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Leading his troops to destroy Dunkin' Donuts after being sold a box of stale chocolate glazed.
Sadly, as we all know, Washington lost that battle.
The bottom end of George Street was nearing the end of the road as a retail thoroughfare by late 1985.
Date of Birth: 22 July 1895
Date of Enlistment: 27 Apr 1918
Trade or Calling: Clerk
Born in or near what Town: Summer Hill, Sydney
Address prior to Enlistment: 3 Pearl St, Newtown
Rank, Number, Battalion, Distinctions: Private N 14 Composite [Gunner, 10th F.A.B.]
Casualities and where: [RTA 6 Sept 1919]
Name & Address of Next of Kin: D.Alexander, 3 Pearl St, Newtown
Name and last address of Father: as above
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Created by Melbourne stained glass manufacturer Ferguson and Urie in 1880 for the opening of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church, this non-figurative stained glass window features design elements typical of their work. It features a latticed "diaper" pattern containing stylised floral designs in yellow. It has a border of coloured squares dispersed with stylised flowers, also a common element of Ferguson and Urie's windows. Each lancet window features two diamond shaped panes, one at the top and one at the bottom of the window, and a central round pane of brightly coloured glass, once again featuring a stylised floral image set into an eight pointed star. A round vent at the top features a Tudor Rose sitting in the middle of an eight pointed star of green and golden yellow.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church, which stands on busy Chapel Street in St Kilda East, is a well known and loved local landmark, not least of all because of its strikingly tall (33.5 metre or 110 foot) banded bell tower which can be spotted from far away. In the Nineteenth Century when it was built, it would have been even more striking for its great height and domineering presence. Designed by architect Albert Purchas, the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is often referred to as his ecclesiastical tour-de-force, and it is most certainly one of his most dramatic and memorable churches.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was constructed on a plot of land reserved in Chapel Street for the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1866. Initially services were held in a small hall whilst fundraising efforts advanced the erection of a church. The architect Albert Purchas was commissioned to design the church and the foundation stone for the western portion of the nave was finally laid in April 1877 by Sir James McCulloch. The first service was held in the church on the 1st of October 1877. The first clergyman of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was the Reverend John Laurence Rentoul (father to world renown and much loved Australian children's book illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite). However, the swelling Presbyterian congregation of St Kilda and its surrounding districts quickly outgrew the initial Saint George's Presbyterian Church building, so Albert Purchas was obliged to re-design and enlarge the church to allow a doubling in capacity. Robert S. Ekins was the contractor and his tender was £3000.00. It is this imposing church building, reopened in 1880, that we see today. The "Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil" noted that the total length of the building was 118 feet and 6 inches (36 metres), by 40 foot (12 metres) wide and that the striking octagonal tower to the north-west was 110ft 6 in high. It perhaps reflected better the wealth and aspirations of the congregation.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is constructed on bluestone foundations and is built in an ornate polychromatic Gothic Revival style in the tradition of English designers like William Butterfield and John L. Pearson. Built of red brick building, it is decorated in contrasting cream bricks and Waurn Ponds freestone dressings. It features a slate roof with prominent roof vents, iron ridge cresting and fleche at the intersection of the nave and transepts. The front facade of the church is dominated by the slender, banded octagonal tower topped by a narrow spire. The entrance features a double arched portal portico. The facade also features a dominant triangular epitrochoidal (curved triangular form) rose window. The church, like its bluestone neighbour All Saints Church of England, is built to a T-shaped plan, with an aisleless nave, broad transepts and internal walls of cream brick, relieved with coloured brickwork. The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was one of the first major church design in Melbourne in which polychrome brickwork was lavishly employed both externally and internally.
The inside of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is equally as grand as the exterior, with ornamental Gothic Revival polychromatic brickwork, a lofty vaulted ceiling, deal and kauri pine joinery and pulpit and reredos of Keene's cement. The building originally contained a complete set of Victorian stained glass windows by well known and successful Melbourne manufacturers Ferguson and Urie, all of which remain intact today except for one of the non-figurative windows which was replaced by a memorial window to Samuel Lyons McKenzie, the congregation’s beloved minister, who served from 1930 to 1948, in 1949. The earliest of the Ferguson and Urie windows are non-figurative windows which feature the distinctive diaper pattern and floral motifs of Fergus and Urie's work, and are often argued to be amongst the finest of their non-figurative designs. The large triple window in the chancel was presented by Lady McCulloch in memory of the ‘loved and dead’. Another, in memory of John Kane Smyth, the Vice-Consul for the United States of America in Melbourne, has the American Stars and Stripes on the top ventilator above it. An organ by Thomas C. Lewis of London, one of the leading 19th century English organ builders, was installed in the south transept in 1882. It was designed to blend with its architectural setting, with pipework styled to avoid the obstruction of windows. The action of this organ was altered in 1935, but the pipework, and the original sound, have been retained.
