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"I do not know which to prefer,

The beauty of inflections,

Or the beauty of innuendoes,

The blackbird whistling,

Or just after.”

 

~ Wallace Stevens~

 

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries,

and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

 

~ Joseph Addison ~

Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project. This is dedicated to the sun, the warmth it exudes, the bright colours it creates and it gives us the ability to see during the day and enjoy the outside.

 

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Helen Keller

 

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

 

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

Roman Payne

 

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

*Working Towards a Better World

 

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

 

Earth laughs in flowers. -

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. -

Henri Matisse

 

“I must have flowers, always, and always.” - Claude Monet

 

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️

   

*Working Towards a Better World

 

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. - Wilhelm von Humboldt

 

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -

Joseph Addison

 

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜

  

Happy Sliders Sunday Everyone

 

Give freedom to colours and then you shall meet the rainbow everywhere! -

Mehmet Murat ildan

 

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. - Fernand Leger

 

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. - Edouard Manet

 

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. -

James Allen

 

Colours are brighter when the mind is open. - Adriana Alarcon

 

Colors speak all languages. -Joseph Addison

 

Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it... To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable. -David Batchelor

 

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also. - Paul Cezanne

 

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜

*Working Towards a Better World

 

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. - Chanakya

 

Yo the sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here then we might as well shine together, better now than never. -

Sean John Combs

 

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

 

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️

“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”

Joseph Addison

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

-- Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician 1672–1719)

 

-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --

‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)

‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom

‧ ISO – 800

‧ Aperture – f/9

‧ Exposure – 1/1250 second

‧ Focal Length – 78mm

 

The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.

 

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11

 

The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/

"What sunshine is to flowers,

smiles are to humanity.

These are but trifles, to be sure;

but scattered along life's pathway,

the good they do is inconceivable."

~Joseph Addison~

 

And Flickr friendships contain a lifetime of smiles . . .

Thank you

JULIE (click on her!)

from the bottom of my heart!

YOU ROCK! xox Antoinette xox

  

*Working Towards a Better World

 

There is nothing like sunshine to bring a little or a lot of happiness in your life. Sunlight brings positive vibes, I share these beautiful vibes with you to realize the beauty of life and just how much nature has given us for free! Enjoy my friends!

 

Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Great is the sun, and wide he goes

Through empty heaven with repose;

And in the blue and glowing days

More thick than rain he showers his rays.

 

Though closer still the blinds we pull

To keep the shady parlour cool,

Yet he will find a chink or two

To slip his golden fingers through.

 

The dusty attic spider-clad

He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;

And through the broken edge of tiles

Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

 

Meantime his golden face around

He bares to all the garden ground,

And sheds a warm and glittering look

Among the ivy's inmost nook.

 

Above the hills, along the blue,

Round the bright air with footing true,

To please the child, to paint the rose,

The gardener of the World, he goes.

 

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

 

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. -

Jimmy Davis

 

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”

Joseph Addison

 

by the beautiful sea

you and me

you and me

oh how happy we'll be!

 

From the musical "For Me and My Gal"

(Harold Atteridge / Harry Carroll 1914)

 

Tonight we took a walk in Mystic.

The reflections were really beautiful on the still waters.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

 

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,

filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

~ Joseph Addison ~

I took this shot this morning in the school parking...I was very happy to have my camera with me, because the little black guy you see in this shot was there only for no more than 10 seconds

And now...good night all!!!!

This is the former Lichfield Old Grammar School on St John Street in Lichfield.

 

Now offices of Lichfield District Council.

 

This is the Old Grammer School Master's House.

 

Grade II listed.

 

Lichfield District Council Offices (part) and Attached Wall and Gates 45, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET

1094-1/8/165 (North East side)

05/02/52 No.45

Lichfield District Council Offices

(part) and attached wall and gates

(Formerly Listed as:

ST JOHN STREET

(North East side)

No.45

Rural Council House and Council

Chamber)

 

GV II

 

Schoolmaster's and boarders' house for Lichfield Grammar

School, with former school room to rear. 1682 with C18 rear

wing, school room and front wall of c1849, by Thomas Johnson

and Son of Lichfield, with C18 wall to right return.

