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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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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
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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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Creating a landscape and garden worthy of and suitable to Virginia House challenged landscape architect Charles Gillette's ability to marry history, art, and gardening. Gillette's success would be both professional and personal. His synthesis of Italian and English gardening styles at Virginia House resulted in a garden uniquely American. His passion to please his clients resulted in a lifelong friendship with the Weddells. Gillette, who intermittently vacationed with the Weddells was the executor of their estate upon their deaths in 1948.
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
The Hall was built for Clement Winstanley on a rise with views overlooking Charnwood Forest and set in one hundred acres of parkland in 1776 although the first records of Braunstone are in the Doomsday Book of 1086. It is referred to as Brantestone or Brant’s Tun. The Winstanleys’ came to Braunstone in the mid 17th century. James Winstanley purchased the estate from the executors of the Hastings family after the death of Henry Hastings’ in 1649, for the sum of £6,000.
In the politically charged years after the 1st World War while Richard Winstanley, his wife Kitty and six children were still in residence the Leicester Corporation compulsory purchased his land in Braunstone for housing "fit for heroes" in 1925. These days it seems an incredible that a council would do such a thing but, I suppose, at least there was no revolution in England & he did get £116,500 for it.
The buildings then became a school & except for the stationing of military, including the American 82nd Airborne Division, during WWII it remained so until 1996.
The Hall today is boarded up and looking more & more delapidated. Another example of the philistine approach of Leicester Council to the city's heritage.
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]
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.
Church of St Andrew Thursford Norfolk (Tureforde . Tiresfort in 1086 Domesday book) restored by W Lightly in c1862-65 & partly rebuilt 1870s by a Mr Walker, for Sir Charles Chad & family of Thursford Hall . Only the c1200 north doorway, early 14c tower and 15c south aisle survive
A north aisle was added and chancel rebuilt 1873-74
The raised south transept has the Chad private pews overlooking the chancel altar, underneath is their mausoleum. (The Chad family bought the manor from the executors of William Guybon in the 18c whose family monuments are also here)
Draft Will of Margaret Charles, Widow, 8th August 1885, revised 21st September1887 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).
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
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...
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
The King Memorial Fountain, also known as the Rufus H. King Fountain or the Moses Fountain, was installed at the southernwestern end of Washington Park in 1893. The fountain was erected in memory of Rufus H. King, former president of the Albany Savings Bank, the New York State National Bank, and the Albany Insurance Company, through the will of his son, Col. Henry L. King who left the sum of $10,000 for that purpose when he died in 1878. By the time the fountain was commissioned, the sum had gown to $30,000. The executors of the King's will named Daniel Chester French, Ephraim Keyser, Charles H. Niehaus, and J. Massey Rhind to create models on the theme of Moses Smiting the Rock. The models were placed on display for public approval before the fountain committee settled on Rhind's model.
The fountain features a bronze figure of Moses standing atop a file of rocks, his arms raised and a stick held in his proper right hand. Below him four allegorical bronze figures are installed amid the rocks. On his front proper right side, Youth is a young female figure holding a water jug. On his front proper left side, Manhood is a bearded young man with a sword. On his back proper left side, Old Age is a bearded elderly man with a staff. On his back proper right side, Childhood is a seated mother feeding her little girl who reclines in her lap while her little boy stands by her proper right side.
Washington Park, bound by Willett Street, Madison Avenue, State Street and Lake Avenue, was first opened to the public in 1871. The park was laid out by the engineering firm of Bogart, Culyer & Co., with R.H. Bingham, city surveyor, as chief engineer and superintendent. In 1873, Bingham was succeeded by his former assistant, William S. Egerton, who completed the design.
Washington Park Historic District #72000818 (1972)
Margaret 1489 heiress daughter of Agnes 1465 & John Stock / Stokke / Stokes of Warmington stands next to her husband William Browne 1489 on the south chapel floor in their original place where he asked in his will of 17th February 1489 to be buried .
Wealthy wool merchant of the staple, Mayor, Justice of the Peace, Alderman, Sheriff, Benefactor. Acquired during his lifetime around 200 properties and 10,000 acres of land including the Manor of Lilford He and his brother John 1475 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B6W946 restored, embellished and enlarged the 13c church of All Saints c1475 after major damage by lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses..
Browne's hospital www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/N8Uh6c , an almshouse in Broad Street adjacent to where he lived and which is still in use today was founded in November 1493 on his instructions after his death by his widow Margaret, Thomas Stokke, clerk, her brother and other executors which was dedicated to pray their souls and also for the Queen, Sir Reynold Bray and wife Katherine, Thomas Stokke and William Elmes,
William who died on 14th April 1489 stands on 2 woolsacks, over his head is his motto "X me spede" (Christ speed me) and at his feet the family crest of a stork on a woolsack. Over Margaret are the words "Dere Lady help at need"
A long inscription translates -
"Since Thou alone art King of kings, Lord of lords
All that is and will be shall be subjected to Thy will
My body entered the earth, but my spirit to Thee
hastens to run. Thou God, accept me,
Who put my hope in Thee, Son of God, gentle Father
and Holy Ghost thundering from on high - accept and receive me, I have sinned, I have done much evil, and rue this
Thou God accept and receive me who is calling out to Thee !
Enter not, Lord, in judgement, unless beforehand
Thou deignest to give me of Thy redeeming grace, which is enough and since for the sake of the salvation of our souls
Thou, King, wast on earth, receive me, my God! "
William was the son of John Browne 1442, wool merchant, and wife Margery / Margaret 1460 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z1Zb1N
He m Margaret 1489 heiress daughter of Agnes 1465 & John Stock / Stokke / Stokes of Warmington
Children
1. Elizabeth c1441-1511 m John Elmes 1497 of Henley-on-Thames, merchant of the Staple of Calais (parents of Margaret Elmes 1571 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30591z )
2. Agnes died young
Elizabeth inherited the majority of his wealth and land, estimated to be around 6,000 acres in total and 50 houses (at today’s value worth around £50 million), the balance of land having been endowed to the Alms houses / Hospital. One of the manors inherited by Elizabeth was the Manor of Lilford, which the Elmes family owned until 1711. The wealth of William Browne was thus the basis on which Lilford Hall was built by his grandson and executor William Elmes in 1495, and indeed its' extension in 1635.
www.pegasus-onlinezeitschrift.de/2010_1/erga_1_2010_lamp-...
www.lilfordhall.com/ElmesFamily/William-Browne.asp - Church of All Saints, Stamford Lincolnshire
The memorial sculputral medallion of Robert Charles Billings, inset in the granite wall of the interior courtyard of the Boston Public Library McKim Building was executed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and dedicated on July 9, 1903. The bronze sculpture set in marble was purchased for $8,902 as a gift by the executors of the Billings estate. Robert Charles Billings was a benefactor of the Library.
