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Lomo Lca+, Kodak Ultramax 400 Film.
Met up with Duke for a coffee and a yarn the other day and snapped this before we left. Absolute legend and a true gent. Check him out here:
Especially his brilliant work 'Under The Dark Cloth' a must for any photographer!
Taken at the Japanese garden that's part of Duke Gardens. My wife and I are visiting my sister in Durham, North Caroline, and this is a favorite spot to see. This is my first time bringing an infrared camera to North Carolina.
More pictures from North Carolina can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626602176099/...
Gian Galeazzo Visconti,
Life at the “Palio de la Marciliana”, Chioggia, Italia, June 2022, a re-enactment of medieval life, costume, food, crafts and other entertainments. www.marciliana.it
Duke is a new client. He's about 5 years old and a beautiful german shepherd. He's a great ball retriever but not so good at giving up the ball. His owner's have about four balls in the yard, so as he goes after one, I pick up another and start over... I had a lot of fun with him today!
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The Grand old Duke of York. Frederick Duke of York, second son of King George 3rd. The most hated man to serve in the British army. No one wanted to pay for this statue, not even his own brother George. So the government decided, without consultation, to dock one day's pay from every soldier in the British army to finance this monument. Things never change, the monument went over budget and brother George had to stump-up the rest of the money, in the end it cost £25,000.
Oh, The grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
And he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only half-way up,
They were neither up nor down.
Wedensday.
And still on the Island.
Through the night, yet more rain fell, and into the morning so I woke to the sound of yet another cloudburst. But it should be clearing soon.
So, I leap out of bed, do 50 press-ups, have a cold shower and am ready for the rigours of the day ahead, and in this I would be helped by a pot of black coffee and the finest sausage and bacon sandwich known to man.
And a man in the kitchen makes it for me, so all I have to do is eat it.
Non nom nom.
I drink the last dregs off the coffee, and I'm away to work.
It was supposed to be a slow and easy start, but I was summoned to an emergency department meeting, and needed to be at the factory to get internet access.
Our soon-to-be-ex-boss is now officially our ex-boss, and we have a new interim manager.
That's it.
So on with the audit.
Outside, the clouds did clear and the sun did shine, and did shine into the meeting room where even in November was so warm the air conditioning could not cope and we got very warm indeed.
We broke for lunch, and talked about the struggles we face, and how jolly nice the Island is.
Well, it is.
We were done by half three, so I drove back to the hotel, but saw the sign I had passed dozens of times, pointing to the 11th century church of St John the Baptist. Today would be the day to visit.
Light was fading fast, but with a warm light, and only with my compact camera, my shots won't win many prizes, but the best camera is the one you have.
From the outside, it seems to be a very Victorian church, but there is a Norman arch in the porch, and many more details inside, among the Victorian fixtures and fittings.
Inside there is a very tall and narrow Jacobian pulpit, some fine monuments from before the 19th century work, and some what I think is medieval glass, or at least fragements reset.
Back at the hotel I wrote a little then decided I really should go an exercise my fat little legs, so should walk into Cowes for a pint at the Ale House, where there was a fine firkin of porter on.
But, before then, as I walked along the promenade, over the other side of the Solent, the just past full moon rose over the Pompy skyline. It was pretty breath-taking, I leaned on railings to watch it rise and get brighter and its yellow colour fade to pure white.
Dozens of other people were doing the same thing too.
And it was a free show.
My favourite price.
I walk into town and up the Ale House, a group of sailing types were talking over pints of fizzy Eurolager, so I order porter just because I can.
There was a wide range of places to eat, most with lots of free tables.
I wasn't in a seafood mood, curry perhaps, but then at a restaurant I saw they had a dish called "sambal chicken". Sambal is a spicy chili sauce from Indonesia, that I sued to eat lots of when I was on the survey boats.
I asked, do you make your own sambal?
They did.
And cocktails were two for £15.
I order the sambal chicken and a marshmallow martini.
Very fuckin sophisticated.
The sambal was hot, just about bearable, but not not leave any doubt, it came with sliced fresh chilli, as did the Thai spiced cheesy chips.
I eat most of it all, then finish up with a "rhubarb and custard cocktail, which did mix quite poorly with the sambal on the walk back to the hotel.
Back to the hotel, I settle the bill and so all ready to leave in the morning, as I have to catch the six o'clock ferry.
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The Church of St. John the Baptist is a parish church located in Northwood, Isle of Wight. The church dates from the 12th century. The mid-19th century saw extensive restoration work carried out on the church. In 1864 the wooden tower and dormer window were both swept away. The restoration was completed in 1874. Despite this restoration work, the church still retains many of its original features including a Norman arch over the south doorway and a Jacobean pulpit.
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NORTHWOOD
Northewode (xiii cent.).
