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Grade II listed and constructed in the 1860's for the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Company.
"Keswick (/ˈkɛzɪk/ KEZ-ik) is an English market town and a civil parish, historically in Cumberland, and since 1974 in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria. Lying within the Lake District National Park, Keswick is just north of Derwentwater and is 4 miles (6.4 km) from Bassenthwaite Lake. It had a population of 5,243 at the 2011 census.
There is evidence of prehistoric occupation of the area, but the first recorded mention of the town dates from the 13th century, when Edward I of England granted a charter for Keswick's market, which has maintained a continuous 700-year existence. The town was an important mining area, and from the 18th century has been known as a holiday centre; tourism has been its principal industry for more than 150 years. Its features include the Moot Hall; a modern theatre, the Theatre by the Lake; one of Britain's oldest surviving cinemas, the Alhambra; and the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery in the town's largest open space, Fitz Park. Among the town's annual events is the Keswick Convention, an Evangelical gathering attracting visitors from many countries.
Keswick became widely known for its association with the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. Together with their fellow Lake Poet William Wordsworth, based at Grasmere, 12 miles (19 km) away, they made the scenic beauty of the area widely known to readers in Britain and beyond. In the late 19th century and into the 20th, Keswick was the focus of several important initiatives by the growing conservation movement, often led by Hardwicke Rawnsley, vicar of the nearby Crosthwaite parish and co-founder of the National Trust, which has built up extensive holdings in the area." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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This is the historic Tamworth Castle in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Dates from the 11th century (rebuild by the Normans). Was home of the Mercian kings (9th and 10th centuries).
The castle is Grade I listed.
TAMWORTH
SK2003NE HOLLOWAY
670-1/9/75 (East side)
11/05/50 Tamworth Castle
(Formerly Listed as:
TAMWORTH
The Castle)
GV I
Castle, now museum. Late C11 motte and bailey castle; rebuilt
C12,early C13 repairs or reconstruction; C12-C13 north wing,
probably with 1st floor hall; early C15 hall range; C16
warder's lodge; early C17 south wing; c1800 alterations. Stone
rubble with ashlar and brick with ashlar dressings; tile and
flat lead roofs. Shell keep with north-east tower with
warden's lodge to south, and later ranges forming H-plan
house. Curtain walls have embattled parapets. Tower has
battered base, flat buttresses and rounded turrets; C14
two-light traceried window and top window with label mould
over 3 round-headed lights with transom. Warder's house to
left has C14 pointed entrance in canted bay under gable; late
C16 double-chamfered-mullioned windows of 3 and 4 lights.
South wing has c1800 facade; ashlar; ground floor windows of 3
pointed lights; 5- and 7-light 1st floor windows with
transoms, similar 3-light windows to 2nd floor. North range
has 2 square projections forming bases of bay windows
demolished c1800; 3-light transomed windows in splayed
surrounds with brattishing; 6-light and 3-light windows above;
similar windows to right, with French window, and to left,
over corbelled base to oriel. Inner court has warder's lodge
to south east: 2 storeys with attic; renewed
double-chamfered-mullioned windows with leaded glazing; coped
gable with kneelers. South range: brick with ashlar dressings;
2 storeys; 2-window range; quoins, plinth, platt bands and C19
embattled parapet; entrance to right in doorcase with
4-centred head, remains of paired pilasters to entablature
with cresting and armorial panel; ground floor has 3-light
windows with pegged casements; 1st floor 4-light transomed
ovolo-mullioned windows; 2nd floor has 3-light
double-chamfered-mullioned windows. Hall has brick plinth,
exposed wall post and large C17 wood-mullioned and transomed
windows with leaded glazing, forming glazed wall; stair turret
to right has 2-light hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows; east
end of north range mostly brick; blocked 1st floor door to
west end.
INTERIOR: hall has tie beam and double collar trusses with
struts and wind braces, ovolo-mouldings with fillets to posts
and soffits of trusses; enriched doorcases and fireplace with
Mannerist detail, moved from house in Kent, c1822.
Tudor-headed main entrance with studded door. Closed-well
stair to north wing, which has 3 rooms with fireplace and
doorcases from house in Kent. South wing has two 1st floor
rooms with C17 panelling and contemporary fireplaces with
pilasters and entablatures and enriched overmantels, one with
flanking figures and relief carving of biblical scenes;
armorial panels, c1800. Warder's house has similar 1st floor
room with panelling and fireplace overmantel. Tower has stair
with strapwork panels and top splat balusters; room with
panelling and Tudor-arched fireplace. The castle has been
inhabited since the Norman conquest, with a break in the mid
C19, when it was used in connection with the nearby mills
(dem); it was bought by the local council in 1897 and opened
to the public. James I stayed at the castle; Sir Walter Scott
referred to it in his poem Marmion.
(Ballard E: Tamworth Castle Museum: Tamworth: 1987-; The
Archaeological Journal: Meeson R: The Timber Frame of the Hall
at Tamworth Castle, Staffs: London: 1983-; Buildings of
England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P. 277-8).
Listing NGR: SK2061303913
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1. Rilakkuma (want him so bad !)
