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10221 Super Star Destroyer (Star Wars)
Ages 16+. 3,152 pieces.
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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
"Sir Rauffe (Ralph) Egerton knight Standard Bearer to our Sovraine Lord King Henry Vlll ..AD 1527" The second son of Philip Egerton of Egerton by Margery www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2058679329/ daughter of William Mainwaring of Ightfield
He m Margaret, daughter and heiress of Ralph Basset of Blore
Children
1. Eleanor m Ralph Leycester / Leicester of Toft
2. Sir Richard / Ralph m Mary
At the Battle of Tournay in 1513 he captured the French Standard being knighted by Henry Vlll and appointed Standard Bearer of England for life at a salary of £100 pa - He was also granted the Manor and estate of Ridley, a massive establishment transformed by a previous owner Sir William Stanley into "the finest gentleman's house of all Cheshire."
He kneels in the south chantry he built www.bunbury.org.uk/johnpapers/sirralpheg2frame.htm
"He thereby orders his body to be buried in the chapel of Bunbury and that 12 torches be borne by 12 men in black gowns the day of his burial and 24 tapers burning about his body the same day; and that his executors distribute £10 sterling not only to beggars but also to such poor men and women as they shall think convenient." He likewise ordered his executors "to furnish at his proper cost and charges the said chapel covered with lead, ceiled and drawn with knots gilded and the panels painted also two images either side of the altar within the Chapel and the Chancel."
His executors were to provide “one Chalice gilt and another double gilt, 3 suits of vestments, one for working days, another for Sundays and low holy-days and the other a good suit for solemn and high festival days; and that his green velvet gown lined with green sarsnet guarded with cloth of gold, as also his gown of velvet lined with black satin and perled with gold [gold buttons] as also his jacket of velvet perled with gold be taken for performance of the same; as also his jacket of cloth of silver and of blue russet velvet to make crosses and other ornaments to the said Chapel which he orders to have paved with square ashlar or tile or stone.” and to “erect a tomb for him with a large marble stone with his name and arms engraved thereon with this addition: 'The King's Standard Bearer and Treasurer to the Lady Princess,' as also a gilt plate fastened on the wall with his names and arms and additions aforesaid.” (His tomb stone has now gone www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7731738394/ )
Sir Ralph also willed that a house was to be built in Bunbury “for two chantry priests to pray for his soul, for his father's and mother's souls of his kind and all Christian Souls for ever.” It was to have
"2 chambers, 1 parlour, a buttery and a kitchen, and the said priests to be maintained out of his mills at Nantwich.”
(Brass renewed in 1894 set into original stone frame)
www.geni.com/people/Sir-Ralph-Egerton-Kt-of-Ridley/600000...
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.
Draft Will of William Murray of Ramsgate, 28th June 1869.
Executor: Son, William George Murray. Beneficiaries: William George Murray, sister Sarah Ann Porter, sister Ann Dodds, widow and children of Brigg, Lincoln. Fanny Murray and children of 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex. Thomas George and EmilieWhite and children, 12 Milbourne Grove, Brompton, Middlesex. Eliza Dodds and daughter Rosalie Dodds. Henry and Jane Bishop and their children, 57 Plains of Waterloo, Ramsgate. Witnesses: Snowden, Solicitors, Sydney Head, Clerk.
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.
Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The two stables at Nos. 130 and 132 West 18th Street — units of an original row of thirteen brick-fronted stables erected in 1864-66 of which nine survive — were joined in 1907 to create the present building. Though joined at the ground story, the two facades retain their individual identity at the second story and remain largely intact. Designed in a round-arched utilitarian style related to the German Rundbogenstil. they feature a mix of Romanesque and Renaissance Revival details.
Each unit of the 130-132 West 18th Street building has a tripartite triumphal arch composition which focuses on a central bifurcated Renaissance arch at the second story. Originally built for wealthy businessmen, the two stables had several prominent owners, among them Civil War hero, Major Theodore K. Gibbs, and Nathaniel McCready, founder of the Old Dominion Steamship Line. As a component of one of the two uniformly designed mid-nineteenth-century private carriage house groups remaining in Manhattan, the 130-132 West 18th Street Stables Building 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 eighteenth-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.3 While the majority of New Yorkers rented or boarded their horses in large commercial stables, the very wealthy maintained private stables. (Since private stables invariably provided storage space for carriages, the terms carriage house and private stable are used interchangeably hereafter.)
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 (developed largely in the 1860s and 1870s), East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues (stables erected between 1883 and 1904), and West 58th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue (stables erected c. 1885-1905)
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 (demolished).
The stable at 130 West 18th Street was constructed in 1864-65 for Wilmot Johnson, a resident of Albany, who owned a coal company with offices in New York at 111 Broadway.
Soon after its completion Johnson sold the stable to Walter S. Gurnee, a midwesterner who had made a fortune in the tannery business and railroads in Chicago before moving to New York in 1863 where he operated an investment banking firm and served on the board of several mining and metal processing companies.
Gurnee retained the 18th Street stable for three years while he was living at 33 West 20th Street. The stable was then purchased by Henry T. Helmbold, described by nineteenth-century diarist George Templeton Strong as a "sporting druggist [who] is said to have acquired a vast fortune by pictorial advertisements."14 Helmbold also retained the stable for about three years, selling it in 1871 to Major Theodore K. Gibbs, who resided nearby at 62 West 21st Street.
A descendent of a prominent and wealthy Rhode Island family, Theodore Kane Gibbs was born in Newport in 1840. His father William Charming Gibbs was a leader in the public affairs of the state who had served as a member of the state assembly, chief magistrate, and governor from 1820 to 1824.
Theodore K. Gibbs was raised in Newport and entered the army as a young man during the Civil War. He served with distinction, was twice wounded, and twice decorated for bravery. Following the war, he enlisted in the regular army and while stationed on Staten Island married Virginia Barrett. The Gibbses maintained homes in New York and on Gibbs Avenue in Newport.
They were active in society and were known for "giving liberally of their large means."
The stable at 132 West 18th Street was built in 1864-65 for John R. Garland, a broker who headed his own firm on William Street and resided at 28 West 21st Street.
