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A visit to Charlecote Park for an afternoon visit to this National Trust property in Warwickshire. Near Stratford-upon-Avon. A deer park with a country house in the middle of it.
Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.
The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was 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 Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.
Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result.
From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy.
In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.
The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850).
Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from who's extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy.
From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II 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. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.
Deer near the Lake in Hill Park at Charlecote Park
Signing Ceremony of the Letter of Intent for a Capability Coalition for Electro-magnetic Warfare with Latvia, Norway, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Germany, France, Poland, Denmark, Czechia, and Lithuania
Sledmere House, ancestral home of the Tatton Sykes family. Built in the second half of the eighteenth century, this country pile in the heart of the Yorkshire Wolds features a park designed by 'Capability' Brown.
Pictured: Air Marshal Sir Rich Knighton KCB, Deputy Commander Capability, RAF speaks at the Atlantic Future Forum.
ATLANTIC FUTURE FORUM 2022
The 2022 Atlantic Future Forum (AFF) took place on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, Thursday 29th September at anchor off New York City during her deployment to the USA.
The event, two day conference, brings together the brightest minds and most influential thinkers-from defence and beyond-to strengthen the US-UK special relationship and encourage collaboration between the public and private sector. Through a series of keynote speeches and panel discussions, the Forum will explore how both private and public sector and US and UK interests can work together to maximise the opportunities – and mitigate the risks – posed by current and future technologies.
The Forum will be an opportunity for senior politicians, policymakers, military leaders and academia, together with business leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss the new dimensions of international security and the future technologies which will define the next decade and beyond.
The Forum will be led by the Department for International Trade (DIT), working alongside the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to strengthen the trade and economic pillars of the Euro-Atlantic alliance and reinforce our security and defence partnerships with like-minded, democratic allies. The AFF is chaired by Lord Sedwill and will be co-hosted by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ben Key and HM Ambassador Dame Karen Pierce.
HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed from Portsmouth on the 7th September 2022 for New York, United States of America, to host Atlantic Future Forum before continuing on operations.
Croome Park is a landscaped country park surrounding Croome Court, in Worcestershire. It was Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's first complete landscape design, begun in 1751 for George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry. The mansion house was also designed by Brown and is a rare example of his architectural work.
The Court has recently been acquired by the National Trust and is currently being renovated.
Croome Court is a grade 1 listed building.
ROYAL MAIL MARKS 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF CAPABILITY BROWN'S BIRTH
15.08.2016 | category: General
Royal Mail has launched a set of eight Special Stamps to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
Brown is remembered as ‘the last of the great eighteenth century artists’ and as ‘England’s greatest gardener’. The stamps showcase eight of the best loved examples of Capability Brown’s work and are a celebration of his contribution to the English landscape.
Locations on the stamps feature: Blenheim Palace, Longleat, Compton Verney, Highclere Castle, Alnwick Castle, Berrington Hall, Stowe and Croome Park.
Ceryl Evans, Director of the Capability Brown Festival, said: “It is wonderful that Royal Mail has issued a set of Special Stamps to celebrate the work of Lancelot "Capability" Brown in his tercentenary year. The Capability Brown Festival is working to raise the profile and understanding of historic landscapes and what better way to bring these stunning images into people’s lives, homes and offices than on a stamp.”
Philip Parker, Stamp Strategy Manager, Royal Mail, said: “During his lifetime, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown literally changed the face of Georgian England. By the time of his death, he was known to have shaped or influenced around 250 landscapes - these stamps pay tribute to the lasting legacy of his work.”
The stamps are available from 16 August at www.royalmail.com/landscapegardens and 8,000 Post Offices.
For seven days from 16 August, Royal Mail will provide a special handstamp on all mail posted at the postbox in Kirkharle. The handstamp will run from 16-22 August and will feature a line drawing of Brown based on the portrait of him painted by Richard Cosway, c.1770-75, by the kind permission of Bridgeman Images.
For seven days from 16 August, Royal Mail will provide a special handstamp on all mail posted at the postbox at the junction of the B6342 and Kirkharle Cottages. The handstamp will run from 16-22 August and will feature a line drawing of Brown based on the portrait of him painted by Richard Cosway, c.1770-75.
Compton Verney House is an 18th century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire, England, which has been converted into the Compton Verney Art Gallery. It is an award-winning art gallery and is set in 120 acres of spectacular 'Capability' Brown parkland and children's playground.
