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What a great idea to have model railways alongside the real thing!
Free entry and with 30+ layouts and 20+ traders made this a huge success. I cant wait until the next one.
In the background are the Icons that are the APT-E and DELTIC locomotive.
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
Class 373/2 car 3308 is at the National Railway Museum, York.
A marvel of Engineering running at 186mph on daily services to Paris and Brussels.
The 24 hole grille is one of the most recognisable pieces of the train front and I wanted an angle or picture away from the normal three quarter view showing the whole carriage.
Up close and in low with a contrast filter got the unusual shot I was after.
The power car is now a permanent addition to the National Collection housed at the National Railway Museum, and represents a crucial stage in the ever-evolving phenomenon of high speed rail travel.
Entry to the National Railway Museum is FREE.
Donations are gladly accepted.
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
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 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 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
Original location 10 Adam Street, Adamstown, Cardiff
Built 1853
Furnished 1915
Dismantled and moved to St Fagans 2012, rebuilding work is ongoing
When The Vulcan was built the area was known as Newtown. Newtown was built from the 1830s to house the growing workforce needed to build and service Cardiff Docks.
The Vulcan began life as two small terraced houses that were later knocked into one to form one larger building. It was first registered as an 'ale house' in 1853 and was called The Vulcan Inn. It offered lodgings on the first floor, which is also where the landlord and his family lived. After significant remodelling in 1914-15 it became The Vulcan Hotel.
The Vulcan Hotel is scheduled to open summer 2024.
St Fagans National Museum of History
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
I took a photo of this unusual and very interesting piece of artwork today - Saturday 30 September 2017 - at the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, it being the first Full Day of a new exhibition.
I do not recall ever having seen a work of art quite like that before - and I have to confess that in addition to finding it very interesting I also enjoyed it!
I gather that Nick Gordon is an Orkney Resident who recently studied Art further south in Scotland. Well done!
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
Unedited water reflection of visitors at my Expo yesterday in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V :)
Yesterday I had a Solo Expo at the '4816/ASA Art Boulevard' at the WestergasTerras, so many lovely people came by to see my wicked pictures, the sun was shining, there was a BBQ&beer, great music, and I had the chance to shoot reflection photos of the visitors, a perfect day. If you missed it, come and visit my little shop at the Rembrandtplein, I'm there almost every day with a fine selection of my pictures! More photos of the Expo are on my Facebook page :)
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I took Aaron for a walk last Sunday up and around the woods of castle coch, he wanted to go inside the castle but I don't take money on our walks, so I told him I would take him up this weekend.......so off we went this morning, when I went to pay the lady said as it was St Davids Day it was free entry....Yeah !!!
St David is the patron saint of Wales by the way......
We spent about an hour exploring the rooms, Aaron was very impressed with how beautifully decorated the castle is.......he really liked the dungeons.
I liked how the drawbridge and castle came out here, no fiddling with this photo, this is straight from the camera, there really was blue sky today ;-)
taken with the 10-20mm.
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
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
The first pair I spotted... . :D
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Quite a vain bloke. (And he dared say that photo cameras are _boring_?!! Awoooo!)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Their own little celebration. (Quite weird, seeing adult male humans play around with those fire sticks. :D)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
See full! :)
Visitors at my Expo yesterday in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V :)
Yesterday I had a Solo Expo at the '4816/ASA Art Boulevard' at the WestergasTerras, so many lovely people came by to see my wicked pictures, the sun was shining, there was a BBQ&beer, great music, and I had the chance to shoot reflection photos of the visitors, a perfect day. If you missed it, come and visit my little shop at the Rembrandtplein, I'm there almost every day with a fine selection of my pictures! More photos of the Expo are on my Facebook page :)
'Like' me on Facebook :)
Unedited water reflection of visitors at my Expo yesterday in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V :)
Yesterday I had a Solo Expo at the '4816/ASA Art Boulevard' at the WestergasTerras, so many lovely people came by to see my wicked pictures, the sun was shining, there was a BBQ&beer, great music, and I had the chance to shoot reflection photos of the visitors, a perfect day. If you missed it, come and visit my little shop at the Rembrandtplein, I'm there almost every day with a fine selection of my pictures! More photos of the Expo are on my Facebook page :)
'Like' me on Facebook :)
Unedited water reflection of visitors at my little shop in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
This Sunday, June 30, I will show my wicked reflection photos at a Solo Expo at the Westergasterras at the ASA/4816 Art Boulevard from 12:00 - 20:00. This is also your chance to get an awesome water reflection photo of yourself by the Master of Reflections! Free entry, bring your friends&family! If you can't make it, but would still like to see my photos and get a reflection shot of yourself, you can find me almost every day on the Rembrandtplein with an exclusive selection of my wicked reflections and other Amsterdam photos that are for sale. So if you're in town, come by and have a chat and a coffee with me, it's a fun hang-out for all kinds of funky people! Of course you can always send me a message at Prints@amstersam.com if you see a picture online that you'd like printed, and I'll mail it to you :)
'Like' me on Facebook :)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Fake night vision, of course.
