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This must be one of our most stylish wedding photos, taken at Mount Loftus in Kilkenny.
We knew the date, but usual terms and conditions applied, i.e. we needed a location and we were hoping for names, and you did not disappoint.
And as you know, we're not at all proud, so any other information would go down very well indeed...
Date: Thursday, 1 June 1933
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3972a
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Loftus iron stone mine at Skinningrove closed in 1958 so this bridge won't have seen a train for nearly 60 years. It seems the bridge took Loftus Iron Stone Mine's head shunt accross Kilton Beck and was part of the famous Skinningrove zig zag.
"Lava slugs at the south wing!"
Loftus Base is a research outpost for study of the mysterious lifeforms that inhabit the volcanic streams of Graidarrn. Among these fascinating creatures are the long-lived lava slugs, monolithic gastropods that dwell in molten lakes.
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Loftus Hall, a large mansion house on the Hook peninsula. Built on the site of the original Redmond Hall, it is said by locals to have been haunted by the devil and the ghost of a young woman.
The infamous Loftus Hall. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loftus_Hall which lies on the Hook peninsula, across the estuary from Dunmore East.
Supposedly haunted, it was the subject of a film by Waterford broadcaster, Rick Whelan.
An old shot from my point and shoot, am just giving myself a break from my newer photos.
For those unfamiliar with the area, it is across from Dunmore and Passage East, and close to Hook Head lighthouse. It lies to the left of this shot, back a couple of miles along the road. www.flickr.com/photos/23045224@N04/3874800026/
More pictures from Loftus. I am amazed at the condition these trams are in, immaculate. A real creit to the the memebrs and friends of the Museum. Well done all.
In a setting worthy of a Brontë book sits Loftus Hall, described as the one of the most haunted places on earth.
It has dominated not only the local flat landscape for miles around but also the people of this area with the stories of what has happened there and what is continuing to happen.
This mansion, built on the wind swept Hook peninsula has the most striking view over the beach and the channel between Hook and Dunmore in Co. Waterford.
The south Wexford coast is one of the most dangerous stretches of water around the Irish coast and as a result many a ship ended her sailing days either grounded on the shore or shattered on the rocks near the coast. This feeling of battling the elements only fuels the atmosphere of the locality.
The famous "ghost" story originated in the middle of the 18th century. On a stormy winter's night as the family relaxed before a roaring log fire, a stranger arrived on horseback, and was invited to stay the night. He joined in a game of cards with the family.
Anne Tottenham, daughter of the owner Charles Tottenham, bent down to retrieve the fallen card was shocked to discover that the stranger had a cloven foot!
It is said that Anne screamed and the man went up through the roof in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a large hole in the ceiling.
Anne was in shock and was put in her favourite room in the mansion, which was known as the Tapestry Room. She refused food and drink. She died in the Tapestry Room in 1775.
Other stories say Anne fell in love with the stranger and was refused permission to marry him, and the stranger was banished from the house. Another version says she fell pregnant by him and told her father when the stranger was banished. He immediately banished her to the Tapestry Room, and Anne died there giving birth when her father refused to call a doctor for her.
Whatever version you believe or disbelieve Loftus Hall has stories of the paranormal going back hundreds of years.
It's current owner a widow, is in a nursing home in the UK and has refused to sell the mansion, stating it has been in her family for so long, she also stated that she has papers indicating that she owns the cliffs behind the house too. I get the impression that there is an ongoing land battle regarding the property and its surrounds.
Her nephew handles Loftus Hall for her. It was he who decided to have all the windows and doors boarded up, due to constant vandalism by louts. A local lady I spoke to yesterday feels it is just going to be allowed to continue falling into total disrepair until finally it will have to be demolished. What a tragedy.
More information on Loftus Hall at wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loftus_Hall
Loftus Hall is a large mansion house on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland that is said to have been haunted both by the devil and by the ghost of a young woman. The Redmond family built the original building in about 1350 during the time of the Black Death. It replaced their original castle at Houseland near Portersgate. The Hall became the property of the Loftus family in the 1650s as a result of the Cromwellian confiscations and this was confirmed after the Restoration of King Charles II of England by the Act of Settlement of 1666. The building that exists today was built between 1870 and 1871 by the 4th Marquess of Ely. In 1917 Loftus Hall was bought by the Sisters of Providence and turned into a convent and a school for young girls interested in joining the order. In 1983, it was purchased by Michael Deveraux who reopened it as "Loftus Hall Hotel", which was subsequently closed again in the late 1990s. It is now privately owned by Deveraux's surviving family.
