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Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) first year students compete in the obstacle course held throughout the RMC grounds on September 17, 2021. Each team is assessed as they race through 12 different obstacles with the best time at the end being declared the winner.
Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) first year students compete in the obstacle course held throughout the RMC grounds on September 17, 2021. Each team is assessed as they race through 12 different obstacles with the best time at the end being declared the winner.
Pork
Cabbage, pears, juniper.
(Mattos)
Twelve Days of Christmas: Ignacio Mattos
The Restaurant at Meadowood
Meadowood Napa Valley
St. Helena, California
(December 19, 2014)
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This is a photograph from the start of the Tullamore Harriers AC "Quinlan Cup" Half Marathon which was held on Saturday 26th August 2017 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 11:00. This is the fifth year of the event. The race is organised and promoted by Tullamore Harriers AC. The race starts on the Charleville Road just outside the entrance to Tullamore Harriers. The race proceeds south along the R421 and onto the N52 before taking a route onto local back roads. The race then completes a large rural road route before it joins to the R421 again and the final 1.5 miles are the same as the first mile of the race. The runners enter Tullamore stadium and complete one lap of the tartan track before the finish line. The course is challenging in places with some undulations along the route. But overall it is fair course. 2013 seen the first year of the event as the club commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the formation of Tullamore Harriers AC which today is one of Ireland's best known athletics clubs.
We have a large set of photographs from the start and the finish of today's race on our Flickr Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157685695893933
The race was chip timed by MyRunResults - their website is www.myrunresults.com
The race was perfectly organised. The weather was good for racing but there was warm summer weather for the entire race which made for warmer than usual running conditions There were stewarts all along the route, 3 drink stations with bottled water, superb facilities, and great after-race refreshments. The stewards along the route provided great encouragement to all of the runners. Tullamore Harriers and the local community really worked together to make this is a wonderful event. There was also a relay option where teams of two can run approximately 10.5km each.
As mentioned above this race half marathon started in 2013 and celebrated the 60th Anniversary (a Diamond Anniversary) of the foundation of Tullamore Harriers AC. The club was formed in the town in November 1953. However, it was almost 1979 before facilities close to what we see today open in the present day site. Over 50 provincial and national athletics meetings are held at Tullamore Harriers every year. The facilities available combined with it's central geographical location joining routes from North, South, East, and West make it a very attractive venue. The half marathon today firmly brings competitive national road racing back to "The Harriers". The Quinlan Cup which will be awarded to the winning club team. For more than 40 years the Harriers Quinlan Cup was the most prestigious event on the road racing calendar. Having started as a cross-country race back in 1957, it became a road race in 1967 and remained so until 2000 when the race was last held. During its reign as a blue-ribband event the Quinlan Cup was won by the likes of John Treacy and Eamonn Coughlan.
Today, the facilities at Tullamore Harriers are the envy of many athletics clubs in Ireland. The facilities provided by Tullamore make it one of the premier venues for local and national level athletics in Ireland. There is an Olympic standard tartan track, a fully equipped gym, changing facilities, press and media facilities, meeting room spaces, etc. The club also provides a social center and niteclub which makes "The Harriers" a very well known on the local social scene. Esssentially, the town of Tullamore would be a different place if it weren't for the presence of Tullamore Harriers AC.
Our photographs from the 2016 Half Marathon on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157669860212434
Our photographs from the 2015 Half Marathon on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157655560294853
Our photographs from the 2014 Half Marathon on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646587496250/
Our photographs from the 2013 Half Marathon on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635307620452/
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
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Whether a novice or a skilled shredder, there was just the right challenge in skateboarding at the Summit Shakedown.
Chamomile
Honey and almond.
A|O|C
Copenhagen, Denmark
(March 12, 2015)
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Orchard
Chocolate pear cake with Poire William geland, pink pralines. Anise-ginger perfumed quince, Westfiled cheese, honey crisp, and Pedro Ximenes granité.
Jean Georges
New York, New York
(February 2, 2012)
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Shot at Overture restaurant, Stellenbosch - see the rest of the post at DearSusan.
