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The K6 Telephone Box is one of the recently listed buildings in Rayleigh. See listing info: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1451254
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1467921
Date First Listed : 13 January 2020
The war memorial, erected in 1921, is at the north end of the Market Place is in granite and stands in a small cobbled area. It consists of a pillar with an octagonal foot, and a ball finial surmounted by a wheel-head cross. The pillar is on a square plinth on an octagonal step. On the plinth is a timber plaque with a coat of arms, a bronze plaque with an inscription, and further plaques recording the names of those lost in the World Wars and another conflict.
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Grade I Listed
Listing NGR: SK4630563733
Country house now owned by the National Trust. 1590-1597, probably by Robert Smythson, for Bess of Hardwick, Alterations 1788. Service wing 1860 by S. Rollinson of Chesterfield.
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, is an architecturally significant Elizabethan country house in England, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for the formidable Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson, an exponent of the Renaissance style of architecture. Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest examples of the English interpretation of this style, which came into fashion having slowly spread from Florence. Its arrival in Britain coincided with the period when it was no longer necessary or legal to fortify a domestic dwelling. Ownership of the house was transferred to the National Trust in 1959. It is fully open to the public and received 298,283 visitors in 2019.
History
16th century
Sited on a hilltop between Chesterfield and Mansfield, overlooking the Derbyshire countryside, Hardwick Hall was designed by Robert Smythson in the late 16th century. Ordered by Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury and ancestress of the Dukes of Devonshire, it was owned by her descendants until the mid-twentieth century.
Bess of Hardwick was the richest woman in England after Queen Elizabeth I, and her house was conceived to be a conspicuous statement of her wealth and power. The windows are exceptionally large and numerous at a time when glass was a luxury, leading to the saying, "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall." The Hall's chimneys are built into the internal walls of the structure, in order to give more scope for huge windows without weakening the exterior walls.
The house's design also demonstrated new concepts not only in domestic architecture, but also of a more modern way in which life was led within a great house. Hardwick was one of the first English houses where the great hall was built on an axis through the centre of the house, rather than at right angles to the entrance.
Each of the three main storeys has a higher ceiling than the one below, the ceiling height being indicative of the importance of the rooms' occupants: least noble at the bottom and grandest at the top.
A wide, winding, stone staircase leads up to the state rooms on the second floor; these rooms include one of the largest long galleries in any English house. There is also a tapestry-hung great chamber with a spectacular plaster frieze illustrating hunting scenes; the room has been little altered.
Hardwick was but one of Bess's many houses. Each of her four marriages had brought her greater wealth. She was born in the now old Hall at Hardwick, which today is a ruin beside the 'new' hall.
17th century
After Bess's death in 1608, the house passed to her son William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire. His great-grandson, William, was created 1st Duke of Devonshire in 1694. The Devonshires made Chatsworth, another of Bess's great houses, their principal seat. Hardwick thus was relegated to the role of an occasional retreat for hunting and sometime dower house.
As a secondary home, it escaped the attention of modernisers and received few alterations after its completion.
19th century
From the early 19th century, the antique atmosphere of Hardwick Hall was consciously preserved. A low, 19th-century service wing is fairly inconspicuous at the rear.
20th century
In 1950, the unexpected death of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, with the subsequent death duties (rated at 80%), caused the sale of many of the Devonshire assets and estates. At this time, Hardwick was occupied by Evelyn, Duchess of Devonshire, the widow of the 9th Duke. The decision was taken to hand the house over to HM Treasury in lieu of Estate Duty in 1956. The Treasury transferred the house to the National Trust in 1959. The Duchess remained in occupation of the house until her death in 1960. Having done much, personally, to conserve the textiles in the house as well as reinstating the traditional rush matting, she was to be its last occupant.
Today
Hardwick Hall contains a large collection of embroideries, mostly dating from the late 16th century, many of which are listed in the 1601 inventory. Some of the needlework on display in the house incorporates Bess's monogram "ES", and may have been worked on by Bess herself. There is a large amount of fine tapestry and furniture from the 16th and 17th centuries. A remarkable feature of the house is that much of the present furniture and other contents are listed in an inventory dating from 1601. The Sea Dog Table is an especially important piece from around 1600, and the Eglantine Table has an inlaid top of interest to musical historians.
Hardwick is open to the public. It has a fine garden, including herbaceous borders, a vegetable and herb garden, and an orchard. The extensive grounds also contain Hardwick Old Hall, a slightly earlier house which was used as guest and service accommodation after the new hall was built. The Old Hall is now a ruin. It is administered by English Heritage on behalf of the National Trust and is also open to the public. Many of the Old Hall's major rooms were decorated with ambitious schemes of plasterwork, notably above the fireplaces. Remarkably, impressive fragments of these are still to be seen (protected by preservative coatings and rain-shields), though most of the building is unroofed.