The courtyard is surrounded by an arcaded gallery in the manner of a Renaissance cloister. The promenade is almost an exact facsimile of the arcade of the Cancelleria Palace in Rome. The bronze cast fountain in the center, Bacchante and Infant Faun, modeled in Paris in 1893-94 by Fredereick William MacMonnies, was initially offered as a gift by Charles Follen McKim in 1896 but the Woman's Christian Temperance Union caused such a public outcry citing its "drunken indecency" that the gift had to be refused by the library. McKim, in turn, gave the statue to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A copy has since taken its place in its intended original location in the courtyard of the Boston Public Library.
The Boston Public Library McKim Building, located on Boylston Street between Dartmouth and Exeter Streets, was built in 1895 by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White. Consisting of a three-story, monumental free-standing block in the style of an Italian Renaissance palace surrounding an open courtyard, McKim's design was one of the earliest successful examples of Renaissance Beaux-Arts Classicism in America, and set the precedent for grand scale urban libraries. In 1972, the Philip Johnson-designed late modernist wing was added to the Central Library location. The Boston Public Library system, established in 1848, was the country's first publicly supported municipal library, its first large library open to the public and its first to allow citizens to borrow books. There are currently twenty-six branches in the system.
In 2007, Boston Public Library was ranked #90 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Boston Public Library National Register #73000317 (1973)
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.]
"Here under thys tombe lieth buryed John Garneys, esquyer & Elizabeth hys wyf whych John decessed the 11 day of June in the yer of our Lord God 1524 on whose soules Jesu have mercy"
Brass images of John Garneys c1444-1524 & wife Elizabeth Sulyard 1539 who wear wearing heraldic tabard and mantle and kneel before an image of Christ crucified.
John willed that "my body to be buried in my chapell on the south syde of Kenton church, late by me edified , and ther to be layd upon me a merble stone with suche other coste as myn executors shall thynke mete"
John was the son of Thomas Garneys and Margaret daughter of Sir Hugh Fraunceys / Francis of Giffards Hall, Wickhambrook by Phillippe Hemmys (His mother Margaret m2 Thomas Peyton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/10746504854/ of Isleham )
He became Lord of the Manor here on the death of his mother in 1492 being now heir to his grandfather Piers Garneys who had married the Kenton heiress Anne daughter of Ralph Ramsey.
He m Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Sulyard 1487/ 8 of Wetherden, Chief Justice of England, by Agnes Hungate of York
Children
1. John his heir dsp 1526
2. Alice m Thomas Wiseman
3. Robert 1483-1556 m Anne daughter of Thomas Bacon of Baconsthorpe (parents of Margaret 2nd wife of Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford who lies on a monument at Stowe by Chartley, SEE ATTACHED 1 )
4. Mirabell b1487 m Edmund Poley (their grand daughter Margaret Palmer is at Wingham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/1291829847/ )
5. .William dsp1525
6. Thomas 1565 m Margaret daughter of Sir Edmund Bedingfield of Oxburgh m2 Brice Rookwood of Euston.
7. Anne m Edward Grimston.
8. Elizabeth m Anthony Yaxley.1558 son of John Yaxley & Elizabeth Brome of Millis www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/25v939
9. daughter m William Thwaytes
10 Margaret m John Cotton.
11, Jane m .......... Jenney.
12 Agnes who was a Nun.
Their great grandson Nicholas Garneys has a similar brass at Ringsfield www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6025176110/
Elizabeth wears the Sulyard arms on her cloak and has the Sulyard arms on the shield above her
John has the Garneys arms above him.
Elizabeth'a nephew John Sulyard is at Wetherden
www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/4523810861/ as is the tomb of her father.
She was also heir to her cousin William Sulyard buried at Bradley Suffolk
(picture - T M Felgate - Knights on Suffolk Brasses.)
"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
The death tax was paid this property was saved of course.
SURROGATE'S COURT,
County Of New York.
In the Matter
of
the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Harry B. Hollins,John L. Cadwalader and Frederick Ogden Beach, as Executors of the Last Will and Testament of CONSUELO, DOWAGER
Duchess Of Manchester, deceased.
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Extract from Account of Proceedings,
Verified 20th May, 1912.
SCHEDULE II.
Statement of other fuets affecting the administration of the Estate.
The testatrix up to the time of her marriage, had been an American citizen, residing in New York, but by reason of her marriage became a British subject and a resident of London, England. At the time of her death the larger part ofher estate was located in New York and elsewhere in the United States, and with reference to that property she provided for a separate administration by the executors now accounting herein and by them in their
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capacities are trustees. The remaining property is under administration by the general executors and trustees under a grant of probate in England.
Death duties or taxes on all the property of the estate, including that in America, have been levied in England, the place of domicile of the testatrix, but these taxes have not been entirely collected owing to the fact that the payment would occasion a deficiency of assets under the control of the executors in England unless recourse were had to jewelry, personal belongings located in England, and the family residence in London. The duties so imposed are of three-fold character, denominated respectively Estate, Legacy and Settlement Estate Duties, and with regard to the property under the control and administration by the executors accounting herein the amount levied aggregated the sum of £71,700. All these duties are levied on rights ofsuccession enjoyed by the legatees under the will by the law of England. Nevertheless, the bulk of the estate of the testatrix is under the control of the executors appointed by this court, and is to remain under administration by them on distribution to them as trustees. The general executors who were appointed in England have ascertained that after using all available personal securities and cash under their control in paying the duties charged on both classes of property—viz., on the American estate and general estate—there will be a deficit of £20,000 or thereabouts, unless recourse be had to personal belongings, jewelry, pictures and heirlooms of the testatrix, which in large part were specifically bequeathed, the family residence in London, which is a leasehold and which is located at Number 5 (irosvenor Square, and the contents of said residence.
