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This photograph was taken at 11:10am on Wednesday 4th May 2016 off Sooke River Road in the grounds of Sooke Potholes Provincial Park, a free to visit seven hectare provincial park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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Found in Marshfield Vermont just outside of Montpelier is a covered bridge that's sole existence is for the love of covered bridges.
Steam engine exhibits, vintage vehicles, heavy shire horses and rural crafts. Working rural displays on a 500-acre site including old time steam funfair. Widely recognised as the leading event of its type in the world with 2,000 exhibits, 800 trade stalls and over 220 full size steam engines. At over 600 acres, the show ground is one of Europe's largest outdoor event locations. Established in 1969, for the first 15 years of its existence the steam fair then known as ~ Stourpaine Steam Fair' ~ was held at Stourpaine Bushes, then in 1985 it temporarily moved to nearby Everley Hill, following a land dispute. In 1988, after 3 years at Everley Hill, where access by large crowds was difficult, it moved to its current permanent home at Tarrant Hinton, north of Blandford Forum, where access is vastly improved.
A speciality of the show is the display of traction engines and steam rollers performing the work for which they were designed. Such displays include heavy haulage, threshing, sawing logs, ploughing and road-making. The main arena of the show is purposely sited on the slope of a hill to allow both steam- and internal combustion-powered machinery to demonstrate their capacity for heavy load hauling. One of the main displays is the ~ Showman's Line up, in the vintage fairground section, which is thought to be the largest collection of showman's engines in the world.
Since 2003, the show has contracted its own radio station, Steam Fair FM, broadcasting 24 hours daily from the Saturday prior to the show, to the Monday following – 10 days in all. The station, which is also streamed on the internet, covers show news and views, weather and other relevant information with plenty of listener dedications and a format of Vintage Hits. During the event, the station is advertised on roads in the surrounding area and provides traffic news for drivers using the A354 Blandford to Salisbury road that passes the show site.
With 1,000 trade stands, 2,000 exhibitors and their families, together with our campers on the public campsites (5,000 caravans and tents) it is estimated that the population living on site amounts to 25,000 people at any one time.
Total number of people expected to see the show is in excess of 200,000.
An army of workers distribute and collect the 2,500 litter bins on site and 180/200 tonnes of rubbish is taken away each year.
Each year there are more than 300 paid staff and volunteers working during the five-day show period.
Each year we have 360,000 promotional brochures printed, 65,000 car window stickers and 50,000 posters. These are printed 10 months before the show and then distributed over the next few months all around the UK and to overseas destinations.
Due to planning regulations, actual site preparations do not begin until only 2 weeks before the event commences and we have just 10 days to clear the site afterwards and put it back to a working farm.
Over 2 miles of water piping is laid and over 3,100,000 litres of water is used during the show each year! 2,100,000 litres are used by the engines alone, along with 1,000,000 litres used for domestic and drinking purposes. 750,000 litres of all the water is brought onto site by tankers with a full time team of 6 workers during the show and for a week before.
Over 10 miles of electric cable are used with over 100 floodlights erected and 200 socket outlets placed. 30 large generators have to be hired each year and just one generator is powerful enough to supply electricity to a small village. Electricity has to be provided to 6 entertainment pavilions, 4 shower blocks and other marquees and to our administration and emergency services centre. they have 3 full time and one part time electricians on site.
Each year over 200 tonnes of coal are used.
Over 560 barrels of beer were drunk at last year’s show.
80 tonnes of wood will be cut in this year’s wood sawing section.
16 acres of corn is cut before the show starts by an old time binder with 10 large ricks erected in readiness for the threshing demonstrations. The reed from the demonstrations is then sold to local thatchers who use it on thatched cottages all over Dorset and the neighbouring counties.
'The proof of the existence of God is not outside you; it is inside you.' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
State of the Vatican City, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the capital city of Italy. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 acres) (0.44 km2), and a population of just over 800.[5][12]
Vatican City is a city-state that came into existence in 1929. It is distinct from the Holy See, which dates back to early Christianity and is the main episcopal see of 1.147 billion Latin and Eastern Catholic adherents around the globe. Ordinances of Vatican City are published in Italian; official documents of the Holy See are issued mainly in Latin. The two entities even have distinct passports: the Holy See, not being a country, only issues diplomatic and service passports; the state of Vatican City issues normal passports. In both cases the passports issued are very few.
