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As we waitied in the Down lie-by with Black 5 45305 on a freight train for Loughborough, Great Western Railway 2-8-0 3850 passed on the Up line, light engine to Rothley to pick its freight train.
Once upon a time, I guess Kingsnorth was a small leafy village, set in loamy countryside, rarely visited. Indeed this is what Hasted suggests.
Set a mile or two outside Ashford, all was calm and peaceful until the railways came to Ashford and the town grew and grew.
In the 21st century, Kingsnorth is found from the main road into the town centre, along a busy road to where the old village pub still sits. And opposite is the start of Church Hill, at the top, not surprisingly, sits the church.
Inbetween now is a large and modern housing estate, and beside the church, a busy school, even busy on a Saturday morning due to football practice and the fleet of MPVs and Soccer Moms taking their darlings for a kickabout.
It is the modern way, after all.
St Michael sits quietly next door to the school, the end of a footpath leading to another housing development on the Brenzett road, were an old friend once had a house. And I can remember him leading us on a walk over the fields through clouds of Gatekeepers where we found, as today, the church open.
I took a few shots then, but am back now to complete the task.
First highlight was the 17th century graffiti in the porch.
In truth it is a small and simple church, mostly clear what looks like modern glass, though a single panel of ancient glass is in one of the north have windows and a single panel of wall painting on the side of the north chancel arch.
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KINGSNOTH,
THE next parish south-eastward is Kingsnoth, sometimes called Kingsnode, and by Leland written Kinges-snode.
THIS PARISH is so obscurely situated as to be but little known, the soil in it is throughout a deep miry clay; it is much interspersed with woodlands, especially in the south-east part of it, the whole face of the country here is unpleasant and dreary, the hedge rows wide, with spreading oaks among them; and the roads, which are very broad, with a wide space of green swerd on each side, execrably bad; insomuch, that they are dangerous to pass except in the driest time of summer; the whole of it is much the same as the parishes adjoining to it in the Weald, of which the church, which stands on the hill nearly in the middle of the parish, is the northern boundary, consequently all that part of it southward is within that district. There is no village, the houses standing single, and interspersed throughout it At no great distance eastward from the church is the manor house of Kingsnoth, still called the Park-house, the antient mansion, which stood upon a rise, at some distance from the present house, seems from the scite of it, which is moated round, to have been large, remains of Mosaic pavement, and large quantities of stone have been at times dug up from it. South-eastward from the church is Mumfords, which seems formerly to have been very large, but the greatest part of it has been pulled down and the present small farm-house built out of it; westward from the church stands the court-lodge, now so called, of East Kingsnoth manor, it is moated round, and seems likewise to have been much larger than it is at present, and close to the western boundary of the parish is the manor-house of West Halks, which has been a large antient building, most probably of some consequence in former times, as there appears to have been a causeway once from it, wide enough for a carriage, which led through the courtlodge farm towards Shadoxhurst, Woodchurch, and son on to Halden, remains of which are often turned up in ploughing the grounds. In the low grounds, near the meadows, is the scite of the manor of Moorhouse, moated round. The above mansions seem to have been moated round not only for defence, but to drain off the water from the miry soil on which they were built, which was no doubt the principal reason why so many of the antient ones, in this and the like situations were likewise moated round. There is a streamlet, which rises in the woods near Bromley green, and slows along the eastern par to this parish northward, and joining the Postling branch of the Stour near Sevington, runs with it by Hockwood barn and under Alsop green, towards Ashford. Leland in his Itinerary says, vol. vii. p. 145, "The river of Cantorbury now cawled Sture springeth at Kinges Snode the which standeth sowthe and a lytle by west fro Cantorbury and ys distant of Cant. a xiiii or xv myles."
THE ROYAL MANOR OF WYE claims paramount over this parish. The lord of that manor, George Finch Hatton, esq. of Eastwell, holds a court leet here for the borough of East Kingsnoth, which claims over this parish, at which a borsholder is yearly appointed; subordinate to which is THE MANOR OF KINGSNOTH, which in early times was the residence of a family to which it gave name, who bore for their coat armour, as appeared by seals appendant to their antient deeds, Ermine, upon a bend, five chevronels; and John de Kingsnoth, who lived here about the latter end of king Edward I. sealed with that coat of arms; yet I find that Bartholomew de Badlesmere, who was attainted about the 17th year of king Edward II had some interest in this manor, which upon his conviction escheated to the crown, and remained there until Richard II. granted it to Sir Robert Belknap, the judge, who had, not long before, purchased that proportion of this manor which belonged to the family of Kingsnoth, by which he became possessed of the whole of it; but he being attainted and banished in the 11th year of that reign, that part which had belonged to Badlesmere, and was granted by the king to Sir Robert Belknap, returned again to the crown, a further account of which may be seen hereafter. (fn. 1) But the other part of this estate, which belonged to the family of Kingsnoth likewise, henceforward called the manor of Kingsnoth, which seems to have been the greatest part of it, on the petition of Hamon Belknap his son to parliament, to be enabled in blood and lands to his father, notwithstanding the judgement against him, was restored to him, and he was found by inquisition to die possessed of it in the 7th year of king Henry VI. Soon after which I find Sir Thomas Browne, of Beechworth castle, treasurer of the king's houshold, to have become possessed of it; for in the 27th year of that reign, he obtained licence for a fair in this parish, on the feast of St. Michael, and that same year he had another to embattle his mansion here and to inclose a park, and for freewarren in all his demesne lands within this manor; and in a younger branch of his descendants this manor continued down to Richard Browne, esq. of Shingleton, in Great Chart, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Andrews, of Lathbury, in Buckinghamshire, and dying soon after the death of king Charles I. Elizabeth, their only daughter and heir, carried it in marriage to Thomas, lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh, who afterwards alienated it again to Andrews, in which name it continued till Alexander Andrews, executor and devisee of William Andrews, in 1690, conveyed this manor, with the farm called the Park, the manor of Morehouse, and other lands in this parish, being enabled so to do by act of parliament, to the company of haberdashers of London, as trustees, for the support of the hospital at Hoxton, commonly called Aske's hospital, in whom they are now vested. There is not any court held for this manor.
THE OTHER PART of the above-mentioned estate, which had formerly belonged to the family of Badlesmere, and had escheated to the crown on the attainder of Bartholomew de Badlesmere in the 17th year of king Edward II. remained there until Richard II. granted it to Sir Robert Belknap, on whose attainder and banishment in the 11th year of that reign it returned again to the crown, whence it seems, but at what time I have not found, to have been granted to the abbot and convent of Battel, in Sussex, by the name of THE MANOR OF EAST KINGSNOTH, together with the manors of West Kingenoth, in Pluckley; Morehouse, in this parish; and Wathenden, in Biddenden, lately belonging to that monastery, in as ample a manner as the late abbot, or any of his predecessors had possessed them, (fn. 2) and they continued part of the possessions of it till its dissolution in the 30th year of Henry VIII. when they came into the hands of the crown, where they staid but a short time; for the king that year granted these manors to Sir Edw. Ringsley for his life, without any rent or account whatsoever; and four years afterwards the king sold the reversion of them to Sir John Baker, one of his council, and chancellor of the first fruits and tenths, to hold in capite by knight's service. He died in 1558, possessed of this manor, with the advowson of the church of Kingsnoth, and the manors of West Kingsnoth and Morehouse, held in capite, in whose descendants the manor of East Kingsnoth, with the advowson of the church, descended down to Sir John Baker, bart. who, in the reign of king Charles I. passed it away by sale to Mr. Nathaniel Powell, of Ewehurst, in Sussex, and afterwards of Wiarton, in this county, who was in 1661 created a baronet; and in his descendants it continued down to Sir Christopher Powell, bart. who died possessed of it in 1742, s.p. leaving his widow surviving, whose trustees sold this manor and advowson, after her death, to Mrs. Fuller, widow of Mr. David Fuller, of Maidstone, attorney-at-law, who in 1775 devised them by will to her relation William Stacy Coast, esq. now of Sevenoke, the present owner of them. There is not any court held for this manor.
MUMFORDS, as it is now called, though its proper and more antient name is Montfort's, is a manor in this parish, which was once the residence of the family of Clerc, written in antient deeds le Clerc, and afterwards both Clerke and Clarke, in which it continued till about the latter end of the reign of king Edward I. when Henry le Clerc leaving no issue male, Susan his daughter and heir carried it, with much other inheritance, in marriage to Sir Simon de Woodchurch, whose descendants, out of gratitude for such increase of fortune, altered their paternal name from Woodchurch to Clerke, and in several of their deeds subsequent to this marriage, were written Clerke, alias Woodchurch. They resided at Woodchurch till Humphry Clerke, esq. removed hither in Henry VIII.'s reign. (fn. 3) His son Humphry Clerke, about the end of queen Elizabeth's reign, sold this manor to John Taylor, son of John Taylor, of Willesborough, who afterwards resided here. His son John Taylor, gent. of Winchelsea, alienated it, about the beginning of king Charles I.'s reign, to Edward Wightwick, gent. descended of a family originally of Staffordshire, who bore for their arms, Argent, on a chevron, argent, between three pheons, or, as many crosses patee, gules, granted in 1613. He afterwards resided here, as did his descendants, till at length Humphry Wightwick, gent. about the beginning of king George II.'s reign removed to New Romney, of which town and port he was jurat, in whose descendants this manor became afterwards vested in several undivided shares. At length Mr. William Whitwick, the only surviving son of Humphry, having purchased his mother's life estate in it, as well as the shares of his brother Martin's children, lately sold the whole property of it to Mr. Swaffer, the present possessor and occupier of it.
