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Contributing Building - Seabreeze Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #98001131
Contributing Building - Downtown Plant City Commercial District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #93000478
Built 1924-26
Style: Georgian Revival
Contributing Building - Vernon Square Columbus Square Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
Contributing Building - Moultrie Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #94000543
Built 1912
Archie is my friend and photostream contributer Dave's adorable 11 year old West Highland White Terrier.
Ain't he a gorgeous boy!!
This beautiful shot of Archie was taken by Dave himself and is posted here with very kind permission
This is a photograph from the 3rd round of the 2016 Pat Finnerty Memorial 5KM Road League which was held in Belvedere House and Gardens, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday 18th May 2016 at 20:00. The Road League is promoted and organised by Mulligar Harriers Athletic Club. It is very well established as an annual event which takes place on every Wednesday night in the month of May. Tonight the weather was dull and overcast but mild making for very good running conditions. About 250 participants took part in the race which runs a traffic free course over a mix of road and hilly forest trail.
Timing and event management was provided by http://www.myrunresults.com/. Their website is here [www.myrunresults.com/] and will contain the results to today's race.
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
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►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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I love old pines....the smell, the forest floor they contribute to - the warmth and softness.... tiny canopy gaps where stars poke through high above in the darkest hours- they're home, a safe place even when all around is dark a place I can just fade into ♥
I even chose the pine forest by my childhood home to bunk off school - a good book and a pack of fags, few club bars (mint has always been my preference) better than all that school socialising and I hated English - 2 doubles on a Wednesday.
We camped as teenagers by the river on the soft floor though I definitely remember cold toes but so happy hearted a rite of passage - though perhaps more so the milkman clocking me walking home and telling the parents when I'm 'sleeping at a friends'
I felt steady as a teenager life before me, strong and ready..........been wobbling a bit ever since
but just like those nights grew into mornings we have to grow into ourselves - even if i do wobble, I suppose I'm less fade and more fall though 🙈
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ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PAWTUCKET
families in the vicinity contributing to the expense, and was located near the site of the present City Hall on High street. The children on both sides of the river were taught within its walls. In the course of time, some years before 1850, the old schoolhouse was replaced by Columbia hall, which was in turn moved down the lot to make a passage for the continuation of High to Main Street. The old schoolhouse was the first meeting place of the Baptist society before the erection of the church. It was a lodge room for the Freemasons, town meetings were held within its walls, and for years it was the solitary precursor* of all the halls, schoolhouses and churches which have since been constructed in Pawtucket. Originally the schoolhouse was the only building on what was subsequently known as Baptist hill, but soon after the beginning of the century a large dwelling house was built by Elijah White nearly opposite the church. Near by, about the same time, the William Read house was built, which was removed, considerably altered, and is still in existence at 63 East Avenue. The houses mentioned comprised most of the structures in the compact part of the village; but in the outlying portions of the territory of the city and in the present suburbs were a number of dwellings—some of which still exist— built by early settlers, which possess more than ordinary interest.
In the lot, corner of Sisson and Main streets, near the junction of Lonsdale Avenue, is a house said to have been erected about 1750 by John Scott for his son-in-law, Dr. Hughes. The neighborhood had been known from early in the history of Providence as Meadow Hollow. Richard Scott, one of the proprietors and an early settler of Providence, had land in 1649** near Scott’s pond, which was named after his family. Job Scott, a member of this family in the direct line, was a well-known Quaker preacher, and died while on a missionary visit to Ireland***. On the old road to Providence, at what is now known as the Campbell place, No. 1059 Main Street, was the old stone house of the Estens. In its neighborhood, according to tradition, there were in the times of the early settlers, thirteen other dwellings, all of which had disappeared by the beginning of this century. On Lonsdale Avenue was the Comstock house, which in fairly good repair is still standing at No. 158 in the angle between the Woodlawn station and the highway bridge, and overlooks the railroad. The age of the building is not known. The Comstocks have owned land in this locality since 1656****. When the road, now Lonsdale avenue, was laid out*****, June, 1716, the Comstocks lived in this vicinity and the new thoroughfare Went through their land. John Comstock****** was prominent in the new town of North Providence, was moderator of the town meetings and a member of the town council in 1768 and subsequently. The Comstocks, like the Estens, intermarried with the Jenkses. About 1700, Esther, a daughter of Judge William Jenks, married Thomas Comstock, and Phebe, a daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Jenks also married a Comstock. A generation later******* Mercy and Esther, two daughters of Dr. John Jenks, the son of Judge William Jenks, married
*Benedict’s Reminiscences, No. 8. **Prov. Town Rec., vol. 2, p. 40. ***Benedict’s Reminiscences, No. 8. ****Prov. Town Rec., vol. 2, p. 97. *****Prov. Town Rec., vol. 9, p. 16. ******North Prov. Town Rec., manuscript vol. *******Benedict’s Reminiscences, No. 6.