Brick; hipped tile roof with 2 brick stacks. Double-depth

plan. Early Georgian style.

2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth, 2 brick platt bands and top modillioned timber

cornice.

Entrance has big moulded doorcase with pulvinated frieze and

cornice, battened door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches

over plate glass sashes to ground floor, small-paned cross

casements in moulded frames to 1st floor; 2 hipped dormers

have 2-light casements with iron opening casements.

Right return similar: 2 platt bands and modillioned cornice;

entrance with rubbed brick flat arch and overlight to

half-glazed door and flanking blocked windows, window to right

end of 4 lights with 4-centred heads; stucco wing to right has

two 4-light windows as to left, one altered for entrance;

cross-casements to 1st floor.

School room of brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with

coped gables. Single-storey, 3-window, range with cross wing

right end. Sill course and top cornice, shaped gable with

finial to wing.

Entrance in wing has 4-centred head with foliate spandrels,

battened door; 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with

elliptical heads and label moulds, 2 have 2 upper lights with

shaped gablets; wing has 1st floor oriel with 1:3:1-light

transomed window. 3 rainwater heads.

Return and rear similar with later alterations and additions.

INTERIOR: house has central open-well spiral staircase with

turned balusters; 1st floor has exposed timber-framed

partition walls and ovolo-moulded beams, 2-panel doors; attic

has exposed trusses with curved principals; school room has

hammer beam roof and 2 fireplaces with 4-centred heads, one

fireplace has timber surround with paired Tuscan columns;

later council chamber furniture including canopied seat;

wrought-iron scrolled chandeliers.

Front wall, which extends approx. 31m to right and returns for

approx. 47m to rear, has stone coping and cross-slits with

gablets, gateway with elliptical head and coping has enriched

wrought-iron gate; right end paired wrought-iron gates and

piers are later; return wall of brick in 2 phases, following

the medieval town ditch and the parish boundary.

The Grammar School was founded as part of the Hospital of St

John (qv) in 1495, moving to this site in 1577. Many famous

men were pupils here, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick

and Joseph Addison. The school room was built on the site of

one of 1577, and the buildings became the offices and council

chamber of Lichfield Rural District Council in 1920.

(Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2;

Lichfield District Council: District Council House -

Lichfield, A Short History: Lichfield).

  

Listing NGR: SK1175409250

This is the former Lichfield Old Grammar School on St John Street in Lichfield.

 

Now offices of Lichfield District Council.

 

Garden and old school building.

 

Grade II listed.

 

Lichfield District Council Offices (part) and Attached Wall and Gates 45, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET

1094-1/8/165 (North East side)

05/02/52 No.45

Lichfield District Council Offices

(part) and attached wall and gates

(Formerly Listed as:

ST JOHN STREET

(North East side)

No.45

Rural Council House and Council

Chamber)

 

GV II

 

Schoolmaster's and boarders' house for Lichfield Grammar

School, with former school room to rear. 1682 with C18 rear

wing, school room and front wall of c1849, by Thomas Johnson

and Son of Lichfield, with C18 wall to right return.

Brick; hipped tile roof with 2 brick stacks. Double-depth

plan. Early Georgian style.

2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth, 2 brick platt bands and top modillioned timber

cornice.

Entrance has big moulded doorcase with pulvinated frieze and

cornice, battened door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches

over plate glass sashes to ground floor, small-paned cross

casements in moulded frames to 1st floor; 2 hipped dormers

have 2-light casements with iron opening casements.

Right return similar: 2 platt bands and modillioned cornice;

entrance with rubbed brick flat arch and overlight to

half-glazed door and flanking blocked windows, window to right

end of 4 lights with 4-centred heads; stucco wing to right has

two 4-light windows as to left, one altered for entrance;

cross-casements to 1st floor.

