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Self-portrait at the Saarpolygon from last year on the Berghalde in Ensdorf, Saarland/Germany.
Five more shots of this exciting visit and a few stories about them in the album
www.flickr.com/photos/146848166@N06/albums/72157697766077712
I'm back from my golfing mini-break and I am so far behind on Flickr that I want to cry! Never mind, slowly but surely.
I seem to be a bit obsessed by reflections at the minute and following on from my last shot this is another one from my day trip to Bristol in the summer. The object on the left is a dome shaped building that has those sections of reflective panelling all over it. One of those things that the longer you stared at it the more you saw. The wheel in the background was set back a distance from where I was standing but I thought it added nicely to the composition here.
St Fagans is a working farm with native breeds of cows and sheep roaming the fields.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Llainfadyn, Rhostryfan, Gwynedd (Caernarfonshire)
Built in 1762
Furnished c.1870
Dismantled and rebuilt at St Fagans 1956
Opened to the public 1962
This cottage comes from Snowdonia and is solidly built of mountain boulders, and a pair of stout oak trusses supports the roof of small, locally quarried slates. In contrast to farmhouses, cottages were the homes of people who did not own enough land to live off. They were usually farm labourers, craftsmen or, as in the case of this dwelling, quarrymen and their families. This cottage was divided by furniture to make bedrooms and a half-loft for the children, a layout that was commonly found throughout west Wales.
In 1861 the inhabitants were Ann and Hugh Williams, their six children, a maid and a lodger.
St Fagans National Museum of History
St Fagans is a working farm with native breeds of cows and sheep roaming the fields.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Originally located at Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, near Pontarddulais, Swansea (Glamorgan) over 40 miles west of St Fagans National Museum of History
Built late 1200s-1500s
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1984-5
Re-erected 2007
The interior of this church is as it would have been in 1530, just before Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, and containing all the elements of a late medieval Catholic church.
When Museum staff were dismantling the church, they found traces of wall paintings hidden under centuries of plaster. These have now been recreated.
Step inside, and you will be transported back to a time when colourful paintings of Biblical scenes covered the walls.
Look up at the 'A' frame trusses, with their mortise and tenon joints. They support 45 tonnes of sandstone tiles!
Probably the oldest surviving feature of the church is the stone font, believed to date from at least the 13th century.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Taplow Court is a large Victorian house in the village of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, England, which has served as the national headquarters for the Soka Gakkai International of the United Kingdom (SGI-UK) since 1988.
The Taplow burial, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon burial mound, is in the grounds of the house, near the parish church which is scenically positioned on a hill directly above Maidenhead Bridge and the town's riverside district. The mound was excavated in 1883 and a number of treasures were discovered, of quality of the early Saxon centuries surpassed only by Sutton Hoo in 1939.
Original location Llangadfan, Powys (Montgomeryshire)
Built 1678/1708
Furnished 18th century
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1951
Opened to the public 1951
A timber-framed thatched farmhouse, built in 1678 as an open-hall with a fire in the centre of the floor and open to the roof.
Abernodwydd was home to the Rhys family for over 300 years, until the last members of the family left in 1936. In the early 1700s, Evan and Jane Rhys lived there. They must have been quite well-off, as Evan paid to renovate the farmhouse in 1708. He built the fireplace and stone chimney that you see today, and a loft above the hall for storing the farm's produce.
Farming at Abernodwydd was a mixture of growing crops and grazing animals. In the dairy is a cheese-press and a churn for making butter. This would be for their own use and for selling at local markets. A peat fire burned above the ash-pit, and a cauldron hung to cook simple meals such as broth, roast meat and bread.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Commercial Street, Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan
Originally built 1880
Furnished 1920s
Moved to St Fagans 1988
Gwalia Stores was a typical Welsh valleys store originally located in Ogmore Vale, near Bridgend.
'Gwalia' is an old poetic name for Wales.
The shopkeepers were William and Mary Llewellyn. They took over the only shop in Ogmore and in 1880 moved to Gwalia Stores, which became a very successful business. Mr and Mrs Llewellyn moved from living above the shop to a large house in the Vale of Glamorgan. They took on several staff who lived in the attic of Gwalia. Their salary was 8/- (40p) per week.
The Stores finally closed its doors in 1973 when supermarkets became popular.
St Fagans National Museum of History
OK so I didn't mention that the V8's were also at the SMP over the weekend ;-) Well it would be rude not to take a few pictures
*I'm not a fan of the Sigma 1 & 2 settings for stabilization, so done the old fashion way..
