Grid Square Map

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The city itself has been well-planned. Designed by Vidyadhar, it was built in the form of a rectangle divided into blocks, with roads and avenues running parallel to their sides. The layout of the streets was based on a mathematical grid of seven squares representing the ancient Hindu map of the universe with the sacred Mount Meru, home of Lord Shiva, occupying the central square. Thus, the palace rests in the central grid and the rest of the grids cut across neatly by wide lanes which divide the area into tidy, well laid out rectangles for commercial and residential use. A high crenellated wall runs round it as a form of defense and is pierced with seven gateways that serve as entry points. But today, the city has outgrown its walls and continues to grow. Singh Pol, a typically Hindu square gatehouse with delicate balconies supported by ornate bracket, has large bronze double doors. It leads into a pretty courtyard where frilly white arches on salmon pink walls are 18th century Rajput decorations. But the Diwan-I-Khas in the centre is strictly Mughal in style. It is situated on a raised platform which gives it an imposing effect. It is simple in design with a pink base and has white line decorations applied on it. The square pavilion of the Diwan-I-Khas has four small rooms on each corner and lampposts around it. The double columns are made of marble which form cusped arches. To the north-east of the pavilion is a staircase which leads to the baradari on the roof top where the rulers held private durbars. It is surrounded by high walls with jali work which served as a veil for women. One should not miss another important landmark, the silver urns in the mandap. Within its sculpted arches stand two huge sterling silver vessels in which the king carried holy Ganga water to Europe. They have  a massive  height of 160 cm each and have a capacity of 9,000 litres. Guinness Book of Records lists them as the largest silver vessel in the world. The art gallery in the erstwhile Diwan-I-Aam has a well preserved painted ceiling on which original semi-precious stones still retain their lustre. Suspended from the ceiling is a huge chandelier made of crystal. The exhibits also include miniature paintings of Rajasthani, Mughal and Persian schools featuring religious themes, mainly scenes from the Indian epics.

Photos for HER - GeoGraph - photograph every grid square

Heritage professionals in Warwickshire County Council maintain the Historic Environment Record: a unified database of listed buildings, registered gardens and landscapes, scheduled ancient monuments — anything with statutory protection. They are running a national pilot of an English Heritage project called 'Imaging our past and our present' (contact christinaevans@warwickshire.gov.uk and see the Announcements forum). The idea is to invite the public to submit photos of the buildings and landscapes that have meaning for them and which they believe should be protected in future. Three workshops/walkabouts have been arranged to offer guidance on photographing this sort of subject, followed by a group shoot, followed by advice on editing and uploading to a Flickr photo stream. Yesterday (Sunday) we met in historic Warwick. There was lots to learn from our photographer-tutor as well as from fellow group members. Then out into the brilliantly sunny, hot and humid afternoon, empowered to be creative and experimental. Like The Table and the Chair* we toddled round and round. We got down on our knees and snapped. Documentary photos? No thanks. I put in a plug for Geograph, which they all seemed unaware of, note. This evening (Monday) we dropped in on the PC suite in Warwick library to make a start on uploading and editing. I think the tooter is setting up a Flickr Group called WarwickshireHER. I now have a Flickr account and am feeling slightly unclean. Windows! Yahoo! Aaarrrggh! But I will persist – you're never too old to learn (67 today: ta-daah! Prime number. Celebrating with some raspberries off the allotment and a bottle of fizz discarded by daughter no.1. Recommended!). Back on track: the second workshop is in Alcester, south Warwickshire, on Sunday 3rd July (compact town on Roman foundations at the confluence of the rivers Alne and Arrow). The third workshop is in Polesworth, north Warwickshire, on Sunday 10th July (depressed, humdrum town centred on mediaeval abbey and the river Anker, in a landscape massively altered by opencast coal mining). Hope to go to both.

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