The Rolls-Royce Spitfire, PS853, is an unarmed, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, one of a batch of 79 Mk XIXs built at Supermarine, Southampton. The Mk XIX was powered by the 2,050 hp Griffon 65 or 66 and represents the pinnacle of the Spitfire’s development in terms of speed and altitude capability with a top speed of 446mph (730 km/h) and a ceiling of 42,000ft (12,800 m).
PS853 was delivered to the Central Photographic Reconnaissance Unit at RAF Benson on 13 January 1945, before moving to Belgium and Holland. The aircraft was engaged on active service with 16 Squadron up until the end of the war and participated in “Operation Crossbow” to detect V1 and V2 launch sites.
At the end of the war it remained on duty in Germany until March 1946 when it returned to the UK and was placed in storage. In 1950, PS853 was one of several Mk XIX Spitfires assigned to conduct meteorological research, known as the Temperature and Humidity of the Upper Air Masses (THUM) Flight. PS853 performed the last ever THUM sortie on 10 June 1957. Along with sister XIXs PM631 and PS915, PS853 retired into ceremonial and display duties to form the RAF’s Historic Aircraft Flight, the forerunner of today’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF). It spent less than a year with the HAF before being transferred to other duties. In 1963 PS853 was selected for a very special mission where it was used in combat trials with an English Electric Lightning at RAF Binbrook. After completing these trials PS853 was returned to the BBMF in 1964 where it remained until 1995.
In 1996, Rolls-Royce bought PS853 to replace the original Rolls-Royce Spitfire XIV, G-ALGT. The aircraft was re-registered as G-RRGN; the RR for obvious reasons and the GN after the drawing number prefix allocated to Griffon engine parts. The aircraft is painted as 'C' of No. 16 Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 2nd Tactical Air Force, being the identity PS853 wore during its wartime service.
The Rolls-Royce Spitfire, as PS853 is now popularly known, has become widely renowned as an ambassador for Rolls-Royce appearing at air displays and charity events as well as at our own corporate events. Not only does it represent the heritage of the Spitfire and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered them, it honours the pilots of all nations who flew them and the men and women who built and maintained them.
The aircraft is based in a dedicated hangar at East Midlands Airport, near Derby. It can be seen around the display circuit between April and October and during the winter months the aircraft undergoes an annual maintenance inspection programme.
In 2010, 65 years after its first delivery to RAF service, PS853 was taken out of service for its first major overhaul. The aircraft received full inspection and maintenance to all its structures and systems at the Aircraft Restoration Company and Historic Flying Limited at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. The first flight after restoration was on 9 October 2012 and PS853 was delivered back to Rolls-Royce in November 2012.
Unfortunately, the return to service was beset by an unfortunate accident on 7 January 2013, when the undercarriage was inadvertently retracted while on the runway at East Midlands. Fortunately it occurred at very low speed but left damage to the propeller, wings and fuselage. The pilot was unharmed and the aircraft was recovered with no further incident. The Spitfire was sent for repair at Duxford and returned to service some six months later. PS853’s first public display was part of a special thank you to the employees of Rolls-Royce when the Spitfire flew in formation over the Derby factories with the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner on the 8 August 2013.
Soldiers and Airmen from the South Carolina National Guard’s Joint Incident Site Communications Capability (JISCC) team supported Southern Exposure 15 by providing voice and data capabilities to the Federal Emergency Management Agency Mission Control Center in Florence, South Carolina, July 20-23, 2015. Southern Exposure 15 was a full-scale interagency exercise designed to address the local, state, and federal response to a nuclear power plant incident involving a radiological material release.
Compton Verney's Chapel was built in 1772 by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown to replace the medieval church that stood by the lake nearby. It has not been used for services since the Verney family left in 1921.
Inside the rectangular room has plaster decoration influenced by Robert Adam's work. The main items of interest are the Verney monuments including a large centrally placed tomb with effigies of Sir Richard & wife by Nicholas Stone c1630. However given the long term disuse of the building most of the monuments have been boxed in for protection. They will remain hidden until funding is found to restore and re-open the chapel as part of the visitor attraction here,
The 16th century glass once contained here was sold in the 1920s and is now in New York. Nobody seems to know what's become of the brasses. They may still be there under all the clutter that the building's mothballed state has generated.
