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He was the eldest son of Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle (a member of a collateral branch of the family of the Earls of Pembroke) and of Magdalen, daughter of Sir Richard Newport, and brother of the poet George Herbert. He was born at Eyton-on-Severn near Wroxeter. After private tuition he matriculated at University College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, in May 1596. On 28 February 1599 he married his cousin Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir William Herbert (d. 1593). He returned to Oxford with his wife and mother, continued his studies, and learned modern languages as well as music, riding and fencing.
On the accession of King James I he presented himself at court and was created a Knight of the Bath on 24 July 1603. He was Member of Parliament for Merioneth.[1] From 1605 he was magistrate and sheriff in Montgomery.
In 1608 he went to Paris, with Aurelian Townshend, enjoying the friendship and hospitality of the old Constable de Montmorency at Merlou and meeting King Henry IV; he toured Europe with Inigo Jones, and lodged for many months with Isaac Casaubon.[3][4] On his return, as he says himself, he was "in great esteem both in court and city, many of the greatest desiring my company." At this period he was close to both Ben Jonson and John Donne, and in Jonson's Epicoene, or the Silent Woman Herbert is probably alluded to.[5] Both Donne and Jonson honoured him in poetry.[6]
In 1610 he served as a volunteer in the Low Countries under the Prince of Orange, whose intimate friend he became, and distinguished himself at the capture of Juliers from the emperor. He offered to decide the war by engaging in single combat with a champion chosen from among the enemy, but his challenge was declined. During an interval in the fighting he paid a visit to Spinola, in the Spanish camp near Wezel, and afterwards to the elector palatine at Heidelberg, subsequently travelling in Italy. At the instance of the Duke of Savoy he led an expedition of 4,000 Huguenots from Languedoc into Piedmont to help the Savoyards against Spain, but after nearly losing his life in the journey to Lyon he was imprisoned on his arrival there, and the enterprise came to nothing. Thence he returned to the Netherlands and the Prince of Orange, arriving in England in 1617.
In 1619, Herbert was made ambassador to Paris, taking in his entourage Thomas Carew.[7] A quarrel with de Luynes and a challenge sent by him to the latter occasioned his recall in 1621. After the death of de Luynes, Herbert resumed his post in February 1622.
He was very popular at the French court and showed considerable diplomatic ability. His chief objects were to accomplish the marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales and Henrietta Maria, and to secure the assistance of Louis XIII for Frederick V, Elector Palatine. He failed in the latter, and was dismissed in April 1624.
He returned home greatly in debt and received little reward for his services beyond the Irish peerage of Castle Island on 31 May 1624 and the English barony of Cherbury, or Chirbury, on 7 May 1629.
In 1632 he was appointed a member of the council of war. He attended the king at York in 1639, and in May 1642 was imprisoned by the parliament for urging the addition of the words "without cause" to the resolution that the king violated his oath by making war on parliament. He determined after this to take no further part in the struggle, retired to Montgomery Castle, and declined the king's summons.
On 5 September 1644 he surrendered the castle, by negotiation, to the Parliamentary forces led by Sir Thomas Myddelton.[8] He returned to London, submitted, and was granted a pension of £20 a week. In 1647. he paid a visit to Pierre Gassendi at Paris, and died in London the following summer, being buried in the church of St Giles's in the Fields.
Lord Herbert left two sons, Richard (c. 1600-1655), who succeeded him as 2nd Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and Edward, the title becoming extinct in the person of Henry Herbert, the 4th baron, grandson of the 1st Lord Herbert, in 1691. In 1694, however, it was revived in favour of another Henry Herbert (1654-1709), son of Sir Henry Herbert (1595-1673), brother of the 1st Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Lord Herbert's cousin and namesake, Sir Edward Herbert, was also a prominent figure in the English Civil War.
"Pray for the souls of John ap Elis Eyton, knight, who died September 28 1526 and Elizabeth Calveley his wife who died in 1524"
John fought at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 on the winning side of Henry Tudor and was rewarded with large estates here which late came into the possession of the Wynnstay family.
He received an annuity of 10 marks from Henry Vll "in consideration of the time and faithful service performed for us ...in the course of our triumphal victory ..." Originally very colourful with small shields recording the arms of families allied by marriage. Clad in armour John wears a Lancastrian SS collar
John was eldest of 4 sons of Elis Eyton of Rhiwabon and second wife Angharad daughter of Madog Puleston of Emral, knight,
Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir Hugh Calveley of the Lee, and Lord of the Manor of Calveley Cheshire, (who was killed at the battle of Bloreheath, in 1459) and wife Margaret daughter of Sir John Donne of Utkinton
Elizabeth was the GG (?) grand daughter of Sir Hugh Calveley at Bunbury
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Children flic.kr/p/cxXAUf
1. John m1 Emma daughter of Sir Roger Kynaston of Hordley dsp
m2 Annest daughter of Elissau ab Gruffydd of Cors y Gedol by whom he had 4 sons and 5 daughters .
2. Margaret d1528 wife of Robert ab Edward of Abynbury, Wrexham
Joseph R. Smith was born February 6, 1818, in what is now Jefferson County, Alabama, at that period known as Blount County, Mississippi Territory.
His father, John Smith, was a native of the Union District, South Carolina, where his parents had settled upon emigrating from Wales. His mother's ancestors were Irish and her parents among the pioneers of Kentucky. Her maiden name was Sallie Riley, and her place of nativity Rockcastle County, Ky. They were married in Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1814, and, soon after, learning of the beauty and rich soil of Jones Valley, were induced to emigrate thither, and settled upon a large tract of land near Eyton, a portion of which is now owned by the Wheeling Furnace Company. They resided upon this land, within a half mile of their first location, until their deaths.
His father pursued cotton planting upon a large scale, owning, prior to the war, about sixty slaves ; he was well and widely known, serving for many years as magistrate and county commissioner, and, at the time of his death, in October, 1876, was the owner of 2,000 acres of land, which is now among the most valuable in Alabama.
The mother of our subject departed this life in April, 1863. Ten children descended from them — David, now living near Crawfordsville, Mississippi ; Joseph R., our subject ; Wm. D., a resident of Jefferson County ; John B., Colonel of the Thirtieth Alabama Regiment, was killed at Vicksburg ; Octavius S., who represented Jefferson County in the State Legislature one session, died in 1867 ; Thomas was admitted to the Jefferson County bar in 1852, served as Captain in the Confederate service, emigrated to Texas, and while Register in Chancery of Smith County, was accidentally killed ; George W., of Jefferson County ; Susan Weaver, living near Columbus, Mississippi; Sarah J. Baird, who died in 1883 ; and Lucy.
Joseph R. received the benefit of superior educational advantages for those early times — attending Union Seminary, in Tennessee. He entered the office of Dr. James Kelley, one of the early physicians of Jefferson County, in 1838, and remained under his tutelage until the fall of 1839, when he entered the Medical Department of Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, and after two years attendance graduated therefrom.
