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Our shared narratives as Americans are preserved through the highest caliber of ongoing scholarship and advocacy. On Saturday, May 14, 2016, the Jay Heritage Center (JHC) held its second John Jay Medal Dinner and recognized two individuals whose exemplary efforts have helped elevate and strengthen the legacy of native New Yorker, John Jay.
JHC's first honoree was Prof. Joseph J. Ellis, one of our nation's leading historians and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation. Ellis' exhaustive and illuminating research for his newest book The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 restores John Jay to the pantheon of nation-builders alongside Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. JHC's second honoree was Prof. Nicholas A. Robinson, a founder of the Pace Environmental Law School newly renamed for the tireless environmentalist and philanthropist Elisabeth Haub. Robinson, together with JHC's original founders, helped preserve and landmark the 23 acre Jay Estate on Long Island Sound in 1993. Today this touchstone in Jay's life is protected parkland and a must see destination on New York State's Path Through History.
Warm weather rewarded 125 dinner attendees including many Jay descendants and the editors of The Selected Papers of John Jay at Columbia University. An appreciative crowd enjoyed cocktails on the veranda and toured the landscape. They viewed rare manuscripts and artwork including a 1786 drawing of Spain's flag generously donated by Mrs. Paul Hughes and her family. Afterwards Prof. Ellis gave a mesmerizing talk about John Jay's peacemaking skills and his pivotal role in shaping our new nation's foreign policy with Britain, France and particularly Spain.
According to Ellis "[Jay] is the greatest diplomat of the revolutionary generation." Both honorees received standing ovations.
Samuel W. Croll III, Prof. Shelby D. Green, Charlene Laughlin and Thomas R. Mercein were Dinner Co-Chairs. Previous Jay Medal honorees were Catherine "Kitty" Aresty and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.
(Photos by Cutty McGill)
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Known as the "Phrog" for its amphibian-like appearance, CH-46 served as the U. S. Marine Corps' primary assault helicopter in over four decades of active service. As the Marines' first turbine-powered assault helicopter, it proved well suited to the challenging environment of South Vietnam, where it began operations in 1966. Since then, the CH-46 has served in nearly every major American military action and supported dozens of smaller operations. (Source: National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia, Chantilly.)
The aircraft in the photograph served in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. (Source: National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia, Chantilly.)
The Vocational meeting of the Neocatechumenal Way as part of the World Youth Day (WYD), which took place on Monday 22nd of August in Plaza Cibeles (Cibeles Square).
Kiko Argüello
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as you may have noticed, i was bored yesterday... i even redid the whole thing again at night, because i was stupid enough to do it on a very compressed, noisy, low resolution file...
every once in a while i get an old picture and play with it for hours, and then i just close the file without saving it... but i liked this one, so i kept it...
it is a version of my www.flickr.com/photos/lutty/2185916264/ the first time...
ps1: the file was already very noisy, so forgive me on that one..
ps2: i started with a black & white picture, and decided to colorize it when i was done.. had fun with that too!
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Francisco Moura, 84 anos, funcionário aposentado após 46 anos dedicados à Usina santana.
A usina, fechada nos anos 80, hoje não passa de ruínas, a memória viva em uma arquitetura morta, de outros tempos, outras vidas.
Sr. Moura não visitava a usina desde a sua saída, cerca de 20 anos atrás, e se emocionou durante a visita, onde nos guiou por um passeio em suas lembranças.
A história guardada como páginas imaginárias de uma biografia invisível nos mostra o quão fantásticas podem ser as vidas de outros, que nos emprestam, conduzem por elas, transformando assim em parte da nossa própria.
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Francisco Moura, 84, retired after 46 years devoted to Usina Santana (a industry of sugar manufacture).
The plant closed in the '80s, today is nothing but ruins, the living memory of a dead architecture, other times, other lives.
Mr. Moura had not visited the plant since its exit, about 20 years ago and was moved during the visit, which guided us for a ride in his memory.