Contributing Building - Southeast Gainesville Residential District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #87002435
The Second Presbyterian Church was built in 1834 in the Greek Revival style featuring the classic Greek temple front with Doric order columns. The brick walls are stuccoed and painted white; however, some has flaked off, revealing the brick. Two fluted Doric columns mark the entrance. Five square pilasters flank each side of the entry and continue around the side of the building.
The Church vacated the building, and it was renamed the John T. Windle Memorial Auditorium. The building is in the Madison Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property.
Contributing Building - East End Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #05000427
Contributing Building - Park Avenue Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #79000681
Day 3: Maroya contributing to the discussion at Research Support Services session at R4D Week 2019. Photo by IITA.
Contributing Building - Culloden Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #80001119
Built 1893
Style: Gothic Revival
History
Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat.[2] Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally—for she never touted it—made her own garden famous.[3] The garden itself is designed as a series of 'rooms', each with a different character of colour and/or theme, the walls being high clipped hedges and many pink brick walls.[4] The rooms and 'doors' are so arranged that, as one enjoys the beauty in a given room, one suddenly discovers a new vista into another part of the garden, making a walk a series of discoveries that keeps leading one into yet another area of the garden.[5] Nicolson spent his efforts coming up with interesting new interconnections, while Sackville-West focused on making the flowers in the interior of each room exciting.
For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole,[6] reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.
The site is ancient; "hurst" is the Saxon term for an enclosed wood. A manor house with a three-armed moat was built here in the Middle Ages. In 1305, King Edward I spent a night here. It was long thought that in 1490 Thomas Baker, a man from Cranbrook, purchased Sissinghurst, although there is no evidence for it.[7] What is certain is that the house was given a new brick gatehouse in the 1530s by Sir John Baker, one of Henry VIII's Privy Councillors, and greatly enlarged in the 1560s by his son Sir Richard Baker, when it became the centre of a 700-acre (2.8 km2) deer park. In August 1573 Queen Elizabeth I spent three nights at Sissinghurst.[7]
Rose arbour in Sissinghurst's White Garden room, which set a fashion for 'white gardens'[8]
After the collapse of the Baker family in the late 17th century, the building had many uses: as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Seven Years' War; as the workhouse for the Cranbrook Union; after which it became homes for farm labourers.
Sackville-West and Nicolson found Sissinghurst in 1930 after concern that their property Long Barn, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was close to development over which they had no control. Although Sissinghurst was derelict, they purchased the ruins and the farm around it and began constructing the garden we know today.[6] The layout by Nicolson and planting by Sackville-West were both strongly influenced by the gardens of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens; by the earlier Cothay Manor in Somerset, laid out by Nicolson's friend Reginald Cooper, and described by one garden writer as the "Sissinghurst of the West Country";[9] and by Hidcote Manor Garden, designed and owned by Lawrence Johnston, which Sackville-West helped to preserve. Sissinghurst was first opened to the public in 1938. wikipedia
本館東側の玄関と、その前に広がる庭園。1933年竣工。
In 1928, Kansai businesses and citizens contributed to the creation of the Kyoto Enthronement Memorial Museum of Art which opened in 1933 as the second large public art museum in Japan.
(from museum!s website)
Wild but edible and nutritious! – Exploring new (and old) ways to contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the SDGs
Rome, FAO headquarters, 25 May 2017
Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli
Contributing Building - St Augustine Town Plan Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #70000847
Member Contributed Photos for BabiesOnline.com's Week by Week Calendar Project
This is my beautiful daughter Brianna. She is starting to crawl. I took this picture one afternoon when she was on our living room floor. She doesn't this position often now while she is watching cartoon. And most of all, she is ALWAYS happy! She is everything I could have hoped for and more.
Hall of Flowers Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Ca., May 4-5, 2022. (Contributing Photographer/John Valenzuela)
Contributing Building - West DeLand Residential District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #92001617
Built ca 1911
Style: Colonial Revival
Night of Excellence celebrated excellence in athletics and the arts as we honored these four groups of students for their exemplary accomplishments.
Marching Band
Elizabeth Public Schools is dedicated to recognizing the excellence of those who continually contribute to the district’s vision of becoming one of the best school systems in America. The Night of Excellence Ceremony was created to honor students who have performed at a prestigious level through demonstrating exceptional dedication, determination, and perseverance.
The next group of talented, dedicated young men and women and the professionals who lead them in their high caliber performances have achieved not only a State championship title but also a National championship title. They are now the three-time defending state and national champions in US Bands Group 5A after winning the state and national championships in 2013! They have also gone undefeated in three consecutive seasons!
If that isn’t excellent enough, they were also the only high school group to be selected to perform at Super Bowl 48 here in New Jersey this past February. How big of a deal was it for this group to perform at the Media Day and Gameday events for Super Bowl 48? The game was watched by 112.2 million people in the United States, the largest television audience in United States history.
Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy
The next group of students are part of the school that was ranked among the best high schools in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 613 in America by The Washington Post and Number 30 in New Jersey and Number 836 in America by U.S. News & World Report. In its performance on state assessments, the school attained the rankings of ‘Very High Performing’ in Academic Achievement in a peer comparison and ‘High Performing’ in a statewide comparison, while achieving a ‘High Performing’ ranking in College and Career readiness when compared to its peer schools.
Elizabeth High School
Next, we want to recognize another one of our high schools that was ranked among the best in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 1 in New Jersey and Number 34 in America by The Washington Post and Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 221 in America by U.S. News & World Report. This school has a 96% graduation rate with a total enrollment of 769 students and it has attained an impressive 99% proficiency or advanced proficiency on the High School Proficiency Assessment. Lastly, this school was recently identified by the State of New Jersey as ‘Very High Performing’ in the category of Academic Achievement in both peer and statewide comparisons.
Terence C. Reilly School No. 7
Last, but not least, is a school that was one of 59 throughout the country to be nationally recognized as a National Title I Distinguished School for exceptional student achievement in 2013. This designation is awarded in honor of the efforts of schools across the country in making significant improvements for their students. The program has been in place since 1996, highlighting the success of hundreds of schools in the categories of exceptional student performance for two or more consecutive years and closing the achievement gap between students.
Contributing Building - Lake City Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
Contributing Building - Vernon Square Columbus Square Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
Contributing Building - Michigan-Wacker Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #78001124
Built 1925-27
Architects: Joachim G. Giaver and Frederick P. Dinkelberg
The Virginia Department of Forestry fire lookout tower was built in the 1930s. The lookout box is approximately 75-feet above ground, The tower is no longer used as a lookout. However, it does support some local governmental communications antennas.
The tower is located in the Cumberland Court House Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property.
Contributing Building - Northeast Gainesville Residential District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #80000942
Contributing Building - Model Land Company Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #83001439
Contributing Building - St Augustine Town Plan Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #70000847
Night of Excellence celebrated excellence in athletics and the arts as we honored these four groups of students for their exemplary accomplishments.
Marching Band
Elizabeth Public Schools is dedicated to recognizing the excellence of those who continually contribute to the district’s vision of becoming one of the best school systems in America. The Night of Excellence Ceremony was created to honor students who have performed at a prestigious level through demonstrating exceptional dedication, determination, and perseverance.
The next group of talented, dedicated young men and women and the professionals who lead them in their high caliber performances have achieved not only a State championship title but also a National championship title. They are now the three-time defending state and national champions in US Bands Group 5A after winning the state and national championships in 2013! They have also gone undefeated in three consecutive seasons!
If that isn’t excellent enough, they were also the only high school group to be selected to perform at Super Bowl 48 here in New Jersey this past February. How big of a deal was it for this group to perform at the Media Day and Gameday events for Super Bowl 48? The game was watched by 112.2 million people in the United States, the largest television audience in United States history.
Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy
The next group of students are part of the school that was ranked among the best high schools in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 613 in America by The Washington Post and Number 30 in New Jersey and Number 836 in America by U.S. News & World Report. In its performance on state assessments, the school attained the rankings of ‘Very High Performing’ in Academic Achievement in a peer comparison and ‘High Performing’ in a statewide comparison, while achieving a ‘High Performing’ ranking in College and Career readiness when compared to its peer schools.
Elizabeth High School
Next, we want to recognize another one of our high schools that was ranked among the best in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 1 in New Jersey and Number 34 in America by The Washington Post and Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 221 in America by U.S. News & World Report. This school has a 96% graduation rate with a total enrollment of 769 students and it has attained an impressive 99% proficiency or advanced proficiency on the High School Proficiency Assessment. Lastly, this school was recently identified by the State of New Jersey as ‘Very High Performing’ in the category of Academic Achievement in both peer and statewide comparisons.
Terence C. Reilly School No. 7
Last, but not least, is a school that was one of 59 throughout the country to be nationally recognized as a National Title I Distinguished School for exceptional student achievement in 2013. This designation is awarded in honor of the efforts of schools across the country in making significant improvements for their students. The program has been in place since 1996, highlighting the success of hundreds of schools in the categories of exceptional student performance for two or more consecutive years and closing the achievement gap between students.
Selby Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey and current Anglican parish church in the town of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Major Churches Network in England.
Monastic history
The church is one of the relatively few surviving abbey churches of the medieval period, and, although not a cathedral, is one of the biggest. It was founded by Benedict of Auxerre in 1069 and subsequently built by the de Lacy family.
On 31 May 1256, the abbey was bestowed with the grant of a Mitre by Pope Alexander IV and from this date was a "Mitred Abbey". This privilege fell in abeyance a number of times, but on 11 April 1308, Archbishop William Greenfield confirmed the grant, and Selby remained a "Mitred Abbey" until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Archbishop Walter Giffard visited the monastery in 1275 by commission, and several monks and the Abbot were charged with a list of faults including loose living, (many complaints referred to misconduct with married women). In 1279 Archbishop William de Wickwane made a visitation, and found fault with the Abbot as he did not observe the rule of St Benedict, was not singing mass, preaching or teaching, and seldom attending chapter. Things had not improved much in 1306 when Archbishop William Greenfield visited and similar visitations in later years resulted in similar findings.
