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I've had my GX7 for a week tomorrow, and have stumbled on a rather interesting problem. In semi dark conditions I sometime get a strong stripy pattern in my pictures, especially when shot with a high ISO. An example is seen in this picture It was shot with an ISO 800 and f2 at 1/200.
These stripes where not there, though there were patterns of light and dark than might have been accentuated. I had the same problem yesterday, when taking pictures indoors during a lecture: Strong stripes that clearly was not there from the beginning. It looks like a moiré problem to me, probably due to the lack of a anti aliasing filter.
Seen in Helsinki, Finland.
Embassy and consular shields, like postage stamps, are an invitation to know more about other countries.
For example, how do you get from Helsinki to the Seychelles? It takes 3 flights and about 17 hours:
1. Helsinki-Munich 2:30
Lufthansa
2. Munich-Abu Dhabi 5:55
Ethiad
3.Abu Dhabi-Mahe Island 4:35
Ethiad
What about Portland-Seychelles?
1. Portland-JFK 5:25
JetBlue
2. JFK-Dubai 12:30
Emirates
3. Dubai-Mahe Island 4:40
Emirates
Make sure to pack your sunscreen, swimming suit and sunglasses!
About the Seychelles:,b>
Seychelles (/seɪˈʃɛlz/ (About this sound listen) say-SHELZ; French: [seʃɛl]), officially the Republic of Seychelles (French: République des Seychelles; Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an archipelago and sovereign state in the Indian Ocean. The 115-island country, whose capital is Victoria, lies 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland East Africa. Other nearby island countries and territories include Comoros, Mayotte (region of France), Madagascar, Réunion (region of France) and Mauritius to the south. With a population of roughly 94,228, it has the smallest population of any sovereign African country.
Seychelles is a member of the African Union, the Southern African Development Community, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Nations.
After proclamation of independence from the United Kingdom in 1976, Seychelles has developed from a largely agricultural society to a market-based diversified economy, with agriculture being supplanted by rapidly rising service and public sectors as well as tourism.
Since 1976, nominal GDP output has increased nearly sevenfold and the purchasing power parity nearly sixteenfold.
In recent years, the government has encouraged foreign investment in order to upgrade these sectors.
Today, Seychelles boasts the highest nominal per capita GDP in Africa, excluding the French regions.
It is one of only a handful of countries in Africa with a high Human Development Index. Despite the country's newfound economic prosperity, poverty remains widespread due to a high level of income inequality, one of the highest in the world, and unequal wealth distribution
An example of a 'Category D' room. There are 59 rooms at Claredale House within this category, which covers rooms falling between approximately 6.0 and 7.4 square metres.
Another example of the Jupiter 37A lens on a Pentax *ist DSLR. This is a manual focus lens found cheaply on eBay. The design is a Russian copy of a very distinguished old German lens. It amazes me how sharp this lens can be.
A example of the new 700/1 class, a full 12 car complete unit, and by far the longest formation introduced in the UK
Examples of my commissioned portraiture and documentary work in the 1990s.
This is from a series of Portraits of Artists taken in and around their places of work.
In the public versions of most of these photographs I am keeping identities and location confidential.
Olympus OM-2
Ilford HP5
I took this in a dimly lit basement (one 60W light bulb) with my MC-Hartblei 80mm f2.8 Super Rotator. Both images were shot hand-held with my 20D on ISO 3200 and the lens at f2.8. The top image is with the lens fully-tilted(8º) to the right. This brings the plane of focus to 16º, almost aligning it to the dials.
The second image is with it tilted the other way, turning the focal plane away and almost perpendicular to the dials.
This is the situation where lens movements like tilts really pay off. The only other way to acheive even close to this depth of field would be to stop the lens down, forcing the use of a tripod.
Surrounded by modern office and apartment blocks the grand red brick mansion “Warwillah”, built on the corner of Beatrice Street and St Kilda Road, is one of the few remaining examples of a time Melbourne’s St Kilda Road was still a grand boulevard of elegant residences.
In March 1875 the government announced that the land on the western side of St Kilda Road would be alienated from parkland and that the land would be sold for residential purposes. Following the subdivision, a gentleman of means named Rudolph D. Benjamin purchased the land on which he planned to build an elegant residence as befitting his station.
Designed by well known Melbourne architect John Beswicke, “Redholme” was a sixteen-roomed brick mansion built on Mr. Benjamin’s block in 1896 by the builder James Downie. Although not in the Benjamin family, “Redholme” survived the death taxes that came after the Great War and the Great Depression of 1929. It was still a privately owned home in its entirety in 1939 when it was owned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Reddish. Sadly, after the Second World War, “Redholme” changed ownership, usage and even name. From the early 1950s, the red brick building became the “Warwilla Guest House”. The name “Warwilla” is what the house has been known as ever since.
“Warwilla” is an unusual mansion as it is an early example of a transition from Modern Gothic to Queen Anne design. The red brick tuckpointed facade is asymmetrical with picturesque massing, but the larger half-timbered gable and cantilevered banked window on the south side is balanced by the octagonal corner tower and ‘candle snuffer’ roof on the north. The Modern Gothic is suggested by the depressed pointed arches to main openings, and engaged colonettes at the porch entrance, whilst the half-timbered gable, octagonal tower with ‘candle snuffer’ roof and Art Nouveau stained glass windows are very much stylistic elements of Queen Anne architecture. These elements were to remain popular for at least another decade. The tall banded brick chimneys (done in the style of Henry Kemp) dominate the terracotta tile roof, as do the decorative finials which include a dragon.