In a suit brought in the High Court of Justice
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in England, Chancery Division, by the general executors against the Duke andDuchess of Manchester and their children and other persons interested in the estate, to determine a number of questions affecting the administration of the estate, and among them the question whether the general executors were liable to pay death duties in England on the American assets, a judgment was rendered to the effect that the death duties in England hereinabove referred to were properly payable by the general executors upon the entire estate, including the American assets. Such further proceedings Mere taken under that judgment that an order was made therein, dated February 20, 1912, charging such death duties upon the estate, and intimating that any sums of money sent by the American executors to England might be impounded for the payment ofsuch death duties as were charged by reason of succession under the will to the American assets, whatever the purpose of such payments or to whomever made.
The executors of the estate in England have urged that the American executors should remit to 21 them sufficient amounts of capital to supply such deficit and thereby avoid the necessity of a sale of the personal heirlooms and belongings, and the family residence in London, as there are ample assets under the control of the American executors.
An order was therefore made on the 28th day of March, 1912, in the said suit hereinbefore referred to by which it was directed that unless the American executors should remit to the general executors the sum of £20,000 within a certain time specified, the executors in England should proceed to a sale of the leasehold No. 5 Orosvenor Square. It has been urged that such payment would subserve the orderly administration of the estate and the in22 Extracts fromAmerican Executors' Accounts
terests of the family, and, besides, remove a reason for adverse action and litigation in impounding the income which the American executors remit to the family of the testatrix and annuitants in England.
The accounting executors have been of the opinion, should the court so order, that in the decree to be entered settling these accounts there should be some provision authorizing and directing the ac„„ counting executors to remit to Viscount Duncannon and Thomas Rawle, as general executors of the will ofthe testatrix, the sum of £20,000, or thereabouts, with which to pay such deficit of
£20,000.
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Extracts from Supplemental Account of
Proceedings Verified July 15, 1912.
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June 7, 1912—Voucher No. 1.
Remitted Vise o u n t Duncannon and
Thomas Rawle Trustees, by draft on
London, £20,000 at 4.8720 exchange.. $97,440.00
(Reing amount advanced to meet de-
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HARRY II. HOLLINS,
JOHN L. CADWALADER,
FREDERICK OGDEN REACH,
Executors.
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SCHEDULE H.
Statement of other facts affecting the administration of the Estate.
Since the prior accounting it was found that the premises No. 5 Grosvenor Square, London, were likely to be sold, unless the money was advanced by the American executors to meet the English Death Duties, as set forth in Schedule H of such prior accounting. The American executors, there- 26 fore, made the said payment of £20,000 which is shown in Schedule C 1 of this account, and thereupon an order was duly entered in the suit referred to in such prior account staying the sale of the said residence property.
Residents of Grosvenor Square in 19th and 20th Centuries
Previous page: Residents of Grosvenor Square in 1795
In 1875, Mrs. Arabin lived at No. 36, and Lord Sandon, eldest son of Lord Harrowby, at No. 40.
In the 1900s, Howard Vincent was at No. 1, the Duke of Portland at No. 3, Earl Fitzwilliam at No. 4, the Dowager Duchess of Manchester at No. 5, Lord Farquhar at No. 7, Sir Arthur Hayter at No. 9, Col. Ralph Vivian at No. 15, the Italian Embassy at No. 20, Lord Strathcona at No. 28, the Marquis of Bath at No. 29, Lord Calthorpe at No. 38, Lord Durham at No. 39, Sir Charles Tennant, at No. 40, and Sir Ernest Cassell at No. 41.
Of those named, several were at various times elected Trustees for the Square: in 1884 Sir Charles Tennant acted as such; in 1894, Lord Calthorpe; in 1896, the Duke of Portland; in 1900, the Duke of Somerset and Lord Farquhar; in 1902, Lords Durham and Bath; and in 1904, Lord Fitzwilliam, in addition to various other noblemen and gentlemen. In 1907 the garden committee consisted of Sir Howard Vincent, Lord Newlands, and Col. Ralph Vivian.
Grosvenor Square - Introduction
1 - Outlook of Grosvenor Square
2 - Development of Grosvenor Square
3 - Earliest House on Grosvenor Square
4 - Duchess of Kendal (Ermengard de Schulemberg)
5 - Lord Chesterfield
6 - Crime in The Square
7 - Ecclesiastical Residents
8 - Statesmen - Lord Chancellor Hardwicke
9 - Statesmen - Lord Rockingham
10 - Statesmen - Lord North
11 - 35 Grosvenor Square - John Wilkes
12 - Henry Thrale
13 - 8 Grosvenor Square
14 - Gilly Williams' Correspondence
15 - Peter Delmé (Peter the Czar)
16 - 22 Grosvenor Square - William Beckford
17 - 23 Grosvenor Square
18 - 29 Grosvenor Square - Sir George Beaumont
19 - Commission from Sir George to Haydon
20 - Lord Stratford de Redcliffe (Sir Stratford Canning)
21 - 10 Grosvenor Square
22 - Lord Granville (Formerly Lord Leveson)
23 - 9 Grosvenor Square
24 - 6 Grosvenor Square - Joseph Neeld
25 - Lord Alvanley's Visit
26 - 24 Grosvenor Square
27 - 35 Grosvenor Square - Edward Bouverie Pusey
28 - 12 Grosvenor Square - Lord Lytton
29 - Thomas Raikes
30 - 44 Grosvenor Square
31 - The Cato Street Conspiracy
32 - Capture of the Cato Street Conspirators
33 - News Of The Battle Of Waterloo
34 - Grosvenor Square Central Garden
35 - Link Boys
36 - Changing Environment of Grosvenor Square
37 - The Bentley Boys
38 - Other Notable Residents of Grosvenor Square
39 - Residents of Grosvenor Square in 1751
40 - Residents of Grosvenor Square in 1795
41 - Residents of Grosvenor Square in 19th and
On this day in 1960, firefighters fought to stop a fire that spread through Marton Hall. It is said that the nearby lake, in Stewart Park, was pumped dry to dowse the flames but the efforts of the firefighters were not enough to save the grand building. Sixty years on, we look at the history of Marton Hall and ask what remains of it now?