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We got acquainted through the correspondence on Anastasiaweb site in the middle of October 2005. Eddie was writing letters to me almost every day and his letters were really very interesting. He was writing me about everything, what he was doing during the day, at work, at home, weekends, every small detail of his life there. In November he wrote that would like to come to Ukraine and I was really glad about it but at the same time worried a lot whether we would like each other and about the way we would talk, because I knew only how to say “Hello” in English :-) His Russian was almost the same; he knew how to say “Yes” and “Car”. :-) After his decision to come to Ukraine I decided to attend English language courses. I didn’t have much time but I had to learn at least something. Time was passing by quickly. He bought tickets on the 28th of December. I decided to take a vacation for a week at work because I knew we would have to get to know each other better. On the day of his arrival I almost didn’t sleep and in the morning went to the beauty salon to make a hair do, manicure and etc, to look good :-) He also worried a lot and was calling me over the phone from the airport many times. He worried if I was going to be at the airport or no. It was his first time in Ukraine and he was coming there all alone and there was only me he knew. At the airport time was passing by very slowly and I was really nervous and when they announced that the plane had finally landed I started to panic. But the actual meeting went in a very nice and calm way. Both of us were like frozen and couldn’t say a word. We went to his apartment, left the luggage and went to the restaurant to have a dinner. So the first day was over. During the first days we didn’t talk much. But during the last days we couldn’t stop talking, using dictionaries, signs and body language, drawing pictures and seems that we created our own language and no one could understand us but we :-) Eddie liked Ukraine and Odessa, we walked a lot every day, notwithstanding cold weather and we celebrated the New Year’s Day together. And when the clock stroke 12 we made a wish (that’s according Ukrainian traditions), but what we thought we didn’t tell each other till now, but I guess our wishes were similar :-)
Time passed by very quickly and it was time to say good bye. That was really very difficult and painful; it seemed that we knew each other for so long and now had to get apart. Eddie said that would come back in March. I wished this very badly but didn’t know what would happen when he comes back home, maybe he didn’t like me or didn’t want to come….I didn’t know and worried a lot. When he came back home to England everything was as usual, work, home, weekends, lovely letters, phone calls and text messages every day. After a week he said that had bought tickets for the 10th of February. That was my birthday. I was really happy. Also I decided that I would introduce him my parents. It happened that because of bad weather his flight was delayed for one day. But the next day he came we went to my parents, reserved a table at a restaurant, and celebrated my birthday. The party went great, he liked my family a lot and they liked him :-) On St. Valentines Day we went to the restaurant and he proposed to me! :-) He proposed to me in the Russian language (with some mistakes but it made it even more fantastic) and gave me a ring. I thought it was a dream and I was in a fairy tale :-) I felt the happiest person on the Earth. And of course I accepted. So we decided that I would go to England and we would get together.
In February we went to the Consulate but I my visa was turned down, because it turned out that we didn’t have all the documents. Of course we were disappointed but we relaxed and knew that we just have to wait. After that Eddie was coming to Odessa every month. For the 9 month he has been to Odessa 5 times. In October I went to the British Consulate again. Eddie didn’t have a chance to come, so I took my sister with me. I was very nervous. Then I was called for the interview. After that I had to wait again. After three hours I thought that I would go crazy. But then they called my name and said that I had got visa :-) I was very happy and gave a call to Eddie.
After that we decided that I would come to his place on Christmas. We bought tickets for the 21st of December. I worried a lot. It was really hard to leave my family, because I understood that we would not see each other soon. But most of all I worried whether I would like it there in England, if his family and kids would accept me and like, if I find common language with them. But anyway I wanted to go and was sure in my decision. Five days before my departure I quit work and started to buy gifts and pack things. For my family it was also very hard to see me leaving. The flight was hard and long. Because of bad weather I stayed the whole day in Warsaw, but let Eddie know that the flight had been delayed. The atmosphere was hard; I worried a lot and felt somehow lonely. But when we had landed in London I felt much better and happier. I filled in the immigration card, took the luggage and went outside. In the exit at the very middle I saw Eddie waiting for me and he was shining with happiness. :-) From the airport we went home.