Walking through the stained glass framed front door, you enter “Warwilla’s” lofty entrance hall. The original ornate Art Nouveau plaster ceilings and foyer fireplace with brass, wood and tiled surround still remain intact. A grand early twentieth century crystal chandelier hangs from the central ceiling rose. On the landing of the original staircase a fine stained glass window by British born, German trained, Melbourne stained glass artist William Montgomery still overlooks St Kilda Road. Featuring a beautiful woman in Tudor garb in a garden setting, the window is typical of the British Arts and Crafts Movement which would have dominated interior design at the time. Framed by stylised Tudor flowers and pomegranates the line “a merlin sat upon her wrist, held by a leash of silken twist” appears on a scroll. Taken from the long narrative poem “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” written in 1805 by Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) the choice of image and literary quote hark back to heraldic times, a great driver of the aesthetics of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. The stair hall window is signed by William Montgomery in the bottom left-hand corner of the frame, where it also lists his address as 164 Flinders Street.
At the time of photographing “Warwilla” was partly a Seasons heritage boutique hotel and partly the entrance to a towering modern apartment block which has been built directly behind it.
John Beswicke (1847 – 1925) was a Melbourne architect and surveyor between 1882 and 1915. He was apprenticed to the firm Crouch and Wilson at the age of sixteen. He worked there for eighteen years, finishing as head assistant. In 1882 Ralph Wilson and John Beswicke formed the partnership Wilson and Beswicke. Through his career he was in sole practice as J. Beswicke, between and following three partnerships including Beswicke and Hutchins, and Beswicke and Coote. John Beswicke designed many commercial and residential buildings during his career. These include: the Brighton Town Hall, the Dandenong Town Hall, the Essendon Town Hall, the Hawthorn Town Hall, the Malvern Town Hall, the St Kilda Presbyterian Church, the Auburn shopping strip along Auburn road, “Bendigonia” in Leopold Street Melbourne which runs off St Kilda Road, “Tudor House” in Williamstown, “Tudor Lodge” (later renamed “Hilton House”) home to Mr. Cullis Hill in Hawthorn, “Redholme” (later renamed Warwilla) and his own Hawthorn home “Rotha”.
Some examples of projects using conductive thread and LEDs. More information at tinkering.exploratorium.edu/sewn-circuits
Example of a vintage, vinyl asbestos floor tile sales-sample showing the front-side pattern style and its reverse-side with imprinted manufacturer's data. This 4"x4" tile sample is from a "TERRAFLEX" brand boxed set made by Johns-Manville, dated September-1959.
Example of an entry in the British Consul of Sāmoa's Register of births, 1889-1899, deaths 1895-1899.
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Archives Reference: AEHA 18962 Samoa-BCS6/10/14
Patent drawing examples can comprise of diagrams or representations that you use to outline an innovation for a patent application.
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St. Paul’s Cathedral (1697)
Of all the churches on the islands, St. Paul’s Cathedral is the finest and most mature example of Maltese Baroque; not fussy and ornamental but the work of an articulate pen imbued with all the influences – Roman, Sicilian and Italian – from which the idiom evolved. From all perspectives, this monumental church with its bold swathes takes charge: at the screen façade, from a distance, in silhouette and from inside.
Tradition states the cathedral is built on the site of the villa belonging to the Roman governor, Publius, where the shipwrecked St. Paul healed Publius’s father and converted the grateful governor himself to Christianity. (Publius later became the first bishop of Malta and was martyred in Greece.) The simple 12th-century Norman structure of Count Roger was enlarged in 1419, and the present cathedral was built following the earthquake of 1693 which destroyed much of Malta. A new cathedral had been talked about before the earthquake; Lorenzo Gafa had added a new choir in 1679 and after the earthquake he was commissioned to create the new building. The site on the northeast corner of Mdina must have flattered Gafa’s inspiration (this domed cathedral would be seen from afar) and the structure went up rapidly: five years after the foundation stone was laid in 1697 it was consecrated.
St. Paul’s Cathedral sits on a low podium at the end of the eponymous rectangular square. The near-square façade with its three cleanly divided bays gives it a light but solid air. The Corinthian order of pilasters below the composite ones span the entire façade without interruption, leaving above the two side doors brave expanses of honey-coloured masonry. The bellj-towers – each with six bells – are squat, adding to the façade’s heaviness, but with Gafa’s deft touch they appear lighter, for the twin clocks nudge into the lower lip of the cornice. Note, in relief at the top of the bell-towers, St. Paul’s viper twists out of the flames. Above the main door ion the left is the escutcheon of Grand Master Perellos (during whose reign the cathedral was built) and on the right that of Bishop Palmieri, who consecrated it in 1702 two years before the dome was completed. In front are the obligatory cannons, part of the knights’ ordnance: to the left a Dutch cannon from 1681 and to the right, bearing the coat of arms of the Duke of Savoy, the Duke’s gift cannon to commemorate the knights’ defence of Rhodes.
