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In Highnam churchyard
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In loving memory of
Mary Anne Pearce Died June 27 1887 Aged 85
A faithful servant and dear friend
Fear not, for I have redeemed thee
Isaiah XLIII.1
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Intriguing
The Squire, Thomas Gambier Parry was the executor of her will.
She had been living at the Sacristan Lodge, as an Annuitant, at least during the 7 years leading up to her death. (The lodge appears to have been used sometimes to provide a home for retired estate workers.)
Her name does not appear on any census as a servant at Highnam Court, not in all the time that Parry owned the Highnam estate.
And yet she is a 'faithful servant and friend'
She never married.
Using the 1881 census as my guide, she was born around 1803, in Southampton., and now lives in Highnam.
Thomas Gambier Parry was born in 1816 and has been Squire since 1839.
His second wife, Ethelinda (Lear) was born around 1827.
The connection seems most likely to have been with the Lear family.
There's a Mary Pearce in the 1841, living at Chilmark with (and probably a servant of) Francis and Isabella Lear.
She's not mentioned in the 1851 census, possibly because, Isabella is away from home visiting another family member.
In 1861, she is staying at the home of the Bishop of Salisbury, and listed as a visitor and a Ladies Maid. The wife of the Bishop is Isabella Elizabeth Hamilton, sister of Ethelinda, who is by now married to Thomas Gambier Parry, and her mother, Isabella, is also staying with her at that time.
In 1871, Mary A. Pearce, now aged 66, is working as Housekeeper for Isabella Hamilton
I have been unable to determine whether Mary Ann Pearce was the nanny for the children of Francis and Isabella Lear, but although the evidence is not conclusive, she does appear to have been close to the members of the Lear family for over 40 years.
The headstone looks weather beaten now, but that's not a plain design.
"A faithful servant and friend"
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Moderno e inspirador projeto do arquiteto e projetista Emílio B. Zanon, idealizador de inúmeras igrejas no Brasil. Na obra foram consumidas 150 toneladas de ferro, 2.400m³ de pedra e 23.000 sacos de cimento. O executor do projeto foi o engenheiro Júlio César Zanon.
A Catedral é construída num estilo inovador, onde o concreto armado dá a tônica principal, harmonizado por vitrais de excepcional beleza encaixados em precisos recortes nas paredes de concreto, conferindo exuberante beleza no interior do templo..
Os vitrais foram projetados e executados por Emílio Zanon. Também a cruz monumental, o altar e o conjunto do presbitério são obras de sua autoria.
Fonte: www.diocesetoledo.org/d_padroeiro/exibe/?c=2
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Church of St Margaret,
Monument to Bussy †1719 and Mary †1730 Greene. Marble, 1745, Signed Robt Page Fecit. Commissioned by his daughter and executor, Mary. Now east wall of north nave, moved from south wall of chancel, east end in 1881.
The impressive monument would once have filled the south wall of the chancel, at the very east end, before it was moved by the architect R.M. Phipson in 1881 to make way for a new window. It is dominated by the beautiful veined grey pyramid, decorated with the family coat of arms on a scrolled cartouche, with oak leaves and scallops. The pyramid rests on the base which houses the inscription, now difficult to make out because of the pews, and frames the darker commemorative chest. This rests on lions’ paws and the upper tiers rise to an acorn, symbol of strength and growth and is flanked by two mourning youthful angels. One sheds a tear while wiping his other eye, his foot resting on a skull, while his companion clutches his hands in palpable grief.
The inscription is the only source of information about Bussy and Mary Greene. It included four of their children whose deaths dated from 1709 down to 1737. Both the impressive scale of the monument, with its accomplished handling of a range of colour within a deliberately limited palette, and its original position in the chancel underline the inscription’s reference to Bussy Greene as a gentleman of Catton, who died when he was fifty two years old.
detail of mourning angel on right
Praça da Cemig
Adelcio Ramos/PMC
A respeito da erosão identificada na via marginal da avenida Cardeal Eugênio Pacelli, Cidade Industrial, nessa terça-feira (17/1), a Prefeitura de Contagem informa que:
Após os estudos realizados no local, ficou constatada uma fuga de material sem causa definida. Portanto, descarta-se a hipótese de rompimento das redes da Copasa ou do sistema de drenagem.
A equipe de manutenção da Prefeitura de Contagem continuará as sondagens no entorno da erosão a fim de identificar as causas do abatimento. Já o fechamento da erosão e recomposição do pavimento está sendo realizado pelo Departamento Nacional de Infraestrutura de Transportes - DNIT, responsável por este trecho da via.
A expectativa, segundo a empresa Ápia, executora da intervenção de fechamento da erosão, é que o trecho interditado tenha condições de ser liberado até esta quinta-feira (19/1).
Até lá, a Transcon mantém a região sinalizada e com desvio no trânsito, o que tem minimizado o impacto no tráfego local, que flui sem retenções significativas. Os motoristas que seguem pela av. Cardeal Eugênio Pacelli, sentido Betim, devem acessar a rua Antônio Gonçalves Neto, seguindo pela rua Dr. Antônio Chagas Diniz e convergir à esquerda, na rua Osório de Morais, para sair no corredor após o trecho interditado.
NYC financer William Truslow Hyde's "Glimmerglen" estate on Lake Otsego, Cooperstown NY. The stable complex (since razed) and gate lodge (extant) were done by the great architect Alfred Hopkins. Today the lodge is privately held and the bulk of the Glimmerglen property (manor house razed in the 1960's) held by the Clark Foundation.
Cooperstown NY Otsego Farmer & Republican
October 25, 1962
Mrs. Clark Buys 'Glimmerglen' Estate
"Glimmerglen," the Hyde family estate on the west shore of Otsego Lake, a mile and a half
north of Cooperstown, has been purchased by Mrs. Stephen C. Clark of this village. The sellers were William Truslow Hyde, Jr., individually, and as executor with his sister, Mrs. Robert Johnston, Jr. of this village, ,of the estate of their late mother Mrs. Isabel Ballard Hyde.
The property had been in the Hyde family for the past 52 years. It was purchased in 1910 by Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hyde of New York City, who used it as a summer home for many years. Following Mr. Hyde's death several years ago, Mrs. Hyde used the winter cottage as her year-round until her death earlier this year.
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Isobel Ballard Marks was born on 30 January 1873, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, her father, Henry Marks, was 51 and her mother, Mary Asenath Ballard, was 32. She married William Truslow Hyde on 7 November 1895, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1915. She died on 14 June 1962, in Otsego, Otsego, New York, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Cooperstown, Otsego, New York, United States.
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The manor house was built by Mr. Constable, and was sold by Mrs. Constable to the Hydes in 1910. The owner of the gatehouse/caretaker's lodge was the granddaughter of the Hydes until August 2011. It was then sold to the Clark Foundation which now owns the balance of the former Glimmerglen estate.
cementing the floor base
shakedown buy back roll over
coordinated syndicated sell buy ...
advisory to sequentially roll out ...
"Here is the place of James Harington, of Exton, Knight with his wife, Lucy, daughter of William Sidney, Knight, by whom he had 18 children, of whom 3 sons and 8 daughters entered into marriage. The eldest son John, Knight, married the heiress of Robert Kelway, surveyor of the Courts of Wards and Liveries.
The second, Henry, Knight, married one of the heiresses of Francis Agar, The third, James, Esquire, one of the heiresses of Roberts Sapcots, Esquire. The eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Edward Montague, Knight, The second, Frances, to William Lee, Knight, The third Margaret, to Don Benito de Sisneros, a Spaniard, of the family of the Dukes of Fantasgo, The fourth, Catharine, to Edward Dimmock, Knight.
The sixth, Mabel, to Andrew Noel, Knight, The seventh, Sarah had for her husband Lord Hastings, heir of the Earl of Huntingdon. The eighth, Theodosia, Lord Dudley of Castle Dudley.
The said James and Lucy lived 50 years in Wedlock. She died first in her 72nd year. He departed this life when eighty years old, in the year of man’s redemption 1591, the 34th of Queen Elizabeth. Both appointed as their sole executor their son James, who, to perform his duty to his parents, and to leave testimony of his filial affection to posterity erected and dedicated this monument to their lasting memory.
If an old family and ancient busts on the walls; if the badge of a Knighthood, the reward of peculiar virtue; if a numerous offspring and the absence of all complaint throughout 50 years of married life; if late decay and a rapid death; lastly, if a happy estate, and more happy than any estate, a liberal hand, untainted honour, reverence for heaven have made either a happy life or a blessed death, they have made both life and death blessed for us. Now when the fates have bid us to have done with life and the stars demand out spirits, the affection of our heir has gathered our ashes and bidden them rest under this mausoleum".
James was the son of Sir John of Exton 1589 & Elizabeth daughter of Robert Mutton of Peckleton and Phillippa daughter of Richard Willoughby
He was the grandson of John Harington 1524 and Alice Southill www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Z0M1j4
He m Lucy daughter of Sir William Sydney of Penshurst & Anne / Agnes daughter of Hugh Pakenham / Packenham / Pagenham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/863734281/
Children
1. Sir John 1613 m Ann heiress of Robert Kelway 1570 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/V45gL3 (John & Anne received Exton manor on their marriage)
2. Sir Henry m ...... co-heiress of Francis Agar
3. James 1613 m1 Frances 1599 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/F81dXr daughter of Robert Sapcote 1600 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8U15k6 and either Catherine or Eleanor daughters of William Prestland m2 1601 Anne 1629 daughter of Francis Bernard of Abington, Widow of John D'oyley of Merton who m3 Sir Henry Poole of Kemble & Oaksey 1632 widower of Griselda daughter of Sir Edward Neville, 7th baron Abergavenny and Catherine Brome
1. Elizabeth m Sir Edward Montague 1601 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/016g98 of Weekley & Boughton 2. Frances m Sir William Lee
3. Margaret m Don Benito de Sisneros
5. Catharine m Sir Edward Dimmock / Dymock
6. Mabel c1560-1603 m Sir Andrew Noel son of Sir Andrew Noel and Elizabeth Hopton, bringing Exton estate to the Noels (parents of Lucy wife of William 4th Baron Eure 1646 son of Mary Eure of Ludlow www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4Z987J & Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden who m Juliana 1680 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/m2ie9z daughter of Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden 1629 of Chipping Campden www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/S9aY17and grandparents of Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9sXm6d & Charles Noel at Brooke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/R4U3L6 )
7. Sarah m Francis Baron Hastings heir of Sir George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon 1604 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/37bp86 Sarah m2 Sir George Kingsmith, m3 Edward 11th Baron Zouche, m4 Sir Thomas Edmondes)
8. Theodosia m Lord Dudley of Castle Dudley.
- Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Exton Rutland
Panorama school photograph taken in 1964 when I was in the Second Form. Another "where are they all now" moment. One is a Member of Parliament, another an author, a third was a member of the famous "Pontypool Front Row" (None are me!)
