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I thought it was time to take a break from the relentless Adventure series and I managed to sneak out yesterday morning with the camera.
This is one of my favourite places to sit and watch the world wake up. Although a new sign has appeared on the gate you have to go through
No Access
No Footpath
No dogs
No people
As it doesn't mention photographers hopefully I will be OK:-)
A 5 frame pano of a misty Piton Lake, part of the Croome estate landscaped by Capability Brown
This Gothic Temple folly at Stowe in Buckinghamshire is set in one of the world's most famous landscape gardens. It has a spiral staircase, roof terrace and is surrounded by vast parkland to explore. The gothic windows provide vistas of the monuments, lakes and temples in this 18th-century landscape.
This temple, built in 1741, was one of the last additions to the garden at Stowe, formed for Lord Cobham by Charles Bridgeman and his successor, William Kent. That same year, Capability Brown arrived as gardener, to begin his own transformation of the landscape.
Happy Fence Monday:
View on Petworth House and Park, a 17th-century Grade I listed country house in Petworth, West Sussex, England, in the United Kingdom. It is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s by Anthony Salvin. For centuries, it was the southern home for the House of Percy. Petworth is famous for its extensive art collection, containing many works by Turner and intricate carvings by Grinling Gibbons. ( National Trust ).
Landscaped park by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.
St Mary Magdalene Chapel, is within the grounds of Croome Court a National Trust property in Worcestershire, England. The Chapel is of a early Gothic Revival and sits alongside the National Trust house and landscape of Croome Park, laid out by Capability Brown. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/worcestershire-herefordshi...
The gardens of Sheffield Park, near Haywards Heath in East Sussex, were originally laid out in the 18th century by Lancelot “Capability” Brown – regarded as England’s greatest gardener. He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure.
The house as seen from the park, landscaped by Capability Brown. Both the grounds and the rooms have been used as film settings. Films or series shot here include Mrs Brown, The Crown, The Young Victoria, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and several more.
A few weeks ago I posted a image of the ornamental lake at Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire. Capability Brown planned the extensive parkland including the lake in the eighteenth century. Nothing about this lake is natural but was designed to give the owner a pleasing outlook from his house. To add to the owner’s pleasure this mock classical summerhouse was built at the top of the lake allowing the family to enjoy the vita in some style
Good heavens I managed a fence on a Friday HFF
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Stowe Landscape Gardens, which surround the late 17th century Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, date from the early 18th century and are a significant example of the English Garden style. They have been in the care of the National Trust since 1989. The 750 acres of landscaped grounds, which include two lakes, have 40 listed temples and monuments within them. A number of outstanding designers and architects worked on the gardens in the 18th century, including Charles Bridgeman, John Vanburgh, Capability Brown and James Gibbs.
This will be my last posting for ten days as we are off to Shropshire for a week and then spending three days at my holiday home in Cornwall. Hopefully we'll have reasonable weather! In the meantime thank you for all your visits and your kind comments, which I very much appreciate.
Situated about four miles from Stafford, Ingestre Hall has a history dating back to the 12th century and it was the ancestral home of two of the most powerful Staffordshire families, the Chetwynds and the Talbots. The land was part of the Baronry of Stafford which was granted by William the Conqueror to Robert de Stafford. In the 12th century, at the time of King Henry II, the manor belonged to Ivo de Mutton, and when Isabel de Mutton married Sir Philip Chetwynd in the 13th century, the estate became home to the Chetwynd family.
In 1494 a feud erupted between Sir William Chetwynd and Sir Humphrey Stanley, the Sheriff of Stafford, who were both royal courtiers. Sir Humphrey was jealous of William’s standing at Court and set a trap to eliminate his rival. He lured William out of Ingestre with a forged letter, asking him to attend a meeting early one morning at Stafford. On the way to Stafford, with just his son and two servants to accompany him, Sir William’s party was set upon at Tixall Heath by twenty heavily-armed men and Sir William was killed. It was said that Sir Humphrey then ‘happened’ to pass by the scene, claiming to be on a deer hunting expedition, despite the fact that deer had not been spotted in the area for years. Although it was clear that Stanley had been responsible for the murder of his rival, he was never brought to trial or punished.