Over the years many spiritual and social activities were instituted at Saint George’s, Presbyterian Church some of short duration such as the Ladies’ Reading Club which operated between 1888 and 1893. There were segregated Bible classes for young men and women, the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, formed in 1892, a cricket club and a floral guild. Guilds teaching physical culture for girls, boys and young men began in 1904. They were entirely financed by John Maclellan and the idea extended to other denominations throughout Victoria. John Maclellan died in 1936 and the guilds ceased at Saint George’s Presbyterian church through lack of funds although in 1977 the members of the girls’ guild were still holding bi-annual reunions and raising money for charity. Sadly, the Presbyterian congregations may have been large in the Nineteenth Century, but by St George's Presbyterian Church's 110th centenary, its doors had already closed during the week due to dwindling numbers and an ageing congregation as a result of the general decline in church attendances after the Second World War exacerbated by the changing nature of St Kilda and the decrease in numbers of residents living in the vicinity of the church. So it stood, forlorn and empty and seemingly nothing more than a relic of a glorious but bygone religious past. However in 1990, Saint Michael's Grammar School across the road leased the Victorian Heritage listed building during weekdays, and it was eventually sold to them in 2015. It now forms part of the school's performing-arts complex, and it has a wonderful new lease of life.
St George's Presbyterian Church is sometimes hired out for performances, and I had the pleasure of receiving an invitation to hear Handel's Messiah performed there in 2009. The ecclesiastical acoustics made the performance all the more magnificent. I remember as I sat on one of the original (hard) kauri pine pews, I looked around me and admired the stained glass and ornamental brickwork. I tried without success over several subsequent years to gain access to the church's interior, settling for photographs of the exterior instead, but it wasn't until 2018 that I was fortunate enough to gain entry to photograph the church's interior. The former St George's Presbyterian Church was opened up to the public for one Sunday morning only as part of Open House Melbourne in July 2018. It was a fantastic morning, and I am very grateful to the staff who manned the church for the day and watched bemused as I photographed the stained glass extensively and in such detail.
Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was Saint. George's Presbyterian Church in St Kilda East between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and Saint, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.
The stained glass firm of Ferguson and Urie was established by Scots James Ferguson (1818 – 1894), James Urie (1828 – 1890) and John Lamb Lyon (1836 – 1916). They were the first known makers of stained glass in Australia. Until the early 1860s, window glass in Melbourne had been clear or plain coloured, and nearly all was imported, but new churches and elaborate buildings created a demand for pictorial windows. The three Scotsmen set up Ferguson and Urie in 1862 and the business thrived until 1899, when it ceased operation, with only John Lamb Lyon left alive. Ferguson and Urie was the most successful Nineteenth Century Australian stained glass window making company. Among their earliest works were a Shakespeare window for the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, a memorial window to Prince Albert in Holy Trinity, Kew, and a set of Apostles for the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church. Their palatial Gothic Revival office building stood at 283 Collins Street from 1875. Ironically, their last major commission, a window depicting “labour”, was installed in the old Melbourne Stock Exchange in Collins Street in 1893 on the eve of the bank crash. Their windows can be found throughout the older suburbs of Melbourne and across provincial Victoria.
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Georges Carpentier
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Photograph shows boxer Georges Carpentier (1894-1975). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)
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Late 19th century stereoview images of the much-derided 1841 statue of George Washington by Horatio Greenough. In 1843, the statue was moved out of the Capitol to East Capitol Plaza, where it remained until 1908. It's now in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Read the Washington Post article about the statue in today's paper: www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/01/22/george-washingt...
French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, Paris, no. 792.
Georges Colin (1880-1945) was a French actor, who appeared in nearly 40 silent and sound films between 1909 and 1945.
Georges Colin was born in 1880 in Paris, France. He made his film debut in the silent short Moines et guerriers (Julien Clément, 1909) with Polaire. Ten years later he appeared in the British-French war film The Kiddies in the Ruins (George Pearson, 1918). It was released two days after the Armistice that halted fighting in the First World War and depicts the lives of children living in war-devastated France. That year, he also appeared opposite Musidora in La geôle (Gaston Ravel, 1918), and with René Navarre in Ce bon La Fontaine (Gaston Ravel, 1918). Three years later, he appeared in Gigolette (Henri Pouctal, 1921) with Charles de Rochefort, and Quand les feuilles tomberont (Fernand Rivers, Marcel Simon, 1921). During the 1920s, he also appeared with Gina Palerme in La clé de voûte (Roger Lion, 1925), with Dolly Davis in Les fiançailles rouges (Roger Lion, 1927) and with Gil Clary in Amour de louve (Roger Lion, 1929). During the early 1930s, Georges Colin played in many films. The drama Le procureur Hallers/The Prosecutor Hallers (Robert Wiene, 1930) starring Jean Max, was the French-language version of the German film Der Andere/The Other (1930) based on the play Der Andere by Paul Lindau. The two films were made at the same studio in Berlin, with Wiene beginning work on the French version immediately after finishing the German film. Colin also played in the comedy Marius à Paris (Roger Lion, 1930) with Colette Darfeuil, and the Science Fiction epic La fin du monde/End of the World (Abel Gance, 1931). It was director Abel Gance's first sound film. The original film was to be over three hours long, but the backing production took the film from Gance, and cut it to be 105 minutes. It was again cut on its release in the United States under the title of Paris after Dark. Neither abridged version of the film was well received by audiences or critics.