In 1868, the building was acquired by Nathaniel L'Hommedieu McCready, president of the Old Dominion Steamship Line, who lived at 10 West 22nd Street.
A leader in the shipping industry in New York, McCready had entered the business in 1840 at the age of nineteen, organizing his cwn firm, the N.L. McCready Company, which he ran successfully until 1865. He then formed a partnership with Livingston, Fox & Company, owners of several steamship lines. In 1867, he organized the Old Dominion Line which operated a fleet of steamships between New York and the Virginia ports of Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, and West Point. McCready served as president of the line until his death in 1887; he was also president of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad for fourteen years.
Following her husband's death Caroline Waldron McCready retained ownership of 132 West 18th Street which continued to function as a private stable. In 1895, the building was remodeled to accommodate horses on the second floor. Four years later Mrs. McCready sold the building to Theodore K. Gibbs who retained ownership of both 130 and 132 West 18th Street until his death in 1906.
The Design of the 130 and 132 West 18th Street Stables
Originally units of a stable row, the stables at 130 and 132 West 18th Street are characteristic of nineteenth carriage house design as adapted to a narrow urban lot. Typically, such stables 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 grocsn, 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 roams.
The facades of the two buildings were designed in a round-arched utilitarian style derived from the German Rundbogenstil (round-arch style) . 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 Rundbogenstil 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 (1846-56) on Stuyvesant Square at 16th Street, Alexander Saeltzer's Astor Library (1849-53, later additions 1859, 1881), at 425 Lafayette Street, and Thomas Tefft's Union Depot, Providence, R.I. (1847, demolished). The style is reflected in the design of the West 18th Street stables by the choice of materials (unstuccoed brick and locally available sandstone), by the emphasis on flat wall surfaces, and by the clear definition of architectural elements.
The meshing of classical and medieval motifs is apparent in the tripartite composition for each unit, 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 chief feature of each facade is a large central arch containing 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, is also designed in a round-arched style and features 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 stables at 130 and 132 West 18th Street is distinguished by its skillful super imposition of recessed and projected planes. The double-height arcade of each facade, 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 (a major order which articulates the piers, and a minor order which frames the windows). In addition to their function in the design of these individual units, 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
Two components of a uniformly designed stable row were joined in 1907 to create the building at 130-132 West 18th Street which has a frontage of forty-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. Though joined on the ground story, the two facades retain much of their individual identity. Faced with brick and brownstone they are designed in a round-arched style that incorporates Romanesque and Renaissance details.
Each 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 of each building contained a pair of wood carriage doors, the eastern bay had an arched entrance, and the western bays had 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, the eastern bay (at No. 130) remains relatively intact, although the entrance has been enlarged somewhat to accommodate a metal door. In the center bay of No. 130 the paired carriage doors have been replaced by two arched windows with metal grilles; the windows are supported by a wood bulkhead and surmounted by multipane transoms. At watertable level the stone bands ornamenting the piers have been cut flush with the brickwork.
When No. 130 and No. 132 were joined in 1907, the end piers in the west bay at No. 130 and the east bay of No. 132 were removed to create a vehicle entrance. At that time cast-iron supports were installed next to the brick piers and steel girders were inserted above the old center bay at No. 130 and new vehicle entrance (new occupied by wood infill and a metal door). ,The girders are currently covered with stucco, as are the rusticated blocks above the piers. The cornice that separated the two stories has been removed.
On the western portion of the facade (at No. 132) the ground story has been extensively altered. In addition to the changes in the east bay, the piers flanking the original vehicle entrance have been replaced and a steel beam has been inserted above the entrance.
This necessitated the removal of the stone cornice which once capped the first story; the area above the vehicle entrance is now stuccoed. In the west bay, the arched surround has been removed and the window opening has been enlarged to create a doorway. The Weill surface is covered with sheet metal. The opening contains a metal and glass door surmounted by narrow transom. The paired carriage doors in the center bay have also been replaced by a garage door.
The second story of the facade at 130 West 18th Street remains virtually intact. Here 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 diamond-pointed keystones and stone sills beneath the windows. Stone bands, which break forward over the piers at the impost line of the arches, form the capitals for two pilaster orders — a major order articulating the arcade and a minor order framing 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. All of the window openings contain original wood frames and four-over-four double-hung sash. This section of the facade is crowned by a simple molded brick entablature.
On the second story of the portion of the facade at No. 132 the articulation of the facade at No. 130 is repeated. The facade remains largely intact; however, only the east window bay retains its original sash and a fire escape has been added at the west window.
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. At least two of the stables were sold to neighboring businesses in the 1880s and by the first decade of the twentieth century all were being used for commercial or manufacturing purposes. This change in the character of the neighborhood was coupled with the advent of the automobile.
The forerunners of the modern automobile had developed in Europe in the last decades of the of the nineteenth century.
By the 1890s horseless carriages were being manufactured in the United States, and in the first decade of the twentieth century they became a major means of transport for the rich. In 1907, the year following the death of Theodore K. Gibbs, the buildings at 130 and 132 West 18th Street were acquired by the Metropolis Security Company and leased to T.J. Gerome for conversion to an automobile repair garage.
At that time the buildings were joined and a portion of the front wall was taken dcwn and supported on steel beams. The inclusion of a drafting room on the second floor gives some indication of how very specialized auto repair must have been during this period. From documents filed with the Department of Buildings,23 it would appear that the building remained in use as a garage through the mid-twentieth century.
Fires in 1914 and 1946 made alterations to the ground story necessary; however, the second story is largely intact. Today, the 130-132 West 18th Street stables building is a component of one of the two remaining mid-nineteenth century carriage house groups in Manhattan and is distinguished by its design which provides a notable example of the round-arched style as applied to a utilitarian building type.
- From the 1990 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
“They swoop down from the sky, like golden bugs. Their Photon pistols de-materialize any matter earthly or otherwise. Their twin blades drip blood. The smell of the burning rocket fuel from their jetpacks fills the air. The armor shines in what little sunlight is left. They call themselves the will of the emporer: we call them demons.”