Sir Walter Chetwynd arranged for the original hall to be built in 1613 in the Jacobean style. Walter’s grandson (also Walter) was a noted 17th century antiquarian and, under his ownership during the 1670s, a church was built alongside the hall, which was reputedly designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
In 1748 Catherine Chetwynd married the Honourable John Talbot, a British judge, who inherited the estate though his wife, becoming John Chetwynd-Talbot. The famous landscaper, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown laid out the plans for the formal grounds, and gardens in 1756, including his signature piece, a ha-ha.
During the 1830s an Orangery was built close to the hall. It was originally believed to have been designed by the architect brothers James and Samuel Wyatt, but is now believed to have been taken from the Wyatt’s plans of the Orangery at Blithfield Hall, which had been copied by Henry Ward, a Stafford planning officer.
In 1856 the 3rd Earl Talbot, Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, became the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, after a lengthy inheritance battle in the House of Lords. The original hall was more or less destroyed in 1882 when a fire swept through it, many valuable paintings and antiques were lost, and the hall was then rebuilt, in the same Jacobean style as the original build.
The 21st Earl of Shrewsbury sold the estate in 1959 and it is now a combination of business ventures. Part of the hall is owned by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council who run a Residential Arts Centre and the Orangery is an event venue.
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Landscape garden, parkland and woodland in East Sussex. Designed in the 18th century by Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.
A fascinating "garden room" designed by Capability Brown in the grounds of Croome Park between 1754 and 1757. This Estate is now part of the National Trust collection and was once the residence of the Early Coventry. It is a beautiful place to visit with its rolling grounds with superb buildings and idyllic setting in the shadows of the Malvern Hills.
The exquisite St Mary Magdalene's Church, built of warm Bath stone, stands at the top of a hill overlooking the fabulous landscaped gardens of Croome Park in Worcestershire. It was built in the 1750s by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry.
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The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Barbara, Countess of Coventry in 1798–1799. Broadway Hill was a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester—about 22 miles (35 km) away—and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the tower was clearly visible.
From 1822 to 1862, the tower housed the private printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps.[1] By the mid-1870s, it was being rented by C. J. Stone and Cormell Price. Price was headmaster of the United Services College at Westward Ho! and a friend of artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in 1876 Morris wrote in a letter to Aglaia Coronio that he was "up at Crom Price's Tower among the winds and the clouds".
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
In the late 1950s, an underground Royal Observer Corps bunker was built 50 yards (46 m) away to collect evidence of nuclear explosions. It was decommissioned in 1991 but has been restored and is now one of the few such Cold War monitoring facilities in England still extant and accessible to visitors.
Information by Wikipedia.
Artwork by William Walton & Topaz Studio 2
Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath in East Sussex. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
CSXT MP15AC 1189 pulls a set of tanks from Heinz Portion Control in Jacksonville, FL. The 1189 is one of only a handful of MP15s remaining on the CSX roster and is likely only left because of it's remote control capability. Heinz makes small sauce packets here and receives corn syrup and other oils and tomato paste by rail. The remote operator would set out an empty tank, replace it with a load and also spot a loaded boxcar of tomato paste, which gets tucked away at the farthest spot on the spur where the only unloading door is located.
The National Trust's Croome in Worcestershire is an 18th century house in grounds designed by ‘Capability’ Brown. At the heart of the park is Croome Court, the former home of the 6th Earl of Coventry.
A Plate here reads:-
The Hammersmith Society
Lancelot Capability Brown
1716-1783
Father of the English Landscape Garden
Lived by the river in Hammersmith 1751-1764
Sculptor: Laury Dizengremel
Sheffield Park and Garden is owned by the National Trust. The original landscaping was done by Capability Brown in the 18th century, but the woodland garden was developed in the early 20th century with trees from many different countries. I love our native trees, but they lack reds in the Autumn, so I always enjoy visiting Sheffield Park, where I can lose myself in wonderful, vibrant colour.
The National Trust's Croome in Worcestershire is an 18th century house in grounds designed by Capability Brown. At the heart of the park, Croome Court, the former home of the 6th Earl of Coventry is a light, open space. Displays created by collaborating, as the Earl once did, with emerging new craftsmen and designers to create a house and garden into a landscape to remember.
