Vented Wall
The alley that leads down to the back of John’s Place, which has been seen in the last two posts, has this wall on one side.
This is one wall of the restaurant. I was not blasted with hot greasy air when I passed these vents, which is probably reflects well on the menu.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1, m.Zuiko Digital 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens, ISO200, f2.8, 12mm (24mm equivalent), 1/1250th
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burnt embers 
One can almost count the number of assaults and repairs that this wall has suffered – it bears the scars. And no doubt in ten years time there will be more scars!
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Yes indeed. The most recent one looks like it is that plastic vent pipe – I wonder what that is for – plumbing stack or dishwasher or just a mouse trap. But a long history of changes, and it did not even have windows on this wall.
I also like the row of little metal tie-rod ends that are holding the building, or at least a floor, from falling.
I don’t think I would want to be near this wall when a large earthquake hits, inside or outside the building.
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A disconcerting perspective, Ehpem – hard to know whether the image is right side up or upside down, very ambiguous!
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Thank you Lynn. I cropped the bottom off (you can just see a line of stone from the foundation) because the bottom of the foundation it slopes down the hill, and it did not work with this shot. I think doing that really detached it from the ground, which is a nice effect.
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Some pretty wild brickwork.. 🙂
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Hi Adrian,
It is a bit of haphazard brick laying, probably typical of the area in the 1800s when there was likely a skills shortage in this small and quite remote place.
The interesting thing that I just remembered, thinking about your comment and when this building would have been built, is that it belonged to a photographer couple in the 1890’s, Hannah and Richard Maynard. I think they even built it around 1895, it was their third studio. Hannah Hatherly Maynard is quite well known for her experiments with double exposures and other techniques, was born in Bude, Cornwall. Why did it take a comment all the way from Cornwall to trigger this memory? There is a book about Hannah, and quite a few of her and Richard’s photographs can be seen on-line. Richard was more of a landscape photographer and took some very important photographs of the First Nation’s villages up and down the Northwest Coast, images I have used in my professional life as an archaeologist.
Thanks for your comment – the cascade of memory it somehow triggered has very neatly tied together a whole bunch of things in my life, and that is without considering that I have been eating at John’s Place, which has occupied the Maynard building, for 3 decades (good food, in other words).
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Here is the BC Archives summary history of Hannah. The second photo shows this building – the wall in question is between the studio and the low building (now gone and an alley way instead) to the left.
This is the BC Archives brief biography of both of them.
Here is the RCS entry for the two of them.
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