School room of brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with

coped gables. Single-storey, 3-window, range with cross wing

right end. Sill course and top cornice, shaped gable with

finial to wing.

Entrance in wing has 4-centred head with foliate spandrels,

battened door; 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with

elliptical heads and label moulds, 2 have 2 upper lights with

shaped gablets; wing has 1st floor oriel with 1:3:1-light

transomed window. 3 rainwater heads.

Return and rear similar with later alterations and additions.

INTERIOR: house has central open-well spiral staircase with

turned balusters; 1st floor has exposed timber-framed

partition walls and ovolo-moulded beams, 2-panel doors; attic

has exposed trusses with curved principals; school room has

hammer beam roof and 2 fireplaces with 4-centred heads, one

fireplace has timber surround with paired Tuscan columns;

later council chamber furniture including canopied seat;

wrought-iron scrolled chandeliers.

Front wall, which extends approx. 31m to right and returns for

approx. 47m to rear, has stone coping and cross-slits with

gablets, gateway with elliptical head and coping has enriched

wrought-iron gate; right end paired wrought-iron gates and

piers are later; return wall of brick in 2 phases, following

the medieval town ditch and the parish boundary.

The Grammar School was founded as part of the Hospital of St

John (qv) in 1495, moving to this site in 1577. Many famous

men were pupils here, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick

and Joseph Addison. The school room was built on the site of

one of 1577, and the buildings became the offices and council

chamber of Lichfield Rural District Council in 1920.

(Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2;

Lichfield District Council: District Council House -

Lichfield, A Short History: Lichfield).

  

Listing NGR: SK1175409250

This is the former Lichfield Old Grammar School on St John Street in Lichfield.

 

Now offices of Lichfield District Council.

 

Sign that says The Old Grammer School.

 

Grade II listed.

 

Lichfield District Council Offices (part) and Attached Wall and Gates 45, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET

1094-1/8/165 (North East side)

05/02/52 No.45

Lichfield District Council Offices

(part) and attached wall and gates

(Formerly Listed as:

ST JOHN STREET

(North East side)

No.45

Rural Council House and Council

Chamber)

 

GV II

 

Schoolmaster's and boarders' house for Lichfield Grammar

School, with former school room to rear. 1682 with C18 rear

wing, school room and front wall of c1849, by Thomas Johnson

and Son of Lichfield, with C18 wall to right return.

Brick; hipped tile roof with 2 brick stacks. Double-depth

plan. Early Georgian style.

2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth, 2 brick platt bands and top modillioned timber

cornice.

Entrance has big moulded doorcase with pulvinated frieze and

cornice, battened door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches

over plate glass sashes to ground floor, small-paned cross

casements in moulded frames to 1st floor; 2 hipped dormers

have 2-light casements with iron opening casements.

Right return similar: 2 platt bands and modillioned cornice;

entrance with rubbed brick flat arch and overlight to

half-glazed door and flanking blocked windows, window to right

end of 4 lights with 4-centred heads; stucco wing to right has

two 4-light windows as to left, one altered for entrance;

cross-casements to 1st floor.

School room of brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with

coped gables. Single-storey, 3-window, range with cross wing

right end. Sill course and top cornice, shaped gable with

finial to wing.

Entrance in wing has 4-centred head with foliate spandrels,

battened door; 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with

elliptical heads and label moulds, 2 have 2 upper lights with

shaped gablets; wing has 1st floor oriel with 1:3:1-light

transomed window. 3 rainwater heads.

Return and rear similar with later alterations and additions.

INTERIOR: house has central open-well spiral staircase with

turned balusters; 1st floor has exposed timber-framed

partition walls and ovolo-moulded beams, 2-panel doors; attic

has exposed trusses with curved principals; school room has

hammer beam roof and 2 fireplaces with 4-centred heads, one

fireplace has timber surround with paired Tuscan columns;

later council chamber furniture including canopied seat;

wrought-iron scrolled chandeliers.