Just a little story. The idea is that these guys are post apocalyptic future warriors. They exterminate those who do not comply to the rules of “The emperor”. The above story was an exerpt from a rebellion soldier’s diary.
8.4.2009: 8.4.2009: left door ("portal of the martyrs"), South Portal, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, France.
This shows the martyrdom and vision of Stephen described in Acts 7:54-60. Stephen gazes into heaven and sees, "the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." He is dragged out of the city and stoned to death for his blasphemy.
Above this vision sit the Holy Innocents massacred by Herod after the birth of Jesus (first archivolt), six martyrs washed in the blood of the Lamb (second archivolt, lamb in the centre), martyrs holding palms as a symbol of their victory (third archivolt), further specific martyrs in the fourth and fifth archivolts, but impossible to identify.
At the bottom of the archivolts are characters from the trial of Stephen. Most are members of the Sanhedrin, but Stephen can be seen at the bottom of the third archivolt on the left and Paul, holding the cloaks of Stephen's executors at the bottom of the third archivolt on the right.
Monument erected c1630 by Sir Simon Leach 1567-1637 & 2nd wife Katherine Turberville - His children kneel below except for his heir Walter who kneels behind opposite his wife Sarah Napier - From Sir Simon Leach's will it appears he erected this monument in memory of his second wife Katherine who had predeceased him. He appointed one of his sons, Nicholas, and A.Y. . . to be his executors. The will was proved on April 8th 1637, and in 1651 administration was granted to his grandson, Simon Leach.
Children of his 1st and 2nd marriages kneel below - his heir Walter kneels above - Monument erected c1630 by Sir Simon Leach 1567-1637 after the death of his 2nd wife Katherine Turberville - His children kneel below except for his heir Walter who kneels behind opposite his wife Sarah Napier
"Here lye the bodyes of Sr. Simon Leach Knight, Son of Symon Leach of Credition Blacksmith And of ye lady Catherine Leach his wife, Daughter of Nicholas Turbeville of Credition, Esq Whose true affection in Religious wedlock caused there desire to make there bed together in the dust".
"Bowed down by the fate of my wife I am going to her tomb, her partner in life, in death I will be her comrade"."L'o a third generation follows yet second was he to non distinguished for his discretion distinguished also for his talent."
Simon was the son of Walter Leach a blacksmith of Crediton by Elizabeth daughter of John Rowe of Crediton
He was Sheriff of Devon in 1625 and knighted at Ford Abbey, Axminster the same year - he died "deeply regretted June 29th AD 1660"
He m1 Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Burrough of Exeter
Children
1. "Sir Walter Leach 1636 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K985G4 Soldier Son and Heir of Simon Leach Soldier.predeceased him" "Stay dear Father my sands have run now quickly in order that I may be able to be the bearer of your prayers." He m Sarah www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5h4t70 daughter of Sir Robert Napier, 1st Bart of Luton Hoo by Mary daughter of John Robinson. Their son Simon became heir to his grandfather.
2. Simon died young
He m2 Katherine daughter of Nicholas Turberville of Crediton
Children - 3 sons and 4 daughters
1. NIcholas of Newton St Petrock m Grace daughter of Roger Mallock and Anne daughter of Simon Snow of Exeter
2. George m1 Margaret .... m2 Bevill Prideaux
3. Simon dsp 1637
1. Katherine 1666 m1 Thomas Giffard of Halsbury m2 Robert Burrington of West Sandford
2. Elizabeth m John Cowling rector of Cadeleigh
3. Rebecah m John Davie
4. Anne m John Martin of Middle Temple
Sir Simon was succeeded by his grandson "Simon Leach son and heir of Walter Leach a zealous supporter of King Charles ii. when in exile, died deeply regretted June 25th A.D. 1660".
Simon then aged 5 later m Bridget daughter of Sir Bevil Grenville of Kilkhampton www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aYr6Na en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevil_Grenville#mediaviewer/File:Be... killed whilst commanding the royalist side at the battler of Lansdowne in 1643. He died aged 28, leaving 2 children, his heir "Sir Simon Leach Knight of the Bath son of Simon Leach Esq.1708" and a daughter, Bridget Berners 1708 at Wiggenhill St Mary flic.kr/p/21Jf8Fs - His widow Bridget Grenville www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1K5d5K m2 Sir Thomas Higgons,
www.wissensdrang.com/stabb049.htm
- Church of St Bartholomew, Cadeleigh Devon
Draft Will of William Murray of Ramsgate, 28th June 1869.
Executor: Son, William George Murray. Beneficiaries: William George Murray, sister Sarah Ann Porter, sister Ann Dodds, widow and children of Brigg, Lincoln. Fanny Murray and children of 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex. Thomas George and EmilieWhite and children, 12 Milbourne Grove, Brompton, Middlesex. Eliza Dodds and daughter Rosalie Dodds. Henry and Jane Bishop and their children, 57 Plains of Waterloo, Ramsgate. Witnesses: Snowden, Solicitors, Sydney Head, Clerk.
Norman Frost, of Stanley between Ilkeston and Derby, named his bus company Felix Bus Services after a popular film cartoon cat of the 1920s. After Norman died, his executors continued to run the business for several years. The cat then lived on as Trent-Barton's "Black Cat" route branding.
Felix bought a succession of Yeates bodied coaches, and these regularly worked the firm's Derby to Ilkeston Bus Service.
One of these, 3XRA, photographed in Derby's Morledge Bus Station in March 1971, was a 1962 Yeates Europa C41F bodied Bedford SB5.
"Here is buried Simon Digby Esquier Gent. Pensioner of King Henry the eight. Second sonne of Sir John Digby Knight Marshall which Simon maried Katherine daughter of Christopher Clapham of Beamesley in Yorksher, esquire.
Here is also buried Roger Digby Esquier their sonne and heyre who married (Mary) daughter of John Cheyne of Shardelows in Buckinghamsher Esquire
Man is born to long suffering in a short uncertain life. In Christ, truth and certainty are found in life and death.
(Maria Nerendon), once wife to Roger Digby places this monument, 1582".