Compton Verney House stands in a beautiful setting overlooking a lake. The grounds were landscaped by Capability Brown who also built the chapel.
The House itself is largely the work of Robert Adam, who in the 1760s who added extra ranges to an existing west range of 1714,
From the early 20th century the house passed through various owners, and after requisitioning in World War II was never lived in again, and thus remained in a state of disuse, slowly falling apart, until rescued and converted into a highly successful art gallery in the 1990s.
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The house is now almost fully restored and in use. The chapel however remains closed and awaits proper restoration.
Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure.
Compton Verney House, the present mansion, was built by George Verney, twelfth Lord Willoughby de Broke in 1714. In 1780, the fourteenth Earl employed Robert Adam for the purpose of carrying out major extensions to the manor. The grounds were landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown who constructed two lakes almost a mile long from a number of smaller pools. The house was bought in 1993 in a run-down state by Littlewoods millionaire Sir Peter Moores, and restored into an art gallery capable of hosting international exhibitions.
Testing out the resolution capability of a Pentax K3 11 with Pixel Shift Resolution OFF (I'll shoot some more with it on to compare).
Used a Tamron 90mm Macro, no flash, but did use a pretty bright LED torch about half way through the shoot. As you can imagine the disk is quite small, being out of a Toshiba laptop. Let me know if you want a copy of the original RAW files though. Minor processing in Lightroom. I alos think I might have voided my warranty by doing this!!!!
The Joint Incident Site Communications Capability, which provides voice, data, video, intra-team radio and radio interoperability support for incident area command posts to support the extension of information sharing to the incident area. The JISCC was set up in response to severe weather conditions caused by Hurricane Irene.
47757 'Capability Brown' brings up the rear of 1Y44 1448 Folkestone West to Victoria VSOE on Thursday 24th July 2003. 524-10.
For avionics and aerospace systems, Vishay's DLA 15005 is the industry's first wet tantalum capacitor approved to Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) drawing 15005 to combine a reverse voltage of 1.5 V at +85 ºC with improved vibration (sine: 50 g; random: 27.7 g) capability and thermal shock of 300 cycles.
This has been a turning point in the history of the Headquarters Multinational Corps Northeast (HQ MNC NE). With the successful completion of the exercise „Brilliant Capability 2016”, the Corps – Custodian of Regional Security – has become operationally capable to assume command of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, also referred to as the “spearhead force”. I strongly believe that our team effort will provide tremendous value to NATO. – said Lieutenant General Manfred Hofmann, the Corps Commander, on the occasion of the Distinguished Visitors Day, which took place in Szczecin, 2nd June.
CORAL SEA (July 21, 2021) An F-35B Lightning fighter aircraft from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit lands on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21. Talisman Sabre 21, the ninth iteration and conducted since 2005, occurs biennially across Northern Australia. Australian, U.S. and other multinational partner forces use Talisman Sabre to enhance interoperability by training in complex, multi-domain operations scenarios that address the full range of Indo-Pacific security concerts. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan D. Berlier)
Croome Court was transformed in the second half of the 18th-century, the house refaced and the grounds landscaped to satisfy the Palladian vision of Robert Adam and Lancelot "Capability" Brown.
Since that time Croome has been many things, including the wartime home of RAF Defford and radar research and, later, of the Hare Krishna movement.
Vandaag was de Capability Launch van de nieuwe apache, de Apache Echo is de nieuwe gevechtshelikopter die vandaag werd onthuld. De staatssecretaris, CLSK en Boeing hielden een speach.
A capability of rapid production of photo mosaics of irradiated fuel pins has been developed by the AEC's Pacific Northwest Laboratory at Richland, Washington. c. 1973
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Ball of mistletoe growing parasitically in a tree by the lake in the grounds of Petworth House, laid out by Capability Brown
State Senator Bryce E. Reeves, R-Spotsylvania, and Delegate Richard L. Anderson, R-District 51, visit Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Fredericksburg-based 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team as they conduct a live fire range with the MK-19 grenade launcher and prepare for a situational training lane during annual training June 24, 2014, at Fort Pickett, Va. Reeves and Anderson co-chair the Virginia General Assembly Military and Veterans Caucus. The live fire and training lane are part of the 10-day eXportable Combat Training Capability rotation designed to train and validate platoons on tasks that support offensive and defensive operations under daylight and hours of limited visibility. Units will concentrate on training selected mission essential tasks in a realistic field environment to refocus junior leaders on tactical field craft. The Army National Guard’s XCTC program provides an experience similar to a Combat Training Center to Guard Soldiers at a home station training center, minimizing cost and time away from home and jobs. XCTC is an instrumented field training exercise designed to certify unit proficiency in coordination with First Army. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
A walk around Minterne Gardens in Dorset.
