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View from near the south door of St Mary the Virgin Church. There are two other lakes and together they surround on three sides the hilltop the church stands on. Together they make two of the sources of the River Nene.
In the 1760s and 70s Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, the landscape gardener transformed the park by damming one of the lakes and creating sweeping vistas, planting trees and laying lawns. Many of the trees can still be seen today. Diarist Horace Walpole noted that Brown was at Fawsley in 1763. His account books show that he was paid £700 (almost the equivalent of £1.2 million in 2015) in 1765-66. There was a second contract in 1767-68 for £550 (or the equivalent of £938,400 in 2015).
From the website firle.com/a-short-history-of-fawsley-northamptonshire/
I walked about seven miles that day, and apart from an elderly dog walker who stopped to say hello and have a chat near the church, I never saw another person.
The Duke of Northumberland's Estate and the whole of Capability Brown's beautifully landscaped lake to myself!
The National Trust’s Berrington Hall, a fine Georgian mansion near Leominster in Herefordshire, stands proud and strong with ‘Capability’ Brown’s final garden and landscape. It is a neoclassical country house that Henry Holland designed in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley.
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) was the UK's most famous landscape architects, and he changed the face of Britain forever. He worked on some 250 sites.
47757 'Capability Brown' drags 87010 ‘King Arthur’ past Ordsall Lane with 1P57 10:20 Northampton - Preston diversion on Sunday 7th December 2003.
Last few minutes of a deep golden sunset across the Croome Court House & Estate made famous by 'Capability Brown' now an National Trust site located in the heart of rural Worcestershire.
Lancelot Brown, more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener"
This is perhaps my favourite shot of the mini series, the light was so soft and warm you easily and comfortably look in the direction of the setting sun without hurting your eyes. Really just magical moment and I had it all to myself!
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.
Beruwala Harbour, in Beruwala, Sri Lanka, is one of the main fishery harbours on the western coast of Sri Lanka.
It is situated in the southern edge of the Kalutara district, which is about 60 km south of Colombo.
It has the capability of supplying berthing, refrigeration and fuel facilities which are often needed by fishing boats.
Clumber Park is a country park, in part designed by Capability Brown, in the Dukeries near Worksop in Nottinghamshire, England. It was formerly the park of a country house called "Clumber House", which was the principal seat of the Pelham-Clinton Dukes of Newcastle from the early 18th century onwards. It is owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
When, in March 1879 a serious fire destroyed much of Clumber House, the 7th Duke of Newcastle had it magnificently rebuilt to designs by the younger Charles Barry.
This house was demolished in 1938. Charles Boot of Henry Boot Construction, was contracted to do the demolition and he removed a vast array of statues, facades and fountains to his Derbyshire home, Thornbridge Hall, although the bulk were lost to private buyers through auction. However, many features remain, including an outstanding Gothic Revival Chapel built by the 7th Duke of Newcastle, and walled kitchen garden with glass houses.
Clumber Park is over 3,800 acres (15 km²) in extent, including woods, open heath and rolling farmland. It contains a superb, 87 acre (352,000 m²), serpentine lake, and the longest double avenue of lime trees in Europe . The avenue extends over three miles (5 km), and was created by the 5th Duke of Newcastle in the 19th Century.
60002 "Capability Brown" starts the process of forming up 6D40, the 14:28 Hendon to Lindsey Petrofina at 13:53 on 2nd August 1995. This flow had run for many years but came to an end sometime in 1997. Looking at Google Earth the terminal has been flattened but the tracks remain. The docks lines on the right are shown as lifted. In recent months a new scrap flow has started running from Sunderland docks to Cardiff Tidal using MBA wagons. This flow is loaded on the entrance line to the docks further back than this location.
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Castle Ashby aerial image - Northamptonshire. Built around 1574 to 1600. Landscaped by Capability Brown #CastleAshby #aerial #image #Northamptonshire #AerialPhotography
SAC 01 NATO Strategic Airlift Capability Boeing C-17A Globemaster III - Eindhoven Airport (EIN / EHEH)
Burghley House aerial image - RAF Wittering in the background. The airfield was established in 1916 as RFC Stamford, becoming RAF Wittering in 1918. The great house was built in the 16th century in Lincolnshire by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Elizabeth I. Parkland landscaped by Capability Brown.