2. Sylvanian Families House (my otter family lives in a too little house, they need a bigger one !)
3. Middie Blythe Nellie Nibbles (how very very cute)
4. Tokissi Apple (greeny type)
5. Odeco Monotone (love her hair)
6. Middie Blythe Melomelomew (awwwww)
7. Nikki Rompers (I've been wanting her for so long !)
Soon it will be my birthday, and as usual my hubby asked me for a wishlist ! This year, the most wanted thing is a Rilakkuma plush bear ! I've been wanting one for a moment, I love this bear, he is soooo cute ♥
Joseph Lister Jr. (1823-1892) opened a dry goods store on the northeast corner of James Street North and King William Street on land owned by his father. It expanded rapidly and in 1852 he constructed a four-storey limestone building on the site. It was one of the most up to date structures in the city as it had a separate heating plant, elevators and an interior designed for commercial enterprises. With the opening of the Great Western Railway the prime location of Lister’s building made it an ideal location for many prime tenants. By late 1922 the Lister Block had more than 150 tenants and a newly completed shopping arcade. There were 20 stores, more than 100 offices and several private residential apartments.
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Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately 3 miles (5 kilometres) south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for 407 years becoming one of the wealthiest monasteries in England until its dissolution in 1539 under the order of Henry VIII.
The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Foundation
After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house of St Mary's Abbey, in York, 13 monks were expelled (among them Saint Robert of Newminster) and, after unsuccessful attempts to form a new monastery were taken under the protection of Thurstan, Archbishop of York. He provided them with land in the valley of the River Skell, a tributary of the Ure. The enclosed valley had all the natural features needed for the creation of a monastery, providing shelter from the weather, stone and timber for building, and a supply of running water. After enduring a harsh winter in 1133, the monks applied to join the Cistercian order which since the end of the previous century was a fast-growing reform movement that by the beginning of the 13th century was to have over 500 houses. So it was that in 1135, Fountains became the second Cistercian house in northern England, after Rievaulx. The Fountains monks became subject to Clairvaux Abbey, in Burgundy which was under the rule of St Bernard. Under the guidance of Geoffrey of Ainai, a monk sent from Clairvaux, the group learned how to celebrate the seven Canonical Hours according to Cistercian usage and were shown how to construct wooden buildings in accordance with Cistercian practice.
Consolidation
After Henry Murdac was elected abbot in 1143, the small stone church and timber claustral buildings were replaced. Within three years, an aisled nave had been added to the stone church, and the first permanent claustral buildings built in stone and roofed in tile had been completed.
In 1146 an angry mob, annoyed at Murdac for his role in opposing the election of William FitzHerbert as archbishop of York, attacked the abbey and burnt down all but the church and some surrounding buildings.The community recovered swiftly from the attack and founded four daughter houses. Henry Murdac resigned as abbot in 1147 upon becoming the Archbishop of York and was replaced first by Maurice, Abbot of Rievaulx then, on the resignation of Maurice, by Thorald. Thorald was forced by Henry Murdac to resign after two years in office. The next abbot, Richard, held the post until his death in 1170 and restored the abbey's stability and prosperity. In 20 years as abbot, he supervised a huge building programme which involved completing repairs to the damaged church and building more accommodation for the increasing number of recruits. Only the chapter house was completed before he died and the work was ably continued by his successor, Robert of Pipewell, under whose rule the abbey gained a reputation for caring for the needy.
The next abbot was William, who presided over the abbey from 1180 to 1190 and he was succeeded by Ralph Haget, who had entered Fountains at the age of 30 as a novice, after pursuing a military career. During the European famine of 1194 Haget ordered the construction of shelters in the vicinity of the abbey and provided daily food rations to the poor enhancing the abbey's reputation for caring for the poor and attracting more grants from wealthy benefactors.
In the first half of the 13th century Fountains increased in reputation and prosperity under the next three abbots, John of York (1203–1211), John of Hessle (1211–1220) and John of Kent (1220–1247). They were burdened with an inordinate amount of administrative duties and increasing demands for money in taxation and levies but managed to complete another massive expansion of the abbey's buildings. This included enlarging the church and building an infirmary.
Difficulties
In the second half of the 13th century the abbey was in more straitened circumstances. It was presided over by eleven abbots, and became financially unstable largely due to forward selling its wool crop, and the abbey was criticised for its dire material and physical state when it was visited by Archbishop John le Romeyn in 1294. The run of disasters that befell the community continued into the early 14th century when northern England was invaded by the Scots and there were further demands for taxes. The culmination of these misfortunes was the Black Death of 1348–1349. The loss of manpower and income due to the ravages of the plague was almost ruinous.
A further complication arose as a result of the Papal Schism of 1378–1409. Fountains Abbey along with other English Cistercian houses was told to break off any contact with the mother house of Citeaux, which supported a rival pope. This resulted in the abbots forming their own chapter to rule the order in England and consequently they became increasingly involved in internecine politics. In 1410, following the death of Abbot Burley of Fountains, the community was riven by several years of turmoil over the election of his successor. Contending candidates John Ripon, Abbot of Meaux, and Roger Frank, a monk of Fountains were locked in conflict until 1415 when Ripon was finally appointed, ruling until his death in 1434. Under abbots John Greenwell (1442–1471), Thomas Swinton (1471–8), John Darnton (1478–95), who undertook some much needed restoration of the fabric of the abbey, including notable work on the church, and Marmaduke Huby (1495–1526) Fountains regained stability and prosperity.