The Lateran Treaty in 1929, which brought the city-state into existence, spoke of it as a new creation (Preamble and Article III), not as a vestige of the much larger Papal States (756-1870) that had previously encompassed central Italy. Most of this territory was absorbed into the Kingdom of Italy in 1860, and the final portion, namely the city of Rome with a small area close to it, ten years later, in 1870.
Vatican City is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state, ruled by the bishop of Rome—the Pope. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergymen of various nationalities. It is the sovereign territory of the Holy See (Sancta Sedes) and the location of the Pope's residence, referred to as the Apostolic Palace.
The Popes have resided in the area that in 1929 became Vatican City since the return from Avignon in 1377. Previously, they resided in the Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill on the opposite side of Rome, which site Constantine gave to Pope Miltiades in 313. The signing of the agreements that established the new state took place in the latter building, giving rise to the name of Lateran Pacts, by which they are known.
The name "Vatican" is ancient and predates Christianity, coming from the Latin Mons Vaticanus, meaning Vatican Mount. The territory of Vatican City is part of the Mons Vaticanus, and of the adjacent former Vatican Fields where St. Peter's Basilica, the Apostolic Palace, the Sistine Chapel, and museums were built, along with various other buildings. The area was part of the Roman rione of Borgo until 1929. Being separated from the city, on the west bank of the Tiber river, the area was an outcrop of the city that was protected by being included within the walls of Leo IV (847–55), and later expanded by the current fortification walls, built under Paul III (1534–49), Pius IV (1559–65) and Urban VIII (1623–44). When the Lateran Treaty of 1929 that gave the state its present form was being prepared, the boundaries of the proposed territory were influenced by the fact that much of it was all but enclosed by this loop. For some tracts of the frontier, there was no wall, but the line of certain buildings supplied part of the boundary, and for a small part of the frontier a modern wall was constructed. The territory includes St. Peter's Square, distinguished from the territory of Italy only by a white line along the limit of the square, where it touches Piazza Pio XII. St. Peter's Square is reached through the Via della Conciliazione which runs from the Tiber River to St. Peter's. This grand approach was constructed by Benito Mussolini after the conclusion of the Lateran Treaty.
According to the Lateran Treaty, certain properties of the Holy See that are located in Italian territory, most notably Castel Gandolfo and the major basilicas, enjoy extraterritorial status similar to that of foreign embassies. These properties, scattered all over Rome and Italy, house essential offices and institutions necessary to the character and mission of the Holy See.
Castel Gandolfo and the named basilicas are patrolled internally by police agents of Vatican City State and not by Italian police. St. Peter's Square is ordinarily policed jointly by both.
In this originally uninhabited area (the ager vaticanus) on the opposite side of the Tiber from the city of Rome, Agrippina the Elder (14 BC – 18 October AD 33) drained the hill and environs and built her gardens in the early 1st century AD. Emperor Caligula (37-41) started construction of a circus (AD 40) that was later completed by Nero, the Circus Gaii et Neronis, usually called, simply, the Circus of Nero. The Vatican obelisk was originally taken by Caligula from Heliopolis, Egypt to decorate the spina of his circus and is thus its last visible remnant. This area became the site of martyrdom of many Christians after the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64. Ancient tradition holds that it was in this circus that Saint Peter was crucified upside down. Opposite the circus was a cemetery separated by the Via Cornelia. Funeral monuments and mausoleums and small tombs as well as altars to pagan gods of all kinds of polytheistic religions were constructed lasting until before the construction of the Constantinian Basilica of St. Peter's in the first half of the 4th century. Remains of this ancient necropolis were brought to light sporadically during renovations by various popes throughout the centuries increasing in frequency during the Renaissance until it was systematically excavated by orders of Pope Pius XII from 1939 to 1941.
In 326, the first church, the Constantinian basilica, was built over the site that early Roman Catholic apologists (from the first century on) as well as noted Italian archaeologists argue was the tomb of Saint Peter, buried in a common cemetery on the spot. From then on the area started to become more populated, but mostly only by dwelling houses connected with the activity of St. Peter's. A palace was constructed near the site of the basilica as early as the 5th century during the pontificate of Pope Symmachus (reigned 498–514)
Popes in their secular role gradually came to govern neighbouring regions and, through the Papal States, ruled a large portion of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when all of the territory of the Papal States was seized by the newly created Kingdom of Italy. For much of this time the Vatican was not the habitual residence of the Popes, but rather the Lateran Palace, and in recent centuries, the Quirinal Palace, while the residence from 1309–77 was at Avignon in France.