This picture is taken between the "New Building" by the quarry, a haunt of schoolboy smokers, and the gym/swimming pool..
Jones' West Monmouthshire Grammar School for Boys was opened in 1898 from a legacy left by the Haberdasher William Jones on land craftily donated by Squire Hanbury to win over the executors who were looking for a site for a new school. The school was run by the Haberdashers, the school badge being their crest, until 1954 when it was taken over by Monmouthshire County Council as a Grammar School under the 1944 Education Act. In 1958, boarding ceased at the school ending the distinction between "boarders" and "day boys". In 1980 the school became a comprehensive, shed the school badge and tie link to the Haberdashers, and, shock horror, became co-ed!
1705-1759 Thomas Spencer of London, merchant, who by his industry, candour and integrity acquired an affluent fortune with unblemished reputation. ................
monument signed by "Gyl Tyler .......sculpt"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyler_(architect)
Will of Thomas Spencer of St Mary, Bothaw, City of London. Merchant.
He left the bulk of his Estate to his sister, Esther Spencer, spinster: he left her all his possessions in the Manor of Weston in Holderness, Yorkshire, including Court Leet, Court baron, farms, etc. Also, £8,000.
He wishes his friends, James Norman, and John Cornwall, of London, merchants, and George Clifford his co-partner in trade – to be the Executors of his Will, but they declined in favour of the Testator’s sister, Esther when the time came.
His other property, situated in the County of York, and in the counties of Durham, Essex, Kent, and ‘elsewhere’ he left in trust to his 3 named Executors to whom £100 would be paid each, the arrangement being that his brother Richard Spencer & his heirs would enjoy these Estates.
To his niece, Dorothy Askew (late Boulby) now wife of Henry Askew - £5,000.
Brother-in-Law, John Jefferson - £3,000.
Brother-in-Law, Adam Boulby Father of his niece, Dorothy Askew) - £200.
Uncle, Ralph Ward, Esq. - £200.
Cousin, William Gansell, Esq. - £200.
Cousins, Ralph, Thomas, and Rebecca Ward - £200 each.
Cousin, George Jackson - £200. And to his brother, Ralph Jackson, and three sisters, Esther, Hannah, and Dorothy - £100 each.
Cousin, Francis Fox - £500, and to his brother John Fox, and his sister, Mary Saunders - £100 each.
Cousin, William Manley, and his sister Rebecca - £100 each.
--- Cooper, spinster, residing in my house with my family/with my sister Esther Spencer - £1,000. Christian Poppe, my book-keeper (if in my service at the time of my decease) - £100.
To each clerk over 12 months in his service at the time of death - £50.
To the Poor of the Parish of Guisborough, Yorks., “where I was born” - £50
To Edward Dans, formerly of Riga, merchant, but now of Shottesbrook, Berks. One annuity of £50.
Will dated 7th October, 1758.
(Also he left all his Estates at Hornchurch, Essex, to his 3 named Executors ).
Draft Will of Margaret Charles, Widow, 8th August 1885, revised 21st September 1887 and revoked by a Will of 3rd April 1889, of 12 Vale Road, Ramsgate, Kent.
Executors: William Nicol, Appledore, Devon, Charles Harris Tamplin, Surgeon, Ramsgate.
Beneficiaries: Charles Harris Tamplin, Louisa Emma Broad, wife of Augustus Octavious Hamilton Broad, 5 Montpelier Road, Leighton Road, London, Ann Lewis, wife of Joseph Lewis, Cousin, 71 Railway Street, Brompton, Kent(Crossed out in 1887 revision).
The Rev’d Robert Wood, Baptist Minister of the Cavendish Chapel, Ramsgate. Sarah Francis Whitehead, Servant, Alice Braithwaite, Rowden Villa, Grange Road, Ramsgate. Ann Coulsting Nicol (Crossed out in 1887 revision).
Maker: Charles-Louis Michelez (1817-1894)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: wet stamp
Size: 3 3/8 in x 5 in
Location:
Object No. 2023.027b
Shelf: N-25
Publication:
Other Collections:
Provenance: Paul Meurice, executor of Victor Hugo
Notes: An albumen print taken by Michelez of an ink wash drawing by Victor Hugo. The drawings were made to be included in “Les Travailleurs de la Mer" a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. They were not intended to illustrate the story but rather to represent Hugo's impressions during his exile. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernsey man named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations (which include a battle with a Pieuvre, an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours.
As Hugo wrote: "At night, when it thunders, if one sees men flying in the red of the clouds and in the trembling of the air, they are the sarregousets. A woman who lives in Grand-Mielles knows them. One evening when there were sarregousets at a crossroads, this woman shouted to a carter who did not know which road take: "Ask them for directions; they are good-natured people, they are very civil people to talk to the world about". He it's a good bet that this woman is a witch."
After Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup on 2 December 1851 and his failed attempt to organize the Republican resistance, Hugo escaped on 11 December by train from Paris to Brussels, dressed as a printing house worker with fake ID papers under the name of Lanvin. On 9 January 1852, his name is on the main list of “Procrits”. On 5 August 1852, Hugo arrived from Brussels to Jersey, after a
transit in London. Through Edmond Bacot, a photographer from Caen who came to Jersey to support the cause of the outlaws, Hugo set up the “Jersey Workshop” between 1852 and 1855, a photographic studio in the greenhouse of Marine Terrace... photography became a family affair.
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A Lost London Pub - present building built 1870 - includes entrance to Vine Court
FROM pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Whitechapel/RoyalOak.shtml Accessed 22/03/2017
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
The following entries are in this format:
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
1746/John Hillier/../../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey **
1835/Cragg/../../../Robson’s Directory **
1839/Richard R Cragg/../../../Pigots Directory ****
1841/Richard Riley Cragg/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1842/R R Cragg/../../../Robson’s Directory **
1844/R R Cragg/../../../Thompson’s Directory **
1846/Richard Riley Cragg/../../../Post Office Directory **
1851/Richard Riley Cragg/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1851/William Burgess/Head, Waiter/30/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census ****
1851/E Burgess/Sister, Barmaid/20/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census
1851/J E Burgess/Brother, Wood Carver/20/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census
1851/Sarah Ann Syer/Barmaid/19/Poplar, Middlesex/Census
1851/J Hinking/Cook, Widow/36/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census
1852/Richard R Cragg/../../../Watkin’s Directory **
November 1854/Richard Riley Cragg's executors/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
November 1854/John Fowles/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
January 1855/John Fowles/ Outgoing Licensee /../../The Era ****
January 1855/James Bloomfield/ Incoming Licensee /../../The Era ****
1856/James Bloomfield/../../../Post Office Directory ****
May 1858/Alfred Jackson/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
May 1858/Isaac Dannett/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
1858/James Isaac Dannit / Public House Keeper /../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey **
1858/Louisa Dannit / Wife /../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey
1862/James Isaac Dannit/../../../Post Office Directory **
November 1863/William Windett, administrator of James Isaac Dannet/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era ****
November 1863/Thomas Elliott Webb/Incoming Licensee/../../Era ****
March 1864/Thomas Elliott Webb/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
March 1864/James Grubb/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
January 1866/James Grubb/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era ****
January 1866/Frederick Grubb/Incoming Licensee/../../Era ****
1869/William Young/../../../Post Office Directory ****
November 1868/William Young/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era ****
November 1868/Zebedee Wilcox/Incoming Licensee/../../Era ****
January 1873/Zebedee Wilcox/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
January 1873/George Robinson/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
October 1874/George Robinson/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
October 1874/Clarence Theodore Smith/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
1878/John W & Robert Greeves/../../../P.O. Directory **
1881/John W Greaves/Licensed Victualler/51/Norfolk/Census ****
1881/Robert T Greaves/Brither, Licensed Victualler/49/Norfolk/Census
1881/Julia Cooke/Housekeeper/44/Norfolk/Census
1881/Jane Humphreys/General Servant/22/Middlesex/Census
1881/William Dipper/Barman/22/Middlesex/Census
1881/Leonard Seal/Barman/18/Middlesex/Census
1881/John Shuttlebottom/Potman/23/Stafford/Census
1882/John & Robert Greeves/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1884/John & R Greeves/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1891/Samuel David Isaacs/Licensed Victualler/23/Westminster, London/Census ****
1891/Miriam Isaacs/Wife/20/City of London/Census
1891/Rebecca Murial Isaacs/Daughter/3 months/Whitechapel, London/Census
1891/John Travers Hurst/Manager/46/Winslow, Bucks/Census
1891/William John Taylor/Barman/19/Ramsgate, Kent/Census
1891/George Hogwood/Potman/27/Bethnal Green, London/Census
1891/Agnes Cooper/Domestic servant/30/South Hackney, London/Census
1891/Eliza Barthorp/Domestic servant/22/Royal Barracks, Dublin/Census
1891/Ernest James Chubb/Barman/21/Mile End, London/Census
1893/Samuel David Isaacs/../../../P.O. Directory **
1895/Ernest Wm Truss/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1899/Philip Keller/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1908/Chas Wm Gomm/../../../Post Office Directory **
1910/Chas Wm Gomm/../../../Post Office Directory **
1911/Charles William Gomm/Licensed Victualler/47/Brentford, Middlesex/Census ****
1911/Sarah Gomm/Daughter/25/Brentford, Middlesex/Census
1911/Elizabeth Gomm/Wife/44/London, Middlesex/Census
1911/Charles Gomm/Son/22/Brentford, Middlesex/Census
1911/John Gomm/Son/20/Brentford, Middlesex/Census
1912/Chas Wm Gomm/../../../Post Office Directory **
1914/Davis Levy/../../../P.O. Directory **
1917/Davis Levy/../../../Post Office Directory **
1921/Davis Levy/../../../Post Office Directory **
1923/Davis Levy/../../../P.O. Directory **
1934/Gei Isadore Isaacs/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1938/Lionel Barnett/../../../Post Office Directory ****
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Built 1870s to store Henry Weman’s sails and ships stores, behind his Lipson St chandlers business (established 1864), transferred to David Deex after Weman’s death, purchased by Paul & Gray and name changed from Weman’s. Restored 1980 & used by Maritime Museum.