WEST HALKS, usually called West Hawks, is a manor, situated near the western bounds of this parish, being held of the manor of Kenardington; it formerly was the residence of a family of the name of Halk, who bore on their seals a fess, between three bawks, and sometimes only one, and were of no contemptible account, as appears by old pedigrees and writings, in which they are represented as gentlemen for above three hundred years. Sampson de Halk, gent. died possessed of this manor about the year 1360, and held besides much other land at Petham and the adjoining parishes; but about the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, this manor had passed from this family into that of Taylor, in which name it continued till the latter end of king Henry VII. when it was alienated to Clerc, whose descendant Humphry Clerke, esq. about the end of queen Elizabeth's reign, passed it away to Robert Honywood, esq, of Charing, who settled it on his fourth son by his second marriage Colonel Honywood. How long it continued in his descendants, I cannot learn; but it has been for some length of time in the name of Eaton, of. Essex, Mr. Henry Eaton being the present owner of it.
Charities.
HUMPHRY CLARKE, gent. of this parish, left by will in 1637, a parcel of land, called Pightland, containing about three acres, in the eastern part of this parish, for the benefit of the poor of it.
MRS. ELIZABETH MAY, in 1721, gave by will 9l. every third year, chargeable on Bilham farm, to be paid, clear of all deductions, to this parish in turn, during a term of years therein mentioned, to be applied yearly towards the binding out a child an apprentice, of the poorest people in three parishes in turn, as has been already mentioned more at large under Sevington. One girl only has as yet been put out apprentice from this charity, by this parish.
The number of poor constanly relieved are about twentyfive, casually twelve.
KINGSNOTH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is small, consisting only of one isle and one chancel, having a square tower steeple at the west end, in which are five bells. In the isle is an antient gravestone, coffin-shaped, with old French capitals round it, now illegible. In the chancel is a stone, with an inscription on it in brass, for Thomas Umfrey, rector, no date; and a monument for Thomas Reader, A. M. son of Thomas Reader, gent. of Bower, in Maidstone, obt. 1740. Against the north wall is the tomb of Humphry Clarke, esq. made of Bethersden marble, having the figures of him and his wife remaining in brass on it, and underneath four sons and five daughters. Over the tomb, in an arch in the wall, is an inscription to his memory, set up by his daughter's son Sir Martin Culpeper, over it are the arms of Clarke, Two pales wavy, ermine, impaling Mayney. In the glass of the south window of the isle are several heads remaining, and in the north-west window the figure of St. Michael with the dragon. The north chancel fell down about thirty years ago. It belonged to the manor of Mumfords, and in it were interred the Wightwicks, owners of that manor; the gravestones of them, nine in number, yet remain in the church-yard, shut out from the church; and on one next to theirs, formerly within this chancel, is the figure of a knight in armour, with a lion under his feet, and an inscription in brass, for Sir William Parker, son of William Parker, esq. citizen and mercer of London, obt. 1421; arms, On a fess, three balls.
The advowson of the rectory of this church was formerly parcel of the possessions of the priory of Christ-church, and at the dissolution of it in the 31st year of Henry VIII. came into the king's hands, where it remained till that king in his 34th year, granted it in exchange, among other premises, to archbp. Cranmer, (fn. 4) who did not keep it long; for four years afterwards, he reconveyed it, with the consent of his chapter, back again to the king, (fn. 5) who soon afterwards granted it to Sir John Baker, one of his council, and chancellor of his first-fruits and tenths, who died possessed of the manor of East Kingsnoth, together with the advowson of this church, in the year 1558, in whose descendants it continued down to Sir John Baker, bart. who in the reign of king Charles I. alienated it, with that manor, to Mr. Nathaniel Powell. Since which this advowson has continued in the like succession of ownership with that manor, as may be seen more fully in the account of it before, to the present patron of it, William Stacy Coast, esq. now of Sevenoke.
There was formerly a pension of forty shillings payable from this church to the abbot of Battel.
¶This rectory is valued in the king's books at 11l. 9s. 9½d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 2s. 11¼d. In 1578 it was valued at sixty pounds, communicants one hundred. In 1640 it was valued at fifty pounds only, and there were the like number of communicants. It is now worth about one hundred and forty pounds per annum. The rector takes no tithes of wood below the hill southward. There are about seventeen acres of glebe land.
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There has been a Church in Kingsnorth from Saxon Times but the present building probably dates from the 11thC. There are examples of 13thC and 14thC stained glass remaining in some of the windows. The chancel was rebuilt in the 18thC following a storm and the two side chapels were demolished at this time. Major restoration was carried out in the 19thC at which time the stained glass in the East Window was installed. At this time and again in the 1920s work was carried out to try and cure the problem of rising damp due to the high water table. In 2006 major restoration was once again required and in addition to repairs to the tower and external stonework it was decided that an extension would be built on the site of the old chantry chapel on the north side of the building and that the interior of the church would be re-ordered. This involved digging out the interior of the church and laying a new suspended floor to try and cure the problem of the rising damp (This has been largely successful). The old pews and choir stalls were replaced with modern stackable pews to enable a more flexible use of the space, new lighting and a new heating system was installed. This has resulted in a light airy user friendly building. At the back of the church a glass screen was erected forming a separate area. This provides a space where parents can take their children if they become restless during the services. The ground floor of the extension consists of a large meeting room with kitchenette plus toilet. On the first floor there is a choir vestry and church office. There are currently plans to install a second toilet on this floor. On the second floor there is a further small meeting room and a store room.
As late as 1966, I remember visiting a friend who lived on Carroll Boulevard when it was a sleepy little suburban street, not different from many others. A couple of years later I was on a city grounds crew helping clear things out, and when I returned from college in 1974, Carroll was a half completed masterpiece. It wasn't until later in the 1970's that the street as we know it was completed. It was eventually connected to Center Street, being pushed shrough a block near Piner Street. That was connected to what was Fort Worth Drive. Check various city maps--including the SANDBORN MAPS on line for the history of Carroll Boulevard. PS: This could have been taken in October of 2011, but I don't think so.
May Day at Audley End
Roll up, roll up and see May Day fun as it used to be!
Enjoy our Victorian side shows and brass band, and marvel at our incredible displays of Victorian falconry. Then watch as your little ones learn circus skills or take part in a play. All of which, coupled with the spectacular house and grounds at Audley End, is sure to make this a day out to remember for all the family!
Enjoy a great day out at one of England’s grandest stately homes; Audley End House.
The doors of our restored historic stables recently opened, complete with resident horses and a Victorian groom. Our stables experience includes an exhibition where you can find out about the workers who lived on the estate in the 1880s, the tack house and the Audley End fire engine. Try our dressing up clothes in the stables and meet our horses, Duke and Jack, too.
Children can let loose in our fun themed play area next to our Cart Yard Café which is always very popular with visitors.
Audley End House itself is a magnificent house, built to entertain royalty, and includes a Victorian Service Wing complete with kitchen, laundries and a dairy.
With beautiful grounds to explore, including an impressive formal garden and the working Organic Kitchen Garden, there’s so much to see and do at Audley End House.
Originally adapted from a medieval Benedictine monastery, the house and gardens at Audley End were amongst the largest and most opulent in Jacobean England. Today Audley End is set in a tranquil landscape with stunning views across the unspoilt Essex countryside. Visitors can enjoy the painstakingly restored parterre with its eye-catching bedding scheme and a walled kitchen garden run entirely on organic principles. It's possible to see elements of English gardening on a grand scale at Audley End carried out by the most influential designers of the day such as Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
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The Fort of San Antón, known locally as Castle St. Anton (in Spanish, Castillo de San Antón), located in the town and city of A Coruña, A Coruña province, autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
This fort was started in the sixteenth century on a small island in the center bay of A Coruña, as a complement to defend the port city, crossing fire with Fort Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Castillo) and the Fort of San Diego ( Castillo de San Diego).
History
On this island, the entrance to the port of Corunna, rose from the late Middle Ages, a chapel under the invocation of San Antón, where confining sailors suffering from a disease known as "fire of San Antón." It was used later as lazaretto.
The 16th century fort
In 1528 the island of San Antón was chosen as the site for the construction of a fortress.
The Fratín engineer, inspector of fortifications of Philip II of Spain, endorsed the location and the sovereign authorized the start of construction, the position of lieutenant engineer Pedro Rodríguez Muñíz, professor of mathematics at the Royal Academy, who was in the service of Galicia-Captain General Marquis de Cerralbo.
According to an inscription on the epigraphic Gate Arms, the works began in 1587. Documentation refers coeval reuse, in his works, the stone stairs outside, damaged, the Tower of Hercules. It was also reused some of the old stone medieval city.
In retaliation to the organization of Armada, which departed that port in 1588, the city was attacked by Francis Drake in May 1589, which led to discontinuation of the works. The fort, garrisoned by two companies and some armed with artillery pieces, took an active part in defending the southern flank of the old city.
In 1590 the king ordered the architect Tiburcio Spanochi that continuation of the works, thus coming to be completed later that same year, the barracks, the tank and tower defense gate arms.
The work lasted even during much of the seventeenth century, a period in which the strong, still under construction, had to cope with the harassment of the fleet of the Archbishop of Bordeaux (1639). The crossfire of artillery fort with the San Diego (now gone) once again played an important role in the defense.