Both Hardwick Hall and the Old Hall are Grade I listed (the highest designation) by Historic England.
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Hall as one of his five choices for the 2006 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings. Innovative in its own time, it would serve, three centuries later, as a source of inspiration for the enormous Main Exhibition Building at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Hardwick Hall was an ideal model for a building which was intended to merge historicism with the large expanses of glass that had become de rigueur for the main exhibition halls at international expositions and fairs in the wake of the enormous success of The Crystal Palace constructed for the 1851 London Exhibition.
In modern media
Hardwick Hall was the setting for the 10-part BBC series Mistress of Hardwick, broadcast in 1972, which followed the life of Bess of Hardwick. Most of the episodes are now lost.
Hardwick Hall was used in the Connections TV series to illustrate a long series of changes that occurred in home design as a result of the Little Ice Age.
Hardwick Hall was used to film the exterior scenes and some interior scenes of Malfoy Manor in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1196397
Date First Listed : 25 February 1991
Since closure as a Methodist chapel, it has been used for other purposes. The building is in red brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of three bays divided by giant pilasters. The central doorway has a moulded architrave, a modillioned cornice, and a fanlight, and it is flanked by tall sash windows. At the top of the entrance front is an upstand containing the date. There are more sash windows along the sides of the chapel. It was built in 1846.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270186
Date First Listed : 20 June 1972
This mid 19th century public house contains some 18th-century material, and is rendered with a slate roof. The main part has two storeys and three bays. In the left bay is a cart entrance, to the right is a doorway with a segmental head approached by two steps, and flanked by two casement windows. In the upper floor are sash windows. To the right is a three-storey bay with a casement window in each floor.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1219076
Date First Listed : 13 January 1971
A pair of cottages, built in the 1840's, in roughcast cobble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. They have two low storeys, and each cottage has two bays. In the right bay of No. 16 is a gabled porch with a finial, and there is a window in each floor of the left bay, the upper window in a gabled dormer. No. 18 has a plain doorway in the right bay, a window above, and a window in each floor of the left bay. All the windows are mullioned, and above the windows and doorways are hood moulds.
The Grade I Listed remains of Narberth Castle, a Norman fortress in Narberth, a town in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.
A chronicle in the Cotton library mentions that, in 1116, Gruffydd ap Rhys attacked and destroyed the castle of Arberth; this however probably refers to the nearby Sentence Castle, the stone castle at Narberth not having been built until over 100 years later.
The current ruins are undoubtedly Norman and seem to date from the 13th century, having been built by Andrew Perrot. However, the castle is mentioned in the third branch of the Mabinogi as the place where Rhiannon was imprisoned and forced to carry travellers through the gates as penance for killing her son. Although there is some controversy over the actual location of the castle in the Mabinogi (there are at least two other earthworks nearby that are contenders, but neither are in good defensive positions compared to the site of this one), the Normans often built castles on top of earlier defensive structures and it is plausible that the original was obliterated.
The castle never changed hands throughout the Glyndŵr Rising in 1400–1415 and was slighted after being taken by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. Excavations have found more than 20 graves on the north side dating from the 12th century to the 13th, hinting that the area may have once been the site of a church.
In the early part of the 20th century, the annual town fair held a procession which ended in the castle, with dancing and music. In 2005, the castle was opened again to the public after being taken over by the council and made safe.
The castle has provided a good deal of building material for the surrounding houses and the remains are mostly single and double storey walls, with the barrel-vaulted kitchen cellars intact. No upper storey rooms are intact. There is an early engraving visible on an information board at Narberth railway station (and possible elsewhere in the town) which shows now-vanished tall chimneys of a Flemish style that can still be seen at the well-preserved Manorbier Castle.
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Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned Grade II listed coal-fired power station, located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce, Engineer in Chief to the LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers. The station is one of the world's largest brick buildings and notable for its original Art Deco interior fittings and decor.
The building comprises two power stations, built in two stages, in a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built between 1929 and 1935 and Battersea B Power Station, to its east, between 1937 and 1941, when construction was paused owing to the worsening effects of the Second World War. The building was completed in 1955. "Battersea B" was built to a design nearly identical to that of "Battersea A", creating the iconic four-chimney structure.