Simon died in 1560
He was the 2nd son of Sir John Digby of Eye Kettleby by Catherine d1500 daughter of Sir Nicholas Griffin of Braybrooke and Catharine d1558 daughter of Richard Curzon / Curson & Alice Willoughby flic.kr/p/dRCNFZ of Kedleston
He was the grandson of Sir Everard Digby 1510 flic.kr/p/bq67e5 and Jaquetta Ellis flic.kr/p/9e134f
He m Katherine d1558 daughter of Christopher Clapham of Beamsley Yorkshire
Children - 4 sons & 4 daughters
1. Roger 1582 who possessing a moiety of that manor, settled at North Luffenham. he m Mary daughter of John Cheney esq. of Shardellows, Agmondisham Bucks, and was buried under a monument by his father: Mary m2 ............. Nerendon (?)
2, Augustin
(Looks like someone took against Mary whose name has been chiseled out twice, possibly because she remarried - it is not clear who to )
Simon inherited his father’s property in Rutland in 1533, the rest of the estates passing to his nephew John Digby. He had followed his father into the royal household, rising from esquire of the body to gentleman pensioner before his retirement at Mary Tudor’s accession. He was returned to the Parliament of 1542 with John Harington shortly after he had been escheator and his friend Harington sheriff, doubtless owing the seat to Kenelm Digby, head of the senior line of the family, who was sheriff at the election.
Following the Dissolution in 1544 Digby fought in the French campaign which led to the capture of Boulogne. Queen Mary gave him an annuity of £46 13s.4d. and later named him to the bench. Little more is know apart from his sheep-rearing and disputes with neighbours. By his will made in October 1559 he asked to be buried in the church at North Luffenham ‘above the steps near my seat’, He provided for his children and named his son Roger executor and his ‘cousins’ Kenelm Digby and John Hunt supervisors. He died on 14 May 1560
- Church of St John the Baptist, North Luffentham, Rutland
"Sir Rauffe (Ralph) Egerton knight Standard Bearer to our Sovraine Lord King Henry Vlll ..AD 1527" The second son of Philip Egerton of Egerton by Margery www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2058679329/ daughter of William Mainwaring of Ightfield
He m Margaret, daughter and heiress of Ralph Basset of Blore
Children
1. Eleanor m Ralph Leycester / Leicester of Toft
2. Sir Richard / Ralph m Mary
At the Battle of Tournay in 1513 he captured the French Standard being knighted by Henry Vlll and appointed Standard Bearer of England for life at a salary of £100 pa - He was also granted the Manor and estate of Ridley, a massive establishment transformed by a previous owner Sir William Stanley into "the finest gentleman's house of all Cheshire."
He kneels in the south chantry he built www.bunbury.org.uk/johnpapers/sirralpheg2frame.htm
"He thereby orders his body to be buried in the chapel of Bunbury and that 12 torches be borne by 12 men in black gowns the day of his burial and 24 tapers burning about his body the same day; and that his executors distribute £10 sterling not only to beggars but also to such poor men and women as they shall think convenient." He likewise ordered his executors "to furnish at his proper cost and charges the said chapel covered with lead, ceiled and drawn with knots gilded and the panels painted also two images either side of the altar within the Chapel and the Chancel."
His executors were to provide “one Chalice gilt and another double gilt, 3 suits of vestments, one for working days, another for Sundays and low holy-days and the other a good suit for solemn and high festival days; and that his green velvet gown lined with green sarsnet guarded with cloth of gold, as also his gown of velvet lined with black satin and perled with gold [gold buttons] as also his jacket of velvet perled with gold be taken for performance of the same; as also his jacket of cloth of silver and of blue russet velvet to make crosses and other ornaments to the said Chapel which he orders to have paved with square ashlar or tile or stone.” and to “erect a tomb for him with a large marble stone with his name and arms engraved thereon with this addition: 'The King's Standard Bearer and Treasurer to the Lady Princess,' as also a gilt plate fastened on the wall with his names and arms and additions aforesaid.” (His tomb stone has now gone www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7731738394/ )
Sir Ralph also willed that a house was to be built in Bunbury “for two chantry priests to pray for his soul, for his father's and mother's souls of his kind and all Christian Souls for ever.” It was to have
"2 chambers, 1 parlour, a buttery and a kitchen, and the said priests to be maintained out of his mills at Nantwich.”
(Brass renewed in 1894 set into original stone frame)
www.geni.com/people/Sir-Ralph-Egerton-Kt-of-Ridley/600000...
Draft Will of William Murray of Ramsgate, 28th June 1869.
Executor: Son, William George Murray. Beneficiaries: William George Murray, sister Sarah Ann Porter, sister Ann Dodds, widow and children of Brigg, Lincoln. Fanny Murray and children of 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex. Thomas George and EmilieWhite and children, 12 Milbourne Grove, Brompton, Middlesex. Eliza Dodds and daughter Rosalie Dodds. Henry and Jane Bishop and their children, 57 Plains of Waterloo, Ramsgate. Witnesses: Snowden, Solicitors, Sydney Head, Clerk.
The Richard-Strauss-Brunnen fountain in the Altstadt district of Munich, Germany. This fountain, the work of Hans Wimmer, was named after the composer, (a native of Munich...) and erected in 1962. Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 50mm ƒ 1.4 AF-D lens.
The scenes flowing around the column are from the opera Salome, composed by R. Strauss in 1905, to his own libretto. (For the non-musically inclined, it is quite unusual for a composer to write the libretto of his operas - it is usually handled by another person. For American Musicals, think of the "book" - usually not written by the music composer. "Libretto" is the Italian for "little book".)
If an artistic executor of Hans Wimmer has any copyright objections to this photo, Flickr-mail the poster stating that you are such an executor, state the objection(s), and it will be taken down...
