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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 in the early years of the 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
The gardens originally formed part of the estate of the adjacent Sheffield Park House, a gothic country house, which is still in private ownership. It was also firstly owned by the West Family and later by the Soames family until in 1925 the estate was sold by Arthur Granville Soames, who had inherited it from his childless uncle, Arthur Gilstrap Soames.
Sheffield Park as an estate is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In August 1538, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, entertained Henry VIII here. By 1700, the Deer Park had been partially formalised by Lord De La Warr who planted avenues of trees radiating from the house and cleared areas to establish lawns. In the late 1700s, James Wyatt remodelled the house in the fashionable Gothic style and Capability Brown was commissioned to landscape the garden. The original four lakes form the centrepiece. Humphry Repton followed Brown in 1789–1790. In 1796, the estate was sold to John Holroyd, created Baron Sheffield in 1781. It is particularly noted for its plantings of trees selected for autumn colour, including many Black Tupelos.
By 1885, an arboretum was being established, consisting of both exotic and native trees. After Arthur Gilstrap Soames purchased the estate in 1910, he continued large-scale planting. During World War II the house and garden became the headquarters for a Canadian armoured division, and Nissen huts were sited in the garden and woods. The estate was split up and sold in lots in 1953. The National Trust purchased approximately 40 ha in 1954, now up to 80 ha with subsequent additions. It is home to the National Collection of Ghent azaleas.
In 1876 the third Earl of Sheffield laid out a cricket pitch. It was used on 12 May 1884 for the first cricket match between England and Australia. The Australian team won by an innings and 6 runs.
Burghley House aerial image - built in the 16th century in Lincolnshire by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Elizabeth I. Parkland landscaped by Capability Brown.
Photographed in full-frame detail using a Nikon D850, this is a high-resolution aerial image
Aerial view of Burghley House and Park
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 in the early years of the 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
The gardens originally formed part of the estate of the adjacent Sheffield Park House, a gothic country house, which is still in private ownership. It was also firstly owned by the West Family and later by the Soames family until in 1925 the estate was sold by Arthur Granville Soames, who had inherited it from his childless uncle, Arthur Gilstrap Soames.
Sheffield Park as an estate is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In August 1538, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, entertained Henry VIII here. By 1700, the Deer Park had been partially formalised by Lord De La Warr who planted avenues of trees radiating from the house and cleared areas to establish lawns. In the late 1700s, James Wyatt remodelled the house in the fashionable Gothic style and Capability Brown was commissioned to landscape the garden. The original four lakes form the centrepiece. Humphry Repton followed Brown in 1789–1790. In 1796, the estate was sold to John Holroyd, created Baron Sheffield in 1781. It is particularly noted for its plantings of trees selected for autumn colour, including many Black Tupelos.
By 1885, an arboretum was being established, consisting of both exotic and native trees. After Arthur Gilstrap Soames purchased the estate in 1910, he continued large-scale planting. During World War II the house and garden became the headquarters for a Canadian armoured division, and Nissen huts were sited in the garden and woods. The estate was split up and sold in lots in 1953. The National Trust purchased approximately 40 ha in 1954, now up to 80 ha with subsequent additions. It is home to the National Collection of Ghent azaleas.
In 1876 the third Earl of Sheffield laid out a cricket pitch. It was used on 12 May 1884 for the first cricket match between England and Australia. The Australian team won by an innings and 6 runs.
Harrier GR9 VTOL 02/ZD321. The harrier is famous for its vertical take-off and landing capability by thrust vectoring. Photographed at the Leuchars Air show on 11 Septmber 2010.
Berrington Hall
Good old fashioned entertainment at Berrington Hall, Shropshire. A National Trust property dated around 1775. The gardens and lake were designed by Capability Brown and were to be his final landscape design.
Berrington Hall was a location for the TV series Downton Abbey. There was a lovely display of costumes used by the various characters in this and other TV series.
EXPLORED #56. May 13th 2015
For The Creative Challenge Group theme. Communication.
Communicating through music, reading stories and board games. Plus being viewed by millions in the TV series Downton Abbey.
At the top of the Roman stairs you come to an ante-chapel and the chapel itself, a lavish 18th-century creation by the 9th Earl. It had previously been a dark and gloomy space apparently, but a new plaster ceiling and much else besides by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, who was also working on the landscape outdoors, brought it into the first style of elegance. This is the panelled arch between the anteroom and the chapel itself, showing the massive thickness of its walls.
60002 "Capability Brown" - 6M57 (0852 Humber Oil Refinery - Kingsbury Oil Terminal, which was formed of 20 loaded TEAs) - Stenson Jn - 1244 - 20/04/93, whilst 58013 waited to head the other way with 6D48 from Willington Power Station to Toton Nth Yd.