Finally, sneaking out from under cover of the towers and pediment, is Gafa’s dynamic swansong, the light octagonal dome, with eight stone scrolls above a high drum leading up to a neat lantern. Similar in design to St. Catherine’s in Zejtun, it is best studied from inside or from a distance.
The Interior
Gafa’s plan for the church is a Latin cross with a vaulted nave, two aisles and two small side chapels. Space under the rich tessellated floor of extravagant and macabre tombstones is reserved for Maltese nobles and high-ranking clergy, unlike at St. John’s in Valletta, where only knights of the Order could be buried.
The Sicilian white marble baptismal font was a gift from Bishop Valguarnero in 1495 and survived the earthquake. The statue of St. Publius and the two lecterns of St. John and St. Luke by the main altar are by Guiseppe Valenti, who also made the statue of Queen Victoria in Republic Square, Valletta. The frescoes in the cross-vaulted ceiling were painted by two Sicilian brothers, Antonio and Vincenzo de Manno, in 1794 and depict the Life of St. Paul. The beautiful carved door to the sacristy is made of solid Irish oak and was the main door to the original cathedral which somehow survived the 1963 earthquake. In the side chapel of the Annunciation is Mattia Preti’s unconvincing image of St. Paul hysterically chasing the Saracens away from the City’s bastions during a brief siege in the early 1400s. In the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the icon of the Madonna, bejeweled and shrouded in reverential grime, is alleged to have been painted by St. Luke. (Sadly there is no evidence to support this or the notion that he painted a similar icon in the Sanctuary in Mellieha.) The silver tabernacle is Roman and dates from the early 18th century. The main altarpiece, the Conversion of St. Paul, the side panels and the marvelously graphic rendition of St. Paul’s shipwreck in the apse were all painted by Mattia PReti in the late 17th century; they too survived the earthquake intact. The Royal Arms of Spain hang at the apex of the arch in remembrance of the Emperor Charles V who gave the islands to the Order in 1530. The two Italian oval portraits by the front pillars are marble mosaic compositions of photographic clarity depicting St. Peter and St. Paul and date from 1873. Rarely on display is the silver cross brought by the knights from Rhodes. A weak supposition states that Godfrey de Bouillon carried it into Jerusalem in the First Crusade in 1099. The two thrones are reserved fro the bishop of Malta and the grand master. The original paintings in Gafa’s splendid dome were ruined by inclement weather and the present images represent the Divine Mission of the church and delicately inlaid marble floors resembling a carpet and somber black and gilt 18th-century gates. The crucifix was fashioned by a Franciscan monk in the 17th century. The altarpiece of the Martyrdom of St. Publius and his Baptism by St. Paul has sometimes been attributed to Preti but is only his school.
Some examples of projects using conductive thread and LEDs. More information at tinkering.exploratorium.edu/sewn-circuits
*** View through Red/Cyan glasses ***
NOTE: Calibrate monitor to use 'Color LCD' - to give optimum match between Red/Cyan glasses and LCD Display.
Anaglyph taken from animation created by Doug Ellison...http://www.dougellison.com/
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist is my favourite dedication of any Kent church seen this far. It sits on the side of a down, above the rest of the village, which is what counts as the main road from Newnham to Lenham.
It also sits beside the parkland of Doddington Park, I was told by a local that is well worth a visit to see the gardens.
That the church is largely untouched since the 13th century, the clapboarded tower seems to have a new coast of paint and glistened in the early spring sunshine.
The churchyard seems now to be a nature reserve, or that wildlife is encouraged. So it is carpeted with snowdrops, with Winter Aconites, Primroses and Crocuses all showing well.
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An enchanting church set in a wooded churchyard on the edge of a steep valley. The building displays much of medieval interest due to minimal nineteenth-century interference. The most important feature is the small stone prayer desk next to the westernmost window of the chancel. This window is of the low side variety - the desk proving the window's part in devotional activities. The nearby thirteenth-century lancet windows have a series of wall paintings in their splays, while opposite is a fine medieval screen complete with canopy over the priests' seats. There is also an excellent example of a thirteenth-century hagioscope that gives a view of the main altar from the south aisle, which was a structural addition to the original building. The south chancel chapel belonged to the owners of Sharsted Court and contains a fine series of memorials to them. Most of the stained glass is nineteenth century - some of very good quality indeed. Outside there is a good tufa quoin on the north wall of the nave and a short weatherboarded tower.
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DODDINGTON.
NEXT to that of Linsted south-eastward, is the parish of Doddington, called in the record of Domesday, Dodeham.
THIS PARISH is about two miles across each way, it lies the greatest part of it on the hills on the northern side of the high road leading from Faversham through Newnham valley over Hollingborne hill towards Maidstone. It is a poor but healthy situation, being much exposed to the cold and bleak winds which blow up through the valley, on each side of which the hills, which are near the summit of them, interspersed with coppice woods, rise pretty high, the soil is mostly chalk, very barren, and much covered with slint stones. The village stands on the road in the valley, at the east end of it is a good house, called WHITEMANS, which formerly belonged to the family of Adye, and afterwards to that of Eve, of one of whom it was purchased by the Rev. Francis Dodsworth, who almost rebuilt it, and now resides in it. Upon the northern hill, just above the village, is the church, and close to it the vicarage, a neat modern fashed house; and about a mile eastward almost surrounded with wood, and just above the village of Newnham, the mansion of Sharsted, a gloomy retired situation.