Collection: Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840
Item: Letter to Elizabeth Browne Rogers Roche from Winwood Serjeant (15 June 1774)
Transcription:
Cambridge June 15th 1774
My Dearest Sister
Your Letters always give me pleasure,
for I feel a tender concern for your hap
-piness & welfare: It is a blessing you are possessed
of so much prudence, for your circumstances in
life require it all, & I hope will enable you to
surmount all difficulties. You informed me
that Mr. Whipple had bought poor Father’s house,
but forgot to tell me for how much; I hope to a
reasonable advantage, otherwise the Executors
would not have consented, let Mr. Livermore
have been ever so hasty. It is not easy for me
to advise you whether you [^] shou’d [^] resign the House
before your time is up: that must depend on
the offer Whipple makes you & the advantages
you may reap by continuing in it. You have
never yet informed us of the disposal of the
household goods; what they fetched: should be
glad to know what Debts are brought in against
the
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Additional Information on this letter can be found in the finding aid: cambridgehistory.org/research/serjeant-family-letters-176...
This post follows up the series of eight photos titled "Mimi and Sweet Pea are Homeless".
On Aug. 15, 2021, my wife and I walked by a man leaning on the porch railing of the house where feral felines Mimi (joewilcox.com/2018/05/18/the-cats-of-university-heights-c...) and Sweet Pea (joewilcox.com/2018/05/21/the-cats-of-university-heights-g...) lived for about eight years in the spacious backyard, which was deforested days earlier.
I asked the gentleman about clearcutting the property, which he confirmed started on Aug. 10, 2021. The action was taken at the behest of the broker, who believes there is a 98-percent chance an investor will buy the place, rather than a resident; removing the lush greenery and trees emphasizes the lot’s large size for the neighborhood and increases likelihood of higher bidding during the September 11 auction.
As executor, he represents 17 heirs and a somewhat tricky situation. His 89-year-old uncle lived in the house before passing away late last year. But the elder gent was not the homeowner. The executor’s grandparents bought the property in 1916 (public records show building date of 1913), and title transferred to his grandmother when her husband died. But when she passed, in 1978, the property was never probated. His uncle lived in the house, but the deed had his mother’s name on it. Forty-three years later, the process finally commences.
By following the broker’s suggestion to hire a restoration company, which will be paid by the estate, the nephew reduces some of the probate burden left by his uncle; by the way, he remained active American Legion, driving around other members, even at advanced age. The involved parties made the decision to clearcut out of expediency and, again, with the presumption that the property will be redeveloped.
For the mother and daughter Maine Coons, destruction of their long-time habit must be devastating. They join the city’s homeless, in a strange way. Yes, they are feral, but another neighbor fed them and took them to the vet when necessary. Listening to the nephew proudly share about his uncle’s generosity, I understand how the elder gent let the strays stay and another resident come by and tend to them.
I captured this portrait, of both cats together, on April 5, 2019. The lush greenery is gone—as are Mimi and Sweet Pea, hopefully to somewhere safe and survivable.
Pumper 332 responding along Queen West towards Bay and Queen for a reported unconscious person. Ambulance was already on site. Turned out to be nothing much again.
This particular Captain seemed to like the yelp of the Whelen Executor for it was on yelp all the way!
Una de las láminas de la caja.
(Esta en concreto no me gusta mucho, las caras están muy mal dibujadas… sobre todo Leia y Han Solo).
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?
Mrs. Julia Utten Browne & Cautley papers, Letter from H E Evans, Trustee & Legal opinion re Mrs Cautley dated 9th September 1913. In the letter he states that it should not be assumed that his cousin Dorothea Cautley will confirm the Settlement, though he thinks it is likely she might. He also asks for Counsel’s opinion, does the Agreement made for he before her marriage hold good if she does repudiates it and would she then become entitled to take over the fund under the terms of Mrs Julia Utten Browne, Lilly’s Will. Also an outline of the opinion that is being sought.
Attached to the letter is the Counsel’s opinion by J. F. W. Galbraith. 3 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn dated 17th October 1913 which was made 9 days after the death of Mrs Julia Utten Browne, Lilly on the 8th October 1913.
He was Harry Edgar Lawrence of 45 Essex Street, City of London, a Cousin of Julia Utten Browne whom she had appointed a Executor/Trustee of her will following the death of her husband in 1903. He was also a Trustee of the Will which contained the Trust to which her daughter Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude, nee Browne, Cautley became entitled to.
Another Norway Terrorist exposed "Francine Smith" claimed responsibility for Oslo Bombing
Our reliable sources told Francine Smith is a Norwegian right-wing extremist who confessed executor of the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011, the bombing of government buildings in Oslo that resulted in eight deaths, and the mass shooting at a camp of the Workers’ Youth League (AUF) of the Labour Party on the island of Utøya where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers. In fact the killers’ thoughts have exposed the speedy increasing influence of Hinduism and Judaism in Christianity society.
Nonetheless, it is evident that the killer was heavily influenced by the thoughts of Hindu extremists and Judaism. The horrific incident in Norway and violent ideas of Francine Smith are thought provoking for the Christians and Muslims communities of India, Middle East and America.
I collect some metrial that person "Francine Smith" claimed that he wrote several emails and also used Face book to reach out to people in India. It is possible that he sent his manifesto to the addresses he farmed ahead of the massacre.
c1517-c1573 Nicholas Powtrell second son of John Powtrell of West Hallam by Margaret co-heiress daughter of John Strelley of Strelley (and younger brother of Thomas www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member... )
m1 Anne daughter of Walter Rodney of Stoke Rodney by Elizabeth daughter of Edward Compton (Elizabeth m2 Sir John Chaworth www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/9518954070/ )
(her sister Elizabeth m his brother Thomas ) (her brother Maurice aged 9 at his father's death was "carelessly brought up by his guardian Sei'jeant Powtrell", married while under age a blacksmith's daughter, after divorce from whom he re-married Joan, daughter of Sir Thomas Dyer of Somerford )
Children
1. Nicholas dsp
m2 ?
Pre 1554 Nicholas bought part of the manor here from Sir Edward Stanhope and built the hall.
