Marks of Time

Historic buildings as illustrations of the past. http://www.marksoftime.com/

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Coleraine 16.

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marksoftime.com Apple Flagship Store, Washington DC. $30m renovation of Carnegie Library by Foster + Partners. Elegant work, great care and beautiful new double hight 'forum' to rear.

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Bethlehem Steel. Four large former blast furnaces preserved along the Lehigh River. Now parts of an arts and cultural complex. Once one of the biggest steel plants in the world.

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Bethlehem World Heritage 2

Marksoftime.com The Single Brethren's House, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, part of the Moravian Church Settlements World Heritage site.

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Marksoftime.com The Gemeninhaus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A five storey log cabin in use since 1741. Now part of the Moravian Church Settlements World Heritage Site.

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Enniskillen Castle, principal fortress of the Maguire clan  to 1585 when it was captured by the English.  Of the Maguire tower house of 1428 only the lower level survives. It was significantly remodelled by Captain William Cole from 1607  and the 'water gate' with its Scottish corbeled bartizans added. Its last major remodelling was ijust before the Napoleonic period when it was converted to a military barracks (1796). it kept that function to 1950 and now houses a regimental museum and  the Fermanagh County Museum.  Both, as well as the castle,  well worth the visit. 

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Nowanios the storytellers

Located along the Glenelly Valley in Co Tyrone, these giants are part of an installation at three locations created by artist Thomas Tambo within the Sperrins. The sculptures are intended to symbolize the 'unifying essence of time', bridging past and future, where memories and stories converge. One giant is intended to represent the past, while the other is intended to embodiy the future. he elder Nowanois points to the sky, sharing tales with his younger self about the stars and ancestors who marveled at the heavens. https://giantsofthesperrins.com/giants/nowanois/

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This is Ceoldán the Stargazer, located at the entrance to the Dark Skies observatory in Daragh Forest Park , Co Tyrone. Ceoldán seeks to capture the brilliance of ‘The Seven Sisters’ choir, a star formation that also represents the 7 guardians of Ireland: Oak, apple, hazel, ash, yew, alder, and elder. 

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Stonehenge Wiltshire. A monument with great power and presence

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http://Marksoftime.com Salisbury, a view through the 14th cent High St Gate to the 13th cent cathedral beyond.

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Thornton Manor, Wirral,home from 1888 to 1919 of Viscount Leverhulme who built Port Sunlight to house the workers of his Sunlight Soap factory. He significantly adapted and extended this building and gardens.

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Dunham Massey, Cheshire. An elegant estate with its principal buildings partly enclosed by a moat. Open as a National Trust property.

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Marksoftime.com Millin Bay Cairn. Atmospheric Monument in State Care near the southern end of the Ards Peninsula. Today, an oval of standing stones overlooking a quiet bay, but in 1953, the scene of a significant archaeological investigation.

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Movilla Abbey, Newtownards. Reputed to have been founded in 540 by St Finnian, once the focus of an extensive monastic city. Suppressed in 1542. Now with a fine mausoleum in its ruins.

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Movilla Abbey

Reputed to have been founded in 540 by St Finnian, Movilla Abbey was once the focus of an extensive monastic city of some renown. Plundered by the vikings in 840, it never fully recovered and was attached to Bangor Abbey in 910. It was suppressed in Henry Vlll's disolution of the monasteries in 1542 and since used as a graveyard. A much destroyed ruin survives but this is reasonably large for a medieval site reflecting both the influence of the Normans from 1177 and the power of the monetary at the time of its dissolution.

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Scabbo Tower

Constructed 1857 inside a Bronze Age hill fort, Scrabo Tower is situated on top of a hill overlooking Newtownards and the Ards Peninsula. It is visible for miles around. It commemorates 3rd Marquis Londonderry of Mount Stewart.

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Not indicated on the 1957 OS Map, Millisle lagoon is  a man made breakwater that floods twice a day and captures the retreating tide to form a good place for watersports and swimming in this small Co Down seaside village.