At Abbot Huby's death he was succeeded by William Thirsk who was accused by the royal commissioners of immorality and inadequacy and was dismissed as abbot. He was replaced by Marmaduke Bradley, a monk of the abbey who had reported Thirsk's supposed offences, testified against him and offered the authorities six hundred marks for the post of abbot. In 1539 it was Bradley who surrendered the abbey when its seizure was ordered under Henry VIII at the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The abbey precinct covered 70 acres (28 ha) surrounded by an 11-foot (3.4 m) wall built in the 13th century, some parts of which are visible to the south and west of the abbey. The area consists of three concentric zones cut by the River Skell flowing from west to east across the site. The church and claustral buildings stand at the centre of the precinct north of the Skell, the inner court containing the domestic buildings stretches down to the river and the outer court housing the industrial and agricultural buildings lies on the river's south bank. The early abbey buildings were added to and altered over time, causing deviations from the strict Cistercian type. Outside the walls were the abbey's granges.[citation needed]
The original abbey church was built of wood and "was probably" two stories high; it was, however, quickly replaced in stone. The church was damaged in the attack on the abbey in 1146 and was rebuilt, in a larger scale, on the same site. Building work was completed c.1170.[11] This structure, completed around 1170, was 300 ft (91 m) long and had 11 bays in the side aisles. A lantern tower was added at the crossing of the church in the late 12th century. The presbytery at the eastern end of the church was much altered in the 13th century. The church's greatly lengthened choir, commenced by Abbot John of York, 1203–11, and carried on by his successor terminates, like that of Durham Cathedral, in an eastern transept, the work of Abbot John of Kent, 1220–47. The 160-foot-tall (49 m) tower, which was added not long before the dissolution, by Abbot Huby, 1494–1526, is in an unusual position at the northern end of the north transept and bears Huby's motto 'Soli Deo Honor et Gloria'. The sacristry adjoined the south transept.
The cloister, which had arcading of black marble from Nidderdale and white sandstone, is in the centre of the precinct and to the south of the church. The three-aisled chapter-house and parlour open from the eastern walk of the cloister and the refectory, with the kitchen and buttery attached, are at right angles to its southern walk. Parallel with the western walk is an immense vaulted substructure serving as cellars and store-rooms, which supported the dormitory of the conversi (lay brothers) above. This building extended across the river and at its south-west corner were the latrines, built above the swiftly flowing stream. The monks' dormitory was in its usual position above the chapter-house, to the south of the transept. Peculiarities of this arrangement include the position of the kitchen, between the refectory and calefactory, and of the infirmary above the river to the west, adjoining the guest-houses.
The abbot's house, one of the largest in all of England,is located to the east of the latrine block, where portions of it are suspended on arches over the River Skell.It was built in the mid-twelfth century as a modest single-storey structure, then, from the fourteenth century, underwent extensive expansion and remodelling to end up in the 16th century as a grand dwelling with fine bay windows and grand fireplaces. The great hall was an expansive room 52 by 21 metres (171 by 69 ft).
Among other apartments, for the designation of which see the ground-plan, was a domestic oratory or chapel,
1⁄2-by-23-foot (14 by 7 m), and a kitchen, 50-by-38-foot (15 by 12 m)
Medieval monasteries were sustained by landed estates that were given to them as endowments and from which they derived an income from rents. They were the gifts of the founder and subsequent patrons, but some were purchased from cash revenues. At the outset, the Cistercian order rejected gifts of mills and rents, churches with tithes and feudal manors as they did not accord with their belief in monastic purity, because they involved contact with laymen. When Archbishop Thurstan founded the abbey he gave the community 260 acres (110 ha) of land at Sutton north of the abbey and 200 acres (81 ha) at Herleshowe to provide support while the abbey became established. In the early years the abbey struggled to maintain itself because further gifts were not forthcoming and Thurstan could not help further because the lands he administered were not his own, but part of the diocesan estate. After a few years of impoverished struggle to establish the abbey, the monks were joined by Hugh, a former dean of York Minster, a rich man who brought a considerable fortune as well as furniture and books to start the library.
By 1135 the monks had acquired only another 260 acres (110 ha) at Cayton, given by Eustace fitzJohn of Knaresborough "for the building of the abbey". Shortly after the fire of 1146, the monks had established granges at Sutton, Cayton, Cowton Moor, Warsill, Dacre and Aldburgh all within 6 mi (10 km) of Fountains. In the 1140s the water mill was built on the abbey site making it possible for the grain from the granges to be brought to the abbey for milling.Tannery waste from this time has been excavated on the site.
Further estates were assembled in two phases, between 1140 and 1160 then 1174 and 1175, from piecemeal acquisitions of land. Some of the lands were grants from benefactors but others were purchased from gifts of money to the abbey. Roger de Mowbray granted vast areas of Nidderdale and William de Percy and his tenants granted substantial estates in Craven which included Malham Moor and the fishery in Malham Tarn. After 1203 the abbots consolidated the abbey's lands by renting out more distant areas that the monks could not easily farm themselves, and exchanging and purchasing lands that complemented their existing estates. Fountains' holdings both in Yorkshire and beyond had reached their maximum extent by 1265, when they were an efficient and very profitable estate. Their estates were linked in a network of individual granges which provided staging posts to the most distant ones. They had urban properties in York, Yarm, Grimsby, Scarborough and Boston from which to conduct export and market trading and their other commercial interests included mining, quarrying, iron-smelting, fishing and milling.
The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was a factor that led to a downturn in the prosperity of the abbey in the early fourteenth century. Areas of the north of England as far south as York were looted by the Scots. Then the number of lay-brothers being recruited to the order reduced considerably. The abbey chose to take advantage of the relaxation of the edict on leasing property that had been enacted by the General Chapter of the order in 1208 and leased some of their properties. Others were staffed by hired labour and remained in hand under the supervision of bailiffs. In 1535 Fountains had an interest in 138 vills and the total taxable income of the Fountains estate was £1,115, making it the richest Cistercian monastery in England.