The reform of the eighteenth century
The fort has undergone an extensive renovation from 1777 aiming settled on their premises, the Army Corps of Engineers. We just built a low battery, a small harbor, a chapel and the Governor's House.
Nineteenth century to the present day
Since the beginning of the eighteenth century to the twentieth century strong dependencies served as a prison, for having gone there illustrious personages as Field Marshal Juan Díaz Porlier, General Villaroel, Malaspina and Melchor Macanaz.
In the context of the Peninsular War, when the Spanish War of Independence, the strongest part of the battle of Elviña (16 January 1809), in which died two generals, the commander of the forces of Great Britain, Lieutenant General Sir John Moore, and Brigadier-Gaulois French Manigaul Ives.
In the 1940s the island was connected to land by a landfill.
In 1960 the property was transferred by the Department of the Army to the county Coruña, to house a museum. The work for installation began in 1964, with the work carried out by Pons Sorolla.
The set was classified as Historic-Artistic Monument by Decree of 22 April 1949 and since 1994 was classified as a Cultural Monument to the category of
Character
The strong organic polygonal features (adapted to the terrain), Italian-inspired.
The entrance is defended by Santa Barbarian excavated in the rock. The gate is surmounted by the arms of the Empire, with the Golden Fleece Governor Marquis of Cerralbo and the Holy Office.
Crossing to the gate, he entered into the parade ground defended by curtains lateriais where are the vaulted casemates that currently are used as exhibition space.
The upper part is accessed by a wide ramp. Left opens the access to the tank where rain water is collected through a pipe system. Here also opens the pit, which directly accesses the cistern. In extremiidade oriented laughed, opens up a platform for starring artillery, which retain some old cannons, and watchtowers.
The Governor's House, built during the reform of the late eighteenth century is the work of Antonio López Sopeña engineer who designed a mansion in the neoclassical style. It is divided into two floors, with the lower and upper designed to barracks divided between two rooms and the chapel under the invocation of the Virgin of the Rosary, patroness of the city. The rooftop terrace is accessed by a narrow spiral staircase.
Português
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelo_de_Santo_Ant%C3%B3n
O Forte de San Antón, conhecido localmente como Castelo de Santo Antón (em língua espanhola, Castillo de San Antón), localiza-se na cidade e município de Corunha, na província da Corunha, comunidade autónoma da Galiza, na Espanha.
Este forte foi iniciado no século XVI, em uma pequena ilha no centro baía de A Coruña, como complemento da defesa do porto da cidade, cruzando fogos com o Forte de Santa Cruz (Castillo de Santa Cruz) e com o Forte de San Diego (Castillo de San Diego).
Historia
Nesta ilhota, à entrada do porto de Corunha, erguia-se, desde o final da Idade Média, uma capela sob a invocação de San Antón, onde se confinavam os navegantes portadores de uma doença conhecida como "fogo de San Antón". Foi utilizada, posteriormente, como lazareto.
Forte Seiscentista
Em 1528 a ilha de San Antón foi escolhida como local para a construção de uma fortaleza.
O engenheiro Fratín, inspector de fortificações de Filipe II de Espanha, referendou o local e o soberano autorizou o início das obras, a cargo do alferes engenheiro Pedro Rodríguez Muñíz, professor da Real Academia de Matemáticas, que se encontrava na Galiza a serviço do Capitão-general marquês de Cerralbo.
De acordo com uma inscrição epigráfica sobre o Portão de Armas, as obras iniciaram-se em 1587. Documentação coeva refere o reaproveitamento, em suas obras, da pedra da escada exterior, danificada, da Torre de Hércules. Foi reaproveitada ainda a pedra da antiga cerca medieval da cidade.
Em represália à organização da Invencível Armada, que partiu daquele porto em 1588, a cidade foi atacada por Francis Drake em Maio de 1589, o que levou à interrupção das obras. O forte, guarnecido por duas companhias e armado com algumas peças de artilharia, tomou parte activa na defesa do flanco Sul da cidade velha.
Em 1590 o soberano determinou ao arquitecto Tiburcio Spanochi que desse prosseguimento às obras, vindo assim a ser concluídos, ainda naquele mesmo ano, os quartéis de tropa, a cisterna e a torre de defesa do portão de armas.
Os trabalhos prolongaram-se ainda durante boa parte do século XVII, período em que o forte, ainda em obras, teve que fazer face ao assédio da frota do arcebispo de Bordéus (1639). O fogo cruzado da artilharia do forte com a do de San Diego (hoje desaparecido), uma vez mais teve importante papel na defesa.
A reforma do século XVIII
O forte sofreu uma extensa reforma a partir de 1777 visando instalou-se nas suas dependências, o Corpo de Engenheiros do Exército. Foram assim construídas uma bateria baixa, um pequeno ancoradouro, uma capela e a Casa do Governador.
Do século XIX aos nossos dias
Desde o início do século XVIII até ao século XX as dependências do forte serviram como prisão, por ali tendo passado personagens ilustres como o marechal de campo Juan Díaz Porlier, o general Villaroel, Malaspina e Melchor Macanaz.
No contexto da Guerra Peninsular, quando da Guerra da Independência Espanhola, o forte participou da batalha de Elviña (16 de Janeiro de 1809), em que faleceram dois generais: o comandante das forças da Grã-Bretanha, tenente-general Sir John Moore, e o general de brigada francês Ives Manigaul-Gaulois.
Na década de 1940 a ilha foi ligada a terra por meio de um aterro.
Em 1960 o imóvel foi cedido pelo Ministério do Exército ao concelho da Coruña, para albergar um museu. As obras para a sua instalação iniciaram-se em 1964, com os trabalhos a cargo de Pons Sorolla.
O conjunto foi classificado como Monumento Histórico Artístico pelo Decreto de 22 de Abril de 1949 e, desde 1994 passou a ser classificado como Bem de Interesse Cultural com a categoria de monumento
Características
O forte apresenta planta poligonal orgânica (adaptada ao terreno), de inspiração italiana.
A entrada é defendida por Santa Bárbaras escavadas na rocha. O portão é encimado pelas armas do Império, com o Tosão de Ouro do governador marquês de Cerralbo e as do Santo Ofício.
Atravessando-se o portão, ingressa-se no pátio de armas defendido por cortinas lateriais abobadadas onde se situam as casamatas que, actualmente, são utilizadas como espaço de exposição.
A parte alta é acedida por uma ampla rampa. À esquerda abre-se o acesso para a cisterna, onde as águas pluviais são recolhidas por meio de um sistema de canalização. Aqui se abre também o poço, que acede diretamente à cisterna. Na extremiidade orientada para a ria, abre-se uma plataforma estrelada para artilharia, onde se conservam alguns antigos canhões, e guaritas.
A Casa do Governador, erguida quando da reforma de fins do século XVIII é obra do engenheiro Antonio López Sopeña, que desenhou um palacete em estilo neoclássico. Divide-se em dois pavimentos, sendo o inferior destinado a quartel e o superior dividido entre duas habitações e a capela, sob a invocação da Virgem do Rosário, padroeira da cidade. O terraço do edifício é acedido por uma estreita escada em caracol.
Taken as promos for Raven's Way Back Wednesday show at Phoenix, where she will be DJing every week, both in and out of drag.
As we were leaving the History Center florists were busily filling the ballroom and lobby with flowers for an after hours private wedding reception.
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Goizueta Gardens is a 33-acre landscape encompassing nine distinct gardens—including preserved woodland, diverse plant collections, and heritage-breed animals.
Olguita’s Garden: - This ornamental garden is in bloom throughout the year, with a rich tapestry of flowering and foliage plants selected for color, fragrance, texture, and an English garden aesthetic. The garden spans the entire rear façade of the Atlanta History Museum, encompassing an amphitheater for seating. Double borders lead to Neel Reid-designed columns, encircling a reflective water feature. This garden celebrates the life of Goizueta Gardens honoree Olga “Olguita” C. de Goizueta.
Smith Farm Gardens: - Explore a variety of heirloom plants, flowers, and animal breeds at Smith Farm. The landscape represents Smith Farm in its early era, with historic varieties of crops in the fields, the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and a swept yard by the house planted with heirloom flowers such as love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus sp.) and rose campion (Lychnis coronaria). Surrounding the farm’s outbuildings are naturalistic, native plantings. Heritage-breed sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys are representative of the types of livestock found on this type of farm.
Smith Farm tells the story of Georgia farm life and enslavement at Atlanta’s oldest surviving farmhouse. The farm accurately represents a working slaveholding farm of the Atlanta area in the 1860s with historic buildings moved here for preservation. The landscape represents Smith Farm in its early era, with historic varieties of crops in the fields, the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and a swept yard by the house planted with heirloom flowers such as love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus sp.) and rose campion (Lychnis coronaria). Surrounding the farm’s outbuildings are naturalistic, native plantings. Heritage-breed sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys are representative of the types of livestock found on this type of farm.
Entrance Gardens - The Entrance Gardens and 60-foot Tree Table are the newest additions to our campus and span eight acres, welcoming guests all year long.
Inspired by the New Perennial Movement and a desire to create a sustainable urban landscape, this series of unique garden spaces feature sweeping perennial beds and pollinator-attracting plants. Special care has been taken to incorporate and emphasize native plants.