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Broadway Tower is a unique Capability Brown Folly Tower open to visitors wanting to experience great English heritage in an inspiring location. It is one of England’s outstanding viewpoints and at 1024 feet (312m) above sea level, it is the second highest point on the Cotswold escarpment with unrivalled views. You can survey an expanse of a 62 mile radius and as many as 16 Counties. With Graphic displays on three floors, roof viewing platform and Tower Shop.
I've described the South Shore as the Duneland Essence on more than one occasion on here, and many many more times than that in real life conversation. While I'm grateful for the unique photo opportunities the Double Track NWI project is bringing, I can't help but feel sad that the centuries-in-the-making interurban feel will effectively die with it. That is what I, and most others that I know, will miss the most. Scenes such as this, an electrified commuter railroad coming within 25' of a house, and but up against multiple backyards with nothing in between the two. This isn't some two-times-yearly used branchline for railcar storage, though I've always felt this location certainly gives that impression. You might notice the basketball hoop in the backyard of the blue house - sure enough, a few minutes before this was taken, the local youth were playing a friendly game that resulted in their ball landing right in the middle of the gauge multiple times.
But, as I mentioned, I have to be grateful that there are still -some- opportunities available to photograph trains in these places, and with so much work going on, what you can frame up are often subjects you could almost never see before the project began. This train was no exception.
The current infrastructure has had the capability to run electrified passenger trains many times a day between mileposts 33.0, where we are here, and 44.0 near Dune Park. Now, this stretch has been completely deenergized - overhead electric, signals, everything is now dark. Instead of doing 79 miles per between Michigan City and Chesterton, all train movements are now warrant-controlled, restricted to 25mph max, and all road crossings between the two mileposts are considered out of service, requiring all trains to stop before proceeding at each. Thankfully, a very small amount of CSS freight trains and the occasional work train on the NICTD side are all that pass through this stretch. This is a bit different though.
NICTD is still offering options for passengers to be bused between stations at Michigan City and Dune Park (out of the work zone, where business is still as usual). As a result, the passenger trains now begin and terminate at Dune Park, where they can be serviced at the base level - mostly just janitorial tasks. But, like everything in life, it's only a matter of time before something more serious requires attention from a shop - in this case, the South Shore's shops in Michigan City.
To take care of this, the passenger guys have been doing occasional ferry moves of EMUs between the two locations through the work zone, and here is one such example. My favorite motor on the South Shore period (freight and passenger considered), NICD 1001, with all its nose light excellence, was the power this morning with five EMUs for Dune Park. The crew has just received their track warrant to pass the dark signal directly behind me, and are treating me and my camera to quite a smoke-filled show getting their train back up to speed... smoking is another nice trait about this unit. The horn ain't bad either!
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The National Trust’s Dinefwr estate in West Wales contains an extensive collection of ancient oak trees. The ruined castle is visible on the hill promontory to the right. Capability Brown advised on the layout of its parkland.
Plants and reflections in the river at Croome, Worcestershire . The river and ornamental lake are the artificial creations of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Designed as 'eye catchers ' in this his first ever commission of a landscaped parkland.
The National Trust’s Dinefwr estate in West Wales contains an extensive collection of ancient oak trees. The ruined castle is visible on the hill promontory to the right. Capability Brown advised on the layout of its parkland.
A view looking across the front lawn towards this stunning example of Elizabethan Archietcure. Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.
Twistleton Scar End, Ingleton
I'm not convinced by this one. Like most people we were lead to believe these ravaged windblown trees were the work of nature herself but now we are not so sure.
For on our decent we came across the remains of a pristine skeleton, picked clean to the bone by the indigenous carnivorous Swaledale sheep that use to terrorise these dales in the early 18th century. We deduced the remains to be that of a gardener, possibly Capability Grey (so named for his love of granite) - the little know brother of Capability Brown - the famous 18th century landscape gardener. So called for his creative workings of the landscape that we now know today as the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.
He disappeared at the height of his fame, just before his younger brother got the gig to do Chatsworth. Could this be sibling rivalry or fowl play... only history and a proper forensic investigation will determine the truth, but rural budgets are tight at the moment.
I hear you ask, what makes you think these are the remains of a gardener and the unknown Capability Grey?... it was the rusty pruning shears still gripped in his skeleton hand!
