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The theme for this section is: 'Over 100 Years Old and Man-made'

This is a part of the 12th century Cistercian abbey in North Yorkshire

Deep in the jungle of Trinidad, Amelia Tripp was laid to rest in 1857 at St Chad's Anglican Church, which now lies in ruins....

- we are currently having our basement 'finished' and the chap doing it found this newspaper in the walls. Our house was built in 1903 and in those days they sometimes used newspaper as insulation. So I thought I might like to keep the front page and get it framed up and put it on the wall.

This old dock was built in 1888 for the big sailing ships from the Orient to serve the quarantine station where the passengers were screened and quarantined for Small Pox, Leprosy, Yellow fever, Plague etc. before entering Puget Sound. The Surgeon General's House is still here and been renovated and registered under National Historic Places. The old dock is losing all it's 16"x16" 50' long rotted beams to the exceptionally high storm tides that have hit the last 2 winters.

It was completed in 1898 and is attached to the mainland by a causeway which is covered at high tide.

The remains of one of the windows in St Mary's Chapel. This derelict chapel is situated just off Jesmond Dene, round the corner from where we live. It is the oldest church or chapel in Newcastle. It was built early in the 12th Century by the Grenville family, one time Lords of Jesmond.

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. . . is in the grounds of the Cambridge Museum of Technology which is full of ancient machinery.

Picture of a pathway that crosses an artifical pond (please notice there is water on both sides) from an old Hacienda called San Miguel Regla, relatively near my Dad's ranch. That section was left untouched, that is, in ruins, but the rest has been converted into a Hotel. I have no dates, but these Haciendas are more than a 100 yrs old! "Avenue to the Past" is exactly the feeling it has, in fact that is why it is black and white, to make it more nostalgic!

My input this month is from an ancient book which is amongst Ian's collection of antiques. He bought it on the strength that a hole going through the pages was due to a bookworm! Whatever, I have included a picture of some of the text at the beginning of this book to give you a flavour of our language written in 1746. I can't find a publication date but guess it was not long after this.

Part of Hanover street Newcastle runs from Hanover House to the riverside. Possibly 17th or 18th century going by the name. Whilst I call this a cobbled street apparantly cobbles are round and setts are the flat stones.
In Hanover street the traditional setts were provided to help horses pulling the carts get a better grip with their hooves.There were granite blocks set at a carts width in the street allowing the cart wheels to run reasonably smoothly and not dislodge the contents being transported up and down to the bonded warehouses on the quayside.The system was thought to have been introduced in the early nineteenth century and was only used for very steep streets.