He entered upon the practical duties of this noble profession in Jonesboro, where he continued for two years, and in 1843 became a resident of Elyton, where he has ever since resided.
Dr. Smith abandoned the practice of medicine in 1870, and engaged very successfully in the mercantile trade at Elyton until 1877, when the growing town of Birmingham presented to him a more important field, and he removed his business interests to that point, and was interested in merchandising there until 1884.
Dr. Smith has been the owner of large tracts of land for many years, and since 1884 has devoted his entire attention to those interests. He is probably the largest individual real estate owner in Jefferson County, and has been one of the foremost in building up the business portion of Birmingham, owning at the present time some of the most substantial business blocks, besides considerable residence property. He is the founder of what is destined to become one of the most popular suburban towns, which is named in honor of its projector, Smithfield, a full sketch of which appears elsewhere in this work. He has a large interest still retained in this enterprise, and owns large tracts of mountain, iron, and coal lands in the country.
Dr. Smith has accumulated a magnificent fortune, which is being rapidly added to by the remarkable increase in the value of real estate in this section, a large portion of which he has given to his children.
Dr. Smith has never sought political preferment, but has earnestly devoted himself to the prosecution of hi.s professional, mercantile, and real estate interests.
Having resided in Jefferson County all his life, being the third white child born, he has witnessed the early days of the State ; its development into one of the greatest of the cotton belt ; the birth of the Confederacy, and the ruin following ; the gradual growth and development of the iron, coal, and mineral wealth, until the future promises to rank Alabama one of the greatest States in the Union.
The first newspaper published in Jefferson County was started by Dr. Smith in association with Baylis E. Grace, Sr., and was known as the Central Alabamian. This paper was continued by M. B. Lancaster until the close of the war.
Dr. Smith, although having arrived at the period when the shadow of life is falling toward the east, is still active, energetic, and untiring in his devotion to his business interests, and, as he comes from a long-lived ancestry, will probably long live to enjoy the fruits which Providence has showered so bountifully upon him.
He is a director of the Birmingham Insurance Company, also a stockholder in the First National Bank, a director of the Birmingham and Pratt Mines Street Railroad, and a member of the Masonic order.
Dr. Smith's first wife was Miss Margaret, daughter of Mortimer Jordan, who was one of the early settlers of the county, settling in 1828, and following cotton planting upon a large scale, until his death, in 1866. They were united in January, 1844, and over thirty years of happy life passed, when, in 1875, she departed this life. Twelve children were born to them, five of whom are now living : Joseph R., Jr., a progressive business man and prominent railroad contractor ; Thomas O., assistant cashier of the First National Bank ; Charles J., also a railroad contractor ; William D., and Virginia Irene.
While a medical student at Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. Smith met a young lady, whose accomplishments and rare personal beauty deeply impressed him. Unable to return to Kentucky, he cherished through all the following years the memory of his youthful friendship. Years afterward, when a widower, he learned she was a resident of St. Louis, and was the widow of Dr. Thomas J. Kilpatrick, who had been a celebrated practitioner of that city. Dr. Smith immediately sought her, and the dream of his youth met its full fruition when, in 1876, she became his wife. Her maiden name was Mary Smithers.
In the courthouse of Lexington, Kentucky, stands a beautiful statue entitled "Chastity Triumphant." It is the handiwork of the late celebrated sculptor, Joel T. Hart, who, encouraged to prosecute his studies, died in Europe. This work of art has the form and features of Mary Smithers, as he last saw her, and is a beautiful tribute and acknowledgment of their friendship.
Mrs. Smith is a lady of great personal worth, a member of the Methodist Church, and devoted to all good works.
Dr. and Mrs. Smith reside quietly in their elegant home at Elyton.
- from Jefferson County and Birmingham Alabama: History and Biographical, edited by John Witherspoon Dubose and published in 1887 by Teeple & Smith / Caldwell Printing Works, Birmingham, Alabama
J. Frank Brown (left), Dean of INSEAD and David Eyton, Group head of Research and Technology, BP
The ACES is a pan-European competition among companies spun out from universities – to recognise the best academic entrepreneurs from across all technology disciplines. The competition is open to entrepreneurs in the European Union and countries affiliated with European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for research, including Israel and Russia. In 2011, the ACES drew nominations from Europe to Bashkorostan and culminated in an awards ceremony hosted by the ETH Zurich.
Dendrocygne d'Eyton, dans la volière d'Australie. Très élégant !
Plumed Whistling Duck in the australian aviary. So chic !
"heere lye the bodies of Edmund Walter esquier Chieffe Justice of three shiers in South Wales and one of his Majesties Councill in the Marches of Wales, and of Mary his (first) wife, daughter of Thomas Hacklyit of Eyton esquier who had issue three sonnes named James, John and Edward and two daughters named Mary and Dorothy. He was buried the XXlX the Daye of Januarie AD 1592"
Although the inscription 1592 Edmund died in 1594.
Tomb was provided for in the will of his son James who died unmarried in 1625 "to have erected over my father and mother some fitting remembrance ...where they lie"
Edmund came from Staffordshire and won a reputation as a "good gainer at the barre" though his methods were at best unscrupulous. He enjoyed a successful practice in the Court of the Marches at Ludlow. Promoted to the Council of the Marches in 1576, on the recommendation of Sir Henry Sidney, he became a Welsh judge 3 years later, shortly after leasing Ludlow castle. He was Chief Justice, Brecknock circuit, South Wales, The Walter estate known as ‘Mary Vale’ lay to the west of Ludlow. He was benefactor of an ‘almshouse, infirmary and traveller’s hostel,’ He also owned an estate called The Moor which he bequeathed to his son John.
Born in 1519 , he was the son of Robert Walter / Waller 1570 of Beaconsfield & Elizabeth Tryon Fryer
He m1 Mary b1518 daughter of Thomas Hackluyt /Hackluit esq of Eyton 1544 (in Leominster) Herefordshire, by 2nd wife Katherine daughter of Thomas Trentham of Shrewsbury & Elizabeth daughter of Richard Corbet & Elizabeth Devereaux flic.kr/p/e26nQz Thomas Hackluyt was clerk of the council in the marches of Wales. His widow Katherine m2 Edmund Foxe of Ludford , Burgess (M.P.) for Ludlow www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8079785242/
son and heir of William Foxe of Stoke by Greet and St. John’s Hospital, Ludlow, & Jane daughter of Richard Downe of Ludlow
Their children kneel round the tomb
1. James 1563-1625 flic.kr/p/dhrByJ died unmarried and by his will erected this monument www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...