Front wall, which extends approx. 31m to right and returns for

approx. 47m to rear, has stone coping and cross-slits with

gablets, gateway with elliptical head and coping has enriched

wrought-iron gate; right end paired wrought-iron gates and

piers are later; return wall of brick in 2 phases, following

the medieval town ditch and the parish boundary.

The Grammar School was founded as part of the Hospital of St

John (qv) in 1495, moving to this site in 1577. Many famous

men were pupils here, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick

and Joseph Addison. The school room was built on the site of

one of 1577, and the buildings became the offices and council

chamber of Lichfield Rural District Council in 1920.

(Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2;

Lichfield District Council: District Council House -

Lichfield, A Short History: Lichfield).

  

Listing NGR: SK1175409250

This is the former Lichfield Old Grammar School on St John Street in Lichfield.

 

Now offices of Lichfield District Council.

 

Gates to the garden.

 

Grade II listed.

 

Lichfield District Council Offices (part) and Attached Wall and Gates 45, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET

1094-1/8/165 (North East side)

05/02/52 No.45

Lichfield District Council Offices

(part) and attached wall and gates

(Formerly Listed as:

ST JOHN STREET

(North East side)

No.45

Rural Council House and Council

Chamber)

 

GV II

 

Schoolmaster's and boarders' house for Lichfield Grammar

School, with former school room to rear. 1682 with C18 rear

wing, school room and front wall of c1849, by Thomas Johnson

and Son of Lichfield, with C18 wall to right return.

Brick; hipped tile roof with 2 brick stacks. Double-depth

plan. Early Georgian style.

2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth, 2 brick platt bands and top modillioned timber

cornice.

Entrance has big moulded doorcase with pulvinated frieze and

cornice, battened door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches

over plate glass sashes to ground floor, small-paned cross

casements in moulded frames to 1st floor; 2 hipped dormers

have 2-light casements with iron opening casements.

Right return similar: 2 platt bands and modillioned cornice;

entrance with rubbed brick flat arch and overlight to

half-glazed door and flanking blocked windows, window to right

end of 4 lights with 4-centred heads; stucco wing to right has

two 4-light windows as to left, one altered for entrance;

cross-casements to 1st floor.

School room of brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with

coped gables. Single-storey, 3-window, range with cross wing

right end. Sill course and top cornice, shaped gable with

finial to wing.

Entrance in wing has 4-centred head with foliate spandrels,

battened door; 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with

elliptical heads and label moulds, 2 have 2 upper lights with

shaped gablets; wing has 1st floor oriel with 1:3:1-light

transomed window. 3 rainwater heads.

Return and rear similar with later alterations and additions.

INTERIOR: house has central open-well spiral staircase with

turned balusters; 1st floor has exposed timber-framed

partition walls and ovolo-moulded beams, 2-panel doors; attic

has exposed trusses with curved principals; school room has

hammer beam roof and 2 fireplaces with 4-centred heads, one

fireplace has timber surround with paired Tuscan columns;

later council chamber furniture including canopied seat;

wrought-iron scrolled chandeliers.

Front wall, which extends approx. 31m to right and returns for

approx. 47m to rear, has stone coping and cross-slits with

gablets, gateway with elliptical head and coping has enriched

wrought-iron gate; right end paired wrought-iron gates and

piers are later; return wall of brick in 2 phases, following

the medieval town ditch and the parish boundary.

The Grammar School was founded as part of the Hospital of St

John (qv) in 1495, moving to this site in 1577. Many famous

men were pupils here, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick

and Joseph Addison. The school room was built on the site of

one of 1577, and the buildings became the offices and council

chamber of Lichfield Rural District Council in 1920.

(Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2;

Lichfield District Council: District Council House -

Lichfield, A Short History: Lichfield).

