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Today reminded me of the early months of the 365 and the finger numbing cold of trying to take photos in sub zero temperatures!
Storm Larisa brings a seasonal sprinkling of snow to Brampton, Cumbria
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Freightliner Class 86/6's Nos.86639 X 86604 working 4M87 11:13 Felixstowe North F.L.T. - Trafford Park F.L.T. at Church Brampton. 22-05-2020.
Storm Larisa brings a seasonal sprinkling of snow to Brampton, Cumbria
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A foggy January day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
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Storm Larisa brings a seasonal sprinkling of snow to Brampton, Cumbria
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Storm Larisa arrives in Brampton Cumbria
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A foggy day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
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A foggy January day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
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A foggy day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
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The city of Brampton has just completed extensive renovations on this house called 'Alderlea' and the millwork really is something to see. I'm not sure how much is original and how much had to be re-created but it has been crafted well. The house will have to work to pay for itself and is going to be used as a venue for various functions and probably weddings will be the top of the list.
I suspect Alderlea is going to become one of those landmark properties that is so 'over photographed' we're all going to get sick of looking at it. At least locally anyway. :-)
During the last couple of weeks I've been photographing heritage properties in the area and in spite of the fact that an enormous number of wonderful old places have been lost in the last couple of decades it's quite fine to see how many are now being preserved.
EXP 05/05/15
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Brampton gets ready for Christmas 2022
Brampton, Cumbria
Brampton is a small market town, civil parish and electoral ward within the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Carlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hadrian's Wall. Historically part of Cumberland, it is situated off the A69 road which bypasses it. Brampton railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, is about a mile outside the town, near the hamlet of Milton.
St Martin's Church is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and executed in the William Morris studio.
The town was founded in the 7th century as an Anglian settlement.
Brampton was granted a Market Charter in 1252 by King Henry III, and became a market town as a result.
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart stayed in the town for one night, marked by a plaque on the wall of the building (a shoe shop) currently occupying the location; here he received the Mayor of Carlisle who had been summoned to Brampton to surrender the city to the Young Pretender. The Capon Tree Monument, to the south of the town centre, commemorates the 1746 hanging of six Jacobites from the branches of the Capon Tree, Brampton's hitherto traditional trysting place.
In 1817 the Earl of Carlisle built the octagonal Moot Hall, which is in the centre of Brampton and houses the Tourist Information Centre. It replaced a 1648 building which was once used by Oliver Cromwell to house prisoners.
Much of Brampton consists of historic buildings built of the local red sandstone.
CNW 6725, 6721 and 6723 wheel loads east at Brampton in August 1978. No photographer to credit on this SNS, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
A foggy day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
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Brampton Transit
8500
Leyland Olympian - ON1410
ECW - EX32
H39/29D
Ex-Gray Line, Victoria, BC 170 (12/88)
New as Leyland demonstrator registered B757 UHG
Please note that this bus was built in 8/84 and not 1985 as recorded by Brampton Transit. It carried Ontario licence plate BE7 347 from 1/89 to 3/12. The bus has now been withdrawn and authorisd for sale. The Ontario licence plate has been removed and the bus is ready for removal to a new home. Let's hope that the new purchaser looks after this bus. It is unique as only two of this style remain in the world (the other being in Athens, Greece) and is a prime candidate for preservation..
185 Clark Boulevard, Brampton, Ontario
30 March 2012
(c) Paul A. Bateson.
A foggy January day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
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A foggy January night in Brampton, Cumbria
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A foggy January day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
More photos of Old Church Farm here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157627192240050
Storm Larisa brings a seasonal sprinkling of snow to Brampton, Cumbria
More pages of photos of Brampton in the snow here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157625369957551
Autumn arrives in Brampton Cumbria
Brampton is a small market town, civil parish and electoral ward within the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Carlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hadrian's Wall. Historically part of Cumberland, it is situated off the A69 road which bypasses it. Brampton railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, is about a mile outside the town, near the hamlet of Milton.
St Martin's Church is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and executed in the William Morris studio.
The town was founded in the 7th century as an Anglian settlement.
Brampton was granted a Market Charter in 1252 by King Henry III, and became a market town as a result.