The history pages saved as an imaginary invisible biography shows us how great may be the lives of others who lend, lead by them, thus turning in part on our own.
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#552: As of 10/29/18, under Flickr's popularity rankings of my 1300+ pics, this is listed as #552 in "interestingness."
This is the 143rd in a new series of pics displaying image transformations made by the smartphone application, FaceApp. See my profile description (or "About" page here: www.flickr.com/people/99244229@N04/) for details about this new series of pics, including my thoughts about the feminized images of myself.
This particular FaceApp transformation is of a pic from August 9, 2013. The original pic has been previously posted here on Flickr in full-body view.
I really like my more feminized facial appearance from FA here, and yet in reality I felt as pretty that day as this transformation image depicts. It's always been a complete thrill to be made up and dressed up entirely, and to be out and about as the beautiful woman I felt like...
As you might know if you’ve been following my Instagram feed, over the last few weeks I have been shooting quite a lot in Abu Dhabi, both corporate stuff as well as architectural images.
A couple of months ago I posted an image of the Abu Dhabi Financial Centre shot for a client of mine. It was more of an establishing photograph of the development and at the time I thought that was all that was needed. However, the client asked me if I could shoot some of the interior spaces as well so a few weeks ago I spent a day there coming up with a few images.
One of my favourites from the day is this image which is taken from the lobby of one of the buildings, looking up towards the beautiful glass ceiling. I did quite a bit of perspective correction on this one as it was a very awkward position to shoot from and I couldn’t line up everything in camera.
To view the original shot (straight from the camera) visit the blog entry here: www.momentaryawe.com/blog/?p=3746
"As Selected for the Design Centre London" sticker. Yes, in 1971 an award was given to the designer of this turntable. After that some of the last Hydraulic Reference made by the Transcriptors before they moved to Ireland have this sticker on the lid.
Originally known as Northampton Park, Ascot Park was built in 1923 on 68 acres of farmland near Cuyahoga Falls, OH along what is present-day State Route 8. It took its current name in 1938.
As a 3/4 mile oval, Ascot Park billed itself as the "Biggest Little Racetrack in America," and was home to an annual two-mile race known as the Ascot Gold Cup, first run in 1941. For a while, the Gold Cup ranked as the oldest continuously run stakes race in Ohio. The 1951 winner, Chiffon, won the race while pregnant. The 1967 winner, Loyal Son, was buried near the 4 1/2 furlong chute at the track (whether he is still there is unknown).
Ascot Park is also known for being the track at which Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Maple won his first race (on Swami in 1966). Over his career, Eddie rode such famous horses as Alydar, Conquistador Cielo, Cox's Ridge, Creme Fraiche, Devil's Bag, Foolish Pleasure, Forty Niner, Riva Ridge, Slew o' Gold, Swale, and Temperence Hill. He also rode Secretariat in his final race, when Secretariat's regular jockey (Ron Turcotte) was serving out a suspension.
Horace Adams bought Ascot Park in 1954, pledging to make it the "Little Saratoga of the West." But the cold weather spring meets hurt the open-air track. The record attendance for the track was 12,525, achieved on opening day in 1955.
Ascot Park was sold to Edward Debartolo (who controlled Thistledown, Randall Park, and Cranwood Park) in 1968. Racing at the location was officially over. Over time, the site disintegrated to the point of becoming a fire hazard. Northampton firefighters burned it to the ground in 1976 as part of a training exercise. Today, the track property is part of a 200-acre industrial park which technically falls within the city limits of Akron, OH.
The information above comes from a great 2009 Akron Beacon Journal article on the track, written by Mark J. Price (www.ohio.com/news/ascot-park-1.154828). The article contains links to 3 photos of the track.