What is it like to be a bat? Can we ever truly know what is meant by the subjective experience, or the objective? Do we even perceive the same reality..? What a peculiar existence we perpetuate ;)
Croome Court mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry, and were Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the mansion's rooms were designed by Robert Adam.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust which operates it as a tourist attraction. The National Trust owns the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
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1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress
2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (Merriam-Webster)
Resiliencia:
Del ingl. resilience, y este der. del lat. resiliens, -entis, part. pres. act. de resilīre 'saltar hacia atrás, rebotar', 'replegarse'.
1. f. Capacidad de adaptación de un ser vivo frente a un agente perturbador o un estado o situación adversos. (Real Academia Española).
I know it is not a daily use word. But this word, along with empathy, which this should be known by everyone, and holistic, among others, are unknown words for my ignorant president of my country (yes, without capital letters), and he is proud to say it. He says that he cannot rule the country with such "elegant" words. But any man that doesn't know empathy for the people in his country and that does not how how the majority of the Mexican people how they have need to adapt to this adverse times, he doesn't deserve to be in front of our great Country.
Sé que esta no es una palabra de uso común. Pero esta palabra, junto con empatía, la cual debería de ser conocida, y practicada por todos, y holístico, entre otras, son desconocidas por el presidente ignorante de mi país (sí, así con letras minúsculas, porque así se lo ha ganado) y él está orgulloso de mencionarlo. Él dice que no puede gobernar al país con "esas palabras elegantes". Pero aquel hombre que no practica la empatía con sus connacionales y que no conoce cómo la mayoría de los Mexicanos se han tenido que adaptar a las situaciones tan adversas en estos últimos años, no merece estar al frente de un país tan grande como el nuestro.
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The Coffered Ceiling detail inside Capability Brown's Rotunda at Croome. The Stucco reliefs were added in 1761 ,and are the work of Francesco Vassalli.
The National Trust managed Croome Court estate is a fine place for a walk, with various points of interest strung around the large park . Like many of them the Rotunda overlooks Croome Court, the Ornamental Lake, and river walks and pastures.
View from the Terrace over the South lawn. A Capability Brown landscape. The tent and disturbed ground near the lake are part of an excavation of Gawthorpe Hall which stood on the site until the early 1700's when Edwin Lascelles had Harewood House built.
Ickworth House, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The House was built between the years of 1795 and 1829 to the designs of the Italian Architect Mario Asprucci, his most noted work being the Villa Borghese. It was this work that Frederick Hervey, the then 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry had seen.
Asprucci’s plans were then taken up by the brothers Francis & Joseph Sandys, English architects.
The Parkland, of which there is 1,800 acres in total, was designed by Capability Brown and was Italianate in style. This style much loved by the 4th Earl.
Most of the friezes running around the rotunda were based upon John Flaxman’s illustrations of The Iliad and The Odyssey although, within the entrance portico there are some panels designed by Lady Caroline, the Earl’s Granddaughter and are based upon the Roman Olympic Games.
There are many works of art inside the house and very much well worth the visit.
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.
It is a neoclassical country house building which was designed by Henry Holland in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. It has a somewhat austere exterior, but the interiors are subtle and delicate. Berrington Hall is home to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837) and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill which can be viewed by appointment. The 'below stairs' areas and servants' quarters which are open to the public include a Victorian laundry and Georgian dairy. Berrington has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957 and is, along with its gardens, open to the public.
Berrington features Capability Brown's last landscape design [1]. A notable feature is the ha-ha wall which was subject of extensive renovation in the late 20th century by local craftsmen. Berrington Pool, a lake and island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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The rear of Roche Abbey (by Maltby Beck), a ruined Cisterian monastery situated near Maltby, in South Yorkshire. The abbey is at the Northern edge of what was once Sherwood forest, and Robin Hood is said to have taken mass there regularly.
Like most other abbeys, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, following which the local community despoiled it for timber, stone and lead, as well as the property within. The remains were left to fall to ruin, and the land came into the hands of the Earl of Scarbrough, who emplyed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown who buried much of it under turf in the late 1700s. There it remained for two centuries until excavated in the 1920s, and is now cared for by English Heritage.
Taken on a walk with the NTU Chaplaincy, using a Pentax Optio S.
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from the gardens - spot the deer by zooming in.
This was the work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown who was commissioned by the 4th Duke of Devonshire to landscape the parkland - and what a good job he did !
see the link for more information about his contribution to Chatsworth
www.capabilitybrown.org/sites/default/files/capability_br...