Being within the hundred of Tenham, the whole of this parish is subordinate to that manor.
At the time of taking the above record, which was anno 1080, this place was part of the possessions of Odo, the great bishop of Baieux, the king's half brother; accordingly it is thus entered, under the general title of that prelate's lands:
The same Fulbert holds of the bishop Dodeham. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is . . . . . In demesne there is one carucate and seventeen villeins, with ten borderers having two carucates. There is a church, and six servants, and half a fisbery of three hundred small fish, and in the city of Canterbury five houses of seven shillings and ten pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth ten pounds. The bishop let it to ferm for ten pounds, when Fulbert received it, six pounds, and the like now . . . . . Sired held it of king Edward.
Four years after which the bishop of Baieux was disgraced, and all his effects were consiscated to the crown.
PART OF THE above-mentioned estate was, most probably, THE MANOR OF SHARSTED, or, as it was antiently called Sabersted, the seat of which, called Sharsted-court, is situated on the hill just above the village of Newnham, though within the bounds of this parish.
This manor gave both residence and name to a family who possessed it in very early times, for Sir Simon de Sharsted died possessed of it in the 25th year of king Edward I. then holding it of the king, of the barony of Crevequer, and by the service of part of a knight's see, and suit to the court of Ledes.
Richard de Sharsted lies buried in this church, in the chapel belonging to this manor. Robert de Sharsted died possessed of it in the 8th year of king Edward III. leaving an only daughter and heir, married to John de Bourne, son of John de Bourne, sheriff several years in the reign of king Edward I. whose family had been possessed of lands and resided in this parish for some generations before. In his descendants this estate continued down to Bartholomew Bourne, who possessed it in the reign of Henry VI. in whose descendants resident at Sharsted, (who many of them lie buried in this church, and bore for their arms, Ermine, on a bend azure, three lions passant guardant, or) this estate continued down to James Bourne, esq. who in the beginning of king Charles I.'s reign, alienated Sharsted to Mr. Abraham Delaune, merchant, of London, the son of Gideon Delaune, merchant, of the Black Friars there, who bore for his arms, Azure, a cross of Lozenges, or, on a chief gules, a lion passantguardant of the second, holding in his dexter paw a fleur de lis; which was assigned to him by William Segar, garter, in 1612, anno 10 James I.
He resided at Sharsted, in which he was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William Delaune, who resided likewise at Sharsted, where he died in 1667, and was buried in Doddington church. He was twice married; first to Anne, daughter and only heir of Tho. Haward, esq. of Gillingham, by whom he had an only daughter Anne, heir to her mother's inheritance. His second wife was Dorcas, daughter of Sir Robert Barkham, of Tottenham High Cross, (remarried to Sir Edward Dering) by whom he had a son William, and a daughter Mary, married to colonel Edward Thornicroft, of Westminster.
William Delaune, esq. the son, succeeded to this estate, and was knight of the shire for this county. He died in 1739, s.p having married Anne, the widow of Arthur Swift, esq. upon which it passed by the entail in his will to his nephew Gideon Thornicroft, son of his sister Mary, widow of Edward Thornicroft, esq. by whom she had likewise three daughters, Dorcas, Elizabeth, and Anne. This branch of the family of Thornicroft was situated at Milcomb, in Oxfordshire, and was a younger branch of those of Thornicroft, in Cheshire. John Thornicroft, esq. of London, barrister-at-law, was younger brother of Edward Thornicroft, esq. of Cheshire, and father of John, for their arms, Vert, a mascle, or, between four crasscreated a baronet of August 12, 1701, and of colonel Edward Thornicroft above-mentioned. They bore for their arms, Vert, a mascle, or, between four crosscroslets, argent. Lieutenant-colonel Thornicroft was governor of Alicant, when that fortress was besieged in 1709, and perished there, by the explosion of a mine. (fn. 1)
Gideon Thornicroft, esq. possessed this estate but a small time, and dying in 1742, s.p. and being the last in the entail above-mentioned, he devised it by his will to his mother, Mrs.Mary Thornicroft, who dying in 1744, by her will devised to her two maiden daughters, Dorcas and Anne, this manor and seat, as well as all the rest of her estates, excepting Churchill farm in Doddington, which she gave to her second daughter Elizabeth, who had married George Nevill, lord Abergavenny, who dieds.p. and lady Abergavenny, in her life-time, made a deed of gift of this farm, to her son Alured Pinke, esq. who now owns it.
