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Hotel Europe is a six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property located in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.

A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.

This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.

Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.

**Please note: All enclosed information has been collected from various online sources and has not been verified to be true or accurate.

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Harlaxton Manor aerial image - 19th centry country house in Lincolnshire, primarily used as the British campus for the University of Evansville based in Indiana. The Haunting was filmed here 1999 #HarlaxtonManor #aerial #image #Lincs #aerialphotography
Aerial view of Harlaxton Manor

Harlaxton Manor aerial image - 19th century country house in Lincolnshire, primarily used as the British campus for the University of Evansville based in Indiana. Used as a hospital in WW2 & later used as a teacher training college. Today the British campus for the University of Evansville, an American university based in Indiana, USA The Haunting was filmed here 1999 #HarlaxtonManor #aerial #image #Lincs #aerialphotography
Aerial view of Harlaxton Manor

Harlaxton Manor aerial image - 19th century country house in Lincolnshire, primarily used as the British campus for the University of Evansville based in Indiana. The Haunting was filmed here 1999. Built 1831 - 1838 by architect Anthony Salvin for Gregory Gregory a wealthy local landowner. Yes you heard it right ... Gregory Gregory! Salvin was a leading figure in the Gothic Revival movement #HarlaxtonManor #aerial #image #Lincs #aerialphotography
Aerial view of Harlaxton Manor

Harlaxton Manor aerial image - 19th centry country house in Lincolnshire, primarily used as the British campus for the University of Evansville based in Indiana. The Haunting was filmed here 1999 #HarlaxtonManor #aerial #image #Lincs #aerialphotography
Aerial view of Harlaxton Manor

No, not that James Joyce.

"O death, rock me asleep,
Bring on my quiet rest
Let pass my weery guiltless ghost
Out of my careful breast."
- said to be written by Anne Boleyn, in the Tower of London before her execution.

This is an imaginative piece of processing that brings to mind that quote from the Marquise du Deffand, Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond. "Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I am afraid of them." Personally I don't mind being in graveyards, even at night.

In Roger Clarke's fascinating book, "A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof" (Penguin, 2012), he makes the point that whilst proof of the existence of ghosts is difficult to find, what is absolutely clear is that people do see them. We can make of that what we will according to our beliefs.

One English photographer, who made it his life's work to explore the haunted buildings and ruins of England and Ireland, was Sir Simon Marsden (1948-2012). Marsden published some classic books of his romantic gothic photographs, and they have also been featured on the album covers of U2. Marsden was a pioneer of using infrared film, and this gives his photographs an otherworldly feel. Two of his best books that I highly recommend are, "This Spectred Isle" (2005), and "Memento Mori: Churches and Churchyards of England" (2007). Examples of Marsden's work can be found at The Marsden Archive. www.marsdenarchive.com/library/

This piece of my photo art is not infrared, merely digital processing. However starting tomorrow I want to show you some contemporary examples of real infrared photography and the moods it can create.

[These photos taken with the Nikon D850, processed with Capture One 22 and finished in PhotoScape X.]

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