The community rebuilt the choir in the early fourteenth century, but in 1340, a fire destroyed the Chapter House, Dormitory, Treasury and part of the church. The damage was repaired and the decorated windows in the south aisle of the nave were installed.
In 1380–1 there was the abbot and twenty-five monks. In 1393 Pope Boniface IX granted an indulgence to pilgrims who contributed to the conservation of the chapel of the Holy Cross in the abbey.
The fifteenth century saw more alterations to the abbey. The perpendicular windows in the north transept and at the west end of the nave were added and the Sedilia in the Sanctuary was added. One of the final additions was the Latham Chapel, dedicated to St Catherine, east of the north transept, in 1465.
In the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 the abbey was valued at £719 2s. 6¼d (equivalent to £467,021 in 2021). The abbey surrendered on 6 December 1539. The community comprised the Abbot, and 23 monks. The abbot was pensioned off on £100 a year (equivalent to £71,416 in 2021) the prior got £8 and the others between £6 6s. 8d. and £5 each.
Abbots of Selby
Benedict 1069–1097
Hugh de Lacy 1097–1123
Herbert, 1123–1127
Durand, 1127–1137
Interregnum 1137–1139
Walter 1139–1143
Helias Paynel, 1143–1153
German, 1153–1160
Gilbert de Vere, 1160–1184
Interregnum 1184–1189
Roger of London, 1189–1195
Richard I (prior), 1195–1214
Alexander, 1214–1221
Richard, 1221–1223
Richard (sub-prior of Selby), 1223
Hugh de Drayton, 1245–1254
Thomas de Whalley, 1254–1263
David de Cawod, 1263–1269
William de Aslakeby (prior) 1280,-1293
John de Wystow I (sub-prior), 1294–1300
William de Aslaghby (sacrist), 1300–1313
Simon de Scardeburg (prior), 1313–1321
John de Wystow II, 1322–1335
John de Heslyngton (a monk), 1335–1342
Geoffrey de Gaddesby, 1342–1368
John de Shirburn, 1369–1408
William Pigot, 1408–1429
John Cave, 1429–1436
John Ousthorp, 1436–1466
John Sharrow, 1466–1486
Lawrence Selby, 1487–1504
Robert Depyng (monk of Crowland Abbey) 1504–1518
Thomas Rawlinson, 1518–1522
John Barwic, 1522–1526
Robert Selby, 1526–1540
Post monastic history
For a time after the dissolution, the church was unused but in 1618 it became the Parish Church of Selby. During the English Civil War and the Commonwealth period the building suffered with the north transept window being destroyed, and the statues on the brackets in the choir were demolished.
Like York Minster, the church rests on a base of sand and has suffered from subsidence. Many sections collapsed entirely during the seventeenth century, including the central tower in 1690 which destroyed the south transept. The Tower was rebuilt, but not the transept. In the eighteenth century the choir was filled with galleries, and used for services, the nave only used for secular purposes.
The church was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1871–1873 who restored much of the nave for use, and again in 1889–1890 by his son John Oldrid Scott, who restored the choir. The tower was restored in the first few years of the twentieth century.
The reredos was designed by Robert Lorimer and added in 1901.
Vicars of Selby Abbey
Anthony Ashton 1540 – 1583
Robert Dove 1583 – 1586
Thomas Tomlinson 1586 – 1603
John Bradley 1603 – 1610
Thomas Greenwood 1610 – 1613
John Moor 1613 – 1620
Richard Smith BA 1620 – 1625
John Whitaker BA 1625 – 1642
Paul Hammerton 1642 – 1650
Richard Calvert 1650 – 1658
Thomas Birdsall 1658 – 1666
Arthur Squire MA 1666 – 1698
Shadrach Sherburn BA 1698 – 1701
Henry Allan 1701
Geoffrey Rishton 1701 – 1720
Thomas Hardy 1720 – 1728
William Charnley BA 1728 – 1748
Marmaduke Teasdale BA 1748 – 1778
William Porter MA 1778 – 1796
William Caile 1796 – 1797
Thomas Mounsey 1797 – 1819
Jonathan Muncaster 1819 – 1834
John Leidger Walton MA 1834 – 1850
Francis Whaley Harper MA 1850 – 1889
Archibald George Tweedie MA 1889 – 1904
Maurice Parkin MA 1904 – 1910
John Solloway DD 1910 – 1941
Alfred Edgar Moore Glover MA 1941 – 1945
Frank Read AKC 1945 – 1952
John Aldwyn Pelham Kent MA 1952 – 1978
Anthony Cecil Addison Smith MA 1978 – 1983
Michael William Escritt DipTh 1983 – 1990
Peter Lawrence Dodd MBE 1990 – 1993
James Alexander Robertson 1993 – 1996
Roy Ian John Matthews TD MA 1996 – 1997
Keith Michael Jukes BA 1997 – 2007
Keith David Richards 2007 – 2010
Canon John Weetman[9] 2011 –
The fire of 1906
The organ builders from John Compton had been working until 11.00 pm on Friday 19 October, and shortly after midnight on Saturday the organist Frederick William Sykes spotted flames coming from the organ chamber. The organ builders had been installing a new kinetic gas engine to provide power to the new organ. Initial reports that the new organ equipment was to blame for the fire were later proved inaccurate.