When we got home Eddie cooked a festive dinner, opened the bottle of champagne and we celebrated my arrival. :-)
On the second day we went hunting. That was all very new and unusual for me, his friends were always trying to ask me something, but I had a feeling that I understand simply nothing in English and can’t talk at all. Everybody talked very quickly, using slang words and out of 10 words I was able to understand 1 or nothing at all :-)
In two days we went to the restaurant to celebrate Christmas and Eddie introduced me to his family. But the meeting went great and I loved his parents and as I see now they liked me also :-)
The whole next week Eddie was showing me around, teaching me the names of the streets, shops. He also taught me the difference in height, weight, kilos and liters and money. That was all new to me. We traveled and walked a lot; saw different castles, nature, have been to all restaurants. Eddie tried to show me everything and make me like it and feel at home.
Then I met his kids and for the first time I was scared to talk to them because I thought they would not understand me but then it went on well. We are in great relationship with them and I like them a lot. So I started to get used to my new life but it was really difficult because quite often I wanted to talk to some one in Russian and of course missed my family. But Eddie took very good care of me and was a real support.
Then I started to get ready to our wedding. We decided to get together on the 31st of March because my visa was almost over and after the wedding we had to go through another interview. By that time my English was much better :-) We decided not to make a huge wedding and it was just a nice evening with closest people, family members, and total 11 people. The ceremony was quick but very nice and so I became Mrs. Boyes and we celebrated the wedding and our happiness :-)
Then we started to make other documents, so I could live and work there officially. Some time later we went for a vacation to Ukraine and spent two weeks there, but in one week I already started to miss England, our home, our dog and family :-)
Well that’s my story. :-) I’m really glad that I was suggested going to the dating agency and Anastasiaweb site. Thanks to them I met Eddie, took a risk of leaving everything and moving to another country and I don’t regret about anything. We really love each other and found our happiness. It’s so great to be loved and needed! Eddie is a very good husband and we have a great family :-)
I wish all other people using this site to not lose faith in love and happiness, don’t get afraid to take risks and find theirs second halves.
The foremost monument of ancient Khmer culture is of course Angkor Wat, reputed to be the largest religious building in the world owing to the enormous expanse of the complex, surrounded by a moat (itself of impressively huge dimensions) which is normally the first glimpse of ancient Angkor for visitors travelling to the archaeological park from nearby Siem Reap. It is one of civilisation's greatest monuments, a massive testament in stone to the power of faith and Khmer rulers.
The temple was founded in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu. It was only at the end of the century that Buddhism began to replace Hinduism as the chief form of worship here as Cambodia shifted from a Hindu culture to a Buddhist one. As a result there is much in the temple's iconography that reflects this original purpose with extensive scenes from Hindu mythology such as the Churning of the Sea of Milk, the most famous of the many reliefs that are found in the seemingly endless long galleries that surround the central structure of the temple.
Through the vast expanses of endless courts and corridors one reaches the nucleus of the temple with its famous five-towered summit, built in the form of one of Angkor's 'temple-mountains', a huge stone terrace which can be ascended (via perilously steep staircases!) to reach the group of conical towers (or 'prangs') that dominate the complex. This forms the architectural climax of the temple and gives it its iconic appearance which features as the centrepiece of the Cambodian flag.
Throughout the temple complex are superb carvings and reliefs, the great narrative walls of reliefs found in the surrounding galleries would repay many hours of study alone, whilst the frequent appearance of graceful female Apsara figures adorns and enlivens so much of the exterior of the structures. The relief carvings throughout are of very high quality and both sculptures and structures are a wonderul tribute to Khmer artistry.
There is much more to see in Angkor beyond Angkor Wat itself, but this is the greatest of temples that no visitor to Cambodia should miss.
Hinoki
Blueberry.
(Atsushi Tanaka)
Katianna Hong and Atsushi Tanaka
Twelve Days of Christmas
Day 10: Atsushi Tanaka
The Restaurant at Meadowood
Meadowood Napa Valley
St. Helena, California
(December 17, 2015)
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U.S. Air Force Academy - - Basic Cadets from the class of 2022 complete the assualt course here on July 23, 2018. The assault course is part of phase two of basic cadet training which takes place out at Jack's Valley. (U.S. Air Force photo/Darcie L. Ibidapo)
Langoustine
Cream, rhubarb granité.
Paired with Baricchi, "Regina de Felicita," Moscato Spumante, Piemonte, Italy, and a cocktail of roasted chestnuts, bourbon, amontillado sherry.
Friends of Lyvserket: Stephen Harris
Lysverket
Bergen, Norway
(November 10, 2014)
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Yaourt
Amande, réglisse.