They possessed this estate jointly till the death of Mrs.Dorcas Thornicroft, in 1759, when she by will devised her moiety of it, as well as the rest of her estates, except the Grange in Gillingham, to her sister Mrs. Anne Thornicroft, for her life, remainder in tail to her nephew Alured Pinke, barrister-at-law, son of Elizabeth, lady Abergavenny, her sister by her second husband Alured Pinke. esq. barrister-at-law, who had by her likewise a daughter Jane, married to the Rev. Henry Shove; upon this Mrs.Anne Thornicroft before-mentioned, became the sole possessor of this manor and estate, in which she resided till her death in 1791, æt. 90, upon which it came to her nephew, Alured Pinke, esq. before-mentioned, who married Mary, second daughter of Thomas Faunce, esq. of Sutton-at-Hone, by whom he has one son Thomas. He bears for his arms, Argent, five lozenges in pale, gules, within a bordure, azure, charged with three crosses pattee, fitchee. He resides here, and is the present possessor of this seat and estate. A court baron is held for this manor.
DOWNE-COURT is a manor in this parish, situated on the hill, about half a mile north westward from the church. In the reign of king Edward I. it was in the possession of William de Dodington, who in the 7th year of it did homage to archbishop Peckham for this manor, as part of a knight's fee, held of him by the description of certain lands in Doddington, called Le Downe. His descendant Simon de Dodington, paid aid for it in the 20th year of king Edward III. as appears by the Book of Aid; from him it passed into the family of Bourne, of Bishopsborne, whose ancestors were undoubtedly possessed of lands in this parish, (fn. 2) so early as the reign of Henry III. for archbishop Boniface, who came to the see of Canterbury in the 29th year of it, granted to Henry de Bourne, (fn. 3) one yoke of land, in the parish of Dudingtune, belonging to his manor of Tenham, which land he held in gavelkind, and might hold to him and his heirs, of the archbishop and his successors, by the service of part of a knight's fee, and by rent to the manor of Tenham.
His descendant John de Bourne lived in the reign of king Edward I. in the 17th year of which he obtained a charter offree warrenfor his lands in Bourne, Higham, and Doddington, after which he was sheriff in the 22d and the two following years of it, as he was again in the 5th year of king Edward III. His son John de Bourne married the daughter and sole heir of Robert de Sharsted, by which he became possessed of that manor likewise, as has been already related, and in his descendants Downe-court continued till about the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, when it was alienated to Dungate, of Dungate-street, in Kingsdown, the last of which name leaving an only daughter and heir, she carried it in marriage to Killigrew, who about the beginning of Henry VIII. ending likewise in two daughters and coheirs, one of whom married Roydon, and the other Cowland, they, in right of their respective wives, became possessed of it in equal shares. The former, about the latter end of that reign, alienated his part to John Adye, gent. of Greet, in this parish, a seat where his ancestors had been resident ever since the reign of Edward III. for he was descended from John de Greet, of Greet, in this parish, who lived there in the 25th year of that king's reign. His grandson, son of Walter, lived there in the reign of Henry V. and assumed the name of Adye. (fn. 4) This family bore for their arms, Azure, a fess dancette, or, between three cherubins heads, argent, crined of the second; which coat was confirmed by-Sir John Segar, garter, anno 11 James I. to John Adye, esq. of Doddington, son and heir of John Adye, esq. of Sittingborne, and heir of John Adye, the purchaser of the moiety of this manor.
He possessed this moiety of Downe court on his father's death, and was resident at Sittingborne. He died on May 9, 1612, æt. 66, and was buried in Doddington church, leaving issue by Thomasine his wife, daughter and coheir of Rich. Day, gent. of Tring, in Hertsordshire, one son John, and five daughters.
John Adye, esq. the grandson of John, the first purchaser, succeeded at length to this moiety of Downe-court, and resided there, during which time he purchased of the heirs of Allen the other moiety of it, one of which name had become possessed of it by sale from the executors of Cowland, who by his will in 1540, had ordered it to be sold, for the payment of debts and legacies. He died possessed of the whole of this manor and estate, in 1660, and was buried in Nutsted church, of which manor he was owner. He left by his first wife several children, of whom John, the eldest, died s.p. Edward, the second, was of Barham in the reign of king Charles II. under which parish more of him and his descendants may be seen; (fn. 5) and Nicholas was the third son, of whom mention will be made hereafter. By his second wife he had Solomon, who was of East Shelve, in Lenham, and other children.
Nicholas Adye, esq. the third son, succeeded to Downe-court, and married Jane, daughter of Edward Desbouverie, esq. Their eldest son, John Adye, succeeded to this manor, at which he resided till he removed to Beakesborne, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, about which time he seems to have alienated it to Creed, of Charing, in which name it continued till it was sold to Bryan Bentham, esq. of Sheerness, who devised it to his eldest son Edward Bentham, esq. of the Navy-office, who bore for his arms, Quarterly, argent and gules, a cross story counterchanged; in the first and fourth quarters, a rose, gules, seeded, or, barbed vert; in the second and third quarters, a sun in its glory, or; being the arms given by queen Elizabeth to Thomas Bentham, D.D. bishop of Litchfield, on his being preferred to that see in 1559, the antient family arms of Bentham, of Yorkshire, being Argent, a bend between two cinquefoils, sable. Since his death this estate has by his will become vested in trustees, to fulfil the purposes of it.
Charities.
JOHN ADYE, ESQ. gave by will in 1660, 40s. to the poor of this parish, payable yearly out of Capel hill, in Leysdown, the estate of Samuel-Elias Sawbridge, esq.