During the 1930s, Georges Colin was also known for such films as the historical drama L'aiglon/The Eaglet (Viktor Tourjansky, 1931) with Jean Weber as Napoleon II, the Moliere adaptation Le malade imaginaire/The Imaginary Invalid (Lucien Jaquelux, Marc Mérenda, 1934) with Dranem, and the Spy film Mademoiselle Docteur/Street of Shadows (G. W. Pabst, 1937) starring Pierre Blanchar and Dita Parlo. He also appeared in the comedy Claudine à l'école/Claudine at School (Serge de Poligny, 1937) starring Max Dearly, Pierre Brasseur and Suzet Maïs. It is an adaptation of the 1900 novel of the same title by Colette. In his later films, Colin only played supporting roles. These included the French-Italian Alexandre Dumas adaptation Le comte de Monte Cristo, 1ère époque: Edmond Dantès/The Count of Monte Cristo (Robert Vernay1, 1943) starring Pierre Richard Willm, Le chant de l'exilé (André Hugon, 1943) starring Tino Rossi, Les anges du péché/Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson, 1943) - the first feature film by Bresson, and the Balzac adaptation Vautrin/Vautrin the Thief (Pierre Billon, 1943), featuring Michel Simon. Georges Colin died in 1945 in Paris. He was 64. His final film, the drama Le dernier sou/The Last Penny (André Cayatte, 1946) starring Gilbert Gil, was released after his death.
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George Henry Knott, died 11th July 1921
George Henry Knott was my great-great grandfather. He was born in Gillingham, Kent on 31st March 1843.
George's father William Knott, my great-great-great-grandfather, had been away from home for the night of the 1841 census, but he makes an appearance on the 1851 census when he, Caroline and three of their children including George, as well as their granddaughter Rebecca, were living at 8 Church Street, Gillingham. William gave his occupation as an agricultural labourer, and he had been described as a labourer in the Northfleet and Gillingham parish records on the occasion of the baptism of several of his children. But little more is known about him, because by the time of the 1861 census he was dead, and Caroline was a widow.
Ten years later, in 1861, William's youngest son George, my great-great-grandfather, was eighteen years old, and had moved with his mother Caroline to Hillington Square, Gillingham. The Church Street house was now occupied by George's oldest brother William and his wife Mary and their children. George was an agricultural labourer, probably working on the same farm as his mother. A mile or so off in Pleasant Row, Chatham, a seventeen year old servant girl was living in the household of her uncle. Her name was Mary Ann Bowles, and she would be my great-great-grandmother. Mary Ann had a rather extraordinary background. She is one of the most colourful of my ancestors. Her mother Caroline Thompson had been born at Stoke Damerel in Devon, the parish which includes Devonport, a busy area of the city of Plymouth. Caroline married one William Bowles, a mariner, and at the time of the 1841 census, she was living under her married name Bowles in the Devonport workhouse. A few months after this, when she was pregnant with Mary Ann, Caroline walked the 300 miles from the Devonport workhouse to Faversham in Kent, apparently to reach her estranged husband's family. She was accompanied by Mary Ann's older sisters, who were both under five years old.
By 1851, Caroline was in the Faversham workhouse in Kent with four children, including the eight year old Mary Ann, my great-great-grandmother. Mary Ann's father was almost certainly Thomas Bowles, the brother of Caroline's estranged husband, William Bowles.
Mary Ann Bowles was born in the Mall, Preston-next-Faversham, Kent on 1st November 1843, and she seems to have spent many of her childhood years in the Faversham workhouse. By the time of the 1861 census she was living as a servant in Gillingham. She was 17 years old. It is quite likely that by 1861 she already knew George Knott, but on the 17th August 1862 she married Henry Welch at Faversham parish church. Mary Ann was pregnant, and their son Charles Henry Welch was born in early 1863.
It is unclear what happened next, but by March 1866 George Knott and Mary Ann Welch were living as man and wife at High Street, Gillingham, and Mary Ann had given birth to George Knott's son, who was called George Bowles Knott, with no mention of Mary Ann's married name on the birth certificate. But George and Mary Ann were not married. Henry Welch appears to have taken his son Charles off to live with his recently widowed mother at New Brompton, a few miles away.
George and Mary Ann moved to Upchurch, just outside of the Medway Towns, where a second son was born in 1868, and then on the 3rd December 1869 at Upchurch was born their third son, my great-grandfather William Knott. The 1871 census shows George and Mary Ann living in Upchurch with their three sons, George being recorded as a labourer.
And then, a few months later, Mary Ann's legal husband Henry Welch died of smallpox.