Northwood is a parish and village midway between Newport and Cowes, and now includes Pallance Gate. In 1894 the parish was extended to include a part of the parish of St. Nicholas. (fn. 1) The soil is for the most part loam, while the subsoil is of clay and gravel. The parish contains 4,333 acres, of which 878 acres are arable, 2,612 acres are permanent grass and 419 acres woodlands. There are also 292 acres of foreshore, 2 of land covered by water and 78 by tidal water. Cowes contains 576 acres, of which 2 acres are arable and 166 permanent grass. There are also 35 acres of foreshore and 5 acres of land covered by water. (fn. 2) There is a station on the Isle of Wight Central railway at the cement works, available for Northwood, and the pumping station of the Cowes Waterworks is situated at Broadfields within the parish. The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers have large works on the Medina at the West Medina Mills, and there are brickworks at Hillis belonging to Messrs. Pritchett. There existed a confraternity of Brothers and Sisters of St. John Baptist (fn. 3) in a building, later called the Church House, which was standing in 1690. It was founded c. 1500 and dissolved in 1536. An old glebe barn, with a date stone 'Restored 1742,' was pulled down in 1901. There is a Council school (mixed), built in 1855 and enlarged in 1906. The rectory-house lies to the east of the church and dates from the 18th century. (fn. 4)
The parish has a long seaboard as the north-west boundary, which includes the bays of Thorness and Gurnard, the latter the landing-place of Charles II in 1671. Gurnard (fn. 5) is a small village, mostly consisting of villas with a number of artisans' dwellings. There are a coastguard station here and a Council school, erected in 1863.
Northwood Park, the property of Mr. E. Granville Ward, was occupied from 1902 to 1906 by a community of Benedictine nuns, who have since moved to Appley, near Ryde (q.v.). The house, which is properly in Cowes, was built in 1837, on the site of a former residence called Belle View, by Mr. George H. Ward, uncle to the present owner, and is a somewhat stately stone building of classic detail, to which a wing has been since added.
At Hurstake on the Medina there was in the 18th century a flourishing shipyard, but by the end of the century it had fallen to decay. (fn. 6)
Cowes was taken out of Northwood and constituted a separate parish under the Local Government Act of 1894. (fn. 7) It is a thriving seaport town, daily increasing inland to the south, and is a terminus of the Isle of Wight Central railway and the main entrance to the Isle of Wight from Southampton. A steam ferry and launch service connect it with East Cowes. The town affairs are regulated under the Local Government Act of 1894 by an urban district council, who have acquired control of the water supply and gasworks. There is a steamboat pier and landingstage, and the Victoria Promenade Pier was built by the urban district council in 1901. There are wharves and storehouses along the Medina. The principal industries are the shipbuilding business of John Samuel White & Co., Ltd., the brass and iron foundry of Messrs. William White, the ropery of Messrs. Henry Bannister & Co. and the well-known sail-making establishment of Messrs. Ratsey & Lapthorn. A recreation ground of 9 acres was presented to the town by Mr. W. G. Ward in 1859.
The main or High Street of Cowes is a narrow, winding, old-fashioned road, widening as it approaches the shore at the north end, and finally terminating in the Parade, the principal sea-front of the town. At the end of the Parade is the Royal Yacht Squadron (fn. 8) Club House, converted to its present use in 1858, and beyond is the 'Green,' made over to the town authorities in 1864 by Mr. George R. Stephenson. The well-known annual regatta is held here the first week in August. (fn. 9) The oldest inn is the 'Fountain,' by the landing-pier, dating from the 18th century. The Gloucester Hotel, by the Parade, was the former home of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and probably owes its name to the visit of the Duke of Gloucester and his sister the Princess Sophia in 1811. The Royal Marine Hotel, also on the Parade, was certainly in existence at the beginning of the 19th century. (fn. 10) A public cemetery, about half a mile south of the town, was opened in 1855, and is under a joint burial board composed of members from Cowes and Northwood.
Besides Northwood Park, the principal residences are Egypt House, (fn. 11) the property of Mr. E. Granville Ward, and Nubia House, the home of Sir Godfrey Baring, late M.P. for the Island.
