Geograph Britain and IrelandLatest Images by Keith Edkins
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2024-03-19T01:41:27+00:00text/html2023-08-01T22:32:53+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.630023 -1.142738SK5803 : Tram shelter, Western Boulevard
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One of five funded by local industrialist Robert Rowley in 1934 for the convenience of his workers. As it happens, the planned tram service which this one would have served, never ran.text/html2023-08-01T22:10:32+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.642235 -1.128459SK5905 : Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Belgrave Gate
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7557140
Tribute to Jimi Hendrix by street artist Won ABC, 2022text/html2023-08-01T21:58:36+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.635374 -1.124606SK5904 : The Sound House
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7557117
A music venue with a flamboyant decor. Formerly the Queen Victoria public house.text/html2023-08-01T19:26:00+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.635213 -1.127121SK5904 : Athena Cinema
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7556942
Cinema, 1936-38, designed by Robert Bullivant of Harry Weedon's Office for the Odeon Cinema group. Converted into three screens in 1974. Grade II listed.text/html2023-08-01T19:03:30+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.634948 -1.127717SK5904 : Exchange Bar, Rutland Street
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7556936
A "flat-iron" building at the junction with Halford Street. Exchange Buildings were built in 1888, designed by Stockdale Harrison of Leicester. Grade II listed.text/html2023-08-01T18:50:07+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.654308 -1.132063SK5806 : "The Pioneer"
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7556929
Sculpture at the National Space Centre. This statue (by Aden Hynes) was commissioned to mark the Centre's tenth anniversary in 2011. It shows US astronaut Ed White walking in space on 3 June 1965 during the Gemini 4 mission.text/html2023-08-01T18:25:26+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.653587 -1.131781SK5806 : National Space Centre, Leicester
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7556908
Designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, the architects of the Eden Project, and opened in 2001text/html2023-08-01T18:14:05+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins52.634207 -1.149453SK5704 : Mural, King Richards Road
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7556894
On the corner of Kate Streettext/html2022-08-23T23:55:36+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins50.366223 -4.133517SX4853 : The Barbican Prawn
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7263254
Officially entitled "Leviathan", this sculpture incorporates elements of an angler fish, a lobster, a John Dory, a cormorant and a plesiosaur,text/html2022-08-22T16:46:24+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins50.407713 -4.204485SX4358 : Royal Albert Bridge
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7261846
Completed in 1859 to the design of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Known as a bowstring tubular plate girder bridge, the combination of suspension and arches structure produces no net lengthways force on the supporting piers. Grade I listed (obvs!)text/html2022-08-22T16:21:08+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins50.407858 -4.206321SX4358 : Houses beneath Royal Albert Bridge
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7261800
text/html2022-08-22T15:43:14+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins50.367435 -4.160430SX4654 : Caroline Place
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7261722
Planned terrace of houses, mid C19. Grade II listed.text/html2022-08-22T15:29:24+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins50.367706 -4.155520SX4654 : Hawkins' Order, Millbay Road
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"Serve God Daily, Love One Another, Preserve Your Victuals, Beware Of Fire, and Keep Good Company."
These words, supposedly part of Hawkins' orders to his crew at the start of a slave-capture voyage, are formed by flat faces on the vertical posts reflecting light at angles which the round portions don't.
Hawkins was the inventor of both the Three Word Slogan, and the Oxford Comma.text/html2022-08-22T14:34:20+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins50.370071 -4.144377SX4754 : Messenger (2019)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7261657
7m tall bronze sculpture, designed by artist Joseph Hillier, depicting an actress in a production of Othello.text/html2022-08-22T13:35:13+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11413Keith Edkins50.363619 -4.162506SX4653 : Freemans Wharf
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7261611
A memento of times past. It could do with some rust treatment - compare [[1697728]] from 2010.