Marton Hall was built in 1853 as a stately home for the industrialist, Henry Bolckow. As the first mayor of Middlesbrough and a member of parliarment, Bolckow needed a home to match his status. The hall was very grand with ornate fireplaces and many statues decorating the dome roof of the tower. During the visit of Prince Arthur of Connaught (son of Queen Victoria) in August 1868, Bolckow held a ball in honour of his royal guest.
Bolckow died in 1878 with no sons to inherit the property. It was left to his nephew, Carl H. Bolckow with the provision it should stay in the family for 4 generations. This was not to be with family members choosing to live elsewhere. For many years the hall remained unoccupied until during the First World War when 19 soldiers were billeted there. In 1928 the building housed an exhibition to celebrate the Captain Cook Bicentenary. The exhibition was organised by the Curator of the Dorman Museum, Dr Frank Elgee.
After the Second World War, the building fell into a state of disrepair. The executors of Carl H. Bolckows estate attempted to sell the building on several occasions but no buyers were interested. A deal was eventually stuck with Middlesbrough Council to buy the surrounding land (now Stewart Park) and the hall itself. In January 1959, the Borough engineer, J A Kenyon, stated in a report that Marton Hall “was of no wider historic or architectural value” and that renovations would cost in the region of £25,000. The council decided to demolish the building and began the work of dismantling it in May 1960.
On 4th June 1960, a fire broke out and ravaged the building. The authorities put the cause down to a discarded cigarette but many rumours have spread regarding other theories including a deathbed confession. Nevertheless the demolition of the building continued – made easier by the fire. All that remains of Marton Hall today is a stone loggia next to the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum and archive photos of the building in our collections and on the My Town, My Future website.
Stewart Park is a 120-acre public park in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, in the suburb and former village of Marton, England.
It holds a Green Flag Award from the Civic Trust. The Middlesbrough campus of Askham Bryan College and the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum are within its grounds.
The park was the estate of Henry Bolckow one of Middlesbrough's ironmasters and the borough's first mayor. Bolckow landscaped the estate and in 1858 built Marton Hall in the estate. To indicate the site of the cottage where Captain James Cook was born he had erected a pink granite vase still present today.
The estate was eventually bought by Councillor Thomas Dormand Stewart, in 1924, for the people of Middlesbrough. Stewart intended it to be "a public possession, open and accessible to all the people, at all times".[citation needed] Stewart's Park was officially opened to the public on 23 May 1928.
After the Second World War, Marton Hall stood empty for many years in a state of disrepair. In January 1959, the Borough engineer, A Kenyon, stated in a report, "The Hall....was of no wide historic or architectural value" and that renovations would cost in the region of £25,000. The council decided to demolish the building.
Work to demolish the Hall started in May 1960, but on 6 June a fire broke out and tore through the building. The ten fire appliances sent to tackle fire were hampered by the lack of water supply in the area, and the building was destroyed. The hall's conservatory continued to be open to the public for a number of years, but was eventually demolished in the mid-1990s. A stone loggia next to the museum is all that is left of the hall. The remaining Victorian estate buildings were later utilised as park depot buildings and council offices.
The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum (opened October 1978) is also within the park, which was built over the eastern part of Marton. In September 1998, an archaeological survey showed evidence of this part of Marton. In 2003, the eastern part of Marton village (misleadingly called "East Marton" as if it was a separate village) was the subject of Channel 4's archaeological television programme Time Team, presented by Tony Robinson.
The park covers about 120 acres (0.5 km2) and consists mainly of mature woodland and arboretum on the south side, with open parkland on the northern side. There are two lakes, which are the home to Canada and greylag geese, moorhens, coots and various types of duck. A pets' corner houses several types of domesticated animals: fallow deer, highland cattle, llamas, goats, peacocks, pheasants, rabbits and guinea pigs.
Part of the Victorian estate complex is open to the public and includes a cafe, and visitor centre. Various nature, heritage, orienteering and tree trails are provided in the park. Play areas for children include a climbing frame named after HMS Endeavour, Captain James Cook's ship.
The Captain Cook Birthplace museum is situated in the middle of the park and is open to visitors from April to November.
Middlesbrough is a town in the Middlesbrough unitary authority borough of North Yorkshire, England. The town lies near the mouth of the River Tees and north of the North York Moors National Park. The built-up area had a population of 148,215 at the 2021 UK census. It is the largest town of the wider Teesside area, which had a population of 376,633 in 2011.
Until the early 1800s, the area was rural farmland in the historic county of Yorkshire. The town was a planned development which started in 1830, based around a new port with coal and later ironworks added. Steel production and ship building began in the late 1800s, remaining associated with the town until the post-industrial decline of the late twentieth century. Trade (notably through ports) and digital enterprise sectors contemporarily contribute to the local economy, Teesside University and Middlesbrough College to local education.
Middlesbrough was made a municipal borough in 1853. When elected county councils were created in 1889, Middlesbrough was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services and so it became a county borough, independent from North Riding County Council. The borough of Middlesbrough was abolished in 1968 when the area was absorbed into the larger County Borough of Teesside. Six years later in 1974 Middlesbrough was re-established as a borough within the new county of Cleveland. Cleveland was abolished in 1996, since when Middlesbrough has been a unitary authority within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.
Middlesbrough started as a Benedictine priory on the south bank of the River Tees, its name possibly derived from it being midway between the holy sites of Durham and Whitby. The earliest recorded form of Middlesbrough's name is "Mydilsburgh", containing the term burgh.