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart stayed in the town for one night, marked by a plaque on the wall of the building (a shoe shop) currently occupying the location; here he received the Mayor of Carlisle who had been summoned to Brampton to surrender the city to the Young Pretender. The Capon Tree Monument, to the south of the town centre, commemorates the 1746 hanging of six Jacobites from the branches of the Capon Tree, Brampton's hitherto traditional trysting place.
In 1817 the Earl of Carlisle built the octagonal Moot Hall, which is in the centre of Brampton and houses the Tourist Information Centre. It replaced a 1648 building which was once used by Oliver Cromwell to house prisoners.
Much of Brampton consists of historic buildings built of the local red sandstone.
0M47 Tyne S.S. to Carlisle N.Y. Class 66 in Freightliner green/yellow livery head west on the Hadrians Wall line towards Carlisle in preparation for weekend engineering duties.
A foggy January night in Brampton, Cumbria
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Chicago & North Western Alco C628 #6707 leads a northbound empty taconite train through Brampton, MI in September of 1987.
Freightliner 66569 passes Church Brampton working 4M58 09:25 Southampton MCT - Garston FLT.
20th May 2020
A foggy day in Brampton, Cumbria
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Autumn arrives in Brampton Cumbria
Brampton is a small market town, civil parish and electoral ward within the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Carlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hadrian's Wall. Historically part of Cumberland, it is situated off the A69 road which bypasses it. Brampton railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, is about a mile outside the town, near the hamlet of Milton.
St Martin's Church is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and executed in the William Morris studio.
The town was founded in the 7th century as an Anglian settlement.
Brampton was granted a Market Charter in 1252 by King Henry III, and became a market town as a result.
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart stayed in the town for one night, marked by a plaque on the wall of the building (a shoe shop) currently occupying the location; here he received the Mayor of Carlisle who had been summoned to Brampton to surrender the city to the Young Pretender. The Capon Tree Monument, to the south of the town centre, commemorates the 1746 hanging of six Jacobites from the branches of the Capon Tree, Brampton's hitherto traditional trysting place.
In 1817 the Earl of Carlisle built the octagonal Moot Hall, which is in the centre of Brampton and houses the Tourist Information Centre. It replaced a 1648 building which was once used by Oliver Cromwell to house prisoners.
Much of Brampton consists of historic buildings built of the local red sandstone.
A sleepy Sunday in Brampton Cumbria. More photos of Brampton here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157606155537...
A cold December day at Brampton Old Church. More photos of Brampton Old Church here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157625896224736
Disused church. C12 with later alterations and additions. Red sandstone rubble walls, partly of reused stone from the Roman Wall with ashlar dressings, dressed sandstone to porch, slate roofs with coped gables. Formerly tower, nave and chancel, now only chancel and porch of 1861, other parts demolished between 1787 and 1789, the stone being used to improve the chapel in Brampton.
Porch has oak doors and iron gates of 1891, with tooled ashlar surround: gable has cross finial. Chancel has round head Norman lancet in south wall: reused medieval recessed arch below, rebuilt 1788; other lancets and east window are of 1891: cross finial to east gable of 1891 and belfry to west gable of 1788. Church declared redundant 1978 so interior furnishings removed. South wall of
chancel has piscina and aumbry, possibly c12 and repositioned: Norman lancet has splays and stepped sill. Flagged floor includes in north east corner late C17 and early C18 grave slabs. Probably re-roofed 1891
Storm Larisa arrives in Brampton Cumbria
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A foggy day in Brampton, Cumbria
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Autumn arrives in Brampton Cumbria
Brampton is a small market town, civil parish and electoral ward within the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Carlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hadrian's Wall. Historically part of Cumberland, it is situated off the A69 road which bypasses it. Brampton railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, is about a mile outside the town, near the hamlet of Milton.
St Martin's Church is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and executed in the William Morris studio.
The town was founded in the 7th century as an Anglian settlement.
Brampton was granted a Market Charter in 1252 by King Henry III, and became a market town as a result.