  

Listing NGR: SK1175409250

This is the former Lichfield Old Grammar School on St John Street in Lichfield.

 

Now offices of Lichfield District Council.

 

This is the Old Grammer School Master's House.

 

Grade II listed.

 

Lichfield District Council Offices (part) and Attached Wall and Gates 45, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET

1094-1/8/165 (North East side)

05/02/52 No.45

Lichfield District Council Offices

(part) and attached wall and gates

(Formerly Listed as:

ST JOHN STREET

(North East side)

No.45

Rural Council House and Council

Chamber)

 

GV II

 

Schoolmaster's and boarders' house for Lichfield Grammar

School, with former school room to rear. 1682 with C18 rear

wing, school room and front wall of c1849, by Thomas Johnson

and Son of Lichfield, with C18 wall to right return.

Brick; hipped tile roof with 2 brick stacks. Double-depth

plan. Early Georgian style.

2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth, 2 brick platt bands and top modillioned timber

cornice.

Entrance has big moulded doorcase with pulvinated frieze and

cornice, battened door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches

over plate glass sashes to ground floor, small-paned cross

casements in moulded frames to 1st floor; 2 hipped dormers

have 2-light casements with iron opening casements.

Right return similar: 2 platt bands and modillioned cornice;

entrance with rubbed brick flat arch and overlight to

half-glazed door and flanking blocked windows, window to right

end of 4 lights with 4-centred heads; stucco wing to right has

two 4-light windows as to left, one altered for entrance;

cross-casements to 1st floor.

School room of brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with

coped gables. Single-storey, 3-window, range with cross wing

right end. Sill course and top cornice, shaped gable with

finial to wing.

Entrance in wing has 4-centred head with foliate spandrels,

battened door; 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with

elliptical heads and label moulds, 2 have 2 upper lights with

shaped gablets; wing has 1st floor oriel with 1:3:1-light

transomed window. 3 rainwater heads.

Return and rear similar with later alterations and additions.

INTERIOR: house has central open-well spiral staircase with

turned balusters; 1st floor has exposed timber-framed

partition walls and ovolo-moulded beams, 2-panel doors; attic

has exposed trusses with curved principals; school room has

hammer beam roof and 2 fireplaces with 4-centred heads, one

fireplace has timber surround with paired Tuscan columns;

later council chamber furniture including canopied seat;

wrought-iron scrolled chandeliers.

Front wall, which extends approx. 31m to right and returns for

approx. 47m to rear, has stone coping and cross-slits with

gablets, gateway with elliptical head and coping has enriched

wrought-iron gate; right end paired wrought-iron gates and

piers are later; return wall of brick in 2 phases, following

the medieval town ditch and the parish boundary.

The Grammar School was founded as part of the Hospital of St

John (qv) in 1495, moving to this site in 1577. Many famous

men were pupils here, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick

and Joseph Addison. The school room was built on the site of

one of 1577, and the buildings became the offices and council

chamber of Lichfield Rural District Council in 1920.

(Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2;

Lichfield District Council: District Council House -

Lichfield, A Short History: Lichfield).

  

Listing NGR: SK1175409250

This is the former Lichfield Old Grammar School on St John Street in Lichfield.

 

Now offices of Lichfield District Council.

 

Gate to the garden.

 

Grade II listed.

 

Lichfield District Council Offices (part) and Attached Wall and Gates 45, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET

1094-1/8/165 (North East side)

05/02/52 No.45

Lichfield District Council Offices

(part) and attached wall and gates

(Formerly Listed as:

ST JOHN STREET

(North East side)

No.45

Rural Council House and Council

Chamber)

 

GV II

 

Schoolmaster's and boarders' house for Lichfield Grammar

School, with former school room to rear. 1682 with C18 rear

wing, school room and front wall of c1849, by Thomas Johnson

and Son of Lichfield, with C18 wall to right return.