The name Cowes dates from the beginning of the 16th century, before which time the port—if port it could be called—was higher up the river at Shamblers. (fn. 12) In 1512 the fleet under Sir Edward Haward victualled at Cowes (the Cowe) on its way to Guienne, (fn. 13) so it is evident the place did not take its name from the defensive work, which was certainly not built before 1539. (fn. 14) Leland speaks of forts both at East and West Cowes, (fn. 15) but the former had become a ruin by the 17th century. (fn. 16) The latter, however, was kept up and added to, and had, in addition to the gun platform and magazine, apartments for the captain and gunners, and at the end of the 18th century mounted eleven nine-pounders. (fn. 17)
The inhabitants of this part of Northwood parish seem to have been seafarers and traders, or at any rate smugglers, as early as the 14th century. In July 1395 Thomas Shepherd received a 'pardon of the forfeitures and imprisonment incurred by him because he and two of the ferrymen sold two sacks of wool to men of a skiff from Harflete, carried the said wool as far as le Soland and there delivered the same, taking money.' (fn. 18) At another time he 'sold wool without custom . . . with the clerks of the chapel of the Earl of Salisbury, and at another time with a skiff from Harflete belonging to Janin Boset of Harflue.' (fn. 19)
The merchants' houses and stores were principally at East Cowes, where most of the business was transacted; but West Cowes in the 18th century became a shipbuilding centre, contributing many first-class battleships to the English navy. (fn. 20) By the year 1780 it was 'the place of greatest consideration in the parish of Northwood,' (fn. 21) and though the town was indifferently built, with very narrow streets, the inhabitants managed to be 'in general, genteel and polite although not troublesomely ceremonious.' (fn. 22)
In 1795 there were 2,000 inhabitants and the town had a good trade in provisions to the fleets riding in the roads waiting for a wind or a convoy. While the lower part of Cowes was crowded with seamen's cottages and business premises, the upper part on the hill slope was occupied by villas, chiefly of retired naval men. (fn. 23)
By the 19th century the tide of prosperity began to flow from East to West Cowe, which became a favourite bathing and boating resort, patronized by Royalty. The town now grew rapidly, and in 1816 an Act was passed for 'lighting, cleansing and otherwise improving the town of West Cowes . . . and for establishing a market within the said town.' (fn. 24)
The advent of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and the consequent popularity of racing, put a seal on West Cowes. It became fashionable and has remained so ever since—the hub of the yachting world.
There are two halls for entertainments—the Foresters' Hall in Sun Hill and another in Bridge Road, each capable of seating over 500 people.
There are Council schools in Cross Street (infants), and a mixed school has been lately erected in the same street; boys' and infants' in York Street; non-provided (boys and girls) in Cross Street.
MANORS
There is no mention of a manor of NORTHWOOD in Domesday Book, and it seems probable that then, as in the 13th century, the greater part of the land in the parish formed a member of the manor of Bowcombe in Carisbrooke (fn. 25) (q.v.). In the 17th century this land came to be regarded as a separate manor, but it continued to follow the descent of Bowcombe (fn. 26) until the latter half of the 18th century, when it was presumably sold to the Wards, whose representative, Mr. Edmund Granville Ward, is the present lord of the manor.
There was a small holding in Northwood possibly, as Mr. Stone suggests from research he has made, to be identified with Shamlord (q.v.). It was held, together with other property, under the manor of Bowcombe by a branch of the Trenchard family at least as early as 1338. (fn. 27) In 1560 Richard Trenchard, who seems to have been the grandson of John Trenchard of Chessell in Shalfleet, died seised of this property, which he had held 'in socage by fealty and rent of 25s. yearly, suit at court and finding one man and one woman yearly to mow the corn of the farmer of Bowcombe for one day.' He was succeeded by his son William. (fn. 28)
There were also lands in Northwood which formed a member of the manor of Alvington in Carisbrooke and were held in the reign of Henry III by William de St. Martin. (fn. 29) They afterwards belonged to Sir Stephen Popham (fn. 30) and descended to Sir Nicholas Wadham in the early part of the 16th century, at which time they were regarded as a separate manor; they continued, however, to follow the descent of Alvington (q.v.).
In the reign of Henry VIII there was in the parish much woodland which belonged before the Dissolution to the Prior and convent of Christchurch Twyneham, (fn. 31) who had perhaps bought it from the abbey of St. Mary, Romsey, to which it belonged in the 13th century. (fn. 32) In 1280 this abbey had received from Edward I a confirmation of a charter of Henry II granting them 'all their wood of Northwood, as King Edward gave it to them.' (fn. 33) There is, however, no mention of any property in Northwood among the possessions of Romsey Abbey at its dissolution. In 1544 the wood was granted to Thomas Hopson (fn. 34) and subsequently followed the descent of Ningwood in Shalfleet (q.v.). It was described as 'the manor of Northwood' in 1626, at which time it was in the possession of John Hopson. (fn. 35)
The manor of WERROR (Werore, xii cent.; Werole, xiii cent.; Warror, xvi cent.) was granted to God's House, Southampton, immediately after its foundation about 1197, for it was confirmed to the hospital by Richard I in 1199. (fn. 36) It had been given to the hospital by a certain Mark, and his gift was confirmed in 1209 by his son Roger, of whom the manor was to be held at a yearly rent of 6d. (fn. 37) William de Redvers Earl of Devon (1184–1216) granted to the hospital rights of pasturage and fuel, except for six weeks each year, over the whole land of Werror which belonged to his fee, and which is described as lying within Parkhurst, Northwood, Carisbrooke and the Medina. (fn. 38)
The estate remained in the hands of successive priors until the Dissolution (fn. 39) and passed with God's House to Queen's College, Oxford, (fn. 40) by whom the manor is still owned. (fn. 41)
CHURCHES
The church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST lies to the east of the road from Newport to Cowes. It was built as a chapel for the northern portion of the parish of Carisbrooke in the middle of the 12th century, and consists of a chancel, a nave with north and south aisles and a modern tower with spire added at the west end in 1864. The south door is a good specimen of 12th-century work, to be classed with those of Yaverland and Wootton. Both aisles are very narrow and are of four bays, with columns having the characteristic splay-cornered capitals found elsewhere in the Isle of Wight, (fn. 42) and must have been added towards the end of the century, the south being the later. (fn. 43) There are curious flying arches across these, evidently inserted later, to withstand the thrust of the roof and carry the flat above. In the 15th century windows of the period were inserted in the walls and the chancel reroofed, (fn. 44) if not rebuilt, and a small door inserted in the north wall of the nave. There is a good canopied Jacobean pulpit, somewhat similar in detail to that at Wootton. The chancel arch is a plain splay springing direct from the wall without an impost, and looks as though the earlier one had been destroyed and the opening widened in the 15th century. The memorials of interest are a painted wooden tablet to the children of Samuel and Grace Smith, who died in 1668 and 1670, and a curious memorial to Thomas Smith, rector, who died in 1681. (fn. 45)
The one bell, founded by Mears, was hung in 1875.