After the Dissolution
The Gresham family crest
The Abbey buildings and over 500 acres (200 ha) of land were sold by the Crown, on 1 October 1540, to Sir Richard Gresham, at the time a Member of Parliament and former Lord Mayor of London, the father of Sir Thomas Gresham. It was Richard Gresham who had supplied Cardinal Wolsey with the tapestries for his new house of Hampton Court and who paid for the Cardinal's funeral.
Gresham sold some of the fabric of the site, stone, timber, lead, as building materials to help to defray the cost of purchase. The site was acquired in 1597 by Sir Stephen Proctor, who used stone from the monastic complex to build Fountains Hall. Between 1627 and 1767 the estate was owned by the Messenger family who sold it to William Aislaby who was responsible for combining it with the Studley Royal Estate.
Burials
Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray
John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray
Abbot Marmaduke Huby (d. 1526)
Rose (daughter of Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester), wife of Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray
Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy
William II de Percy, 3rd feudal baron of Topcliffe
Becoming a World Heritage Site
The archaeological excavation of the site was begun under the supervision of John Richard Walbran, a Ripon antiquary who, in 1846, had published a paper On the Necessity of clearing out the Conventual Church of Fountains.In 1966 the Abbey was placed in the guardianship of the Department of the Environment and the estate was purchased by the West Riding County Council who transferred ownership to the North Yorkshire County Council in 1974. The National Trust bought the 674-acre (273 ha) Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate from North Yorkshire County Council in 1983. In 1986 the parkland in which the abbey is situated and the abbey was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It was recognised for fulfilling the criteria of being a masterpiece of human creative genius, and an outstanding example of a type of building or architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates significant stages in human history. Fountains Abbey is owned by the National Trust and maintained by English Heritage. The trust owns Studley Royal Park, Fountains Hall, to which there is partial public access, and St Mary's Church, designed by William Burges and built around 1873, all of which are significant features of the World Heritage Site.
The Porter's Lodge, which was once the gatehouse to the abbey, houses a modern exhibition area with displays about the history of Fountains Abbey and how the monks lived.
In January 2010, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal became two of the first National Trust properties to be included in Google Street View, using the Google Trike.
Film location
Fountains Abbey was used as a film location by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark for their single "Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)" during the cold winter of December 1981. In 1980, Hollywood also came to the site to film the final scenes to the film Omen III: The Final Conflict.Other productions filmed on location at the abbey are the films Life at the Top, The Secret Garden, The History Boys, TV series Flambards, A History of Britain, Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, Cathedral, Antiques Roadshow and the game show Treasure Hunt. The BBC Television series 'Gunpowder' (2017) used Fountains Abbey as a location.
Unesco Tentative List;
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The archaeological site of Sagalassos is located in southwest Turkey, near the present town of Ağlasun (Burdur province); roughly 110 km to the north of the well-known port and holiday resort of Antalya. The ancient city was founded on the south facing slopes of the Taurus mountain range and was the metropolis of the Roman province of Pisidia. Next to its mountainous landscape, a series of lakes form another typical feature of the regional geography. Today this region is known as the Lake District.
The first traces of hunter/gatherers in the territory of Sagalassos date back to some 12 000 years BP. During the eighth millennium BC, farmers settled along, the shores of Lake Burdur. During the Bronze Age, territorial "chiefdoms" developed in the region, whereas Sagalassos itself was most probably not yet occupied. This may have changed by the 14th century BC, when the mountain site of Salawassa was mentioned in Hittite documents, possibly to be identified with the later Sagalassos. Under Phrygian and Lydian domination the site gradually developed into an urban centre. During the Persian period, Pisidia became known for its warlike and rebellious factions; a reputation to which the region certainly lived up in 332 BC, when Alexander the Great experienced fierce resistance at Sagalassos while conquering the region as part of his conquest of the Persian kingdom.
Pisidia changed hands many times among the successors of Alexander, being incorporated into the kingdom Antigonos Monopthalmos (321-301 BC), perhaps regaining its autonomy under Lysimachos of Thrace (301-281 BC), and then being conquered again by the Seleucids of Syria (281-189 BC) and later given to Attalids of Pergamon (189-133 BC). The use of Greek, the development of Municipal institutions and material culture of Greek origin seem to testify to fairly quick Hellenisation, but the recent discovery at Tepe Düzen of an indigenous city, with a possible Hellenistic date makes clear that Hellenisation must have been a complex process. After the Attalids bequeathed their kingdom to Rome, Pisidia at first became part of the newly created Roman province of Asia, then, around 100 BC of the coastal province of Cilicia and once more of Asia around the middle of that century.
Sagalassos and its territory turned into dependable and very prospering Roman partners. In fact, the control of an extremely fertile territory with a surplus production of grain and olives, as well as the presence of excellent clay beds allowing an industrial production of high quality table ware ("Sagalassos red slip ware"), made the export of local products possible. Rapidly, under Roman Imperial rule, Sagalassos became the metropolis of Pisidia. Trouble only started around 400 AD, when the town had to fortify its civic centre against, among others, rebellious Isaurian tribes. Sagalassos seems to have remained rather prosperous even under these conditions. After the earthquake around 500 AD, it was restored with a great sense of monumentality.
As a result of recurring epidemics after the middle of the 6th century and related general decline of the economic system in Asia Minor, the city started to lose population. Large parts of the town were abandoned and the urban life was replaced by a more rural way of living.
