy and tranquil Claremont Gardens in Surbiton with this thoroughfare being a nice spot to take photos of buses and where up until May 1962 this pleasant tree-lined suburban street was also host to London Transport trolleybuses on routes 601, 602 and 603 as well as the RT motorbuses on routes 65, 71 and 265.
London United VH 45190 in Victoria Road, Surbiton
An offside view of London United's Wright Gemini 3 bodied Volvo B5LH Hybrid vehicle VH 45190 seen at the bus stop at the eastern end of Victoria Road in Surbiton with the vehicle shortly about to make the left turn at the mini-roundabout up ahead into Claremont Road and past the famous Surbiton landmark of the Coronation clock tower on the remainder of its northbound journey on route 71 from Chessington World of Adventures up to Kingston (Cromwell Road bus station) on the early morning of Sunday 11th April 2021.
Some forty years previously at this same bus stop and the vehicle would be a standard AEC Routemaster based at the former Norbiton (NB) bus garage bound for the original northern terminus of route 71 at Richmond (Dee Road).
RT 1 leaving Surbiton for Kingston
In this view the London Bus Museum's preserved RT 1 is seen approaching the mini-roundabout at the eastern end of Victoria Road in Surbiton with the vehicle about to make the left turn into Claremont Road and past the iconic Coronation clock tower of 1902 on the course of its way north towards Kingston town centre.
In the LT trolleybus days up until May 1962 this mini-roundabout by the eastern section of Victoria Road by Surbiton station was where the trolleybuses on route 602 from The Dittons and Seething Wells met up with the trolleybuses on routes 601 and 603 from Tolworth travelling towards Kingston town centre. This view also shows the small square window on the lower offside corner of RT 1 at the bottom of the stairs which could be slid open in order for the conductor or conductress to give hands signals to other motorists to indicate that the bus was intending to make a right turn.
Mary Eliza "Liza" Sampson
Mary Eliza "Liza" Sampson was born in Dec 1838 in Claremont, NH to William Sylvanus Sampson (1801-1841) and Lucia Ann Redfield (1916-1909). Liza and her widowed mother can be found living at 8 Tenney St in Lawrence, MA beginning with the 1899 city directory. Liza never married and she passed away in Lawrence on 29 July 1913. No photographer mark. Cabinet card.
Liza's FindAGrave: www.findagrave.com/.../208130163/mary-eliza-sampson
Adelaide. Urrbrae House. Arts and crafts wooden fireplace and clock in the grand hall of Urrbrae House. Built 1891 for sheep pastoralist Peter Waite of Paratoo station. Donated to the SA govt for agricutlural education in 1922.
. Peter Waite- Urrbrae House. Peter Waite like many other pastoralists was born in Scotland but he did not arrive almost penniless like the Scottish pastoralists of the 1840s. He arrived in SA late in 1859 and in 1862 he purchased Paratoo station near Terowie with Sir Thomas Elder. Elder lived next door to Peter Waite’s Adelaide home at Birksgate. Birksgate, probably the most lavish and finest home in SA was demolished for the housing estate of Birksgate in the 1960s! Peter Waite quickly acquired other stations besides Paratoo- Pandappa, Beltana, Mutooroo and stations in NSW. He worked as a manager for Elder Smith and Company, was a board member of Broken Hill mines etc. He was a pastoral leader promoting scientific methods for the pastoral industry including the introduction of barbed wire fences. He acquired a city estate at Urrbrae in 1874 but he lived on Paratoo station most of the time until 1891 when his new Urrbrae House was completed. It replaced an earlier small dwelling on the property. The Waites and some of their 8 children lived here until Peter Waite died in 1922. He bequeathed the house and adjoining lands from Claremont Estate and Netherby Estate to the SA government for an agricultural school and to the University of Adelaide for an agricultural research centre. As a promoter of scientific methods Peter Waite had a refrigeration system installed in the basement of Urrbrae House in 1895- the first domestic refrigeration plant in an SA house. The director of the Waite Institute used to live in the house until 1973 and since then it has had a more public function as a museum, and concert venue.
Croquet Lawn Claremont Old Postcard
Dressed in Victorian era clothes playing croquet on the side lawn approx 3ft lower than Claremont.
It was a lawn we used to play on in the 1950s decades later when it was a boys home.
Claremont DinningRoom Old Postcard
Outside the left window is a croquet lawn and the right window is to the front of Claremont.
Claremont DinningRoom Old Postcard
Outside the left window is a croquet lawn and the right window is to the front of Claremont.