At last, George and Mary Ann were free. They married at All Saints, Frindsbury, Kent on 17th March 1872. The witnesses were George's sister Jane and her husband, Joseph Cox. There would be five more children, but three of George and Mary Ann's children would be dead by the time of the 1911 census. Several of the Knott boys were professional soldiers. One of them spent most of twenty years in India before fighting in Iraq in the First World War, which he survived. Another brother headed off to Ireland, and we find him in 1901 in Portsmouth as an infantry instructor. He died young, as did his sister Caroline and his brother Albert. However, my great-grandfather William Knott stayed close to home.
William had been born in Upchurch, but when he was about three years old the Knott family moved to the neighbouring village of Halstow for the birth of Albert and Caroline, both of whom would die in childhood. After this, there is a curious gap of eight years in the birth of children. We know that by 1881 the family were back in the Medway Towns at Gillingham, where George was working as a labourer in a brickfield. It seems likely that the Knott family were not very well off at this time, for in 1883 George's mother Caroline died in the Chatham Workhouse at the age of 84. By 1886, however, George and Mary Ann had moved further up the Medway to Strood, on the opposite bank to Rochester. Their son, my great-grandfather William, married Mary Ann Waters at St Mary's church, Strood in December 1892. William and Mary lived on Cuxton Road and then on London Road, both in Strood, and their first four children were all born in Strood.
In about 1907, my great-grandparents William and Mary Knott moved away from his parents George and Mary Ann some fifteen miles to Dartford, where my grandfather Joe Knott was born, but by 1914 they were back on the Medway again at 96 Temple Street, Strood. Joe 's family lived at the Temple Street house throughout his childhood and early adult years. Joe's grandparents George and Mary Ann Knott were close at hand, and, while George was still working as a labourer, they opened a small sweetshop and general store at 58 Grange Road, their terraced house. The shop was in business at the time of both the 1901 and 1911 censuses. In 1913, Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey and Sussex listed the following under shopkeepers: Knott George 58, Grange Road, Frindsbury, Rochester. It was probably the most stable and successful that either side of the family had been for generations.
On 27th November 1916, during the darkest period of the First World War, Mary Ann died at the Grange Road house of liver cancer. She was 73. On 11th July 1921, her husband George died at the Temple Street house. He was 78.
Temple Street was badly bombed during World War II, and finally demolished in the 1960s. Today, it is the site of Strood Tesco. But 58 Grange Road still survives - today, it is a terraced house.
George was a resident at the SS during this period as an Instructor.. a very popular guy. He got me past the falling over stage and later introduced me to many of the Brighton Tigers Hockey Team. I became an ardent member of the Tigers Supporters Club ( flic.kr/p/jbdPu6 ) and later went on to play ice hockey with an airline team as a scratch player. That airline was eventually absorbed by what is now BA.
Extracted from NISA (National Ice Skating Association of GB and NI... report....
George Miller unfortunately passed away on 21 June 2012 after a short illness, aged 86.
George Miller was born 15th October 1925 in Brighton - his splendid career in ice skating and show business covered over sixty years and lasted well past his 80th birthday.
His early brush with show business started when he applied for a job as call boy for the famous comedian Max Miller (no relation) at the Hippodrome in Brighton at the age of fifteen. He also appeared in various sketches with Max Miller where he acquired his first taste for entertainment.
With some of his savings of 14 shillings and six pence he bought his first pair of second hand ice skating boots. It turned out he had a natural talent for this beautiful sport and at the age of 17 he appeared as principal skater in the Blackpool shows. He later went on to become an instructor at the Brighton rink.
George’s talents were recognized by the famous impresario Tom Arnold OBE who signed George up for his first professional production of ‘Hot Ice’ in 1945. From this day George’s career blossomed and he appeared in most of the ice spectaculars in Brighton and around the UK, mainly Wembley Arena and also overseas over the next three decades.
He also produced and choreographed various pantomimes at the Queens Ice Club whilst also doing a lot for charity including one performance in particular at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool in 1961 where the whole cast performed to support three charities in the presence of her Majesty the Queen.
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Brighton Sports Stadium in West Street, Home to the Tom Arnold spectacular Ice Shows.
My mother worked here part time as a dresser to the skating stars performing in these shows and many of the regulars became family friends.
This is a set of photos signed by the artists to my mother. Although I was a pre-teen at this period I still fondly remember many of them.
George 3 weeks old
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Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 MkII
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The statue of St. George and the dragon on top of the Sacre Coeur Basillica in Paris.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (in French, Basilique du Sacré-Cœur) is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. The basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. It was designed by Paul Abadie and was constructed between 1875 and 1914. - Wikipedia
Ever since he was a baby, he loved licking/chewing on Melissa's fingers while purring open-mouthed. He would lick until there was no more 'taste' and then nibble until more 'taste' came out, which it didn't because that doesn't make any sense.
A bottle of Smokey George from Brauerei Rittmayer Hallerndorf in Hallerndorf, Bavaria, at Hütt'n in Nürnberg.
Rittmayer Smokey George is a 5% abv smoked beer, but instead of German smoked malts the brewers traveled to Scotland where they got their hands on some peat-smoked malt intended for Scottish whisky - making this a unique German-Scottish rauchbier!