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart stayed in the town for one night, marked by a plaque on the wall of the building (a shoe shop) currently occupying the location; here he received the Mayor of Carlisle who had been summoned to Brampton to surrender the city to the Young Pretender. The Capon Tree Monument, to the south of the town centre, commemorates the 1746 hanging of six Jacobites from the branches of the Capon Tree, Brampton's hitherto traditional trysting place.
In 1817 the Earl of Carlisle built the octagonal Moot Hall, which is in the centre of Brampton and houses the Tourist Information Centre. It replaced a 1648 building which was once used by Oliver Cromwell to house prisoners.
Much of Brampton consists of historic buildings built of the local red sandstone.
A foggy day in Brampton, Cumbria
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St Peter, Brampton, Norfolk
If there is a more intensely rural and deliciously remote spot in Norfolk than Brampton churchyard then I do not know of it. As before, I had come here from the church at Burgh-next-Aylsham, stepping down out of the churchyard into the water meadows of the Bure, the lazy river winding aimlessly on its way to the far distant sea and separating the parishes of Burgh and Brampton. A wooden footbridge crosses the river and then a muddy track takes you downstream through clambering thickets of angelica and nettles energised by the spring sunshine after the long cold sleep of winter.
I was cycling from Cromer to Norwich through the backlanes, and this was one of the highlights of the day for me - still the sun beat down, and my heart was full. A doleful swan regarded me with hope from beneath the footbridge. When she saw I had nothing for her to eat, she snorted and turned away huffily. I didn't mind. I was happy to be here.
If you are in a car, of course, you cannot make this journey from Burgh to Brampton. Only pedestrians, cyclists and those on horseback can do so, and even then I had to push my bike. Eventually, the track took me up a steep bank and into a farmyard on the far side of the river. There is a narrow road beyond, and already I could see the brick crown of St Peter's round tower above the trees.
I knew that the church would be locked, and that there would not be a keyholder notice. Brampton church seems always to be locked - except for one occasion, when I came this way on one equally sunny Saturday in 2005, almost thirteen years ago to the day exactly.
It was the first time I had crossed from the Burgh side of the river, and as I got closer to the church I could see bunting suspended from the trees, and a small marquee set up among the gravestones. What on earth was going on?
The door was open. With some surprise, I stepped into the open church to find it a hive of activity. It was the day of the parish spring fair, and there were about twenty people standing behind tables laden with jumble, raffle tickets, cups of tea and what are known as 'crafts'. It sounds terrible, but it wasn't - they were mostly elderly people coming together in the one building at their centre of all their lives, to celebrate another winter survived, I suppose.
I was pleased to be there, not least for the cup of tea I had been gasping for during the last thirty miles. I felt slightly awkward at first, as I was the only customer, but they made me feel welcome, and were quite happy for me to wander around taking photographs. It only made me wonder why they didn't welcome pilgrims and strangers at other times.
This church is heartily Victorianised inside, with tiles and pitch-pine benching. At some point, the arcade between the south aisle and the nave has been removed, presumably to allow a single roof span, and the result is a large, square space with the long, thin chancel off at one corner. It isn't possible to see the altar from most of the nave.
If you only read Cautley, you probably wouldn't bother to visit St Peter. For some reason, he fails to mention this church's one great treasure. But surprise, surprise, it has fine figure brasses, more than half a dozen of them, as well as numerous inscriptions, all to members of the Brampton family, half a century or so either side of the Reformation. Some, unfortunately, are remounted vertically on the wall and in the splay of a window (if there is ever a fire, they will melt and run like butter) but the best are in the sanctuary floor.
Best of all is the one that Pevsner unaccountably missed. It lies on the north side, a metal flower-stand placed roughly on top of it. It shows Robert Brampton and his wife. They lie in shrouds, their inscriptions still intact, a shield between them. They gaze up at a perfect, precious and rare image of the Holy Mother of God and the Infant Christ. How on earth did that survive the Anglican and Puritan reformers? It felt like a secret, here.
Coming back in 2018, I wasn't able to see it again, but I thought of it, ancient and secret, while the churchyard boiled with the coming of spring, the singing of birds, and the surreal yet happy laughter of a wedding party in the garden of the old rectory across the road. I stood there for a while, and then got back on my bike and headed on to Stratton Strawless.
