Beamsley illustrated
Feb. 7th, 2022 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWhen I wrote about our weekend at Beamsley Hospital, I said that photos would have to wait until we got home. And a bit longer, but here at last they are. I did take some pictures of our explorations - in Ilkley, and at Bolton Abbey station (with steam engine) - but the majority of my photos are of the building itself. I felt a bit like the people whose photos I admire on Flickr, who return again and again to the same scene in different lights - and the benefit of visiting in the winter is that early morning and late evening light come at such civilised hours. Here it is at sunset, as we were coming home after a day out:
And this is the reverse view, from just inside the door:
looking back down the path to the main block of the almshouses (it does slope a bit, I think, but maybe not that much).
You are in an entrance hall, with a door ahead of you leading into the chapel. There's the bell-pull:
It's a real chapel, but it's also part of the living accommodation: the door in the picture leads into our bedroom, and we stacked our supplies of wine and vegetables in front of the altar, because that was where we were least likely to fall over them:
I love that chandelier. Here it is again, in the morning light (in fact, this is the first picture I took this year):
Some more external views. Here's a dramatic sky - and I love the shadows cast on the building by the adjacent trees:
and here's an altogether happier sky:
We left on a frosty morning:
walking carefully down the paved path, and then driving equally carefully through the arch in the middle of the almshouses.
One last look back before as we leave:
And this is the reverse view, from just inside the door:
looking back down the path to the main block of the almshouses (it does slope a bit, I think, but maybe not that much).
You are in an entrance hall, with a door ahead of you leading into the chapel. There's the bell-pull:
It's a real chapel, but it's also part of the living accommodation: the door in the picture leads into our bedroom, and we stacked our supplies of wine and vegetables in front of the altar, because that was where we were least likely to fall over them:
I love that chandelier. Here it is again, in the morning light (in fact, this is the first picture I took this year):
Some more external views. Here's a dramatic sky - and I love the shadows cast on the building by the adjacent trees:
and here's an altogether happier sky:
We left on a frosty morning:
walking carefully down the paved path, and then driving equally carefully through the arch in the middle of the almshouses.
One last look back before as we leave:
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Date: 2022-02-08 02:41 am (UTC)Those are lovely! The dramatic sky is especially striking, and I agree that's a neat chandelier.
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Date: 2022-02-08 06:57 pm (UTC)Where does your friend live? (Unless you'd rather not say...)
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Date: 2022-02-09 11:11 am (UTC)And while I'm not a FB fan, thank goodness for the internet!