Some additional old photos of the track: bit.ly/IGgUJb
Postcard of the track: bit.ly/IGgz9j
Mapquest satellite view of the former track property: mapq.st/IAYJae
As the title has it, the view from Medds Farm, Rosedale West across the dale to Craven Garth, Hill Cottages and Low Baring, with the stone kilns and chimney of East Mines on the horizon.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
The earliest mention in records of what was know as Bryggen Eynde (Bridgend) was in 1444. It is assumed that the bridge was originally constructed approximately 20 years earlier. This was the period during which the town at Kenfig, which had been the market town for the district, was abandoned due to flooding and sand encroachment. It is possible therefore, that it was Kenfig’s demise that precipitated both the construction of the bridge and the creation of this new market centre on its eastern side, which was an enterprising development on the part of the Lords of Coity Castle within whose manor it stood.
Originally the bridge had three arches standing in the water with smaller ones at either end. The latter have now been buried by encroachment of the banks, and two of the river arches were amalgamated following the destruction of one of the bridge piers during a flood in 1775. This gives the bridge its present rather lop-sided appearance, but essentially it is the same structure that was first erected here nearly six centuries ago.
As she gets older I realize more and more, each day I get to have face-to-face time with her is a blessing.
Rancho Guajome Adobe, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Guajome Ranch House, is an 1850s adobe hacienda (house) in Vista, northern San Diego County, Southern California.
The adobe was built in 1852 and served as the headquarters of Rancho Guajome, a Mexican land grant. Abel Stearns had given the rancho to Ysidora Bandini (sister of his wife Arcadia Bandini), as a wedding gift when she married Lieutenant Cave Johnson Couts in 1851.
It is a large rambling twenty-room Spanish Colonial style hacienda with two courtyards, an arcaded veranda, and other structures including a chapel in a former small house. It was built with the profits from the cattle boom of the 1850s, when many California ranchos supplied the Gold Rush miners and associated new American immigrants with meat and leather.
Couts was appointed sub-agent for the native Luiseño people (San Luis Rey Mission Indians) in 1853, and used their enslaved labor to improve his properties in the area, including this one and nearby Rancho Buena Vista and Rancho Vallecitos de San Marcos.
Rancho Guajome Adobe is now a Historic house museum within the protected landscape of a park. It is located within the northernmost limits of Vista, in northern San Diego County, California.
It is set within Guajome County Park, which also has "a rich riparian area, marshes, and spring-fed lakes; and offers picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, fishing, and camping."
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The office blocks of La Défense provide a distinctly North American backdrop as a brace of Alstom Citadis 302 units thread their way on Line 2 of the Paris Tramway between Les Milions and Parc St Cloud.
fundo: neutro
paleta de cores: preto, rosa, vermelho, amarelo
As cores podem variar em função do monitor.
Este tecido não está a venda. Ele faz parte do acervo de estampas para atender minhas clientes.
From another angle as it is hooked up to Florida East Coast Coach #136 and Atlantic Coast Line Caboose #0322. Video from my visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VisfxPXJtO4
final semester final exam is almost over...somehow I feel sad that the fact I`m leaving this city soon...been here for not even 2 years yet...but I`m seriously in love with Adelaide.
Every corner and every direction in the city just make me feel like I`m in my `home country`...too bad...too bad...leaving real soon...
As I was driving to my planned cemetery visit, I passed this little cemetery. I came back and didn't even see a sign naming it. It had such fabulous stones. Still, no name. I came home and did some research. Here are two articles I found on this little cemetery located in Palmyra, Pennsylvania:
The cemetery that no one wants.
April 10, 2008
BY MONICA VON DOBENECKÂ
No one wants the Cherry Street cemetery in Palmyra, where about 1,000 people are buried, including veterans of the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War and the Civil War.
The cemetery is supposedly owned by a private corporation started in 1867 and run by a board of trustees elected by lot owners. But the trustees are long gone and nobody can find lot owners. A bank account has $30,000 for maintenance, but no one is authorized to write checks. Volunteers have been mowing the grass, but they're tired of the work.
At a news conference today, representatives of two churches that have taken care of the cemetery for the past 140 years said will do so no longer and are turning their records over to the Borough of Palmyra.