“H. Weman's, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port Adelaide.” [Express & Telegraph 13 Oct 1873 advert]
“Wanted, a few Sailmakers. Apply at H. Weman's, Port.” [Evening Journal 2 Feb 1874]
To Farmers, Boothkeepers and Others.— Any quantity Ship Sails For Sail or Hire. H. Weman, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port.” [Register 9 Oct 1874 advert]
“Messrs. M. Donaghy & Sons have just completed at their ropeworks at Queenstown, to the order of Mr. Henry Weman, for the Adelaide Steaming Company, the largest Manila, hawser ever made m the colony. It is constructed for towing purposes, and is 14 inches in circumference, with a length of 120 fathoms. Throughout pure Manila hemp has been used, and the experts who have seen it pronounce the hawser as creditable a production as could be obtained in any part of the world. The Queenstown Rope works have been very busy lately, and the proprietors are arranging for the erection of a quantity of new machinery.” [Register 23 Jun 1888]
“David Deex, Shipchandler, and Henry Pope Weman, Licenced Victualler (executors of the estate of Henry Weman, deceased).” [Register 6 Feb 1894]
“Tenders. . . for the Purchase of Buildings in Lipson and Jane Streets, Port Adelaide, known as H. Weman's, Ship Chandler and Sailmaker, and the Stock therein; and also other Properties in the Estate.” [Advertiser 9 Feb 1900 advert]
“the Business of Sailmakers and Ship Chandlers heretofore carried on by us at Lipson street. Port Adelaide, under the style or firm of 'Henry Weman', has been Transferred to David Deex, of Port Adelaide, solely on his private account. Dated the first day of January, 1901. David Deex, Alfred H Skinner (Trustees Henry Weman, Deceased).” [Register 18 May 1901 advert]
“The Russian ship Lochee, which arrived at the Semaphore anchorage on June 9 in a disabled condition, is to be repaired at Port Adelaide. Negotiations have been pending for some weeks, and it was feared that the competition of Melbourne firms would result in the work being transferred to the sister state. . . Mr. H. C. Fletcher has the contract for the ironwork, spars, and woodwork, and for slipping and painting the hull; while Messrs. H. Weman & Co., represented by Mr. Deex, will furnish new sails, supply the rigging, send the spars aloft, and fit the vessel ready for sea. The whole work is expected to occupy about two months. Employment will be found for a large number of men.” [Register 15 Jul 1902]
“Wanted, a Sailmaker. Apply H. Weman and Co., Port.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1910 advert]
“Wanted, Sailmakers or Handy Men. With Needle. Apply H. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide.” [Register 15 Sep 1917 advert]
“Messrs. Paul & Gray, of Sydney, .Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, and London. . . have purchased the well-known business of Messrs. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide. They announce that they have large stocks of steel wire ropes, chains, anchors, and every other requirement of well-equipped ships.” [Register 5 Jun 1920 advert]
“No firm has been more closely associated with the history and progress of Port Adelaide than Messrs. Weman & Co., ship's chandlers, of Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. . . The business was established in 1864 and Mr. D. Deex, who for so long has controlled the business of the firm, has been connected with it for 46 years. . . There is nothing connected with ships' stores he has not stocked and supplied, and from the store in Lipson Street anything from a needle to an anchor, a tin of jam to a tin of paint, a sail sheet to a bed sheet, can now as always be obtained. Messrs. Paul & Gray, Ltd., one of the widest known ship chandler firms in Australasia. . . have just purchased the business of Messrs. Weman & Co. (the name under which it continued to be known under Mr. Deex's). Henceforth trade will be carried on from the premises under the name of the new firm. . . Mr. Deex will for a time still take an interest in the business, as he hopes to complete his fiftieth year in its interests before finally retiring” [Port Adelaide News 11 Jun 1920].
HENRY WEMAN
“WEMAN.- On the 4th October, at his residence, Portland Ward, Port Adelaide, Henry Weman.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1891]
“Mr. Henry Weman, another old Portonian, which took place at his residence, Portland-place, Port Adelaide, on Sunday evening. The deceased gentleman arrived in the colony thirty-seven years ago in the Challenger, and ever since he has been identified with the Port, where he has been engaged in business as a shipchandler and sailmaker, besides having transactions in the coasting trade. . . actively connected with St. Paul's Church. . . age of sixty-four. He leaves one son and three daughters, two of whom are married, one to Mr. W. H. Skinner, Wharfinger of the S.A. Company, and the other to Mr. A. Skinner, of the Customs.” [Evening Journal 6 Oct 1891]
DAVID DEEX
“DEEX.—On July 16, at his late residence, 4 Durham terrace, Alberton, David Deex (late H. Weman & Co.), beloved husband of the late Christina Deex. Aged 84 years.” [Advertiser 17 Jul 1942]
Theseus and the Minotaur by Antonio Canova
Theseus seated on the prostrate Minotaur, holds a club in his left hand and rests his right on the left leg of his victim.
Place of origin: Rome, Italy
Date: 1782
Artist/Maker:Canova, Antonio, born 1757 - died 1822
Materials and Techniques: Marble
Height: 145.4 cm, Length: 158.7 cm, Width: 91.4 cm, Weight: 940 kg marble group, Weight: 238 kg base
Bought with the assistance of the National Art-Collections Fund (£1000) for £3000 from the Executor of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Nathan).
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From Wikipedia:
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects.
Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to cover 12.5 acres (51,000 m2) and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
The holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and photographs are among the largest, important and most comprehensive in the world. The museum possesses the world's largest collection of post-classical sculpture, the holdings of Italian Renaissance items are the largest outside Italy. The departments of Asia include art from South Asia, China, Japan, Korea and the Islamic world. The East Asian collections are among the best in Europe, with particular strengths in ceramics and metalwork, while the Islamic collection, alongside the British Museum, Musée du Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, is amongst the largest in the Western world.
Set in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, neighbouring institutions include the Natural History Museum and Science Museum.
Abstract Title 101 Hardres Street, late 19 Frederick Street, Ramsgate under the Trust of the late Mr. Samuel Beeching, deceased, purchased at Auction 1st June 1871 by Mr. Henry Maskell, 1871.
Indenture 22nd November 1862 between Jens Peter Jensen, Ramsgate and Marabella Jensen his wife to Samuel Beeching, Ramsgate, Ship Builder.
Indenture, Mortgage 23rd December 1858: Between Jens Peter Jensen, Tailor of Ramsgate, Marabella Jensen his wife, Mary Martha Pantin of Ramsgate.
Will of George Handel Sharp dated 21st August 1850 appointed Edward Beray Walford, Surgeon, Ramsgate and Thomas Hodges Snowden of Ramsgate as Executors. Beneficiary was Marabella Sharp, Wife.
Indenture 14th February 1849: Between William Edward Smith, Builder, Ramsgate, George Handel Sharpe and George Griggs.
Indenture 15th April 1847: Between William Edward Smith, William Hurst, James Barber Edward, John Rothschild Edwards, George Mercer, James Barber Edwards and Robert Edwards. A parcel of land in Frederick Street next to premises of Elizabeth Frances Harrison
Abstract Title 101 Hardres Street, late 19 Frederick Street, Ramsgate under the Trust of the late Mr. Samuel Beeching, deceased, purchased at Auction 1st June 1871 by Mr. Henry Maskell, 1871.
Indenture 22nd November 1862 between Jens Peter Jensen, Ramsgate and Marabella Jensen his wife to Samuel Beeching, Ramsgate, Ship Builder.
Indenture, Mortgage 23rd December 1858: Between Jens Peter Jensen, Tailor of Ramsgate, Marabella Jensen his wife, Mary Martha Pantin of Ramsgate.
Will of George Handel Sharp dated 21st August 1850 appointed Edward Beray Walford, Surgeon, Ramsgate and Thomas Hodges Snowden of Ramsgate as Executors. Beneficiary was Marabella Sharp, Wife.
Indenture 14th February 1849: Between William Edward Smith, Builder, Ramsgate, George Handel Sharpe and George Griggs.
Indenture 15th April 1847: Between William Edward Smith, William Hurst, James Barber Edward, John Rothschild Edwards, George Mercer, James Barber Edwards and Robert Edwards. A parcel of land in Frederick Street next to premises of Elizabeth Frances Harrison
Established by Henry Weman 1864, extended c1872, transferred to David Deex after Weman’s death, purchased by Paul & Gray and name changed from Weman’s. Restored 1980 & used by Maritime Museum.