Brick; hipped tile roof with 2 brick stacks. Double-depth

plan. Early Georgian style.

2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth, 2 brick platt bands and top modillioned timber

cornice.

Entrance has big moulded doorcase with pulvinated frieze and

cornice, battened door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches

over plate glass sashes to ground floor, small-paned cross

casements in moulded frames to 1st floor; 2 hipped dormers

have 2-light casements with iron opening casements.

Right return similar: 2 platt bands and modillioned cornice;

entrance with rubbed brick flat arch and overlight to

half-glazed door and flanking blocked windows, window to right

end of 4 lights with 4-centred heads; stucco wing to right has

two 4-light windows as to left, one altered for entrance;

cross-casements to 1st floor.

School room of brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with

coped gables. Single-storey, 3-window, range with cross wing

right end. Sill course and top cornice, shaped gable with

finial to wing.

Entrance in wing has 4-centred head with foliate spandrels,

battened door; 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with

elliptical heads and label moulds, 2 have 2 upper lights with

shaped gablets; wing has 1st floor oriel with 1:3:1-light

transomed window. 3 rainwater heads.

Return and rear similar with later alterations and additions.

INTERIOR: house has central open-well spiral staircase with

turned balusters; 1st floor has exposed timber-framed

partition walls and ovolo-moulded beams, 2-panel doors; attic

has exposed trusses with curved principals; school room has

hammer beam roof and 2 fireplaces with 4-centred heads, one

fireplace has timber surround with paired Tuscan columns;

later council chamber furniture including canopied seat;

wrought-iron scrolled chandeliers.

Front wall, which extends approx. 31m to right and returns for

approx. 47m to rear, has stone coping and cross-slits with

gablets, gateway with elliptical head and coping has enriched

wrought-iron gate; right end paired wrought-iron gates and

piers are later; return wall of brick in 2 phases, following

the medieval town ditch and the parish boundary.

The Grammar School was founded as part of the Hospital of St

John (qv) in 1495, moving to this site in 1577. Many famous

men were pupils here, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick

and Joseph Addison. The school room was built on the site of

one of 1577, and the buildings became the offices and council

chamber of Lichfield Rural District Council in 1920.

(Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2;

Lichfield District Council: District Council House -

Lichfield, A Short History: Lichfield).

  

Listing NGR: SK1175409250

This is the former Lichfield Old Grammar School on St John Street in Lichfield.

 

Now offices of Lichfield District Council.

 

Grade II listed.

 

Lichfield District Council Offices (part) and Attached Wall and Gates 45, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET

1094-1/8/165 (North East side)

05/02/52 No.45

Lichfield District Council Offices

(part) and attached wall and gates

(Formerly Listed as:

ST JOHN STREET

(North East side)

No.45

Rural Council House and Council

Chamber)

 

GV II

 

Schoolmaster's and boarders' house for Lichfield Grammar

School, with former school room to rear. 1682 with C18 rear

wing, school room and front wall of c1849, by Thomas Johnson

and Son of Lichfield, with C18 wall to right return.

Brick; hipped tile roof with 2 brick stacks. Double-depth

plan. Early Georgian style.

2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth, 2 brick platt bands and top modillioned timber

cornice.

Entrance has big moulded doorcase with pulvinated frieze and

cornice, battened door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches

over plate glass sashes to ground floor, small-paned cross

casements in moulded frames to 1st floor; 2 hipped dormers

have 2-light casements with iron opening casements.

Right return similar: 2 platt bands and modillioned cornice;

entrance with rubbed brick flat arch and overlight to

half-glazed door and flanking blocked windows, window to right

end of 4 lights with 4-centred heads; stucco wing to right has

two 4-light windows as to left, one altered for entrance;

cross-casements to 1st floor.

School room of brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with

coped gables. Single-storey, 3-window, range with cross wing

right end. Sill course and top cornice, shaped gable with

finial to wing.