Borough manager Sherry Capello said she has no intention of accepting them. "For 140 years, the churches accepted care of the cemetery," she said. "We feel they have the responsibility."
The cemetery began in 1867, when six people who were members of the predecessors to Palm Lutheran Church and Trinity United Church of Christ formed the Palmyra Cemetery Association. Trustees were elected by lot owners, but at some point the annual elections stopped. Church members continued to manage the cemetery.
According to Palm Lutheran church member Harry Fox, the churches got a letter from the borough in 2003 saying the sidewalk next to the cemetery needed repairs. The churches hired attorney John Feather to check into their legal authority and their obligation to care for the cemetery. Feather concluded they had neither.
Capello said the borough contacted the churches when neighbors started complaining that grass and weeds were getting high.
For a while, volunteers from the Brethren in Christ church agreed to take care of it because their church was across the street. But the dozen or so volunteers decided at the end of last year they wouldn't do it any longer.
In the meantime, Feather tried to find people who would act as temporary trustees to get the cemetery association going. He was unsuccessful. He also couldn't find lot owners, although a woman was buried there as recently as a year ago.
Fox said in a written statement Thursday, "The churches have concluded that their mission and ministry is not to operate and maintain a cemetery."
Feather said he would leave the cemetery records with the library or the historical society if the borough does not accept them. He said the Pennsylvania Borough Code and the Pennsylvania Burial Grounds Law give the courts the right to direct the borough to take over neglected cemeteries.
According to Capello, that can happen if a majority of a borough's property owners agree. The code limits the amount a borough can pay for cemetery maintenance yearly to $3,000, she said.
Bob Stewart, director of the Pennsylvania Cemetery Funeral and Cremation Association, said there are hundreds of abandoned cemeteries in the state, many of them started in the 1800's. "The state doesn't have anything for abandoned cemeteries," he said. "I don't know what you do in that situation."
Capello said the situation is sad. "You can't just walk away because you don't want to do it any more and throw it at the borough," she said. "What's really sad is that it is a cemetery, and it's like disrespecting the dead."
and an update from May 2009:
Borough to mow cemetery for now
Friday, May 01, 2009
BY BARBARA MILLER arbmiller@patriot-news.com
PALMYRA - Palmyra Borough Council will mow the "orphan" cemetery on West Cherry Street this summer, while the borough and two churches say they are hoping for resolution of the dispute over care of the site.
Council agreed April 27 to mow the cemetery through Oct. 1 and bill the cemetery's trust fund for the cost, which is estimated at $1,000 per mowing.
"Council concluded it's the right thing to do for the appearance of the community in general," said Keith Costello, council president. "And it doesn't put us in a bad position if we need to proceed with litigation."
Care of the cemetery is in dispute, because its board of trustees no longer exists. While members of two churches that once had representation on the trustees cared for the cemetery for 140 years, last year they said they will no longer do so.
After the borough tried to get the churches to repair sidewalk along the cemetery in 2003, the churches researched ownership and concluded this was not their responsibility.
The borough last year filed a petition in Lebanon County court asking the churches to be held responsible for care of the cemetery.
Josele Cleary, borough solicitor, said borough officials met recently with representatives of the churches. No agreement was reached, but they will continue meeting, she said.
Representatives of Palm Lutheran and Trinity United Church of Christ met Monday and agreed on a proposal to work with the borough on this issue, said the Rev. Mike Beynon of Trinity.
"I'm glad the cemetery is going to be maintained, and I'm glad for the increasing amount of camaraderie working with the new officials in the borough," Beynon said.
After attending the funeral of a much loved uncle we went to one of his favourite places to be greeted by this wonderful sunset over a stormy sea. Although just a phone snap, the perfect picture to close his life. Watchet, Somerset, UK - looking towards North Hill, Minehead.
