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Originally named for the Chart well on the property, the 800 acres of rolling farmland and woodland have been part of Chartwell since 1848 when the Colquhoun's owned the property. It wasn't until 1921 that the land was split into smaller lots at auction, with the house and 82 acres being bought in 1922 by Churchill.
A glass of rosĂŠ, the title a play on words in tribute to singer-songwriter Don Partridge. Known as the "king of buskers", his debut song 'Rosie' reached No. 4 in the UK singles charts in 1968. The lyric starts:
Rosie, oh Rosie
I'd like to paint your face up in the sky
Sometimes when I'm busy
Relaxing I look up and catch your eye...
Our time in Valais coming to an end, we decided on one last excursion and let ourselves be taken up a mountain by a cable car this time around. At the beginning of May there weren't too many still in operation, but luckily the one to Bettmeralp was and we got to spend a couple of hours in the snow and sunshine.
Did I mention that Bettmeralp is picturesque? I hope my photos do it justice - we were totally blown away by its beauty.
Committed to expired Ilford HP5+ using a Hasselblad XPan and 45 mm lens with a red filter. Developed using Ars-Imago FD 1:39, dev. time as per the massive dev chart, and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and final contrast in Photoshop.
This week theme gave me the opportunity to recall one of my favourite novels, Nautical Chart by Arturo PĂŠrez-Reverte,
Loved that book!!
The most challenging was to create and paint the little paper boat, Mary made it for me.
My favourite shot, that doesn't stick to the rules of macro, it's in the comments.
Thank you for you views, favs and comments.
HMM
Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 82
100x, 2022 Edition: 39/100
I received a set of fibre-tip pens for my birthday: flic.kr/p/2n9KVGr
A few colours are very close, the caps don't indicate accurately, and the pens aren't labelled or otherwise distinguishable. So I gave them names and made a swatch chart. Fussy perhaps, but enjoyable because I'm obsessed with colour. Now it will be easier to choose the pen I want.
Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.
Cross-stitch is a popular form of embroidery in which X-shaped stitches are sewn in a tiled pattern to form a picture. I've focussed on a cross stitch chart which is the plans/blueprints for a project.
For the 'Macro Monday' - 'Rule' challenge 25th January 2016.
Perpetual work in progress.... I'm constant hunting for more rare nonproduction parts to fill in more of the missing colors.
I've been working on this for a few years now, and have displayed it at shows a few times already. But I've reached the point where any additional colors requires taking a gamble on paying shipping from Europe on small BrickLink orders that 75% of the time end up being an incorrect listing.
If anyone has anything I'm missing, feel free to name a price!
December 9, 2017
Ocean swell patterns in the south pacific were mapped by island natives and represented on things called "stick charts." Stick charts were used for navigation, getting from island to island following wave patterns, and the way they interacted. More info on wiki (of course!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
(a "MacroMondays" submission, theme "stick" HMM!)
Part of the "Models" exhibit at Boston's Museum of Science
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Inspired by artwork on a Star Wars Armada upgrade card, a navigation chart table with a Nebulon-B threading through some asteroids.
Located across the street from the Savannah River in the historic downtown district, Chart House is situated in the oldest masonry building in the state of Georgia. Combine the extraordinary setting with outstanding cuisine & itâs not hard to see why the restaurant is a longtime favorite. Since 1961, Chart House has been dedicated to providing the ideal dining experience. With 29 historic, waterfront & showcase locations across the U.S., Chart House offers spectacular views & exceptional service that youâre sure to enjoy. From fresh fish specialties to slow-roasted prime rib, our renowned chefs have tailored a menu to complement local cuisine while introducing a hint of the exotic. Choose from our famous entrĂŠes such as Macadamia Crusted Mahi, Pan Seared Scallops and New Wave Surf & Turf. We also offer a daily selection of fresh fish, an extensive collection of fine wines & decadent desserts like our famous Hot Chocolate Lava Cake. Lowcountry fare is also featured on our menu. Savannah Ga.
