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*** Castle Howard in North Yorkshire looking at its best in bright March sunshine earlier this year
For people who do not know it it was used in the TV adaptation of Brideshead revisited. The house was principally designed by Vanbrugh . Construction began in 1701, and it took over 100 years to complete
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We don't see Red Squirrels very often, it was great to see three in this tree.
Photo taken at: Howard Davis Park, St Helier, Jersey www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Howard+Davis+Park/@49.1799917...
This is probably one of the rarest aircraft I have ever captured! The Howard 500 was an executive transport aircraft produced by Howard Aero Inc. during the early 1960s. This is an ultra rare aircraft to see flying as there are only two left flying in the world! Both aircraft are based in Minnesota.
A little bit on Howard A. "Dutch" Darrin, the coachbuilder, designer and builder of the two Packard's on the left in the image above. Howard A. "Dutch" Darrin, the man behind the 1937-1942 Packard Darrin left an indelible imprint, not only on the automobile, but on the people he met in the old car movement, long after his career building and designing cars had ended. Dutch Darrin was a kind of "breakaway designer." He was crusty, hardbitten and had no reticence about expressing his opinions. He had flashing blue eyes, snowy white hair in later life, a bubbling enthusiasm for what he liked, a withering contempt for what he didn't. Interviewing and reporting on Dutch was a test of a writer's finesse: the art of balancing Darrin's fierce convictions with the opinions of others who sometimes saw matters in quite a different way.
He had an automotive curriculum vitae that put to shame most of his design contemporaries. Starting in the Teens as a Westinghouse engineer, he invented an electric gearshift for John North Willys, deciding then and there to spend his career on cars instead of electronics. When he went to France with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, he fell in love with Paris.
In 1920 he set himself up as a custom coachbuilder, initially using the Minerva chassis. He was shortly building custom bodies for the cream of European society, working on his own or in successful partnership with designer Tom Hibbard and, later, a banker named Fernandez.
His friends were people the rest of us have only read about: René Mathis of Ford-France, André Citröen, Louis Renault, the brothers Panhard, Ettore Bugatti, Sir John Siddeley, princes and potentates, presidents and polo players. To have associated with all these; to have had the incredible luck he always acknowledged; to have enjoyed a rich career, and to have had fun doing it, is surely what the philosopher meant when he talked about living life to the fullest.
In 1937, Darrin moved to California, transferring his activities from individual to semi-custom bodies, but maintaining a distinct style that branded them immediately as his own. Here he was aided by two experienced coachbuilders, Paul Erdos and Rudy Stoessel, the latter going on to found California's long-lived Coachcraft Inc. Typically, Darrin made do with little, buying a former bottling factory with a good location: Sunset Strip, Hollywood.
He styled himself "Darrin of Paris," and like Raymond Loewy he had an aristocratic French accent that he could turn on or off as the need arose. Dutch's clientele now included the New World's aristocracy, such as Errol Flynn, Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Ann Sheridan, and Carole Lombard.
Innately talented, Dutch was always personally involved in the cars that bore his name: everything from his custom bodies of the 1920s and 1930s through his reskinned Rolls-Royce Silver Shadows in the 1970s. Unlike Raymond Loewy, he was not a stylist-become-marketing expert, who discovered and hired talented employees and took credit (as Loewy had a right to do) for what they produced. Dutch did it all -- even supervised the construction of semi-customs like the famous Packard Darrins. They might not have been paragons of craftsmanship, but by gosh they were unique, beautiful, and as dashing as all get-out.
Darrin's Packard connection stemmed from his decision to return to America from France in 1937. He realized that the age of full-custom bodies was waning, but thought the Hollywood film colony would buy rakish semi-customs. His concept, for which he deserves credit as a pioneer, was to customize production cars and produce semi-customs -- relatively inexpensive, yet distinct from mass-market stuff. Of Packard he said, "Its chassis was unimpeachable, and its classic grille was a great starting point." He had always fancied himself "a strong grille man," depending on the radiator to focus his designs, though his favorite American production car was the grilleless Cord 810/812, designed by a man Dutch considered a genius, the late Gordon Miller Buehrig.
The first 1937 Packard Darrin taught Dutch a great deal about his semi-custom concept. Built in a Los Angeles body and fender shop before Darrin moved into Sunset Strip, it was created for actor Dick Powell. The chassis was from a 1938 Eight (aka One Twenty) and the body looked splendid, with sweeping fenders and a low beltline displaying the characteristic "Darrin dip" at the doors. But Dutch had cut up a business coupe to build it, and chassis for closed cars weren't as rigid as those for open models. The car leaked like a sieve and had too much body flex.
Darrin built two more five-passenger Packard Darrins at another body shop before the move to Sunset Strip, selling one to Clark Gable. Like the first example, these had wooden cowls, which contributed most of the shake, rattle, and roll. Once "production" got rolling at Sunset Strip, clever Rudy Stoessel designed a cast aluminum cowl, which made a huge difference on the 16-18 Darrin Packards built in 1938-1939.