In 1870, the Pope's holdings were left in an uncertain situation when Rome itself was annexed by the Piedmont-led forces which had united the rest of Italy, after a nominal resistance by the papal forces. Between 1861 and 1929 the status of the Pope was referred to as the "Roman Question". They were undisturbed in their palace, and given certain recognitions by the Law of Guarantees, including the right to send and receive ambassadors. But they did not recognize the Italian king's right to rule in Rome, and they refused to leave the Vatican compound until the dispute was resolved in 1929. Other states continued to maintain international recognition of the Holy See as a sovereign entity. In practice Italy made no attempt to interfere with the Holy See within the Vatican walls. However, they confiscated church property in many other places, including, perhaps most notably, the Quirinal Palace, formerly the pope's official residence. Pope Pius IX (1846–78), the last ruler of the Papal States, claimed that after Rome was annexed he was a "Prisoner in the Vatican". This situation was resolved on 11 February 1929 between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy.
The treaty was signed by Benito Mussolini on behalf of King Victor Emmanuel III and by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri for Pope Pius XI. The Lateran Treaty and the Concordat established the independent State of the Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy. In 1984, a new concordat between the Holy See and Italy modified certain provisions of the earlier treaty, including the position of Roman Catholicism as the Italian state religion.
Bury St Edmunds Cathedral for most of its existence was simply the parish church of St James until the foundation of the new diocese of St Edmundsbury in 1914 when it was raised to cathedral status, one of the many new dioceses formed in the early 20th century that elevated existing parish churches to diocesan rank rather than purpose building a new cathedral. Many of these 'parish church cathedrals' sit slightly awkwardly with their new status, lacking in the scale and grandeur that befits such a title, but of all of them Bury St Edmunds has been adapted to its new role the most successfully, with in my opinion the most beautiful results.
The medieval church consisted of the present nave, built in 1503-51 under master mason John Wastell, with an earlier chancel that was entirely rebuilt in 1711 and again in 1870. Originally it would have seemed a fairly minor building at the entrance to the monastic precinct, overshadowed by the enormous abbey church that once stood immediately behind it. The absence of this magnificent church since the Dissolution and the scant remains of this vast edifice always sully my visits here with a sense of grievous loss, had history been kinder it would have served as the cathedral here instead and likely be celebrated as one of the grandest in the country.
The church never had a tower of its own since the adjacent Norman tower of the Abbey gateway served the role of a detached campanile perfectly. It is an impressive piece of Romanesque architecture and one of the best preserved 12th century towers in the country.
Upon being raised to cathedral status in 1914 the building underwent no immediate structural changes but plans were made to consider how best to transform a fairly ordinary church into a worthy cathedral. This task was appointed to architect Stephen Dykes Bower and work began in 1959 to extend the building dramatically. Between 1963-1970 the entire Victorian chancel was demolished and replaced with a much grander vision of a lofty new choir and shallow transepts, remarkably all executed in traditional Gothic style in order to harmonize with the medieval nave. It is incredible to think that this was done in the 1960s, a period in which church and cathedral buildings were otherwise constructed in the most self consciously modern forms ever seen, with delicate neo-medieval masonry in place of brick and concrete.
The new crossing of transepts and choir however remained crowned by the stump of a tower for the remainder of the century as funds were not available to finish Dykes Bower's complete vision of a lantern tower over the crossing: this was only realised at the beginning of the 21st century, aided by a legacy left in the architect's will and some subtle design changes under his successor as architect Hugh Matthews. The transformation from church to cathedral was finally completed in 2005 with most satisfactory results. A stunning fan-vault was installed within the new tower in 2010, an exquisite finishing touch.
Whilst it isn't a large building by cathedral standards its newer parts do much to give it the shape and dignity of one. This is especially apparent within, where the cruciform eastern limb draws the eye. The interior is enlivened by much colour, with the ceilings of Dykes Bower's choir and transepts adorned with rich displays of stencilling, whilst the nave ceiling (a Victorian replacement for the medieval one) was redecorated in similarly lively colours in the 1980s which helps to unify the old and new parts of the church.
Few fittings or features remain from the medieval period, most of the furnishings being Victorian or more recent, but one window in the south aisle retains a rich display of early 16th century stained glass, very much Renaissance in style. The remaining glass is nearly all Victorian, some of the windows in the new choir having been transferred from the previous chancel.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral is not filled with the monuments and fittings that make other great churches so rewarding to linger in but it is a real architectural delight and cannot fail to uplift the spirit.