The New Perennial Movement, an evolution of the Dutch Wave and the New American Garden, inspired the Entrance Gardens’ design. Unique amongst the more traditional Atlanta styles including classic boxwood and mixed border aesthetics, this style of garden is meant to emulate the American prairie. Well known examples of the New Perennial Movement in the U.S. include New York City’s High Line and the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
The style is typified by a natural, sweeping color story created by the interwoven placements of mass perennial plantings, with emphasis on grasses. As the gardens grow over the next few years, there will be no bare ground to be seen, creating a seamless landscape. Unlike our usual American habit of tidying up gardens, the Entrance Gardens will not be universally cut back in fall. Instead, plants will be left standing all winter as they would in the wild—encouraging moisture retention in the soil, preventing erosion, and providing habitat for wildlife.
The plant selection and management of this style of garden is rooted in responsible stewardship of the environment. The plants selected do not require extra fertilization or other chemical inputs because they are carefully matched to the variety of soil and light conditions presented in these gardens.
Over half of the 10,000 plants that have been placed in the Entrance Gardens so far are native to Georgia, including uncommon species that deserve wider recognition and use in gardens. Goizueta Gardens staff researched plants that support high numbers of pollinators to be used in large quantities. The result is a garden buzzing with pollinators—which also means it will attract birds who eat insects and rely on insect larvae for their young.
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GALLINERA
Also known as a "Chicken Coop" Bench
FILIPINO
ca. 1880s
A handsome 19th century jack-fruit wood bench. Reeded post construction with slatted under seat storage compartment. Single door with original knob intact. The back rest is also constructed in a similar slatted design. Wonderrful patina throughout.
Dimensions: 58 inches wide x 20 inches deep x 34 inches high
The term "GALINERA" is from the Spanish word Gallo for chicken. According to Philippine furniture oral tradition, this type of bench was placed outside the hacienda owner's office and is used by tenant farmers to stow their live chickens when they came to call on the haciendero to settle their accounts.
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (commercially known as AAMI Park[2]) is an outdoor sports stadium nearing completion on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Australia. Conceived in the unsuccessful 2004 bid for a Super 12 rugby franchise [3], it will host the Melbourne Storm (NRL), Melbourne Rebels (Super 15), and A-League team Melbourne Victory sharing home games with Docklands Stadium.
When finished the stadium will complement Melbourne's existing sporting infrastructure, which has lacked a state of the art, purpose built rectangular stadium. Melbourne's largest stadiums- the MCG, Docklands Stadium and Princes Park although oval shaped and best suited to Australian rules football and cricket, have been preferred to the aging Olympic Park for premier association football (soccer), rugby league and rugby union many times.
The stadium is scheduled to host its first match on 7th May 2010, the rugby league ANZAC Test between Australia and New Zealand.[4]
After being referred to as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium during its construction, the ground was officially named AAMI Park on March 16, 2010, in an eight year sponsorship deal with the insurance firm.[5]
The new stadium will feature a distinctive "Bioframe" design, with a geodesic dome roof covering much of the seating area, whilst still allowing light through to the pitch.
The exterior of the stadium will also be covered in thousands of LED lights, which could be programmed to display a variety of patterns and images, setting it on par with the Beijing National Aquatics Center and Allianz Arena.[6]
The stadium will include training facilities and office accommodation for Melbourne Storm, Melbourne Victory, Melbourne Football Club, the Victorian Rugby Union, the Victorian Olympic Council, Olympic Park Sport Medicine Centre, and Tennis Victoria. The stadium will be used by the Melbourne Demons as their administration headquarters. The team had wanted the stadium completed by 2008 to coincide with its 150th anniversary. It will also house public bars and cafes, 24 corporate boxes, a dining room with a capacity of 1000 people, a gym and lap pool.
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...as I think how much he has grown and matured in 3 years...I recall the first time I saw him...he was the size of a small stuffy. We had 5 minutes to 'oooh and ahhh' and then we were ushered out of the Panda House so the next 100 people could enter.
It grows as a perennial plant, usually as a subshrub though it can take any form from a herbaceous plant to a shrub depending on conditions; the plants are usually woody at the base. The leaves are generally 5–8 cm in length. Their form changes from the bottom to the top of the plant, the lower leaves being petiolate while the upper leaves are sessile. The leaves grow in opposite pairs and are oval or lanceolate in shape. The plant flowers profusely, and though the individual flowers are small (no more than 2 mm), the inflorescences are large and showy. The flowers are small in rounded clusters each with 5 fused petals and a spur. The most typical color is a brick red or purplish red, but colors include deep crimson, pale pink, and lavender. Centranthus ruber 'Albus' (about 10% of individuals) has white blooms. Flowering takes place in early summer and, in cool summer areas, continues sporadically throughout the summer and into fall. The cultivar 'coccineus' is especially long-blooming. The blooms have a strong and somewhat rank scent. They are pollinated by both bees and butterflies and the plant is noted for attracting insects. It is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including angle shades. Seeds have tufts similar to dandelions that allow wind dispersal, and as such can self-seed freely and become invasive if not properly controlled.
Invasive species
It is listed as a NEMBA 1b invasive in the Western Cape, South Africa. It may not be owned, imported, grown, moved, sold, given as a gift or dumped in a waterway.[5][4][6] It requires compulsory control as part of an invasive species control programme to remove and destroy. The plants are deemed to have such a high invasive potential that infestations can qualify to be placed under a government sponsored invasive species management programme. No permits will be issued. Wikipedia
As the light fades away, an array of colors spread across the sky, in a final reminder of its beauty, and without it, there is only darkness...
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"The cottage now known as the FDR summer home was built in 1897 for Mrs. Hartman Kuhn, of Boston, an early guest of Campobello’s resort hotels. Mrs. Kuhn developed a fondness for Eleanor when she and Franklin summered at his mother’s cottage next door. When Mrs. Kuhn died, a provision in her will offered her cottage to FDR’s mother, Sara, at a bargain price ($5000.00). Franklin’s mother purchased the cottage furnished, with two hectares (5 acres) of land in 1909, and when she died, left the cottage to him.
Exhibiting design principles of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the cottage reveals specific references to early American colonial architecture. Principle considerations in the design of summer homes of the era were comfort, orientation to view and to sun, and the picturesque charm so valued by the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Necessaries in the way of size, verandas, and numbers and types of rooms were also important.
Of wood frame construction, the sides of the two-and-a-half story structure are covered with cedar shingles. Originally, the roof, too, was covered with cedar shingles. All the trim is wood. Interiors are finished with lath and plaster, with a generous use of wooden trim for windows, doors, and baseboards.
The design of the house was altered in 1915 when Franklin had a new wing built on to provide additional space for his growing family. The addition blends well with the original design. The cottage is 36 meters long (119') and 10 meters (33') wide, and has seventy-six windows and seven fireplaces. Eighteen of the thirty-four rooms are bedrooms; six are bathrooms.
Franklin, Eleanor, and their growing family spent summers in the cottage from 1909 to 1921. Every summer, the Roosevelts brought a nurse and a governess to tutor and instruct the children, and several servants to run the cottage. In addition, several island residents were hired to help with the daily chores. The interior of the cottage was comfortable, but had neither electricity nor telephone. Aladdin lamps (kerosene) and candles were used throughout the house. Each morning, servants brought kerosene lamps from throughout the house to the back hall where the lamps were filled. Lamp wicks were trimmed and glass chimneys cleaned before the lamps were returned to their original locations.
Running water for bathing, cooking, and cleaning was gravity fed throughout the cottage from storage tanks on the third floor. Outside, a windmill and, when there was no wind, a single-cylinder gas engine pumped water from the well to the holding tank high on the tower. Gravity carried the water from the tower to storage tanks in the cottage attic. The dining room ice crock held drinking water, brought by horse and cart in large bottles from a spring called Barrel Well. A wood box at the bottom of the stairs to the second floor attests to the major source of heat, seven fireplaces. The kitchen stove (coal and wood-fired) also provided warmth.
Although the Roosevelt cottage is interpreted as much as possible as it was in 1920, the period of significance extends from the 1880s to the 1930s, the time span between FDR’s first and last visits to Campobello. Knowledgeable guides stations throughout the cottage provide interpretation and answer questions about the cottage, its historic furnishings, and the Roosevelt family."
As one of the Ebola epicentres, the district of Kailahun, in eastern Sierra Leone bordering Guinea, was put under quarantine at the beginning of August. ECHO expert Cyprien Fabre visited the distrtict which is home to the largest Ebola treatment and isolation centre ever erected. The 88 bed-facility set up by ECHO partner Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is full to capacity. In the same region, another ECHO partner, the Red Cross and its network of volunteers engage in another crucial task, namely social mobilisation, contact tracing and body management. 4 in 10 Ebola sufferers recover from the lethal disease and try to pick what's left of their lives in a region now cordoned off from the world. Photo credits: ©EC/ECHO/Cyprien Fabre
As I was experimenting with the Rebel 2000 and my Yashica TLR, I had several friends moving over to digital. The Canon G1 was all the rage and the G2 was coming out. I swore I would not change. It just didn’t seem right. It was so ‘unclean’. Eventually, I did bite the bullet and got a G1 as it was being phased out. No matter what I was told, this was just a point a shoot camera. A good one, but a point and shoot all the same. I continued to shoot with the film body and used the digital for some kid shots and to tinker with Photoshop at work. Then it happened. The Digital Rebel came out. Andre Agassi was pimping this thing on TV like crazy. I read a bunch about it on photo.net and was convinced it was time to go digital. I sold my G1 at Southeastern and picked up the Digital Rebel body. I intended to shoot digital and film while I honed my skills in Photoshop. I also had to come up with a backup plan for my files. Storing them on CD or just leaving them on my hard drive as my friends were doing was just not acceptable. I may have shot two more rolls of film after I got the digital body. I kept the film in the refrigerator for a few years thinking I would use it. I never did. Eventually I traded the Digital Rebel in for the 20D and never regretted the upgrade. It was with this body I started to upgrade my glass to the L series.