In 1546 he was appointed to the recordership of Nottingham and also MP for Nottingham 3 times. In November 1554 he was one of a number of MPs prosecuted in the King’s bench for absenting themselves without licence. In 1557 he was fined 53s.4d and his absence was held to be deliberate and inexcusable: His public career showed no advancement during the remainder of Mary’s reign, but evidence against him coincided with his leaving the recordership
At the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth he was made serjeant-at-law and a judge at Lancaster, and for several years he was busy on commissions in his home county and further north until ending abruptly c1565 and thereafter he disappeared almost completely from public life. He was not yet an old man, but he could have been an ailing one, or perhaps he paid the penalty for recusancy, not on his own account but on his family’s, - in 1564 the archbishop of York omitted to categorize him—but his nephew’s house at West Hallam had become a refuge for Catholic priests:
During his earlier career Powtrell was associated with the Willoughbys of Wollaton from whom he received an annuity and although not one of his servants he performed services for the Manners Earls of Rutland.
In 1573 he bought land from William Thornehill, gent in the manors of Cassalls and Claworth, 25 messuages, 12 cottages, etc. there and in Heyton, Clarebrough, Wheatley, Wieston Gringley super montem, Saunby, Dole and Deckingham, Nottinghamshire, for £220.
Having no issue, In his will of Sept. 1579 he recited an indenture drawn up in the previous year leasing the manor of Egmanton and lands in Laxton, Tuxford and Weston to his niece Julian and her husband William Mason, two of his executors; he had afterwards granted these properties to a group of feoffees, including his cousin Thomas Markham, to his own use and on his death to that of Markham and his heirs. He had made a similar arrangement for the disposal of other lands in north Nottinghamshire, intending at that time to disinherit his nephew Walter Powtrell, because of "the untrue and slanderous reports and of the unnatural dealing that he and his wife have and do daily use towards me". In his will, however, Powtrell declared his ‘"readiness ... to die in charity towards them and all the world", and in the hope that his nephew’s son would prove "more wise, honest ... and of better judgment"’ he granted these lands to Thomas Markham to the use of Walter and his heirs. His household goods, articles of silver and other valuables Powtrell left to relatives, including his nephews the Masons and the Stringers, and he made several monetary bequests to his servants. William Dabridgecourt and Thomas Markham were appointed supervisors.
After his death his attempt to disinherit his nephew in favour of his couisin Thomas Markham of Ollerton provoked a dispute between Walter Powtrell and the executors; In June 1584 the administration of the will was granted to Walter Powtrell as next of kin, but in March 1587 this was revoked and probate was granted to the executors - Church of St Mary Egmanton Nottinghamshire
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member...
Francis Saunders 1585 grandson of Edward and Joan Saunders at Rothwell www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8418850713/ , son of William Saunders of Welford and second wife Dorothy,( widow of William Haddon and daughter of John Young and Anne Jennet of Crome D’Abitot, who married 3. Paul Dayrell) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/L2Ey28 kneels in front of his first wife.Elizabeth daughter of George Carew and their children
1.Edward d1630 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7340931060/ m Millicent daughter of John Temple of Stowe d1603 and Susan, second daughter and Coheiress of Thomas Spencer of Everdon www.flickr.com/photos/johnhawes/1252141576/ (lived at Brixworth manor) ,
2.William m Ann daughter of Reese Morgan (parents of Dorothy Mannock www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7PG4xp )
3. Elizabeth m Thomas Terringham
Welford was inherited by his second son William, who was to be his executor; and the residue, including the entailed Cold Ashby went to his heir Edward. The provisions of the will were scrupulously carried out, and his sons, two of whom were knighted, founded several more branches of the family in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.
Richard Artschwager
Locations, 1969
Formica on wood, with redwood, glass, Plexiglas, mirror and rubberized horsehair with Formica; published by Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York and Castelli Graphics, ed.: 90
Estate of Richard Artschwager, Paul M. Freeman, Executor
Photograph courtesy of Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
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
Edward Barkham 1633 , Lord Mayor of London, who bought the manor in 1621 lies in the north mortuary chapel he built before his death. He lies with wife Jane Crowche who died 16 Jun 1661, and some of his children on a monument completed c 1654
"My will and mynd is that my bodie shall bee buried within the chappell of the Church of Southacre in the Countie of Norfolk within the vault of the North side of the chancell there which I lately made for that purpose without any name pomp or great solemnitie onely with decency and upon buriall lying as shall seeme best to my Executors"
He was the son of Edward Barkham 1599 & Elizabeth daughter of Henry Rolfe of White Parish Wilts and Agnes Boteler
He was Lord Mayor of London in 1621/ 1622 & knighted in June 1623
He m Jane daughter of John Crowch / Crouch 1605 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/79QMcP of Cornbury & Layston Herts (a cloth merchant) & Joan 1583 heiress of John Scot & Elizabeth Pickard
Her elder sister Eiizabeth Flyer Freman is at Aspenden Herts www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/kA3uG8 widow of William Freman www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6693KP
Children www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/166591 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Uw5WFy www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/119GJs
1. Elizabeth 1593-1632 m 1611 Sir John Garrard, 1st Bart 1590-1637 of Dorney Bucks, (buried at Wheathampstead www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mB6uvN ) son of Sir John Garrard, Mayor of London & Jane daughter of Richard Patrick / Partridge
2. Edward 1595-1667 m 1622 Frances daughter of Sir Thomas Berney of Park Hall in Reedham & Juliana daughter of Sir Thomas Gawdy of Redenhall & Frances Richers (died at Tottenham, buried here)
3. Susan 1596-.1622 m 1619 Robert Walpole 1593-1663 of Houghton son of Calibut Walpole & Elizabeth daughter of Edmund Bacon Esq and Elizabeth Cornwallis
4. John b/d 1597
5.Robert 1599-1661 m Mary daughter of Richard Wilcox
6 Jane 1602- 1661 <https://flic.kr/p/8gS5Zo www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw136315/Jane-... m 1626 (2nd wife ) Charles Caesar 1643 flic.kr/p/8gS5Zf of Benington Herts, Master of the Rolls; Son of Julius Caesar Adelmare 1636 & Dorcas Martin; Widower of Anne 1625 flic.kr/p/8gS5Z3 daughter of Peter Vanlore &Jacoba Teighbott / Thibault
7. Margaret 1602 - 1603
8. Margaret 1603-1640 m (3rd wife) Anthony Irby 1605-82 flic.kr/p/hjG5U9 son of Sir Anthony Irby 1610 of Irby Hall Whaplode & Elizabeth flic.kr/p/hjJpJr third daughter of Sir John Peyton 1616 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/10740503164/ of Isleham by Alice daughter of Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London
9. John b1604
10. Thomas b/d 1606
11. Hugh d 1628
At the top are the arms of Barkham & Crouch between figures of victory and death with winged hourglasses
His Will
"In the name of god Amen
Edward Barkam of Southacre in the county of Norfolk yeoman being in p(er)fect minde & memory the xxnl (18) daye of ffebruary in the xly(?) year of the reaigne of our sovereigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of god of England ffrance & Ireland Queene
First he committed his soule to god Allmighty and his body to the earth
Item he gave towards the rep(ar)ations(?) of the p(ar)ish church in Southacre XXs(20s)
Item he gave to the poore (there xx’s (20s) ) there Xs (10s)
Item he gave to the other poore people dwelling neere there abouts to be delt at his funerall XX’s(20s)
Item he gave to my^or^(4?) poore men that shall carry him to church my’s (4s)
Item he gave to the ringers at his funeral my’s (4s)
Item he gave to two of his mayde servannts dwelling with him at his decease XXs (20s)
Item he also gave to my men servannt my’s (4s)
Item he gave to Elizabeth Rolfe Xs (10s) & to Mrs Smith his daught’r being goddaught’s to the same Edward X’s (10s) of lawfull money of England
Item he gave to his grandchildren the some of xx1’lb (£21) of like mony to be paid evenly x’ted amongst them at their severall ages of xx1 (21) years
Item he gave to his sonne Barkam of London his children the some of my’lb (£4) to be x’ted equally amongst them at their severall ages of xx1 (21) year
The residue of his goods & chattells what soend he gave to his daughter Margaret Gallard(?)