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Unedited water reflection of visitors at my little shop in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
This Sunday, June 30, I will show my wicked reflection photos at a Solo Expo at the Westergasterras at the ASA/4816 Art Boulevard from 12:00 - 20:00. This is also your chance to get an awesome water reflection photo of yourself by the Master of Reflections! Free entry, bring your friends&family! If you can't make it, but would still like to see my photos and get a reflection shot of yourself, you can find me almost every day on the Rembrandtplein with an exclusive selection of my wicked reflections and other Amsterdam photos that are for sale. So if you're in town, come by and have a chat and a coffee with me, it's a fun hang-out for all kinds of funky people! Of course you can always send me a message at Prints@amstersam.com if you see a picture online that you'd like printed, and I'll mail it to you :)
'Like' me on Facebook :)
Unedited water reflection of visitors at my Expo yesterday in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V :)
Yesterday I had a Solo Expo at the '4816/ASA Art Boulevard' at the WestergasTerras, so many lovely people came by to see my wicked pictures, the sun was shining, there was a BBQ&beer, great music, and I had the chance to shoot reflection photos of the visitors, a perfect day. If you missed it, come and visit my little shop at the Rembrandtplein, I'm there almost every day with a fine selection of my pictures! More photos of the Expo are on my Facebook page :)
'Like' me on Facebook :)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Unedited water reflection of visitors at my little shop in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
This Sunday, June 30, I will show my wicked reflection photos at a Solo Expo at the Westergasterras at the ASA/4816 Art Boulevard from 12:00 - 20:00. This is also your chance to get an awesome water reflection photo of yourself by the Master of Reflections! Free entry, bring your friends&family! If you can't make it, but would still like to see my photos and get a reflection shot of yourself, you can find me almost every day on the Rembrandtplein with an exclusive selection of my wicked reflections and other Amsterdam photos that are for sale. So if you're in town, come by and have a chat and a coffee with me, it's a fun hang-out for all kinds of funky people! Of course you can always send me a message at Prints@amstersam.com if you see a picture online that you'd like printed, and I'll mail it to you :)
'Like' me on Facebook :)
Situated next to the National Space Centre in Leicester, the Abbey Pumping Station is Leicester's Museum of Science and Technology and displays the city's industrial, scientific and technological heritage. Unlike the Space Centre this museum is free to enter.
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Very awesome horse + knight(?). Sadly I did not get a better shot, and also, I have no clue what they represent. (I assume there is some kind of reasoning behind their appearance, and one does not just say "Oh, let's go to Stonehenge dressed up as a horse this year!"?)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Visitors at my Expo yesterday in Amsterdam. Taken with a Sony HX200V :)
Yesterday I had a Solo Expo at the '4816/ASA Art Boulevard' at the WestergasTerras, so many lovely people came by to see my wicked pictures, the sun was shining, there was a BBQ&beer, great music, and I had the chance to shoot reflection photos of the visitors, a perfect day. If you missed it, come and visit my little shop at the Rembrandtplein, I'm there almost every day with a fine selection of my pictures! More photos of the Expo are on my Facebook page :)
'Like' me on Facebook :)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
This is the first time ever - not even in Germany - I saw an orderly queue for festival toilets / dixies. Really, only in Britain... .
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
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Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
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
The central hall in the Natural History Museum, London. Crowds of people, probably because it was raining and half term school holidays.
At the top is a section through a Giant Sequoia.
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
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Cleaning up the garbage left behind on the fields... . (Not by us, I swear! We always used our garbage bags, or when those were not present, we'd asked if we were allowed to add it to someone else's rubbish collection.)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
See, I did get inside!
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
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
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
Cliffe Castle was originally the home of Victorian millionaire and textile manufacturer Henry Isaac Butterfield. Completed in the 1880s the building was funded by the Butterfield family's industrial empire which included wool textile mills and a shipping business that took British goods to Europe, America and China.
The completed house was a showcase of international art and French decoration. It was the scene of many glittering social events. Butterfield family connections included the Roosevelts of America and members of the court of Napoleon III.
In the 1950s the Castle was bought by Sir Bracewell Smith, a local man who became Lord Mayor of London. Sir Bracewell used architect Sir Albert Richardson to turn Cliffe Castle's gardens into a grand public park and remodelled the Castle to be a free museum for the people of the district.
In recent years Cliffe Castle has undergone a major restoration. Visitors can see sparkling Victorian rooms and furniture, paintings and decorative art. Special galleries deal with natural history, archaeology and social history, all of which can be seen along with the internationally important display of stained glass by Morris & Co. The Castle also hosts changing exhibitions from its collections and the community. Family areas ensure there is something for all ages.
(taken from Bradford District Museums & Galleries website)
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2010 info on Heritage Key.
Look at the bigger version!