2. Mary 1565-1633 flic.kr/p/dhruzD m Sir Edward Littleton of Munslow, Shrops d1622, Llanfaire
3. Sir John 1630 flic.kr/p/dhrrcU m` Margaret daughter of William Offley n2 Anne daughter of William Witham, widow of Sir Thomas Bigg 1621 of Norton Worc. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/92aK74 all buried at Wolvercote Oxon www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/7822510418/
4. Edward flic.kr/p/dhrrbU
5. Dorothy b1572 flic.kr/p/dhrBwE m Jenkin Lloyd Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, son of David Lloyd and Lowry Gwynn.. (Jenkin m2 Joyce Herbert )
Mary died 17th October 1583
Edmund m2 Mary daughter of Adam Oteley having a daughter Jane
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Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, Sheffield.
Ruskin Collection.
Eurasian Tit, Ivory-billed Woodpecker & Pileated Woodpecker, with insects.
Associated with Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809-1880).
Lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902).
Collage and hand-coloured engravings, ink & watercolour, c1830-60.
The Ruskin Collection, known officially as the Collection of the Guild of St George was created by John Ruskin (1819-1900), an influential Victorian writer.
Throughout the mid 1800s, Ruskin gained fame by writing about art, architecture, geology and landscapes. By the 1870s Ruskin's interest had turned to social policy, and he founded the Guild of St George with the aim of making England a better place for the everyday worker. With the help of his Guild, Ruskin put together this collection to display in Sheffield as a creative and educational tool for Sheffield’s metalworkers.
The collection is an eclectic mix that reflects Ruskin’s many interests. Early renaissance art, gothic architecture, Albrecht Dürer and JMW Turner’s engravings, mosaic decoration, Japanese cloisonné enameling, illustrations of birds, flowers, insects and landscapes all have their place. In addition, Ruskin added collections of geology and coins, and a library of illustrated books and medieval manuscripts. The Guild of St George has since added to the collection with drawings and paintings, late Victorian photographs and pieces from the Ruskin Linen Industry.
Most of the drawings and watercolours in the collection were carried out by Ruskin’s assistants, who carefully copied paintings by Italian painters of the late 1400s and, made detailed records of gothic architecture and byzantine mosaic using pencil, watercolour and plaster cast. Other pieces come via Ruskin’s own collections of nature drawing, engraving and books. Few watercolours are by Ruskin himself, but everything he included was given with a set purpose to educate and inspire.
The Ruskin Collection is still owned by the Guild of St George, but is maintained and displayed by Museums Sheffield.
Sir Edward Bromley (1563-1626) and wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Lowe of Tymore in Enville, Staffs.
Edward was the second of 4 sons of Sir George Bromley, Justice of Chester by his wife Joan www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2203715746/ , heiress of John Waveton of Worfield, gent.
Edward was a Baron of the Exchequer 1609-10 and died without issue.
"Eminently pious old lady Bromley, widow of Judge Bromley" lived with her nephew Oliver Brumskill at Loughborough and is buried in the church there.
Edward's sister Margaret Wolriche is at Quatt www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2148003907/
The Bromleys, an established, moderately well endowed landowning family invested in land after the Dissolution - Sir Thomas Bromley (d. 1555), chief justice of King's Bench, bought Aston and Eyton on Severn, Shrewsbury abbey manors,. Sir George Bromley added to the paternal inheritance by marrying the heiress of Hallon; and Sir Thomas, lord chancellor 1579–87, bought much property in Shropshire from the earl of Arundel's estates, as well as lands in other counties, and founded a lineat Shrawardine and Holt (Worcs.)..- Church of St Peter Worfield Shropshire
Sir Edward Bromley (1563-1626) and wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Lowe of Tymore in Enville, Staffs.
Edward was the second of 4 sons of Sir George Bromley, Justice of Chester by his wife Joan www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2203715746/ , heiress of John Waveton of Worfield, gent.
Edward was a Baron of the Exchequer 1609-10 and died without issue.
"Eminently pious old lady Bromley, widow of Judge Bromley" lived with her nephew Oliver Brumskill at Loughborough and is buried in the church there.
Edward's sister Margaret Wolriche is at Quatt www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2148003907/
The Bromleys, an established, moderately well endowed landowning family invested in land after the Dissolution - Sir Thomas Bromley (d. 1555), chief justice of King's Bench, bought Aston and Eyton on Severn, Shrewsbury abbey manors,. Sir George Bromley added to the paternal inheritance by marrying the heiress of Hallon; and Sir Thomas, lord chancellor 1579–87, bought much property in Shropshire from the earl of Arundel's estates, as well as lands in other counties, and founded a lineat Shrawardine and Holt (Worcs.)..- Church of St Peter Worfield Shropshire
This was taken in deep shade with low sunlight penetrating from almost head-on. I wanted the silhouette.
Sue Ann Kahn, Eriko Sato, Andrea Schultz, Frank Daykin, Lutz Rath, Desiree Elsevier, Lew Paer, Susanna Eyton Jones
"heere lye the bodies of Edmund Walter esquier Chieffe Justice of three shiers in South Wales and one of his Majesties Councill in the Marches of Wales, and of Mary his (first) wife, daughter of Thomas Hacklyit of Eyton esquier who had issue three sonnes named James, John and Edward and two daughters named Mary and Dorothy. He was buried the XXlX the Daye of Januarie AD 1592"
Although the inscription 1592 Edmund died in 1594.
Tomb was provided for in the will of his son James who died unmarried in 1625 "to have erected over my father and mother some fitting remembrance ...where they lie"
Edmund came from Staffordshire and won a reputation as a "good gainer at the barre" though his methods were at best unscrupulous. He enjoyed a successful practice in the Court of the Marches at Ludlow. Promoted to the Council of the Marches in 1576, on the recommendation of Sir Henry Sidney, he became a Welsh judge 3 years later, shortly after leasing Ludlow castle. He was Chief Justice, Brecknock circuit, South Wales, The Walter estate known as ‘Mary Vale’ lay to the west of Ludlow. He was benefactor of an ‘almshouse, infirmary and traveller’s hostel,’ He also owned an estate called The Moor which he bequeathed to his son John.
Born in 1519 , he was the son of Robert Walter / Waller 1570 of Beaconsfield & Elizabeth Tryon Fryer
He m1 Mary b1518 daughter of Thomas Hackluyt /Hackluit esq of Eyton 1544 (in Leominster) Herefordshire, by 2nd wife Katherine daughter of Thomas Trentham of Shrewsbury & Elizabeth daughter of Richard Corbet & Elizabeth Devereaux flic.kr/p/e26nQz Thomas Hackluyt was clerk of the council in the marches of Wales. His widow Katherine m2 Edmund Foxe of Ludford , Burgess (M.P.) for Ludlow www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8079785242/
son and heir of William Foxe of Stoke by Greet and St. John’s Hospital, Ludlow, & Jane daughter of Richard Downe of Ludlow
Their children kneel round the tomb
1. James 1563-1625 flic.kr/p/dhrByJ died unmarried and by his will erected this monument www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...