The garden walk is about 1 mile in a horseshoe shape.
You can take different paths on the last leg of the walk, we went on the upper path.
Trees
Information below from leaflet from Minterne Gardens:
The Minterne Valley, landscapped in the manner of Capability Brown in the 18th century, has been the home of the Churchill and Digby families for 350 years. The gardens are laid out in a horseshoe below Minterne House, with a chain of small lakes, waterfalls and streams. They contain an important collection of Himalayan Rhodocdendrons and Azaleas, with Spring bulbs, Cherries, Maples and many fine and rare trees; the garden is noted for its Autumn colouring.
Of particular note are the large plants of Magnolia Campbellii which flower in March and April, together with a profusion of spring bulbs. Many flowering cherries were brought from Japan in 1920 and the Pieris Forrestii with their brilliant scarlet shoots, originally came from Wakehurst. A very fine collection of Davidia Involucrata (the pocket handkerchief tree) produce striking bracts in late May and early June, when the streams are lined with primulas, astilbes and other water plants.
Disability rights activists from DPAC, WinVisible and the Mental Health Resistance Network held a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice where the legality of the Cameron government's Work Capability Assessment as it is being applied to those with mental illnesses is being challenged by a group of community lawyers.
The Doric Temple at Petworth forms part of the pleasure grounds, designed in 1752 by Capability Brown.
Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr answers a question during the Air Force Rapid Capability Development panel discussion.
Research on desalination via pervaporation has become more and more active in recent years; this method has the advantage of a high rejection of salt and the capability of coping with high-salinity solutions. Liang et al. developed a TFNC membrane for pervaporation desalination by sequential deposition employing an electrospraying/electrospinning technique. A crosslinked PVA barrier layer with a thickness of 700 nm on a PAN nanofibrous substrate displayed excellent desalination performance (i.e., high water flux and a salt rejection ratio >99.5%) for different salt concentrations. GO has attracted great attention for membrane separation, as mentioned earlier, especially in the field of pervaporation application. But it is a big challenge to prepare a stable GO layer on a highly porous nanofibrous support because of the undulating surface caused by the fibrous structure. To solve this problem, Cheng et al. demonstrated a novel TFNC membrane consisting of an electrospun PAN nanofibrous substrate and a robust GO barrier layer for pervaporation desalination application. As shown in Figure, the stacked GO nanosheets were successfully interlinked with sufficient bonding by GA with the aid of a flexible connector, PVA, which acted as the spacing bridges to provide adequate stability in a water environment. Thanks to the superiority of a peculiar ultrathin hydrophilic GO skin layer and a fully interconnected porous nanofibrous substrate, the optimized TFNC membranes exhibited an excellent permeate flux of 69.1 L/m2h and a stable high rejection (99.9%) over a testing period of 24 h using an aqueous salt solution with NaCl concentration of 35 g/L at 70℃, which was superior to homogeneous membranes and composite membranes applied in pervaporation desalination reported so far.
Croome Court is a mid-18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore in south Worcestershire, England. 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.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust which operates it as a tourist attraction. The National Trust owns the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
taken from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croome_Court
Tucked in tightly the French Navy pair of the Rafale and Super Etendard demonstrate their role capability at the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 2011
DPAC activists protest at High Courts as legality of Work Capability Assessment is challenged - London, 29.06.2012
Disability rights activists from DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts), the Mental Health Resistance Network, WinVisible and Single Mothers Self Defence held a static demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice, where the legality of the right-wing David Cameron government's much-hated Work Capability Assessment is being challenged by a group of community lawyers.
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Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Fredericksburg-based 229th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team conduct demolitions training July 23, 2019, during eXportable Combat Training Capability Rotation 19-4 at Fort Pickett, Virginia. Read more about XCTC at go.usa.gov/xyPx6. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Saul Rosa)
EU Dr of Military Planning and Concept Capability (DMPCC) visits Rwanda Security Forces HQs | Cabo Delgado, 15 February 2023
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