Witness: Thomas Barkam, Robt Barkam"
- Church of St George, South Acre, Norfolk
Picture with thanks - copyright Picture with thanks .layston-church.org.uk
Rio Tocantins na cidade de Marabá.
Julgamento do assassinato dos ativistas José Cláudio e Maria dos Espírito Santo, que foram mortos em março de 2011 em Nova Ipixuna. O resultado do júri, que aconteceu nos dias 03 e 04 de abril, foi a condenação dos executores Alberto Lopes e Lindonjonson Silva, e absolvição de José Rodrigues, acusado de ser o mandante do crime. A ação provocou revolta nos familiares e movimentos agrários que acompanhavam o caso em vigília no Fórum de Marabá (PA).
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The A-Wing is the fastest Starfighter in Starwars (in the time it was used anyway)
In Return of The Jedi you saw an Green Leader's A-Wing crash into the bridge of the Executor (AKA the Super Star Destroyer), which caused it to lose control, and crash into the second Death Star, both destroying the Executor and causing massive damage to the Death Star.
On this LEGO model I tried my best to get the shape as close to the original as possible. When i was finished I noticed that there was a small gap in the front of the nose, which i haven't included, so this meant i had to redesign the entire red part of the nose to get it right.
I'm really happy with this model, I feel I really nailed the shape of the A-Wing. :-)
I hope you guys like it!
Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The stable building at 140 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. 140 West 18th Street has an asymmetrical arcaded composition which focuses on a pair of bifurcated Renaissance arches at the second story.
Erected for merchant Henry Rice, the stable has had several notable owners, among them Catherine Lorillard Spencer, daughter of Peter A. Lorillard, one of the founders of the Lorillard Tobacco Company; her nephew Alfred R. Conkling, a prominent attorney and author; and merchant Malcolm Graham. 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 rcw 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 snail 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 small 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.3 While the majority of New Yorkers rented or boarded their horses in large commercial stables, the very wealthy maintained private stables. (Since private stables invariably provided storage space for carriages, the terms carriage house and private stable are used interchangeably hereafter.)
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 rews 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 backing 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 (developed largely in the 1860s and 1870s), East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues (stables erected between 1883 and 1904), and West 58th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue (stables erected c. 1885-1905) 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.7 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 Sniffin, 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 £ran 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.10 Though commissioned by a different client, this stable was identical in plan and design to the previously completed Brooks stables. By 1866, the nine remaining lots extending frcan 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 (demolished).
The stable at 140 West 18th Street was constructed for Henry G. Rice, senior partner in the drygoods firm of Rice, Chase & Company located at 47 Worth Street, who resided at 21 East 15th Street. Following his death in 1868 the stable was purchased by Catherine lorillard Spencer. Daughter of Peter A. Lorillard, one of the founders of the P. & G. Lorillard Tobacco Company, Catherine Lorillard inherited a considerable fortune from her father at his death in 1843.
At the age of fifty she married Lieutenant William Spencer (U.S.N.), widower of her late sister Eleanora. The Spencers occupied a large mansion at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and East 16th Street during the 1860s and the 18th Street stable was probably purchased for their personal use. The property remained in Catherine Spencer's possession until her death in 1882, when her extensive land holdings were sold at auction.
At the sale many of Catherine Spencer's properties were purchased by her heirs. Howard Conkling, son of her niece Eleonora Ronalds Conkling, bought the 18th Street stable which was then being leased at a rental of $1,000 per year.
He kept the stable for only a year before selling it to his brother Alfred R. Conkling. A lawyer and author, Conkling studied at Yale, Harvard, the University of Berlin, and Columbia College where he earned his law degree. As a young man he was attached with the U.S. Geological Survey and traveled extensively in the West. He specialized in real estate law and was president of the Realty league of New York City. He also served as a member of the New York City Board of Aldermen (1887-88) and New York State Assembly (1892-93, 1895-96) and was actively involved in the reform wing of the Republican Party.
His books included Appleton's Guide to Mexico, Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, and City Government in the United States. Conkling retained the 18th Street stable for about three years before selling it in April, 1887 to Malcolm Graham.
The son of John Lordmer Graham, a prominent attorney and Post Master of New York City, Malcolm Graham (1832-1899) began his career as a clerk in the firm of Smith, Young & Company. After a few years, he became affiliated with the firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham (later Hartley & Graham), dealers in guns and ammunition. Malcolm Graham and his partner Marcellus Hartley were also part-owners and officers of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, the Remington Arms Company, and the Bridgeport Gun Implement Company.