New York, 25 June 2019 –As women’s rights have advanced over the past decades, families around the world have become a place of love and solidarity but also one where fundamental human rights violations and gender inequalities persist, according to UN Women’s new flagship report, “Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World,” published today.
Anchored in global data, innovative analysis and case studies, the report shows the diversity of families around the world and provides robust recommendations to ensure that laws and policies support today’s families and meet the needs of all their members, especially women and girls, with analysis of what it would cost to implement them.
Pictured: Scenes from the High Level Member States launch event held in Conference Room 1 at United Nations Headquarters on the occasion of the launch of UN Women's flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World.
Speakers included: Fernando Filgueira, Senior Researcher at Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Igualdad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC), Argentina, and Associate Researcher at Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay (IESU); Salma Nims, Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women; Ambassador Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations; and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women. The event was chaired by Janet Gornick, Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/progress-of-the-worlds...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
As we go into this Thanksgiving Day I just want to say, I thank God for all his blessings he has giving. And as this year ends and we should be all thankful as we get to enjoy Flickr and all the wonderful images we have enjoyed together!
I finally got to take some shots today. Well, tonight actually. Still not too sure I really like how this turned out.. but it was the best one of the series. I have a couple other shots I took in other places in my yard that I will upload if I decide to. They didn't turn out quite like I wanted them to either lol. And I got some other shots of Christmas lights and such. For this, I was laying on the cold wet road I live on. I had the camera on a tripod with the timer and had the shutter at something I'm not remembering right now. All the light is from Christmas lights on my house and the lights on the garage. I didn't use a flash so I had to lay really still. Like I said, I'm not a huge fan of how this turned out, but its something I suppose haha
thoughts/comments?
I love being a black man:
It’s amazing to be a young black man. who is a black artist. a black singer. a black writer & all the while more than black.
There is so much to me and so much at my feet as a black man and because I’m a black man and despite the fact I’m a black man.
And that to me is fucking beautiful.
~ Joshua Washington 2008
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Strobist Info: 1 sb-800 @1/32 fired above right through white umbrella.
Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris)
The black-shouldered kite (Elanus axillaris) or Australian black-shouldered kite is a small raptor found in open habitat throughout Australia and resembles similar species found in Africa, Eurasia and North America, which have in the past also been named as black-shouldered kites. Measuring 35–38 cm (14–15 in) in length with a wingspan of 80–95 cm (31–37 in), the adult black-shouldered kite is a small and graceful, predominantly pale grey and white, raptor with black shoulders and red eyes. Their primary call is a clear whistle, uttered in flight and while hovering.
Though reported across Australia, they are most common in the south-east and south-west corners of the mainland. Their preferred habitat is open grasslands with scattered trees and they are often seen hunting along roadsides. Like all the elanid kites, it is a specialist predator of rodents, which it hunts singly or in pairs by hovering in mid-air above open land.
Black-shouldered kites form monogamous pairs, breeding between August and January. The birds engage in aerial courtship displays which involve high circling flight and ritualised feeding mid-air. Three or four eggs are laid and incubated for around thirty days. Chicks are fully fledged within five weeks of hatching and can hunt for mice within a week of leaving the nest. Juveniles disperse widely from the home territory.
Taxonomy
The black-shouldered kite was first described by English ornithologist John Latham in 1802, as Falco axillaris. Its specific name is derived from the Latin axilla, meaning "shoulder".
The name "black-shouldered kite" was formerly used for a Eurasian and African species, Elanus caeruleus, with the Australian species, Elanus axillaris, and the North American species, the white-tailed kite Elanus leucurus, treated as subspecies of this. These three Elanus species have comparable plumage patterns and sizes, however, they are now regarded as distinct, and the name black-winged kite is used for E. caeruleus. Modern references to the black-shouldered kite should therefore unambiguously mean the Australian species, E. axillaris. The Australian black-shouldered kite was formerly called E. notatus, but it was not clear that the name applied to this species alone.
In 1851, British zoologist Edward Blyth described Elaninae, the "smooth clawed kites" as a formal subfamily of Accipitridae. However, they are also grouped in Accipitrinae, the broader subfamily of hawks and eagles described by French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816.
A taxonomic proposal based on DNA studies has recommended classifying Elanus kites as a separate family (Elanidae). A 2004 molecular study of cytochrome-b DNA sequences shows them to have split off from typical hawks and eagles at an earlier date than the Osprey, which has been classified in its own family.
Description
Black-shouldered kites are around 35 to 38 cm (14 to 15 in) in length and have a wingspan of between 80 and 95 cm (31 and 37 in) and an average weight of 291 g (10.3 oz). Adults are a very pale grey with a white head and white underparts. The leading edge of the inner wing is black. When perched, this gives them their prominent black "shoulders". They have red eyes, with a black 'comma' that extends behind the eyes. They have a squared tail and a streamlined aerodynamic body. The bill is short with a sharp, hooked tip to the upper mandible. Their nostrils and the cere are bright yellow and the bill is black. The legs and feet are also yellow, and the feet have three toes facing forwards and one toe facing backwards. The sexes are similar, with females only just larger than males, although they can be up to 15% heavier.
The juveniles’ markings follow a similar pattern to adult birds, but they are washed with a rusty brown on the head and upper breast, and the back and wings are mottled buff or brown with prominent white tips. The young birds’ eyes are brown.
The black-shouldered kite is very similar to the related raptor species, the letter-winged kite (E. scriptus) but has the black mark above and behind the eye, a white rather than grey crown, and shows all-white underparts in flight except for the black patch at the shoulder and dark wingtips.
Vocalizations
Black-shouldered kites are generally silent, except in the breeding season when their calls, though weak, can be persistent. They primarily utter clear whistled 'chee, chee, chee' calls in flight and while hovering, or a hoarse wheezing 'skree-ah' when perched. The call has been confused with that of a silver gull. A short high whistle is the primary contact call between a pair, while a harsh scraping call is the most common call used by females and large young, and brooding females call to their young with a deep, soft, frog-like croak.
A variety of different calls have been recorded from captive birds, including harsh, harmonic, chatter and whistle vocalisations. Harsh calls were made when a bird was alarmed or agitated, whistle-type calls were emitted in general contexts, sometimes monotonously, and shorter duration 'chatter' calls were given when a bird sighted a human near the enclosure.
Distribution and habitat
Although reported from almost all parts of Australia, they are most common in the relatively fertile south-east and south-west corners of the mainland, and in south-east Queensland. They are rare in the deep desert and appear to be only accidental visitors to northern Tasmania and the Torres Strait islands. As the species has an extremely large range and the population is increasing, it has been listed as "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened species. Although they are rare vagrants on the islands of Bass Strait and in northern Tasmania, on the Australian mainland they vary from uncommon to common, appearing almost anywhere following rain or the movement of flood waters. In southwestern Australia, they are now one of the most commonly recorded raptors in the wheatbelt.
They are sedentary, or nomadic following food sources. Their numbers fluctuate during drought and floods, and can be irruptive in response to sudden increases in mouse populations. The most distant banding recovery was from South Australia to eastern New South Wales, a distance of 1,000 km (620 mi).
Although found in timbered country, they are mainly birds of the grasslands. They prefer open areas with scattered clumps of trees, including tree-lined watercourses through open country. In urban areas they are found on the edge of towns on wasteland or irregularly mown areas. They also hunt over coastal dunes and drier marshland, and farmland. Black-shouldered kites are most often seen hunting over grassy roadside verges.
European occupation of Australia has, on the whole, benefited black-shouldered kites through land clearing and irrigation for agriculture and grain harvesting and storage practices which provide suitable conditions for much larger numbers of mice. According to raptor researcher Dr Stephen Debus, this species did not suffer from eggshell thinning during the period of DDT use in Australia, though he believes it is possible that secondary poisoning may occur from rodenticides used during mouse plagues or from pesticides used during locust plagues. Populations in areas with high sheep and rabbit numbers may decline, as these animals compact the soil and reduce the available habitat for mice.
Behaviour
Sociality
Black-shouldered kites usually hunt singly or in pairs, though where food is plentiful they occur in small family groups and can be loosely gregarious at times of irruptions, with up to 70 birds reported feeding together during a mouse plague. They roost communally, like other Elanus species.
They are territorial when food is not abundant. The practise of "tail flicking" where, on landing, the tail is flicked up and lowered and the movement repeated persistently is thought to be a possible territorial display. Black-shouldered kites have been observed in aerial combat at the margins of territories, locking talons in a behaviour described as "grappling".
Food and hunting
Black-shouldered kites live almost exclusively on mice, and have become a specialist predator of house mice, often following outbreaks of mouse plagues in rural areas. They take other suitably sized creatures when available, including grasshoppers, rats, small reptiles, birds, and even (very rarely) rabbits, but mice and other mouse-sized mammals account for over 90% of their diet. Their influence on mouse populations is probably significant: adults take two or three mice a day each if they can, around a thousand mice a year. On one occasion, a male was observed bringing no less than 14 mice to a nest of well-advanced fledglings within an hour. In another study, a female kite was seen to struggle back to fledglings in the nest with a three-quarters grown rabbit, a heavy load for such a small bird.