“H. Weman's, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port Adelaide.” [Express & Telegraph 13 Oct 1873 advert]
“Wanted, a few Sailmakers. Apply at H. Weman's, Port.” [Evening Journal 2 Feb 1874]
To Farmers, Boothkeepers and Others.— Any quantity Ship Sails For Sail or Hire. H. Weman, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port.” [Register 9 Oct 1874 advert]
“Messrs. M. Donaghy & Sons have just completed at their ropeworks at Queenstown, to the order of Mr. Henry Weman, for the Adelaide Steaming Company, the largest Manila, hawser ever made m the colony. It is constructed for towing purposes, and is 14 inches in circumference, with a length of 120 fathoms. Throughout pure Manila hemp has been used, and the experts who have seen it pronounce the hawser as creditable a production as could be obtained in any part of the world. The Queenstown Rope works have been very busy lately, and the proprietors are arranging for the erection of a quantity of new machinery.” [Register 23 Jun 1888]
“David Deex, Shipchandler, and Henry Pope Weman, Licenced Victualler (executors of the estate of Henry Weman, deceased).” [Register 6 Feb 1894]
“Tenders. . . for the Purchase of Buildings in Lipson and Jane Streets, Port Adelaide, known as H. Weman's, Ship Chandler and Sailmaker, and the Stock therein; and also other Properties in the Estate.” [Advertiser 9 Feb 1900 advert]
“the Business of Sailmakers and Ship Chandlers heretofore carried on by us at Lipson street. Port Adelaide, under the style or firm of 'Henry Weman', has been Transferred to David Deex, of Port Adelaide, solely on his private account. Dated the first day of January, 1901. David Deex, Alfred H Skinner (Trustees Henry Weman, Deceased).” [Register 18 May 1901 advert]
“The Russian ship Lochee, which arrived at the Semaphore anchorage on June 9 in a disabled condition, is to be repaired at Port Adelaide. Negotiations have been pending for some weeks, and it was feared that the competition of Melbourne firms would result in the work being transferred to the sister state. . . Mr. H. C. Fletcher has the contract for the ironwork, spars, and woodwork, and for slipping and painting the hull; while Messrs. H. Weman & Co., represented by Mr. Deex, will furnish new sails, supply the rigging, send the spars aloft, and fit the vessel ready for sea. The whole work is expected to occupy about two months. Employment will be found for a large number of men.” [Register 15 Jul 1902]
“Wanted, a Sailmaker. Apply H. Weman and Co., Port.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1910 advert]
“Wanted, Sailmakers or Handy Men. With Needle. Apply H. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide.” [Register 15 Sep 1917 advert]
“Messrs. Paul & Gray, of Sydney, .Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, and London. . . have purchased the well-known business of Messrs. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide. They announce that they have large stocks of steel wire ropes, chains, anchors, and every other requirement of well-equipped ships.” [Register 5 Jun 1920 advert]
“No firm has been more closely associated with the history and progress of Port Adelaide than Messrs. Weman & Co., ship's chandlers, of Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. . . The business was established in 1864 and Mr. D. Deex, who for so long has controlled the business of the firm, has been connected with it for 46 years. . . There is nothing connected with ships' stores he has not stocked and supplied, and from the store in Lipson Street anything from a needle to an anchor, a tin of jam to a tin of paint, a sail sheet to a bed sheet, can now as always be obtained. Messrs. Paul & Gray, Ltd., one of the widest known ship chandler firms in Australasia. . . have just purchased the business of Messrs. Weman & Co. (the name under which it continued to be known under Mr. Deex's). Henceforth trade will be carried on from the premises under the name of the new firm. . . Mr. Deex will for a time still take an interest in the business, as he hopes to complete his fiftieth year in its interests before finally retiring” [Port Adelaide News 11 Jun 1920].
HENRY WEMAN
“WEMAN.- On the 4th October, at his residence, Portland Ward, Port Adelaide, Henry Weman.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1891]
“Mr. Henry Weman, another old Portonian, which took place at his residence, Portland-place, Port Adelaide, on Sunday evening. The deceased gentleman arrived in the colony thirty-seven years ago in the Challenger, and ever since he has been identified with the Port, where he has been engaged in business as a shipchandler and sailmaker, besides having transactions in the coasting trade. . . actively connected with St. Paul's Church. . . age of sixty-four. He leaves one son and three daughters, two of whom are married, one to Mr. W. H. Skinner, Wharfinger of the S.A. Company, and the other to Mr. A. Skinner, of the Customs.” [Evening Journal 6 Oct 1891]
DAVID DEEX
“DEEX.—On July 16, at his late residence, 4 Durham terrace, Alberton, David Deex (late H. Weman & Co.), beloved husband of the late Christina Deex. Aged 84 years.” [Advertiser 17 Jul 1942]
The Civil War Solider was dedicated in Lincoln Park in Jersey City on May 28, 1926. Sculpted by Joseph P. Pollia, architected by Albert Randolph Rose, and installed by the executor of the estate of Edward J. Donnelly, Sergeant, Company C, 5th New Jersey Volunteers and a committee appointed by the city commissioners, the memorial is a tribute to the soldiers of Jersey City who fought in the Civil War.
The 9-foot tall brone statue rests upon a 41.5-inch base and depicts a marching Civil War soldier in dressed in a full uniform. He has a canteen and bag hanging down his back on his proper left side and a small pouch attached to his belt. A rolled blanket is slung over his proper left shoulder and attached under his proper right arm. The soldier once held a rifle in his proper right hand and had a bayonet hanging from his proper left hip, but these are now missing.
On the front of the sculpture in raised letters reads the inscription: "In Memory of the Soldiers of Jersey City who fought in the War of the Rebellion."
Lincoln Park was designed by landscape architects Daniel W. Langton and Charles N. Lowrie in 1907. The 273-acre park was known as West Side Park until the Lincoln Memorial was built at the Kennedy (then Hudson) Boulevard entrance.
Abstract Title 101 Hardres Street, late 19 Frederick Street, Ramsgate under the Trust of the late Mr. Samuel Beeching, deceased, purchased at Auction 1st June 1871 by Mr. Henry Maskell, 1871.
Indenture 22nd November 1862 between Jens Peter Jensen, Ramsgate and Marabella Jensen his wife to Samuel Beeching, Ramsgate, Ship Builder.
Indenture, Mortgage 23rd December 1858: Between Jens Peter Jensen, Tailor of Ramsgate, Marabella Jensen his wife, Mary Martha Pantin of Ramsgate.
Will of George Handel Sharp dated 21st August 1850 appointed Edward Beray Walford, Surgeon, Ramsgate and Thomas Hodges Snowden of Ramsgate as Executors. Beneficiary was Marabella Sharp, Wife.
Indenture 14th February 1849: Between William Edward Smith, Builder, Ramsgate, George Handel Sharpe and George Griggs.
Indenture 15th April 1847: Between William Edward Smith, William Hurst, James Barber Edward, John Rothschild Edwards, George Mercer, James Barber Edwards and Robert Edwards. A parcel of land in Frederick Street next to premises of Elizabeth Frances Harrison
Mrs. Julia Utten Browne papers: Written details for the will of Julia Frances, nee Clarke, Utten Brown, wife of The Revd Edward Utten Brown Vicar of Besthorpe, Norfolk dated February 1896.
Executors: The Revd Edward Utten Browne, her husband. The Revd Pryor Buxton, Vicar of St Mark’s, Lakenham, Norwich.
Beneficiaries: The Revd Edward Utten Browne, her husband. All her Household furniture books etc, except Pictures left to her by her late Aunt Mrs. Julia de Roubigne Beevor. Her brother and sisters: Edward William Routh Clarke; Jessie Louise Haughton, wife of Walter John Haughton; Emily Jane Cann, Widow.
Her nephews and nieces: Sybil Jessie Julia Haughton; John William Haughton; Duncan Walter Haughton; Edward Routh Clarke; Arthur Routh Clarke, Lyon Cecil Fellows; Pleasance Edith Fellowes, Isabelle Denny, wife of Richard Harrison Denny, Gertrude Brenda Wilson, wife of Knyvet Wilson; Jane Moggs. Two Trusts of £500 each to her nephew and niece, Lyon Cecil Fellows and Pleasance Edith Fellowes which their father Henry Cecil Fellowes or any nominee of his could have any control over. They were the children of her deceased sister Mary Edith Fellowes.
£10, 000 Legacy for life, left to her by her Aunt, Mrs. Clarke, to be passed to her daughter Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude Browne. In the advent of her death to her husband The Revd Edward Utten Brown for life and then to 5 of her nieces and nephews.
Her Mansion House in Vicar Street, Wymondham and all properties devised to her by her Aunt, Mrs Clarke, to go to her husband in Trust for life and then to her daughter Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude Browne, all, including the £10, 000, to be free of any marital control by a future husband.
Solicitors, John White, 28 Cannon Row, Budge Street, City of London and Whites and Pomeroy, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Julia Frances, nee Clarke, Utten Brown was the daughter of William Robert Clarke and Elizabeth Routh of Wattlefield Hall, Wymondham born 1849. She married The Revd Edward Utten Browne in 1873 by Licence at St John, Paddington. Their daughter Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude Browne was born in 1891 in Norfolk. Her daughter, Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude Browne married Harry Llewellyn Cautley
In 1908 at Fohroe, Norfolk
10221 Super Star Destroyer (Star Wars)
Ages 16+. 3,152 pieces.
US $399.99 CA $499.99 DE 399.99 € UK 349.99 £
The Super Star Destroyer Executor has arrived! This jaw-dropping vessel served as command ship at the Battle of Endor and as the personal flagship of Darth Vader in the classic Star Wars movies. With its classic dagger-shaped design, the Executor is among the largest and most powerful vessels in the Star Wars galaxy. With over 3,000 pieces, measuring nearly 50" (124.5 cm) long and weighing nearly 8 pounds (3.5 kg), every aspect of this fantastic LEGO® Star Wars™ model impresses. Includes 4 minifigures: Darth Vader, Admiral Piett, Dengar, Bossk and IG-88.
Includes 4 minifigures: Darth Vader, Admiral Piett, Dengar and Bossk!
Also includes IG-88 figure!
Features over 3,000 pieces!
Measures nearly 50 inches (124.5 cm) long and weighs nearly 8 pounds (3.5kg)!
Includes display stand and data sheet label!
Center section lifts off to reveal command center!
The Super Star Destroyer is on sale from September 1, 2011
Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Summary
The stable building at 136 West 18th Street is one of nine remaining brick-fronted stables from an original row of thirteen erected in 1864-66. Designed in a round-arched utilitarian style related to the German Rundbogenstil, it still features a mix of Romanesque and Renaissance Revival details. No. 136 West 18 th Street has a tripartite triumphal arch composition which focuses on a central bifurcated Renaissance arch at the second story. The building has had several notable owners, among them Charles Landon and Benjamin H. Hutton, partners in one of the most prestigious dress goods importing firms in the New York City during the second half of the nineteenth century.
As a component of one of the two uniformly designed mid-nineteenth-century private carriage house groups remaining in Manhattan, it is a rare survivor. These stable rows reflect a period in the city's developmental history when private carriage houses began to be erected some blocks away from their owners' homes, on streets devoted almost exclusively to private stables and commercial liveries. An early manifestation of this trend, which became common practice during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the West 18th Street row was one of the most extensive of the period and contained unusually large and handsomely decorated stables.
