Amelia's photos

The Sunday Challenge SC54: Lines and planes. This was taken inside a building that housed the restaurant. I have been to the 'Botanics' several times, but have never seem this staircase. The lunch served here was excellent.

A "Wall Dial" on the gable end of Shrewsbury's Old Market Hall. Interestingly this Vertical Wall mounted dial plate only shows the hours 9 to 5, and is only useful when it gets some sun in the summer months. The Market Hall was built in 1596 by the Corporation of Shrewsbury and is one of Shrewsbury's finest buildings. It reflects the town's prosperity towards the end of the 16th Century and especially its emergence as a major regional centre for trading.

There are only seven ducklings in this photo, but the PiP shows the female merganser with her nine ducklings. The group were quite far away in the river and swimming rapidly, the light wasn't very good, so consequently the photos aren't as sharp as I would like. We saw a pair of merganser here on the Severn earlier in the year, but this is the first time we have seen ducklings.

What appears to be a stone bench is actually carved from wood. A 200 year old Cedar of Lebanon tree, was blown down down on the 23rd March 2014. The National Trust and the Chirk Castle family commissioned the celebrated wood sculptor, Simon O'Rourke, to use the trunk to create the bench to commemorate the beginning of the First World war, hence the poppies. The bench was completed in May 2014, and a new Cedar of Lebanon was planted nearby.. The first PiP shows the carved poppies on the bench. The second PiP show the trunk of the fallen cedar. The third PiP shows the history of the cedar and the bench in greater detail.

SC52 Post 2 July Fashion - clothing, shoes, shop windows...

On the wall behind The Dancer is another work of art called 'Repeated Patterns of an Elm' by Kris Lamba. Dahli's 'Dancer' Date: conceived in 1949, first cast in 1984 Height: 175 cm / 68.9 in Material: bronze Technique: lost wax process

Salvador Dalí was an icon of Surrealism, the 20th-century avant-garde movement that sought to release unconscious creative potential through art that featured dreamlike imagery. Dalinian Dancer - Salvador Dali (Solid Bronze Lost Wax Process Sculpture) in Shrewsbury Museum. Solid Bronze Lost Wax Process Sculpture by Salvador Dali Details: Date: Conceived in 1949, first cast in 1984 Height: 175 cm / 68.9 in Material: bronze Technique: lost wax process

With the Shropshire Lasses and the Shrewsbury Bull and Pump Morris dancers.

A centrepiece to the Quarry park is The Dingle 9shown here), a former stone quarry, but now a landscaped sunken garden. Between 1324 and 1588 it was known as the Wet or Water Quarry because it was liable to flood. It was quarried for both stone and clay.

If you like 'parks planting' schemes you'll love The Dingle in Shrewsbury. At this time of year it takes centre stage with annual flowers planted in flower beds and baskets. Personally it's not my style, but one has to admire the work that goes into it. The PiP shows part of the formal planting area one week after it was finished.

I think this is a late clutch of ducklings as most other ducklings that we have seen this year are now almost fully grown. She had 4 ducklings and I managed to get all four of them in shot in the PiP, but they are so quick moving, and the second photo was taken against the sun, so I had to lighten it, consequently the colour is no longer true. The second PiP shows that white ducks can have yellow ducklings which are absolutely adorable.

SC51 post 25 June - A picture is worth a thousand words.

The club in Church Street shut down after its last lunchtime session on Sunday, October 9th 2022 The club’s chairman Ian Alderman said it was ‘with sad regret’ that he needed to announce the closure. The statement said, “The rising costs of utilities and other operating factors mean the running of the club is no longer a viable option."

I think this part of the cliff is largely composed of relatively hard Otter Sandstone, but someone may be able to put me right on this. Other parts of the cliffs are made up of Otter mudstone and are far more likely to collapse.