2. Mary 1565-1633 flic.kr/p/dhruzD m Sir Edward Littleton of Munslow, Shrops d1622, Llanfaire
3. Sir John 1630 flic.kr/p/dhrrcU m` Margaret daughter of William Offley n2 Anne daughter of William Witham, widow of Sir Thomas Bigg 1621 of Norton Worc. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/92aK74 all buried at Wolvercote Oxon www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/7822510418/
4. Edward flic.kr/p/dhrrbU
5. Dorothy b1572 flic.kr/p/dhrBwE m Jenkin Lloyd Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, son of David Lloyd and Lowry Gwynn.. (Jenkin m2 Joyce Herbert )
Mary died 17th October 1583
Edmund m2 Mary daughter of Adam Oteley having a daughter Jane
Ludlow church Shropshire newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.mediev... historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wal...
Bruineend
(Netta erythrophtalma)
The southern pochard (Netta erythrophthalma) is a species of duck, and a member of the genus Netta.
There are two subspecies, the South American (southern) pochard N. e. erythrophthalma (Wied-Neuwied, 1833) and the African (southern) pochard N. e. brunnea (Eyton, 1838).
The South American pochard has a fragmented range and is found from Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina to Chile. Here it occurs in a wide variety of shallow fresh waters with submerged vegetation, from the lowlands up to 3,700 metres.
The African pochard occurs from the Cape to the Ethiopian highlands on water bodies with or without emergent vegetation. They are suspected to have been strong migrants in the past but the construction of numerous farm dams seems to allow them a more sedentary lifestyle. They reach highest concentrations in Africa's central plateaus and in the south-western winter rainfall region.
Wikipedia
Thomas Atcherley | of age | Bachelor | Labourer | High Ercall | John Atcherley | Labourer
Jane Hussey | of age | Spinster | - | Eyton | Samuel Hussey | Gardener
After Banns. Both made their marks. Witnesses John Hussey, Sarah Jervis (made her mark).
Notes: Thomas died 1867. Jane died 1886. Image © Crown Copyright and posted in compliance with General Register Office approved guidance on the use of certified copies of official certificates.
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Speeding Sweethearts of the Silent Screen
by William Drew
Chapter 6
Not all cinema journalists enjoyed as smooth an auto ride with a star as George Vaux Bacon had with Pearl White. In 1916, Lasky star and ex-Follies girl Mae Murray took Allen Corliss, another writer for Photoplay, on such a wild ride that he was unable to conduct a proper interview with her in her new car. Instead, he wrote a humorous sketch for the magazine which reads in part:
"I have never faced the cannon's mouth; I have never heard the battle's roar; I have never been in an aeroplane; but I have no fear of them, or other sudden deaths, because I have been motoring with Mae.
Mae Murray is nothing if not a careful driver--careful of others. She had much rather run her car up a tree than even startle a stray dog--she'd even prefer to hurdle the dog.
When Miss Murray first quit New York for the Lasky studio and took one glimpse of the roads, orange groves, etc., of Southern California . . . she decided that she must have an automobile. She told the dealer that she wanted one with lots of horse power as she was fond of dumb animals. A low, red, rakish thunderbolt was her selection; one of these wicked-looking affairs that spell speed and make the motor cops take its number on suspicion even when it is standing against the curb.
The thing had eight cylinders, or so. . . .Miss Murray remarked that eight cylinders were enough to start with, seeing as how it was her first car, but later on she might get more, but as she was new to the pictures, eight was enough for any ingenue.
Don't think for a moment that Miss Murray is not familiar with automobiles. She is an expert mechanician. . . .Of course she makes mistakes now and then, as to the proper thing to step on at the proper time--but then, no one is perfect. What would the world be if everyone was perfect--and who would be so mean as to begrudge a poor working girl the right to step on the accelerator when she should step on the brake, especially when it is her very own car?
Miss Murray does her own driving as she has had a great deal of trouble with chauffeurs. They kept bouncing off the lackey's seat on the side of the car and she would have to stop, turn around and go back and pick them up, which was a terrible waste of time, especially if she had an appointment. She kept a mechanician at home to clean the machine and help pull it back through the rear end of the garage when she came home from work--but on the road she is her own chauffeur and mechanic.
The Lasky star has a clever plan of keeping down the upkeep--she only drives on two wheels at a time letting the other two tires spin around in the air and cool off. You can't imagine what a weekly saving in tires this is. According to certain records kept by the City of Los Angeles, Miss Murray owns the only fox-trotting automobile in captivity. When she makes it say "Honk-Honk" it's just too late to duck. . . When she goes by in her car, the whole town turns out--of the way."(54)
Despite Corliss's jests, Mae Murray was scarcely unique among silent film actresses in attempting to be her own mechanic in those early days of motoring. In fact, some actresses were quite proficient under the hood. Ormi Hawley, the popular and very feminine Lubin star known as "Opulent Ormi," was a skilled auto mechanic. (55) The Vitagraph leading lady, Mary Anderson, known as "Sunshine Mary," told Henry A. Keller, an interviewer from Picture Play, in 1916, "As much as I like to drive . . . I believe it is just as much fun doing my repairs." (56) Commented Keller: "At first it struck me as strange that 'Sunshine' Mary should think of 'getting out and under,' but I noticed the firm, strong arms and determined chin and decided it would take more than a leaky carburetor to baffle this remarkable young lady." (57)
Other actresses redesigned their cars to their specifications. Bessie Eyton converted the little Maxwell that succeeded her big Paige into her very own dressing room on wheels, an innovation that attracted the attention of Mary Pickford who drove a similar Maxwell at the time. Pathe serial queen Ruth Roland drove a foreign coupe which she designed herself. Noted Mabel Condon who rode with Ruth in her "odd" new car in 1916:
"The color is called robin's-egg blue (one would readily suspect it to be green). It is upholstered in cream-colored cretonne, on which red parrots disport themselves on green boughs and the style of the car is sedan. Ruth states it is quite the handsomest car in the industry. Contradictions may or may not be acceptable."(58)
One silent film actress was actually an inventor of mechanical improvements for cars. Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl who emerged in 1910 as America's first real movie star under Carl Laemmle's banner at IMP, was an automotive pioneer as well as a major early force in cinema and a committed suffragette. Florence had very definite ideas about driving and in a newspaper interview published on August 27, 1920, she told the reporter after hearing a driver outside her hotel window:
"Isn't that man stupid, stripping his gears like that? I never can understand why people treat their cars like that. A car to me is something that is almost human, something that responds with kindness and understanding and care, just as people do."(59)
By 1913, Florence was not only driving but had also begun working on her inventions of automobile accessories. As she stated in an article published in Green Book Magazine in early 1914:
"Automobiling is my favorite sport, and raising and caring for roses is my hobby. As to automobiling, I have invented an 'auto signaling arm,' which, when placed on the back of the fender, can be raised or lowered by electric push buttons, thus indicating the intention of the driver. The one indicating 'stop' works automatically when the footbrake is pressed."(60)
Florence's mother, Charlotte Bridgwood, was also an inventor and is credited with inventing the automatic windshield wiper, perhaps in collaboration with her daughter. Indeed, the August 27, 1920 interview noted: "In private life, Miss Florence Lawrence is president of the Bridgwood Manufacturing Company of New York, makers of an electric storm windshield cleaner invented by her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Bridgwood." (61)
Mrs. Bridgwood patented the invention in 1917, just after the TRICO company introduced hand-operated wipers. The Bridgwood device used rollers rather than blades and was powered by electricity. Unfortunately, despite its technical advance, Florence and her mother were not successful in marketing their invention. It would not be until 1923 that the automatic windshield wiper would be introduced as a standard feature on cars and the women who had pioneered this extremely useful innovation would receive no recognition or remuneration at all. Perhaps the world was simply not ready to concede that females had the knowledge to develop mechanical devices capable of improving automobiles.
