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The "Grand Bridge" at Blenheim Palace, Oxford. Designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and partially flooded by Capability Brown to create the Queen's Pool and the Great Lake.
Savernake Forest in Autumn. Running right through the middle of the Forest is Capability Brown's 'Grand Avenue'. This avenue of beech trees - now a Private Road - was laid out in the late 1790's, and at just over 4 miles long it stands in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest Avenue in Britain.
Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the large village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds (after Cleeve Hill). Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high.
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 Lady Coventry in 1798–99.
As a change from macro shots I took out the wide angle lens! This view of Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge across the 'King Pool' of the lake that 'Capability Brown' created at Blenheim is a view that captures something of the effect of Capability Brown's vision. You come to this view as you climb a hill around a shoulder of land, so the Bridge comes into view within about 3 paces. The effect is stunning, as you can see if you sit there and watch the reactions of people! I like the framing that Brown achieved with his tree plantings too. We had really good light on many days in February which I think is captured in this image.
The gateweay to 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 Scarborouh, 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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Capability Brown's parkland landscape at Temple Newsam, dates from the 1760s and retained in pristine but updated condition.
Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed as a woodland garden in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
Blenheim Palace and the famous bridge seen across the lake, created by the great landscape designer Capability Brown.
The lake is the flooded river Glyme, a small tributary of the Thames. A long exposure blurs the movement of the water and clouds, drawing attention to the static elements of the shot.
A very cool visitor in Ramstein AFB, Germany, was this NATO-owned C-17 Globemaster!
I now have 2 out of 3 planes in the fleet, based in Pàpa, Hungary! The sun pierced through the sky at the right time!!
Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house built in 1679 and largely renovated in the 1840s, with a park designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century.
Also very well know for the hit tv series Downton Abbey.
If you like this one, I'm sure you'll love some of the prints I have on Imagekind!
From the name Sheffield Park, you might assume that this was in Sheffield. It is, but it's not the one famous for its steel.
This is Sheffield Park Garden in East Sussex, which is not a million miles away from the seaside town of Brighton.
Sheffield Park Garden has some excellent autumn foliage, and is also home to one of the national Azalea collections; so it's particularly pretty in both spring and autumn.
The garden was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown an internationally renowned landscape gardener from the eighteenth century.
Tech:
Canon EOS 400D (aka Digital Rebel XTi), Canon EF-S 10-22.
Three exposures (0+/-2), centred at f4.5 @ 1/45th ISO100
3xRAW converted to 16bit TIFF and CA corrected with DPP, HDR and ToneMapping in Photomatix, final contrast and sharpening in Photoshop CS2.
N.B image replaced Sep09 to correct a minor colour cast.
Isn't this three wheel off road motorised wheelchair amazing. It gives so much independence to people with disabilities. This man was fishing the Pine River at Tinchi Tamba Wetlands in northern Brisbane and he needed its off road capability to get into where he found a great spot. Wonder if he caught any? Maybe the Red Bull helps make the day.
De Strategic Airlift Capability is een samenwerkingsverband van 12 landen, waarvan 10 NAVO lidstaten en twee landen van de 'Partnerschap voor de Vrede'.
Om een gezamelijke luchtbrug te onderhouden heeft de SAC drie C-17 toestellen onder hun hoede. Al deze toestellen staan gestationeerd op Pápa Air Base in Hongarije. Op de staart van de C-17 is de naam van deze vliegbasis te lezen.
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 Lady Coventry in 1798–1799. The tower was built on 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 beacon could be seen clearly.
Croome, Worcestershire. Both house and gardens at Croome Court were designed by Capability Brown between 1751-2, rebuilding an earlier house from the 1640s. The estate was requisitioned in WW2, but was not used for troops, being offered to the Dutch Royal family, but nearby, and partly within the grounds, RAF Defford was established, an important location for the Telecommunications Research Establishment. They left in 1957 as the runways were too short. The house was sold by the Croome Estate Trust in 1948, and became St Josephs Special School until 1979. Taken over by the Hare Krishna movement, it became known as Chaitanya College with involvement from George Harrison, who created recording studios within the house. They left in 1984 and the house was used for several short-term activities, including a training centre; apartments; a restaurant and conference centre; a hotel and golf course, and a private family home. In 2007, it was purchased by the Croome Heritage Trust, who leased it to the National Trust. Croome Court is grade 1 listed.
Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore, Worcestershire, West Midlands, England - Croome Court, High Green
June 2025
Croome is an 18th century landscape park, garden and mansion house in south Worcestershire designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with some features by Robert Adam. The park and garden are currently managed and owned by the National Trust
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.
Blenheim Palace is one of the finest examples of the English baroque style. It was constructed under the direction of the “A list” of early 18th Century designers, Sir John Vanburgh, Nicholas Hawksmoor and Capability Brown. UNESCO recognised the palace as a World Heritage Site in 1987.
The birthplace of Winston Churchill
Capability Brown's landscaping at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. A B&W 10 stop ND filter was used to give a 25 second exposure.
Temple Newsam House is a magnificent Tudor/Jacobean House over 500 years old surrounded by extensive gardens. The present gardens were landscaped by Capability Brown in the 1760s and are a stunning place to visit at any time of the year - and no better time than autumn.
Built in the 1960s to NATO specification, and at the height of the Cold War, the Scottish Fuel Depots situated at Garelochhead (adjacent to the Clyde Naval Base), Loch Striven (near Dunoon), Loch Ewe (in Wester Ross) and Campbeltown provide a mainly maritime fuelling facility to visiting UK & NATO vessels.
Capacity of all 4 sites at the time of original build totalled 702M litres, capable of handling Gas Oil and Aviation fuel. This total has since reduced to 600M litres due to infrastructure reductions at Garelochhead. With the withdrawal particularly of the US Navy from the West Coast of Scotland, the UK-only requirements for fuelling have dropped to today’s forecast prediction of approx 50M. Periodic reviews have continued to confirm that from a military perspective the 4 depots and their location are nonetheless strategically required in spite of the considerable excess capacity held.
The challenge therefore was either to offset MOD’s overheads and liabilities by reducing running costs of each site to a minimum care and maintenance basis or to find some means of exploiting the spare capacity whilst retaining the military capability.
Apologies in advance for the quality of this image but it was dark down in the lower levels of the Diefenbunker. This was the Gold Room, where Canada's gold reserves would be stored in the event of a nuclear blast during the cold war. I gather the gold would have no value if irradiated so had to be protected. Thankfully, it was never needed and no gold was ever stored here - though I have difficulty understanding how something so heavy could be moved in quantity on short notice.
A bit of history: to keep the vault secure, the government installed a top of the line Mosler safe. The latter was a world-renowned safe manufacturer based in the US. They had a unique claim to fame after the first nuclear weapons were used against Japan at the end of World War II. A number of Mosler safes were being used in the Mitsui Bank, located in Hiroshima. When the atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ was detonated, some of the safes miraculously withstood the explosion. Their unexpected capability of withstanding a nuclear blast led to their unprecedented rise in popularity during the Cold War when the threat of nuclear attack seemed imminent.
Grimsthorpe Castle stands in rolling parkland north-west of Bourne in Lincolnshire. The core of the house goes back to the early 1200s when a fortified manor with King John’s Tower guarded routes between the Fen edge and the Great North Road. Later medieval owners included the de Gant and Lovell families before the estate was taken into Crown hands.
In 1516 Henry VIII granted Grimsthorpe to William Willoughby, 11th Lord Willoughby de Eresby, as a wedding gift when he married Maria de Salinas, lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon. Their daughter Katherine Willoughby inherited the estate and married Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, one of Henry’s closest friends. Brandon rebuilt and enlarged the house in grand Tudor style using stone from the dissolved Vaudey Abbey and Henry VIII stayed here in 1541 on his northern progress.
In the early 18th century Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, commissioned Sir John Vanbrugh to redesign the north front. Vanbrugh created the great Baroque façade with its central hall and corner towers which still gives the castle its dramatic outline. A little later Lancelot “Capability” Brown reshaped the surrounding park with lakes, long avenues, woodland belts and sweeping lawns so the house sat at the heart of a designed landscape.
Through the female line the property passed to the Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby family who still hold the historic title of Baron Willoughby de Eresby. The castle and park saw military use in both world wars, then returned fully to family occupation in the mid-20th century. Notable later residents include Nancy, Viscountess Astor, who spent her final years here with her daughter.