Aerial view of Burghley
Photographed in full-frame detail using a Nikon D850, this is a high-resolution aerial image
When Fuji brought the first prime to its X-mount in 2012, it became an instant hit. While far from perfect optically, it has often been described as magical by many Fuji users. For a long time I considered myself a 35/85 guy, and that was why I hadn’t purchased this lens until 2020 when I finally completed my yearlong “50mm training” and felt 100% comfortable with this versatile focal length. I immediately realized how much I had missed out before. With a lightweight but solid build and a simple 8/6 optical design, this lens just strikes the perfect balance of sharpness, 3-dimensionality, and the capability to produce an organic look.
Amazing visitor in Paris CDG today, as this C-17 came for a fuel stop. Unfortunately it was parked on a far away stand (Romeo 6), but I could save this picture.
By combining the power of a "natural lens" in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.
Finding such a galaxy early in the history of the universe challenges the current understanding of how massive galaxies form and evolve, say researchers.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/2sWwKkc
caption: Acting as a “natural telescope” in space, the gravity of the extremely massive foreground galaxy cluster MACS J2129-0741 magnifies, brightens, and distorts the far-distant background galaxy MACS2129-1, shown in the top box. The middle box is a blown-up view of the gravitationally lensed galaxy. In the bottom box is a reconstructed image, based on modeling that shows what the galaxy would look like if the galaxy cluster were not present. The galaxy appears red because it is so distant that its light is shifted into the red part of the spectrum.
Credits: NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI), and the CLASH team
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Back in time again this was the second NT property visited whilst in Herefordshire. Two the same day in fact and it's now Mid Afternoon, whereas the first was Mid Morning. It's also much brighter now.
Berrington Hall is a fine Georgian Mansion sitting within the final garden and landscape 'Capability' Brown completed before his death in 1783.
During the 20th Century it was the seat of the Cawley family. It is a Neoclassical Country House designed in 1778-81 by Henry Holland for its original owner Thomas Harley.
Along with nearby Croft Castle - two very interesting places well worth visiting - this one especially for its the lake and beautiful garden.
A hybrid computing system developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment testing a relative navigation and autonomous docking capability known as Raven.
Developed by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division, or SSPD, the carry-on luggage-sized module was launched February 19 aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, along with other experiments deployed outside the International Space Station on an experiment pallet. Raven is testing and maturing visible, infrared and lidar sensors and machine-vision algorithms; the module will bring NASA one step closer to realizing the groundbreaking autopilot capability that can be applied to many NASA missions for decades to come.
Image credit: NASA
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.
Art of Capability, Lancelot Brown ...
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Capability Walled Garden at Markeaton Park, Derby. It’s a dementia friendly space which seemed to resonate with the empty bird boxes.
One of NATO's Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) C-17 Globemasters arriving at Glasgow for a fuel stop. It arrived from Pápa Air Base, Hungary, and departed to Charleston (CHS), SC.
A NATO C-17 taxiing to appear on static display at Royal International Air Tattoo 2019, RAF Fairford.
Thick fog this morning new It would be worth getting out early before it vanished........
Looking at the rear of Syon House, my back to the Thames, this tree is believed to be a Capability Brown remnant.
Syon House, and its 200-acre (80 hectare) park, Syon Park, is in west London, historically within the parish of Isleworth, in the county of Middlesex. It belongs to the Duke of Northumberland and is now his family's London residence.
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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.
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Croome, Worcestershire. St Mary Magdalene church was built in the Georgian Gothic style in 1758. It was designed by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with an interior by Robert Adam and is Grade 1 listed. The building is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, after being declared redundant in 1973. There are monuments to the Coventry family (who lived at Croome Court - now National Trust), and the churchyard contains the graves of former servants of the family.
Croome d'Abitot, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire - Church of St Mary Magdalene, High Green
June 2025
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More snow was predicted today for the area I live in, but it hasn't arrived. So with no snowscapes to photograph, I've been looking through my summer photos. As this beautiful tower stands on such a high point, I can get photos of it with lovely blue sky behind it. I visited the tower during a day out with my friend
Broadway Tower was the brainchild of the great 18th Century landscape designer, Capability Brown. His vision was carried out for George William 6th Earl of Coventry
with the help of renowned architect James Wyatt and completed in 1798.