In 686, a monastic cell was consecrated by St. Cuthbert at the request of St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. The manor of Middlesburgh belonged to Whitby Abbey and Guisborough Priory.[1] Robert Bruce, Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, granted and confirmed, in 1119, the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg to Whitby. Up until its closure on the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1537, the church was maintained by 12 Benedictine monks, many of whom became vicars, or rectors, of various places in Cleveland.
After the Angles, the area became home to Viking settlers. Names of Viking origin (with the suffix by meaning village) are abundant in the area; for example, Ormesby, Stainsby and Tollesby were once separate villages that belonged to Vikings called Orm, Steinn and Toll that are now areas of Middlesbrough were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Other names around Middlesbrough include the village of Maltby (of Malti) along with the towns of Ingleby Barwick (Anglo-place and barley-wick) and Thornaby (of Thormod).
Links persist in the area, often through school or road names, to now-outgrown or abandoned local settlements, such as the medieval settlement of Stainsby, deserted by 1757, which amounts to little more today than a series of grassy mounds near the A19 road.
In 1801, Middlesbrough was a small farm with a population of just 25; however, during the latter half of the 19th century, it experienced rapid growth. In 1828 the influential Quaker banker, coal mine owner and Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) shareholder Joseph Pease sailed up the River Tees to find a suitable new site downriver of Stockton on which to place new coal staithes. As a result, in 1829 he and a group of Quaker businessmen bought the Middlesbrough farmstead and associated estate, some 527 acres (213 ha) of land, and established the Middlesbrough Estate Company.
Through the company, the investors set about a new coal port development (designed by John Harris) on the southern banks of the Tees. The first coal shipping staithes at the port (known as "Port Darlington") were constructed with a settlement to the east established on the site of Middlesbrough farm as labour for the port, taking on the farm's name as it developed into a village. The small farmstead became a village of streets such as North Street, South Street, West Street, East Street, Commercial Street, Stockton Street and Cleveland Street, laid out in a grid-iron pattern around a market square, with the first house being built on West Street in April 1830. New businesses bought premises and plots of land in the new town including: shippers, merchants, butchers, innkeepers, joiners, blacksmiths, tailors, builders and painters.
The first coal shipping staithes at the port (known as "Port Darlington") were constructed just to the west of the site earmarked for the location of Middlesbrough. The port was linked to the S&DR on 27 December 1830 via a branch that extended to an area just north of the current Middlesbrough railway station, helping secure the town's future.
The success of the port meant it soon became overwhelmed by the volume of imports and exports, and in 1839 work started on Middlesbrough Dock. Laid out by Sir William Cubitt, the whole infrastructure was built by resident civil engineer George Turnbull. After three years and an expenditure of £122,000 (equivalent to £9.65 million at 2011 prices), first water was let in on 19 March 1842, and the formal opening took place on 12 May 1842. On completion, the docks were bought by the S&DR.
Iron and steel have dominated the Tees area since 1841 when Henry Bolckow in partnership with John Vaughan, founded the Vulcan iron foundry and rolling mill. Vaughan, who had worked his way up through the Iron industry in South Wales, used his technical expertise to find a more abundant supply of Ironstone in the Eston Hills in 1850, and introduced the new "Bell Hopper" system of closed blast furnaces developed at the Ebbw Vale works. These factors made the works an unprecedented success with Teesside becoming known as the "Iron-smelting centre of the world" and Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd became the largest company in existence.
By 1851 Middlesbrough's population had grown from 40 people in 1829 to 7,600. Pig iron production rose tenfold between 1851 and 1856 and by the mid-1870s Middlesbrough was producing one third of the entire nations Pig Iron output. It was during this time Middlesbrough earned the nickname "Ironopolis".
On 21 January 1853, Middlesbrough received its Royal Charter of Incorporation, giving the town the right to have a mayor, aldermen and councillors. Henry Bolckow became mayor, in 1853.
A Welsh community was established in Middlesbrough sometime before the 1840s, with mining being the main form of employment. These migrants included figures who would become important leaders in the commercial, political and cultural life of the town:
John Vaughan established Teesside's first ironworks in 1841, The Vulcan Works at Middlesbrough. Vaughan had worked his way up through the industry at the Dowlais Ironworks in south Wales and encouraged hundreds of the skilled Welsh workers to follow him to Teesside.
Edward Williams (iron-master), although he was the grandson of the famous Welsh Bard Iolo Morganwg, Edward had started as a mere clerk at Dowlais. His move to the Tees saw him rise to ironmaster, alderman, magistrate and Mayor of Middlesbrough. Edward was also the father of Aneurin and Penry, who both became Liberal MPs for the area.
E.T. John arrived from Pontypridd as a junior clerk in Williams' office. John became the director of several industrial enterprises and a radical politician.
Windsor Richards, an Engineer and manager, oversaw the town's transition from iron to steel production.
Much like the contemporary Welsh migration to America, the Welsh of Middlesbrough came almost exclusively from the iron-smelting and coal districts of South Wales. By 1861 42% of the town's ironworkers identified as Welsh and one in twenty of the total population. Place names such as "Welch Cottages" and "Welch Place" appeared around the Vulcan works, and Middlesbrough became a centre for the Welsh communities at Witton Park, Spennymoor, Consett and Stockton on Tees (especially Portrack). David Williams also recorded that a number of the Welsh workers at the Hughesovka Ironworks in 1869 had migrated from Middlesbrough.
A Welsh Baptist chapel was active in the town as early as 1858, and St Hilda's Anglican church began providing services in the Welsh language. Churches and chapels were the centres of Welsh culture, supporting choirs, Sunday Schools, social societies, adult education, lectures and literary meetings. By the 1870s, many more Welsh chapels were built (one reputed to seat 500 people), and the first Eisteddfodau were held.
By the 1880s, a "Welsh cultural revival" was underway, with the Eisteddfodau attracting competitors and spectators from outside the Welsh communities. In 1890 the Middlesbrough Town Hall hosted the first Cleveland and Durham Eisteddfod, an event notable for its non-denominational inclusivity, with Irish Catholic choirs and the bishop of the newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough as honoured guests.