The Tonnele Estate and the Development of the Private Stables on West 18th Street
Once part of the eigthteenth-century farm of Peter Warren, the lots on the south side of West 18th Street between Sixth Avenue and the old Warren Road to the west were acquired by John Tonnele around 1817. Senior partner in the firm of Tonnele & Hall, the country's leading dealer in wool, Tonnele had extensive real estate holdings in Manhattan including large tracts on
Sixth Avenue, 14th and 15th, and 17th and 18th Streets.
In his will of 1846, Tonnele divided his real estate among his family, giving them the option of selling the property and investing the proceeds in trust for their heirs. A total of thirty-two lots on West 17th and 18th Streets were left to his daughter Susan G. Hall. In March of 1863, she and the executors of the estate, her husband Valentine G. Hall and his brother George Hall, began selling her lots which were then occupied by small dwellings and wood shanties.
As the area was semi-industrial in character, with a brewery located on the north side of 18th Street and the Weber piano factory occupying the northeast corner of Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, the Halls must have regarded the lots as unsuitable for first-class residential or commercial development. However, the lots' proximity to the fashionable Fifth Avenue residential district north of Union Square must have made them seem ideal for private stables and apparently they were offered for sale as such. By 1867, all the former Tonnele Estate lots on 17th and 18th Streets were occupied by private stables with restrictive covenants on the properties prohibiting their conversion to factories or commercial livery stables.
Stables were a necessity during the period when private urban transportation was limited to horses and carriages. While the majority of New Yorkers rented or boarded their horses in large commercial stables, the very wealthy maintained private stables.
Traditionally, these were located directly behind their owners' houses, sometimes facing onto the less desirable street front of a through-the-block lot. By the mid-nineteenth century, carriage-house rows developed to serve a few of the city's most exclusive streets. Remnants of these stable rows survive at 127 and 129 East 19th Street, originally part of a group of stables serving the houses on Gramercy Park South and Irving Place,^ and at 57 Great Jones Street, the sole survivor of a long row of stables which once backed onto the mansions on the north side of Bond Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street.
Around 1860, carriage houses began to be erected a few blocks from their owners' homes, on convenient but less fashionable streets, where land costs were lower and where the noises and smells associated with stables would not mar the character of a residential neighborhood. Eventually a number of streets in Manhattan were devoted almost exclusively to private and livery stables. These included East 35th and East 36th Streets between Lexington and Third Avenues , East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues , and West 58th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue .
The twenty-nine stables erected on the former Tonnele Estate in the 1860s, extending from 121 to 143 West 17th Street and from 112 to 146 West 18th Street, were an early example of this type of development and together formed one of the most extensive groups of private stables built in Manhattan in the 1860s.
It should be noted that throughout the 1860s, most of the private carriage houses on these "stable streets" were commissioned on an individual basis and that speculatively-built rows were a rarity. Perhaps the most extensive speculative development was Sniffen Court, a group of ten private carriage houses on a blind alley off East 36th Street, erected in 1864 for four investors by local builder John Sniff in, and subsequently sold to wealthy residents of Murray Hill.
Although uniform in design, the row from 122 to 146 West 18th Street was created through a combination of small-scale speculative development and individual commissions. In May and June of 1864, Elisha Brooks, a partner in the successful Brooks Brothers clothing firm, purchased the lots from 122 to 126 West 18th Street and had three identical stables erected on the site.
As work was proceeding on the Brooks stables, Susan Hall and her children agreed to use part of the proceeds from the sale of the lots on 18th Street to build a stable at 128 West 18th Street which would be retained for the family's use.
Though commissioned by a different client, this stable was identical in plan and design to the recently completed Brooks stables. By 1866, the nine remaining lots extending from 130 to 146 West 18th Street had been sold. Their new owners also had stables erected which followed the articulation established by the Brooks stables, creating a uniform row of thirteen stables.
This would suggest that Brooks had made the plans for his stables available to the other owners and/or that the same builder or architect was commissioned for all thirteen buildings. The result was one of the most extensive stable rows in the city, containing unusually large and handsomely decorated buildings whose owners included a number of New York's wealthiest and most prominent citizens, among them Samuel F.B. Morse who was the original owner of the stable at 144 West 18th Street .
The stable at 136 West 18th Street was constructed for Cornelia Gilman, wife of Samuel Gilman, a merchant with offices in the financial district at 91 Beaver Street. The Gilmans lived at 29 West 20th Street and presumably built the West 18th Street stable for their personal use. In 1870, Cornelia, then a widow, sold the stable to Benjamin H. Hutton and Charles G. Landon.
Hutton and landon were brothers-in-law and partners in a leading drygoods business located at 419-421 Broome Street. Hutton, the senior of the two partners, began his career in the firm of James Benkard, an importer of dress goods. Hutton became a partner in Benkard's firm in 1831 and brought Landon into the business following Benkard's death in 1864. Their firm imported French, German, and English fabrics and was the American representative for some of the most important textile manufacturers in France.
Both partners grew wealthy and Landon's business acumen earned him directorships on the boards of several major financial institutions including the Equitable Life Assurance Company, the Central Trust Company, the Bank of America, and the Greenwich Savings Bank.
In 1865, when Hutton and Landon bought the stable at 136 West 18th Street, Hutton was living on 14th Street near Fifth Avenue — thus, it is likely that the building was first employed for his personal use. In the late 1870s, however, he moved to Orange, New Jersey, where he was involved in the development of a suburban villa community known as Hutton Park. Landon then moved into the 14th Street house and presumably took over the 18th Street stable. In 1880, perhaps motivated by the increasing commercialization of East 14th Street, Landon moved uptown to Fifth Avenue and 38th Street. It seems probable that the stable was put up for rent at that time.
The Design of the 136 West 18th Street Stable
The stable at 136 West 18th Street is characteristic of contemporary carriage house design as adapted to a narrow urban lot. Typically, the stable would have been divided into two major ground-floor spaces — a front room for carriages and a rear room with stalls for horses. The front portion of the second floor would have contained quarters for the coachman or groom, while the rear would have been used as a hayloft. Windows were restricted to the front of the building to spare neighbors the sights and smells associated with horses, but two large skylights provided additional light to the second-floor rooms.
The facade is designed in a round-arched utilitarian style derived from the German Rundbogenstil . The Rundbogenstil evolved in Germany in the 1820s among a group of progressive architects who sought to create a synthesis of classical and medieval architecture by drawing on historic precedents in the round-arched Byzantine, Romanesque, and Renaissance styles.
Transmitted to this country through the immigration of German and Central European architects in the 1840s, as well as through architectural publications, the Rundboaenstil tended to be conflated with other mid-nineteenth century round-arched styles such as the Romanesque and Renaissance Revivals.
Among the major American examples of the round-arched style are Charles Blesch and Leopold Eidlitz's St. George's Church on Stuyvesant Square at 16th Street, Alexander Saeltzer's Astor Library , at 425 Lafayette Street, and Thomas Tefft's Union Depot, Providence, R.I. . The style is reflected in the design of the stable at 136 West 18th Street by the choice of materials , an emphasis on flat wall surfaces, and a clear definition of architectural elements.
The meshing of classical and medieval motifs is apparent in the the composition, which recalls both a Roman triumphal arch and the elevation of a medieval nave arcade, and in the incorporation of such details as the Renaissance-inspired cornice and diamond-pointed keystones and the Romanesque-inspired arcades and rusticated bands.
The facade's chief feature is a large central arch with a pair of inscribed arches and a bull's-eye tympanum. This motif, which was thought by nineteenth-century theorists to have originated in northern Italy during the Romanesque period and was widely used during the Renaissance, became a hallmark of the nineteenth-century round-arched styles, both here and in Germany.
Interestingly, the only other remaining group of mid-nineteenth century carriage houses in Manhattan, located at Sniffen Court, was also designed in the round-arched style and featured a triumphal arch composition with arched windows and doors flanking a central two-story arch. At 18th Street, the stables are larger and more elaborate in design.
In addition to its ties to the round-arched style, the design of the 136 West 18th Street stable is distinguished by its skillful superimpos it ion of recessed and projected planes. The double-height arcade, carried on slender projected piers, is on a forward plane, while the wall membrane with its door and window openings is recessed.
A series of horizontal moldings break forward over the piers to unite the two planes. The moldings at the arches' imposts at the second story form the capitals for two pilaster orders . In addition to their function in this individual design, the repeated use of horizontal elements and the alternation of large and small arches are important elements in creating a strong sense of rhythm .and harmony within the row.
Description
The two-story stable structure at 136 West 18th Street has a frontage of twenty-three feet on West 18th Street, and has been extended from its original depth of eighty-one feet to occupy the entire length of its ninety-two-foot-deep lot. Its painted brick and stone facade is designed in the round-arched style and incorporates Romanesque and Renaissance details.
The facade is organized in a tripartite triumphal arch composition that focuses on a double-width center bay. At the ground story, the bays are articulated by projected piers. Originally, the wide center bay contained a pair of wood carriage doors, the eastern bay an arched entrance, and the western bay an arched window; the arches were ornamented by diamond-pointed keystones and stone bands ran across the facade at the sill, watertable, impost, and cornice lines.
Today, most of the stonework has been cut flush with the brickwork. The eastern bay of the ground story remains relatively intact, although the door and transom are replacements. The center and west bay were joined in 1936 when the vehicle entrance was enlarged. This opening is filled by a wood storefront, installed in the 1980s, which echoes the window treatment employed in the center bay on the second story. Only a few traces remain from the cornice that originally separated the first and second stories.
On the second story the piers carry an arcade in which the center arch is both wider and taller than the flanking arches. The arches are set-off by stone keystones. Stone bands mark the impost line of the arches and stone sills are set beneath the windows. A small pilaster bisects the center bay into a pair of arched windows which are topped by a molded wood surround that features a central bull's-eye. The windows retain their original four-over-four wood sash. The building is crowned by a simple molded brick entablature.
Subsequent History
In the 1870s and 1880s, the neighborhood to the east of the stables on 18th Street, which had once been exclusively residential, became the heart of New York's chief shopping district as the retail trade expanded along Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and 14th and 23rd Streets. Several of the original owners of the stables on 18th Street responded to the change in the character of the neighborhood by moving uptown or to the suburbs. At least two of the stables were sold to neighboring businesses. Other owners
retained their stables as investments, property values on Sixth Avenue having skyrocketed with the opening of such department stores as B. Altman's at 19th Street and Hugh O'Neill's near 20th Street , and the completion of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railway in 1878.