Copyright 1997 William M. Drew
Sons of Margaret Bromley 1598 and Richard Newport 1570 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2059516036/ even the swaddled baby has a coat of arms (4 sons and 4 daughters in all)
Margaret heiress of Sir Thomas Bromley1555 and and Isabel Lister / Lyster www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2059497076/ on whose tomb she stands
www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2059497080/
She lies beside husband Sir Richard Newport. d1570 of Eyton on Severn & High Ercall, son of Thomas Newport and Joan / Ann daughter of Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet by Elizabeth Vernon www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7852471574/
Children (4 sons and 4 daughters)
1. Francis (heir) d1623 m Beatrix daughter of Richard Lacon of Willey (ancestors of the Earls of Bradford and Torrington
2. Andrew d1611
3. son died an infant
4. son (pictured on the monument as living to maturity)
1. . Magdalene m Richard son of Edward Herbert of Blackhall, Montomeryshire and Elizabeth Price
3.? daughter m .....Gratwood (mentioned in her will )
Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children by Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., RECTOR OF PRESTON ON THE WILD MOORS, SHROPSHIRE. Published by London: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 1870.
Most of the birds were drawn by Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, and a Mr. R.S. Chattock, of Solihull reproduced the drawings on a reduced scale. Also, a Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, allowed the use of some of Mr. Gould’s work and also various woodcuts.
Can be found at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23941.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children by Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., RECTOR OF PRESTON ON THE WILD MOORS, SHROPSHIRE. Published by London: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 1870.
Most of the birds were drawn by Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, and a Mr. R.S. Chattock, of Solihull reproduced the drawings on a reduced scale. Also, a Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, allowed the use of some of Mr. Gould’s work and also various woodcuts.
Can be found at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23941.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children by Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., RECTOR OF PRESTON ON THE WILD MOORS, SHROPSHIRE. Published by London: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 1870.
Can be found at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23941.
The chief, if not the sole merit of this little book consists in the illustrations which adorn it; and I must express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, for his kind permission to copy some of the magnificent drawings in his work on 'The Birds of Great Britain.' To Mr. R. S. Chattock, of Solihull, I am also deeply indebted, for the pains he has taken in reproducing, on a reduced scale, Mr. Gould's drawings, and for the drawings of the sticklebacks and the frontispiece. My generous friend and neighbour, Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, has furnished another instance of his numerous acts of kindness, in allowing me the use of Mr. Gould's work and of various woodcuts. To two lady friends I also express my best thanks; and last, though not least, to the publishers, Messrs. Groombridge, for the care they have taken to present the volume to the public in a very attractive form.
Most of the birds were drawn by Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, and a Mr. R.S. Chattock, of Solihull reproduced the drawings on a reduced scale. Also, a Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, allowed the use of Mr. Gould’s work and various woodcuts.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children by Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., RECTOR OF PRESTON ON THE WILD MOORS, SHROPSHIRE. Published by London: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 1870.
Can be found at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23941.
The chief, if not the sole merit of this little book consists in the illustrations which adorn it; and I must express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, for his kind permission to copy some of the magnificent drawings in his work on 'The Birds of Great Britain.' To Mr. R. S. Chattock, of Solihull, I am also deeply indebted, for the pains he has taken in reproducing, on a reduced scale, Mr. Gould's drawings, and for the drawings of the sticklebacks and the frontispiece. My generous friend and neighbour, Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, has furnished another instance of his numerous acts of kindness, in allowing me the use of Mr. Gould's work and of various woodcuts. To two lady friends I also express my best thanks; and last, though not least, to the publishers, Messrs. Groombridge, for the care they have taken to present the volume to the public in a very attractive form.
Most of the birds were drawn by Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, and a Mr. R.S. Chattock, of Solihull reproduced the drawings on a reduced scale. Also, a Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, allowed the use of Mr. Gould’s work and various woodcuts.
My first venture into video on flickr. A full circuit of the view from the Summerhouse roof. Sadly the microphone on my compact camera only picked up the sounds of the wind, not the birdsong that was all around.
The Summerhouse at Eyton-on-Severn is the survivor of a pair of banqueting towers built in the garden of Eyton Hall at the turn of the seventeenth century for Sir Francis Newport. It consists of two joined octagons in stone and brick, the smaller containing a spiral staircase. Originally the ground floor with its arches would have been an open loggia; the room above would have been used during banquets and entertainments, perhaps for guests to admire and eat fanciful sweetmeats.
Eyton Hall was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. The other tower was included in a georgian house and was lost when that too burned (the house was rebuilt but not the tower).
The eastern tower survived in an increasing state of decay until restored in the 1980s by the Vivat Trust, a small charity that preserves historic buildings by letting them as self-catering holiday accommodation.
I spent a very pleasurable week in the Summerhouse.
In the 1970s, when I used to stay at my Grandparent's house when my Mum and Dad went disco dancing, or whatever they called it before disco dancing was a thing, there was a TV series they used to watch called "How Green was my Valley". I remember little of it, except Granddad saying the valley was go green because of all the rain.
So, on Sunday, the rain was due to fall in the valleys, the hills and all else between.
What to do when we had come away without coasts and umbrella?
Churchcrawling.
And thanks to the Church Conservation Trust, you ban fairly reply on those under their care to be open. I made a list of their churches in Shropshire, and after breakfast we set off for the first one, passing through the village of Knocking
.
I kid ye not.
Where the village shop is called, of course, The Knockin Shop.
I also kid ye not.
Rain fell, roads were nearly flooded, so we splish-splashed our way across the county, down valley and up hills until we came to the entrance of an estate.
Here be a church.
Not sure if we could drive to it, I got out and walked, getting damp as the rain fell through the trees.
But the church was there, and open, if poorly lit inside. And I was able to get shots before walking up the hill to the car.
Two more churches tried, but they were locked and no keyholder about. So onto Wroxter, where a large and imposing church towered over the road. And to get there we passed through a former Roman settlement from which the modern town took its name. Most impressive was a reconstruction of a villa.
-------------------------------------------
When you open the wrought iron gate to enter the churchyard of St James' Church, the first impression is of a typical small 18th-century church.
It is built of brick with round arches dressed with local sandstone in a simple neo-classical style with its west tower and simple nave.