In the early twentieth century this Eisteddfod had become the biggest annual event in the town and the largest annual Eisteddfod outside Wales. The Eisteddfod had a clear impact on the culture of the town, especially through its literary and music events, by 1911 the Eisteddfod had twenty-two classes of musical competition only two of which were for Welsh language content. By 1914, thirty choirs from across the area were competing in 284 entries. A choral tradition remained part of the town's culture long after the eisteddfod and chapels had gone. In 2012 an exhibition at the Dorman Museum marked the Apollo Male Voice Choir's 125 years as an active choir in the town.
Industrial Wales was noted for its "radical Liberal-Labour" politics, and the rhetoric of these politicians clearly won favour with the urban population of the North East. Penry Williams and Jonathan Samuel won the seats of Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees for the Liberal Party and Penry's brother, Aneurin would also win the newly created Consett seat in 1918.
Sir Horace Davey stressed his Welsh lineage and stated that "it was scarcely an exaggeration to say that Welshmen had founded Middlesbrough", courting the Welsh vote that saw him elected MP for Stockton. However, others complained that local Conservative candidates were losing to "Fenians and Welshers" (Irish and Welsh people).
These sentiments had grown by 1900 when Samuel lost his seat after a Unionist complained publicly that the town had been "forced to submit to the indignity of being trailed ignominiously through the mire by Welsh constituents". Samuel lost the seat but regained it in 1910 with a campaign that made few, if any, references to his Welsh background.
From 1861 to 1871, the census of England & Wales showed that Middlesbrough consistently had the second highest percentage of Irish born people in England after Liverpool. The Irish population in 1861 accounted for 15.6% of the total population of Middlesbrough. In 1871 the amount had dropped to 9.2% yet this still placed Middlesbrough's Irish population second in England behind Liverpool. Due to the rapid development of the town and its industrialisation there was much need for people to work in the many blast furnaces and steel works along the banks of the Tees. This attracted many people from Ireland, who were in much need of work. As well as people from Ireland, the Scottish, Welsh and overseas inhabitants made up 16% of Middlesbrough's population in 1871. A second influx of Irish migration was observed in the early 1900s as Middlesbrough's steel industry boomed producing 1/3 of Britain's total steel output. This second influx lasted through to the 1950s after which Irish migration to Middlesbrough saw a drastic decline. Middlesbrough no longer has a strong Irish presence, with Irish born residents making up around 2% of the current population, however there is still a strong cultural and historical connection with Ireland mainly through the heritage and ancestry of many families within Middlesbrough.
The town's rapid expansion continued throughout the second half of the 19th century, fuelled by the iron and steel industry. In 1864 the North Riding Infirmary (an ear, nose and mouth hospital) opened in Newport Road; this was demolished in 2006.
On 15 August 1867, a Reform Bill was passed, making Middlesbrough a new parliamentary borough, Bolckow was elected member for Middlesbrough the following year. In 1875, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co opened the Cleveland Steelworks in Middlesbrough beginning the transition from Iron production to Steel and by the turn of the century. Henry Bolckow died in 1878 and left an endowment of £5,000 for the infirmary.
In the latter third of the 19th century, Old Middlesbrough was starting to decline and was overshadowed by developments built around the new town hall, south of the original town hall, the town's population reaching 90,000 by the dawn of the 20th century.[9] In 1900, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co had become the largest producer of steel in Great Britain and possibly came to be one of the major steel centres in the world.
In 1914, Dorman Long, another major steel producer from Middlesbrough, became the largest company in Britain. It employed a workforce of over 20,000 and by 1929 and gained enough to take over from Bolckow, Vaughan & Co's dominance and to acquire their assets. The steel components of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932) were engineered and fabricated by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough. The company was also responsible for the New Tyne Bridge in Newcastle.
Several large shipyards also lined the Tees, including the Sir Raylton Dixon & Company, Smith's Dock Company of South Bank and Furness Shipbuilding Company of Haverton Hill.
Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the Second World War. The Luftwaffe first attacked the town on 25 May 1940 when a lone bomber dropped 13 bombs between South Bank Road and the South Steel Plant. One of the bombs fell on the South Bank football ground making a large crater in the pitch. The bomber was forced to leave after RAF night fighters were scrambled to intercept. Two months after the first bombing Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited the town to meet the public and inspect coastal defences.
German bombers often flew over the Eston Hills while heading for targets further inland, such as Manchester. On 30 March 1941 a Junkers Ju 88 was shot down by two Spitfires of No. 41 Squadron, piloted by Tony Lovell and Archie Winskill, over Middlesbrough. The aircraft dived into the ground at Barnaby Moor, Eston; the engines and most of the airframe were entirely buried upon impact.
On 5 December 1941 a Spitfire of No. 122 Squadron, piloted by Sgt Hutton, crashed into rising ground near Mill Farm, Upsall, on the lower slopes of Eston Hills. Poor visibility due to bad weather and low cloud is believed to have been the cause of the crash.
On 15 January 1942, minutes after being hit by gunfire from a merchant ship anchored off Hartlepool, a Dornier Do 217 collided with the cable of a barrage balloon over the River Tees. The blazing bomber plummeted onto the railway sidings in South Bank leaving a crater twelve feet deep. In 1997 the remains of the Dornier were unearthed by a group of workers clearing land for redevelopment; the remains were put on display for a short while at Kirkleatham museum.
On 4 August 1942 a lone Dornier Do 217 picked its way through the barrage balloons and dropped a stick of bombs onto the railway station. One bomb caused serious damage to the Victorian glass and steel roof. A train in the station was also badly damaged although there were no passengers aboard. The station was put out action for two weeks.
The Green Howards was a British Army infantry regiment very strongly associated with Middlesbrough and the area south of the River Tees. Originally formed at Dunster Castle, Somerset in 1688 to serve King William of Orange, later King William III, this regiment became affiliated to the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1782. As Middlesbrough grew, its population of men came to be a group most targeted by the recruiters. The Green Howards were part of the King's Division. On 6 June 2006, this famous regiment was merged into the new Yorkshire Regiment and are now known as 2 Yorks, The 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards). There is also a Territorial Army (TA) company at Stockton Road in Middlesbrough, part of 4 Yorks which is wholly reserve.