Entrance in wing has 4-centred head with foliate spandrels,

battened door; 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with

elliptical heads and label moulds, 2 have 2 upper lights with

shaped gablets; wing has 1st floor oriel with 1:3:1-light

transomed window. 3 rainwater heads.

Return and rear similar with later alterations and additions.

INTERIOR: house has central open-well spiral staircase with

turned balusters; 1st floor has exposed timber-framed

partition walls and ovolo-moulded beams, 2-panel doors; attic

has exposed trusses with curved principals; school room has

hammer beam roof and 2 fireplaces with 4-centred heads, one

fireplace has timber surround with paired Tuscan columns;

later council chamber furniture including canopied seat;

wrought-iron scrolled chandeliers.

Front wall, which extends approx. 31m to right and returns for

approx. 47m to rear, has stone coping and cross-slits with

gablets, gateway with elliptical head and coping has enriched

wrought-iron gate; right end paired wrought-iron gates and

piers are later; return wall of brick in 2 phases, following

the medieval town ditch and the parish boundary.

The Grammar School was founded as part of the Hospital of St

John (qv) in 1495, moving to this site in 1577. Many famous

men were pupils here, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick

and Joseph Addison. The school room was built on the site of

one of 1577, and the buildings became the offices and council

chamber of Lichfield Rural District Council in 1920.

(Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2;

Lichfield District Council: District Council House -

Lichfield, A Short History: Lichfield).

  

Listing NGR: SK1175409250

   

Plaque about the Culstrubbe Gate that used to be near here, one of four city gates erected by Bishop Roger de Clinton.

On the corner of Heath Street and Hollybush Steps, Hampstead. Initially posted in "Guess Where UK". The house is named after the 'Kit Cat Club', a group of influential 18th century literary and political figures who met in the nearby Upper Flask public house. This group leaned towards the Whigs (precursors of the Liberals), was founded by publisher Jacob Tonson and included William Congreve, Joseph Addison, John Vanbrugh, Robert Walpole and sundry dukes and other gentry. The club used Hampstead in the summer, moving to the Strand and Barnes for the rest of the year. The club's name refers to a Christopher (Kit) Catling who hosted the club in its early days at Shire Lane and served them his mutton pies (kit cats).

"If people would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."-Joseph Addison #JMConsulting #WorkTogether #WeAreTheSame #Love #Care #ManageProperly #ManageTomorrow #instafollow #instagood #instagram #facebook #twitter #linkedin #pinterest #googleplus #tumblr #flickr #JosephAddison

detail from Godfrey Kneller's 17th century portrait of Joseph Addison & Sir Richard Steele / Chetham's Library Reading Room / Manchester, UK

"Colors speak all languages." -- Joseph Addison

A photomontage in photoshop incorporating photography, graphics, self-portraits and a beaded collage ©2006 by A & R Ledzian

Of course this wretched barber wasn't poisoning anybody; it was 1630 and the panicked Milanese were dropping dead in droves from bubonic plague

Wednesday 27th May 2009

 

Today so far it has not stopped raining. I am not sure whether I will get a chance to take any more today, as I am going away on holiday for a few days and will be driving there - so please say hi to my bookworm and my latest read (The Lost Daughter)!

 

He has marked my place in books for many many years. I myself am also a bookworm. I love to read books both fiction and non-fiction - next book I think will be one on photography as I want to learn a bit more on the technical side, which I hope will make me a better photographer.

 

It looks better to me on Black

1 grafiskt blad, mezzotint

 

Mezzotintgravyr föreställande Joseph Addison (1672-1719), essäist och politiker.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison

1 grafiskt blad, kopparstick

 

Kopparstick föreställande Joseph Addison (1672-1719), essäist och politiker.

 

Konstnär: Aveline

1 grafiskt blad, kopparstick

 

Kopparstick föreställande Joseph Addison (1672-1719), essäist och politiker.

 

Konstnär: Parr

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