Friday My Town – Get High

… with your camera, as in shoot from above.

 

Next to our railway station, there is a high rock.
So I decided to do a bit of climbing…

… On second thought, better use the stairs and path!
But I did go up there, and here’s what I saw:

Looking west: The railway station – and a bit beyond…

And a rainbow in the clouds (cut and enlarged from the photo above) – I actually didn’t see that until I got the photos up on the computer!

Zooming in the buildings on the other side of the tracks.

 

South: There’s the tornado sculpture from the first photo again. To the right is the “travel centre” for the long distance busses. In the background to the left is a school, and to the right a spectacular triangular office building.

 

East: Towards the town centre. You can see both church spires in this photo.

 

Lots of red roofs…

 

… and other colours, too.

 

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The day after I’d been up to the top of the Rock, I thought of another high place I’d never been to with the digital camera. So off I went… up to the old Water Tower.

Built in 1900 and looking like a little fairy tale castle, surrounded by a little park on the top of a hill.

 

  

I’ve been up to the top of the tower once, but it’s not usually open to the public. So the entrance gate is as high as I got this time.

The view downhill towards the town centre.

 

The other side of the hill.

 

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On my way back downtown, I passed the Gustaf Adolf Church which was built around the same time as the water tower…

I’ve never been up in the tower…

… and I didn’t go that high this time either.

But I did go up on the balcony where the big organ is.

▲ Looking down … and looking up ▼

 

 

 

 

 

Friday My Town: Steeples, Spires and Weathervanes

▲ There are two church towers in my town (Borås) which can be seen from various places in the city. One of them in the background to the right, and reflected in the river. The curved building to the left is an old textile factory. This is an old textile industry area.

Caroli church is from the 17th century and is the oldest building in town, the only one that (with some repairs) stood through three major town fires in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

▲ Seen from the town square, with a cinema in the foreground.

▲ At the beginning of the 20th century, as the town kept growing, another church was built ▼

▲ Gustav Adolf’s Church ▼

 

▲ This belltower belongs to the old wooden church that now resides in our Open Air Museum (originally it was built somewhere else) ▼

And below a modern bell-tower belonging to a church in a suburban area that arose in the 1960’s. Fitting right in with with all the grey concrete apartment buildings… ▼

There are several proud old buildings in town with towers and turrets and weathervanes and whatnots without being churches. ▼

▲ This one is known as “The Palace”. It’s an apartment building.

▲ A financial palace (a bank)

▲ Hotel or apartments or both, not sure.

▲ Shops on the ground floor. Not sure if offices or apartments upstairs.

Another old factory – now a bank. They do like their towers!

▲ Electricity company. Like to think they’re powerful, too! (haha)

 

▲ Old railway station from 1863, nowadays offices.
▼ In 1894 another railway station was built, still used as such.

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