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The last rays of sun catch NR56, NR111 and NR42 as they approach Snowtown with 5MP5 on 20th April 2018.
Alley view of the bell tower on the Piazza del Campo in the lovely Tuscan hilltop city of Siena, Italy.
Taken at my sister's hummingbird ranch, where it's always feeding time.
More hummingbird pictures are in my Hummingbird set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157627149575339/.
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The weekend is fast approaching, will it be a relaxing weekend for you..??
Not for me..!! I'm heading away for a couple of nights out with some fab friends..
Look out Manchester, we're on our way..!😘💋💃
Rooftop travel is a common practice on the Gwalior Light Railway. The interiors of this 2ft narrow gauge train fails to accomodate the all the passengers, hence rooftop welcomes them.
We too, after hanging out from the door of the overcrowded train till Motijheel, decided to climb up as the locals suggested.
Seen here is the 52171 Gwalior - Sheopur Kalan Passenger approaching Bamour Gaon station.
Ex LMS Jubilee Class 6P 45699 Galatea passing Foston in North Yorkshire on the way to Scarborough at the head of the Scarborough Spa Express.
As we approached Og Meadows, the early morning alpine light was just starting to cut through the night's clouds to create this magical landscape. We were on the part of the Great Divide Trail leaving the Lake Magog Campground and Mount Assiniboine area. A female grizzly with two cubs was spotted here yesterday, so we made lots of noise as we hiked through this pass. Always great times in the Rockies. Assiniboine Provincial Park, BC, Canada.
Today's agenda is to visit Elizabethan-era Royal Palace and Jacobean manor house Hatfield.
If you don't want to read the long passages below, suffice to know that this massive manor house was completed in 1612 by a powerful statesman named Robert Cecil. Part of the estate dates back to the 1490s and was where Queen Elizabeth I held her first Council of State in 1558.
Now, more detailed history of the people of Hatfield House:
The original Hatfield House was commissioned by John Morton (b. 1420 d. 1500) and built between 1485 and 1497. Cardinal Morton was Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor of England, a very powerful statesman during the reign of Henry VII.
Henry VII died in 1509 and the crown passed on to his son Henry VIII, who confiscated the original Hatfield House. Now a royal property, Hatfield House became known as the Royal Palace of Hatfield (or simply Hatfield Palace).
In a quest to sire a male heir, Henry VIII kept moving on to newer ladies, and his daughters Princesses Mary (by his first wife Catherine of Aragon) and Elizabeth (by his second wife Anne Boleyn) were placed under house arrest and sent away from his power base. Mary lived in Ludlow Castle (in Wales) and other palaces, while Elizabeth spent her first 25 years in Hatfield Palace.
Following the birth of his son Edward (by his third wife Jane Seymour) in 1537, Henry VIII declared his first two daughters Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate and reduced them to "ladies" from princesses.
Henry VIII died in 1547 and his nine-year-old son became Edward VI. He was the sickly sort and died only six years later. His older half-sister Mary succeeded the crown in 1553 but died in 1558 childless, so the crown now went to her younger half-sister Elizabeth. Princess Elizabeth was sitting underneath an oak tree in the Hatfield Palace grounds on 1558-11-17 when courtiers rushed in and told her that Mary had died and she had become Queen. She would rule England for the next 44 years and her reign was considered to be the Golden Age of England.
So where does the Cecils come into the picture? Well, one of Princess Elizabeth’s most trusted friends and advisers was William Cecil of Burghley (an estate near Stamford). He was advising the now Queen Elizabeth I when she held her first Council of State in the Banqueting Hall of Hatfield Palace. For a week, Elizabeth I's closest courtiers and allies gathered in Hatfield Palace to plan the new appointments and regime before moving to London. In a strange twist of fate, William Cecil's son Robert would become the master of Hatfield Palace 49 years later (read on below).
Elizabeth I soon appointed William Cecil as the Secretary of State and eventually elevated him to the 1st Baron Burghley (Lord Burghley). Almost immediately, Lord Burghley used his new power and wealth to build Burghley House in 1558. Lord Burghley would later rise to High Lord Treasurer of England. As the most powerful man in England, he acquired Theobalds Manor in 1564 and had the house greatly enlarged and rebuilt to palatial scale in order to receive and impress Elizabeth I.
Elizabeth I died in 1603 and the crown went to her double-first-cousin (but twice removed) James VI (King of Scots), who now also became James I of England. Meanwhile, Lord Burghley William Cecil had died back in 1598. His Burghley House estate went to his elder son Thomas Cecil (later Earl of Exeter), and his Theobalds House estate went to second son Robert Cecil (later Earl of Salisbury). Interestingly, not only did Robert Cecil inherit his father's political savviness but also the offices of Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer under James I.
James I visited his adviser Robert Cecil at Theobalds House frequently and fell in love with it. He "suggested" to swap Hatfield Palace for Robert Cecil's Theobalds House. Not really having the ability to say "No" to a King, Robert Cecil accepted the proposal and the exchange took place in 1607. Now Robert Cecil was not content with getting what was then a one-hundred-year-old house, so he had most of the Hatfield Palace demolished and commissioned the "new" Hatfield House that we see today (completed in 1612). Fortunately, one wing of the old Hatfield Palace (completed in 1497 by Cardinal John Morton), including the Banqueting Hall where Elizabeth I held her first Council of State, survives till today.
The 352 train, which was the intermodal train to the Hoosier Lift, has mixed freight on the head end as it approaches Chatsworth, Illinois on September 8, 1988 with Santa Fe B23-7 6381 leading.
Holiday in Barcelona will start. For me it is one of the most beautiful cities I´ve seen right now. (Sorry for the low quality but the window of the plane was so dirty)
Former Rheinbahn Düsseldorf Düwag (Duewag) GT8 tram unit 691 was recorded working a ZTM Line 10 service near Poznań Główny. Built as a GT6 in 1965, the unit was re-built and modernized in 1974. It was exported to Poland in 2003.
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The LRV driver prepares to slow for the red T at the approaching TCS with Alstom Citadis X05s no. 41 & 42 before Moore Park on a UP L2 Circular Quay service
4/1/25
A fairly epic storm rolled through on the 4th of July canceling the fireworks with mother natures own show.
The Indian Railway 52229 MG Passenger, the 06:30 Shahjahanpur Junction to Tanakpur via Pilibhit Junction approaches Sherganj Halt en route north.
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