The beer poured a clear, reddish amber color with a bubbly beige head. It sported a wonderful smoked aroma, with notes of bacon and bonfire. And mild caramel. Very nice! Mouthfeel was medium heavy with a soft texture. Flavor started out with that bonfire smoked character, balanced by a good malt sweetness and some ripe fruit notes. The smoke lingered in the long aftertaste.
Now, this is what I call a smoked beer! Very tasty and reasonably balanced. I like it very much.
When George's Grandmamma was told
That George had been as good as gold,
She promised in the afternoon
To buy him an Immense BALLOON.
And so she did; but when it came,
It got into the candle flame,
And being of a dangerous sort
Exploded with a loud report!
The lights went out! The windows broke!
The room was filled with reeking smoke.
And in the darkness shrieks and yells
Were mingled with electric bells,
And falling masonry and groans,
And crunching, as of broken bones,
And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all,
The house itself began to fall!
It tottered, shuddering to and fro,
Then crashed into the street below-
Which happened to be Savile Row.
When help arrived, among the dead
Were Cousin Mary, Little Fred,
The Footmen (both of them), the Groom,
The man that cleaned the Billiard-Room,
The Chaplain, and the Still-Room Maid.
And I am dreadfully afraid
That Monsieur Champignon, the Chef,
Will now be permanently deaf-
And both his aides are much the same;
While George, who was in part to blame,
Received, you will regret to hear,
A nasty lump behind the ear.
The moral is that little boys
Should not be given dangerous toys.
St George's Church, Portobello, is a former Church of England parish church in the City of Sheffield, England. It is now part of the University of Sheffield and is a lecture theatre and student housing.
St George's is the first of three Commissioners' churches to have been built in Sheffield under the Church Building Act 1818. The other two are St Mary's Church, Bramall Lane and St Philip's Church, Netherthorpe (demolished 1951). St George's is a Gothic Revival building designed by the architects Woodhead and Hurst in a Perpendicular Gothic style. It was built at a cost of £15,181 (equivalent to £1,220,000 in 2018), the whole cost being met by the Church Building Commission.
The building is 122 feet (37 m) long and 67 feet (20 m) wide, and consisted of a flat-ceilinged nave with six bays, a single-bay chancel, and a 140 feet (43 m)-high tower. Galleries extended the length of the north and south walls, and there was a two-tiered gallery on the west wall. In total the church could seat 380 people. The foundation stone was laid on 19 July 1821, and the church was consecrated by Archbishop Vernon Harcourt on 29 June 1825.
The church was declared redundant and closed in 1981. It stood unused for a number of years until the University of Sheffield acquired it and in 1994 had it converted into a lecture theatre and student accommodation. Prior to this it had been the last of the Commissioners' churches in Sheffield to retain its original form. It is a Grade II listed building.
In 2010 a nest-box was placed on the church rooftop, which is now home to a breeding pair of peregrine falcons that can be seen via live stream webcam.
The Church of St George (Romansh: Sogn Gieri), dating back to the High Middle Ages, belongs to the church parishes of Bonaduz and Rhäzüns. It is decorated throughout with Gothic frescoes by the Waltensburger and Rhäzüns masters. The visitor experiences the Middle Ages here in the truest sense of the word. The depictions on the choir and nave walls of the Romanesque church are a ”biblia paupera”. The pictures recount events from the Old and, above all, from the New Testament. The Waltensburger frescoes testify to a courtly culture, which is also documented by the knightly epics and Minnesang. Representations of torture in the legend of St George stand in contrast to elegant saints and courageous knights. There is no other interior throughout the Canton of Graubünden whose walls tell us so much about what was important in the Middle Ages.