Yay! The question finally answered! :)))
Know which day is best for your shop! I'll have a handy dandy little tool available for this soon! Special thanks to Sylvia Vincent for assistance and Excel wisdom! Actually, when I do put this up for sale, it will have to be called a collaboration. :D
Chart Gunpowder Mills is a Scheduled Monument at Faversham Kent
Gunpowder was the only explosive available for military use and for blasting in mines and quarries until the mid-19th century. Water-powered manufacturing mills were established in England from the mid-16th century, although powder had been prepared by hand for at least 200 years. The industry expanded until the late 19th century when high explosives began to replace gunpowder. Its manufacture declined dramatically after the First World War with British production ceasing in 1976. The technology of gunpowder manufacture became increasingly complex through time with the gradual mechanisation of what were essentially hand-worked operations. Waterwheels were introduced in the 16th century, and steam engines and water turbines from the 19th century. Pressing and corning were also introduced between the 16th and 19th centuries to improve the powders. Pressing improved the explosive power of the mill cake and corning broke the pressing cake into different sizes and graded it with respect to its fineness. Additional techniques were developed throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries to improve the quality and consistency of the finished product, and this in turn resulted in a variety of types of powders; ranging from large coarse-grained blasting powders used in mines and quarries, to fine varieties used, for example, in sporting guns. Gunpowder manufacturing sites are a comparatively rare class of monument with around 60 examples known nationally. Demand for gunpowder centred on the London area (for military supply), other ports (for trade), and the main metal mining areas. Most gunpowder production was, therefore, in Cumbria, the south west, and the south east around the Thames estuary. The first water-powered mills were established in south east England from the mid-16th century onwards, and many of the major technological improvements were pioneered in those mills. All sites of gunpowder production which retain significant archaeological remains and technological information and survive well will normally be identified as nationally important.
Faversham was one of the most important centres of gunpowder production nationally between the early 17th century and the closure of the gunpowder works in 1934. The incorporating mills at Chart represent one of the best surviving parts of the disused works. Although subsequent development has caused considerable disturbance to their original extent, the mills retain rare machinery and parts of the original water management system. Part excavation has shown that the monument also contains below ground remains, providing important evidence for the earlier development of the works.
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The monument includes part of a disused gunpowder factory situated in the western suburbs of Faversham. Chart mills are the best surviving part of Faversham Home Works, which originally comprised four groups of gunpowder mills located along the formerly wooded Westbrook valley. Chart mills survive as a standing building with intact milling machinery, associated structures and buried remains. Part of the associated water management system is also included in the scheduling. The Home Works were established in around 1560. Raw materials such as sulphur and saltpetre, and the finished gunpowder, were transported to and from the mills by way of Faversham and Oare Creeks and the Swale estuary. The works underwent several phases of alteration and redevelopment, and the visible remains at Chart mills date to the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. These are twin pairs of adjacent, north east-south west aligned, water powered incorporating mills, where the processed ingredients were mixed and blended. Each pair of mills was powered by a centrally placed waterwheel. The north eastern mill building has an original brick blast wall at its outer gable end. The weather boarded mainly timber building, largely rebuilt during 1970s restoration for public display, houses in situ wooden and iron milling machinery. Some components have been renewed, and the edge-running, limestone millstones have been reused from the nearby Oare gunpowder works. The south western end of the building houses a wheel pit containing a breastshot iron waterwheel. To the north is part of the now dry head race which fed the waterwheel. This has been partly relined in modern materials. Running away from the mill to the north east, the partly stone lined tail race is culverted under Nobel Court road by way of an original, brick lined tunnel. Several mature yew trees situated along the south eastern edge of the monument may represent the remains of a planted blast screen. The three remaining mill buildings, containing original, centrally placed bedstones, and the south western wheel pit, were excavated during the early 1970s and are visible as exposed brick footings, with some modern consolidation. The mills are thought to date mainly to around 1815, incorporating some earlier, 18th century machine components. Two mill stones lying on the western edge of the monument were moved here from the nearby Ospringe gunpowder mills. Traces of buildings, structures and associated features dating to earlier periods of use may survive in the form of below ground remains. Three 19th century boundary marker stones within the monument, which are Listed Grade II, are included in the scheduling. A number of features are excluded from the scheduling; these are all modern railings, telegraph poles, lamp posts, street furniture, signs, fixtures and fittings, a resited Victorian lamp post, and the modern surfaces of all roads, paving and steps; the ground beneath all these features is, however, included.