The station's demise was caused by its output falling with age, coupled with increased operating costs, such as flue gas cleaning."Battersea A" was decommissioned in 1975. In 1980 the whole structure was given Grade II listed status; "Battersea B" shut three years later. The building remained empty until 2014, during which time it fell into near ruin. Various plans were made to make use of the building, but none were successful. In 2012, administrators Ernst & Young entered into an exclusivity agreement with Malaysia's S P Setia and Sime Darby to develop the site to include 253 residential units, bars, restaurants, office space, shops and entertainment spaces. The plans were approved and redevelopment commenced a few years later. As of 2021, the building and the overall 42-acre site development is owned by a consortium of Malaysian investors.
Works were completed and nearly forty years after the lights were switched off, Battersea Power Station opened its doors to the public on Friday 14 October 2022, marking the first time the public were able to explore the iconic building and the first tranche of shops, bars, restaurants and leisure venues. As well as 254 apartments inside the power station itself, the 42-acre site also contains apartment buildings designed by US architect Frank Gehry and by Foster + Partners. The first residents moved in to the power station in May 2021.
Listed Building Grade I
List Entry Number: 1288429
Date First Listed: 22 December 1953
Memorial. Built 1905-9 but damaged by fire 1962 and restored 1985-87. Designed by Sir John Belcher, assisted by JJ Joas. For Lord Ashton as a memorial to his family, with Gillows as contractors. Portland stone over brick with steel joists and concrete infill, with balustrades of Cornish granite and steps of Hopton Wood limestone. Dome clad with copper. Of square plan, 150 feet tall, and built in an elevated position in an Edwardian Baroque style. A long flight of steps leads down the slope to the west and divides near the bottom to sweep around a fountain set in front of a screen wall with 2 Tuscan columns in antis. The lowest stage of the memorial has recessed entrance porticoes on the east and west sides, each with 2 paired Tuscan columns, and 2 single columns, in antis. The north and south sides have recesses treated similarly. Across each corner angle is a pedimented round-arched opening. Above the cornice and parapet are subsidiary stone domes at each corner with pairs of Corinthian columns in their diagonals. The drum of the main dome has an entablature supported by paired Corinthian columns. Facing in each cardinal direction is an aedicule with an open segmental pediment. Below each is a projection whose decoration includes shields carved with a ship, a railway engine, and a reaper. Above each pediment on 3 sides are allegorical figure sculptures representing Commerce, Science, and Art. On the 4th, west, side there is a staircase projection above the pediment. Below the dome the upper part of the drum is pierced by round windows; above, the lantern is surrounded by a balustrade.
INTERIOR: contains 2 domed chambers, one above the other. The lower chamber has a floor of white marble inlaid with black. Its dome is decorated by 4 large figure groups painted on canvas by George Murray, representing Commerce, History, Art, and Science. Between them are the figures of the 4 seasons above the windows, accompanied by the Arms of Lancaster..
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Pictured is a British Para leaving the Drop Zone carrying his parachute after a jump from a Spanish CH47 Chinook helicopter during EXERCISE LISTED PARATROOPER...The Parachute Regiment, conducted low-level training with parachutists from the Spanish Airborne Brigade (BRIPAC) as part of a two-week joint exercise to test interoperability and develop relations between the two units..The Paras got to grips with some of the weapon systems used by their Spanish counterparts, as well as receiving an introduction to some of the vehicles used by the Brigade. ..In addition to building shared understanding and military capability, EX LISTED PARATROOPER enabled the British paratroopers to train on Spanish parachutes, earning their wings on a joint jump from CH47 helicopters....The Parachute Regiment, conducted low-level training with parachutists from the Spanish Airborne Brigade (BRIPAC) as part of a two-week joint exercise to test interoperability and develop relations between the two units...The Paras got to grips with some of the weapon systems used by their Spanish counterparts, as well as receiving an introduction to some of the vehicles used by the Brigade.
In addition to building shared understanding and military capability, EX LISTED PARATROOPER enabled the British paratroopers to train on Spanish parachutes, earning their wings on a joint jump from CH47 helicopters.
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This was the other costume I wanted to do for the Halloween shoot. Yeah, yeah played out but it was one of my bucket list items to do. We first tried the blonde look to see how that work followed by the black china cut wig (as previously photographed).
A lot of fun for this outfit shoot. Might do another rendition in the near future 💅 💄
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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1291725
Date First Listed : 6 June 1951
The windmill, dating from 1805, is a tower mill and stands on Lytham Green. It was operational until 1918, and was restored in 1987. The windmill is in rendered brick on a plinth of cobble walling, and has a wooden cap and sails. It contains a doorway and windows, and at the top is a boat-shaped cap and fantail.
The Grade II listed rather photogenic Gwennap United Stamps Engine House was constructed in 1899 30 years after the closure of United Mines. It was erected to house a 34 inch stamps engine for the reworking of the mine dumps as Gwennap United
Click here for more photographs of United Mines: www.jhluxton.com/Industrial-Archaeology/Mines-of-Devon-Co...