It is considered the richest example of a completely decorated church interior of the Middle Ages in Switzerland.__Located at a remote location on a wooded hill above the anterior Rhine. The patronage festival goes back to the local legend, which tells how St. George did missionary work in the Grisons in the middle of the 4th century. At this place he leapt over the Rhine on his horse to escape pagan persecutors. Old parish, mentioned 960; evidence of a Carolingian hall church with stilted apse and walled, open (?) entrance courtyard found during excavations when restoration took place in 1961-1963. The present-day complex consists of a Romanesque nave with a flat ceiling and a transverse rectangular Gothic choir (the choir lies perpendicular to the nave) from the early 14th century with a cross rib vault. High Gothic wall-paintings by two artists. The earlier ones in the choir and choir arch by the Waltensburg Master ca. 1350, the newer ones on the walls of the nave by a Rhäzuns master from the 2nd half of the 14th century.__Choir: the ribs painted colourfully to simulate rich profiles. Intertwined leaves between four large medallions with angels as evangelists in the sectroids. Christ’s countenance on the apex stone; Annunciation in the tree vault shields, (flanked by the fox and stork from Aesop’s Fables), Crucifixion and the Coronation of Mary; a badly damaged Adoration of the Magi, row of apostles and benefactor couple under a bold meandering frieze with the coat of arms of Rhäzüns; St. Oswald and St. Nicholas in the window embrasure; pedestal drapery._ Three image bands with iconographically interesting, intertwined scenes of the miracle and passion of St. George on the wall under the merlon frieze: on the upper right King Dadianus shows the wheel and cauldron instruments of torture to the Saint, next to it the miracle of St. George, who causes branches to grow out of the house of a poor widow; below this the widow’s crippled child is presented to St. George, on the left the capture of St. George; on the upper left Queen Alexandria is hung by her hair, whipped and then beheaded after her confession to Christianity, while St. George is put into a cauldron of boiling lead as he prays for her; in the middle band of pictures the magician Anthanasios causes a demon to rise up out of a bursting steer; in the lower band the Saint is tortured, hung and desecrated, to the right of the choir arch he is decapitated; under the legend of St. George to the left is a Virgin of Mercy with kneeling benefactor and two women under the coat of arms of Rhäzüns: John the Baptist on the right above the masonry altar block; representation of the battle with the dragon on the north wall of the nave.__Nave: three bands of single images from the 2nd half of the 14th century by the so-called Rhäzüns Master along the longer walls and on the west wall. These distinguish themselves from the true form and carefully composed art of the Waltensburg Master by their linear and improvised representation of a type of pauper's Bible. Scenes in loose order from the Old and New Testaments that are kept strictly disconnected. Further devotional images on the north wall: St. Nicholas with the three virgins above; the so-called Holiday Christ, Gregory Mass, local legend of the St. George leaping over the Rhine, Archangel Michael as weigher of the souls, the death and burial of the Mother of God below. (Kunstführer durch die Schweiz, Hg. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, Band 2, Bern 2005) (Art Guide Throughout Switzerland, ed. Swiss Society for Art History, Volume 2, Berne 2005)
Co. C, 21st N. Y. Infantry
South Kansas Tribune, Wednesday, April 17, 1895:
Death of Col. Remington
In the death of George L. Remington at the age of 67 years, which occurred April 12th, our city loses one of her very best citizens. A gentleman of high christian character, who was always cheerful and helpful, and it was always his pleasure to do duty whatever that was. He served his country faithfully in the great civil war, enlisting early in 1861, he was elected Captain of the Twenty-first New York volunteers and served at the front until in 1864 when ill health compelled his resignation. The following year he was married to his now bereaved wife. He engaged in the wholesale tobacco business in Buffalo, New York, and subsequently was elected register of deeds in that county. Later with his family he removed to Saginaw, Mich., where he was in the lumber trade until 1882, when he located in this city. For a time he was engaged in the cattle business, but in 1885 connected himself with the First National Bank of this place, and has served a bookkeeper, vice-president, and for five years has been its cashier. As a business man he was honest, prompt, and always reliable, and his associates always found him a man of excellent judgment and of unswerying fidelity. He has served the city as Member of the Board of Education and for years he has been its president, and none have proved more faithful, or to have a more unflagging interest in the educational affairs of the city. In religion he was of the Presbyterian faith, and he honored the professions he made, by a life void of offense. He was superintendent of its Sabbath school, a leading official member, and often when the pastor would be absence Col. Remington was called on to officiate, and to read a sermon, and in the last general assembly of the church he was selected to represent the Neosho Presbytery as its lay delegate. He was gifted in oratory and has often been called on as a public speaker, and always did credit to himself and his subject. In his fraternal relations he was a member of McPherson Post No. 4, G. A. R.; of the Modern Woodmen, and of the several Masonic fraternities, having passed the chairs with honor. The funeral on Sunday, was at his home; and was in charge of the Knights of Templar, attended by the Master Masons and the Modern Woodmen. Sermon by his pastor, the Rev. G. W. Bean, assisted by Chaplain Rev. J. W. Wright.
From History of Montgomery County, Kansas, By Its Own People, published by L. Wallace Duncan, Iola, Kansas, 1903, pgs. 682-684:
GEORGE L. REMINGTON. During the comparatively brief period of twelve years that he was permitted to mingle with and be one of the citizens of Montgomery county, the late subject of this record, George L. Remington, lived a life conspicuous for its relation to men and affairs, for its usefulness to be civil and social institutions and conspicuous for its purity and dignity as exemplified in his daily walk. Few men exhibit such strong and genuine elements of character and win the unbounded confidence of a community in so few years, as did he, and his death, April 11th, 1895, was mourned as a public loss.
Born in Lancaster, near Buffalo, New York, Mary 24, 1832, he was a son of Rev. James Remington, a noted Presbyterian minister of western New York, and for eighteen years pastor of the congregation of Lancaster. Though he had given up regular work very late in life Rev. Remington died in 1889 at over ninety years of age, still in the harness, as it were, and doing the work of the Master. He married Caroline Evans, who died in the seventies, being the mother of three sons and two daughters, namely: Rev. Charles, of Buffalo, New York, the only survivor of the family; George L., of this memoir; James, who died about 1880 and passed his life chiefly in the milling business; Mary, who died unmarried about 1875, and Jennie, who was for many years a deputy in the office of the Clerk of Erie county, New York, and died in 1891.