Like other elanid kites, black-shouldered kites hunt by quartering grasslands for small creatures. This can be from a perch, but more often by hovering in mid-air. When hunting the kite hovers with its body hanging almost vertically, and its head into the wind. Unlike the Australian kestrel, the black-winged kite shows no obvious sideways movement, even in a strong breeze. One study of a nesting pair noted that the male searched aerially for 82% of the search time. Typically, a kite will hover 10 to 12 m (33 to 39 ft) above a particular spot, peering down intently, sometimes for only a few seconds, often for a minute or more, then glide swiftly to a new vantage point and hover again. When hunting from a perch, a dead tree is the preferred platform. Like other Elanus kites, The black-shouldered kite grips a vertical branch with a foot on either side, each one above the other and turned inwards, which enables them to maintain a secure footing on relatively small branches. Though hovering is the most common hunting method, the kites have been observed searching the ground beneath a vantage point for periods of up to an hour.
When a mouse or other prey is spotted, the kite drops silently onto it, feet-first with wings raised high; sometimes in one long drop to ground level, more often in two or more stages, with hovering pauses at intermediate heights. Prey is seized in the talons and about 75% of attacks are successful. Prey can either be eaten in flight or carried back to a perch. Birds will have a favoured feeding perch, beneath which accumulate piles of pellets or castings.
They are diurnal, preferring to hunt during the day, particularly in the early morning and mid to late afternoon, and will occasionally hunt in pairs. Their hunting patterns, outside breeding periods and periods of abundant prey, have distinct crepuscular peaks, perhaps corresponding to mouse activity.
Flight
Black-shouldered kites spiral into the wind like a kestrel. They soar with v-shaped up-curved wings, the primaries slightly spread and the tail widely fanned. In level flight progress is rather indirect. Their flight pattern has been described as 'winnowing' with soft steady beats interspersed with long glides on angled wings. They can most often be seen hovering with wings curved and tail pointing down.
Breeding
Aerial courtship displays involve single and mutual high circling flight, and the male may fly around slowly with stiff exaggerated flaps, commonly known as butterfly-flight. Courting males dive at the female, feeding her in mid-flight. The female grabs food from the male's talons with hers while flipping upside-down. They may lock talons and tumble downwards in a ritualised version of grappling, but release just before landing. All courtship displays are accompanied by constant calling.
Black-shouldered kites form monogamous pairs. The breeding season is usually August to January, but is responsive to mice populations, and some pairs breed twice in a good season. Both sexes are involved in building the nest, which is a large untidy shallow cup of sticks usually in the foliage near the top of trees, taking about two weeks to complete the nest-building. The flat nest is built of thin twigs and is around 28 to 38 cm (11 to 15 in) across when newly built, but growing to around 78 cm (31 in) across and 58 cm (23 in) deep after repeated use. The nest is lined with green leaves and felted fur, though linings of grass and cow dung have also been reported.[10] It is generally located in the canopy of an isolated or exposed tree in open country, elevated 5 to 20 m (16 to 66 ft) or more above the ground. Black-shouldered kites have been known to use old Australian magpie, crow or raven nests.
Females perform most of the care of eggs and nestlings, though males take a minor share of incubation and brooding. The clutch consists of three to four dull white eggs of a tapered oval shape measuring 42 mm × 31 mm (1.7 in × 1.2 in) and with red-brown blotches that are often heavier around the larger end of the egg. The female incubates the eggs for 30 days and when the eggs hatch the chicks are helpless but have soft down covering their body. For the first two weeks or so the female broods the chicks constantly, both day and night. The female does no hunting at all for the first three weeks after hatching, but calls to the male from the nest, and he generally responds by bringing food. The female feeds the chicks with the mice brought back to the nest by the male, feeding them in tiny pieces for the first week or two, at which time the chicks are capable of swallowing a mouse whole. The nestling period lasts around 36 days, and the post-fledging period at least 36 days with parental feeding for at least 22 days. When the chicks are older both parents take it in turns to feed them. Black feathers start to appear along the chicks' wings when they are about a fortnight old, and they are fully fledged and are ready to fly in five weeks. Within a week of leaving the nest the young birds are capable of hunting for mice on their own.
Juveniles disperse widely, taking up territory that can be as far as 1,000 km (620 mi) from the nest site.
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As Part of the Queens Diamond Jubilee Celelbrations the Ulster Orchestra under conductor, Stephen Bell. and Soprano Rebekah Coffey appeared in Castle Park Bangor.
Winner of the 2004-2006 Young Artist Platform Scheme, Rebekah Coffey’s career is developing on both the operatic stage and the concert platform.
Rebekah was born in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, and graduated from The Queens University Belfast with a Bachelor of Music First Class and from the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester in June 2003 with a Postgraduate Vocal Diploma. Rebekah musicality has won her a number of prizes including awards from The Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Peter Moores’ Foundation, Doyle Carte Opera and the Lawrence Atwell Charity. Rebekah currently studies singing with Michelle Wegwart.
Since graduating from the RNCM Rebekah has been working in the field of opera. Rebekah has performed roles with Opera North, English Touring Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Opera 2005, Lyric Opera, Castleward Opera, Buxton Festival, and The Belfast Festival at Queens, Aldeburgh Festival, Stowe Opera and Bampton Classical Opera.
In September 2009 Rebekah made her Proms Debut by appearing in the Proms in the Park Celebrations with the Ulster Orchestra at Hillsborough Castle. This concert was broadcast live on BBC 4 and was transmitted later in the year on BBC Northern Ireland. Further debuts in 2010 included Rebekah’s appearance on the BBC Radio 2 Flagship Show Friday Night is Music Night performing an evening of Gilbert and Sullivan music.
Her operatic roles to date includes Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Atalanta (Xerxes) Flora (The Turn of the Screw), Gretel and Sandman/Dew Fairy (Hansel und Gretel), Valetto/Amore (The Coronation of Poppea), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflote), Cecila (Iolanthe), Teobaldo ( Don Carlos), Peaseblossom (A Midsummer Night Dream), Marcellina (Fidelio) and Vespina (Infedelta Delusa).
Recital work includes a recital of songs for the Downpatrick Fringe Festival (2005 and 2007) The Belfast Festival at Queens and the celebrity series at The Queens University Belfast. Her BBC broadcasts include Schubert’s Mass No4 in C for BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship, Berg’s 7 Early Songs with the Ulster Orchestra, a Recital of Song for Radio Ulster, Master Peters Puppet for BBC Radio 3 with the Ulster Orchestra and Sandman/Dew Fairy for Lyric Radio with the RTÈ National Symphony Orchestra. Rebekah has also appeared in concert with the Manchester Camerata performing Bach’s Mass in B minor and a concert performance of Iolanthe with The Hallé Orchestra.
...for Almir and Joselita.
"As Time Goes By"
music and words by Herman Hupfeld
[This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension.
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory.
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax relieve the tension
And no matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed.]
You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.
And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you."
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by.
Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date.
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate.
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny.
It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.
Oh yes, the world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.
© 1931 Warner Bros. Music Corporation, ASCAP
As I understood it, the original owner has long since passed, and now his son runs the business. Renewed patronage since the opening of Boquillas Crossing supplied enough funds for a facelift.
Today didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped, Joe and Ben have been . . . hard work. But we did manage to do some fun stuff.
It's Carnival Day in Weymouth today, basically an excuse for a good ol' fashioned piss-up. The misanthrope in me can't stand it so I always stay well away, but I did take the boys to watch the Red Arrows. Lydia phoned me from work at twenty to twelve to say that they were due on at midday so I had to make a mad dash to pick Ben up from nursery in time to see them!
Me and Joe watched some Tae Kwon Do on the Olympics (it was cool, I used to do Tae Kwon Do and got to green belt before I realised I was crap at fighting! Kinda lost interest after that), played out in the back garden, got the Monopoly board out but didn't actually play it and Joe helped me take this shot.
Me, Joe and Ben watched some Scooby Doo DVDs we got free in a cereal packet while we waited for Lydia to get home and . . . that's been our day! Hard work they may have been but it didn't stop having a lot of fun.
I had this idea for a photo when I was out in the back garden with Joe. There's a bit of the garden that looks really crap (I've used it before on days 6, 17, and 23) and I saw the stabilizers from Joe's bike lying there. As soon as I saw them I thought about the Sarah Conner dream sequence in Terminator, where she's outside that playpark, then the bomb goes off and everything's obliterated? And all that's left is like flaming swings? I thought of that, then remembered The Smashing Pumpkins had a song called Tales of a Scorched Earth from the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. And that gave me the theme for this shot.
I'm not sure that there's enough . . . scorched-ness goin' on, nor is it particularly apocalyptic, but I do like the way Lightroom made it look like it was shot in a studio with expensive lighting! Not sure about the highlights Lightroom picked out in my hair either, it looks like I've got half a kilo of gel slapped on. Oh, and by the way it hurts lying on a floor covered in sharp bits of stone. Especially when you rest your head on one of said stones.
It's very dark but I like that, it makes you look for the detail -and you can view it large by following the link below which is probably the best way to view it.
Today's music is actually one song: Mercury by Bloc Party from their imminent third album Intimacy.
I've pre-ordered the album and digital download, which is being released tomorrow a month before the physical release. I'm really interested to hear where they go next musically, their first album was amazing, all angular guitar riffs and amazing drumming (seriously amazing - the drums turn most of the songs from good to great is how amazing), their second a bit more . . . polished, shall we say, but great nontheless with a lot of great tracks. If you're a Radiohead fan you might like these guys as you can hear the Radiohead influence on this album, particularly in some of the lead breaks.
