History
Posts which tell the story or history behind a place or location.
Sulgenbach Park, Bern
Friday, 5th February 2010 • History, Individual photographs, Landscape photography • No comments
One of my favourite finds during my lunchtime walks around the city of Bern, this park is a haven of quiet and surrounded by a mix of views and architecture from the earlier part of the 20th century and onwards.
Marzili, Bern, Switzerland
Saturday, 24th October 2009 • History, Individual photographs, Landscape photography • No comments
A view at sunset of the low-lying area of Bern called “Marzili”.
Frosty golf morning
Friday, 16th October 2009 • By other people, History • No comments
Photo by Ben Roberts
Many, many, many years ago, I used to play golf and enter competitions with my father. One winter, we rose especially early and headed down to the [...]
Pollara Lighthouse
Saturday, 10th October 2009 • History, Italy galleries, Travel • No comments
A small gallery of a ruined and abandoned lighthouse on the main road from Malfa, atop three hundred metre high cliffs on the north western corner of Salina amongst the Aeolian Islands.
Death of a cemetery
Thursday, 10th September 2009 • History, In the Media • 2 comments
Sad news comes today for the family and fans of the “Autofriedhof”: the site must be cleared. Here’s an article about the closure, which I’ve translated from the German article at the Swiss newspaper “Tagesanzeiger”.
Rütli
Monday, 6th July 2009 • Design, History, Internet, Work • No comments
Details of the new website for Swiss national historic location Rütli, combined with a brief explanation of the meadow’s history.
Duomo from the Campanile, Florence
Wednesday, 4th March 2009 • History, Photography, Travel • No comments
We are small and there is so much to see, that we should get on with it and not let smaller things than us get in the way.
Lorraine Bridge, Bern, Switzerland
Thursday, 11th December 2008 • History, Photography, Travel • 5 comments
A wintry view of the Lorraine Bridge, near the main train station in Bern, Switzerland.
Zytglogge, Bern, Switzerland
Sunday, 7th December 2008 • History, Photography • No comments
The “Zytglogge” (literally, time bell) stands in the middle of the Bern, at the junction between the more modern shopping streets and the older, lower city. It was originally constructed [...]
Kirchenfeldbrücke, Bern, Switzerland
Sunday, 30th November 2008 • History, Individual photographs • No comments
First opened in September 1883 after a 21 month building phase, the metal bridge spanned the gorge between the upper end of the original old city of Bern at the [...]
Dalguise Viaduct
Saturday, 4th October 2008 • History, Individual photographs • 1 comment
This grade A listed railway viaduct, just north of Dunkeld near the A9 main road between Perth and Inverness, was designed by Joseph Mitchell to carry the Inverness and Perth [...]
Tay Bridge and west Dundee from The Law
Tuesday, 30th September 2008 • History, Individual photographs, Travel • 1 comment
During a violent storm on the evening of 28 December 1879, the centre section of the first Tay Bridge, known as the "High Girders", collapsed, taking with it a train [...]
Selve Areal, Thun, Switzerland
Monday, 5th May 2008 • Friends and Family, History, Individual photographs • No comments
We were in Thun this past weekend, with a couple of friends from Zürich who’d come down for a day of “strobism” (the art of non-studio-based photography using portable flash [...]
Whitewash and Brick
Wednesday, 19th September 2007 • History, Individual photographs, Travel • No comments
This was the view from my hotel room in Victoria. As a Londoner (I was born in St. Thomas’ Hospital and brought up during the first six years of my [...]
The View from Spiez Station
Tuesday, 12th December 2006 • History, Individual photographs, Photography • No comments
The harbour area of Spiez, taken from the train station. Poet Josef Viktor Widmann (1842–1911) wrote in his book Spaziergänge in den Alpen (Strolls in the Alps) that “the view [...]