The education of George L. Remington was acquired in what we now term the common schools and in Gambler College, Ohio. On leaving college he entered the Union army as a private, joining company “C”, 21st New York Vol. Inf. He rose by successive promotions, viz: to First Sergeant, and August 7, 1861, was commissioned 1st Lieut., and Capt., Dec. 12, 1861. He succeeded Capt. Washburn who was killed at Second Bull Run in August, 1862. His regiment formed a part of the Army of the Potomac and he participated in all the engagements of that famous and splendid army and was discharged in 1864, resigning and leaving the service on account of failing health. September 14, 1865, he married Alice Pomeroy, a daughter of Robert Pomeroy, a banker and one of the old settlers of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Pomeroy married Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of a Baptist clergyman, and died in 1856 at sixty years old. He resided in Buffalo when the British burned that city during the war of 1812 and he and his mother were the last to leave the destroyed city. Mrs. Remington is the fourth of nine children in her parents’ family, five of whom are yet living.
Mr. Remington was in the service of the government in the commissary department of the army at Nashville, Tennessee, for near one year, immediately succeeding the end of the war, and on returning north engaged in the wholesale tobacco business in Buffalo. Subsequently he was elected Register of Deeds for Erie county, New York, and some time after the close of his official career he moved his family out to Saginaw, Michigan, where he embarked in the lumber and salt business and conducted the same successfully till some time in the year 1882, when he disposed of his Michigan interests and became a resident of Independence, Kansas. As a citizen of Saginaw he ingratiated himself into the love and esteem of his compeers and was favored with public trusts. He was a member of the Board of Education, where he rendered valuable service, and was an active and faithful worker in his religious denomination.
For about two years after coming to Montgomery county, Capt. Remington was engaged in the cattle business. In 1885, he was invited to become cashier of the First National Bank of Independence. He filed the position ‘till his death and in it demonstrated a peculiar fitness and adaptation to the place. He was always courteous, sincere and reliable, prompt in fulfilling his obligations and faithful in serving the constituents of the bank.
As a citizen of Independence, Capt. Remington took a prominent part in all its affairs. His ability and integrity were at once recognized and he accepted the public trusts that were imposed on him with an eye single to the public good. He demonstrated his unflagging interest in public education by long and faithful service on the school board. He was President of that body for some years and many were the ideas he advanced for the improvement of the facilities and methods of education. He was a leading member of the Presbyterian church and, in the absence of the pastor, was frequently designated to read a sermon and to comment on the character, good works and teachings of the Sabbath School and the beneficent works of a good man were felt in this field, also. In his capacity as a teacher and leader his work was most effective. He was a ready and pleasing talker, and was a storehouse of information on popular subjects and, in 1894, was chosen by the Presbytery of Neosho to be a delegate to the General Assembly at Saratoga, New York. He was a member of McPherson Post G. A. R., was a Modern Woodman and a Knight Templar Mason, by whose direction and under whose auspices his funeral was held. In politics he was a Republican
Capt. And Mrs. Remington’s family comprised three children, namely: Jennie P., wife of Will P. Lyon, of Independence; Allen A., who married Lizzie B. Marshall and is a merchant of Bristow, Ind. Ty., and George F., who died Sept. 18, 1899, at twenty-three years of age.
Contributed by Mrs. Maryann Johnson a Civil war researcher and a volunteer in the Kansas Room of the Independence Public Library, Independence, Kansas.
Company G, 2nd Nebraska Infantry, Company M, 16th Kansas Cavalry
Annals of Brown County, Kansas : from the earliest records to January 1, 1900 (1903)
Geo. VV. Seaman. George W. Seaman, the deputy sheriff and jailer of Brown county, Is one of the earliest pioneers In the history of the county. He is the son of Squire I. N. Seaman and Julia A. Hayes and was born at Port Clinton, Ohio on January 20, 1846. The family came to Brown county In 1856 and located In the southern part of Lochnane township in the territory now belonging to Jackson county. Their first home was a log cabin with a dirt floor and a blanket for a door.
It was on Mr. Seaman's land that John Brown's Battle of the Spurs was fought in February 1859. Brown was headed for the North with eleven runaway slaves and Marshal Woods was out with a posse looking for him. Woods and his posse reached the Seaman farm ahead of Brown. In a, little time Brown's wagons could be seen coming from the direction of Topeka. Wood became excited and beean to hand out buckshot by the handful to Squire Seaman Mr. Seaman asked what he was to do with them, he having no gun, and was told to protect himself. As Brown's party came nearer Woods fright increased and he exclaimed My God there is 500 of them and yelling to the men to conceal themselves he jumped on his horse and started for Atchison as fast as he could ride Long before Brown reached the Seaman farm the last of Woods posse had disappeared in hot fight. Woods was last seen going through Museotah thirteen miles away bareheaded and still on the run. The subject of this sketch is probably the only living witness of the battle which John A. Martin dubbed the Battle of the Spurs.
The Seaman farm was also a station on the underground railway and is the place to which Nigger Bill Jones sent Col. Ege's nigger as described on page 28 of these annals.