Among their buyers were Rosalind Russell, Chester Morris, and Al Jolson, who each paid a cool $4200-5200, probably equivalent to six figures in today's money. (That was peanuts compared to some of the esoteric specials the movie crowd was buying at the time, supporting Dutch's idea of relying heavily on production car components.) For some of these customers, Packard Darrins were simply too special. Dick Powell sold car number one after a few months because people were noticing, waving, and chasing him for autographs.
I can go on, but I think that's enough to give you a flavor of this great automobile designer and builder, Howard "Dutch" Darrin. Most of the above is from the auto editors of Consumer Guide
A vertical pano of fall colors at Howard Amon Park in Richland, Washington.
Shot with DJI Mini 2.
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1941 Packard Darrin
One-Eighty Convertible Victoria
The Packard Darrin was a special automobile in the maker’s lineup. It was a blending of all the glory that was Packard in the Classic Era with all the chutzpa that was the stock in trade of Howard “Dutch” Darrin. The result was glamor with lots of pizzazz.
Without Darrin’s insistence, the car wouldn’t have been built at all. Following his days in Paris, Darrin had settled in Hollywood; immediately established himself as the purveyor of custom coachwork to the stars. The polo playing-Darrin was quickly accepted by the movie crowd; his well-cultivated French accent fit in perfectly. He named his shop “Darrin of Paris.”
1:18 Die-cast modelcar from Signature Models. Photo taken on a table top out in the open for realism.
Howard Mausoleum
Built in 1729 stands on a hill in the grounds of Castle Howard and is raised on a wide grassy terrace encircled with a stone wall. A massive double flight of steps leads up to the main chamber of the mausoleum which is encircled with a peristyle of Doric columns and crowned with a shallow dome. Inside it has a coffered ceiling and richly carved entablature supported by Corinthian columns. This circular funerary chamber rests on the great square plinth formed by the vaulted burial vault below. The latter contains sixty three catacombs.
The mausoleum was built for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (d.1738) Horace Walpole famously described it as a building which ‘would tempt one to be buried alive.
Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England - it is around 300 years old. wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Howard
Inside the great hall, the Dome is 70 feet in height, a fact which cannot give a true impression of the remarkable sense of spaciousness and light that it brings to the Great Hall below. The four large painted figures at the meeting of the columns that support the Dome represent the four elements; Earth, Fire, Air, and Water. They are by Giovanni Pellegrini, who worked at Castle Howard from 1709 - 1712.
Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) north of York. One of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh.
Jamie Fyson Howard will our guest tutor at Unseen – documentary photography workshop in Krakow.
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Jamie is a British photographer who has been living in Krakow for 15 years. He has worked on commercial and editorial assignments and published in various magazines, among them The Guardian and major Polish newspapers Gazeta Wyborcza and Dziennik Polski. He is the recipient of several national and international photography awards and distinctions and a member of the Polish Press Association.
Jamie will lead the Unseen workshop along with Aleksander Bochenek and Grzegorz Ostrega in April and June
photo: © Jamie Fyson Howard
Never thought I'd see something like this on the east local. A trio of BN SD40-2s are on point as they slow down in Howard Lake where they will do work. Who says miracles don't happen?
I bought a set of six vintage dolls to hang on my Christmas tree some years ago. I decided to name them after the six wives of Henry VIII. This one is Catherine Howard.
"Catherine Howard was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a cousin to Anne Boleyn, and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was a prominent politician at Henry's court."
Howard's Porsche
1977 Porsche
CS4 - Topaz Denoise - Dejpeg - Topaz Adjust
Background original Porsche - Photo insert Ferdinand Porsche
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American Palate: A History of Howard Johnson's : How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon (Paperback)
Come, Walk With Me,
Come, walk with me,
There's only thee
To bless my spirit now -
We used to love on winter nights
To wander through the snow;
Can we not woo back old delights?
The clouds rush dark and wild
They fleck with shade our mountain heights
The same as long ago
And on the horizon rest at last
In looming masses piled;
While moonbeams flash and fly so fast
We scarce can say they smiled -
Come walk with me, come walk with me;
We were not once so few
But Death has stolen our company
As sunshine steals the dew -
He took them one by one and we
Are left the only two;
So closer would my feelings twine
Because they have no stay but thine -
'Nay call me not - it may not be
Is human love so true?
Can Friendship's flower droop on for years
And then revive anew?
No, though the soil be wet with tears,
How fair soe'er it grew
The vital sap once perished
Will never flow again
And surer than that dwelling dread,
The narrow dungeon of the dead
Time parts the hearts of men
--Emily Jane Brontë
A stately home in North Yorkshire, England. A private residence, the home of the Howard family for more than 300 years.
Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, 15 miles (24 km) north of York. It is a private residence, and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years.
Castle Howard is not a true castle, but this term is also used for English country houses erected on the site of a former military castle. It was where the Earl of Sandwich lived for a long time.
It is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema.
Howard's green chips. Editted with Camera Bag & Photoshop. I didn't want to use the flash, so it's grainy, but not nearly as bad as my pns.
PC Howard ex rigid tanker Seddon 13:4 tractor unit UOG594H looking very smart as it heads away from the 2023 Gaydon show with its Freemans liveried York box van trailer.