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
~ Herbert W. Boyer
Jake Pitts & Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides, live at the Best Buy Theater NYC 11.23.14
Check out the gallery on Music Existence: musicexistence.com/blog/2014/11/25/gallery-black-veil-bri...
The existence of the estate in its current form goes back over 230 years to its creator Thomas Harley. But since then only two other families have owned the property; the Rodneys and the Cawleys.
Berrington was essentially created by one man, Thomas Harley, who bought the estate around 1775. He made his fortune as a banker and government contractor in London, but had long family links with Herefordshire, to which, in his mid-40s, he was keen to retire from the hurly-burly of City politics.
Harley commissioned ‘Capability’ Brown to lay out the park, which has spectacular views west towards Wales and the Black Mountains. Around 1778 he also called in Brown’s son-in-law, Henry Holland, to design him a new house in the latest French influenced Neo-classical style, using the finest London craftsman.
Harley had no male heir, but was delighted when in 1781 his daughter Anne married the son of Admiral Lord Rodney, a great naval commander.
On Harley’s death in 1804, Berrington passed to the Rodney family, who lived there for the next 95 years. Unfortunately George, the 7th Lord Rodney lost the family wealth in the late 19th century; first selling off furniture and paintings. He was finally forced to sell the house in 1901.
The house was purchased in 1901 by Frederick Cawley MP (later to become Lord Cawley), a wealthy Lancashire cotton finisher who bought a new lease of life to Berrington. He redecorated the house with considerable sympathy and many of his schemes still survive. He replaced ugly Victorian fire grates with more appropriate Georgian models but otherwise did little to disturb Holland’s beautiful original design.
It was in this cherished state that the house came to the National Trust in 1957 in part payment for death duties for the second Lord Cawley.
Backbone Solidarity Brigade of Maryland made a field trip to the confederate statue of General Lee calling for the Dismantling of White Supremacy.
They paid a visit to the Virginia state house emblazoning the face of it with guerrilla light projection messages calling for Medicare for All, protesting fossil fuel pipelines and demanding they "Respect Existence of Expect Resistance."
(Photos curtesy of Richmond DSA)
Amongst all the poor trapped souls complaining about their existence here, there are plenty of hostile beings.
Another mascara combo pack for marketplace.
When I released all my makeups at Kozmetika, I forgot to make a fatpack poster for the marketplace. Duh me >.<
from the book
STRATEGIES d'EXISTENCE"
from the book
STRATEGIES d'EXISTENCE" by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel
ISBN877245456949
Rhodos Publishing h
from the book
STRATEGIES d'EXISTENCE" by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel
ISBN877245456949
Rhodos Publishing house 1996
Strobist:
AB1600 1/2 power Above Camera Left
Large Softbox
Canon 40D 17-40L + UV Filter
Took some promos with these fellers a few months back with the "fire flower" idea, went for some more casual ones this time, not to mention a member change.
A bunchhhh of shots coming soon (:
Well it’s about time!
A high school that advances to the state basketball tournament 13 times in its first 60 years of existence isn’t prepared for a drought lasting three decades. But that’s how long it’s been for the Roosevelt boys since their last appearance in 1982. Luckily the girls have kept the blue and white community’s thirst for state tourney runs quenched in recent years with five straight from 2004-08 including the championship in 2006. But the Rider faithful can’t wait for tonight’s matchup against Dubuque Senior at Wells Fargo Arena, scheduled to tip at 6:35. Nearly 1,000 tickets to tonight’s game have been sold out of the school office alone, they’ve run out of state tourney t-shirts and the pep assembly this morning in the gymnasium was worthy of the longstanding TRHS reputation for school spirit.
Senior Chris Bennett is the team’s driveshaft and his father played for the Roosevelt team that won it all in 1978. Chris been hearing about that magical season all his life, though he says he’s been whipping his dad in H-O-R-S-E since “about 2nd grade.” Bennett and his fellow senior starters Tate Larsen, the school’s recently crowned “Man of the Year,” and Trey Burkhall have been opponents going back as far as 4th grade and inseparable teammates ever since their middle school days at Merrill. For The Three Basketeers the state tourney berth is especially sweet, even a vindication of sorts. Long and winding story short, a team standout transferred to Valley two seasons ago and with him, many figured, went the Riders’ chances to rekindle the school’s basketball preeminence.