The fire destroyed the roof of the choir and the belfry and peal of eight bells was also destroyed. All of the interior fittings were also destroyed but thanks to the actions of the local fire brigade, the fourteenth-century stained glass in the East window was saved.
A secondary fire broke out in the nave roof on the Sunday, but this was quickly extinguished.
The abbey was rebuilt under the supervision of John Oldrid Scott at a cost of around £50,000 (equivalent to £5,545,000 in 2021) and reopened in 1909. The restoration of the south transept was completed in 1912, funded by William Liversedge.
Later twentieth century
In 1952 the abbey was given Grade I listed status.
Restorations of 2002
In 2002 the abbey underwent an extensive restoration, costing several million pounds. Stage 6, the restoration of the Scriptorium was completed at a cost of £795,000. The £400,000 cost of restoring the South choir Aisle and the "Washington Window" was met in full by British American Tobacco. World Monuments Fund committed more than $800,000 to exterior work, including roof repairs, beginning in 2002.
The Washington Window
A notable feature of the abbey is the fifteenth-century Washington Window, located at the clerestory level of the quire, which features the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States. It is believed the shield is in the Abbey thanks to a financial benefaction supporting the work of the monastery at Selby from John Wessington, one of George Washington's ancestors, who was Prior of Durham from 1416 to 1446, and the design is thought to be one of the oldest representations of the Flag of the United States in the world. Selby Abbey is on the 'American Trail' of attractions around the UK with strong American historical connections.
Music
Music at Selby Abbey has a long history going back to its monastic foundation in the 11th century when plainsong was chanted at the daily services by the Benedictine monks. Today, the music at services consists principally of choral music sung by the Abbey's choir, organ music, and congregational hymn singing.
The Choir of Selby Abbey numbers c35 adults and children. While the choir consists principally of dedicated volunteers, the Abbey provides three Choral Scholarships and employs a professional Assistant Organist and Director of Music. The Abbey Choristers receive a full musical education and training. During term-time the choir sings at the weekly Sung Eucharist on Sundays, and at Choral Evensong on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, in addition to singing at other special services, weddings and concerts.
In 2022 the Abbey Junior Choir was founded to provide singing opportunities for younger children aged five and upwards.
The Abbey hosts many concerts throughout the year performed by choirs, orchestras, brass bands and other musicians and groups. Selby Abbey Trust organises an annual Organ Recital Series featuring performers from across the world.
Organ
The previous organ was installed in 1825 by Renn and Boston, in a gallery on the east side of the choir screen wall. It was rebuilt several times by Booth of Wakefield, Forster and Andrews of Hull and Conacher of Huddersfield. In 1868 the organ was rebuilt and moved to a bay in the quire. The opening recital was given by William Thomas Best. This organ was rebuilt in 1891 by James Jepson Binns of Bramley and moved again, this time to the north side of the quire. A rebuild took place by John Compton in 1906, but the organ was destroyed by the great fire of that year, which nearly destroyed the abbey too.
Following the 1906 fire and as part of the subsequent restoration of the Abbey, the firm of William Hill & Son was commissioned to build the current organ, completed in 1909. With 67 speaking stops and 4 manuals, most of the pipes of this instrument occupy two organ cases designed by John Oldrid Scott and placed either side of the choir stalls in the Chancel. The huge pipes of the "Pedal: 32' Double Open Diapason" sit in the Triforium overlooking the Nave.
The first major restoration of this organ was carried out in 1950 by Hill, Norman and Beard. In the early 1960s, the Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani made several LP recordings at the Abbey of organ music by Reger, Franck and Liszt, bringing the organ to international attention. In 1975, further alterations and additions were made to the organ by John T. Jackson.
By the 2010's the organ was showing its age and becoming increasingly unreliable, so in 2014, Geoffrey Coffin and Principal Pipe Organs of York carried out a major restoration which lasted two years. Paul Hale was the adviser and the project was completed in 2016.
Organists and Directors of Music
Wharton Hooper 1864–1866
Edward Johnson Bellerby 1878–1881
Frederick William Sykes 1881–1919
Henry Oswald Hodgson 1920–1921
Herbert Hill 1921–1922
Walter Hartley 1922–1962
David Patrick Gedge 1962–1966
Mervyn John Byers 1966–1976
Peter Seymour 1976–1978
Anthony Langford 1978–1980
Mervyn John Byers 1980–1987
Geoffrey Pearce 1987–1994
Roger Tebbet 1994–2020
James Lowery (Interim Organist) 2020–2021
Oliver Waterer 2021–
Ian Seddon (Assistant Organist) 2023–
Burials
Thomas Thwaites and wife Alice de la Hay
Bishop of Selby
The Bishop of Selby is a Suffragan Bishop to the Archbishop of York and oversees the Archdeaconry of York, which includes the Deanery of Selby
Selby is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England; it is located 12 miles (19.3 km) south of York on the River Ouse. In the 2021 UK Census, it had a population recorded at 19,760.