The plate consists of a chalice inscribed 'T.H. E.L.'; a paten inscribed 'Thomas Troughear, D.D. istius Ecclĩae Rector,' dated 1732; a flagon (plated) inscribed 'Northwood Church, 1831'; an oval paten inscribed '1813.'
The registers date from 1539, and are in seven books (fn. 46) : (i) 1539 to 1593; (ii) 1594 to 1598; (iii) 1599 to 1605; (iv) 1606 to 1618; (v) 1621 to 1660; (vi) 1653 to 1759; (vii) 1743 to 1812.
There is a mission church in Pallance Road with a Sunday school attached.
The church of ST. MARY, WEST COWES, built in 1867 on the site of an earlier church erected in 1657, is a stone structure consisting of chancel, nave of four bays and aisles, with a tower containing one bell and a clock. It has a handsome reredos and a fine organ. There is a brass memorial tablet to Dr. Arnold of Rugby. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the vicar of Carisbrooke. The register dates from 1679.
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, built of brick in 1832 at the sole expense of the late Mrs. S. Goodwin, was enlarged by the addition of a chancel in 1862. It has a western tower with embattled cornice and angle pinnacles. The register dates from 1833. The living is in the gift of Mr. Ll. Loyd.
The Roman Catholic church of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Terminus Road is a white brick building erected in 1796. There is a large altar-piece by Cau representing the Descent from the Cross, and another of the Death of the Virgin, on the north wall.
At Gurnard is the church of ALL SAINTS, attached to Holy Trinity, Cowes. It is of brick with Bath stone dressings, and has nave, chancel, north and south transepts and a turret with one bell.
ADVOWSONS
The church of Northwood was a chapel of ease to Carisbrooke, and belonged in early times to the priory there, (fn. 47) to which it had been granted by William de Redvers Earl of Devon. When the prior and convent obtained the rectory and endowed the vicarage of Carisbrooke, the tithes of Northwood, both great and small, were assigned to the vicar. (fn. 48) In the reign of Henry VIII Northwood obtained parochial privileges and was exempted from contribution to the repairs of Carisbrooke Church. (fn. 49) The living is still attached to Carisbrooke, and the patrons at the present day are the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford.
Cowes is ecclesiastically divided into two districts. The church of St. Mary was built in 1657, and further endowed in 1679 by George Morley Bishop of Winchester, 'provided that the inhabitants should pay the minister (who is always of their own choosing) £40 a year.' (fn. 50) The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £130, in the gift of the vicar of Carisbrooke.
The Roman Catholic church of St. Thomas of Canterbury was served at the beginning of the 19th century by two chaplains of Napoleon's Foreign Legion. The earliest register contains the names of several of the officers and men.
¶There are several large Nonconformist chapels in the town. The oldest of these is the Congregational chapel, which was built in 1804. The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1831, the Baptist chapel in 1877 and the Primitive Methodist and United Methodist Free Churches in 1889.
Carlos Baker was born in Ohio, 1 October, 1827. He was the son of Ebenezer Baker, a veteran of the War of 1812 (13 Sept., 1787, Vermont – 21 Nov., 1859, Allegan, MI), and Mary Chase Spalding (23 May, 1795, Waitsfield, VT – 16 April, 1873, Beatrice, Nebraska). The couple wed on 1 February, 1815, in Waitsfield, Vermont. Carlos was the fifth of their ten children born during the course of four decades. The others were: Sarah M. (29 May, 1816 – 1895); Horace W. (17 Feb., 1818-1850); Artimas N. (b. 1821); Cordelia (4 June, 1824 – 1900); Julia C. (b. 12 May, 1826); Rodney Spalding (6 June, 1830 – 1905); Norman (8 Feb., 1832 – 1850); William H. (2 June, 1835 – 1870); Philmer (b. 22 July, 1838); and Littlejohn (8 Feb.,1840 – 1904).