Today Grimsthorpe remains the country seat of Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. The house, formal gardens and wider park are managed by the Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust which looks after the buildings, collections and landscape, opens them to visitors on selected days and uses events, filming and weddings to help support the upkeep of this long-lived Lincolnshire castle.
Aerial - Grimsthorpe Castle
Operator: NATO - Strategic Airlift Capability
Aircraft: Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
Registration: 08-0001 (SAC 01)
C/n: F-207
Time & Location: 03.11.2017, EFTP, Finland
SAC 01 NATO Strategic Airlift Capability Boeing C-17A Globemaster III- F-207 landing @TRD/ENVA 22.10.18
To expand the operational capability of the air expeditonary wing, I needed an eye in the sky - an airborne surveillance and command post: an AWACS in its pre 2000 configuration. It is 88 studs long by 84 studs wide. As far as I can tell, at this scale, it is unique. The only functional elements are a free turning radome and front crew door. As the wings are long and made of slopes laying horizontaly, I've used a fishing line tied to engines #2 & 3 to hold them into position. The system is discrete and works very well - for transport and display purpose.
Probably Prior Park's best known feature, the Palladian Bridge, is an elegant and eye-catching example of architecture. The Palladian Bridge at Prior Park Landscape Garden was built in 1755, the last of three of its kind built in England.
It was created in the 18th century by local entrepreneur Ralph Allen, with advice from 'Capability' Brown and the poet Alexander Pope.
Palladian architecture reached the height of its popularity in England during the 18th century.
Venetian architect Andrea Palladio inspired the building of structures such as the bridges at Prior Park and at Stourhead.
Palladio himself was influenced by the classical architecture of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans.
Croome Court and Landscape in Worcestershire was
Designed by Capability Brown with plenty of help from
Robert Adam. The land used to extend to around 20,000 acres
Back in the late 18th Centaury.
These days there's about 700 acres, plenty for a good walk.
Following on from my post about David Garrick's villa in Hampton, this is his rather splendid Temple to Shakespeare, which he built in his riverside garden.
Garrick, widely regarded as England’s greatest actor/manager, was devoted to Shakespeare and frequently appeared in his plays on the London stage. He consulted the landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, who lived nearby at Hampton Court, about the grounds, and it was he who suggested building a grotto-like tunnel (which still exists) under the road between the house and the riverside part of the grounds. He also suggested creating serpentine paths, which have recently been reconstructed in the Temple Lawn gardens.
The octagonal Temple was built in 1755-6 not only to entertain visitors but also to house some of Garrick’s mementos to his beloved Shakespeare, which he had collected over the years. The riverside grounds are freely open to the public, and the Temple is open on selected days.
Garrick died in 1779 and, appropriately, was buried in Westminster Abbey beneath the foot of Shakespeare.
Information adapted from the Twickenham Museum’s website: www.twickenham-museum.org.uk
The splendid Grade One Listed Coombe Abbey Hotel near Coventry with gardens designed by Capability Brown a huge lake with a Heronry and large area of Woodland to walk around. The house itself is now a Country Hotel which hosts Medieval Banquets but the gardens are still I believe owned by Coventry City Council who bought them in 1964, the Earls Of Craven had possession until 1923.
Soldiers from the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Florida National Guard move a litter during pre-mobilization training at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center. The team recently used the Exportable Combat Training Capability or XCTC, which gave them a more realistic feel to their training. (Photo by 1st Lt. Paul O'Leary, Florida National Guard)
We took a trip to the National Trust property of Croome Court in Worcestershire yesterday. It is a beautiful country home and estate. The gardens designed and landscaped by Capability Brown - a delight to walk around on a warm sunny day.
I couldn't resist this group of laid back visitors ... and their dog. LOL the dog was trying to get dad up to play - dad wasn't budging!
Capability Brown was a was a well known English gardener and landscape architect (born 1716 died1783 )He worked on many of the parks of well known English country house
Chatsworth House est un vaste château situé dans le Derbyshire, en Angleterre, à quelques kilomètres de la ville de Bakewell. Édifié originellement au xvie siècle pour Bess of Hardwick, comtesse de Shrewsbury, Chatsworth est le fief des ducs de Devonshire, dont le patronyme est Cavendish. Le domaine se trouve sur la rive gauche de la rivière Derwent et dans les limites du Parc national du Peak District.