The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire; from 1974 until 2023, the town was the administrative centre of the Selby District.
Selby once had a large shipbuilding industry and was an important port on the Selby Canal, which brought trade from Leeds.
History
Foundation
The town's origins date from the establishment of a Viking settlement on the banks of the River Ouse. Archaeological investigations in Selby have revealed extensive remains, including waterlogged deposits in the core of the town dating from the Roman period onwards. It is believed that Selby originated as a settlement called Seletun, which was referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD 779.
The place name 'Selby' is first attested in a Yorkshire charter c. 1030, where it appears as Seleby. It appears as Selbi c. 1050. The name is thought to be a Scandinavian form of Seletun, meaning 'sallow tree settlement'.
Development
The town of Selby is on the main route north from the Midlands and is the traditional birthplace of King Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, in 1068/69; the connection is supported by William and his wife Matilda's unique joint charter of Selby Abbey, far to the north of their usual circuit of activities, which was founded for Benedict of Auxerre in 1069 and subsequently supported by the de Lacy family. King Henry I is reputed to have been born there in c. 1068. A notable feature of the abbey is the 14th-century Washington Window, featuring the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States. The design is often cited as an influence for the Stars and Stripes flag.
It is said that the abbey was founded when Benedict saw three swans on a lake in Selby, which he took as a sign of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and that is why the official crest of Selby Abbey is three swans. Selby Abbey was closed in 1539 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII and the majority of the buildings have since been demolished. The central nave of the abbey church survived and in 1618 it became the parish church of Selby.
During the English Civil War the Royalist garrison of Selby was captured by Parliamentarians in the Battle of Selby on 11 April 1644. There are other historical sites, such as the cholera burial ground on the north side of the abbey, the market cross and the local school, Selby High School. The Market Place has existed since the early 14th century, when the market was moved away from the monastery churchyard. The Crescent which curves eastwards from James Street, was planned in the early 19th century by a local man, John Audus, after he saw Lansdown Crescent in Bath, Somerset.
Since 2000
Selby is expanding. New houses and shops are being built on the outskirts as far as the bypass, which has resulted in the loss of some trade from the town centre. Meanwhile, the riverfront is being revamped with modern housing and fashionable flats.
Rail crash
Main article: Great Heck rail crash
The 2001 Great Heck rail crash is also often referred to as the Selby rail crash. It happened a few miles south of Selby, at the village of Great Heck near the M62 motorway, and Selby was the closest major town to the accident site. On 28 February 2001 a vehicle crashed off the M62 down an embankment onto a railway track, where it was struck by a passenger train heading to London. The accident was then compounded by a second collision involving an oncoming goods train.
Hobson murders
Selby and its surrounding area came to national prominence once again through another tragedy on 18 July 2004, this time through four exceptionally violent murders carried out by former refuse collector Mark Hobson. Hobson, 34 at the time, killed his girlfriend, Claire Sanderson, 27, and her sister Diane at a flat in the nearby village of Camblesforth. He subsequently murdered an elderly couple, James and Joan Britton, at their home in the village of Strensall, near York. Hobson was later sentenced to life imprisonment, with the trial judge recommending that he should never be released; the High Court later agreed with this recommendation.
At the lowest level of governance is Selby Town Council. The town is divided into three electoral wards, north, south, each represented by five councillors, and west, represented by seven councillors. These 17 councillors are responsible for burial grounds, allotments, play areas and some street lighting. Elections to the town council are held every four years. The Mayor of Selby is elected annually by the members of the town council.
From 1974 to 2023, Selby was administered as part of a two-tier council system by Selby District Council. The town was represented by seven councillors on the District Council, two each for the west and south wards and three for the north ward. On the North Yorkshire County Council the town was part of the Selby Barlby county division, which elected two representatives to the county council.
In April 2023, both councils, along with all district councils in North Yorkshire, were replaced by North Yorkshire Council. The unitary authority now provides all the services previously provided separately by the two councils.
In the United Kingdom Parliament, Selby formed part of the Selby constituency until the 2010 general election, when it became part of the new seat of Selby and Ainsty. It was represented by Conservative MP Nigel Adams until he resigned in June 2023, triggering a by-election held in July. The 20 July 2023 by-election was won by Labour candidate Keir Mather.