United Mines was formed by the amalgamation of Ale and Cakes Mine, Wheal Cupboard, and Poldory around 1780. Located just south of the Great Consolidated Mines in the parish of Gwennap, they border the villages of St. Day and Crofthandy to the west and the Poldice and Carnon valleys to the north. Later, the group expanded to include Wheal Britannia, Wheal Clifford, Wheal Moor, Wheal Squire, Wheal Andrew (also known as Friendship Mines), and Copper Hill Mine.
Little is known of the history of the individual mines of the United Mines group. Poldory was probably active in 1760. It appears to have commenced production as a small scale tin mine and then been combined with other small-scale mines in the area in 1815 under the name of United Mines.
In the early 1820s, John Taylor obtained the lease for abandoned mines in the Gwennap parish. He initially reworked their setts and eventually discovered the world's richest copper lode at that time. By 1822, the Gwennap Mines were already profitable.
At that time, the primary production in the area was copper, with some tin and ochre also being extracted. The materials were transported north to the port of Portreath for smelting in South Wales via the Portreath Tramroad. As the mines grew more profitable, the tramroad owners increased the trans-shipping fees. In response, John Taylor built his own tramway southward through the Carnon Valley to Devoran on the south coast. The Redruth and Chasewater mineral tramway, initially horse-drawn, opened in 1824 and later switched to steam power mid-nineteenth century. The railway was operational for over 90 years, eventually closing in 1915.
Eldon's pumping engine house, also referred to as Little's, housed a 30-inch cylinder pumping engine and dates back to around the 1830s. Its primary function was to pump water from the adit to the surface.
United Mines continued to expand and eventually merged with the adjacent Consolidated Mines in 1857, forming 'Clifford Amalgamated Mines'. At its zenith, these mines boasted 80 miles of subterranean workings and 22 engines. By 1861, the entire group was incorporated into Great Consolidated as Clifford Amalgamated Mines. From 1835 to 1861, Wheal Clifford extracted 50,167 tons of copper ore at 6.5% purity and 365 tons of black tin. During the same period, the other mines in the United Downs group yielded 347,500 tons of copper ore at 7.5% purity, 250 tons of black tin, 158 tons of arsenic, 1,290 tons of pyrite, and 271 tons of zinc ore.
Declining metal prices ultimately led to the closure of mines around 1870.
From 1899 into the early 20th century the mine dumps were reworked and engines installed for puping water for ore processing as well as for powering stamps.
The area was prospected again in the 1940’s and brief trial mining operations were conducted but no commercial mining took place.
The next few weeks are going to be uber-busy with trips for open days at the Universities my youngest, Phoebe, wants to go to. At last she has made her choice of the course she will be studying, Veterinary Medicine or Vet-Med. She will be completing the M.S.A.A exam to allow aplication to Cambridge but our first visit was to Glasgow University, a great day. In a couple of weeks time a trip to York, Bristol and Cambridge, then during the summer break The Royal London School of Veterniary Medicine, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Nottigham. Competition is tough but I strongly believe with Phoebes academic attainments and experiences with animal management she will be well placed to move forward as a Vet, can't wait as I will be accompanying her with all her visits. But we have already learnt a lesson, don't try and do a University visit in one day, up at 01.30am in the morning to fly up to Glasgow and returned at 02.00am this morning from Gatwick.......goodnight!
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270189
Date First Listed : 20 June 1972
An early 19th century house, later divided into two flats, stuccoed with stone dressings, chamfered quoins, a sill band, a moulded gutter cornice and a slate roof. There are two storeys with a cellar, and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway is approached by seven sandstone steps with railings, and has unfluted engaged Ionic columns, a pulvinated frieze and a pediment. The windows are sashes with hood moulds, and there are two cellar openings.
I took this photograph of two cars leaving the paddock for the qualifying session for the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.Number 33 is the 1959 Lister Jaguar Knobbly of renowned Mexican collector Eduardo Baptista, though listed in the programme of the event as his 1955 Aston Martin DB3S. The following car is the 1955 Aston Martin DB3S of David Bennett.
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(Macro of Refrigerator Art, I organized at the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida)
The principal parish church for Acomb is St Stephen's, a Grade II listed building built in 1831-1832 by G T Andrews on the site of the previous medieval church. Records date from 1662. On 19 December 1992, St Stephen's was nearly destroyed in a fire caused by arson, but was repaired using contributions from the local community and other funds. It was rededicated in September 1994.
46 photos from the event are on my website here!
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