Akrame
Paris, France
(January 23, 2013)
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I went out for a walk along the Green River today, which runs right alongside the Riverbend Golf Course in Kent, WA. Beautiful day!
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I completed the three cake less than 30 minutes.Of course the cream flowers and fruit pieces were ready.
Just finished the pattern and instructions.
get felt pattern from
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U.S. Air Force Academy - - Basic Cadets from the class of 2022 complete the confidence course here on July 24, 2018. The confidence course is part of phase two of basic cadet training which takes place out at Jack's Valley. (U.S. Air Force photo/Darcie L. Ibidapo)
Geoduck
Kimizu "Hollandaise," with a geoduck gonad fritter.
Parallel 37
San Francisco, California
(November 30, 2013)
This is a photograph from finish of the fourth annual running of the AON Mullingar Half Marathon which was held on Saturday 17th March 2019 (St. Patrick's Day Lá Fhéile Pádraig 2018) in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland at 10:30. This photograph was taken at at the 13 mile mark in the home straight within Mullingar Town Park. Following on from the incredible success of the first three years of the race this year the total numbers participating rose from just under 600 in 2015, 900 in 2016, over 1200 in 2017 and yet again over 1200 this year. Proceeds raised by the AON Mullingar Half Marathon will go directly to T.E.A.M (Temporary Emergency Accommodation Midlands) finding safe & secure accommodation for homeless women and children. The roots of the successs of the event last year was the excellent organisation and a very flat and fast route. All of these characteristics were repeated this year except for the weather. This was a bitterly cold day with air temperatures struggling to get above 4C and a severe wind chill from an easterly breeze making it for very difficult running conditions. Indeed the race could be described as a race of two halves in terms of weather. The first half participants had the strong, cold easterly wind at their faces. However, turning for home along the Royal Canal this became a very strong tailwind for 4 - 5 miles from around Flynn's Machinery/Junction 14 M4. Participants travelled from all over Ireland with a very large participation from runners around Mullingar and the midlands. The race has an AAI permit. The course reverted to its original route this year. Last year saw a small change to the course configuration when the race crossed the M4 Motorway at The Downs via a winding pedestrian footbridge. This was not included this year.
The race began on Pearse Street/Austin Friar's Street in the town and proceeds North East out of the town to the N52 Delvin/Dundalk road towards Lough Sheever. The course then follows beautiful rural country roads out to The Downs at the M4. The only significant hill or rise on the course occurs here at about 7 miles when runners cross a pedestrian footbridge over the M4 near Junction 14 Thomas Flynn and Sons The Downs. The race then joins the now local access route of the old N4 road and then joins the Royal Canal at Great Down. The remainder of the race follows the Royal Canal back westward to Mullingar town. The towpath on the Canal is perfectly flat and in excellent condition. Runners will notice how the level of the canal changes dramatically along the route - at points the canal is level with the towpath. In other places the canal is at least 3 meters lower than the canal path. However the path is perfectly flat and firm the whole way. The course then leaves the Royal Canal at the Ardmore Road/Millmount area of the town and finishes in the Mullingar Town Park on Austin Friar's Street beside the Annebrook Hotel. The park provides a very nice setting for the finish of the race and runners and their families can mix and congregate around the finish area and the hotel.
Timing and event management was provided by www.myrunresults.com/. Their website is here [www.myrunresults.com/] and will contain the results to today's race.
Our full set of photographs are available at: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157664768562807
Butter-poached lobster tail with a carrot-ginger puree, coconut soup, tarragon juice, pink grapefruit with basil chiffonade and brown butter powder.
Notes: This plate was like a painter's palatte - reminding me of the beet dish that I had at schwa in chicago.
The lobster tail had been perfectly poached in butter to a silken tenderness. I loved almost every element on the plate - not the least of which was the graperfuit, which was slightly warm and therefore tooko on a similar texture to the lobster tail - cloaking itself in the lobster.
Each element on the dish was POPPINGLY flavorful. Personal preferences in taste aside, everything on this plate was great. The carrot-ginger puree was distinctly both. The tarragon juice was very anise fresh-and-grassy. The coconut soup, as well, was very creamy and coconutty (this was one flavor combo I didn't really appreciate). The brown butter powder, which reminded me of the brown butter powder on the skate course at my second dinner at alinea, had barely any taste of butter, even less of browned butter. Rather, it tasted like powdered milk.