Croome Court is a mid-18th century neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore in south Worcestershire. The 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.
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the shadow of a manor house and its beautiful park ...
not influenced by Cambridge Analytica ... are you ?
talked with British people about the Brexit and was startled, I remember ...
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Hungarian Defence Force registered Boeing C-17 Globemaster III Ser. No 02 of the 12 nation Strategic Airlift Capability flies through a rainbow landing at RAF Leeming with a cargo of Swedish Air Force Blackhawk Helicopters. Hungary has a special role in the Strategic Airlift Capability as it is host nation. SAC C-17s are registered and flagged in Hungary. They also bear the national military aircraft insignia of the nation. It also provides the Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) Pápa Air Base to be the SAC home base.
One of Brown’s major achievements at North Cray was the reshaping of the River Cray to create a ribbon-like lake. He designed the Five Arch Bridge, which was mainly brick and included a weir on its north side. Other Brown bridges at Temple Newsam, Yorkshire and Compton Verney, Warwickshire, were built in stone and more elegant in their design. It is thought that Coventry, who was described by writer and essayist Charles Lamb as “a hoarder rather than a miser”, was keeping a close eye on the budget here.
Brown would have needed all his skills and experience in earth-moving and drainage at North Cray. The Cray is a chalk river with wide, shallow sections of gravel. To create a watertight lining Brown probably used a mixture of wet clay and sand or puddling clay. He may also have been dealing with low water levels here as a result of work at the Foots Cray estate, on the other side of the river. The bridge, weir and two islands gave the lake an unusual 'neck', which looked elegant and maintained the water level.
IMAX Cinema, Rear View
The IMAX cinema was the first IMAX cinema to be built in Scotland. The single auditorium seats 370 in front of a rectangular screen measuring 80 feet (24 m) by 60 feet (18 m) and has the capability to show 3D films as well as standard 2D films in IMAX format. It opened to the public in October 2000 Premiered The First Film Entitled "Dolphins", several months prior to the opening of the two other buildings. On 6 September 2013, Cineworld agreed a 10-year lease to operate the IMAX cinema and opened a Starbucks on site.
The buildings are wrapped in cutting-edge materials including titanium and aluminium, and form a single entity thanks to features such as a linking teflon fabric roof and a ‘discovery’ tunnel.
Even Mother Nature wanted to partake in the North Carolina National Guard's 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT)'s eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) exercise.
The XCTC has over 4,000 Citizen-Soldiers from Minnesota, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and the country of Moldova honing their combat skills of “Shoot, Move, Communicate, and Sustain”. (Photo Composite by SSG Brendan Stephens, NC National Guard Public Affairs)
The nuclear capability of the Empire of Shiryoku is displayed here with its SS-NX-38 Ballistic Missile Submarine. A small model of the submarine displays best all the engineering details of the inside and outside design.
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This particular model is a GEN Shiryoku specialty submarine, manned by approximately fifty elite nuclear warfare agents. The mission is to avoid war at all cost.
Made for Decisive Action 4!
Croome, Worcestershire. The Adam Staircase. 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
After putting up an experimental version from the same morning, I thought I would go a bit more traditional with this one.
A shot of the islands at Pirton Lake, part of the Croome estate. The house and parkland was Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's first landscape design.
A gloriously long beech hedge (Fagus sylvatica) in the National Trust’s Claremont Landscape Garden, just south of Esher in Surrey. Once a sanctuary for the country’s wealthy and elite, this garden and its wonderful Lancelot 'Capability' Brown landscape can now be enjoyed by everyone.
Work on the gardens began around 1715 and within a few years they were described as "the noblest of any in Europe". They were much enjoyed by Queen Victoria, who stayed with her Uncle Leopold at his nearby Claremont mansion, where she delighted in being away from the public eye. The gardens were acquired by the National Trust in 1949.
மாற்றுத்திறனாளி meaning 'Person with alternate capability'
This is one of the powerful and positive word i came across in Tamizh.
The way we express things makes a lot of difference and this word is a good example.
What would you prefer? calling a person 'handicap' or 'person with alternate capability'
This photo has such poor resolution, but I kept it anyway. The iPhone11 Pro Max has a three lens camera, but it’s still pretty much a crap camera. I obviously over-zoomed it’s capability here. Once again, evidence that I should never leave the house without a decent camera.
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Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the 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. 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.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s. William Morris was so inspired by Broadway Tower and other ancient buildings that he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee, as well as a gift shop and restaurant. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village.
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.