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. Unrivalled views survey an expanse of a 62 mile radius and as many as 16 Counties.
Results of a 'play' session uisng new photographic toys in Petworth Park.
It's now the end of March 2023 and all we want some good light...
In terms of the landscape, it's entirely artificial.
This bridge was built in 1758 for the 2nd Earl Strafford to carry a carriageway and footpath over the Serpentine River on his estate. This allowed access from the house to the entrance at Strafford Gate. The river has now partially dried up, but sections of water still remain.
The Serpentine Bridge is a single span stone bridge (Waymark Code: WMDZR7IS). It spans the contour canal. The stone steps were added later. It's a Grade II Listed Building in accordance with Historic England and Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.
Between 2005 and 2008 restoration work was carried out on the Serpentine Bridge balustrade, Rotunda Temple, Gun Room, the Ha-Ha, Corinthian Temple and Archers Hill Gate. Work had not begun on the Tuscan Temple.
The repairs to the Serpentine Bridge were to reinstate the vandalised section of stone balustrade as per the original design back in the 18th century (1758).
Although Capability Brown has traditionally been associated with the park at Wentworth Castle, there is no evidence he was consulted.
Wentworth Castle Gardens is a Grade I Registered Landscape, the only one of its kind in South Yorkshire. There are over 26 individually listed buildings and structures in the grounds and parkland. The site consists of
over 60 acres of formal gardens and 500 acres of wider parkland. The main house and some of the surrounding buildings are owned by Northern College, which provides residential and community education for adults.
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Landscaped by Lancelot “Capability” Brown,
this estate is crowned by a Neo-Greco-Roman mansion,
now used as part of Stowe Public School.
Brown ensured that from the house a number of Classical structures would provide, eye-line, focal points within the Park Landscape.
These include the scaled-down copies of Greek Temples, like the one shown,
Obelisks, Columns with statues and a Corinthian Arch,
centred on the house, nearly a mile to the south-east.
The lakes and valleys provide slopes and water, to further enhance the vistas and present a variety of eco-systems.
Copse woodland and mature trees lining vast, sweeping lawns.
Wood-fringed lakes, streams and waterfalls.
Wild meadow land, farm-land and a maze of interconnecting drives and paths.
This lake is known as the Octagonal Lake.
A brood of Coot chicks briefly swam out into the open, but lily-covered, expanse of water.
Mum and Dad Coots ushered them back into the safety of the nest amongst the reeds, rushes and Water-Irises.
The adults then swam out to forage for food before returning to the nest.
Although far from natural, the Estate has matured and provides a very pleasant and relaxing environment, managed in recent times by the National Trust.
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.
Croome, Worcestershire - the memorial of the 4th Baron of Coventry who died in 1687, it shows him reclining on a sarcophagus reaching towards a figure of Faith. St Mary Magdalene church was built in the Georgian Gothic style in 1758. It was designed by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with an interior by Robert Adam and is Grade 1 listed. The building is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, after being declared redundant in 1973. There are monuments to the Coventry family (who lived at Croome Court - now National Trust), and the churchyard contains the graves of former servants of the family.
Croome d'Abitot, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire - Church of St Mary Magdalene, High Green
June 2025
The Grotto Statue, at the end of the lake, found in the Gardens around Croome Court, near Pershore, Worcestershine, England.
Croome Court is a mid 18th century neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland .
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632. Man must fight against darkness by the side of light, since being in alliance with light is being in alliance with Himself.
633. The fight against darkness manifesting in the world is essential. But my foremost duty is the battle against the darkness in my very own soul.
634. The battle against darkness must be omnidimensional.
635. All things that are light-like are in solidarity with one another.
636. In the highest sense of actionality, action and inaction, doing and non-doing (Chinese wei wu wei) coincide with one another: this is when non-doing becomes an act, and doing takes its place in the calm manner of non-doing.
637. (Mors triumphalis) Triumphal death on the battlefield means victory over death, for though I could not conquer the enemy, I triumphed over death - externally I went under death, internally however I won and ascended triumphally.
638. From a traditional perspective, offensive war is considered to be more appropriate than defensive war, viz. the latter acts under coercion.
639. Each heroically orientated man is ab ovo pacific (but not a pacifist): he is not only inclined to establish peace, but has the capability to accomplish it - and he does so.
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Metaphysical aphorisms by András László