Digbeth Institute - entrance : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Digbeth Institute - entrance / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is the Digbeth Institute. I returned to Digbeth, as I saw from Bradford Street (on the bus) that it looked like the scaffolding on the Digbeth Institute had come down, so I decided to come back and get some proper shots of it. Last time it was covered in scaffolding and I only took it from the top as you couldn't see it like this.Now it is uncovered (mostly apart from that one bit on the bottom right hand corner), you can see how beautiful this building really is.I believe that it is currently a night club. Called Un Plug Bar & Bistro.Notice all the details as well. Fully restored and cleaned.Pevsner says:The Digbeth Institute of 1906 - 08 by Arthur Harrison is Edwardian Mannerist, its classical elements used unstructurally to indicate the steel frame beneath. Doric columns support only draped female figures with musical instruments. Deliberate recessions between the canted bays above. Baroque centrepiece, and contrasting spiked central turret and Wren-style side cupolas.It is locally listed as Grade B.The Institute was the former Digbeth Civic Hall.Entrance to the club.More information here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digbeth_InstituteThe Digbeth Institute is a 2,000 capacity music venue in Digbeth, Birmingham, England, which has been synonymous in the development of the British rave music and drum and bass scene.A former church and theatre, the venue is now called the Sanctuary and was the original home of Godskitchen`s weekly club nights. As well as Godskitchen, The Digbeth Institute / Sanctuary has also played host to famous club nights such as Atomic Jam, Uproar, Slinky, Sundissential, Athletico, Ramshackle and Panic. Many influential hip hop artists performed at Digbeth Institute including Redman and Keith Murray.The venue is currently closed after it's purchase by the Barfly group and is due to re-open in summer 2009 after a full refurbishment.Designed by Arthur Harrison, it was officially opened January 16, 1908 by the wife of the Pastor of Carrs Lane Church, John Henry Jowett, as an institutional church attached to Carr's Lane Congregational Church. In the week that followed, it hosted a variety of acts. The area which surrounded it was predominantly slums and industrial.In 1954, the building was put up for sale by the trustees as they felt the building was not needed for its originally intended use. It was bought by Birmingham City Council in 1955 for £65,000 and was used as a civic hall.The exterior is a mixture of red brick and grey terracotta. The grey terracotta forms the more ornate features of the façade including the three towers, the 1.65 metre tall allegorical figures and the window and door frames. The allegorical figures are believed to be the work of John Evans, the chief modeller for Gibbs & Canning. The drawings of the building by Arthur Harrison do not include the figures, indicating that these were probably added in 1909. The building is Grade B locally listed.People known to have made speeches at the Digbeth Institute include Neville Chamberlain, Henry Usborne, Florence L. Barclay and Herbert Hensley Henson.In 1987, the building was used as a film studio by the Birmingham Film and Video Workshop for the Channel 4 film 'Out Of Order'. The venue later appeared onscreen again, when it played a part as one of the main locations in the feature film 'Lycanthropy', filmed in 2005-2006.Birmingham locally listed pdf file |
| 撮影日 | 2010-02-20 10:58:28 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.013 sec (1/80) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 20 mm |