Geography
Selby lies on the tidal River Ouse in a natural area of Yorkshire known as the Humberhead Levels. The main roads that cross at Selby are the A63 from Leeds to Hull and the A19 from Doncaster to York, though the A19 and A63 have no longer met in Selby itself since the opening of the Selby Bypass in 2004. The River Ouse is navigable upstream as far as York so the old toll bridge, by which the A63 crossed the river at Selby, had to allow for this. For many years the swing bridge in Selby was a notorious local bottleneck but since the opening of the Selby bypass congestion in the town has been relieved.
The importance of Selby as a market town has declined in recent decades and its short-lived prominence as the centre of the Selby Coalfield has also waned. Selby is close to both York and Leeds. Its popularity as a tourist destination, owing to Selby Abbey, has led to a large amount of development and renovation in the town and surrounding area.
The residential areas of Selby have also been subject to expansion and development. A significant development called Staynor Hall continues to the south East of the town, with other developments in the Holmes Lane area and around the villages of Brayton, Barlby and Thorpe Willoughby. More have been built at various points along the riverfront, the result of an ongoing project to improve an area that had been largely derelict since the decline of the shipbuilding industry.
Floods
In recent years there have been serious flood problems in Selby and the adjoining village of Barlby. The threat in the Barlby area has been alleviated to some extent by work on improved flood barriers following the major flood of November 2000.
Religion
Selby Abbey is one of the largest parish churches in Britain and is larger than several cathedrals.
There are various other Christian churches in the town that offer community and differing styles of worship: King's Church, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Portholme Methodist / URC Church, and St James' Church. Edge Community was founded in 2009 for the Flaxley Road community, and The Salvation Army opened The Church at the Crossroads on the Abbotts Road estate in 2015.
Brayton has St Wilfrid's Anglican Church and the Methodist Chapel and All Saints' Church is in Barlby. Thorpe Willoughby has St Francis Church.
Selby Churches Together set up and run the Selby and District Food Bank.
Economy
Much of the historical wealth of the town is based on its position on the banks of the tidal River Ouse. Selby used to have a large shipbuilding industry and was an important port on the Selby Canal, which brought trade from Leeds. The Selby Canal links the River Ouse at Selby to the River Aire at Haddlesey. The replacement Greenpeace craft (1989–2011), bearing the name Rainbow Warrior, was built in Selby in 1957 as a fishing boat. Selby's location allowed vessels to be launched into the river. This often required the more unusual technique of launching the vessels side-on into the river owing to lack of space for a more conventional stern-first or bow-first launch. One famous vessel of the Cochrane and Son's shipyard of the town is the preserved trawler Ross Tiger at Grimsby's National Fishing Heritage Centre. Cochrane launched their last vessel into the Ouse in 1998, a historical occasion which people around the area went to see. After Cochrane had closed the massive cranes still stood over the skyline of Selby until 2001, when very strong winds blew them down. Most of the shipyard buildings are still standing (as of February 2014) and the site, along with interviews with former employees and archive film, was featured in a 2013 video production 'Cochranes of Selby'. The site of the shipyard is currently home to many small businesses, housed in the buildings once used to build the Selby ships.
For a time Selby was the leading coal-mining area in the UK and featured some of the most advanced mining technology in Europe. It was the first new mine in the UK for decades and seen as a rejoinder to widespread concern that the British mining industry was effectively shutting down, particularly following the defeat of the 1984–85 miners' strike.
Wistow Colliery, which was part of the Selby Coalfield, holds the UK record for coal mined in one week—200,743 tonnes in 1995. The 110 square miles (280 km2) Selby Complex, employing 3,000 miners plus contractors and ancillary staff, closed on Friday 14 May 2004 despite rising demand for coal in the UK. UK Coal, the pit's owner, said closure was due to rising costs caused by deteriorating geological conditions and the falling price of coal. In its final years the company listed a £30 million loss on the plant.
Although much of the infrastructure of shipbuilding and coal mining remains both in and around Selby, both industries have long since been defunct. Now the main income for the area is derived from arable farming and as a commuter area for Leeds, Wakefield and York.
In recent years Selby has seen the development of new shopping areas both in the town centre and on the outskirts. The Abbey Walk Shopping Centre was developed on recreational land that runs parallel to the town centre. The expansion not only increased the volume of town-centre shops but also provided large-scale, convenient parking for the town centre. In more recent years the Three Lakes Retail Park has opened on the outskirts of town and continues to expand. Two of the town's supermarkets, Tesco and Morrisons, are looking to expand their stores, the latter meaning the resiting of the Abbey Primary School.
On 14 September 2005, Selby District Council was conditionally granted outline planning permission for a state of the art science facility to be built on the site of Burn Gliding Club but these plans did not come to fruition.
Transport
Selby is the transport hub for the local area; it has a bus and railway station running services to many places around the area.
Train services from Selby railway station run directly to London King's Cross, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly, York and Hull. Services are operated by several train operating companies; these are London North Eastern Railway, Northern Trains, TransPennine Express and Hull Trains.
Bus services are operated predominantly by Arriva Yorkshire, which runs a range of local services, as well as longer-distance routes to Goole, Leeds, Pontefract, Wakefield and York. Thornes Independent operate two routes to Hensall and Hemingbrough.