I know next to nothing about this guy except that he was a boss in Arkham: Origins and is kind of your average, everyday dude (minus the pyromania and full body third-degree burns). MCU Yellowjacket was such a ridiculously dumb character to have in my collection, so I reasoned that I might as well repurpose him for a slightly less dumb DC character.
Firefly's backpack is just a heavily retooled version of Yellowjacket's. I purposely designed the giant yellow fuel tanks to be highly exposed so that he can be taken out easily by anyone with half a brain and a 9mm. Overall, the entire assembly is bulky, not very aerodynamic, and has exposed turbines on the posterior wings (not visible in this photo) that can be easily jammed with a careful batarang throw. Hell, someone with a pair of safety scissors could snip his fuel supply line running from a secondary tank valve on his right wing and cripple his entire offensive capability. He's a true glass cannon, wielding immense firepower with laughable durability.
Check out my secondary photostream (tagged below) for a breakdown of the backpack build! The fig formula is pretty simple - it's just the MCU Yellowjacket minifigure with a Lego Movie Robo-SWAT head. But really any head with red, pupil-less eyes should work just as well.
Castle Ashby aerial image - Northamptonshire. Built around 1574 to 1600. Landscaped by Capability Brown #CastleAshby #aerial #image #Northamptonshire #AerialPhotography
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One of Brown’s major achievements at North Cray was the reshaping of the River Cray to create a ribbon-like lake. He designed the Five Arch Bridge, which was mainly brick and included a weir on its north side. Other Brown bridges at Temple Newsam, Yorkshire and Compton Verney, Warwickshire, were built in stone and more elegant in their design. It is thought that Coventry, who was described by writer and essayist Charles Lamb as “a hoarder rather than a miser”, was keeping a close eye on the budget here.
Brown would have needed all his skills and experience in earth-moving and drainage at North Cray. The Cray is a chalk river with wide, shallow sections of gravel. To create a watertight lining Brown probably used a mixture of wet clay and sand or puddling clay. He may also have been dealing with low water levels here as a result of work at the Foots Cray estate, on the other side of the river. The bridge, weir and two islands gave the lake an unusual 'neck', which looked elegant and maintained the water level.
Seen in Sepia. Natural Framing.
There were once a total of 4 Loggias in the grounds of Trentham Gardens and this is the only Loggia that remains. The path to the left leads up to the old Hall through the Italian Gardens. Straight ahead takes you to the lake.
The Silver Birch trees frame the Loggia and the arches of the Loggia frame the gardens. Capability Brown (1716 - 1788) knew a thing or two about designing and framing!
The beautiful Coach House next to Compton Verney was built to designs by James Gibbs in 1736-43 and converted for residential use in 1984.
Compton Verney in Warwickshire is an award-winning art gallery located in a beautiful 18th century Grade I listed mansion built by Robert Adam. The house is set in over 120 acres of landscaped grounds designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. There was a manor at Compton Verney at least as early as 1150.
Capability Brown, John Constable und William Turner ... !!!
Diese Räume durchschritt William Turner (1775 - 1851) und ließ sich von dem wunderschönen "Arkadien" vor den Fenstern inspirieren.
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Bauwerke von außerordentlicher, teilweise internationaler Bedeutung. (englisch Grade I buildings are of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important.)
Die Ursprünge von Petworth House reichen bis ins 12. Jahrhundert zurück.
George Wyndham, 3. Earl of Egremont, ließ von 1774 bis 1779 von Matthew Brettingham dem Jüngeren den State Bedroom zur White Library umbauen. Unter ihm erlebte Petworth ein "goldenes Zeitalter".
Der 3. Earl of Egremont war ein großzügiger Mäzen, unter anderem von John Constable (1776 - 1837) und William Turner.
Zur damaligen Zeit gab es keine Museen im heutigen Sinne und die Künstler waren darauf angewiesen, die anderen Malergrößen in Privatsammlungen zu studieren.
Turner malte zwischen 1827 und 1837 zwanzig Ölgemälde und rund 100 Aquarelle in Petworth, darunter Motive aus dem Park und der Innenausstattung.
Für seine wachsende Kunstsammlung ließ der 3. Earl of Egremont die North Gallery von 1824 bis 1827 erneut erweitern und umbauen.
Hinter dem Herrenhaus beginnt ein insgesamt 294 ha großer Park. Ein erster kleiner Park wird im 13. Jahrhundert erwähnt, zur Zeit des 9. Earls of Northumberland umfasste der Park bereits über 160 ha.
Der um 1700 von George London angelegte Barockgarten wurde von 1751 bis 1765 von Capability Brown in einen Englischen Garten umgewandelt.
