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Holland House, 11 Sundridge Ave, Sundridge Park, Bromley, 1995, 95-12e-64

Water sculpture by William Pye (b.1938 UK). Bronze, 1999. Behind is a neo-Jacobean belvedere on an arched conversion (J.Browne mid-C19) from earlier stables and coach house. In the Iris Garden, Holland Park, London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

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This 12 century bronze figure is of Milo of Croton, a legendary olympic athlete renowned for his great strength, who lived at Croton, a Greek settlement in southern Italy, in the 6th century bc. The story go that on seeing an oak tree partly split open with wedge he tried to wrench it apart, but only succeeded in causing the wedge to fall out, thereby trapping his hands. He was left helpless prey to the wild beasts, which soon devoured him.

Sculpture donated by the friends of Holland park 28 july 2003

Whole arcade from inside with wall art you can see in the video

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Holland House, Bury Street, London EC3.

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Landsvägen strax norr om Wamme bro. Längst till vänster ses en del av Kakboden (bageriet/konditori) som 1959 flyttade till Göteborgsvägen 21 och där kallades Kaffedoppet. Till höger om Kakboden ligger villan Lilla Taxnäs byggd kring 1900. Innan den revs 2018 hade det under några år bedrivits restaurang här. Villan som skymtar bakom träden är Holland House, tidigare kallad Stora Taxnäs. Den stod ursprungligen på Kastenhof och flyttades hit omkring 1890.

Foto: Torild Isaksson

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So it begins…

… the marathon task of sifting and processing the bazillion photos that I took in London and Newcastle recently.

This one – of Holland House – indicates how weird the weather was. It could be summer in Italy. it’s actually October in London.

P106-0935 Taken at: Holland Park, Kensington, London

Holland House, Holland St, City, 1993, 93-4d-46

Holland House, Bury St, City, 1991, 91c09-04-54

Holland House, Bury St, City, 1990, 90e10-71

Holland Park, London. Holland House, or Cope Castle, was built in 1605 and was one of London's grandest houses until 7 September 1940 when it was largely destroyed in a bombing raid. The ruins were grade 1 listed and the grounds became Holland Park, purchased in 1952 by the local council. The vastly reduced house was stabilised, other outbuildings repurposed and the Holland Park Opera started using a temporary marquee in 1988, using the colonnade and raised area in front, as the stage, and is now a successful annual event.

London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London, England - Holland House, Holland Park
October 2022

Holland Park, London. The Belvedere was originally part of the C17th stables and orangery of the house, but was converted to a ballroom in the C19th. After the house was bombed in 1940, and the grounds became a public park, the Ballroom was converted to a restaurant.
Taken on a flickr photowalk organised by the London Group.

London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London, England - Belvedere, Holland Park
October 2022

aspen, colorado
winter 1979

wintersköl parade

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

aspen, colorado
winter 1979

wintersköl parade

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

aspen, colorado
winter 1979

wintersköl parade

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Just back before Christmas, for a Thursday Door Day I posted a shot of a mysterious door...and true to my word, I have returned to reveal the surprise behind it. I thought I knew the Brisbane suburb of Shorncliffe pretty well (see link below). While I didn't grow up there, my Mum and her family spent a few years there and it being not that far from where I grew up and also where we live now, we are frequent visitors to its Bay shores and quiet, leafy and heritage lined streets. But a couple of months back we were doing a drive around and drove into Yundah Street (where I obviously haven't been before) and there at no. 92 found this beautiful old gem, not a house at all but one time pub in the middle of suburbia. Wow! It's a bit down at heel, seems to be flats now but retaining its original look thankfully. A hard place to take a photo of as the streets have very large trees like the Jacaranda in this shot quite close to the fence line and this place goes right to the fence line. Some streets are actually in tunnels under the massive trees, even wide streets. You get my drift, it's a great place to own an old Queenslander or similar.

Here is its amazing history, thanks to the Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.


Holland House reflects the appeal of Shorncliffe as a seaside resort for Brisbane residents in the nineteenth century. Built circa 1889 as a hotel, it was intended to cater to vacationers brought to Sandgate and Shorncliffe by the new railway line. It was refused licensing, however, and its proprietor was declared insolvent. From the early twentieth century it operated as a boarding house, known initially as ‘Dorset House’. The large timber residence was a popular holiday and honeymoon destination in the twentieth century before it was converted to flats."

This block of land was granted to William John Loudon in September 1856. Loudon, or Louden, had operated the Lamb Inn, one of the oldest hotels in Fortitude Valley, and a hotel on the road to Sandgate. He opened a hotel in Sandgate but did not develop this site. Although large, the site did not have views to the sea, and was not particularly close to transport.

This situation changed by 1882, however. Yundah Street became a popular area for boarding houses, while the rest of Shorncliffe began to develop rapidly, leaving few areas vacant. ‘This land is in reality the only large block left in Sandgate for subdividing purposes,’ wrote sales advertisements, which claim, though exaggerated, was borne out somewhat by the increasing number of houses, shops, hotels and holiday homes built in and around the area. Loudon’s site, since purchased and sold by Arthur Wettendal, was transferred vacant to Jacob Dickinson in 1882.

Dickinson was a Fortitude Valley second-hand dealer, who appears to have purchased this site as a speculative investment property. He also had another property in Sandgate, ‘Bella Vista’, in which he resided in 1889, and evidently also hosted boarders there.
In January 1889 Dickinson applied for a licence for his Yundah Street property. He had prepared plans, which he presented to the Sandgate Board, and estimated the cost of the new property at £5,000. In April 1889, a new application was made for the property in the name of RF Daniel.

(Dickinson attempted to turn his property into a hotel in the late 1880s. He applied for a hotel licence but his application was refused on the grounds of a hotel being ‘unneeded’. Although Dickenson had claimed that he had turned away paying guests for lack of room, Sandgate already featured accommodation. The 1885 post office directory listed five hotels and eight boarding-houses, including two temperance houses for teetotallers. Other proprietors, like Patrick Murphy, had also had applications refused but constructed large residences.

In spite of this response Dickinson had completed construction of the property by 1890, when he was declared insolvent.)

Holland House, built in 1876, was a popular guest house for honeymooners. The house and a tennis court stood on grounds of one and a half acres within two minutes’ walk of the beach and three minutes from the railway station. Mrs English, the proprietress, offered visitors ‘every attention and all home comforts’ as well as ‘milk and poultry from our own yards’. It was not only the promise of fresh seaside air and home cooking that attracted American servicemen to 92 Yundah Street during the second world war. At that stage Holland House operated as a brothel. Early boarding house Mrs English had valuation for Holland House dropped from £240 to £180 in 1933 (depreciation in values.)


en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorncliffe,_Queensland

Holland House, Bury St, City, 1992, 92-5d-56

Holland House June-8779