As the Americans approached the Japanese home islands, Japan became increasingly desperate for a weapon that could turn the tide, or at least force a tolerable peace. Kamikaze suicide attacks were seen as that weapon, but for the kamikazes to reach their targets, they would have to fly through a wall of American fighters and antiaircraft fire. By 1945, most kamikaze pilots were poorly trained, and their chances of getting through American defenses were low--though many did, killed a great deal of Allied sailors, and sank ships, most never reached their targets. Often, those that did hit did not sink their targets, because they could not carry enough ordnance.
The Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, along with students at the University of Tokyo and a kamikaze pilot, Ensign Mitsuo Ohta, came up with a design that would hopefully allow even a poorly-trained pilot to reach their target quickly, avoid interception, and do enough damage to sink a ship with one hit. The MXY-7 was powered by three rockets and carried a 2700 pound warhead; the fuselage and wings were made of wood so that they could be produced quickly and cheaply. To reach its target, it would be carried underneath a Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber, converted to a mothership: when the bomber was 20 miles from the target, the MXY-7 would be dropped, the pilot would trigger the rockets, and the aircraft would accelerate to almost supersonic speeds before it hit the target.
Because the MXY-7 fell from the mothership like a cherry blossom falls from a tree, it was named the Ohka (Cherry Blossom); cherry blossoms, which mature quickly and die, are also symbolic of samurai. The pilots themselves were nicknamed "Thunder Gods," for the force of the explosions they would cause.
Unfortunately for the Japanese, the Ohka's need for a mothership was its fatal flaw. The G4M was slow and vulnerable to begin with, and easy prey for American fighters. Most G4Ms equipped with Ohkas never reached their dropoff points before they were destroyed; as the MXY-7 pilot was sealed inside the rocket before takeoff, he could not bail out. Though several Ohkas were launched, only a handful reached their targets, and only one ship was confirmed as actually being sunk by a MXY-7. American sailors and airmen derisively referred to the Ohka as the "Baka Bomb"--baka meaning "fool" in Japanese.
The limitations of the Ohka were known to its designers, and work was underway to replace the rockets with longer-ranged jets. There were also plans to land-base MXY-7s in caves on catapults and even on submarines; when the Americans landed in the home islands, the Ohkas would be barrage fired in a single devastating strike. The atomic bombs and Japan's surrender ended these plans. 852 MXY-7s were built, and those that were not expended in kamikaze attacks were captured by the Allies after the war. With limited military use, most were scrapped, but 15 survive to this day.
To train pilots on the MXY-7s somewhat temperamental handling characteristics, Yokosuka built several Model 43K-1 Kai training aircraft. These were two-seat gliders, equipped with water ballast in the nose to compensate for the missing warhead, and equipped with a landing skid and flaps. Two Model 43s are known to survive to present, and this is one of them. It was captured after the war, and modified to represent a standard MXY-7 suicide rocket, but retained the flaps and landing skid. As displayed today, it has been repainted as a training aircraft, with high visibility orange uppersurfaces.
Cornwall, Vermont USA. Second blizzard settles in, thick & cold.
• The Emerald Gypsy (eGypsy) is a 1949 Ford F-5 Wayne shortbody schoolbus, motorhome conversion. It first served as a rural elementary schoolbus in Hemet, California. In the early 1960's it had its first conversion to a motorhome.
I bought it on eBay in May, 2007. It was my home • office • studio until August 2009. It is currently parked in Cornwall, Vermont USA.
For Sale, Where Is / As Is: 2015. (New Zealanders, I'm talking to YOU!) – Make me an offer.
Giovanetta in the clothing of Artemis. Ostia, from the area of the "terme dei Cisiarii". Late neronian or flavian period (60-79 AD). National Museum of Rome, Palazzo Massimo.
The Beechcraft Model 18, or "Twin Beech", as it was better known, is a 6-11 place,[2] twin-engine, low-wing, conventional-gear aircraft that was manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. This model saw military service during and after World War II in a number of versions including the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) C-45 Expeditor, AT-7 Navigator, AT-11 Kansan; and for the United States Navy (USN), UC-45J Navigator and the SNB-1 Kansan.