Post Second World War to contemporary era
By the end of the war over 200 buildings had been destroyed within the Middlesbrough area. The borough lost 99 civilians as a result of enemy action.
Areas of early and mid-Victorian housing were demolished and much of central Middlesbrough was redeveloped. Heavy industry was relocated to areas of land better suited to the needs of modern technology. Middlesbrough itself began to take on a completely different look.
Middlesbrough's 1903 Gaumont cinema, originally an opera house until the 1930s, was demolished in 1971. The Cleveland Centre opened in the same year. In 1974, Middlesbrough and other areas around the Tees, became part of the county of Cleveland. This was to create a county within a single NUTS region of England, with the UK joining the European Union predecessor (European Communities) a year earlier.
Middlesbrough's Royal Exchange building was demolished, to make way for the road. A multi-storey the Star and Garter Hotel built in the 1890s near to the exchange on the site of a former Welsh Congregational Church, was also demolished. The Victorian era North Riding Infirmary was demolished in 2006 and replaced by a hotel and supermarket.
The Cleveland Centre opened in 1971, Hill Street shopping centre opened in 1981 and Captain Cook Square opened in 1999.
Middlesbrough F.C.'s modern Riverside Stadium opened on 26 August 1995 next to Middlesbrough Dock. The club moved from Ayresome Park their previous home in the town for 92 years.
With the abolition of Cleveland County in 1996, Middlesbrough again became part of North Yorkshire.
The original St.Hilda's area of Middlesbrough, after decades of decline and clearance, was given a new name of Middlehaven in 1986 on investment proposals to build on the land. Middlehaven has since had new buildings built there including Middlesbrough College and Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium amongst others. Also situated at Middlehaven is the "Boho" zone, offering office space to the area's business and to attract new companies, and also "Bohouse", housing. Some of the street names from the original grid-iron street plan of the town still exist in the area today.
The expansion of Middlesbrough southwards, eastwards and westwards continued throughout the 20th century absorbing villages such as Linthorpe, Acklam, Ormesby, Marton and Nunthorpe[9] and continues to the present day.
From the Alonzo T. & Millard Mial Papers, PC.132. Box 25. Folder 4B.
Promissory Note for Hire of a Negro boy, Simon, Wake County, 27 Dec. 1847
Transcription: “Twelve months after date we promise to pay Thomas F. Grice Ex. [Executor] of Hugh Lee, Dec’d, on order Twenty Seven Dollars for the hire of a negro Boy named Simon [.] Said negro to have the following clothes [:]Two suits of cotton clothes and one of woolen, one pair of Double soled shoes, one pair of stockings, one good Blanket, one wool Hat for value received on this 27 Dec. 1847. “
Signed by A. T. Mial (Also, C. Bryan; A. Montague, Witnesses)
Draft Will of Margaret Charles, Widow, 8th August 1885, revised 21st September1887 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).
This magnificent romp was locked up for many years after the death of one of its owners. It seems the executors of the will did not approve of its sensuality. When will we all grow up?
The Postcard
A postally unused postkarte that was published by Leo Stainer of Innsbruck, with photography by Richard Müller of Innsbruck. The card has a divided back.
The Hofkirche
The Hofkirche (Court Church) is a Gothic church located in the Altstadt (Old Town) section of Innsbruck, Austria. The church was built in 1553 by Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564) as a memorial to his grandfather Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519), whose cenotaph within features a remarkable collection of German Renaissance sculpture. The church also contains the tomb of Andreas Hofer, Tyrol's national hero.
Maximilian's will had directed that he be buried in the castle chapel in Wiener Neustadt. However it proved impractical to construct the large memorial there.
The plans of the memorial had been supervised in detail by Maximilian, and Ferdinand I as executor planned construction of a new church and monastery in Innsbruck to accommodate the memorial.
In the end, however, Maximilian's simple tomb remained in Wiener Neustadt and the Hofkirche serves as a cenotaph.
The Hofkirche
The Hofkirche is located at Universitätsstraße 2, adjacent to the Hofburg in the Altstadt section of Innsbruck. The church was designed by architect Andrea Crivelli of Trento in the traditional German form of a hall church, consisting of three naves with a setback three-sided choir, round and pointed arch windows, and a steep broken hip roof.
Its layered buttresses reflect compromise of contemporary Renaissance design with German late Gothic style.
The church interior contains galleries, high slender colonnettes of red marble with white stylized Corinthian capitals, and a lectern. The gallery's original ribs made from sandstone from Mittenwald have been preserved, but after the main vault was damaged by earthquake in the 17th. century, it was rebuilt in the Baroque style.
The high altar seen today was designed in 1755 by the Viennese court architect Nikolaus Pacassi, and decorated with a crucifixion by the Viennese academic painter Johann Carl Auerbach. Also added were bronze statues of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Teresa of Ávila by Innsbruck court sculptor Balthasar Moll (1768).
The Renaissance organ (1560) is by Jörg Ebert of Ravensburg, and described locally as one of the five most famous organs in the world. Domenico Pozzo from Milan painted the organ panels.
A side chapel, called the Silver Chapel (Silberne Kapell), was consecrated in 1578. It contains a silver altar to Mary incorporating three elephant tusks and three hundred kilos of ebony, and the tombs of Archduke Ferdinand II and his wife Philippine Welser—both by Alexander Colyn.
Maximilian's Cenotaph
Emperor Maximilian's ornate black marble cenotaph occupies the centre of the nave. Florian Abel, of the Prague Imperial Court, supplied a full-sized draft of the high tomb in the florid style of court Mannerism. Its construction took more than 80 years.
The sarcophagus itself was completed in 1572, and the final embellishments—the kneeling emperor, the four virtues, and the iron grille—were added in 1584.
Trento mason Hieronymus Longi directed construction of the tomb proper. The base of the tomb consists of Hagau marble, a Jurassic limestone found in the North Tyrol and used as a building stone throughout western Austria.
