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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.
Detail in Compton Verney chapel, built by Capability Brown in 1776. Brown demolished the medieval chapel beside the lake in 1772 as part of his landscape garden designs, but erected a new chapel in neo-classical style, bringing many of the older family monuments to the new building.
”Bartok five-four” arrives from Papa Airbase, Hungary for the annual Swedish Air Force Day held in Uppsala this year. And a history lesson: Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
New build Renault with Falkom FAW 25000 equipment. A credit to the owner and thanks to the driver who is rightly proud and enthusiastic about the truck and its capability.
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 winter view of the Claremont Landscape Garden lake, an integral part of the breathtaking Lancelot 'Capability' Brown vista near Esher in Surrey.
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.
Since 1949 this glorious setting has been owned and administered by the National Trust.
This is the first time that I have visited the house and gardens of Compton Verney. Whilst the art galleries are impressive, it was the gardens that leant themselves to the camera. Here is a picture of the lake with the Bridge from Lancelot "Capability" Brown's landscaping in the background.
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.
Here's one I took a couple of summers ago - nice to hark back to warmer days even if there are clouds in the skies.
Lancelot "Capability" Brown was the on-trend garden designer of the day.
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.
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
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!
Rotating out from Prestwick airport near Glasgow in Ayrshire Scotland is this 433rd Air Wing based at the Kelly Field Annex, Joint Base San Anonio, Texas Lockheed C5 Super Galaxy.
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft originally designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin. It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
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.
Swirling through the air with gleeful chatter, snow bunting seem to roam like an ever moving drift of fluttering snowflakes, buffeted by the winds. I am always in search of that great photograph of these elusive little birds but their impulsive and apprehensive nature make them most difficult to photograph. I am ever intrigued by their habit of rubbing off the brown tips of their feathers after molting, until they are almost completely white and black. What kind of self-awareness does it take to realize that one has the ability to change how one looks to better suit one’s surroundings. It seems that it takes a significant process of thought. humans do not wish to allow ourselves to believe that animals as small as this could possibly possess that capability. Explaining this otherwise could be difficult. #SnowBunting
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.
35mm Slide Scan
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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.
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c/n 26.361 - built in 1998 for Japan Airlines -
converted to freighter in 2008 - wfu 11/1/2010 -
to Kalitta Air 12/2010
CF6-80C2B1F- engines
The 747-400BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter) is a conversion program for standard passenger 747-400 aircraft. The project was launched in 2004 with conversions by approved contractors such as HAECO, KAL Aerospace and SIA Engineering Company. 50 of these aircraft were converted by the BCF program. Boeing announced the end of the BCF program for the 747-400 in 2016, although conversions had ceased years earlier with no orders after 2012
The B-747-400/BCF has the stretched upper-deck of the passenger plane and no nose-loading capability. The airplane can carry up to 107 tonnes of freight compared with 124 tonnes for the factory-built B-747-400F
The Überwachungsradar M-64N6 is the search and acquisition part of the S-250P missile system in service with the Dessauer Nationale Volksarmee. It provides acquisition capability against both aerial and ballistic missile targets, of which it can detect up to 200 per sweep, and either six or twelve can be individually tracked for engagements. The MANN 815 nA provides it with excellent mobility, athough the small size of the platform makes a fully independent setup impossible. The M-64N6 is therefore only used in conjunction with a mobile command post and a generator.
Another modification of Erik’s truck from his M-75M Dudola, because it made for a perfect radar platform. The radar itself was inspired by the 64N6 "BIG BIRD".
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.
EWS 47757 'Capability Brown' crosses Long Marton viaduct at 14:33 heading the 13:52 Carlisle-Preston 'Virgin Trains drag', the 1M64 12:04 Glasgow Central to London Euston on Sunday 8th February 2004. This photo was taken just before its catastrophic failure and subsequent withdrawal from service. It languished at Carlisle Upperby depot until November 2005, when it was towed away for scrap at T.J. Thompson at Stockton. It had entered traffic at Tinsley TMD in October 1964 as D1779 and was a popular Stratford 'Brush Type 4' for over a decade as 47184/47585 'County of Cambridgeshire, between 1978 and 1988.
A scan from a medium format transparency
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Claremont estate
The first house on the Claremont estate was built in 1708 by Sir John Vanbrugh, the Restoration playwright and architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, for his own use. This "very small box", as he described it, stood on the level ground in front of the present mansion. At the same time, he built the stables and the walled gardens, also probably White Cottage, which is now the Sixth Form Centre of Claremont Fan Court School.
In 1714, he sold the house to the wealthy Whig politician Thomas Pelham-Holles, Earl of Clare, who later became Duke of Newcastle and served twice as Prime Minister. The earl commissioned Vanbrugh to add two great wings to the house and to build a fortress-like turret on an adjoining knoll. From this so-called "prospect-house", or belvedere, he and his guests could admire the views of the Surrey countryside as they took refreshments and played hazard, a popular dice game.
In the clear eighteenth-century air it was apparently possible to see Windsor Castle and St Paul's Cathedral. The Earl of Clare named his country seat Clare-mount, later contracted to Claremont. The two lodges at the Copsem Lane entrance were added at this time.
Landscape garden
Main article: Claremont Landscape Garden
Claremont landscape garden is one of the earliest surviving gardens of its kind of landscape design, the English Landscape Garden — still featuring its original 18th century layout. The extensive landscaped grounds of Claremont represents the work of some of the best known landscape gardeners, Charles Bridgeman, Capability Brown, William Kent (with Thomas Greening) and Sir John Vanbrugh.[2]
Work on the gardens began around 1715 and, by 1727, they were described as "the noblest of any in Europe". Within the grounds, overlooking the lake, is an unusual turfed amphitheatre.