But to the credit of the senior triumvirate, their supporting cast of current teammates, Roosevelt Principal Kathie Danielson and Coach Chris McMahon (TRHS Class of ’98) the school is back where it belongs, among the state’s roundball elite. At times you could even say it’s been a rough ride. But in a poetic twist, their ticket to “The Well” was punched in a heart-stopping triumph over Valley in last week’s sub-state final.
There’s a line in the Roosevelt fight song that goes, “unfurl her banners to the sky…” To punctuate this morning’s raucous celebration in the gym Coach McMahon told the crowd that in all the hoopla following the sub-state triumph the team neglected to collect its State Qualifier banner to hang along with all the others that decorate the gym walls. That was Danielson’s cue to unveil it at midcourt and present it to the plucky team while the packed house roared.
The festivities were at once energized and relaxed in the comforts of the team’s home court surrounded by their full-throated supporters. But there is pressure. They’ll have to win in primetime tonight to secure a field trip for their fellow students during class time on Friday!
“Stand up and cheer for dear old Roosevelt…”
earth/architecture/sky, grounded/interaction/ephemeral, horizontal/vertical/open. modalities of energy and consciousness. notes for a poem on the planes of existence.
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SPEAK YOUR DREAMS INTO EXISTENCE / WEALTHY MINDS Murals by Shawn Perkins in collaboration with Billionaire P.A at Union Market District along 5th Street between Florida Avenue and Morse Street, NE, Washington DC on Monday afternoon, 31 January 2022 by Elvert Barnes Photography
SHAWN PERKINS website at www.sptheplug.com/
Elvert Barnes GRAFFITI Writings On The Wall 2022 at elvertxbarnes.com/graffiti
Elvert Barnes Public Art 2022 at elvertxbarnes.com/public-art-2022
Trip to / from Union Market District, NE, and Columbia Heights, NW, Washington DC
Elvert Barnes January 2022 at elvertxbarnes.com/january-2022
Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing but not so fast and considering what is more that as a result of the labors left unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew and Cunard it is established beyond all doubt all other doubt than that which clings to the labors of men that as a result of the labors unfinished of Testew and Cunnard it is established as hereinafter but not so fast for reasons unknown that as a result of the public works of Puncher and Wattmann it is established beyond all doubt that in view of the labors of Fartov and Belcher left unfinished for reasons unknown of Testew and Cunard left unfinished it is established what many deny that man in Possy of Testew and Cunard that man in Essy that man in short that man in brief in spite of the strides of alimentation and defecation wastes and pines wastes and pines and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts penicillin and succedanea in a word I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown but time will tell fades away I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead loss per head since the death of Bishop Berkeley being to the tune of one inch four ounce per head approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Connemara in a word for reasons unknown no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is more much more grave that in the light of the labors lost of Steinweg and Peterman it appears what is more much more grave that in the light the light the light of the labors lost of Steinweg and Peterman that in the plains in the mountains by the seas by the rivers running water running fire the air is the same and then the earth namely the air and then the earth in the great cold the great dark the air and the earth abode of stones in the great cold alas alas in the year of their Lord six hundred and something the air the earth the sea the earth abode of stones in the great deeps the great cold on sea on land and in the air I resume for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis the facts are there but time will tell I resume alas alas on on in short in fine on on abode of stones who can doubt it I resume but not so fast I resume the skull fading fading fading and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labors abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Cunard (mêlée, final vociferations) tennis . . . the stones . . . so calm . . . Cunard . . . unfinished . . .
Lucky's lament in Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, 1952
The existence of a domain on this spot is attested as early as the VIth century. Much later, between 1806 and 1807, Marie-Etienne Lebouteux-Dumousseau built "la Cité du Retiro" between rue du Faubourg Saint-Honré and rue Boissy d'Anglas. This is where George Haentschel - ceramist, collector, art merchant and interior decorator before the expression was coined - worked.
Ricardo Bofill was put in charge of the restauration, which mostly consisted of tearing down two thirds of the old buildings and replacing them whith a steel and glass structure. Only a couple of facades remain, but the buildings behind them were gutted and completely rebuilt. In 2005, the lot was sold by the French Unibail to the Irish Bank of Ireland Private Banking for the obscene amount of 285 million Euros. In the summer of 2007, there were rumors of an offer from the German fund KanAm Grund for 370 million Euros. It is not publicly known if the deal went through or was an early casuaty of the credit crisis. The 21 000 m² buildings are occupied by the seat of Cartier International.
Week 4::
I'm late on this week due to the cold front that hit my state. The cold really made me loose motivation to go out this week. I went out a few times this week to get a levitation shot, but I was really disappointed with my results. Then today I landed with this shot and it turned out!!!