Carlos’s paternal grandparents were Johnathan Baker (d. 4 Feb., 1850, Marcellus, NY) and Sarah, last name unknown (d. 30 April, 1833). Carlos’s maternal grandparents were Abel Spalding (28 December, 1764, New Ipswich, NH – 16 June, 1844, Norton, OH) and Hannah Chase (24 Dec., 1769, Cornish, NH – 2 March, 1832, Delaware Co., OH). Abel and Hannah were married in 1790. Before becoming husband and wife, Spalding had been a private in the company commanded by Captain Charles Nelson of Delaware County in Col. Benjamin Wait's Vermont Regiment for seven months in 1781. Spalding appeared before an Ohio court to battle for his pension payments, and he gave evidence that was recorded verbatim. This included that he was one of the troops raised to defend against attacks by “the invading Tories from Canada…. The Indians and Tories were continuously hovering around us, keeping us in a state of alarm, and occasionally either killing or carrying off our scouts.” He continued that, after being mustered out, “I was paid for my services in Vermont bank paper money, which was then worth almost nothing.”
In 1850, the census places Carlos Baker in the township of Lyme, Huron County, Ohio, as a 24-year-old cabinetmaker with personal goods valued at $700. He appears to be living as a lodger. He arrived in Allegan, Michigan, sometime in the next few years—perhaps he came to join his father, Ebenezer, who was in Allegan County by 1850, as was Carlos’s brother Littlejohn. Wikipedia says that the town had its roots planted several decades earlier, when “The men after whom Allegan's downtown streets were named—Elisha Ely, Samuel Hubbard, Charles Christopher Trowbridge, Pliny Cutler, and Edmund Monroe—patented land in the area in 1833. They considered the site a prime location for industry, due to its potential for waterpower (since it straddled the Kalamazoo River) and water-bound transportation. By 1835, a dam and sawmill had been established.”
Carlos soon met the woman who would become his wife, Eliza Higgins (15 April, 1829, NY – 3 April, 1903, Allegan, MI). She was the daughter of Jabin Strong Higgins (b. 9 March, 1799, Windham, New York) and Betsey Aldrich (b. 10 November, 1802, Poultney, Vermont). The pair wed 8 April, 1854. In short order they had three children: Willis J. (b. 1854 or 1855); Albertis Otis (b. 2 June 1857); and Ernestine (b. 18 August, 1859).
Carlos’s father, Ebenezer Baker, died 21 November, 1859, of consumption in Gunplain, Allegan County. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery—the first to be laid to rest in the family plot.
On 17 November, 1860, we can read Carlos Baker’s own words in a letter to the editors he wrote to the publication The Scientific American. The subject was most delightful: pans for boiling maple sap. “We use sheet iron pans almost entirely, for the purpose of making maple sugar, and I suppose no other population in this nation, of equal numbers, makes as much and as good maple sugar as we do.” One can almost hear the Ken Burns-style voiceover. After describing the pans’ construction, Carlos concludes, “Pans made in that fashion, of common stove pipe iron, have been in use in our ‘bush’ fifteen years, and are good pans yet, not being half worn or rusted out.”
On the 1860 census of Allegan, Carlos is enumerated as a cabinetmaker with real estate worth $1,000 and personal goods worth $800. His wife, Eliza, had real estate worth $4,000. That same year, an agricultural census was taken in June. Carlos is recorded to have had 8 improved acres, 22 unimproved; the cash value of the land was $1,000; he had 1 cow and 4 swine valued at $50; and 200 bushels of Indian corn. It sounds peaceful and bucolic—no doubt it was, but the darkness of war was coming, even to rural Michigan.
In July 1862, 34-year-old Carlos Baker was one of the men who signed the articles of association of the First Congregational Church of Allegan, the house of worship that he and his family may have been attending since its nascence in 1857; they had been officially received into the congregation on 31 December, 1858. Then, on 5 September, 1862, Carlos enlisted as a private in Company B, 19th Michigan Infantry Volunteers. It was organized at Dowagiac, Michigan, on that day, and would not muster out until 10 June, 1865. (Carlos’s brother, Littlejohn, enlisted 13 Feb. 13, 1864, in Company B of the 13th Michigan Infantry as a corporal, and mustered out 25 July, 1865.)
The 19th Regiment has a rather concise regimental history—albeit not because they saw no action:
“Left State for Cincinnati, Ohio, September 14, and duty at Covington, Ky., until October 7. Moved to Georgetown, Lexington, Sandersville and to Nicholasville, Ky., October 7-November 13. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of Ohio, October 1862, to February 1863. Coburn's Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October 1863. Coburn's unattached Brigade, Dept. of the Cumberland, to December 1863. Post of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to January 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865.