In the 7th century AD, the situation had further aggravated due to continuous Arab raids and new epidemics when the city was struck once more with a heavy earthquake, most probably around 590 AD. Despite this disaster, recent research has proven that the city remained occupied until the 13th century in the form of isolated and well-defended hamlets, located on some promontories which maintained the name of the former ancient city. One of these hamlets found on the Alexander's Hill of Sagalassos was destroyed in mid 13th century, by which time Seljuk's had already build a bath and a caravanserai in the village in the valley (Ağlasun).
The abandoned ancient city was then rapidly covered under vegetation and erosion layers. As a result of its remote location, Sagalassos was not really looted in later periods and remained to be one of the best preserved ancient cities in the Mediterranean.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagalassos
Sagalassos (Greek: Σαγαλασσός) is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya (ancient Attaleia), and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta. The ancient ruins of Sagalassos are 7 km from Ağlasun (as well as being its namesake) in the province of Burdur, on Mount Akdağ, in the Western Taurus mountains range, at an altitude of 1450–1700 metres. In Roman Imperial times, the town was known as the "first city of Pisidia", a region in the western Taurus mountains, currently known as the Turkish Lakes Region. During the Hellenistic period it was already one of the major Pisidian towns.
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spending and practices
3. Instituted enforcement for equal pay for women
4. Beginning the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
5. Families of fallen soldiers have expenses covered to be on hand when the
body arrives at Dover AFB
6 Ended media blackout on war casualties; reporting full information
7. Ended media blackout on covering the return of fallen soldiers to Dover
AFB; the media is now permitted to do so pending adherence to respectful
rules and approval of fallen soldier’s family
8. The White House and federal government are respecting the Freedom of
Information Act
9. Instructed all federal agencies to promote openness and transparency as
much as possible
10. Limits on lobbyist’s access to the White House
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the administration
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Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date
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systems, which weren’t even used or needed in Iraq/Afghanistan
14. Removed restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research
15. Federal support for stem-cell and new biomedical research
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federal standards
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19. Funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access to K-12 schools
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21 The prison at Guantanamo Bay is being phased out
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federal government
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children
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realizing hundreds of millions in savings
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56. Improved conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other military
hospitals
57 Increasing student loans
58. Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program
59. Sent envoys to Middle East and other parts of the world that had been
neglected for years; reengaging in multilateral and bilateral talks and
diplomacy
60. Established a new cyber security office
61. Beginning the process of reforming and restructuring the military 20
years after the Cold War to a more modern fighting force; this includes new
procurement policies, increasing size of military, new technology and cyber
units and operations, etc.
62. Ended previous policy of awarding no-bid defense contracts
63. Ordered a review of hurricane and natural disaster preparedness
64. Established a National Performance Officer charged with saving the
federal government money and making federal operations more efficient
65. Students struggling to make college loan payments can have their loans
refinanced
66. Improving benefits for veterans
67. Many more press conferences and town halls and much more media access
than previous administration
68. Instituted a new focus on mortgage fraud
69. The FDA is now regulating tobacco
70. Ended previous policy of cutting the FDA and circumventing FDA rules
71. Ended previous practice of having White House aides rewrite scientific
and environmental rules, regulations, and reports
72. Authorized discussions with North Korea and private mission by Pres.
Bill Clinton to secure the release of two Americans held in prisons
73. Authorized discussions with Myanmar and mission by Sen. Jim Web to
secure the release of an American held captive
74. Making more loans available to small businesses
75. Established independent commission to make recommendations on slowing
the costs of Medicare
76. Appointment of first Latina to the Supreme Court
77. Authorized construction/opening of additional health centers to care
for veterans
78. Limited salaries of senior White House aides; cut to $100,000
79. Renewed loan guarantees for Israel
80. Changed the failing/status quo military command in Afghanistan
81. Deployed additional troops to Afghanistan
82. New Afghan War policy that limits aerial bombing and prioritizes aid,
development of infrastructure, diplomacy, and good government practices by
Afghans
83. Announced the long-term development of a national energy grid with
renewable sources and cleaner, efficient energy production
84. Returned money authorized for refurbishment of White House offices and
private living quarters
85. Paid for redecoration of White House living quarters out of his own
86. Held first Seder in White House
87. Attempting to reform the nation’s healthcare system which is the most
expensive in the world yet leaves almost 50 million without health
insurance and millions more under insured
88. Has put the ball in play for comprehensive immigration reform
89. Has announced his intention to push for energy reform
90. Has announced his intention to push for education reform
Oh, and he built a swing set for the girls outside the Oval Office.
Did I mention he passed health care reform ?
There are policies that many of us disagree with or wish he would improve
or facilitate more quickly, but come on, this is a pretty sweet list.
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Un’esperienza unica: il corso di approccio alla LisT (Lingua Italiana dei Segni Tattile)
Quest’anno, al termine del corso di approccio alla LisT che si è tenuto nel corso dell’estate presso la sede dei Servizi Territoriali di Roma, abbiamo avuto un’esaminatrice di eccezione: la nostra utente sordocieca Anna Maria. Per i partecipanti è stata un’esperienza unica!
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The Grade II Listed 1 Northgate which is also known as the Old Deanery or Old Manor House, in Oakham, Rutland.
An Early two storey 17th Century house. Coursed rubble. Reed thatch. Four windows with modern casements. Ground floor windows, two of two-lights and one single light have hung sashes, wood lintels. Casements above. Central six-panel door in reeded wood doorcase of early l9th Century with small hood.
Moth deluge at Hexton for National Moth Night
Last Thursday we had a good night at Hexton, with 167 species in all, with two still pending identification.