In 1887 the stable at 136 West 18th Street was purchased by Nicholas Sheldon, a Rhode Island resident who owned a soap business, Nicholas Sheldon & Company, located at 154 Chambers Street.
Soon after acquiring the West 18th Street property, Sheldon commissioned Napoleon Le Brun & Son to remodel the interior and raise the sloping roof at the rear of the building by three feet.18 In 1891, Sheldon purchased the adjoining building at 134 West 18th Street.
A few years later he moved his soap business to the two 18th Street buildings. At his death the two properties passed to his daughter Helen Sheldon Potter and in 1917 they were acquired by William Leslie. No. 136 was leased to various businesses including the Atlantic Food Products Company and the Chelsea Botanical Products Company . The building was in use as a garage in 1936 when the original carriage entry was enlarged.
Today, the 136 West 18th Street stable building is a component of one of the two remaining mid-nineteenth century carriage house groups in Manhattan. While the ground story has been partially altered, the second story is generally well preserved and distinguishes the building as a notable example of the round-arched style as applied to a utilitarian building type.
- From the 1990 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Yes...I'm a geek. Brandi just shook her head while I was setting this up. I then started complaining about how the regular Imperial Star Destroyers were uncommon rarity and I kept getting Rare stupid ships instead of the cool Uncommon Star Destroyers "You know that means nothing to me right honey?" Man, it's a good thing she has boobies or else...
Also I think the Imperials are largely outmatched.
conflict
* noun
1. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
o [synonyms: struggle, battle]
2. opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; "he was immobilized by conflict and indecision"
3. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
o [synonyms: battle, fight, engagement]
4. a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties"
5. an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"
6. opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); "this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing"
7. a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
o [synonyms: dispute, difference, difference of opinion]
* verb
1. be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"
2. go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules"
o [synonyms: run afoul, infringe, contravene]
Extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Reads - This is the last will and testament of one Joseph Nadin of Cheadle Mosley in the County of Chester. Gentlemen, I direct all my just debts financial and Testamentary expenses and for charges of the probate of this my will to be paid by my Executors hereafter named from and out of my personal estate. And I give and bequeath gold watch chain and seals with the appendage to my son John and I direct that the same shall be delivered to him immediately after my decease. And I give and bequeath the sum of one hundred pounds a piece to Mary Ann Nadin, Eliza Nadin and Sarah Nadin, the daughters of my son Thomas when and as they shall attain the age of twenty one years or marry which shall first happen and I give and deivse all my Real Estates in Manchester in the County of LAncaster and at Cheadle Mosley aforesaid and all other my Real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever situated unto and to the use of my sons Thomas Nadin and Joseph Nadin.
The Shipley Art Gallery is an art gallery in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, located at the south end of Prince Consort Road. It has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Origins
The Shipley Art Gallery opened to the public in 1917. This was made possible by a bequest from wealthy local solicitor and art collector, Joseph Ainsley Davidson Shipley (1822–1909).
Shipley was a rather enigmatic person about whom little is known. He was born in Gateshead, near High Street. He was a solicitor in the Newcastle firm of Hoyle, Shipley and Hoyle. From 1884 until his death, he leased Saltwell Park House, now known as Saltwell Towers. Shipley's main passion was art and collecting paintings. He bought his first painting when he was sixteen and by the time he died he had amassed a collection of some 2,500 paintings.
On his death, Shipley left £30,000 and all his pictures to the City of Newcastle, which was to build a new gallery to house the collection. This was to be known as "The Shipley Bequest". Current belief within local history circles is that Shipley’s will expressly banned Newcastle’s art gallery as a recipient of the bequest, but this assertion must be dismissed: since the foundation stone of the Laing Art Gallery was laid only in August 1901 and the gallery opened in October 1904, the institution did not yet exist in 1900, when Shipley’s will was compiled. Shipley’s will did, in fact, declare that ‘the Art Gallery to be erected in Higham Place will not be and shall not be regarded as an Art Gallery within this trust’, owing to its being ‘too small’, but he conceded that if it ‘shall be capable of being enlarged so as to render it capable of holding all, then I direct my Trustees to raise the sum of £30,000 out of my residuary estate and pay the same to the treasurer of the gallery to be applied in or toward such enlargement as aforesaid’. It was only following a lengthy process that Gateshead Municipal Council was offered the collection. As it was impossible to house all of the paintings, 359 of the pictures recommended by the executors of Shipley's will were selected. A further group was then added by the Gateshead Committee, bringing the total to 504.
In 1914, after the sale of the remaining paintings, work began on the new art gallery. The building, which was designed by Arthur Stockwell, M.S.A. of Newcastle, opened on 29 November 1917. The stone entrance portico is distyle in antis – four Corinthian-style stone columns flanked by solid pilasters. These are surmounted by two sculptured figures, one representing the Arts and the other Industry and Learning, by W. Birnie Rhind, RSA. of Edinburgh.
Pevsner described the art gallery as a "bold arrangement of a brick central block and lower wings containing galleries". The building was designated as Grade II listed in 1982.
Present gallery
The original 504 paintings represented all the main European schools from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Since 1917, the collection has been added to, and now comprises some 10,000 items.
The gallery holds a strong collection of 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings, as well as 19th century British works, watercolours, prints, drawings and sculpture. Also featured are items of local interest, which include the popular painting by William C. Irving ((1866–1943) of "Blaydon Races" (1903) and a 1970 street scene of Redheugh Crossroads by Gateshead-born Charlie Rogers.
Since 1977 the gallery has become established as a national centre for contemporary craftwork. It has built up one of the best collections outside London, which includes ceramics, wood, metal, glass, textiles and furniture. The Shipley is home to the Henry Rothschild collection of studio ceramics. In 2008, the Shipley opened its Designs for Life gallery which showcases the gallery's collections of contemporary craft and design. The Gallery also hosts a varied programme of temporary exhibitions and has a strong partnership with the V&A Museum in London.
The Shipley Art Gallery is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on behalf of Gateshead Council.
Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The town shares the Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge and multiple other bridges with Newcastle upon Tyne.
Historically part of County Durham, under the Local Government Act 1888 the town was made a county borough, meaning it was administered independently of the county council.
In the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 120,046 while the wider borough had 200,214.
History
Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as ad caput caprae ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them Gatesheued (c. 1190), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'. Although other derivations have been mooted, it is this that is given by the standard authorities.
A Brittonic predecessor, named with the element *gabro-, 'goat' (c.f. Welsh gafr), may underlie the name. Gateshead might have been the Roman-British fort of Gabrosentum.
Early
There has been a settlement on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, around the old river crossing where the Swing Bridge now stands, since Roman times.
The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623. In 1068 William the Conqueror defeated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and Malcolm king of Scotland (Shakespeare's Malcolm) on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell and Sheriff Hill).
During medieval times Gateshead was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham. At this time the area was largely forest with some agricultural land. The forest was the subject of Gateshead's first charter, granted in the 12th century by Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham. An alternative spelling may be "Gatishevede", as seen in a legal record, dated 1430.
Industrial revolution
Throughout the Industrial Revolution the population of Gateshead expanded rapidly; between 1801 and 1901 the increase was over 100,000. This expansion resulted in the spread southwards of the town.
In 1854, a catastrophic explosion on the quayside destroyed most of Gateshead's medieval heritage, and caused widespread damage on the Newcastle side of the river.
Sir Joseph Swan lived at Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead from 1869 to 1883, where his experiments led to the invention of the electric light bulb. The house was the first in the world to be wired for domestic electric light.
In the 1889 one of the largest employers (Hawks, Crawshay and Company) closed down and unemployment has since been a burden. Up to the Second World War there were repeated newspaper reports of the unemployed sending deputations to the council to provide work. The depression years of the 1920s and 1930s created even more joblessness and the Team Valley Trading Estate was built in the mid-1930s to alleviate the situation.
Regeneration
In the late noughties, Gateshead Council started to regenerate the town, with the long-term aim of making Gateshead a city. The most extensive transformation occurred in the Quayside, with almost all the structures there being constructed or refurbished in this time.
In the early 2010s, regeneration refocused on the town centre. The £150 million Trinity Square development opened in May 2013, it incorporates student accommodation, a cinema, health centre and shops. It was nominated for the Carbuncle Cup in September 2014. The cup was however awarded to another development which involved Tesco, Woolwich Central.
Governance
In 1835, Gateshead was established as a municipal borough and in 1889 it was made a county borough, independent from Durham County Council.
In 1870, the Old Town Hall was built, designed by John Johnstone who also designed the previously built Newcastle Town Hall. The ornamental clock in front of the old town hall was presented to Gateshead in 1892 by the mayor, Walter de Lancey Willson, on the occasion of him being elected for a third time. He was also one of the founders of Walter Willson's, a chain of grocers in the North East and Cumbria. The old town hall also served as a magistrate's court and one of Gateshead's police stations.
Current
In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the County Borough of Gateshead was merged with the urban districts of Felling, Whickham, Blaydon and Ryton and part of the rural district of Chester-le-Street to create the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
Geography
The town of Gateshead is in the North East of England in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear, and within the historic boundaries of County Durham. It is located on the southern bank of the River Tyne at a latitude of 54.57° N and a longitude of 1.35° W. Gateshead experiences a temperate climate which is considerably warmer than some other locations at similar latitudes as a result of the warming influence of the Gulf Stream (via the North Atlantic drift). It is located in the rain shadow of the North Pennines and is therefore in one of the driest regions of the United Kingdom.
One of the most distinguishing features of Gateshead is its topography. The land rises 230 feet from Gateshead Quays to the town centre and continues rising to a height of 525 feet at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sheriff Hill. This is in contrast to the flat and low lying Team Valley located on the western edges of town. The high elevations allow for impressive views over the Tyne valley into Newcastle and across Tyneside to Sunderland and the North Sea from lookouts in Windmill Hills and Windy Nook respectively.
The Office for National Statistics defines the town as an urban sub-division. The latest (2011) ONS urban sub-division of Gateshead contains the historical County Borough together with areas that the town has absorbed, including Dunston, Felling, Heworth, Pelaw and Bill Quay.