Autumn arrives in Brampton Cumbria
Brampton is a small market town, civil parish and electoral ward within the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Carlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hadrian's Wall. Historically part of Cumberland, it is situated off the A69 road which bypasses it. Brampton railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, is about a mile outside the town, near the hamlet of Milton.
St Martin's Church is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and executed in the William Morris studio.
The town was founded in the 7th century as an Anglian settlement.
Brampton was granted a Market Charter in 1252 by King Henry III, and became a market town as a result.
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart stayed in the town for one night, marked by a plaque on the wall of the building (a shoe shop) currently occupying the location; here he received the Mayor of Carlisle who had been summoned to Brampton to surrender the city to the Young Pretender. The Capon Tree Monument, to the south of the town centre, commemorates the 1746 hanging of six Jacobites from the branches of the Capon Tree, Brampton's hitherto traditional trysting place.
In 1817 the Earl of Carlisle built the octagonal Moot Hall, which is in the centre of Brampton and houses the Tourist Information Centre. It replaced a 1648 building which was once used by Oliver Cromwell to house prisoners.
Much of Brampton consists of historic buildings built of the local red sandstone.
Easter at Naworth Castle. Brampton
Cumbria
Naworth Castle, is a castle in Cumbria, England, near the town of Brampton. It is adjacent to the A69, about 2 miles east of Brampton. It is on the opposite side of the River Irthing and just within sight of Lanercost Priory. It was the seat of the Barons Dacre and is now that of their cognatic descendants, the Earls of Carlisle. It is a Grade I listed building.
The castle is thought to have late 13th-century origins, in the form of a square keep and bailey. It was first mentioned in 1323, and in 1335, a licence to crenellate was granted to Ralph Dacre.
Thomas Dacre (1467–1525), who commanded the reserve of the English army at the Battle of Flodden and was known as "the Builder Dacre", built the castle's gateway and placed over it his coat of arms with the Dacre family motto below: Fort en Loialte (Norman-French: "Strong in Loyalty"). There were further additions in 1602 for his successor, Lord William Howard. It is likely that the 18th-century walled garden lies within the boundaries of the original moat.
Lord William Howard purchased back the Dacre family estate from King James and took up residence with his children and grandchildren at Naworth Castle. He restored the castle, improved the estate and established order in that part of the country. He had a large family of children, of whom Philip, his heir, was the grandfather of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, and his younger son Francis was the ancestor of the Howards of Corby.
William Morris, the artist and socialist, stayed at the castle in August 1874. In a letter to Aglaia Coronio, he writes "...all is very pleasant. Ned & I pass our mornings in a most delightful room in one of the towers that has not been touched since William Howard of Queen Elizabeth's time lived there: the whole place is certainly the most poetical in England." From 1939 to 1940, Naworth was occupied by Rossall School from Fleetwood in Lancashire, which had been evacuated from its own buildings by various government departments. It is currently occupied by the Hon. Philip Howard, younger brother and heir presumptive of the 13th Earl of Carlisle.
1844 fire
On Saturday, 18 May 1844, the castle caught fire, possibly as a result of the ignition of some soot in the flue of the Porter's Lodge. The structure's lack of internal walls allowed the fire to spread rapidly, and it remained unchecked until it reached the northern wing. Although some property was saved, by the time two fire engines had arrived by train from Carlisle, most of the roof had collapsed and the fire had spread to nearly every room on the three sides of the quadrangle. Water had to be passed in buckets from a rivulet at the foot of a steep hill on the north side of the castle. "Belted Will's Tower" was saved, while the fire continued until around one o'clock on Sunday morning, when it was brought under control. Subsequent restoration was undertaken by the architect Anthony Salvin.
Naworth Castle is private and not open to the public
A foggy day at Old Church Farm, Brampton, Cumbria
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The metadata date/time is wrong on the camera, but this image was taken at 3am during the night of the lunar eclipse. At a 20sce exposure and Bramptons lights in the background the image was lit up very well.
More photos of Brampton Old Church here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157625896224736
The autumn sun sets behind St Martin's church, Brampton, Cumbria, UK. More photos from this set here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157673619406331