In July 2001, construction began on the Selby by-pass, which had been authorised for development in 1993. The by-pass runs from the A19 at Barlby, along the southern perimeter of Selby, joining the A63 at Thorpe Willoughby. The project was delayed owing to technical difficulties with the swing bridge over the River Ouse, but was eventually completed in July 2004.
Culture and sport
Selby Town Hall has been running a music venue since 2003, with regular performances of music, dance, drama and comedy and local band nights, with an annual Battle Of The Bands final, which in 2009 sold out in 12 hours, seeing local band Leonard's Revenge crowned victors.
There have been four cinemas in Selby with the last one closing in the early 1980s. In 2009 a community group established a cinema project called Selby Globe. The group is also working with local community groups in securing the Abbot's Staith, a 15th-century warehouse currently on English Heritage's At Risk Register. It is expected that the development of the Abbot's Staith could offer opportunities for social, educational, historical and economic solutions for the town while also promoting tourism.
Selby's major sporting team is Selby Town F.C. ('the Robins'), playing in the Northern Counties East Division One at the Flaxley Road Stadium. As a result of a sponsorship deal with a local business, the stadium is now known as the Fairfax Plant Hire Stadium. The club was founded in 1919 and their most successful season was perhaps 1953–54, when they won the Yorkshire Football League and reached the first round of the FA Cup – meeting Bradford Park Avenue and getting their highest ever attendance of 7,000 fans.
A Rugby union club, Selby RUFC, plays at Sandhill Lane Stadium. Sandhill Lane Stadium is currently undergoing construction work to create a new seating stand overlooking the first team's pitch, and a gym and new changing rooms are being added to the members' bar and existing club bar. Selby RUFC have five open-age teams and have veteran and junior set-ups. Selby 1st are currently in Yorkshire League Division One. In the season 2008–09 Selby U10s won the Gullivers Plate at Twickenham, the U16s got to the final of the Yorkshire Bowl and Selby 3rds reached a North Yorkshire final. Selby also has a rugby league club, Selby Warriors, which plays at The Rigid Containers Sports Ground, Foxhill Lane and the Selby Rugby League Referees Society.
Selby Cricket Club, which shares Sandhill Lane Stadium, has four senior league teams, with the 1st and 2nd XI playing in the York and District Senior League, the 1st XI in Division 4 and the 2nd XI in Division 5. The 3rd XI play in Division 4 and 4th XI play in Division 5 of the York Vale League. The team runs two junior teams, the under 11s and 15s, which both play in the York and District Junior League, and an evening league team in the Howdenshire Evening League (West Division).
Selby and District Motor Club has its own clubhouse at Breighton Airfield on Sand Lane. Meeting on Tuesday evenings, its members participate in Road Rallies, Stage Rallies, Sprints, Autotests and Production-Car Trials. Members discuss motor sporting events and regularly show videos. The club organises an annual Road Rally called the Three Swans Rally, based on local roads and forming a major part of local championships.
Media
Local news and television programmes is provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire from the Emley Moor TV transmitter.
The town's local radio stations are BBC Radio York, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, Capital Yorkshire, YO1 Radio, and Selby Radio which is a community based radio station.
Selby's longest-established newspaper is the Selby Times, owned and published by Chronicle Publications along with its sister paper the Goole Times. The company previously owned the Selby Post and purchased the title from Johnston Press when they ceased publication of the paper in August 2013. Published weekly, the paper costs 60p and covers the Selby district, including the town centre and villages such as Sherburn-in-Elmet and as far as Tadcaster.
In 2014, despite the shift to online news, The Goole and Selby Times together were only one of three newspapers in the country actually to increase print sales. The Goole Times (incorporating the Selby Times) saw a rise of more than three quarters to 15,045 compared with the same period in 2013.
The Goole Times and Selby Times received an unprecedented 1,000 toys for their annual Christmas toy appeal in December 2017.
In 2019 The Selby Chronicle was relaunched as an online-only newspaper.
Twin towns
Selby is twinned with:
France Carentan, France
Germany Filderstadt, Germany
Notable people
Harold Brigham, footballer
Nigel Adams, Member of Parliament, Selby and Ainsty (UK Parliament constituency) and Minister of State for Asia
Robert Aske, rebel leader, lawyer
Tommy Cannon, entertainer
Robert of Selby, courtier, chancellor of Sicily
Jack Byers, footballer
Gavin Harding, first person with a learning disability to become mayor in the United Kingdom
Henry I of England, king of England
Arthur Hinsley, Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop
Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon, dermatologist
Woods Hutchinson, physician, writer
Thomas Johnson, botanist
Keith Kelly, pop singer
John Sherwood, Olympic athlete
Steve Sherwood, footballer
James Stephenson, actor
Eden Taylor-Draper, actress
Smithson Tennant, chemist, discoverer
Matthew Warchus, theatre and film director
Leigh Wood, footballer
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