En 1687, l'architecte William Talman reconstruisit le château dans un esprit baroque et en fit la première des country houses d'Angleterre. Au xviiie siècle, le parc fut redessiné dans le goût néoclassique par le paysagiste Capability Brown et agrémenté de fabriques par l'architecte James Paine.
Le château, ouvert au public, contient d'importantes collections de mobilier et d'objets d'art ainsi que des toiles de maître, dont la première version des Bergers d'Arcadie de Nicolas Poussin.
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Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, England, in the Derbyshire Dales 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northeast of Bakewell and 9 miles (14 km) west of Chesterfield (SK260700). The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549.
Standing on the east bank of the River Derwent, Chatsworth looks across to the low hills that divide the Derwent and Wye valleys. The house, set in expansive parkland and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland, contains an important collection of paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artefacts. Chatsworth has been selected as the United Kingdom's favourite country house several times.
By the artificial lake created by Capability Brown for the Duke of Marlborough Estate at Blenheim, Oxfordshire
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Construction Number - F-210
Aircraft Type - Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
Test registration - 08-0002
Production Site - Long Beach (LGB)
4.0 liter / 6 cyl)
3,959 cc (242 cu in) I6, OHV Gasoline.
177 hp (132 kW) at 4,500 rpm. 224 lb⋅ft (304 N⋅m) at 2,500 rpm
Kingsway, and, E King Edward Ave
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
XJ generation, was a rugged, unibody SUV known for its off-road capability, AMC 4.0L inline-six engine, available in 2WD or 4WD with manual or automatic transmissions, and offered premium Laredo trim with amenities like power windows and air conditioning.
Kirkharle Hall was a country house at Kirkharle, the former seat of the Loraine family, now much reduced and in use as a farmhouse. The estate church is dedicated to St Wilfrid (634-709AD) and is Grade 1 listed, with most of the building dating from 1336.
Kirkharle's most famous son is Capability Brown, the notable landscape gardener.
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (bapt.1716 -1783) was born in Kirkharle and baptised in St Wilfrid's Church, Kirkharle, on 30 August 1716. His actual birthdate is not known. He was the fifth of the six children of William Brown, a yeoman farmer and Ursula, née Hall, who had also worked in the big house on the Kirkharle estate.[11]
Lancelot attended the village school in nearby Cambo until the age of 16. In 1732, the young Brown began work at the Kirkharle estate, learning many skills in gardening, planting and land reclamation, leaving to further his career in 1739.[11]
Sir William Loraine, 4th Baronet, inherited the estate in 1755 aged 6 and when he came of age, Brown produced a design plan for him to replace the early 18th century formal gardens with a more naturalistic landscape, probably around 1770.[10] Brown's scheme included single trees, tree belts, a serpentine lake and a new approach, but was only partially implemented. The lake was not created, only part of the semi-circular approach was laid out, and the walled garden may not have been built.
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Stowe Gardens
The history of the gardens
In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely-renowned for its magnificent gardens created by the man who owned Stowe at the time, Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham. In the 1710s and 1720s, Charles Bridgeman, the garden designer, and John Vanbrugh, the architect, designed an English baroque park, inspired by the work of London, Wise and Switzer.
In the 1730s, William Kent and James Gibbs were appointed to work with Bridgeman, who died in 1738. Kent had already created the glorious garden at Rousham House, and he was joined by Giacomo Leoni to build temples, bridges, and other garden structures. Kent's Temple of Ancient Virtue (1734) looks across the Elysian Fields to the Shrine of British Worthies.
In 1741, Capability Brown was appointed head gardener. He worked with Kent until the latter's death in 1748, before his own departure in 1751. In these years, Bridgeman's octagonal pond and eleven-acre lake were given a "naturalistic" shape, and a Palladian bridge was added in 1744. Brown contrived a Grecian valley which, despite its name, is an abstract composition of landform and woodland. As Loudon remarked in 1831, "nature has done little or nothing; man a great deal, and time has improved his labours".