The Beech 18 is the most modified U.S.-certified aircraft design, with over 200 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) on record for the aircraft.
The aircraft's uses have included aerial spraying, sterile bug release, fish seeding, dry ice cloud seeding, aerial firefighting, airborne mail pick up and drop, ambulance service, numerous movie productions, skydiving, freight, gun- and drug-smuggling, engine test bed, skywriting and banner towing. A number of Model 18s were operated as passenger aircraft; the Model 18 was the first aircraft flown by Philippine Airlines, Asia's first and oldest airline. Many are now in private hands as prized collectibles.
General characteristics
Crew: 2 pilots
Capacity: 6 passengers
Length: 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m)
Wingspan: 47 ft 8 in (14.53 m)
Height: 9 ft 8 in (2.95 m)
Wing area: 349 ft² (32.4 m²)
Empty weight: 6,175 lb (2,800 kg)
Loaded weight: 7,500 lb (3,400 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 8,727 lb (3,959 kg)
Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-1 "Wasp Junior" radial engines, 450 hp (336 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 225 mph (195 knots, 360 km/h)
Range: 1,200 mi (1,000 NM, 1,900 km) at 160 mph (260 km/h)
Service ceiling: 26,000 ft (7,930 m)
Rate of climb: 1,850 ft/min (9.4 m/s)
As Ken Howard tow truck operator for Padilla Towing ,pass by with Hazzard Range County sheriff's office Animal control Deputy Dorthy Vries unit ,after it broken down . As Lindsay Bellview talks with Ryan and Sandy Smith .
Here is Tiffany as a treadle machine. One very hot summer, a few years ago, I sat here and sewed up a wonky log cabin quilt top to be used as roman shades in the sunroom. Bare feet on the iron treadle was very cooling, and the spot in the middle of the house was the coolest, with no sun hitting me directly. The view is great too. This lovely machine now has a new home at a cottage in Northern Ontario.
Aqui estão as quotas para os grandes jogos de qualificação para o Brasil 2014. Boas Apostas e bom fim de semana! #Rússia vs #Portugal blog.betclic.com/pt/qualificacoes-mundial-brasil-2014-por...
For my nephew's 4th, "Star Wars" themed birthday party I showed up as Darth Vader. It was fun seeing what reactions I could out of that mask (I could only see straight ahead, barely), I wish there was a picture showing them "POP" when that light saber "turned on".
After, I realized I should have brought a change of clothes because I sweat so much. I was only in the costume 10-15 minutes and was completely drenched in California's sun. It's all about the kids! Photo credit, Pops.
As the weather for tomorrow is not looking too good I decided to walk today. I parked at Glynde and planned a walk to go via Firle masts Telscombe Rodmell and then to Lewes and over Mt Caburn to Glynde. The weather was fine and the breeze was not very cooling. It was along walk over 20 miles and the bit from Lewes back to Glynde was a bit harder than I would like but anyway all done and no ill effects. So another try with my IR camera and a different approach to processing but as always lots to see and so a dozen images of the landscape and other various things to see what the IR process can do. Still not really happy with the results but lots more time to practice.
Our Lady and St Walstan, Costessey, Norwich
As was remarked by the anonymous author of That Great Gothic Fane, published in 1910 to mark the opening of the huge Catholic church of St John the Baptist in Norwich, the idea that his ancestors had been Catholics was as remote for the typical rural Norfolker as was the idea that dinosaurs had once walked the land. And yet, there were pockets in Norfolk where the Catholic Faith not only survived through the long penal years, but flourished, and not as an exotic species. These were the parishes where the local Big Family refused to switch to the new protestant Church of England, but stubbornly clung to the Faith of their forebears. The most steadfast of all these recusant families were probably the Jerninghams of Costessey Hall.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Jerninghams were the architects of the survival of the Old Faith in Norwich. Although records of a resident Priest only go back to 1701, Costessey Hall was host to Mass throughout the penal period, one of few places in East Anglia of which that could be said. In the middle years of the 19th century, Costessey Hall was rebuilt to the designs of JC Buckler, an architect with two good Norfolk churches to his name at Welney and Walpole Highway. Buckler was also commissioned to build a mission church to go with the Hall - until then, local Catholics had made use of the Hall chapel. The result is a tall, rather serious building in red brick. The high lancets and strong buttressing create a fortress-like effect, perhaps understandably as the church opened on the 26th of May 1841, just five years after the Reform Act which had made its construction legal.