Practice Friday arvo with rain showers. 26.08.2016
#GT #GarthTander #Nikon #Holden #HRT #Panning
These are The Standing Stones Of Stenness taken on a nice sunny day in late February. I have very rarely taken photos of them looking in this direction.
For the benefit of those who are interested in learning more Online about these Standing Stones have a look at -
Original location Llangadfan, Powys (Montgomeryshire)
Built 1678/1708
Furnished 18th century
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1951
Opened to the public 1951
A timber-framed thatched farmhouse, built in 1678 as an open-hall with a fire in the centre of the floor and open to the roof.
Abernodwydd was home to the Rhys family for over 300 years, until the last members of the family left in 1936. In the early 1700s, Evan and Jane Rhys lived there. They must have been quite well-off, as Evan paid to renovate the farmhouse in 1708. He built the fireplace and stone chimney that you see today, and a loft above the hall for storing the farm's produce.
Farming at Abernodwydd was a mixture of growing crops and grazing animals. In the dairy is a cheese-press and a churn for making butter. This would be for their own use and for selling at local markets. A peat fire burned above the ash-pit, and a cauldron hung to cook simple meals such as broth, roast meat and bread.
St Fagans National Museum of History
That very good and interesting old farm museum is located very close to the east end of the Loch Of Boardhouse, near Birsay on Orkney's "West Mainland".
I can find no information about this building, other than it's a sweet shop. It was closed when we visited.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Maestir, Lampeter, Ceridigion (Cardiganshire)
Built 1880
Furnished 1890s
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1981
Opened to the public 1984
The school is built of shale stone from the local quarries and its roof is made of slates from North Wales. At the entrance is a lobby where the children lined up to enter the one and only classroom. There are high windows so the children could only see the sky when they were sitting at their desks.
The school was built by Sir Charles Harford for the children of farmworkers on the Falcondale Estate to provide them with a basic education. There were less than 40 children in the school, aged from 5 to 14 years. Their headteacher was Miss Rachel Ann Thomas and she worked there from 1894 to 1905. Miss Thomas was assisted by a 'pupil teacher' who was usually one of the older girls who herself wanted to be a teacher.
Due to falling attendances the school closed in 1916.
St Fagans National Museum of History
On the first night of our holiday I woke up at 3am thinking the difference between photography art and painted art was depth of field. The following morning I was excited in visiting the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art and this idea was still in my crazy head.
On entering the 2nd level (I think) this amazing, amazing picture hit me in the head. Now the camera I used in the museum that day was lost on my way home but this picture was taken by the love of my life and I thank her for allowing me to upload it.
It is inspirational to me not because I was going to copy it but inspired by it. I’m afraid when I get excited about a picture I get very noisy and don’t understand why other people do not see what I see.
I have no formal training in art nor do I care how much about it’s worth but the great enjoyment in enjoying a picture does it for me.
The picture is called Old Man painted in 1991
By the amazing Henry Kondracki
Oil on Canvas.
The details about the artist are as follows:
A Scottish artist based in Edinburgh, Kondracki takes the places and people of Edinburgh as his main subject
I haven't hit anything over the head with this much Photoshop in quite a while.
I've been getting a lot of pleasure from what purists might call 'actual' photography - using the light that's there, waiting for that moment when it all comes together, and often shooting film on an ancient analogue Nikon FE - or at least aiming to get exactly what I want straight out of the camera digitally.
However, sometimes it's equally nice to roll out the post-processing to hyper-realist levels...at least I think!
This was shot whilst testing a 28mm f/1.8 as mentioned in the shot before - but this one is using that lens. A cracker for the money.
Tech - D800/28mm f/1.8 @ f/1.8. Handheld 5 exposure HDR, rinsed through Photomatix and then significantly pushed around in Photoshop.
National Gallery - which is amazing - details here.
That Farm Museum is very interesting and well-worth visiting. It is in Harray Parish, fairly near the Harray Shop.
Original location Dre-fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire
Built 1777
Date opened to the public 1956
Pen-rhiw Unitarian Chapel was located in an area known as 'Y Smotyn Du', the black spot, by other Christian groups who disagreed with the beliefs of the Unitarians.
By 1851 there were 27 Unitarian chapels in Wales.
The chapel is believed to have been built as a barn and was acquired by the Unitarians in 1777. It is unadorned and simple in construction, and in some ways still resembles a barn rather than a place of worship.
In 1870 a gallery was added so more people could worship in the chapel.