A feature in the grounds is the Belvedere Tower, designed by Vanbrugh for the Duke of Newcastle. The tower is unusual in that, what appear to be windows, are actually bricks painted black and white. It is now owned by Claremont Fan Court School, which is situated alongside the gardens.
In 1949, the landscape garden was donated to the National Trust for stewardship and protection. A restoration programme was launched in 1975 following a significant donation by the Slater Foundation. The garden is Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[3]
Capability Brown's mansion, built for Lord Clive of India
The Duke of Newcastle died in 1768 and, in 1769, his widow sold the estate to Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, founder of Britain's Indian Empire. Although the great house was then little more than fifty years old, it was aesthetically and politically out of fashion. Lord Clive decided to demolish the house and commissioned Capability Brown to build the present Palladian mansion on higher and dryer ground. Brown, more accomplished as a landscape designer than an architect, took on his future son-in-law Henry Holland as a junior partner owing to the scale of the project. John Soane (later Sir John Soane) was employed in Holland's office at this time and worked on the project as a draftsman and junior designer.[4] Holland's interiors for Claremont owe much to the contemporary work of Robert Adam.
Lord Clive, by now a rich Nabob, is reputed to have spent over £100,000 on rebuilding the house and the complete remodelling of the celebrated pleasure ground. However, Lord Clive ended up never living at the property, as he died in 1774—the year that the house was completed. The estate then passed through a rapid succession of owners; first being sold "for not more than one third of what the house and alterations had cost"[5] to Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway, and then to George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, and finally to Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford.[6]
A large map entitled "Claremont Palace", situated in what is called "Clive's room" inside the mansion, shows the mansion and its surrounding grounds; giving a detailed overview of the campus. The map likely dates back to the 1860s, when the mansion was frequently occupied by Queen Victoria (thus it having been christened "palace"). However, the exact date is still unknown. The relief in Claremont's front pediment is of Clive's coat of arms impaled with that of Maskelyne, his wife's family.
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Ickworth Park. With over 1,800 acres of parkland designed by Capability Brown, the house and its grounds were created as an homage to Italy, the country so beloved by Frederick Augustus Hervey, the 4th Earl of Bristol. The Earl-Bishop spent his life travelling the continent, gathering together a vast collection of paintings, sculpture and artefacts. Already possessed of several houses, he conceived Ickworth primarily as a museum for his treasures. At his death only the Rotunda - the giant circular structure at the centre of the two wings, described by Hervey's wife as 'a stupendous moment of Folly' - was nearing completion. The house was eventually finished by his son. Although Hervey's treasures, confiscated during the French invasion of Italy, were destined never to occupy Ickworth, his descendants made it their life's work to rebuild what has become an exceptional collection of art and silver. Paintings housed in the galleries include works by Velázquez, Titian and Poussin, while the collection of 18th-century portraits of the family is exceptionally fine, featuring canvases by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Vigée-Lebrun and Hogarth. In addition to one of the very best British collections of Georgian Huguenot silver, Ickworth is also home to an impressive array of Regency furniture, porcelain, and domestic objects. More made a career of producing idealised Italian landscapes. His Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa, painted in 1780 and funded in 1993, is a typical work, the misty soft-focus and pastel light adding to its appeal. Hugh Douglas Hamilton's The Earl Bishop of Bristol and Derry Seated before the Prospect of Rome shows Hervey seated at what is thought to be the southern tip of the Borghese Gardens. Ickworth's parklands and gardens can provide a day's activity in their own right. The south gardens are modelled on the formal Italian style, while the gardens to the west of the house are more informal. Visitors can walk or cycle out into the park itself and up to the Fairy Lake. Bright and modern, The West Wing Restaurant overlooks the gardens and can be guaranteed to catch any sunlight on offer. It serves everything from hot meals to snacks, and at weekends the restaurant is open for breakfast. If you're after something rather more formal, try Frederick's restaurant at Ickworth Hotel in the grounds.
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.
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's by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
History[edit]
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.
Rhododendron in Sheffield Park Garden
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.[1] The Australian team won by an innings and 6 runs
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Charlecote Park, Charlecote, Stratford on Avon
English Heritage Grade 1 listed
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Charlecote Park is a Grade 1 listed, grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon in Charlecote, near Stratford on Avon and Warwick. The Lucy family owned the land from 1247. Charlecote Park was originally built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the original Elizabethan house remains, the present house is of mostly Victorian construction. Successive generations of the Lucy family modified Charlecote Park over the centuries until George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house in 1823 and set about recreating the house in its original Tudor style.
Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare was said to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man, and to have been brought before the magistrates. The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760.
Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d. 1845), who in December 1822 had married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, Wales. Seven years of major renovation and rebuilding followed, including an extension on the river side, were commenced in 1829. G.H.Lucy's second son, Henry, inherited the estate in 1847 from his elder brother. In 1848, Mary Elizabeth Lucy had what she described as that wretched Norman Church demolished, replacing it with the current St. Leonards Church in 1853.
Charlecote Park has extensive grounds. A parterre has been recreated from the original 1700s plans. The livestock at Charlecote includes fallow deer and Jacob sheep, which were brought to England from Portugal in 1755 by George Lucy
In 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in lieu of death duties
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Thanks for 93,640,335 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 08.05.2022 at Charlecote Park, Caharlecote, Stratford on Avon REF 159d-005
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.
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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. The decoration on the walls is curious too: all delicately carved in wood 'tiles', apparently the work of apprentices.
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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