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Thursday, February 16, 2006

 

Winthrop Street (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line station)

The Winthrop Street New York Subway station in Brooklyn has standard mosaics and old signs to the Downstate Medical Center. It has no cross over or cross under. The southbound fare control is ten steps up from the platform while northbound fare control is at platform level. Mosaic directional signs to Winthrop Street also exist northbound.

The station opened August 23, 1920.



Tuesday, February 14, 2006

 

James Tibbits Willmore

James Tibbits Willmore (1800-1863), English line engraver, was born at Bristnal's End, Handsworth, near Birmingham, in September of 1800.

At the age of fourteen Willmore was apprenticed to William Radcliffe, a Birmingham engraver, and in 1823 he went to London and was employed for three years by Charles Heath. He was afterwards engaged upon the plates of Brockedon's Passes of the Alps and Turner's England and Wales. He engraved after Chalon, Leitch, Stan-field, Landseer, Eastlake, Creswick and Ansdell, and especially after Turner, from whose Alnwick Castle by Moonlight, The Old Temeraire, Mercury and Argus, Ancient Rome, and the subjects of the rivers of France, he executed many admirable plates. He was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy in 1843. He died on the 12th of March 1863.


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