Famous Unitarians include Louisa May Alcott, the author of 'Little Women', Edvard Grieg the Noregian composer and Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Llandinam Crescent, Gabalfa, Cardiff (Glamorgan)
Originally built 1947
Furnished 1950
Dismantled and rebuilt at St Fagans 1998
Opened to the public 2001
This is a B2 type of prefabricated bungalow (once the commonest type in Britain) that was made in four parts, constructed in a factory and moved in individual parts to be assembled at the building site.
At one stage, it was claimed, prefabs were produced at the rate of 1 every 12 minutes.
In 1944 Winston Churchill announced the 'Temporary Housing Programme'. Its aim was to provide housing for people who had lost their homes in the bombing raids and homes for key workers in cities. So there was a need to provide housing for people very quickly. Approximately 7,600 prefabs were built in Wales. They became very popular with young couples setting up their first home together.
Each prefab had two bedrooms, a living room, entrance hallway, kitchen and bathroom. All the cupboards and wardrobes were fitted, so there was no need to buy these items which woud have added to the cost.
There was hot and cold running water, an electric oven, a fridge, bathtub and toilet. A coal fire with a back boiler was in the living room and in turn this heated the hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard.
Even though they were originally intended to last around ten years, half a century later they were still home to thousands of people.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Originally situated in Llangennith, in the Gower Peninsula in Swansea.
Built in 1610, 1680, c1750
Furnished 18th century
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1952
Opened to the public 1955
Kennixton is a farmhouse where the Rogers family lived for hundreds of years. They were tenants when it was built in 1610, buying the farmhouse two hundred years later.
The farmhouse today is shown as it would have been around 1800 when Leyshon Rogers and his wife, their three children, a maid and a farm labourer lived there.
It is painted red to keep away evil spirits and protect against witchcraft. The original pigment included ox blood and lime, both of which were expensive, signalling to others that the family were rich enough to afford such items.
The dining room was used in the filming of the 2015 BBC drama series 'Poldark'. Note the stencilled walls which predate the use of wallpaper.
St Fagans National Museum of History
This picture shows Charles Robert Darwin and his nearly unknown twin-brother Robert Charles Darwin. Charles noticed very early that he achieved more success in school, with the girls and in cherry-stone-distance-spitting than his brother Robert. So Charles began to think about life in general.
Dieses Bild zeigt Charles Robert Darwin und seinen nahezu unbekannten Zwillingsbruder Robert Charles Darwin. Charles bemerkte schon sehr früh, dass er mehr Erfolg in der Schule, mit den Mädchen und im Kirschkernweitspucken hatte als sein Bruder Robert. Daher begann Charles über das Leben im Allgemeinen nachzudenken.
Originally situated in Llangennith, in the Gower Peninsula in Swansea.
Built in 1610, 1680, c1750
Furnished 18th century
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1952
Opened to the public 1955
Kennixton is a farmhouse where the Rogers family lived for hundreds of years. They were tenants when it was built in 1610, buying the farmhouse two hundred years later.
The farmhouse today is shown as it would have been around 1800 when Leyshon Rogers and his wife, their three children, a maid and a farm labourer lived there.
It is painted red to keep away evil spirits and protect against witchcraft. The original pigment included ox blood and lime, both of which were expensive, signalling to others that the family were rich enough to afford such items.
The dining room was used in the filming of the 2015 BBC drama series 'Poldark'. Note the stencilled walls which predate the use of wallpaper.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Oakdale, Gwent (Monmouthshire)
Built 1916
Dismantled and rebuilt at St Fagans 1989
Opened to the public 1995
In the early part of the 20th century, with many men away fighting in WW1, there was great hardship in Britain.
Radio, newspapers and word of mouth were the primary sources of information for people.
This was the background of the country when the Oakdale Institute was built in a mining village about 14km north of the town of Caerphilly.
Oakdale was built to provide leisure and entertainment facilities for the local workers and their families. Choirs, bands, drama societies and pigeon fanciers were among the groups who met in the Institute. Political rallies, concerts, lectures and dances were also organized there too. In later years it also had a cinema and billiard hall.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Llangadfan, Powys (Montgomeryshire)
Built 1678/1708
Furnished 18th century
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1951
Opened to the public 1951
A timber-framed thatched farmhouse, built in 1678 as an open-hall with a fire in the centre of the floor and open to the roof.
Abernodwydd was home to the Rhys family for over 300 years, until the last members of the family left in 1936. In the early 1700s, Evan and Jane Rhys lived there. They must have been quite well-off, as Evan paid to renovate the farmhouse in 1708. He built the fireplace and stone chimney that you see today, and a loft above the hall for storing the farm's produce.