Given the proximity of Gateshead to Newcastle, just south of the River Tyne from the city centre, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as being a part of Newcastle. Gateshead Council and Newcastle City Council teamed up in 2000 to create a unified marketing brand name, NewcastleGateshead, to better promote the whole of the Tyneside conurbation.
Economy
Gateshead is home to the MetroCentre, the largest shopping mall in the UK until 2008; and the Team Valley Trading Estate, once the largest and still one of the larger purpose-built commercial estates in the UK.
Arts
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art has been established in a converted flour mill. The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, previously The Sage, a Norman Foster-designed venue for music and the performing arts opened on 17 December 2004. Gateshead also hosted the Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990, rejuvenating 200 acres (0.81 km2) of derelict land (now mostly replaced with housing). The Angel of the North, a famous sculpture in nearby Lamesley, is visible from the A1 to the south of Gateshead, as well as from the East Coast Main Line. Other public art include works by Richard Deacon, Colin Rose, Sally Matthews, Andy Goldsworthy, Gordon Young and Michael Winstone.
Traditional and former
The earliest recorded coal mining in the Gateshead area is dated to 1344. As trade on the Tyne prospered there were several attempts by the burghers of Newcastle to annex Gateshead. In 1576 a small group of Newcastle merchants acquired the 'Grand Lease' of the manors of Gateshead and Whickham. In the hundred years from 1574 coal shipments from Newcastle increased elevenfold while the population of Gateshead doubled to approximately 5,500. However, the lease and the abundant coal supplies ended in 1680. The pits were shallow as problems of ventilation and flooding defeated attempts to mine coal from the deeper seams.
'William Cotesworth (1668-1726) was a prominent merchant based in Gateshead, where he was a leader in coal and international trade. Cotesworth began as the son of a yeoman and apprentice to a tallow - candler. He ended as an esquire, having been mayor, Justice of the Peace and sheriff of Northumberland. He collected tallow from all over England and sold it across the globe. He imported dyes from the Indies, as well as flax, wine, and grain. He sold tea, sugar, chocolate, and tobacco. He operated the largest coal mines in the area, and was a leading salt producer. As the government's principal agent in the North country, he was in contact with leading ministers.
William Hawks originally a blacksmith, started business in Gateshead in 1747, working with the iron brought to the Tyne as ballast by the Tyne colliers. Hawks and Co. eventually became one of the biggest iron businesses in the North, producing anchors, chains and so on to meet a growing demand. There was keen contemporary rivalry between 'Hawks' Blacks' and 'Crowley's Crew'. The famous 'Hawks' men' including Ned White, went on to be celebrated in Geordie song and story.
In 1831 a locomotive works was established by the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, later part of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. In 1854 the works moved to the Greenesfield site and became the manufacturing headquarters of North Eastern Railway. In 1909, locomotive construction was moved to Darlington and the rest of the works were closed in 1932.
Robert Stirling Newall took out a patent on the manufacture of wire ropes in 1840 and in partnership with Messrs. Liddell and Gordon, set up his headquarters at Gateshead. A worldwide industry of wire-drawing resulted. The submarine telegraph cable received its definitive form through Newall's initiative, involving the use of gutta-percha surrounded by strong wires. The first successful Dover–Calais cable on 25 September 1851, was made in Newall's works. In 1853, he invented the brake-drum and cone for laying cable in deep seas. Half of the first Atlantic cable was manufactured in Gateshead. Newall was interested in astronomy, and his giant 25-inch (640 mm) telescope was set up in the garden at Ferndene, his Gateshead residence, in 1871.
Architecture
JB Priestley, writing of Gateshead in his 1934 travelogue English Journey, said that "no true civilisation could have produced such a town", adding that it appeared to have been designed "by an enemy of the human race".
Victorian
William Wailes the celebrated stained-glass maker, lived at South Dene from 1853 to 1860. In 1860, he designed Saltwell Towers as a fairy-tale palace for himself. It is an imposing Victorian mansion in its own park with a romantic skyline of turrets and battlements. It was originally furnished sumptuously by Gerrard Robinson. Some of the panelling installed by Robinson was later moved to the Shipley Art gallery. Wailes sold Saltwell Towers to the corporation in 1876 for use as a public park, provided he could use the house for the rest of his life. For many years the structure was essentially an empty shell but following a restoration programme it was reopened to the public in 2004.
Post millennium
The council sponsored the development of a Gateshead Quays cultural quarter. The development includes the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, erected in 2001, which won the prestigious Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2002.
Former brutalism
The brutalist Trinity Centre Car Park, which was designed by Owen Luder, dominated the town centre for many years until its demolition in 2010. A product of attempts to regenerate the area in the 1960s, the car park gained an iconic status due to its appearance in the 1971 film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. An unsuccessful campaign to have the structure listed was backed by Sylvester Stallone, who played the main role in the 2000 remake of the film. The car park was scheduled for demolition in 2009, but this was delayed as a result of a disagreement between Tesco, who re-developed the site, and Gateshead Council. The council had not been given firm assurances that Tesco would build the previously envisioned town centre development which was to include a Tesco mega-store as well as shops, restaurants, cafes, bars, offices and student accommodation. The council effectively used the car park as a bargaining tool to ensure that the company adhered to the original proposals and blocked its demolition until they submitted a suitable planning application. Demolition finally took place in July–August 2010.
The Derwent Tower, another well known example of brutalist architecture, was also designed by Owen Luder and stood in the neighbourhood of Dunston. Like the Trinity Car Park it also failed in its bid to become a listed building and was demolished in 2012. Also located in this area are the Grade II listed Dunston Staithes which were built in 1890. Following the award of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of almost £420,000 restoration of the structure is expected to begin in April 2014.
Sport
Gateshead International Stadium regularly holds international athletics meetings over the summer months, and is home of the Gateshead Harriers athletics club. It is also host to rugby league fixtures, and the home ground of Gateshead Football Club. Gateshead Thunder Rugby League Football Club played at Gateshead International Stadium until its purchase by Newcastle Rugby Limited and the subsequent rebranding as Newcastle Thunder. Both clubs have had their problems: Gateshead A.F.C. were controversially voted out of the Football League in 1960 in favour of Peterborough United, whilst Gateshead Thunder lost their place in Super League as a result of a takeover (officially termed a merger) by Hull F.C. Both Gateshead clubs continue to ply their trade at lower levels in their respective sports, thanks mainly to the efforts of their supporters. The Gateshead Senators American Football team also use the International Stadium, as well as this it was used in the 2006 Northern Conference champions in the British American Football League.
Gateshead Leisure Centre is home to the Gateshead Phoenix Basketball Team. The team currently plays in EBL League Division 4. Home games are usually on a Sunday afternoon during the season, which runs from September to March. The team was formed in 2013 and ended their initial season well placed to progress after defeating local rivals Newcastle Eagles II and promotion chasing Kingston Panthers.
In Low Fell there is a cricket club and a rugby club adjacent to each other on Eastwood Gardens. These are Gateshead Fell Cricket Club and Gateshead Rugby Club. Gateshead Rugby Club was formed in 1998 following the merger of Gateshead Fell Rugby Club and North Durham Rugby Club.
Transport
Gateshead is served by the following rail transport stations with some being operated by National Rail and some being Tyne & Wear Metro stations: Dunston, Felling, Gateshead Interchange, Gateshead Stadium, Heworth Interchange, MetroCentre and Pelaw.
Tyne & Wear Metro stations at Gateshead Interchange and Gateshead Stadium provide direct light-rail access to Newcastle Central, Newcastle Airport , Sunderland, Tynemouth and South Shields Interchange.
National Rail services are provided by Northern at Dunston and MetroCentre stations. The East Coast Main Line, which runs from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, cuts directly through the town on its way between Newcastle Central and Chester-le-Street stations. There are presently no stations on this line within Gateshead, as Low Fell, Bensham and Gateshead West stations were closed in 1952, 1954 and 1965 respectively.
Road
Several major road links pass through Gateshead, including the A1 which links London to Edinburgh and the A184 which connects the town to Sunderland.
Gateshead Interchange is the busiest bus station in Tyne & Wear and was used by 3.9 million bus passengers in 2008.
Cycle routes
Various bicycle trails traverse the town; most notably is the recreational Keelmans Way (National Cycle Route 14), which is located on the south bank of the Tyne and takes riders along the entire Gateshead foreshore. Other prominent routes include the East Gateshead Cycleway, which connects to Felling, the West Gateshead Cycleway, which links the town centre to Dunston and the MetroCentre, and routes along both the old and new Durham roads, which take cyclists to Birtley, Wrekenton and the Angel of the North.
Religion
Christianity has been present in the town since at least the 7th century, when Bede mentioned a monastery in Gateshead. A church in the town was burned down in 1080 with the Bishop of Durham inside.[citation needed] St Mary's Church was built near to the site of that building, and was the only church in the town until the 1820s. Undoubtedly the oldest building on the Quayside, St Mary's has now re-opened to the public as the town's first heritage centre.
Many of the Anglican churches in the town date from the 19th century, when the population of the town grew dramatically and expanded into new areas. The town presently has a number of notable and large churches of many denominations.
Judaism
The Bensham district is home to a community of hundreds of Jewish families and used to be known as "Little Jerusalem". Within the community is the Gateshead Yeshiva, founded in 1929, and other Jewish educational institutions with international enrolments. These include two seminaries: Beis Medrash L'Morot and Beis Chaya Rochel seminary, colloquially known together as Gateshead "old" and "new" seminaries.
Many yeshivot and kollels also are active. Yeshivat Beer Hatorah, Sunderland Yeshiva, Nesivos Hatorah, Nezer Hatorah and Yeshiva Ketana make up some of the list.
Islam
Islam is practised by a large community of people in Gateshead and there are 2 mosques located in the Bensham area (in Ely Street and Villa Place).
Twinning
Gateshead is twinned with the town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in France, and the city of Komatsu in Japan.