They released a single in between the second and third albums called Flux which was very dance influenced and their current single Mercury is the same, so what the rest of the album sounds like is anyone's guess. I just hope they haven't dropped the guitars for good and turned into a bloody dance band - bleaurgh! If you're interested you can watch the videos for seven of their previous singles (including Mercury) by clicking here.
Uh . . . really doesn't look very apocalyptic at all large. But I look restful!
As I mentioned in my last photo of Pink Panda Cavey, I took her on an adventure with me last weekend. One of our stops was Hot Pop, my local urban toy shop. I've been wanting to get photos of a Cavey in the shop for a long time because I think they fit right in with the other toys! And sure enough, Pink Panda looked right at home-- as seen in this cute display of plushies for sale. ^^
As already mentioned Merlyn's Coaches,Skewen and G&B Coaches,Llansamlet were of the same family.Merlyn's OAR 70H,a Bedford VAM70 /Duple Viceroy C45F is seen with identical UAY 76H from the G&B fleet at the parking area next to Stadium Garage, Skewen.The Dominant in the picture was Merlyn's UEJ 705N,new to Evans,Penrhyncoch....
As beautiful and exotic as the land she represents, Thai Barbie doll is ready to perform a traditional dance, called the Lacon, in her ceremonial costume. Her headdress resembles a golden Wat (temple). Her shiny green cape has golden and red highlights and her multicolored skirt has a golden belt and sash. She has golden bracelets on each arm and her feet are bare, just like a Thai dancer!
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist is my favourite dedication of any Kent church seen this far. It sits on the side of a down, above the rest of the village, which is what counts as the main road from Newnham to Lenham.
It also sits beside the parkland of Doddington Park, I was told by a local that is well worth a visit to see the gardens.
That the church is largely untouched since the 13th century, the clapboarded tower seems to have a new coast of paint and glistened in the early spring sunshine.
The churchyard seems now to be a nature reserve, or that wildlife is encouraged. So it is carpeted with snowdrops, with Winter Aconites, Primroses and Crocuses all showing well.
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An enchanting church set in a wooded churchyard on the edge of a steep valley. The building displays much of medieval interest due to minimal nineteenth-century interference. The most important feature is the small stone prayer desk next to the westernmost window of the chancel. This window is of the low side variety - the desk proving the window's part in devotional activities. The nearby thirteenth-century lancet windows have a series of wall paintings in their splays, while opposite is a fine medieval screen complete with canopy over the priests' seats. There is also an excellent example of a thirteenth-century hagioscope that gives a view of the main altar from the south aisle, which was a structural addition to the original building. The south chancel chapel belonged to the owners of Sharsted Court and contains a fine series of memorials to them. Most of the stained glass is nineteenth century - some of very good quality indeed. Outside there is a good tufa quoin on the north wall of the nave and a short weatherboarded tower.
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DODDINGTON.
NEXT to that of Linsted south-eastward, is the parish of Doddington, called in the record of Domesday, Dodeham.
THIS PARISH is about two miles across each way, it lies the greatest part of it on the hills on the northern side of the high road leading from Faversham through Newnham valley over Hollingborne hill towards Maidstone. It is a poor but healthy situation, being much exposed to the cold and bleak winds which blow up through the valley, on each side of which the hills, which are near the summit of them, interspersed with coppice woods, rise pretty high, the soil is mostly chalk, very barren, and much covered with slint stones. The village stands on the road in the valley, at the east end of it is a good house, called WHITEMANS, which formerly belonged to the family of Adye, and afterwards to that of Eve, of one of whom it was purchased by the Rev. Francis Dodsworth, who almost rebuilt it, and now resides in it. Upon the northern hill, just above the village, is the church, and close to it the vicarage, a neat modern fashed house; and about a mile eastward almost surrounded with wood, and just above the village of Newnham, the mansion of Sharsted, a gloomy retired situation.
Being within the hundred of Tenham, the whole of this parish is subordinate to that manor.
At the time of taking the above record, which was anno 1080, this place was part of the possessions of Odo, the great bishop of Baieux, the king's half brother; accordingly it is thus entered, under the general title of that prelate's lands:
The same Fulbert holds of the bishop Dodeham. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is . . . . . In demesne there is one carucate and seventeen villeins, with ten borderers having two carucates. There is a church, and six servants, and half a fisbery of three hundred small fish, and in the city of Canterbury five houses of seven shillings and ten pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth ten pounds. The bishop let it to ferm for ten pounds, when Fulbert received it, six pounds, and the like now . . . . . Sired held it of king Edward.
Four years after which the bishop of Baieux was disgraced, and all his effects were consiscated to the crown.
PART OF THE above-mentioned estate was, most probably, THE MANOR OF SHARSTED, or, as it was antiently called Sabersted, the seat of which, called Sharsted-court, is situated on the hill just above the village of Newnham, though within the bounds of this parish.
This manor gave both residence and name to a family who possessed it in very early times, for Sir Simon de Sharsted died possessed of it in the 25th year of king Edward I. then holding it of the king, of the barony of Crevequer, and by the service of part of a knight's see, and suit to the court of Ledes.
Richard de Sharsted lies buried in this church, in the chapel belonging to this manor. Robert de Sharsted died possessed of it in the 8th year of king Edward III. leaving an only daughter and heir, married to John de Bourne, son of John de Bourne, sheriff several years in the reign of king Edward I. whose family had been possessed of lands and resided in this parish for some generations before. In his descendants this estate continued down to Bartholomew Bourne, who possessed it in the reign of Henry VI. in whose descendants resident at Sharsted, (who many of them lie buried in this church, and bore for their arms, Ermine, on a bend azure, three lions passant guardant, or) this estate continued down to James Bourne, esq. who in the beginning of king Charles I.'s reign, alienated Sharsted to Mr. Abraham Delaune, merchant, of London, the son of Gideon Delaune, merchant, of the Black Friars there, who bore for his arms, Azure, a cross of Lozenges, or, on a chief gules, a lion passantguardant of the second, holding in his dexter paw a fleur de lis; which was assigned to him by William Segar, garter, in 1612, anno 10 James I.
He resided at Sharsted, in which he was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William Delaune, who resided likewise at Sharsted, where he died in 1667, and was buried in Doddington church. He was twice married; first to Anne, daughter and only heir of Tho. Haward, esq. of Gillingham, by whom he had an only daughter Anne, heir to her mother's inheritance. His second wife was Dorcas, daughter of Sir Robert Barkham, of Tottenham High Cross, (remarried to Sir Edward Dering) by whom he had a son William, and a daughter Mary, married to colonel Edward Thornicroft, of Westminster.
William Delaune, esq. the son, succeeded to this estate, and was knight of the shire for this county. He died in 1739, s.p having married Anne, the widow of Arthur Swift, esq. upon which it passed by the entail in his will to his nephew Gideon Thornicroft, son of his sister Mary, widow of Edward Thornicroft, esq. by whom she had likewise three daughters, Dorcas, Elizabeth, and Anne. This branch of the family of Thornicroft was situated at Milcomb, in Oxfordshire, and was a younger branch of those of Thornicroft, in Cheshire. John Thornicroft, esq. of London, barrister-at-law, was younger brother of Edward Thornicroft, esq. of Cheshire, and father of John, for their arms, Vert, a mascle, or, between four crasscreated a baronet of August 12, 1701, and of colonel Edward Thornicroft above-mentioned. They bore for their arms, Vert, a mascle, or, between four crosscroslets, argent. Lieutenant-colonel Thornicroft was governor of Alicant, when that fortress was besieged in 1709, and perished there, by the explosion of a mine. (fn. 1)
Gideon Thornicroft, esq. possessed this estate but a small time, and dying in 1742, s.p. and being the last in the entail above-mentioned, he devised it by his will to his mother, Mrs.Mary Thornicroft, who dying in 1744, by her will devised to her two maiden daughters, Dorcas and Anne, this manor and seat, as well as all the rest of her estates, excepting Churchill farm in Doddington, which she gave to her second daughter Elizabeth, who had married George Nevill, lord Abergavenny, who dieds.p. and lady Abergavenny, in her life-time, made a deed of gift of this farm, to her son Alured Pinke, esq. who now owns it.
They possessed this estate jointly till the death of Mrs.Dorcas Thornicroft, in 1759, when she by will devised her moiety of it, as well as the rest of her estates, except the Grange in Gillingham, to her sister Mrs. Anne Thornicroft, for her life, remainder in tail to her nephew Alured Pinke, barrister-at-law, son of Elizabeth, lady Abergavenny, her sister by her second husband Alured Pinke. esq. barrister-at-law, who had by her likewise a daughter Jane, married to the Rev. Henry Shove; upon this Mrs.Anne Thornicroft before-mentioned, became the sole possessor of this manor and estate, in which she resided till her death in 1791, æt. 90, upon which it came to her nephew, Alured Pinke, esq. before-mentioned, who married Mary, second daughter of Thomas Faunce, esq. of Sutton-at-Hone, by whom he has one son Thomas. He bears for his arms, Argent, five lozenges in pale, gules, within a bordure, azure, charged with three crosses pattee, fitchee. He resides here, and is the present possessor of this seat and estate. A court baron is held for this manor.