AN UNKNOWN PERSON gave 20s. per annum, payable out of an estate in Doddington, late belonging to the earl of Essingham, and now to the Rev. Francis Dodsworth.
TEN SHILLINGS are paid yearly at Christmas, to the poor of this parish, by the lessee of the parsonage by the reservation in his lease.
THE REV. MR. SOMERCALES, vicar of this parish, by his will gave an Exchequer annuity of 14l. to be applied to the instructing of poor children in the Christian religion.
FORTY HILLINGS are payable yearly at Michaelmas, out of a field formerly called Pyding, now St.John Shotts, belonging to Alured Pinke, esq. towards the repair of the church.
A PERSON UNKNOWN gave for the habitation of three poor persons, a house, now containing three dwellings.
The poor constantly relieved are about forty-five.
DODDINGTON is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the dioceseof Canterbury, and deanry of Ospringe.
The church, which is dedicated to St. John Baptist, consists of a body and chancel, with a chapel or chantry on the south side of it, belonging to the Sharsted estate. At the west end is a low pointed steeple, in which are six bells. About the year 1650, the steeple of this church was set on fire by lightning, and much damaged. In this church are memorials for the Swalman's, Nicholson's of Homestall, and the Norton's, and in the south, or Sharsted chancel, there is a black marble of an antique form, and on a fillet of brass round the verge of it, in old French capitals, Hic Jacet Ricardus de Saherstada, with other letters now illegible, and memorials for the Bourne's and Delaune's.
The church of Doddington was antiently esteemed as a chapel to the church of Tenham, as appears by the Black Book of the archdencon, and it was given and appropriated with that church and its appendages, in 1227, by archbishop Stephen Langton, to the archdeaconry. It has long since been independent of the church of Tenham, and still continues appropriated to the archdeacon, who is likewise patron of the vicarage of it.
Richard Wethershed, who succeded archbishop Langton in 1229, confirmed the gift of master Girard, who whilst he was rector of the church of Tenham, granted to the chapel of Dudintune, that the tithes of twenty acres of the assart of Pidinge should be taken for the use of this chapel for ever, to be expended by the disposition of the curate, and two or three parishioners of credit, to the repairing of the books, vestments, and ornaments necessary to the chapel. (fn. 6)
It is valued in the king's books at fifteen pounds, and the yearly tenths at 1l. 10s. In the visitation of archdeacon Harpsfield, in 1557, this vicarage was returned to be of the value of twelve pounds; parishioners sixty, housholders thirty-two.
¶In 1569, at the visitation of archbishop Parker, it was returned, that the chapel of Doddington used to be let to farm for forty pounds, and sometimes for less; that there were here communicants one hundred and thirteen, housholders thirty-five. In 1640 the vicarage was valued at thirty pounds; communicants one hundred and seven.
Archdeacon Parker, at the instance of archbishop Sancrost, by lease, anno 27 Charles II. reserved an additional pension of ten pounds per annum to the vicar. It pays no procurations to the archdeacon. It is now a discharged living in the king's books.
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Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg consists of many of the buildings that formed the original colonial capital of Williamsburg in James City County from 1699 to 1780 with all traces of later buildings removed.
Colonial Williamsburg is an example of a living history museum, an open-air assemblage of buildings populated with historical reenactors whose job it is to explain and demonstrate aspects of daily life in the past. The reenactors (or interpreters) work, dress, and talk as they would have in colonial times. While there are many living history museums (such as Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts or Castell Henllys in the UK), Colonial Williamsburg is unusual for having been constructed from a living town whose inhabitants and post-Colonial-era buildings were removed. Unlike other living history museums, however, anyone can walk through the historic district of Williamsburg free of charge at any hour of the day. Charges apply only to those visitors who wish to enter the historic buildings to see arts and crafts demonstrations during daylight hours, or attend scheduled outdoor performances such as the Revolutionary City programs.
Early in the 20th century, the restoration and recreation of Colonial Williamsburg, one of the largest historic restorations ever undertaken, was championed by the Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who wanted to celebrate the patriots and the early history of the United States.
Some of the missing Colonial structures were recreated on their original sites during the 1930s. Many other structures were restored to the best estimates of how they would have looked during the eighteenth century. Most buildings are open for tourists to look through.
A main source of tourism to Williamsburg, Virginia and the surrounding area, Williamsburg is meant to be an interpretation of a Colonial American city with exhibits including dozens of authentic or accurately-recreated colonial houses, American Revolutionary War history exhibits, and the town jail, which includes an authentic stocks and pillory display. Other notable structures include the large Capitol and the Governor's Palace, each carefully recreated and landscaped as closely as possible to original 18th century specifications. Dependency structures and animals help complete the ambiance.