On a side note, I still have 1.5 weeks till i start school again!!!! I want to go back. Ever since I got back from my travels, I haven't really done anything. I finally ordered all my books for class so i'll probably get a head start with that. Otherwise, my life consists of sleep, eat, & working out. Might as well enjoy it since this semester's going to hectic!
This proves the existence of the iCloud..... all that info floating around in the clouds, including my head! iPhone image.
Life is not so easy. These people travel hundreds of Miles on the back of trucks and come to the city to sell their Cows. These cows are not like animals to them, rather these are like their own sons because they take so much care of them for months that their is a special bonding between them. When they arrive in the "Cow Huts" to sell their cows, they have to sleep, cook and eat in the same same place with their cows.
Eid Mubarak Everyone!
Tony pointed out that I have not mentioned Dover Castle much in my blogs.
Maybe this is true, but then it does dominate the town, towering over the roofs, and visible from most parts of the town.
And yet, it is some years since I was last here, and would not have gone today had Tony not been here.
Planned like a military operation, we were waiting on the approach road at five to ten, so to be in early, as my aim was to snap the church, St Mary in Castro, as my last shots were none too good.
So after parking, paying, I split from Tony and begin the climb to the highest point of the hill.
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St Mary in Castro, or St Mary de Castro, is a church in the grounds of Dover Castle, Kent, south-east England. It is a heavily restored Saxon structure, built next to a Roman lighthouse which became the church bell-tower. St Mary serves the local population and the army, and is the church of the Dover Garrison.
There are records of a church being built 'within the castle' (Latin 'in castra') by Eadbald of Kent in the 630s. However, it is unclear whether this means within the Saxon burgh (usually dated to later than 630) on the Eastern Heights, or within the ruins of old Roman fortifications in the valley. The large, late-Saxon cemetery around the present church does suggest the existence of a c.600 church,[4] but not definitively.
Whether or not it had a predecessor, the present Saxon church was built on the Eastern Heights around AD1000. It is immediately adjacent to the surviving eastern pharos, which was used as a source of spolia: Roman tiles can be still be seen in the church fabric, particularly in the window arches (usually of stone), and flint and tile from the pharos is used throughout the church's walls.[4] The plinth that projects out from beneath the church and on which it stands, however, is of new stone. The church is cruciform with a central tower the same width as the nave but broader than the chancel and transepts.[4] The nave has no aisles. The door arch is the earliest to survive in any standing church in England.
The Early English vault and the altar recess in the southeast corner of the nave were probably both added to the existing church at the end of the twelfth century. As part of his building works at the castle, in 1226 Henry III of England instructed that the church be repaired and twenty-one years later ordered the making of three altars and images, for and of St. Edmund, St. Adrian and St. Edward, along with an image of St. John the Evangelist.
A new stage was added to the four surviving Roman stages (out of a possible original eight) of the pharos to turn it into a bell tower, along with a short passage to connect it to the church. In 1252, three bells were cast at Canterbury to be hung in the pharos. In 1342–3, three bells were sold out of St Mary in Castro to another St Mary's church, in the nearby village of Lower Hardres, for at least £4.[5] They were replaced in 1345 by two newly cast bells, weighing 4266 lb and 1078 lb, and costing £15 18s. 5¼d.[3] Between 1426 and 1437, works on the pharos cost £176 11s. 11½d and included five new stone windows in the medieval stage, which may have been rebuilt.[3]
Other works on the church included repainting between 1324 and 1334 by "John of Maidstone", and over £36 spent on church and keep in 1494, although the proportion spent on the church is unknown. The latter work was by Sir Edward Poynings, who may well have been deputising for Prince Henry, then the Castle's Constable.
From 1555 to 1557 the church was walled up as it was felt unsafe due to lack of repairs, though nineteen years later recommendations were made to repair the chancel in stone, glaze (or reglaze) the windows and provide seats for men to hear divine service. It took another six years, but in 1582 fourteen small chairs were at last bought. Public worship then lasted to 1690, though burials of troops from the garrison in the surrounding churchyard continued for some time after that.
The remaining ruin was turned into a storehouse and cooperage in 1780, but a further collapse in 1801 led to its becoming a coal store by 1808, and thus it remained until 1860. That year began the first of two Victorian restorations. The first lasted until 1862 and was carried out by George Gilbert Scott, and the second restoration for only a year in 1888, by William Butterfield. Butterfield's restoration completed the tower and added mosaic work in the nave and a vestry, but was generally held to be less sympathetic than the first by Scott.