Walk round the side of the church, however, and the solid mass of sandstone blocks that make up the heavy square chancel, comes as something of a shock.
The tiny narrow windows give an impression of great antiquity.
This is part of the original church building that was built around the middle of the 12th century. It is almost 900 years old.
Inside the church, the same startling contrast can be seen.
High box pews and a wooden two-decker pulpit typical of the 1700s are set against a magnificent Norman arch carved with three different motifs.The earliest arch dates from about the year 1150.
Both the church and its churchyard are Scheduled Ancient Monuments and the church building itself has a Grade I listing, reflecting both its national historical and architectural importance.
Architectural evidence shows Stirchley church to be of Norman origin and to date from the 12th century. However, it is also suggested that the chancel arch may actually be set in an even older Anglo-Saxon one.
Walter, described as the chaplain of Stirchley, is the first rector whose name is known. He was the priest here from c1220-1230. However, the church was over 100 years old by the time Walter conducted the services here.
Of the foundation of Stirchley church, Rev Robert Eyton wrote in his ‘The Antiquities of Shropshire' 1885:
‘This was in its original state a chapel, probably in the Parish of Idsall [Shifnal], and founded by the Manorial Lords of Stirchley in the twelfth century.’
The chancel is the oldest visible part of the building and probably dates from about 1150. It is almost square and has small Norman round-arched windows. Old masonry on the inner face of the nave and tower walls is also likely to be 12th century. The work may have been financed by first recorded lord of the manor, Osbert of Stirchley who was the under-tenant here from 1167 to 1180.
The ornate late-12th-century chancel arch is set in a larger and earlier arch, probably of the mid-12th century. The stone used is local sandstone. This is a particularly fine chancel arch with two orders of shafts with scalloped and foliage capitals and three orders of arches with rosette, chain-link and zigzag patterns.
stirchleychurchandrectorysalop.jimdofree.com/stirchley-ch...
Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children by Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., RECTOR OF PRESTON ON THE WILD MOORS, SHROPSHIRE. Published by London: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 1870.
Can be found at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23941.
The chief, if not the sole merit of this little book consists in the illustrations which adorn it; and I must express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, for his kind permission to copy some of the magnificent drawings in his work on 'The Birds of Great Britain.' To Mr. R. S. Chattock, of Solihull, I am also deeply indebted, for the pains he has taken in reproducing, on a reduced scale, Mr. Gould's drawings, and for the drawings of the sticklebacks and the frontispiece. My generous friend and neighbour, Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, has furnished another instance of his numerous acts of kindness, in allowing me the use of Mr. Gould's work and of various woodcuts. To two lady friends I also express my best thanks; and last, though not least, to the publishers, Messrs. Groombridge, for the care they have taken to present the volume to the public in a very attractive form.
Most of the birds were drawn by Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, and a Mr. R.S. Chattock, of Solihull reproduced the drawings on a reduced scale. Also, a Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, allowed the use of Mr. Gould’s work and various woodcuts.
Edward FitzEdmund Burke Roche , 2nd Baron Fermoy, was born on 22 May 1850. He suffered a fatal heart attack whilst eating his breakfast on 1 Sep 1920 at Minfor , in Barmouth. Parents: Edmund BURKE-ROCHE 1st Baron Fermoy and Elizabeth Caroline BOOTHBY.
He was buried at Llanaber by 4 workers on September 4th..Private funeral .No family members of the deceased attended.
Great uncle of Lady Diana , H.R.H.Princess of Wales.
His father, whom he succeded in 1874, and who was the only son of Edward Roche of Trabolgan and Kildinan, and Margaret Honoria Curtain, a near relative of Edmund Burke, sat as MP for Cork County from 1837 to 1855, and for Marylebone from 1855 to 1869. The late peer owned over 21.000 Acres of land in Ireland, was JP and DL for the County of Cork, and served the office of High Sheriff in 1873. He married in 1877 the Hon Cecelia O’Grady, only surviving child of the third Viscount Guillamore, by whom he had a daughter, who married in 1908 Mr Godfrey Nigel Everard Baring, of Rockbarton, Kilmallock, son of the late Mr Thomas Charles Baring MP of High Beech, Essex, a grandson of the second Baronet in the Northbrook line. The successor to the title is the late peer’s brother, the Hon James Boothby Burke Roche, who married in 1880, Frances, eldest daughter of Mr F Work of New York . Frank Work's spirited daughter Fanny (for Frances) provided the link to European nobility, in marrying James Boothby Burke Roche, the cash-short third Baron Fermoy, despite her father's conviction that "international marriage should be a hanging offense." When Fanny's marriage failed, her father decreed that if she and her three children were to inherit his fortune, they must promise never to return to Europe to live or marry Europeans. Fortunately for Prince Charles, Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, the elder of Fanny's twin sons, defied his grandfather and returned to Britain to claim the Fermoy title. His marriage, to Scotswoman Ruth Sylvia Gill, produced Frances Ruth Burke Roche. And her marriage to Edward John Spencer, which ended in divorce in 1969, produced Lady Diana Spencer, the United Kingdom's one-eighth American future queen.
Peter Ellis Eyton..MP. Eldest son of James Eyton and of Mary his wife and grandson of Lord David Parry .. and Captain in the Royal Denbighshire Local Militia 1878
In the 1970s, when I used to stay at my Grandparent's house when my Mum and Dad went disco dancing, or whatever they called it before disco dancing was a thing, there was a TV series they used to watch called "How Green was my Valley". I remember little of it, except Granddad saying the valley was go green because of all the rain.
So, on Sunday, the rain was due to fall in the valleys, the hills and all else between.
What to do when we had come away without coasts and umbrella?
Churchcrawling.
And thanks to the Church Conservation Trust, you ban fairly reply on those under their care to be open. I made a list of their churches in Shropshire, and after breakfast we set off for the first one, passing through the village of Knocking
.
I kid ye not.
Where the village shop is called, of course, The Knockin Shop.
I also kid ye not.
Rain fell, roads were nearly flooded, so we splish-splashed our way across the county, down valley and up hills until we came to the entrance of an estate.
Here be a church.
Not sure if we could drive to it, I got out and walked, getting damp as the rain fell through the trees.
But the church was there, and open, if poorly lit inside. And I was able to get shots before walking up the hill to the car.
Two more churches tried, but they were locked and no keyholder about. So onto Wroxter, where a large and imposing church towered over the road. And to get there we passed through a former Roman settlement from which the modern town took its name. Most impressive was a reconstruction of a villa.
-------------------------------------------
When you open the wrought iron gate to enter the churchyard of St James' Church, the first impression is of a typical small 18th-century church.
It is built of brick with round arches dressed with local sandstone in a simple neo-classical style with its west tower and simple nave.
Walk round the side of the church, however, and the solid mass of sandstone blocks that make up the heavy square chancel, comes as something of a shock.
The tiny narrow windows give an impression of great antiquity.
This is part of the original church building that was built around the middle of the 12th century. It is almost 900 years old.