“SERVICE: Moved to Danville, Ky., December 12, 1862, and duty there until January 26, 1863. Moved to Louisville, Ky., thence to Nashville, Tenn., January 26-February 7, and to Brentwood Station February 21. To Franklin, February 23. Reconnaissance toward Spring Hill March 3-5. Action at Spring Hill, Thompson's Station, March 4-5. Regiment mostly captured by Bragg's Cavalry forces, nearly 18,000 strong, under Van Dorn. Little Harpeth and Brentwood March 25 (Detachment). Exchanged May 25, 1863. Regiment reorganized at Camp Chase, Ohio, during June. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., June 8-11. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 23, and garrison duty there until October 25. Stockade near Murfreesboro Bridge, Stone's River, October 4 (Co. "D"). Moved to McMinnville October 25, and duty there until April 21, 1864. Ordered to Join Corps in Lookout Valley. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Boyd's Trail May 9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Cassville, May 19. New Hope Church, May 25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills, May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain, June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain, June 15-17. Gilgal or Golgotha Church, June 15. Muddy Creek, June 17. Noyes Creek, June 19. Kolb's Farm, June 22. Assault on Kennesaw, June 27. Ruff's Station, July 4. Chattahoochee River, July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek, July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta, July 22-August 25. Operations at Chattahoochee River Bridge, August 26-September 2. Occupation of Atlanta, September 2-November 15. March to the sea, November 15-December 10. Campaign of the Carolinas, January to April, 1865. Lawtonville, S.C., February 2. Averysboro, N. C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsbore March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett’s House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Mustered out June 10, 1865.
“Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 88 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 160 Enlisted men by disease. Total 255.”
Carlos kept a diary during his war years and Eliza kept a daybook. Both of these are now in Duke University’s rare book and manuscript library. I have not yet been able to access the documents, but the university describes them as follows: “The collection comprises two volumes. One is a 127-page diary maintained by Carlos Baker at the end of the Civil War, dated 15 November, 1864, to 10 July, 1865. Baker provides very detailed descriptions of the final days of the conflict, even naming the farms where his company camps or fights. Of particular interest are the descriptions of his company's participation in General Sherman's March to the Sea, their marches through the Carolinas, and their fighting at Savannah, Ga., Averysboro, NC, and Bentonville, NC. The other volume in the collection is a 60-page commonplace book (1863 - 1871) maintained by Carlos Baker’s wife, Eliza. In it are diary entries containing poignant descriptions of her anxiety about her husband's safety and many moving descriptions of her uncertainty about the future; poems and letters she composed; and notes about items she purchased, bartered with, or sold over the period.”
After the war had finished, Carlos returned to Allegan and took up his life where it had left off. On the 1870 census, captured on the date of 14 June, Carlos was enumerated as a cabinetmaker with real estate valued at $3,000 and a personal estate of $1,500. His wife, Eliza, had personal real estate valued at $4,000. The children—Willis, 15; Albertis (who seems to have preferred to be called Otis), 13; and Ernestine, 10, were at home. It was a mere six years later, on 1 May, 1876, that Carlos Baker died at the age of 48 of a yet undiscovered cause.
The cabinet card in my collection shows an unknown man in a four-wheel trap parked beside Carlos’s elaborate “white bronze” (zinc) grave marker in Oakwood Cemetery, Allegan. The trap has a business name painted on the side that seems to read: “White Brothers Monuments”—presumably the makers of the memorial. On the reverse of the card is several layers of information, scribbled in pencil. Among what can be deciphered is “Allegan,” “T. S. [unknown word]” “Hight [sic] 13 ft. 6 in., Base 4 ft 6 in. and square,” as well as two columns of numbers. Taken as a whole, it seems to refer to the monument’s dimensions and cost. (Reverse: www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/12837105703/in/photost...)
The year that the monument was installed is not known, but the cabinet card dates to perhaps the late 1880s. Records indicate that the government placed a Civil War veteran’s headstone on Carlos’s grave. Presumably, there was a similar stone on the grave of Ebenezer. Both of these were removed when the imposing monument was put in place. It cannot have been inexpensive, even though it was cast zinc and not marble. No matter the cost, it is a testament to the respect that Carlos had within his family and community.
Eliza Higgins Baker and her three adult children are enumerated on the 1880 Census for Allegan. Willis, then 25, was a cabinetmaker like his father; Albertis was a 23-year-old laborer.
Ernestine died at the age of 21 on 6 April, 1881, in Allegan, and was buried with Carlos and Ebenezer. Her cause of death is not known, but the most likely reason is disease. In December, 1881, Eliza filed for and was granted a veteran’s widow’s pension.
We cannot glimpse the Baker family in 1890 because of the destruction of those census records, but in 1900, 71-year-old Eliza was living in Allegan with Willis, still a cabinet maker, who had married Lillie E. Fowler (b.1861). The couple had a daughter, Inez Emily, born 12 January, 1882, who was then 18.
On the day of the 1900 census, Otis was living two houses down the road from Willis and his mother. Otis had married Mary J. (last name unknown) (b. Aug. 12, 1867, MI) in 1888. The census notes that he was a day laborer. The couple had one son, Otis Marion Baker, born 8 May, 1901, and two daughters: Ruth L. (b. 11 October, 1905) and Ruby I. (b. 1908).