It was a pretty good night weather wise as well with oodles of cloud cover and a very faint breeze and a minimum temperature at leaving time at 14 degrees.
It has taken me a few days to sort it all out but highlights were 8+ Royal Mantle, 1x Agriphila inquinatella, 1x Pyla fusca, 2x Wood Carpet, 2x Rosy Minor, 4x Barred Rivulet and no less than 10 Paratalanta hyalinalis, the rare Pyralid we discovered last year that hadn't been seen since 1937, evidently it is hear safe and sound and still in good numbers.
I didn't get to bed until 3am and was up at 6 so was thoroughly shattered!
The suspected Least Minor was just a very small Cloaked Minor (Least Minor is absent from the Herts list and most of the South)
The unusual Brocade sp that I took home has been agreed on just an unusual form of Dark Arches, I have certainly never seen anything like it.
Thanks to all of the chaps that turned up and a great turn out of 7 people, with 3 others helping me pack up it made it a lot more bearable, so thank you!
Catch Report - 23/07/15 - Hexton Chalk Pit - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic + 26w CFL Suitcase Trap
167 Species - 95 Macros and 72 Micros
Macro Moths
2x Barred Rivulet [NEW!]
1x Barred Yellow
3x Beautiful Hook-tip
2x Black Arches
1x Bordered Sallow
3x Bright-line Brown-eye
5x Brimstone Moth
4x Brown Scallop
5x Brown-line Bright-eye
1x Buff Arches
3x Buff Footman
2x Burnished Brass
1x Campion
1x Chinese Character
10x Clay
6x Cloaked Minor
1x Clouded Border
2x Clouded Silver
2x Common Carpet
1x Common Footman
15+ Common Rustic
2x Common Wainscot
10x Dark Arches
1x Dark Umber
3x Dingy Footman
2x Dot Moth
10+ Double Square-spot
2x Dun-bar
2x Dusky Sallow
1x Dwarf Cream Wave
1x Ear Moth
1x Elephant Hawk-moth
1x Engrailed
5x Fern
3x Flame
4x Flame Shoulder
1x Garden Carpet
1x Green Arches
1x Grey/Dark Dagger (to be gen det)
1x Grey Pug
3x Haworth's Pug
1x Heart & Club
4x Heart & Dart
1x July Highflyer
1x Large Emerald
6x Large Twin-spot Carpet
5x Large Yellow Underwing
2x Latticed Heath
1x Least Carpet
2x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2x Lesser Yellow Underwing
2x Light Arches
1x Lime-speck Pug
1x Marbled Beauty
2x Marbled Minor
2x Mottled Beauty
1x Mottled Rustic
4x Nut-tree Tussock
1x Nutmeg
1x Pebble Prominent
1x Peppered Moth
2x Pretty Chalk Carpet
1x Purple Bar
5x Red Twin-spot Carpet
10x Riband Wave
2x Rosy Minor [NEW!]
8+ Royal Mantle
6x Ruby Tiger
8x Rustic
2x Scalloped Oak
10+ Scarce Footman
5x Shaded Broad-bar
10+x Silver Y
2x Single-dotted Wave
2x Slender Brindle
2x Slender Pug
1x Small Emerald
7x Small Fan-footed Wave
10x Small Phoenix
1x Small Scallop
2x Small Waved Umber
1x Small Yellow Wave
10x Smoky Wainscot
1x Snout
2x Spectacle
2x Straw Dot
2x Swallow-tailed Moth
2x Sycamore
1x Toadflax Pug
5x Uncertain
1x V-pug
1x White-spotted Pug
2x Wood Carpet
4x Yellow Shell
2x Yellow-tail
Micro Moths
10+ Paratalanta hyalinalis
2x Blastobasis adustella
1x Blastobasis lacticolella
2x Bryotropha terrella
1x Agriphila inquinatella
1x Acleris aspersana
10+ Eucosma obumbratana
1x Eucosma hohenwartiana
1x Eucosma conterminana
15+ Eucosma cana
10+ Agapeta zoegana
3x Agapeta hamana
6x Agriphila straminea
1x Mompha subbistrigella
2x Clepsis consimilana
4x Pleuroptya ruralis
5x Pterophorus pentadactyla
3x Chrysoteuchia culmella
2x Plutella xylostella
10+ Eudonia lacustrata
5x Eudonia mercurella
3x Cnephasia sp
2x Carcina quercana
1x Batia lunaris
2x Syncopacma sp
5+ Endotricha flammealis
1x Agonopterix heracliana
2x Monopis weaverella
1x Blastodacna hellerella
1x Psyche casta (case)
2x Acleris forsskaleana
15+ Catoptria pinella
5x Acentria ephemerella
1x Helcystogramma rufescens
2x Udea prunalis
2x Cochylis hybridella
1x Cydia pomonella
1x Aphomia sociella
1x Hypsopygia costalis
2x Metzneria metzneriella
1x Acleris variegana
2x Aethes cnicana
2x Phycita roborella
1x Coleophora trifolii
2x Euzophera pinguis
1x Yponomeuta evonymella
10+ Crambus perlella
3x Stenoptilia pterodactyla
1x Archips xylosteana
1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
1x Acrobasis advenella
1x Oegoconia sp
1x Teleiodes vulgella
1x Oncocera semirubella
1x Notocelia uddmanniana
2x Emmelina monodactyla
1x Lobesia abscisana
2x Archips podana
1x Acrobasis consociella
1x Rhopobota naevana
2x Cydia fagiglandana
3x Acrobasis suavella
1x Pyla fusca
1x Pammene aurita
1x Ditula angustiorana
2x Scoparia subfusca
1x Scoparia ambigualis
1x Pos Scoparia basistrigalis (to be gen det)
1x Mompha raschkiella
2x Spilonota ocellana
1x Aphelia paleana
2x Agonopterix liturosa
1x Cochylimorpha straminea
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The Collegiate Church of Saint Mary in Stafford. Aka Stafford Church.