Farming at Abernodwydd was a mixture of growing crops and grazing animals. In the dairy is a cheese-press and a churn for making butter. This would be for their own use and for selling at local markets. A peat fire burned above the ash-pit, and a cauldron hung to cook simple meals such as broth, roast meat and bread.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Originally situated in Llangennith, in the Gower Peninsula in Swansea.
Built in 1610, 1680, c1750
Furnished 18th century
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1952
Opened to the public 1955
Kennixton is a farmhouse where the Rogers family lived for hundreds of years. They were tenants when it was built in 1610, buying the farmhouse two hundred years later.
The farmhouse today is shown as it would have been around 1800 when Leyshon Rogers and his wife, their three children, a maid and a farm labourer lived there.
It is painted red to keep away evil spirits and protect against witchcraft. The original pigment included ox blood and lime, both of which were expensive, signalling to others that the family were rich enough to afford such items.
The dining room was used in the filming of the 2015 BBC drama series 'Poldark'. Note the stencilled walls which predate the use of wallpaper.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Originally located at Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, near Pontarddulais, Swansea (Glamorgan) over 40 miles west of St Fagans National Museum of History
Built late 1200s-1500s
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1984-5
Re-erected 2007
The interior of this church is as it would have been in 1530, just before Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, and containing all the elements of a late medieval Catholic church.
When Museum staff were dismantling the church, they found traces of wall paintings hidden under centuries of plaster. These have now been recreated.
Step inside, and you will be transported back to a time when colourful paintings of Biblical scenes covered the walls.
Look up at the 'A' frame trusses, with their mortise and tenon joints. They support 45 tonnes of sandstone tiles!
Probably the oldest surviving feature of the church is the stone font, believed to date from at least the 13th century.
St Fagans National Museum of History
It looked as if those folk on the left were enjoying a picnic or snack in that nice garden. That curious old building on the right is called "The Groatie Hoose"
The big modern building beyond the garden, at the back, is Kirkwall's relatively recently built new library.
Incidentally there is quite a lot more Online about that interesting very old "Groatie Hoose" building Online at ..........
www.spirit-of-orkney.com/contents1a/2010/05/groatie-hoose...
Originally located at Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, near Pontarddulais, Swansea (Glamorgan) over 40 miles west of St Fagans National Museum of History
Built late 1200s-1500s
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 1984-5
Re-erected 2007
The interior of this church is as it would have been in 1530, just before Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, and containing all the elements of a late medieval Catholic church.
When Museum staff were dismantling the church, they found traces of wall paintings hidden under centuries of plaster. These have now been recreated.
Step inside, and you will be transported back to a time when colourful paintings of Biblical scenes covered the walls.
Look up at the 'A' frame trusses, with their mortise and tenon joints. They support 45 tonnes of sandstone tiles!
Probably the oldest surviving feature of the church is the stone font, believed to date from at least the 13th century.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Dre-fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire
Built 1777
Date opened to the public 1956
Pen-rhiw Unitarian Chapel was located in an area known as 'Y Smotyn Du', the black spot, by other Christian groups who disagreed with the beliefs of the Unitarians.
By 1851 there were 27 Unitarian chapels in Wales.
The chapel is believed to have been built as a barn and was acquired by the Unitarians in 1777. It is unadorned and simple in construction, and in some ways still resembles a barn rather than a place of worship.
In 1870 a gallery was added so more people could worship in the chapel.
Famous Unitarians include Louisa May Alcott, the author of 'Little Women', Edvard Grieg the Noregian composer and Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Original location Dyffryn Claerwen, Powys (Radnorshire)
Originally built 1470 and 1734
Furnished 1750
Moved to St Fagans 1959
Cilewent Farmhouse is known as a 'tŷ hir' which is translated as 'long house'. Here the people and animals lived under the same roof. This type of house was once common in Mid and South Wales.
The farmhouse was first built in 1470. Originally it was built of timber but this was replaced by stone when the house was enlarged in 1734. This date is still visible, carved above the entrance.
Cattle and horses were kept in stalls on the left-hand side of the building. The people lived in the right-hand side of the house where there were two rooms - the living room at the front and the dairy at the back of the house.
Both animals and people entered through the same door and central passage. A male servant slept in the warm hay loft above the animals.
The last people who lived in the house in the 1950s would keep their coats on inside during winter.
St Fagans National Museum of History