Inside the church, the same startling contrast can be seen.
High box pews and a wooden two-decker pulpit typical of the 1700s are set against a magnificent Norman arch carved with three different motifs.The earliest arch dates from about the year 1150.
Both the church and its churchyard are Scheduled Ancient Monuments and the church building itself has a Grade I listing, reflecting both its national historical and architectural importance.
Architectural evidence shows Stirchley church to be of Norman origin and to date from the 12th century. However, it is also suggested that the chancel arch may actually be set in an even older Anglo-Saxon one.
Walter, described as the chaplain of Stirchley, is the first rector whose name is known. He was the priest here from c1220-1230. However, the church was over 100 years old by the time Walter conducted the services here.
Of the foundation of Stirchley church, Rev Robert Eyton wrote in his ‘The Antiquities of Shropshire' 1885:
‘This was in its original state a chapel, probably in the Parish of Idsall [Shifnal], and founded by the Manorial Lords of Stirchley in the twelfth century.’
The chancel is the oldest visible part of the building and probably dates from about 1150. It is almost square and has small Norman round-arched windows. Old masonry on the inner face of the nave and tower walls is also likely to be 12th century. The work may have been financed by first recorded lord of the manor, Osbert of Stirchley who was the under-tenant here from 1167 to 1180.
The ornate late-12th-century chancel arch is set in a larger and earlier arch, probably of the mid-12th century. The stone used is local sandstone. This is a particularly fine chancel arch with two orders of shafts with scalloped and foliage capitals and three orders of arches with rosette, chain-link and zigzag patterns.
stirchleychurchandrectorysalop.jimdofree.com/stirchley-ch...
Henry Wynn 1671 aged 69 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wynn_(MP_for_Merioneth) in the "attutude of a fanatical preacher" who was attached to the court of Queen Henrietta Maria. there is a monument to him also in Temple Church. The tenth son of Sir John Wynn of Gwedyre, he married Jane daughter of Ellis Lloyd of Rhiwgogh
Sir John Wynn 1628-1718 the last baronet of the direct Gwydir line, through his marriage to Jane heiress of Eyton Evans of Wynnstay who kneels beside him.
John left his Wynnstay estates to Watkins Willliams Wynn 3rd Bart related to him via his mother Jane Thelwall www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7576694738/ on condition he took the name of Wynn, quartered his coat of arms in the first place" and built this monument described by Philip Yorke of Erddig in 1799 as a "mass and massacre of marble, ludicrous to look on"
Jane heiress of Eyton Evans of Wynnstay kneels beside her husband Sir John Wynn 1628-1718 the last baronet of the direct Gwydir line
John left his Wynnstay estates to Watkins Willliams Wynn 3rd Bart related to him via his mother Jane Thelwall www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7576694738/ on condition he took the name of Wynn, quartered his coat of arms in the first place" and built this monument described by Philip Yorke of Erddig in 1799 as a "mass and massacre of marble, ludicrous to look on"
Inscription Henry Wynn died 27th July 1671 aged 69.
Son John Wynn died 11 January 1718 aged 91 and wife Jane Wynn died 28 February 1675 aged 43
Monument erected by Watkin Williams Wynn 3rd Bart to whom John left his (wifes) Wynnstay estates being without issue and related to him via his mother Jane Thelwall www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7576694738/ on condition he took the name of Wynn, quartered his coat of arms in the first place" and built this monument "
67002 & DVT 82306 stir up the local feathered population with the WAG, running late as usual, at Eyton Lane, Baschurch, Wednesday, 7.11.12
Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, Sheffield.
Ruskin Collection.
Brown Pelican.
Printmaker - Robert Havell Junior (1793-1878).
Date Made - 1835.
Artist - after John James Audubon (1785-1851).
Material and Medium - hand-coloured engraving and aquatint on paper.
Bought by Ruskin from the collection of Thomas Campbell Eyton.
John James Audubon was a naturalist and is famous for his illustrations of birds. He was born on a sugar plantation in Haiti in 1785. As a child, Audubon’s father took him on bird watching expeditions and these trips shaped Audubon’s future life as an illustrator of birds and their habitats. He spent most of his adult life travelling in America and studying birds. His aim was to produce a definitive book of American ornithology and illustrate it with a high degree of accuracy and beauty. He therefore made watercolour illustrations of birds and their natural habitats and took this portfolio to England in 1826. Here, he gained enough subscribers to publish his great seven-volume work, Birds of America, which he published in sections between 1827 and 1839.
The Ruskin Collection, known officially as the Collection of the Guild of St George was created by John Ruskin (1819-1900), an influential Victorian writer.
Throughout the mid 1800s, Ruskin gained fame by writing about art, architecture, geology and landscapes. By the 1870s Ruskin's interest had turned to social policy, and he founded the Guild of St George with the aim of making England a better place for the everyday worker. With the help of his Guild, Ruskin put together this collection to display in Sheffield a creative and educational tool for Sheffield’s metalworkers.
The collection is an eclectic mix that reflects Ruskin’s many interests. Early renaissance art, gothic architecture, Albrecht Dürer and JMW Turner’s engravings, mosaic decoration, Japanese cloisonné enameling, illustrations of birds, flowers, insects and landscapes all have their place. In addition, Ruskin added collections of geology and coins, and a library of illustrated books and medieval manuscripts. The Guild of St George has since added to the collection with drawings and paintings, late Victorian photographs and pieces from the Ruskin Linen Industry.
Most of the drawings and watercolours in the collection were carried out by Ruskin’s assistants, who carefully copied paintings by Italian painters of the late 1400s and, made detailed records of gothic architecture and byzantine mosaic using pencil, watercolour and plaster cast. Other pieces come via Ruskin’s own collections of nature drawing, engraving and books. Few watercolours are by Ruskin himself, but everything he included was given with a set purpose to educate and inspire.
The Ruskin Collection is still owned by the Guild of St George, but is maintained and displayed by Museums Sheffield.
collections.museums-sheffield.org.uk/view/objects/aslist/359
In the 1970s, when I used to stay at my Grandparent's house when my Mum and Dad went disco dancing, or whatever they called it before disco dancing was a thing, there was a TV series they used to watch called "How Green was my Valley". I remember little of it, except Granddad saying the valley was go green because of all the rain.
So, on Sunday, the rain was due to fall in the valleys, the hills and all else between.
What to do when we had come away without coasts and umbrella?
Churchcrawling.
And thanks to the Church Conservation Trust, you ban fairly reply on those under their care to be open. I made a list of their churches in Shropshire, and after breakfast we set off for the first one, passing through the village of Knocking
.
I kid ye not.
Where the village shop is called, of course, The Knockin Shop.
I also kid ye not.
Rain fell, roads were nearly flooded, so we splish-splashed our way across the county, down valley and up hills until we came to the entrance of an estate.
Here be a church.
Not sure if we could drive to it, I got out and walked, getting damp as the rain fell through the trees.