DOWNE-COURT is a manor in this parish, situated on the hill, about half a mile north westward from the church. In the reign of king Edward I. it was in the possession of William de Dodington, who in the 7th year of it did homage to archbishop Peckham for this manor, as part of a knight's fee, held of him by the description of certain lands in Doddington, called Le Downe. His descendant Simon de Dodington, paid aid for it in the 20th year of king Edward III. as appears by the Book of Aid; from him it passed into the family of Bourne, of Bishopsborne, whose ancestors were undoubtedly possessed of lands in this parish, (fn. 2) so early as the reign of Henry III. for archbishop Boniface, who came to the see of Canterbury in the 29th year of it, granted to Henry de Bourne, (fn. 3) one yoke of land, in the parish of Dudingtune, belonging to his manor of Tenham, which land he held in gavelkind, and might hold to him and his heirs, of the archbishop and his successors, by the service of part of a knight's fee, and by rent to the manor of Tenham.
His descendant John de Bourne lived in the reign of king Edward I. in the 17th year of which he obtained a charter offree warrenfor his lands in Bourne, Higham, and Doddington, after which he was sheriff in the 22d and the two following years of it, as he was again in the 5th year of king Edward III. His son John de Bourne married the daughter and sole heir of Robert de Sharsted, by which he became possessed of that manor likewise, as has been already related, and in his descendants Downe-court continued till about the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, when it was alienated to Dungate, of Dungate-street, in Kingsdown, the last of which name leaving an only daughter and heir, she carried it in marriage to Killigrew, who about the beginning of Henry VIII. ending likewise in two daughters and coheirs, one of whom married Roydon, and the other Cowland, they, in right of their respective wives, became possessed of it in equal shares. The former, about the latter end of that reign, alienated his part to John Adye, gent. of Greet, in this parish, a seat where his ancestors had been resident ever since the reign of Edward III. for he was descended from John de Greet, of Greet, in this parish, who lived there in the 25th year of that king's reign. His grandson, son of Walter, lived there in the reign of Henry V. and assumed the name of Adye. (fn. 4) This family bore for their arms, Azure, a fess dancette, or, between three cherubins heads, argent, crined of the second; which coat was confirmed by-Sir John Segar, garter, anno 11 James I. to John Adye, esq. of Doddington, son and heir of John Adye, esq. of Sittingborne, and heir of John Adye, the purchaser of the moiety of this manor.
He possessed this moiety of Downe court on his father's death, and was resident at Sittingborne. He died on May 9, 1612, æt. 66, and was buried in Doddington church, leaving issue by Thomasine his wife, daughter and coheir of Rich. Day, gent. of Tring, in Hertsordshire, one son John, and five daughters.
John Adye, esq. the grandson of John, the first purchaser, succeeded at length to this moiety of Downe-court, and resided there, during which time he purchased of the heirs of Allen the other moiety of it, one of which name had become possessed of it by sale from the executors of Cowland, who by his will in 1540, had ordered it to be sold, for the payment of debts and legacies. He died possessed of the whole of this manor and estate, in 1660, and was buried in Nutsted church, of which manor he was owner. He left by his first wife several children, of whom John, the eldest, died s.p. Edward, the second, was of Barham in the reign of king Charles II. under which parish more of him and his descendants may be seen; (fn. 5) and Nicholas was the third son, of whom mention will be made hereafter. By his second wife he had Solomon, who was of East Shelve, in Lenham, and other children.
Nicholas Adye, esq. the third son, succeeded to Downe-court, and married Jane, daughter of Edward Desbouverie, esq. Their eldest son, John Adye, succeeded to this manor, at which he resided till he removed to Beakesborne, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, about which time he seems to have alienated it to Creed, of Charing, in which name it continued till it was sold to Bryan Bentham, esq. of Sheerness, who devised it to his eldest son Edward Bentham, esq. of the Navy-office, who bore for his arms, Quarterly, argent and gules, a cross story counterchanged; in the first and fourth quarters, a rose, gules, seeded, or, barbed vert; in the second and third quarters, a sun in its glory, or; being the arms given by queen Elizabeth to Thomas Bentham, D.D. bishop of Litchfield, on his being preferred to that see in 1559, the antient family arms of Bentham, of Yorkshire, being Argent, a bend between two cinquefoils, sable. Since his death this estate has by his will become vested in trustees, to fulfil the purposes of it.
Charities.
JOHN ADYE, ESQ. gave by will in 1660, 40s. to the poor of this parish, payable yearly out of Capel hill, in Leysdown, the estate of Samuel-Elias Sawbridge, esq.
AN UNKNOWN PERSON gave 20s. per annum, payable out of an estate in Doddington, late belonging to the earl of Essingham, and now to the Rev. Francis Dodsworth.
TEN SHILLINGS are paid yearly at Christmas, to the poor of this parish, by the lessee of the parsonage by the reservation in his lease.
THE REV. MR. SOMERCALES, vicar of this parish, by his will gave an Exchequer annuity of 14l. to be applied to the instructing of poor children in the Christian religion.
FORTY HILLINGS are payable yearly at Michaelmas, out of a field formerly called Pyding, now St.John Shotts, belonging to Alured Pinke, esq. towards the repair of the church.
A PERSON UNKNOWN gave for the habitation of three poor persons, a house, now containing three dwellings.
The poor constantly relieved are about forty-five.
DODDINGTON is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the dioceseof Canterbury, and deanry of Ospringe.
The church, which is dedicated to St. John Baptist, consists of a body and chancel, with a chapel or chantry on the south side of it, belonging to the Sharsted estate. At the west end is a low pointed steeple, in which are six bells. About the year 1650, the steeple of this church was set on fire by lightning, and much damaged. In this church are memorials for the Swalman's, Nicholson's of Homestall, and the Norton's, and in the south, or Sharsted chancel, there is a black marble of an antique form, and on a fillet of brass round the verge of it, in old French capitals, Hic Jacet Ricardus de Saherstada, with other letters now illegible, and memorials for the Bourne's and Delaune's.
The church of Doddington was antiently esteemed as a chapel to the church of Tenham, as appears by the Black Book of the archdencon, and it was given and appropriated with that church and its appendages, in 1227, by archbishop Stephen Langton, to the archdeaconry. It has long since been independent of the church of Tenham, and still continues appropriated to the archdeacon, who is likewise patron of the vicarage of it.
Richard Wethershed, who succeded archbishop Langton in 1229, confirmed the gift of master Girard, who whilst he was rector of the church of Tenham, granted to the chapel of Dudintune, that the tithes of twenty acres of the assart of Pidinge should be taken for the use of this chapel for ever, to be expended by the disposition of the curate, and two or three parishioners of credit, to the repairing of the books, vestments, and ornaments necessary to the chapel. (fn. 6)
It is valued in the king's books at fifteen pounds, and the yearly tenths at 1l. 10s. In the visitation of archdeacon Harpsfield, in 1557, this vicarage was returned to be of the value of twelve pounds; parishioners sixty, housholders thirty-two.
¶In 1569, at the visitation of archbishop Parker, it was returned, that the chapel of Doddington used to be let to farm for forty pounds, and sometimes for less; that there were here communicants one hundred and thirteen, housholders thirty-five. In 1640 the vicarage was valued at thirty pounds; communicants one hundred and seven.
Archdeacon Parker, at the instance of archbishop Sancrost, by lease, anno 27 Charles II. reserved an additional pension of ten pounds per annum to the vicar. It pays no procurations to the archdeacon. It is now a discharged living in the king's books.
As in the 18th century, the kitchen garden of the Daggett Farmhouse in Greenfield Village is watered by hand if rainfall isn't sufficient.
This, as Tintinian says, Black Beauty is another three year old stalion waiting to be trained to become a wonderfull Showjumper.
He is still growing, walking free in the most wonderful place in Brabant Campina in Boxtel. The nose is full of little wartsHe will just grow over it. It is not as worse as it looks.
433 AW 68 AS AFRC USAF Lackland AFB TX
Davis-Monthan Air Base Boneyard 309 AMARG
The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG). AMARG better known as the Boneyard
Photo: Paul Larson All rights reserved.
This was the last landing of this C-5 on it's very last flight.
It was my intention to provide a more comprehensive look at the landing sequence to better see the angles and looks of the tremendous aircraft and the landing skills bringing this plane to DM's AMARG.
If you look at the very top right photograph of this collage you can see the landing wheels being just deployed and were just starting to come down as the camera's shutter rerelease button had been pressed..
As of January 2016, 243,750 people had fled the violence in Central African Republic (CAR) and become refugees in Cameroon.
UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country.
Pictured: Women and girls pump water at a well within the Gado refugee camp. There are constant lines at the water points, and places in line are held by pots and buckets.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Read More:
www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/humanitarian-action
www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2016/5/wo...
Granada is synonymous with it's greatest monument, the Alhambra Palace. One of the greatest works of Islamic architecture in existence, the palace complex contains a series of richly decorated rooms and courtyards unparalled for their rich non-figurative decoration, representing the very best in Arab/Islamic art and craftsmanship.
Built in the mid 14th century the palace was home to the Nasrid Dynasty, the last Moorish rulers in Spain, prior to the final reconquest of los Reyes Catolicos, Ferdinand and Isabella. Following their victory in Granada the palace continued for some time as a royal residence, though some parts were lost in alterations and additions by suceeding generations, including Carlos V who built his unfinished Renaissance palace on part of the complex. After centuries of neglect the buildings were restored in the 19th century and are now celebrated as amongst the World's highest architectural achievements.
Most of the main rooms are open to the public, though some areas were closed for restoration on this most recent visit. The most significant areas are the Hall of the Ambassadors with it's fine wooden ceiling, the Courtyard of the Lions and the two breathtaking domed chambers that flank the courtyard with their spectacular domed 'stalactite' ceilings.