The bronze relief frieze of trophies includes vases, suits of armour, weapons, shields, musical instruments, etc., and above that two rows of white marble reliefs. The 24 reliefs were created by the artist Alexander Colin, based on woodcuts from The Triumphal Arch (Ehrenpforte) by Albrecht Dürer, with four stone bas-reliefs at each on the tomb's ends, and eight on its longer sides.
The tomb is enclosed within a fine wrought iron grille created by Jörg Schmidhammer of the Prague court, based on a drawing by the Innsbruck painter Paul Trabel, and capped with statues of the four virtues and kneeling emperor cast in Mühlau from models by Alexander Colin.
Hofkirche Statues
The cenotaph is surrounded by 28 large bronze statues (200–250 cm) of ancestors, relatives and heroes. Their creation took place between 1502-1555, and occupied a number of artists including Albrecht Dürer.
The inclusion of the King Arthur and Godfrey of Bouillon statues are due to Louis II's sister, Anna, the Queen of Bohemia marrying Ferdinand, Maximilian's grandson, and bringing her English heritage with her. Both men were said to be her ancestors.
The following list records the 28 statues and their year of execution:
-- Joanna, Queen of Castile, 1528
-- Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, 1530–31
-- Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, 1521
-- Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1525–26
-- Cymburgis, 1516
-- Margaret, Duchess of Savoy, 1522
-- Bianca Maria Sforza, Holy Roman Empress, 1525
-- Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, 1523–24
-- Arthur, King of Great Britain, 1513
-- Ferdinand I, King of Portugal, 1509
-- Ernest, Duke of Austria, 1516
-- Theoderic the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, 1513
-- Albert II, Duke of Austria, 1528-29
-- Rudolph I, King of Germany, 1516-17
-- Philip I, King of Castile, 1516
-- Clovis I, King of the Franks, 1509
-- Albert II, King of Germany, 1526
-- Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1523-24
-- Leopold III, Margrave of Austria, 1520
-- Albert IV, Count of Habsburg, 1517
-- Leopold III, Duke of Austria, 1519
-- Frederick IV, Duke of Austria with the Empty Pockets, 1523
-- Albert I, King of Germany, 1527
-- Godfrey of Bouillon, 1533
-- Elizabeth of Luxembourg, Queen of Germany, 1530
-- Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, 1513-16
-- Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany, 1516
-- Kunigunde, Archduchess of Austria, 1516-17
The gallery also contains 23 small statues (66–69 cm) of the Habsburg patron saints. They were designed by the court painter Jörg Köldere around 1514/15, and carved into wood and then wax by Leonhard Magt.
The church also once contained a number of busts of Roman emperors; 20 are now displayed in Schloß Ambras, and one is in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.
Portrait of Lady Guildford by Hans Holbein the younger, c.1527
In the 1520s, there were two Lady Guildfords, both of which were the wives of Sir Henry Guildford at respective times. If the dating of the portrait is correct, then it depicts Lady Mary Guildford, who was the daughter of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent. Mary and Henry married sometime in 1525 after his first wife, Margaret died. Mary had notable connections; her sister Margaret was the mother of Henry Grey, the duke of Suffolk, who married Frances Brandon and was the father of Lady Jane Grey (who was briefly placed upon the throne in 1553). There survives a sketch of Margaret by Holbein:
www.flickr.com/photos/20631910@N03/2682808519/in/set-7215...
Sir Henry Guildford was good friends with the king and prospered at court, becoming an esquire of the body and master of the revels by 1513 and a notable councillor. However he appears to have disliked Anne Boleyn and the two apparently quarrelled, although after a brief time back in his country estates he returned to court. Guildford remained controller of the household until his death in 1532. He appointed his wife his executor and charged her with the payment of his debts. The couple had no children and Mary went on to marry Sir Gawain Carew of Devon.
Empire officially turns 30 this month! Continuing my slow going celebration of my favorite movie of all time this a little something different.
Now sharing a stone which has been reconfigured are two family sets:
It originally belonged solely to Thomas Blakewall 1525 in civilian dress, with wife Maud Rolleston Their "banner" prayer scroll translates; "Jesus son of God have mercy on us". Below are their 6 sons and 1 daughter.
The inscription underneath reads: "Of yo charite pray for the soul of THOMAS BLAKEWELL late of Wirksworth & MAUDE his wife, THOMAS departed forthe of this world XXVII day of March in ye year of our Lord MVXXV O whos soules Jhu have mercy. Amen"
Children
1. John Blackwall- Bef 1558 Idridgehay and Alton, Derbyshire (father of Katherine (?1523-1598) wife of Gilbert Thacker of Repton flic.kr/p/6xYYe1 )
2. Richard Blackwall- 1567
www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Blackwall/6000000009127992142
Richard Blackwall ("Blakewall"), Thomas' son and heir, was co-executor of Thomas Blackwall, along with Hugh Hepe, vicar of Youlgreave, according to a case in the court of common pleas, in which Richard pressed a case which cited the wording (translated into Latin) of Richard as executor and 'my son' ("filio meo Rico Blakewall" - in the Dative case, as the defendant was called to answer to Richard and Hugh): National Archives: CP40/1073, folio 244 front (Easter Term 1532).
Added later, at the bottom, is a civilian and wife (possibly of the Blakewell family ) with prayer scrolls of c1510 translating: "Mary mother of God, remember me" & "Jesus son of God have mercy upon me"; Their 8 sons and 10 daughters are at the top
The Blakewell / Blackwell family had a "chief" mansion house here at Wirksworth and various members gave many charitable bequests to the church and parish.
Margery c1460 - c 1522 daughter of Robert Blackwall / Blakewell of Blackwall Derbyshire and Isabella daughter of Sir Robert Lytton of Knebworth by Elizabeth Andrews, was the wife of John Gell, and mother of Ralph Gell 1481 - 1564 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ch1yHb
www.geni.com/people/Margery-Gell/6000000007085396387
A Richard Blackwell c1517- 1568 who m Alice Priest heiress of Calke , son of a Thomas Blackwell 1484 - 1524 www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Blackwall/6000000009127992142 and wife Anne daughter of John Blount of Blount's Hall www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member... They were also the parents of Ellen wife of Thomas Christopher Hurt of Ashbourne
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wirksworth Derbyshire