Sometime after Eliza’s death in April 1903—perhaps after the memorial plaque with her name and dates was affixed to the tall, white monument in Oakwood Cemetery—Willis and his family went west to California. The 1910 census places them in Riverside, Temescal County. Willis was retired and daughter Inez was a stenographer in a law office; they had two lodgers. Willis died in California in 1913 and is buried at Corona Sunnyslope Cemetery, Corona, Riverside County. Lillie and Inez appear to have experienced financial difficulties after his passing. On the 1920 census of Corona, 58-year-old Lillie is enumerated was a citrus fruit packer, Inez was still working as a stenographer, and they had three lodgers. Things may have improved by 1930, when the Lillie was noted on the Riverside census as living at 1025 Victoria Street, retired, with Inez, age 49, enumerated as the office manager of an insurance firm. Lillie lived until 4 January, 1938. She is buried beside her husband. Inez was yet living at the same address a decade later. Her home was owned and worth $3,000. The census also notes that her highest level of education reached was “high school, 4th year.” Inez’s death date is so far undiscovered.
Otis Baker died 22 February, 1918. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery with his wife, Mary, who outlived him by 40 years, dying on 26 May, 1958. She had remarried by 1920 to John Huggins, a paper maker in a Kalamazoo paper mill. Their son Otis lived until 4 August, 1974, dying in Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan. His sister Ruth died in Detroit on 16 April, 1987.
Recent pictures of the Baker monument show it still as lovely and serene as when new. I can do no better than to conclude with the poem inscribed on it, which the family chose themselves: “Blest is the turf, oh doubly blessed, where weary mortals stop to rest, where life’s long journey turns to sleep, no weary pilgrims wake to weep.”
The TSS Duke of Lancaster is a railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is currently beached near Mostyn Docks, on the River Dee, north-east Wales. It replaced an earlier 3,600 ton ship of the same name operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway company between Heysham and Belfast.
Each year, during the month of January, the main body of the cathedral is emptied of all furniture and you can experience a very different cathedral.
From Wikipedia:
Winchester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. Dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Swithun, it is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.
The cathedral was founded in 642 on a site immediately to the north of the present one. This building became known as the Old Minster. It became part of a monastic settlement in 971. Saint Swithun was buried near the Old Minster and then in it, before being moved to the new Norman cathedral. So-called mortuary chests said to contain the remains of Saxon kings such as King Eadwig of England, first buried in the Old Minster, and his wife Ælfgifu, are in the present cathedral. The Old Minster was demolished in 1093, immediately after the consecration of its successor.
In 1079, Bishop Walkelin began work on a completely new cathedral. Much of the limestone used to build the structure was brought across from the Isle of Wight from quarries around Binstead. Nearby Quarr Abbey draws its name from these workings, as do many local places such as Stonelands and Stonepitts. The remains of the Roman trackway used to transport the blocks are still evident across the fairways of the Ryde Golf Club, where the stone was hauled from the quarries to the hythe at the mouth of Binstead Creek, and thence by barge across the Solent and up to Winchester.
The building was consecrated in 1093. On 8 April of that year, according to the Winchester Annals, "in the presence of almost all the bishops and abbots of England, the monks came with the highest exultation and glory from the old minster to the new one: on the Feast of S. Swithun they went in procession from the new minster to the old one and brought thence S. Swithun's shrine and placed it with honour in the new buildings; and on the following day Bishop Walkelin's men first began to pull down the old minster."
A substantial amount of the fabric of Walkelin's building, including the crypt, transepts and the basic structure of the nave, survives. The original crossing tower, however, collapsed in 1107, an accident blamed by the cathedral's medieval chroniclers on the fact that the dissolute William Rufus had been buried beneath it in 1100. Its replacement, which survives today, is still in the Norman style, with round-headed windows. It is a squat, square structure, 50 feet (15 m) wide, but rising only 35 feet (11 m) above the ridge of the transept roof. The Tower is 45.7 m (150 ft) tall.
Following the accession of Godfrey de Lucy in 1189 a retrochoir was added in the Early English style. The next major phase of rebuilding was not until the mid-fourteenth century, under bishops Edington and Wykeham. Edingdon (1346–1366), removed the two westernmost bays of the nave, built a new west front and began the remodelling of the nave. Under William of Wykeham (1367–1404) the Romanesque nave was transformed, recased in Caen stone and remodelled in the Perpendicular style, with its internal elevation divided into two, rather than the previous three, storeys. The wooden ceilings were replaced with stone vaults. Wykeham's successor, Henry of Beaufort (1405–1447), carried out fewer alterations, adding only a chantry on the south side of the retrochoir, although work on the nave may have continued through his episcopy. His successor, William of Waynflete (1447–1486), built another chantry in a corresponding position on the north side. Under Bishops Peter Courtenay (1486–1492) and Thomas Langton (1493–1500), there was more work. De Lucy's Lady Chapel was lengthened, and the Norman side aisles of the presbytery replaced. In 1525, Bishop Richard Foxe (1500–1528) added the side screens of the presbytery, which he also gave a wooden vault. With its progressive extensions, the east end is now about 110 feet (34 m) beyond that of Walkelin's building.