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Chartwell was the principal adult home of Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill and his wife Clementine bought the property, located two miles south of Westerham, Kent, England, in 1922. Extensive renovations simplifying and modernising the home were undertaken directly, completely transforming it when complete. When it became clear to the Churchills in 1946 that they could not afford to run the property, a consortium of wealthy businessmen organised by Lord Camrose purchased the estate. The arrangement was that for payment of nominal rent both Sir Winston and Lady Churchill would have the right to live there until they both died, at which point the property would be presented to the National Trust. When Sir Winston died in 1965, Clementine decided to present Chartwell to the National Trust immediately. The site had been built upon at least as early as the 16th century, when the estate had been called 'Well Street'. Henry VIII is reputed to have stayed in the house during his courtship of Anne Boleyn at nearby Hever Castle. The original farmhouse was significantly enlarged and modified during the 19th century. It became, according to the National Trust, an example of 'Victorian architecture at its least attractive, a ponderous red-brick country mansion of tile-hung gables and poky oriel windows'. The estate derives its name from the well to the north of the house called 'Chart Well'. 'Chart' is an Old English word for rough ground. The highest point of the estate is approximately 650 feet above sea level, and the house commands a spectacular view across the Weald of Kent. This view 'possessed Churchill' and was certainly an important factor in persuading him to buy a house of 'no great architectural merit'. Churchill employed architect Philip Tilden to modernise and extend the house. Tilden worked between 1922 and 1924, simplifying and modernising, as well as allowing more light into the house through large casement windows. He worked in the gently vernacular architecture tradition that is familiar in the early houses of Edwin Lutyens, a style stripped of literal Tudor Revival historicising details but retaining multiple gables with stepped gable ends, and windows in strips set in expanses of warm pink brick hung with climbers. Tilden's work completely transformed the house. Similarly to many early 20th century refurbishments of old estates, the immediate grounds, which fall away behind the house, were shaped into overlapping rectilinear terraces and garden plats, in lawn and mixed herbaceous gardens in the Lutyens-Jekyll manner, linked by steps descending to lakes that Churchill created by a series of small dams, the water garden where he fed his fish, Lady Churchill's Rose garden and the Golden Rose Walk, a Golden Wedding anniversary gift from their children. The garden areas provided inspiration for Churchill's paintings, many of which are on display in the house's garden studio. In 1938, Churchill was pressed to offer Chartwell for sale for financial reasons, at which time the house was advertised as containing 5 reception rooms, 19 bed and dressing rooms, 8 bathrooms, set in 80 acres with three cottages on the estate and a heated and floodlit swimming pool. He withdrew after industrialist Sir Henry Strakosch agreed to take over his share portfolio (which had suffered heavily from losses on Wall Street) for three years and pay off heavy debts. During the Second World War, the house was mostly unused. Its relatively exposed position, in a county so near across the English Channel to German occupied France, meant it was potentially vulnerable to a German airstrike or commando raid. The Churchills instead spent their weekends at Ditchley, Oxfordshire until security improvements were completed at the prime minister's official country residence, Chequers, in Buckinghamshire. The house has been preserved as it would have looked when Churchill owned it. Rooms are carefully decorated with memorabilia and gifts, the original furniture and books, as well as honours and medals that Churchill received. The house is Grade I listed for historical reasons. The gardens are listed Grade II.
The property is currently under the administration of the National Trust. Chartwell was bought by a group of Churchill's friends in 1946, with the Churchills paying a nominal rent, but was not open to the public until it was presented to the nation in 1966, one year after Churchill's death.
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