Tag: photos
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More from the Gower (6 images)
From the same Easter weekend walk as my previous Worm’s Head post….
Rhosili Bay, April 2013 
Southern end of Rhossili bay 
Rhossili from the Worm’s Head 
Worm’s Head causeway at low tide 
Just in case. 
Last remains of the wreck of a collier, The Samuel, which ran aground on the Worm’s Head causeway in 1884
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Decline of the Libanus Chapel, Cwmbrwla, Swansea (8 images)
Libanus chapel, Cwmbwrla, Swansea – photographed in April 1990 The Libanus Chapel, in Swansea, was built in 1906 during the Christian non-conformist revival led by Evan Roberts in south Wales in the early part of the last century. Whilst the revival was fairly short-lived, the chapel stayed in business for nearly a hundred years before a dwindling congregation led to it closing its doors in 2000.
Service times The Grade II listed building stood for a further 12 years, closed and locked; declining gently behind solid stone walls.
In January 2012, the interior of the chapel was destroyed by a fire in the night. Arson. Or maybe just homeless people trying to keep warm. And when the fire had done its work, the city council immediately demolished the upper part of the outer structure – apparently for safety reasons, but reportedly without making an assessment of whether it could be saved.
Libanus Chapel ruins. March 2013 So now, all that is left is a low-rise shell….
…and a pile of rubble…
…behind a fence and locked gates…
A few architectural details remain, hinting at the building’s previous ambition…
The inscription in Welsh in the porch above the main door reads “Built with respect during the ministry of Pastor Evans”. I think.
Postscript, May 2021: Google maps tells me that the chapel has now been fully demolished. The Iron fence is still there but the site it encloses is now just a patch of scrub.
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Another visit to the Tate (7 images)
A set of pictures of people looking at pictures (with apologies to Elliott Erwitt, who did the same thing, only much better)
Staircase mural and window 
The visitation, Jacob Epstein, 1926 
Jacob Kramer by Jacob Epstein, 1921 
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School outing
I didn’t even know that school uniforms could look like this any more. My children’s certainly don’t.
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