In 1862 George W. Seaman then a lad of sixteen ran away from home and enlisted in Company G of the Second Nebraska. This regiment saw fourteen months service under Gen. Sully against the Sioux Indians and was then mustered out Mayor Steve Hunter and County Surveyor T. J. Marion were comrades of Mr. Seaman in this period of his army service. Mr. Seaman next enlisted in the Fourth Kansas Battery with his father and youngest brother and later was transferred to Company M of the 16th Kansas Calvary regiment. He was with the party that helped chase Quantrell out of Lawrence and assisted in repelling the Price raid. He was mustered out May 15, 1865 and then attended St. Benedict's College at Atchison for one year. In 1866 he went to Montana and spent two years in mining and contracting. In 1880 he moved to Colorado where he lived for twelve years. Here he was engaged in mining, merchandising and publishing a paper. He also served one terra as postmaster . In 1893 he returned to Brown county locating on his farm
near Claytonville where he lived until last year when he came to Hiawatha to serve as deputy sheriff. He is a mason, a member of the G. A. R. and belongs to the Royal League and the Knights and Ladles of Security. He was married in 1871 to Miss Anna E. Smouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smouse of Hiawatha. They have six children: Samuel, now a resident of Colorado, Julia B., wife of U. G. Hauber, of Mission Township, Ella May, wife of G. V. Koch, a prominent business man of St. Joe and one of the Board of Alderman of that city, Pearl B., Frederick H. and Alfaretta. Both Mr. and Mrs. Seaman are members of the United Brethren church.
French postcard by J.R.P.R., Paris, no. 429. Photo: Studio Lorelle.
French actor Georges Charlia (1894-1984) played in 22 silent and sound films. He worked with such famous directors of the French avant-garde cinema as Germaine Dulac, Jean Epstein, and Alberto Cavalcanti.
Georges Charlia was born as Georges Charliat in Paris, France in 1894. He made his film debut in Germaine Dulac’s silent film Gossette (1923) with Régine Bouet. Then followed a part in another classic of the silent cinema, La belle Nivernaise/The Beauty from Nivernais (1924, Jean Epstein) with Blanche Montel. He played the lead in Epstein’s La goutte de sang/The drop of blood (1924). The film was started by Jean Epstein, but Maurice Mariaud took it over and modified the project. In the Guy de Maupassant adaptation Pierre et Jean/Pierre and Jean (1924, Donatien), he appeared with Lucienne Legrand. Le train sans yeux/Train Without Eyes (1927, Alberto Cavalcanti) was a Louis Delluc adaptation in which he co-starred with Hans Mierendorf, Gina Manès, and Hanni Weisse. He also appeared in Cavalcanti’s drama En rade/Sea Fever (1928, Alberto Cavalcanti). At Rovi, Hal Erickson reviews: “Catherine Hessling, better known to film enthusiasts for her work in the early Jean Renoir silents, stars as a seaport barmaid who falls in love with sweet-natured sailor Georges Charlia. When Charlia unaccountably disappears one day, Hessling is plunged into the depths of melancholia. Her sad story is counterpointed with the bizarre behavior of the local laundress' lazy, near-moronic son (Philippe Heriat), who dreams of a life at sea. Although well photographed on genuine locations, Sea Fever proved confusing to many non-French filmgoers.” Charlia starred in a few German films, including Ritter der nacht/Knights of the Night (1928, Max Reichmann) co-starring La Jana. In that same year, he also played in the drama L'équipage/Last Flight (1928, Maurice Tourneur) starring Charles Vanel. One of his last silent films was Prix de beauté/Beauty Prize (1930, Augusto Genina) in which he was the lover and murderer of Louise Brooks.
George Charlia made the transition to sound film with Vacances (1931, Robert Boudrioz) with Florelle and Lucien Gallas. He reunited with Gina Manès to co-star in L'ensorcellement de Séville/The Charm of Seville (1931, Benito Perojo), Pax (1932, Francisco Elías) and L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes/The love which is necessary to women (1933, Adolf Trotz). In Germany, Charlia played a supporting part in the classic anti-war drama Kameradschaft/Comradeship (1931, Georg Wilhelm Pabst). Hal Erickson at Rovi: “Kameradschaft is set in a mining community on the French/German frontier, where several French miners are trapped in a cave-in. Their only hope for rescue lies in a long-abandoned underground tunnel, buried since the First World War. Ignoring the ethnic and political differences that have long separated the two countries, a group of German miners pick their way through the old tunnel to save the entombed Frenchmen. (…) Ironically, the German public, whose decency and humanity is celebrated in Kameradschaft, tended to avoid the film.” His last films were the Belgian-Dutch coproduction Jeunes filles en liberté/Young Girls in Freedom (1933, Fritz Kramp), and L'enfant de ma soeur/The Child of my Sister (1933, Henry Wulschleger). Why his film career stopped then after only ten years is not clear. Wasn’t his voice soundproof? Did he lose his interest in the cinema after the silent avant-garde cinema had dwindled away? We only know that Georges Charlia died in 1984, in his hometown Paris.
Sources: James Travers (Films de France), Wikipedia, and IMDb.