Colonial Williamsburg is owned and operated as a living museum by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the non-profit entity endowed by the Rockefeller family. Although it is not directly affiliated with the nearby Colonial National Historical Park, the nearby Colonial Parkway and attractions at Jamestown and Yorktown presented by state and federal entities are complementary adjuncts to the restored area of the colonial city. With Colonial Williamsburg as its centerpiece, the Historic Triangle of Virginia is a much visited tourist destination. However, attendance at Colonial Williamsburg peaked in 1985 at 1.1 million, and has been in decline ever since.[2]
Ada Louise Huxtable, noted architecture critic, wrote in 1965: "Williamsburg is an extraordinary, conscientious and expensive exercise in historical playacting in which real and imitation treasures and modern copies are carelessly confused in everyone's mind. Partly because it is so well done, the end effect has been to devalue authenticity and denigrate the genuine heritage of less picturesque periods to which an era and a people gave life."[1]
A more nuanced interpretation may be that of University of Virginia Professor of Architectural History Richard Guy Wilson, who notes that Colonial Williamsburg is a superb example of an American suburb of the 1930s, with its inauthentically tree-lined streets of Colonial Revival houses and segregated commerce.
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Dungeness, Kent is a notable example of a cuspate foreland, created by constructive waves bringing together shingle from two different directions to form a triangular shaped promontory of shingle that goes a few miles into the English Channel.
Dungeness has long been a hazard to shipping and as early as 1615 a light was displayed here, but by the 1630s such was the accumulation of shingle that a new lighthouse tower was constructed closer to the sea.
Then in the late 18thCentury the accumulated shingle had again left the lighthouse far from the sea and a new lighthouse was constructed which came into use in 1792. The new lighthouse was 35metres high and was of the same design as Smeaton's lighthouse (1759) on Eddystone Rock, Lighthouse keepers accommodation was built as a circular building around the base of the lighthouse. From 1862 this was the first lighthouse to be powered by electric arc lamps, at the time this was cutting edge technology and proved to be too expensive, so in 1875 the lamp reverted back to oil.
In 1904 a new taller (46 metres) lighthouse opened and the 1792 lighthouse was demolished except for the circular building around the case which was retained as accommodation for the lighthouse keepers.
Then next in the long history of lighthouses on Dungeness came a new Nuclear Power Station being built in the 1950's, it was realised that the height of the power station would obscure the view of the lighthouse from certain area of the sea. A new lighthouse was built 1959-61 from pre-stressed concrete which removed the need for tapered sides to the lighthouse this new lighthouse also incorporated an electric foghorn. In 1991 the lighthouse became automated. Currently the lighthouse has a range of 21 nautical miles.
The old (1904) lighthouse is open as a tourist attraction in the summer months.
see: www.dungenesslighthouse.com
www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/dungeness.html
www.ryemuseum.co.uk/index.php/2009/10/the-dungeness-light...
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Prater road
The Praterstraße in the direction of Nestroyplatz, on the left side of the road: # 33, Alliiertenhof
The Prater road towards Prater Stern
The ca. 1 km long Praterstraße in the 2nd District of Vienna, Leopoldstadt, connects the Old Town from Sweden bridge over the Danube Canal and from Tabor Road with the Praterstern, one of the largest hub of communications of the city, and the Vienna Prater. The street continues beyond the Praterstern in the Lassallestraße, the Reichsbrücke (bridge) over the Danube and the Wagramerstraße (22nd District), and leads to Marchfeld, to north-eastern Lower Austria and South Moravia.
The suburbs in the second District were incorporated in 1850. Named is the road officially since 1862 (previously but already on a map of 1856, for example) according to the Vienna Prater, which connects to the Praterstern. Previously it had been called, as the to the south adjoining suburb, Jägerzeile. Since 1981, operates under the Prater street in its full length the subway line U1, here, for example, approximately in the middle between Swedenplatz and Praterstern serving the station Nestroyplatz (since 1979). In addition to the Taborstraße the Prater Street is one of the main streets of the second District and the center nearest city parts.
History
The name Prater (pratum) was first found in a deed, the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa issued in 1162 in Bologna. The document notarizes a donation of river meadows in Vienna. 1537 Emperor Ferdinand I (HRR) as Archduke of Austria below the Enns and landowner in the Prater the main avenue had layed out.
The term Jägerzeile was used after 1569 for the driveway connecting a settlement of the Habsburg gamekeepers and wood workers in the Danube floodplains to the northwest of the later Praterstern with the city. Later, the Imperial Court as a landlord provided building grounds just south of the route, and since 1660 this settlement and it's surrounding wide forest and water areas like the street then were called Jägerzeile. North of the road and from the Czerningasse into town bordered the suburb of Leopoldstadt. The coat of arms of the hunter line (Jägerzeile) now forms part of the Leopoldstadt district coat of arms.
1683 devastated the Ottomans at the Second Siege of Vienna the Leopoldstadt. 1734 the wooden chapel in the Jägerzeile during a storm was destroyed, the miraculous image remained intact. Emperor Charles VI. as landlord granted the permission now to build a stone chapel, which was consecrated to saint Nepomuk in 1736. When Joseph II in 1766 the until then for his family reserved Prater made accessible to the public and permitted on the premises catering and entertainment companies, the frequency in the Hunter line increased very considerably. The hitherto at night still closed terrain in 1775 became accessible day and night. 1781 the Leopoldstadt theater at the Jägerzeile was opened (see buildings, No. 31).