A mark of the success of its design is that we would still be building churches in this style until well into the 1890s, but it has none of the nooks and crannies which we have come to expect of 19th century Catholic churches. Rather, the effect is that of a protestant preaching hall church. The west end has had its severity ameliorated by a modern extension in the early years of the 21st century. Even so, this building would fit well into an industrial town.
The first Priest of this church was a Dr Husenbeth, who had been appointed chaplain of Costessey Hall in 1820. We may assume that he was largely responsible for the design of the church, which cost a little under £4500 to build, about eight hundred thousand in today's money, although this amount also included the presbytery and all the furnishings. There were about 400 Catholics living in Costessey at the time, and it is interesting to compare this with the vast Kings Lynn parish, which covered most of north-west Norfolk and which at this time had, according to the Lynn News, less than 150 Catholics all told, and all of them poor. I assume that most of the Costessey Catholics were working for the Hall Estate.
The Catholic hierarchy was reintroduced to England in 1851, and at that time St Walstan became a parish church within the vast Diocese of Northampton. An Order of Nuns took up residence in the village, and the Sisters opened a village school. But hard times were coming to Costessey. In 1872, Dr Husenbeth died, and, with the Jerningham family no longer able to support the Church in the parish, the Bishop of Northampton decided not to send another Priest to Costessey, reasoning that his resources would be more usefully deployed in the heart of industrial Norwich. St Walstan's church closed for regular use, and soon fell into decay. The Parish reverted to mission status, with Priests coming out from Holy Apostles chapel in central Norwich to say Mass in the chapel of the Hall. It was not until 1910, coincidentally the year that the church which is now Norwich's Catholic Cathedral was opened, that another Priest was sent to Costessey, and the Parish brought back to life.
Our Lady and St Walstan is open every day. You step into the modern extension, and then beyond this the church is all of a piece, the structure and the furnishings all dating from 1841. The interior is as serious as the exterior - Pevsner thought it pleasant but plain. A solid, stone-built west gallery with the linked monograms of Mary and Walstan is a pleasing counterpoint to Buckler's apse of a chancel at the other end. The glass in the chancel is interesting rather than beautiful, its significance coming from its early date.
The stations on the walls echo the bench ends, and the font is a simple marble tub in the transitional style. There is a good modern icon of St Walstan, apparently based on a local, and the panelled altar provides a moment of High Victorian splendour.
If the architecture of the church is urban in character, its setting is wholly delightful. Although we are just off of Costessey's main street, the church sits on the crest of a ridge which falls rapidly away towards the north-east, and here is a fascinating and lovely Catholic graveyard. The snowdrops still punctuated the spaces between the gravestones when we came this way in April, and among the often elaborate and beautifully carved headstones is a simple cross on a moss-covered pedestal. Beside it is a sign which reads Pray for the Souls of the Jerningham Family, whose bodies were brought from the chapel in Costessey Park and buried here on November 18th 1953. Their names are inscribed in the porch of St Walstan's Church.
$16 for the 1980's black Barbie reproduction doll. And $1.50 for the baby brats doll. I love good deals, and this is as good as it gets.
As of late June 2019, the Square continues to prosper. If you can find a parking place on Saturday night, you probably control strange forces of time and space. The Square is again the central gathering place it was always meant to be. This includes concerts of all sorts on the Courthouse Lawn. These musicians are in effect helping rebuild an important part of Denton and its history.