It is near Earl Street and St Mary's Place. St Mary's Grove runs down one side of the church.
Grade I listed building.
STAFFORD
SJ9223SW ST MARY'S GATE
590-1/10/83 (West side)
16/01/51 Church of St Mary
GV I
Former collegiate church. Early C13 nave and aisles; later C13
chancel and aisles; early C14 north transept; late C14 aisle
roofs; C15 clerestories to nave and north transept, and
crossing tower; extensively restored, and chancel south aisle,
south transept and crossing rebuilt by Sir Gilbert Scott,
1841-4.
MATERIALS: coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; tile
roofs with fishscale bands and cresting to chancel south aisle
and south transept.
EXTERIOR: chancel has aisles under gabled roofs; deep plinth
and sill courses; shafted windows with hoods with stops; coped
gables with gargoyle to valley to left; C19 five-light east
window with Geometrical tracery. 4-bay chancel north aisle
cornice and coped parapet with gargoyles; 3-light windows with
Perpendicular tracery between offset buttresses and C19
four-light Early English east window. 4-bay chancel south
aisle has large gabled buttresses rising above cornice and
coped parapet; two C19 three-light Early English windows and
two 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery, one C19; end
turret with small broach spire; C19 three-light
segmental-pointed east window.
Tower has quatrefoils in square recesses and drip moulds with
large beast stops; angle gargoyles and C19 crocketed
pinnacles; octagonal top stage has paired 2-light louvred
bell-openings; tracery frieze, cornice with gargoyles and
panelled parapet with crocketed pinnacles, mostly C19. North
transept has deep plinth and shallow gabled roof, large
diagonal buttresses with short pinnacles to ends; C14 entrance
of 4 orders with ball flower and Tudor flower, 7-light north
window and 4-light west window with Decorated tracery; 3-light
east window with Perpendicular tracery; 3-bay clerestory with
3-light windows between Perpendicular panelling; cornice with
gargoyles and embattled parapet.
South transept has deep plinth and coped gable with cross,
large offset angle buttresses; stepped triplet of lancets with
narrow buttresses between lights and roundel to gable; C13
west lancet over low entrance. Nave has 5-bay clerestory with
3-light windows: details as to north transept; C13 shallow
buttresses; west entrance of 3 orders, hood with stops;
4-light west window. 4-bay north aisle has three C14
three-light windows between gabled buttresses and blocked C13
entrance, missing shafts; cornice with gargoyles and embattled
parapet; west lancet. 4-bay south aisle has similar cornice
and parapet; three C14 three-light windows; gabled buttress
and C19 gabled porch with gabled buttresses; entrance of 3
orders with foliate capitals, niche above with nodding ogee
canopy and statue of St Mary; 2-light straight-headed side
windows; inner entrance of 2 orders with stiff-leaf capitals.
INTERIOR: 5-bay chancel arcades on keeled quatrefoil columns;
C19 arch-braced roofs; chancel south aisle has west arch with
foliate capitals; restored double piscina. Crossing has
rebuilt arches of 3 orders with transitional capitals; C19
ceiling beams with dog-tooth moulding. North transept has
blind arcading with 4 diagonally set pinnacles to north wall;
C19 roof; arch to east filled with organ.
South transept has west arch with stiff-leaf capitals, 3
lights to wall passage above and canted inner angle to right;
inner west lancet with passage between outer and inner
windows. Nave has 5-bay arcades on piers with demi-shafts,
with renewed Transitional capitals, C19 stenciling over
arches; rich C15 roof with moulded elements and bosses; over
east arch a blind arcade with 2 trefoil-headed lights and
opening above; former roof lines visible.
FITTINGS: chancel has Minton tiles; C19 stalls and rail; altar
and riddel posts; tiled east wall; C19 timber sedilia; north
aisle has C19 vestry partition to east and 1909 organ to west.
North transept has C15 octagonal stoup. Nave has c1200 font on
C19 base, quatrefoil form on plinth with lions and crouching
figures, figures to re-entrant angles and inscription to rim
and plinth; C19 pews with rich fleuron finials; C19 hexagonal
pulpit on post, with cusped ogee panels; organ to west end of
1789-90, extended, 1909 and moved to present position, 1974.
MONUMENTS: many C18 and C19 wall tablets, some floor slabs,
including 2 iron plates to Ann Gollins, d.1791, and John
Gollins, d.1805. North transept has ex-situ chest tomb to Sir
Edward Aston, d.1568, and wife Joan, twisted colonnettes and
figures to sides, 2 recumbent effigies, one damaged, and wall
tablet with inscription and armorial bearing; large wall
tablet in Gothick recess to Barbara Clifford, d.1786, and
husband Thomas, d.1787, by JF More, tablet with sarcophagus
above and obelisk with armorial bearing; a group of brass wall
tablets to north wall. South transept has rich wall tablet to
Humphrey Hodgetts, d.1730, with apron with cherubs and obelisk
with armorial bearing above. North aisle has 1878 wall tablet
to Izaak Walton, d.1683, in blocked entrance, with bust on
ledge by RC Bett.