Important events which took place at Winchester Cathedral include:
Funeral of King Harthacanute (1042)
Funeral of King William II of England (1100)
Coronation of Henry the Young King and his queen, Marguerite (1172)
Second coronation of Richard I of England (1194)
Marriage of King Henry IV of England and Joanna of Navarre (1403)
Marriage of Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain (1554)
In the south transept there is a "Fishermen's Chapel", which is the burial place of Izaak Walton. Walton, who died in 1683, was the author of The Compleat Angler and a friend of John Donne. In the nave sanctuary is the bell from HMS Iron Duke, which was the flagship of Admiral John Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
A statue of Joan of Arc was erected when she was canonised as a saint by the Pope in 1923. The statue faces the Chancery Chapel of Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, who condemned her to death by burning at the stake in Rouen in 1431.
The crypt, which frequently floods, houses a statue by Antony Gormley, called "Sound II", installed in 1986, and a modern shrine to Saint Swithun. The mysterious statue contemplates the water held in cupped hands. Gormley spoke of the connection of memories to basic elements of the physical world, "Is it possible to do this and make something fresh, like dew or frost – something that just is, as if its form had always been like this.’ There is also a bust of William Walker, the deep-sea diver who worked underwater in the crypt between 1906 and 1911 underpinning the nave and shoring up the walls.
St Swithun's memorial shrine with Fyodorov's iconostasis
A series of nine icons were installed between 1992 and 1996 in the retroquire screen which for a short time protected the relics of St Swithun destroyed by Henry VIII in 1538. These icons, influenced by the Russian Orthodox tradition, were created by Sergei Fyodorov and dedicated in 1997. They include the local religious figures St Swithun and St Birinus. Beneath the retroquire Icons, is the Holy Hole once used by pilgrims to crawl beneath and lie close to the healing shrine of St Swithun.
The cathedral's huge mediaeval stained glass West Window was deliberately smashed by Cromwell's forces following the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the broken glass was gathered up and assembled randomly, in a manner something like pique assiette mosaic work. There was no attempt to reconstruct the original pictures. Some surviving fragments are on display at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in Australia, including examples of the signature blue colour found only in Winchester stained glass. Out of necessity, the cathedral pre-empted collage art by hundreds of years.
The Epiphany Chapel has a series of Pre-Raphaelite stained glass windows designed by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and made in William Morris's workshop. The foliage decoration above and below each pictorial panel is unmistakably William Morris and at least one of the figures bears a striking resemblance to Morris's wife Jane, who frequently posed for Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The cathedral possesses the only diatonic ring of 14 church bells in the world, with a tenor (heaviest bell) weighing 1.81 tonnes (4,000 lb).[29] The back 12 were all cast by John Taylor & Co in 1937. They were augmented to a 14 when 2 new trebles and a 4#(sharp 4th) were added in 1992 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry®. Also there is a 8b (flat 8th) which was cast by Anthony Bond in 1621
Nowadays the cathedral draws many tourists as a result of its association with Jane Austen, who died in Winchester on 18 July 1817. Her funeral was held in the cathedral and she was buried in the north aisle. The inscription on her tombstone makes no mention of her novels, but a later brass tablet describes her as "known to many by her writings".
Having spent three years in the city as a child, the novelist Anthony Trollope borrowed features of the cathedral and the city for his Chronicles of Barsetshire. In 2005, the building was used as a film set for The Da Vinci Code, with the north transept used as the Vatican. Following this, the cathedral hosted discussions and displays to debunk the book.
Winchester Cathedral is possibly the only cathedral to have had popular songs written about it. "Winchester Cathedral" was a UK top ten hit and a US number one song for The New Vaudeville Band in 1966. The cathedral was also the subject of the Crosby, Stills & Nash song, "Cathedral" from their 1977 album CSN. Liverpool-based band Clinic released an album titled Winchester Cathedral in 2004.
In 1992, the British rosarian David Austin introduced a white sport of his rose cultivar 'Mary Rose' (1983) as 'Winchester Cathedral'.
A GWR 3200 class, nicknamed the Dukedog, because of the Duke class boiler mounted on a bulldog frame.
I've given it a blue livery with a red highlights. To reflect Edwards, as it is a 4-4-0 engine. Though I do not see this engine Edward, but have gone to refer to it as, Snoopdog.
This is my only engine to date that has the number built into the design, rather than utilizing a sticker or printed tile.
Duke's House was located a stone's throw just north of Hoboken Terminal.It must have done a brisk business on Friday nights keeping the Port Jervis trains,among others,well stocked for the ride home.Note the reflection of the Public Service GMC bus on the glass of the front door.There is still time left on the parking meter but not for Reingold Beer which would become a "Fallen Flag" of beers. The last bottle was sold in the New York area in 1978 but was resurrected at a later date. 02-1973 Howard Kent Jr. photo.