The 28-feet-high arches at the east and west ends of the crossing appear to be original, and their west faces are outlined by strip work of projecting tiles. A tall round-headed, stone-faced doorway (now blocked and with not much left of its original stripwork outline, but with its typically Saxon alternating horizontal and vertical slabs) gave access to the nave from the south. Unusual double splayed round-headed windows pierce the nave's north and south walls, and Scott (who found them during his restoration) suggested there were another pair near the west end of the nave's side walls. He saw this pair of windows, and putlog holes in the walls for supporting timbers, as evidence for a west gallery, for which space needed to be left between that pair of windows and the west wall.
The church is a Grade I listed building.
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The church of St Mary-in-Castro, or St Mary-in-the-Castle, stands on a raised earthwork thought to date from pre-Roman times. This picture, taken from the Sea Front, shows it illuminated by a winter sunset. A section of the Castle walls with one of the towers can be seen on the left of the picture, while on the far right you can see one of the chain of beacons that were built in 1988 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the defeat of the Armada.
"It is said to be the oldest church in the country, and it certainly was the first built in Dover. When it was founded, about the year 180 the whole of the population of Dover occupied this hill top. During a long lapse into heathenism this Church fell into ruin, but it was reconstructed under Augustine, the first Bishop of Canterbury, about A.D. 600, and King Eadbald, A.D. 620 established a college of Secular Canons, who served this church until they were removed to their new house and church of St. Martin beside the River Dour A.D. 700. After that date the services of the Castle Church were continued by three Chaplains, supported out of the Manor of Cocklescombe in the Parish of Lydden; but, after the Reformation their number was reduced to one. There was a regular succession of chaplains until A.D. 1690, when, owing to the ruinous state of the church, public worship therein was discontinued. After that the stipend, amounting to between thirty and forty pounds continued to be paid for more than a century, but the recipient never did duty. This church was used by the Castle Garrison for about 600 years, and during that time many distinguished persons were buried within it, while for the soldiers and their families there was a burial ground on the south and east sides of the church, within the limits of the Roman entrenchment. After the discontinuance of the services in 1690 the burials in the Castle Churchyard ceased, the Castle Garrison interments, which were few, taking place mostly at St. James's Church." (JBJ 1916)
The church fell into ruins in the Stuart period and was restored by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1860. Apparently, the bells of the church were originally hung in the Pharos tower, which was extended for the purpose; when they ceased to be used, they were given to a church in Portsmouth. This gave rise to the saying that the bells of Dover Castle could be heard in Portsmouth.
The church plate was lent to the clergy of St. James's, which was then used by the garrison.
"In 1780 the ruins of the Castle Church were converted into a cooperage and storehouse, and in 1794 it was transformed into a barrack room, but, on Christmas Day, 1801, the south-west corner of the nave collapsed, and large portions of the south and west walls fell. The interior was then choked up with debris, but in 1808 it was cleared out and used as a coal store. Having been reduced to these base uses for a period of 170 years, in 1860 its restoration was taken hand by Sir Gilbert Scott, on behalf of the War Department, and in 1862, the edifice with its ancient architectural features carefully preserved, was re-opened as the Castle Garrison Church, and placed in charge of the Senior Chaplain of the Forces at Dover." (JBJ 1916)
"The Rev. Canon Puckle, who very minutely examined the structure during its restoration in 1860, and Mr. Loftus Brock, Secretary of the Royal Archaeological Institute, both regarded this church as of Roman period; and the Rev. S. P. H. Statham, who appears to have very carefully considered all that has been written about it, came to the conclusion that the church was originally built as a Roman fortress, probably in the first century of the Christian era, and converted into a church during the last century of the Roman occupation of Britain." (J.B.J. 1907)
It would seem that Bavington Jones did not read what Canon Puckle had to say in his description of the building:
"... the plainest argument is furnished by the consideration of the materials themselves. Without dwelling on the absence of any recorded testimony, wee see, I think, internal evidence enough against any pure Roman origin of this building. There is no tufa to be found in it, while tufa may be called almost the staple material of the Roman tower adjoining. So very characteristic a sign of Roman building must indicate by its absence that Roman builders were not the workmen here. And the interval must probably have been considerable between the time when this material was so freely employed, and when it had passed so entirely into disuse.