But the church was there, and open, if poorly lit inside. And I was able to get shots before walking up the hill to the car.
Two more churches tried, but they were locked and no keyholder about. So onto Wroxter, where a large and imposing church towered over the road. And to get there we passed through a former Roman settlement from which the modern town took its name. Most impressive was a reconstruction of a villa.
-------------------------------------------
When you open the wrought iron gate to enter the churchyard of St James' Church, the first impression is of a typical small 18th-century church.
It is built of brick with round arches dressed with local sandstone in a simple neo-classical style with its west tower and simple nave.
Walk round the side of the church, however, and the solid mass of sandstone blocks that make up the heavy square chancel, comes as something of a shock.
The tiny narrow windows give an impression of great antiquity.
This is part of the original church building that was built around the middle of the 12th century. It is almost 900 years old.
Inside the church, the same startling contrast can be seen.
High box pews and a wooden two-decker pulpit typical of the 1700s are set against a magnificent Norman arch carved with three different motifs.The earliest arch dates from about the year 1150.
Both the church and its churchyard are Scheduled Ancient Monuments and the church building itself has a Grade I listing, reflecting both its national historical and architectural importance.
Architectural evidence shows Stirchley church to be of Norman origin and to date from the 12th century. However, it is also suggested that the chancel arch may actually be set in an even older Anglo-Saxon one.
Walter, described as the chaplain of Stirchley, is the first rector whose name is known. He was the priest here from c1220-1230. However, the church was over 100 years old by the time Walter conducted the services here.
Of the foundation of Stirchley church, Rev Robert Eyton wrote in his ‘The Antiquities of Shropshire' 1885:
‘This was in its original state a chapel, probably in the Parish of Idsall [Shifnal], and founded by the Manorial Lords of Stirchley in the twelfth century.’
The chancel is the oldest visible part of the building and probably dates from about 1150. It is almost square and has small Norman round-arched windows. Old masonry on the inner face of the nave and tower walls is also likely to be 12th century. The work may have been financed by first recorded lord of the manor, Osbert of Stirchley who was the under-tenant here from 1167 to 1180.
The ornate late-12th-century chancel arch is set in a larger and earlier arch, probably of the mid-12th century. The stone used is local sandstone. This is a particularly fine chancel arch with two orders of shafts with scalloped and foliage capitals and three orders of arches with rosette, chain-link and zigzag patterns.
stirchleychurchandrectorysalop.jimdofree.com/stirchley-ch...
St Mary, Walpole, Suffolk
Walpole is a fairly large village on the outskirts of Halesworth. I've been cycling through it long enough to remember when it still had a shop and a pub, and what felt like a life of its own, but these are gone now. However, St Mary survives, set back from the road in a large graveyard up the hill on the way to Halesworth. At first sight, it appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill Victorian village church, but a Norman doorway has been preserved within the south porch. Otherwise, what you see today is largely the work of the 19th century architect HM Eyton.
To be honest, It is easy to moan about churches like this. But here it is, at the heart of its village, open to visitors, reasonably friendly inside - honestly, it is hard to criticize. From the outside, it puts me in mind of Catholic churches in northern France, rebuilt in this style after the destruction of the First World War. This design is also familiar from a thousand municipal cemetery chapels, with its funny little spire and restrained mock-decorated windows.
There are some medieval survivals here. But not many. The base of the tower was retained, and footings of the nave walls suggest it was originally Saxon. The Norman doorway is remarkably well-preserved, suggesting the previous porch had survived for many centuries. It has had an electric light fitting driven through it, presumably by someone who thought it was a good idea.
Even on a sunny day the church seems dark inside, but as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom your first surprise is the rather odd medieval font. It is not originally from this church but from St Andrew, in the centre of Norwich, which may explain its urban solidity. It must be said that it is much more attractive than the vulgar 19th century one that replaced it in Norwich.
The parish have been busy here over the last few years, and one of the most striking aspects of the interior is that the long chancel has been cleared of all its furnishings, exposing a fine Victorian tiled floor. It does perhaps accentuate the gloom of the nave, and modern chairs would look much better in that space than clumpy old Victorian pews.
The village of Walpole is a mecca for church explorers, but they are on their way to visit Walpole Old Chapel up the hill, rather than the homely charms of St Mary. I was headed there next, as I understood it was open on Saturday afternoons, and I hadn't seen inside since recording a programme about it for BBC Radio Suffolk a year or so previously. I came out of St Mary into the rain. It was that horrible seeping drizzle, and so I sped as fast as I could up to the Old Chapel. I got there to find that it didn't open until 2pm. There was no shelter, and waiting an hour in the rain wasn't really an option, so I hurried back to Halesworth and took shelter in the Angel Hotel instead.
St Mary, Walpole, Suffolk
Walpole is a fairly large village on the outskirts of Halesworth. I've been cycling through it long enough to remember when it still had a shop and a pub, and what felt like a life of its own, but these are gone now. However, St Mary survives, set back from the road in a large graveyard up the hill on the way to Halesworth. At first sight, it appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill Victorian village church, but a Norman doorway has been preserved within the south porch. Otherwise, what you see today is largely the work of the 19th century architect HM Eyton.
To be honest, It is easy to moan about churches like this. But here it is, at the heart of its village, open to visitors, reasonably friendly inside - honestly, it is hard to criticize. From the outside, it puts me in mind of Catholic churches in northern France, rebuilt in this style after the destruction of the First World War. This design is also familiar from a thousand municipal cemetery chapels, with its funny little spire and restrained mock-decorated windows.
There are some medieval survivals here. But not many. The base of the tower was retained, and footings of the nave walls suggest it was originally Saxon. The Norman doorway is remarkably well-preserved, suggesting the previous porch had survived for many centuries. It has had an electric light fitting driven through it, presumably by someone who thought it was a good idea.
Even on a sunny day the church seems dark inside, but as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom your first surprise is the rather odd medieval font. It is not originally from this church but from St Andrew, in the centre of Norwich, which may explain its urban solidity. It must be said that it is much more attractive than the vulgar 19th century one that replaced it in Norwich.
The parish have been busy here over the last few years, and one of the most striking aspects of the interior is that the long chancel has been cleared of all its furnishings, exposing a fine Victorian tiled floor. It does perhaps accentuate the gloom of the nave, and modern chairs would look much better in that space than clumpy old Victorian pews.
The village of Walpole is a mecca for church explorers, but they are on their way to visit Walpole Old Chapel up the hill, rather than the homely charms of St Mary. I was headed there next, as I understood it was open on Saturday afternoons, and I hadn't seen inside since recording a programme about it for BBC Radio Suffolk a year or so previously. I came out of St Mary into the rain. It was that horrible seeping drizzle, and so I sped as fast as I could up to the Old Chapel. I got there to find that it didn't open until 2pm. There was no shelter, and waiting an hour in the rain wasn't really an option, so I hurried back to Halesworth and took shelter in the Angel Hotel instead.