1809 the tropps of Napoleon I plundered Jägerzeile. After the victory over the Emperor of the French within the scope of the Coalition wars, on 25th September 1814 Tsar Alexander I of Russia, King Frederick William III. of Prussia and Emperor Francis I, who at the Tabor line (see Tabor Road No. 80) them with a large entourage for the Congress of Vienna had welcomed, marched past the hunter line into the city (see buildings, No. 33). Three weeks later, the Emperor gave to the opening of the congress a great festival in the Prater, over the Hunter line followed the access of his guests.
1824 had Ferdinand Raimunds' magic buffoonery "The barometer maker on the magic island" in the Leopoldstadt Theater premiere. 1838, the railway traffic on the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway from Nordbahn at Praterstern was taken on. The first station of Vienna has evolved over the decades to the most frequented of the monarchy and brought a lot of traffic to Prater street.
As the old Nepomuk Church (see buildings, number 41) has proven to be too small for the rapidly growing suburb, in 1846 on another site the new Johann Nepomuk Church (see buildings at No. 45) was opened. Its high, pointed tower with a large clock marks the silhouette of the front of houses since then significantly. On 28th October 1848 it came in Jägerzeile as well as in the Prater to heavy fights between the defenders of the 1848 revolution and the by Prince Alfred I. zu Windisch-Graetz and Count Joseph Jelacic of Bužim commanded reactionary imperial troops, storming the barricades at the Prater Stern and at Nepomuk Church. This "Viennese October insurrection" led to many deaths among the civilian population and high property damage.
In 1850, after Franz Joseph I had authorized a Provisional Municipal Code, numerous suburbs were incorporated to Vienna, including Leopoldstadt and Jägerzeile, forming the core of the new 2nd District, and it was likewise called Leopoldstadt. The assigned district number corresponded to the importance of the new Leopoldstadt in the entire area of Vienna. 1862, the street name Jägerzeile was officially changed into Prater Street and the new name was already previously in use, eg on a map anno 1856.
1866/1867 the later "Waltz King" Johann Strauss at the Prater street wrote the Danube waltz (see buildings, No. 54). 1868, the horse-drawn tramway through the Praterstraße was opened, which was operated here until 1901; coming from the Franz Joseph Quai and from the (1864 opened) Aspern Bridge, led the stretch of way over the Danube Canal through the short Aspernbrückengasse to the Prater street and on this to the Prater Stern and along to the bathing ships at the Danube. The tram went here for decades in side-lying position, ie, near the north-facing house front, after the reconstruction of the Praterstern in the 1950s in the middle of the street. In 1873 in the Prater took place the Vienna universal exhibition, which was followed by numerous fairs and exhibitions to date, the Prater street was the most important feeder. 1876, the Crown Prince Rudolf Bridge was opened, and the Prater street was now part of a remote connection direction Moravia and Galicia.
1886 as visual termination of the Prater street the striking Tegetthoff monument was unveiled (architecture: Karl von Hasenauer, plastic: Carl Kundmann). It commemorates the victorious Austrian Admiral and formed until the early 1950s the center of the Prater star. The trams went around the monument.
Around the turn of the century, two projects were submitted, which stipulated to continue the Prater street in a straight line across the Danube Canal and across through the Old Town in the first distric to St. Stephen's: 1895 by Alfred Riehl, 1912/1913 by Adolf Loos with Paul Engelmann. With Loos this project would have been part of an overall renovation of the old town, including ring road zone. Loos claimed the idea the visual axis from the Prater Stern to the cathedral to extend to a transport axis stemmed from Empress Maria Theresa; evidence were not found.
On 22nd July 1928 moved a huge festive procession of the 10th German Choral Association Festival from City Hall and Ring through the Prater street into the Prater. It is claimed that around 150,000 people have been involved. On 1st May 1929 the Carl Theater (see buildings, No. 31) closed definitely (in the bomb war 1944 severely damaged, it was demolished in 1951). From 19th to 26th July 1931 the II International Workers' Olympiads in the recently completed Praterstadion led to heavy traffic volumes in the Prater street.
In May 1938 the Vienna Stadtbauamt (public construction authority) under Nazi leadership presented considerations, to close the Ring Road across the Leopoldstadt to a complete ring. The Aspernbrückengasse would have become part of this ring extension, the part most close to downtown of the Prater street, from the Sweden bridge to Aspernbrückengasse, disappeared. The idea behind the project was to demolish the entire part of town, heavily populated by Jewish Viennese and with modified road network to rebuilt. The in 1939 began Second World War shifted such considerations to the time after the "final victory".
1970 the Prater bridge over the Danube and the Prater high road was completed. This new connection, running parallel to the road Praterstraße/Lassallestraße, later part of the "Südosttangente" called city highway, discharges the Prater street partly from the passage traffic between the districts left of the Danube and right of the Danube Canal.
The U -Bahn line U1, which coming from the city center in 1979 the Nestroyplatz at the Prater street had reached, in 1981 was extended to the Praterstern. For this reason, more than 110 years of rail transport on the Praterstreet came to an end. After completion of the subway construction under the road it was largely run four-laned, for the most part equipped with a raised center strip and turned into an alley. The road section between Tabor Road and Aspernbrückengasse was now only navigable as one-way in the resident traffic, the through traffic entirely was routed over Aspernbrückengasse to the ring.