Perhaps the most unassuming, but most appreciated element on this dish (besides the lobster) was the little square of purple Peruvian potato that added the only texturally "meaty" element on the plate - a welcomed and wonderful thing.
Overall, this course was very strong - most in composition and presentation. I found the number of different sauces a bit distracting - especially for such a small piece of lobster. But, it was well-executed and each element carefully and wonderfully prepared.
Photos from Day 3 of the 2012 Advanced Science Course "Around the Globe and Around the Clock: The Science and Technology of the CTBT".
Highland Golf Course, Birmingham, AL It is a very gray day. Nine portrait images taken with Canon 40D, Canon 28-135mm @28, stitched with Panaview Image Assembler.
Edit - Lamborghini V12 VGT
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For the next weeks I’m going to mainly edit my shots downloaded from my profile on the website. I would export shots from the capture section on my PS5 and transfer them to my PC if it wasn’t old and creaky, I had a laptop or a flash drive adapter for the iPad.
But in a few weeks time I will try and find the mentality to load up my PC. And within the next two years, hopefully my 10-12 year old PC can be replaced since this PC locks up after 1-4 hours depending on what the PC is being used.
Of course I would love a new PC on a PayPal 0% Interest Plan. However since I already have one active and a new job will need to be secured so my boss doesn’t have to get frustrated with me, within the next week or two.
Buying a new Desktop PC or Laptop isn’t a smart move just in case, my boss decides to get rid of me before a new job is secured. And because of that, buying something to replace my old PC is a bit risky.
"Julius"
The Restaurant at Meadowood
Meadowood Napa Valley
St. Helena, California
(December 4, 2014)
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And so to the third of the City Churches I visited for the first time over Open House weekend.
St Helen's has control over two other churches, St Andrew Undercroft and St Peter Upon Cornhill, the second of those is hardly ever open, I've never found it open anways.
I explained to a nice Lady insode St Andrew's that the wonderful Friends of the City Churches do such a great job in ensuring many churches are open at least one day a week, it is a shame that the same could not be done for St Peter. Unbeknown to me, she was from St Helen's who listened to what I said, and maybe, it will be open more often. Once would be nice of course.
We walked from St Katherine Cree to St Helen's, and saw that the door was open, and once inside it was a hive of activity, full of visitors and life. Someone was making use of the state of the art audio system to describe the church, and its differences from traditional Anglican churches.
It's size, and width, are breathtaking. A double naved church, with side chapels and gallery, almost too much to take in.
I mixed in with the guided tours, took shots and soaked in the church.
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St Helen's Bishopsgate is a large conservative evangelical Anglican church located off Bishopsgate in London.
It is the largest surviving parish church in the City of London and it contains more monuments than any other church in Greater London except Westminster Abbey, hence it is sometimes referred to as the "Westminster Abbey of the City".
It was the parish church of William Shakespeare when he lived in the area in the 1590s.[1][2] In 1608, Sir Alberico Gentili, the founder of the science of international law, was buried in the church.
The church of St Helen dates from the 12th century and a priory of Benedictine nuns was founded there[clarification needed] in 1210.[3] It is unusual in that it was designed with two parallel naves, giving it a wide interior.[4] Until the dissolution of the priory in 1538, the church was divided in two by a partition running from east to west, the northern half serving the nuns and the southern the parishioners.[3] It is the only building from a nunnery to survive in the City of London.
The priory had extensive monastic buildings; its hall was later used by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers until its demolition in 1799. A crypt extended north from the church, under the hall.[3]
In the 17th century two Classical doorcases were added to the otherwise Gothic church.[3][5] In 1874 the parish was united with that of St Martin Outwich when the latter's church was demolished, and the first incumbent of the new parish was John Bathurst Deane. St Helen's church was heavily restored by John Loughborough Pearson in 1891–3, and reopened on St John the Baptist's Day in 1893 by the Bishop of London, Frederick Temple.
Interior of St Helen's Bishopsgate
St Helen's was one of only a few City of London churches to survive both the Great Fire of London of 1666 and the Blitz during World War II.[6] In 1992 and 1993, however, the church was badly damaged by two IRA bombs that were set off nearby.[7] The roof of the building was lifted and one of the City's largest medieval stained glass windows was shattered. The church has since been fully restored although many of the older monuments within it were entirely destroyed. The architect Quinlan Terry, an enthusiast of Georgian architecture, designed the restoration along Reformation lines.