Notable people
Eliezer Adler – founder of Jewish Community
Marcus Bentley – narrator of Big Brother
Catherine Booth – wife of William Booth, known as the Mother of The Salvation Army
William Booth – founder of the Salvation Army
Mary Bowes – the Unhappy Countess, author and celebrity
Ian Branfoot – footballer and manager (Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton)
Andy Carroll – footballer (Newcastle United, Liverpool and West Ham United)
Frank Clark – footballer and manager (Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest)
David Clelland – Labour politician and MP
Derek Conway – former Conservative politician and MP
Joseph Cowen – Radical politician
Steve Cram – athlete (middle-distance runner)
Emily Davies – educational reformer and feminist, founder of Girton College, Cambridge
Daniel Defoe – writer and government agent
Ruth Dodds – politician, writer and co-founder of the Little Theatre
Jonathan Edwards – athlete (triple jumper) and television presenter
Sammy Johnson – actor (Spender)
George Elliot – industrialist and MP
Paul Gascoigne – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers and Middlesbrough)
Alex Glasgow – singer/songwriter
Avrohom Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva
Leib Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva
Jill Halfpenny – actress (Coronation Street and EastEnders)
Chelsea Halfpenny – actress (Emmerdale)
David Hodgson – footballer and manager (Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Sunderland)
Sharon Hodgson – Labour politician and MP
Norman Hunter – footballer (Leeds United and member of 1966 World Cup-winning England squad)
Don Hutchison – footballer (Liverpool, West Ham United, Everton and Sunderland)
Brian Johnson – AC/DC frontman
Tommy Johnson – footballer (Aston Villa and Celtic)
Riley Jones - actor
Howard Kendall – footballer and manager (Preston North End and Everton)
J. Thomas Looney – Shakespeare scholar
Gary Madine – footballer (Sheffield Wednesday)
Justin McDonald – actor (Distant Shores)
Lawrie McMenemy – football manager (Southampton and Northern Ireland) and pundit
Thomas Mein – professional cyclist (Canyon DHB p/b Soreen)
Robert Stirling Newall – industrialist
Bezalel Rakow – communal rabbi
John William Rayner – flying ace and war hero
James Renforth – oarsman
Mariam Rezaei – musician and artist
Sir Tom Shakespeare - baronet, sociologist and disability rights campaigner
William Shield – Master of the King's Musick
Christina Stead – Australian novelist
John Steel – drummer (The Animals)
Henry Spencer Stephenson – chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
Steve Stone – footballer (Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Portsmouth)
Chris Swailes – footballer (Ipswich Town)
Sir Joseph Swan – inventor of the incandescent light bulb
Nicholas Trainor – cricketer (Gloucestershire)
Chris Waddle – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday)
William Wailes – stained glass maker
Taylor Wane – adult entertainer
Robert Spence Watson – public benefactor
Sylvia Waugh – author of The Mennyms series for children
Chris Wilkie – guitarist (Dubstar)
John Wilson - orchestral conductor
Peter Wilson – footballer (Gateshead, captain of Australia)
Thomas Wilson – poet/school founder
Robert Wood – Australian politician
A close up as Needa goes down.
The configuration of holes don't match mine entirely but are consistent with the detention block corridor www.flickr.com/photos/89573038@N04/8151745624/in/set-7215...
Darth Vader has just transported onto the Executor along with a female crew member returning from shore leave, and has experienced a minor body swap calamity. In a hurry to report to the Emperor, the dark lord of the Sith has not noticed the mix-up.
[I know Star Wars didn't have transporters, but sometimes you have to mash up your genres.]
"Near hee lieth ye body of Thomas Anguish late citizen & alderman of Norwich & sometimes mayor of this city who deceased the 26th January AD 1617 aged 79, who had to wife Elizabeth daughter of Edmund Thurston and had issue by her 9 sonnes and 3 daughters, where of at his death their were living 5 sonnes only"
"William Anguish, gent, dyed the 6th day of July 1668 to whose memorie John Anguish esq, his nephew and executor dedicated this inscription"
Now crammed behind the organ, monument to Thomas Anguish (1536 - 1617) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0BX434 in the robes of an alderman, who kneels with his wife & family. Placed here at his request above his "seat where he usually sat" and is by Nicholas Stone costing £20 double the amount he had left in his will for this purpose.
Thomas was the youngest of 3 sons of Thomas Anguish of Foulsham by Anne Thimblethorp
He m Elizabeth c 1619 daughter of grocer Edmund Thurston ++ to whom Thomas was apprenticed . Their house and shop was in Tombland (on the corner of Tombland and Wensum Street, now part of the Maid’s Head Hotel)
He took over his father in law's grocery business and prospered, becoming a freeman of Norwich in 1573. and took an active role in city life, serving as Sheriff, Mayor and Speaker of the Council. He was elected mayor in 1611, and as was usual there was a pageant and firework display. Sadly the cord suspended with fireworks collapsed causing the deaths of 33 bystanders. The occasion was described by a local catholic commentator as "a scourge to that wicked citie and puritan mayor .. being Anguish did portend anguish and sorrow to the people" Thereafter fireworks were banned from Guildhall feasts
Children 9 sons & 3 daughters (5 sons survived their father)
1. John 1569-1571
2. Alexander 1577-1579
3. John 1578-1643, alderman m Mary Aldrich d1640 grand daughter of alderman John Aldrich father in law of Edmund Thurston ++)
4. Edmund 1574-1657 of Great Melton m1 Dorothy Marsham
d1604 in childbirth with her baby m2 Alice d1642 daughter of John Drake of Herringfleet (their grand daughter Anne Wodehouse is at Kimberley flic.kr/p/CdKoLk whose son inherited Great Melton)
5. Alexander 1579-1581
6. Richard 1581- 1616 Fellow of protestant college Corpus Christi
7. Alexander 1582-1654 alderman of St Peter Mancroft m Catherine Barrett
8.. Cicely 1583-1584
9. Hester 1585-1617 m Richard son of John Mann
10, Margaret 1587-1588
11. Thomas 1590-1622 m Anne daughter of Francis Smallpiece & Anne daughter of John Aldrich, who m2 John Dethick
12. William 1593-1668
A patron of the cathedral who with his son Edmund, bequeathed a new organ for the choir and had a standing order for repairs from 1607 to 1609
Thomas also bequeathed a property in Fishergate to the Corporation to be used as a hostel "for the keeping and bringing up and teaching of very poor children" which was opened in 1621 - Boys were first to be admitted, with girls following some years later. It still survives www.anguishseducationalfoundation.org.uk/about-us/ There was also a foundling hospital begun in 1618 where annual sermon was to be preached on its founders day.
Thomas was certainly a Calvinist if not a puritan - The fireworks episode must have preyed on his mind as his will states he died in the assurance that Christ "hath of his own free will and greate mean fully paide and satisfied the wrath of God the Father due unto me for my synne. And that through his blessed merit, death and passion I shall have and enjoy the fruition and benefit of everlasting life to joyn with Him in eternall joy and happiness among the elect children of God for ever"
- Church of St George Tombland Norwich , Norfolk
VIL 6267 (ex P666 TCC)
Dennis Javelin/Plaxton Premiere 320 C51F
Cooper's Coaches, Rothwell
Rothwell, 25 August 2005
New to Brelaton (Travellers), Hounslow
Today's Hamiltons Coaches business, now based in Desborough, owes its origins to what were originally two separate operators in Rothwell: Cooper's and Buckby's. The former took over the latter in 1975 but retained both trading names, and following Howard Cooper's death in 2005 his executors sold the entire operation to Hamiltons, who discontinued the Cooper's name but have retained Buckby's alongside their own.
Plan of Hamilton Park Estate. William Brooks & Co., Litho., Sydney. 1913. Linen backing 48 x 37 cm. 120 Freehold allotment and 6 cottages for sale by Auction, on the ground, Saturday, May 3rd, 1913, at 2 p.m. by Lang, Wood & Co. By order of the Executors of the late Samuel Field deceased. M2000/58.
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This cabinet card was purchased sometime in October, 2016, from an antique shop in Montpelier, Vermont. I was reluctant to buy it because the common surnames were likely to make research difficult. Eventually, I decided there was enough anecdotal information to make the purchase worthwhile. The writing on the reverse claims her to be Flora E. Cook, and that she was the sister of Matilda Wood Hansen.
There were two listings of Flora E. Cook in the census records; 1870 and 1880. Both were in Montpelier, Vermont, which matched the photographer's studio location. In 1870, she was listed as one of two domestics in the household of a physician, Sumner Putnam, with his wife and two children. In 1880, she was listed a servant in the same family. Her marital status was widowed. The family had also acquired a boarder, a medical student, Arthur Bisbee. There was no listing for her in the 1900 census, nor 1860. It appears she was single in 1860, and by 1900, deceased.
I turned to the newspapers and found this mention in the Montpelier Vermont Watchman & State Journal, November 20, 1895.
North Montpelier
"A fine monument was erected on the lot of Flora E. Cook in our cemetery on Thursday of last week by Weston & Smith of Montpelier. It is made of the "mourning vein" marble, is seven feet high and is in every respect a fine piece of work."
Digging further, I found her obituary in the Vermont Watchman, August 22, 1894.
"Mrs. Flora Cook died Wednesday at the home of Dr. A. B. Bisbee, aged fifty-five years. She was the widow of a soldier who was never heard of after the battle of Cedar Creek. For the past thirty-eight years, both before and since her marriage, she has been a domestic in the family of Dr. Sumner Putnam, coming from Greensboro to Montpelier with them. Her funeral was attended by Rev. J. Edward Wright last Friday, and the burial was at North Montpelier."
Sifting through the soldiers named Cook in Peck's Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion (67 of them), I found Denison Cook of Greensboro, Vermont, Company I, 6th Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, mustered in on August 23, 1864. Missing in action October 19, 1864, supposed dead. Among the engagements listed for this regiment was the battle at Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864. His "mourning vein" marble headstone displays the same death year. Here's a better image of the gravestone.
The November 11, 1864 edition of The Caledonian listed the Vermont casualties at Cedar Creek. Denison Cook was on the list as missing.
I sought and found a marriage record at FamilySearch.org. Denison Cook and Flora E. Wood were married in Glover, Vermont, on March 9, 1865 --almost five months after the battle of Cedar Creek! One possibility is that the marriage date is wrong. The image I found is a state record of the data found at the local town hall and may have been transcribed wrong. Another possibility is that it may have been a proxy wedding. The local document may provide more information.
In 1867, Denison Cook's will was read and settled at the probate court in Irasburgh, Vermont; Sumner Putnam, executor.
Further research to be done.