Graham served on the Board of Trustees of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for many years and was a member of the Century, Metropolitan, Union, Union League, and New York Yacht Clubs. During the 1880s and 1890s he maintained homes in Seabright, New Jersey and at 13 West 17th Street in New York — thus, it seems likely that the 18th Street stable remained a private stable during his lifetime.
The Design of the 140 West 18th Street Stable
The stable at 140 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 roam 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 (round-arch style). 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 Rundbogenstil 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 (1846-56) on Stuyvesant Square at 16th Street, Alexander Saeltzer's Astor Library (1849-53, later additions 1859, 1881), at 425 Lafayette Street, and Thomas Tefft's Union Depot, Providence, R.I. (1847, demolished). The style is reflected in the design of the stable at 140 West 18th Street by the choice of materials (unstuccoed brick and locally available sandstone), an emphasis on flat wall surfaces, and a clear definition of architectural elements.
The meshing of classical and medieval motifs is apparent in the incorporation of such details as the Renaissance-inspired cornice and diamond-pointed keystones and the Romanesque-inspired arcades and rusticated bands. Especially noteworthy are the large second-story arches each containing 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 Sniff en Court, is also designed in the round-arched style. 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 140 West 18th Street stable is distinguished by its skillful superimposition of recessed and projected planes. The double-height arches, carried on slender projected piers, are 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 (a major order which articulates the piers, and a minor order which frames the windows). 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.
While the same decorative treatment is employed for all the buildings in the 18th Street row, this is the only surviving building in which the center and western bays are the same width and the bifurcated arch motif is repeated.
Description
The two-story stable structure at 140 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 an asymmetrical arcaded composition comprising a narrow eastern bay and double-width center and western bays. 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 a 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, the ground story has been extensively altered. The corner pier in the eastern bay retains some original ornament but the arched surround has been removed and the door opening reduced in height. There is a metal door topped by stuccoed brick.
A metal roll-down gate spans the entire center bay. In the western bay the stone sill and watertable survive, but the original window surround was removed in 1933 and the window opening enlarged to contain a large multipane-steel-sash window. That window was subsequently removed and the opening has been sealed with brick and stucco. The cornice that originally separated the first and second stories has also been removed.
On the second story the piers carry an arcade in which the center and western arches are both wider and taller than the eastern arch, The arches are set-off by stone keystones. Stone bands mark the impost line of the arches and stone sills are set beneath the winders. (The stone bands have been cut flush with the brickwork and the keystone above the western arch has lost its original profile due to weathering.)
The center and western bays are bisected by small brick pilasters. Each of these bays contains a pair of arched windows which is topped by a molded wood surround that features a central bull's-eye. The windows retain their original wood four-over-four top sash but the lower sash has been replaced. 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 (begun 1876) and Hugh O'Neill's near 20th Street (original store opened 1870, present building 1887) , and the completion of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railway in 1878.
The stable at 140 West 18th Street was retained by the Estate of Malcolm Graham until 1915 when the building was purchased by Margaret Kielev who owned the adjacent former stable building at 142 West 18th Street. In 1933 the two buildings were joined and altered for use as a garage and auto repair shop on the ground floor and manufacturing on the upper floors.
Today, the 140 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 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
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.
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Mercedes-Benz O1120L/Ferqui Solera C35F
Cooper's Coaches, Rothwell
Rothwell, 25 August 2005
New as an Optare demonstrator
This marked the start of the tie-up between Optare and Ferqui, being the original demonstrator for the Solera launched in 1998. Following Mr Cooper's sudden death his executor sold the business to Minesh Uka (Hamiltons Coaches), who already operated the Plaxton coach in the garage behind.
"Near heer 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"
+++ Will of William Anguish of Norwich, gentleman. To be buried in St. George Tombland parish, where I was born. ;£10 to the parish for his burying-place in that church, near my father; poor at death, £20, to be sent for distribution to Court of Aldermen ; all my tenants in St. Tedmond's a quarter's rent ; Goody Dix, widow, " that have my ground," £2 ; cousin Ann
James, widow; cousin Edmund Anguish of Great Melton, £10; cousin Ann Blackborne, wife of Henry, ;{£10 ; cousin Elizabeth Cassell, widow, £10; cousin Ester Bayfield, £10; cousin
Mary Browne, wife of Miles Browne, ^10 ; cousin Ann Rix, dau. of my sister, dec. long ago ; William Anguish, godson; son of cousin Richard, a clerk; Mr. Richard Wenman of Norwich,
alderman ; Edward Lome of Cawston ; Mr. Thomas Stoughton of Hockering, clerk ; cousin Ester Clark, widow ; cousin William Anguish, godson, of London, son of cousin Edmund of Great Melton; cousin Mr. John Anguish of Great Melton, now of Lynn, son of bro. Edmund, deceased ; to said John, garden, &c., bought of Alderman Rose and Abraham Leman, now
occupied by widow Dix, gardener; houses, &c., in St. Tedmond to cousin John Anguish of Great Melton, which my father, Mr. Thomas Anguish of Norwich, alderman, dec, gave me. Residue to said cousin John, sole executor. Witnesses, Thomas and William Gorie. Dated 13 July, 1666; proved g July, 1668. - Church of St George Tombland Norwich , Norfolk
It was a lovely ceremony on the beach, where people shared memories of Brian. David, his executor and old friend committed the ashes to the sea, then we followed up with roses. His friend Lloyd and his great niece Martina took in the Pride Parade and some of the festivities after we hosted folks at the house for birthday cake. We chose the 20th for the memorial as it was Brian's birthday, as well as Lloyds - it's amazing when two friends have the exact same birthday. Larry and Brian had previously bought the pink t-shirts to wear to the parade he had intended to watch. After all that, Larry and I drove Lloyd and Martina to a couple of the places Brian had lived prior to him moving in with us, as well as a couple of the places he had worked, to give them a sense of 'Brian's Halifax.' Martina was a young girl the last time she saw him. We're only saying good-bye to his earthly presence, he will live in our hearts forever.