Owing to parish consolidation over the years, the parish is now named "St Helen's Bishopsgate with St Andrew Undershaft and St Ethelburga Bishopsgate and St Martin Outwich and St Mary Axe". The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors are the patrons of the benefice.[8]
The church was designated a Grade I-listed building on 4 January 1950.
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Here we are amidst the Dubai-ification of Bishopsgate, and yet the west frontage of St Helen is rather pleasing in its little courtyard beneath the Aviva building. It is a different story to south and east, however, for although the Gherkin has created a focus for St Mary Axe, the peripherals of the space are messy and ill-considered, and beside St Helen the car park entrance has all the charm of the neglected bit of a provincial shopping centre. However, all this will go for the construction of the City's tallest tower, the Undershaft building, and the two lower storeys being left open will give St Helen and its near neighbour St Andrew Undershaft the chance to talk to each other for the first time in centuries.
Uniquely in the City, St Helen has a double nave, and this is because it was the church of a Benedictine nunnery, established here in the early 13th Century. There was already a parish church on the site, and a new nave for the sisters was built to the north of the parish nave. There was a major restoration in the early 17th Century which gave the exterior much of its current character, and the church was far enough north to survive the Great Fire. The Blitz also did little damage here, and St Helen might have continued being a pleasant if rather sleepy medieval survival among the office towers were it not for two significant events.
The first was the Baltic Exchange bombing on the night of 10th April 1992. A one tonne semtex and fertiliser bomb was exploded by the IRA immediately to the south-east of the church, its intention to cause as much damage to property as possible. In this it succeeded, for the £800 million repair bill to the City was almost twice as much as the entire repair bill for all the other damage caused by IRA bombs in the British Isles since the current spate of Troubles began in 1969. The south wall of the church was demolished, the interior blown out by blast damage. Repairs were already underway when the second event to shape the current church occured. On the morning of 24th April 1993, a Saturday, the IRA exploded another one tonne bomb, this time of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, on Bishopsgate, to the north-west of the church. Thus, the little church found itself exactly between the two largest terrorist bombs ever exploded on the British mainland. This time the west front was demolished, and blast damage took out all the windows and furnishings again.
The building's rebirth was very much a reflection of the character of its congregation. Unusually for the City, St Helen is very much in the staunch evangelical protestant tradition. The pre-1992 church had been full of the clutter of those resacramentalising Victorians, but controversially the architect Quinlan Terry was commissioned to design an interior more fitting for the style of worship at St Helen. Anti-modernist, anti-gothicist, anti-conservationist, Terry is an architect so far out of kilter with the mainstream of British design that it sometimes seems as if he is working in an entirely different discipline, running in parallel with the rest of the architectural world. Previously, his most significant church design was for Brentwood Catholic Cathedral, which has been described as having all the style, grace and charm of a shopping centre food court. It was never going to end happily, either for the conservation bodies or the City traditionalists.
Terry's reinvented St Helen is a preaching box for protestant worship. Memorials have been relegated to the south transept, and the rood screen moved across it to separate it from the body of the church. The two naves have been united in a cool, square, white space, the focus of the church turned to face the north wall. It is as if the Oxford Movement had never happened. And yet it is all done well, with that infuriating veneer of seemliness that so much of Terry's work conveys.
Well, you wouldn't want all medieval churches to be like this, but churches are constantly changing to suit the style of worship of the day, and so it seems fitting that St Helen should have been reinvented this way. Much of the outcry at the time must have been because the Bishopsgate bomb vaporised St Ethelburga, St Helen's near neighbour, a small surviving medieval church, and it was felt rather willful that another medieval church was being gutted by those who might have been thought responsible for saving it. Me, I'm not so sure. Church communities should have their head to design their churches to suit their current worship, otherwise we would not have the extraordnanry accretion of historical artefacts that the great majority of England's 16,000-odd medieval churches now contain. St Helen is a good example of what can be done by people with passion and enthusiasm in the face of apocalyptic destruction. This was true after 1945, and it was true after 1993. Mind you, I'm not sure we'd have the confidence to do the same thing now.
Simon Knott, December 2015