STAINED GLASS: east window, 1844; north transept east window
by CE Kempe; very good nave west window, 1850, by Gerente;
north aisle west window, 1846, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin;
other C19 and C20 glass in north transept and south aisle.
A good example of a large parish church with important
restoration/rebuilding work by Sir Gilbert Scott and many good
memorials; the font is a notable example.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire:
London: 1974-: 240-3; Victoria County History of
Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford: London:
1979-: 242-5; Shell Guides: Henry Thorold: Staffordshire:
London: 1978-: 152-3; Fisher MJ M.A. Rev: A Guide to St
Mary's: Stafford).
Listing NGR: SJ9213823206
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1326918
Date First Listed : 9 February 1983
An 18th century stone building with three storeys and one bay. In the ground floor is a shop front, the middle floor contains a sash windows, and in the top floor is a blocked window.
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Bonhams : Den Hartogh Sale
Ford Museum
Hillegom
Netherlands
June 2018
Estimated : € 35.000 - 45.000
Sold for € 89.700
The Model C
For 1904 the new Ford voiturettes started to evolve. First an 'enhanced' Model A, now commonly known as an 'AC' was produced, with features including slightly different engine make-up, the bore size was enlarged to provide 10hp, and the block was split horizontally to enable access from the top and bottom of the engine. With more power came the need for better cooling, larger water jackets and then a larger radiator also, oiling was improved with six 'drip feed' oilers to more parts of the unit and the flywheel was also enlarged in diameter, giving more inertia. Additional usability improvements followed with an open differential unit to assist with the rear drive and braking system also updated.
These 'AC's were ultimately succeeded by a technically similar, but aesthetically different model, the Model C. By this stage the common form of a radiator gracing the front of an automobile was already fashion and Ford like other American manufacturers had to adapt to this guise popularised predominantly by the European Panhards and latterly the ground-breaking Mercedes. Despite Ford's engine remaining amidships, the radiator was brought to the front of the car and placed ahead of the water reservoir to maintain the 'French Front' look, while to improve convenience the petrol tank was also moved to this area, with an access through the top of the 'bonnet' and enlarged to 9 gallon capacity.
In August 1904, Henry Ford formed a new Canadian company in Windsor, which began to produce Model C cars at a plant in Walkerville, Ontario. Visually, these cars took a further physical design step forward with the rear entrance style of bodywork replaced with side access doors. That in turn meant that the engine needed to sit further forward in the frame of the car, so these side entrance tonneaus have both increased seating capacity in the rear and a small protrusion of the front cylinder into the front seating area, now covered with a panel. Early cars such as this had foot steps to reach the seats, whereas these would later be replaced with full running boards.
The Model C was relatively short-lived, being quickly supplanted by the Model F, after only 870 units had been delivered, each cost their owners $ 900. Of those the survival rate of all types is believed to be a modest number of around 20 cars.
The motorcar offered :
Known as 'Emma', this Canadian built Model C was presented to the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain Dating Committee in the era of Dennis Field's Chairmanship and was granted a 1904 Certificate on 22nd March 1967. The 'C' was clearly already in the UK by that time and would seem to have remained there through to the late 1990s.
It would appear to have used the car number of 1653 for the dating process as that is what is listed on the certificate, while its engine flywheel is marked 2237. Comparison with the records provided in Carlton Pate's Early Ford Encyclopaedia and provided by John Biggs denote #2237 as having been built at the very end of 1904, on the 20th December.
On file are numerous old UK 'MOT' certificates, as well as a V5 document confirming that its last owner in the UK was a John Darlow of Bedford. In his ownership, it would appear that the Ford was last on the British Roads in 1996.
The '04 Car has clearly had a busy life on the Veteran car front, and sports a number of badges on its dashboard for events campaigned, including London to Brighton entrant plaques for 1986 through to the Centenary year in 1996. This activity is reflected in the car's general condition which is now quiet aged in appearance, a few repaints and a renewal of the interior appear to have been done over the years and for wet weather days basic protection is provided with its period 'surrey' top.
Although not campaigned for the last two decades, its confirmed date would enable it to participate once again in the Bonhams sponsored London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, perhaps even this year!
I'll be honest, I'm not sure what this part list is for. It was hanging on the wall above the hatch.
Looking back, this doesn't appear to have been here for too long. The paper is still mostly white. I wonder who put it there?
This is what the Victoria Law Courts looks like on Steelhouse Lane. Brown brick with some terracotta detailing, but not as much as the facade on Corporation Street. Looks like Corporation Street is for showing off, and round the back, maybe no one was supposed to see this side.
The Corporation Street side is Grade I listed. Is this side too (as part of the same building)?
A look around Liverpool Lime Street Station.
The station is Grade II listed.
Lime Street Station, Liverpool
SJ 3590 SW LIME STREET
L1
54/686 Lime Street
Station
14.3.75.
G.V. II
Railway sheds and facade.Begun 1867 by Francis Stevenson and
William Baker and extended by a parallel shed to the south in
1847-9. The earlier portion has a long glass roof in a graceful
curve and with a span of 219 ft, supported on double doric
columns of iron. The later portion is on square piers with a
span of 186 ft. Screen facing Lime Street is of stone; Tuscan
pilestrade; round-arched openings with architraves and keystones.
Skelhorne street entrance has Tuscan columns with dosserets and
arch braces supporting cornice (possibly of 1836 by Foster).
Listing NGR: SJ3512790483
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Some more shots before we returned to the Midlands.
The White Star pub in the station.
Pub sign.
Free House.