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Manor Road Garage “Open”

An Image from the archives Manor road garage in east preston will shortly re-opens its doors this time though not as a garage, it has been refurbished into flats, I’m yet to revisit to see what it looks like but hopefully soon will go over and do an “after” picture but for now i gave this one a bit of a tweak in photoshop ……

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Racton Ruins – monument – folly light painting

After many trips and nearly 2 years of trying I have finally ticked of another one of my sites, on a long list.
Below is a shot I took while messing around (in -6 temperatures), just for fun, the folly is lit by the full moon coming through the tree which was casting shadows onto the walls, giving that extra spooky feel.

Racton Folly:The tower was built around 1772 for the nearby 1,750 acre Stansted Estate, probably as a summer house although it is shown on maps as a monument. It consists of a two storey triangular structure with three corner towers attached, from this rises a large tapering central tower which has three floors to it, this originally had a conical roof. The central tower, as well as the three corner structures, were also castellated at one time, although this feature like all the interior floors, has now disappeared. Some say that its original purpose was as summer house however, an alternative possibility is that it was built by the then owner so that he could see his trading ships berth at Emsworth, then a major port. Either way, it perhaps qualifies today more as a curiosity than a folly.

Wikipedia: Folly

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Enjoy

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1000 Hits from 25 countries and counting…

Well as you know my site has been up a while now and after some mathematics and removing every time i log in today i have had 1000 hits on my website from 25 different countries which is above average according to Google… not bad for a 3 month old site.

Thank you to all that have visited and had a look and please come back also feel free to leave your comments under each post you can remain anonymous if you wish just make up an email address.

Heres some interesting facts for you … or maybe not….
when searching Google World Wide for “waynes photos” Ranked 2nd of about 42 million results
when searching Google uk for “waynes photos” Ranked 1st from 400,000 results

The busiest single day was 2nd July with 55 hits
The single most popular post overall has been The London Architecture Poll with 46 visits but only 15 votes :(
The average page view is 2.71 pages per visit, spending 3 minutes 17 seconds viewing those pages.
In reality there are a high number of single page visits staying for 10 seconds or less, but here have been a number of visitors how have stayed and given the site a thorough read through thanks you to Mondays visitor who stayed for 29 minutes reading 12 pages from the Uk. :)

55% of people visiting the site return for another look… :)
33% of visitors arrived from google or other search engines.

Overall there were visits from 25 countries around the globe in order of most hits first here are the stats

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • South Africa
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Slovenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • France
  • Morocco
  • India
  • China
  • Argentina
  • Iran
  • Georgia
  • The 25th Country or region is … Unknown (ip region not set) so it could have come from anywhere

    There are hundreds more stats i could bore you with but i wont, but i will tell you that i can even tell the screen resolution of the pics or handheld devices the website is viewed on and i will be using this in future to maximise the size of the photos i put up.
    shame about the lens flare in this picture

    Sunset at East head, waynes photos

    hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.

    Wayne

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    Manor Road Garage East Preston

    Manor road Garage was built in the 1930′s and was used until at least the 80′s. it was run by a gentleman called Mr. Lillywhite who seemed to have dabbled in any business he could from the property, he had steam rollers for road making, there was even a car still on the ramps, wonder who didn’t get their car back? He also had a small nursery behind the garage, which he sold to build house’s on in the 50′s.
    The building is grade 2 listed and is due to be turned into flats re-using the existing façade which will be transformed to its former glory including a full refurb of all 4 pumps apparently the original glass bowls for the top of the pumps were inside the building.
    which is nice….

    Manor Road Garage,waynes photos

    Manor Road.

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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    London Architecture Poll

    Below is the poll i have put numbers on the images to match the poll as a reminder you may choose up to 2 favourites.

    Your favourite

    • 2 Tower Bridge & Fountains (42%, 8 Votes)
    • 6 More Water Fetaure (32%, 6 Votes)
    • 7 No.1 London Bridge (26%, 5 Votes)
    • 1 Lime Street (16%, 3 Votes)
    • 10 Willis & Lloyds Building (16%, 3 Votes)
    • 8 Moor House (11%, 2 Votes)
    • 4 GLC Real (5%, 1 Votes)
    • 5 GLC Lego (5%, 1 Votes)
    • 3 More London (0%, 0 Votes)
    • 9 More Offices (0%, 0 Votes)

    Total Voters: 19

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    You May click on the smaller images and scroll through for a reminder before you cast your vote if you wish.

    lime street london,waynes photosTower Bridge & Fountains,waynes photosMore Place water, London,waynes photosMore Place water, London,waynes photosGreater London Council City Hall,waynes photosGreater London Council, City Hall at Legoland,waynes photosMore Place officeswaynes photosNo.1 London Bridge,waynes photosMoor House, London,waynes photosWillis Buliding with  LLoyds of London reflection,waynes photos

    And Finally 1 last image
    st Marys axe
    30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin and the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London’s main financial district, the City of London. It is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, with 40 floors. Its construction symbolised the start of a new high-rise construction boom in London.
    This building is visible from most places in London, however the closer you get the harder is to photograph, this shot even on my 10-22mm Lens i still couldn’t get the whole thing in shooting on 10mm is about as wide as it goes but when close up has some distortion effects on the subject hence in this image “The Gerkin” looks more like and egg than a tall building.

    The Gerkin

    This brings an end to a weeks for of Urban exploring or “Ubrbanexing / urb ex” or what ever you want to call it and I hope you have enjoyed this weeks images as much as I have

    Wayne

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    Urbanexing

    Urbanexing: click to see what wikipedia has to say
    Photography is all about timing, you wait till everything is just right the subject is ready and then the only thing left is the right lighting ……
    so being 30 mins late for dusk is a real problem if you want a good sky with your subject……another failed trip to spinnaker tower… but all is not lost
    a quick trip across a field, hedge, brambles and you end up with something like this.

    barc-larc-60, waynes photos

    BARC-LARC-60

    Enjoy

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