Broadway Tower

Ai_Mi, on July 10, 2007, said:

Nice building, nice photo too! Whats for functions for this house (tower) now? Hotel, restaurant, museums? Thank You - a

Matthew Walters, on July 10, 2007, said:

Hi Ainars. The building is really now just a tourist attraction, Broadway and the Cotswolds are very popular with visitors.

The ground floor houses a small souvenir shop (a small shop that sells souvenirs, rather than a shop that sells small souvenirs :) )

The next two floors house exhibits about the building, and the top floor is an open viewing platform.

Ai_Mi, on July 10, 2007, said:

Thank You for explanations! It looks very attractive and rises high interest to come one day and see this with my eyes! I just guess, this must be part of medieval castle or something from Roman empire times. I will try look over internet resources for more info on this. :) With regards a

p.s. By the way - if you been there and photographed this, then no doubths, You spent another great weekend time, isn't ? ;-)

Matthew Walters, on July 10, 2007, said:

Yes, we actually had good weather this weekend, this photo was taken on Sunday.

You can read more about Broadway Tower here

Matthew Walters, on July 10, 2007, said:

And something about Broadway in general here

Ai_Mi, on July 10, 2007, said:

Really appreciated for Your efforts! Thank You indeed for links! (will read a lot tomorrow) :) ainars

Dann Cianca, on July 10, 2007, said:

Fantastic!!

Dann.

Matthew Walters, on July 11, 2007, said:

Thanks Dann. You could probably tell from the cloud formation that rain soon followed...

magic surf bus, on July 11, 2007, said:

Matthew: (Correction) Would this image be of use to you and others? If not, let me know and I'll delete this message.

Matthew Walters, on July 11, 2007, said:

No problem - I've uploaded it already. I'm really disappointed with the way things have (not) progressed since the Google issue.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy for the Panoramio team (and slightly envious), they have spent many many hours getting the site running and building the Panoramio community. Without this community though, the site would have had no real value - and that is what upsets me the most.

magic surf bus, on July 11, 2007, said:

Thanks Matthew - nice picture by the way!

I tried to mention on the Blog how a community thrives on communication but (ironically) the message was vetoed and not displayed. I know what Jim Royle would have to say about the alleged 'security issue'...

Ai_Mi, on July 11, 2007, said:

I am standing in line with You gentlemans, in your demand!

But again, as IT manager (for my company where I working many years) I can understand Panoramio headoffice team too. User pictures normally resides in one or few main and backup file servers, but forums or blogs normally be saved on IIS servers. Accounts, passwords and settings resides on third group of such servers. Must be complex elephant task to manage all this thoroughly and move all this hardware sets from one office to other. If whole team is busy and overloaded with merge process with Google house, this might be not easy for same team to manage all tasks in time. But absolute, than such time scale overload is not OUR problem at all - that is true! With regards to Mr. Magic Surf Bus and Mr .Matthew - ainars

Matthew Walters, on July 11, 2007, said:

Hi Ainars. I think the main concern is the lack of information from the team, no updates in the blog etc. I did have an email from Eduardo last week that said the forum would be up again this week, but we are still waiting.

By the way, it's funny how words translate - it would be a mammoth task to manage the transition, not an elephant task :) (Thanks for communicating in English, though!)

Ai_Mi, on July 11, 2007, said:

Thank You for update! Well, using word 'elephant' instead of word 'mammoth' is only from me. :( I not used software to speak or write English, I know this language 'a little' because I am IT man. I think this form comes from German language origins? But now I will remember right form of use this word! :D Sometimes situations when use word in different forms in sentences is funny enough. For example - how would you say about strong man? - Man like bear or man like oak-tree? Both forms are popular in languages in neighbor to mine, but mean different, even opposite qualities. :)) Regards - ainars

Sandro BR, on July 12, 2007, said:

Es This photo is very Beautiful. The deep one gave a special touch very. Greetings from Brazil.

Luis Maderuelo, on July 12, 2007, said:

Hi Matthew! Great photo. The clouds are special in order to complement the frame. Excellent shot!

Matthew Walters, on July 12, 2007, said:

Thank you Sandro and Luis. The clouds certainly help, in this case a deep empty blue sky wouldn'r have been as interesting.

redi, on July 13, 2007, said:

building beautiful y foto igual ,besos

Matthew Walters, on July 13, 2007, said:

Thanks redi!

Keith P. Luke, on July 13, 2007, said:

What is the terminal velocity of an unladed swallow?

Matthew Walters, on July 13, 2007, said:

Hi Keith. European or South American?

Rafael (Retrocool), on July 14, 2007, said:

Great photo and interesting history... !

Matthew Walters, on July 15, 2007, said:

Thanks, retrocool.

©Franco Truscello, on August 13, 2007, said:

Fantastic shot, beautiful place. Ciao :)

Matthew Walters, on August 13, 2007, said:

Thank you, badge.

Eszter Bollók, on August 30, 2007, said:

Matthew this picture ... wwwwwaooohhh ... You're very good at photographer ;)

Matthew Walters, on August 30, 2007, said:

Thanks, Eszter!

shil1904, on September 1, 2007, said:

great shot! very nice composition! The dark blue sky makes me curious, did you use a polarizing filter?

Matthew Walters, on September 2, 2007, said:

Thanks shil, yes - you caught me out. This shows how handy a polarizer is, it really brings out the blue sky and the clouds.

Oleg Lomov, on October 11, 2007, said:

Привет, Матвей! :) Фантастика - и здание, и снимок! Приятно смотреть на работы, которые помещаются в Photoshop только для того, чтобы изменить размер изображения :) Спасибо!

Matthew Walters, on October 11, 2007, said:

Спасибо, Олег! Он чувствовать себя хорошим, когда изображение более или менее готовы прямо из камеры.

Epi F.Villanueva, on October 22, 2007, said:

Very nice shot Matthew. Saludos from Spain. Epi

Matthew Walters, on October 22, 2007, said:

Thank you Epi. It is a lovely little 'castle'.

ueda nelson, on April 10, 2008, said:

bonita foto

Matthew Walters, on April 10, 2008, said:

Gracias, ueda

linyan, on November 27, 2008, said:

very very nice shot. amazing. i like it

hardertom, on December 23, 2008, said:

beautiful , clear shoot! greetings from Wainfleet!

© markusino, on December 23, 2008, said:

very interesting tower and romantic place!

Greetings from Slovakia, Marek

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SHORTYPANTS, on December 24, 2008, said:

Know nothing about the tower, just want to find out when Santa is coming to Worcester

Matthew Walters, on December 25, 2008, said:

Thanks hardertom, marek, and shorty - it depends if you've been bad or good.

gljcleeve, on February 8, said:

The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794[3] to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.

salehyar, on March 5, said:

very nice pic. Congratulation for that. Milad Tower Greeting from Iran

Matthew Walters, on March 10, said:

Thank you for your comments, salehyar