"Again, neither of the two descriptions of concrete, or mortar, found in the Tower, can be identified with that which occurs uniformly in all parts of the Church. The difference might not be thought great; but it is peculiar and well-defined. The former was a more simple concrete, consisting mostly of red brick coarsely ground up, and lime; in the latter the use of pounded brick no longer remained, but ingredients and proportions more like those now in common use, of small gravel, lime, and sand. And though there is nothing in this to indicate the limits of any interval, it clearly assists in pointing to some considerable difference between the respective periods of the Pharos and the Church." (Rev. J. P. 1864)
After considering the quality of the architecture, which he suggests is influenced by the Romans and of a much higher standard in both design and construction than that of the Anglo-Saxon period, Puckle concludes that the likely date for the founding of the church is the early part of the 4th century.
The Parish Records for St. Mary-in-Castro can be found with those of Guston, in which parish the church was originally situated. They are deposited at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives.
A transient, horrible fantastic dream,
Wherein is nothing yet all do see:
From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge
Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: 'Oh fudge!'
For twenty-five years London has been subject to a beautiful onslaught of criminal activity, reprehensible to some, embraced by others, colourful, witty and provocative. Street art, phenomenon of the 1990s, developed from graffiti art, a phenomenon of 1980s, is a regular occurrence on London's streets; in some areas it is ubiquitous. Its existence in London owes much to the city's cultural ties with New York, London's wealth and status and to the talent and determination of Bristol based artist Banksy, who introduced street art to London.
In London there are hives, around which street artists buzz, fanatics hunt and serendipitous locals and tourists register pieces on their mobile phones. These hives are to be found in Camden, East London and Leake Street in Waterloo. The Camden part of Regent's Canal, in 2009, hosted London's first and only street art battle between street-artist par excellence Banksy and an old time graffiti artist Robbo. In Shoreditch, East London, gallery owners, design studios and businesses, inspired by early works of Banksy, commission art on the outside of their buildings. This commissioned work is accompanied by an ever changing pastiche of gratuitous work, which has turned Shoreditch and East London into the spiritual home of street art. Leake Street, a disused railway tunnel just behind Waterloo Train Station became a hive for street artists and graffiti artists after Banksy organised a street art festival there in Spring 2008, which led to the tunnel being designated a legal space for street art and graffiti.
The Chinese say life is both yin and yang and the same can be said for the energies and motivations driving street art. Yin is an explosion of energy, an attempt to mean something to someone, a fire fuelled by a need for recognition and acceptance. Yang is a deep breath out, a chance to reflect, an opportunity to disconnect and feel one's real emotions; to disengage from the zeitgeist. For some, street art is all about the yang about free expression, emotion, creativity and the altruism of the street artist. It is part of an idealistic utopian philosophy that art should be for the people, free and accessible. However, in reality, most artists are guided by yin, fuelled by a desire to make it as an artist, to get a name, to get ahead.
All street artists experience the tension between yin and yang, it causes many to entertain delusions about the greater good of what they are doing, to hide their problematic egoistic tendencies and criminal activity. The fact is, the street artist is a psychopathic charmer, trying to seduce you with the beauty, audacity and complexity of his gift, hoping you forget he has, unilaterally, decided that his need for his art on your wall, is greater than your right to enjoy your wall, as it is, without interference. And London's heart is fluttering. The media celebrate street art, local authorities protect street art works from vandalism; the firm Pearl and Coutts, when it found out that Westminster Council wanted to remove a Banksy exhibit from one of its walls, went to the length of taking Westminster Council to court, to try, unsuccessfully, to have the image protected. In 2008, London art auctioneer Bonhams held London's first auction of street art, ; Village Undeground held an "urban art sale" and a piece by Banksy attracted a bid of £208,100. The elevated status of the street artist prompts invitations for shows from owners hoping to cash in on the cache. Like this the street artist is laundered.
The rise of the internet, which has coincided with the rise of street art, has created a virtual street art world. In the real world of street art those who happen to see the art, and enjoy it, encounter it as a moment of serendipity. Bloggers and web site owners rip the art from their geographical location and juxtapose the images next to each other. Here, viewers of street art get a concentrated experience, delivered to them through the click of a mouse, rather than the motion of their legs. Street art in the real world is transient, in the virtual world, digitally preserved, it lasts forever. The magic that might have been shared by a few, who had the luck to walk down a street at a particular point in time, can now be shared by millions in the virtual world. What we are left to ponder is whether street artists are creating street art, with a view to how this will be seen in the virtual world first, with considerations for people who and experience it in the street, coming second?