Der Park gilt als einer der gelungensten Landschaftsgärten von Capability Brown.
Brown gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Landschaftsarchitekten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Seine eifrigen Bemühungen im Finden von Möglichkeiten (eng. „capabilities“) zur Umgestaltung vorhandener alter Gartenanlagen im neuen von ihm vertretenen Stil verhalfen ihm zu seinem Beinamen Capability Brown.
In seiner Schaffenszeit war er an über 170 Gartenbauprojekten beteiligt und er hatte maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Parks im englischen Stil.
Brown (1716 - 1783) war ein Vorreiter des Landschaftsbaus. Seine Gartenwerke gehören zu den ersten, die nicht allein die unmittelbare Umgebung miteinbezogen, sondern weitflächig die umgebende Landschaft integrierten und mitgestalteten, er vollzog den Übergang von der reinen Schlossparkarchitektur zur großflächigen Landschaftsgestaltung.
Er benutzte dazu die von William Kent entwickelte Technik der „clumps and dots“, bei der auf dem weitläufigen Gelände durch einzelne Bäume (dots) und Baumgruppen (clumps) ein natürlich malerischer Eindruck erzeugt wird.
Riesige Rasenflächen, die von Viehherden niedrig gehalten werden mussten, waren ebenso auszeichnend für sein Werk.
Um die Tiere von dem unmittelbaren Landgut fernzuhalten, nutzte er eine als Ha-Ha bekannte Grabenkonstruktion.
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Bowood is a grade I listed Georgian country house with interiors by Robert Adam and a garden designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown. It is adjacent to the village of Derry Hill, halfway between Calne and Chippenham in Wiltshire, England. The greater part of the house was demolished in 1956.
The ruins 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 Scarboouh, 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. Following feedback I also tried a B&W conversion. Which do you prefer?
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Castle Ashby aerial image - Northamptonshire. Built around 1574 to 1600. Landscaped by Capability Brown #CastleAshby #aerial #image #Northamptonshire #AerialPhotography
Staff. Sgt. Thomas Reich, a supply sergeant assigned to Company E, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment, 185th Aviation Brigade, Mississippi Army National Guard, marshals the landing of an AH-64 Apache helicopter at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Miss., on Aug. 3, 2015. The Apache helicopters were landing on a Forward Arming and Refueling Point – an area for combat aircraft to rapidly refuel and rearm simultaneously. Approximately 4,600 soldiers from the Active, National Guard, and Reserve components are partnering in Mississippi for the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team’s Exportable Combat Training Capability exercise. (Mississippi National Guard photo by Sgt. Tim Morgan, 102nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment/Released)
NASA carried out a critical hot fire of the redesigned RS-25 engine April 26 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, demonstrating the gimbaling, or pivoting, capabilities needed to stabilize a rocket during a launch and flight to space.
Operators at the nation’s largest propulsion test site conducted the first gimbal test of the current RS-25 engine certification series on the Fred Haise Test Stand. The certification series is supporting lead engine contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne as it prepares to produce additional RS-25 engines for future SLS (Space Launch System) flights.
The new production includes engines for future Artemis missions to the Moon, as NASA returns humans to the lunar surface to establish a long-term presence for scientific discovery and to prepare for human missions to Mars.
During a 12-minute (720 seconds) hot fire, operators gimbaled the RS-25 engine using a NASA Stennis-developed system to enable pivoting of the engine, mirroring maneuvers needed during launch and flight of the SLS rocket. The 720-second hot fire marks the longest-duration test of an RS-25 certification engine in the current test series.
Image credit: NASA
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60002 "Capability Brown" passing Hartlepool with 6D40, the 14:28 Hendon to Lindsey Petrofina on 2nd August 1995. This flow had run for many years but came to an end sometime in 1997. Taken from a footbridge I remember we were concerned hanging around as the area was not the best place to have camera equipment on show.
Not so good 35mm Slide Scan
Blenheim Palace's 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.
One of the first with the new camera system, loving the features but its always easy to adjust to a new way of working. Optical to Electonic viewfinder being one, different processing techniques and colouring.
But the features are pretty solid, the bracketing, high ISO capability. Both change the game for landscape work
The gem of Berrington Hall is the unique walled garden. One segment, the kitchen garden has featured several modern art installations over the past few years and consists of Georgian-inspired herb beds, orchards, vegetable and flower beds. Attached to the kitchen garden is an impressive curved-wall section which is currently being restored by the National Trust after housing a farmyard for the past century. Visitors are welcome to view this space and follow the journey of ‘Capability’ Brown’s final vision brought to light.