The name 'Loftus Hall' is also applied to the townland surrounding the mansion.
Charles Tottenham (1716-10 Sept. 1795) and his family came to live in the mansion in the middle of the 18th century. Charles Tottenham's first wife had been the Honourable Anne Loftus (the second daughter of the 1st Viscount Loftus, she lived from 8 Nov. 1718 to 10 Nov. 1768), and by her (with three surviving sons) had two daughters Anne (d. 1 or 9 Nov. 1775) and Elizabeth (c1742-1827). According to Rick Whelan's film version of the story, the date was July 1762.
Charles came for a long stay in the house with his second wife, (in 1770 he had married his cousin Jane (d. 1798) daughter of John Cliffe and widow of Rev. Joshua Trench of Bryanstown, co. Wexford), and his daughter Anne from his first marriage. During a storm, a ship unexpectedly arrived at the Hook Peninsula, which was not far from the mansion. A young man was welcomed into the mansion. Anne and the young man became very close. Then, one night they were in the parlour; around this time it was not well-mannered for a girl to play cards, but Anne insisted and she played. When a card was dropped on the floor she went to pick it up, and she noticed that the young man had a hoof in place of a foot.
It is said that Anne screamed and the man went up through the roof in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a large hole in the ceiling. Anne was in shock and was put in her favourite room in the mansion, which was known as the Tapestry Room. She refused food and drink. She died in the Tapestry Room in 1775. A rumour states that the hole could never be properly repaired, and it is alleged that even to this day, there is still a certain part of the ceiling which is slightly different from the rest. This, of course, is a myth, since the present house was built more than a century after the evnts described above. Meanwhile it was believed that the stranger with the cloven hoof returned to the house and caused persistent poltergeist activity. A number of Protestant clergymen apparently tried and failed to put a stop to this. The family, who were themselves Protestants, eventually called on Father Thomas Broaders (a Catholic priest, who was also a tenant on the Loftus Hall estate) to exorcise the house which he managed to do in spite of fierce opposition from at least one of the hostile spirits. The success of Broaders led to many concessions being made to local Catholics whose religion was still technically illegal. Fr. Broaders was parish priest of the surrounding area from 1724 to 1773.
Father Broaders' gravestone exists today and it is popularly - but erroneously - believed that on it is written, "Here lies the body of Thomas Broaders, who did good and prayed for all, and who banished the devil from Loftus Hall". Broaders was buried in a half Protestant, half Catholic graveyard not far from Hook Head.
The apparent success of Father Broaders' exorcism did not end the ghostly visitations at Loftus Hall. The ghost of a young woman, presumed to be Anne Tottenham, was reported to have made frequent appearances in the old Hall, especially in the Tapestry Room, until the building was finally demolished in 1871.
Although the present Loftus Hall is an entirely new building, interest in the ghost story has remained strong and many aspects of the story seem to have attached themselves to the newer house
Loftus Scarecrow Festival 2018
Near to the excavated site of the burial of the Saxon Princess - local exhibition at Kirkleatham Museum - where the artefacts and jewels are on display - though the exhibition has travelled to other Museums - I believe the exhibits are held there at the present time
Two vehicles parked outside the Tees depot at Loftus in April 1993, now since closed.
Bristol LH 1929 KHY431P had originated at Bristol Omnibus but lasted only 6 years before disposal. It passed into non-PCV use but was bought by TMS when they scanned the country for any LHs that could be used on their competitive forays. It passed with the business to Caldaire, and hence into TMS dark blue but later was one of a number that passed to Tees and gained their livery relatively late in life.
Meanwhile, Leyland National 3741 NAT199V was one of the first of a number purchased to help replace thirsty and unreliable Mk1 Nationals. It started life with East Yorkshire as 199 and was sold to Caldaire as EYMS looked to buy more deckers. It had a short life with Midland Red South after disposal.
"Lava slugs at the south wing!"
Loftus Base is a research outpost for study of the mysterious lifeforms that inhabit the volcanic streams of Graidarrn. Among these fascinating creatures are the long-lived lava slugs, monolithic gastropods that dwell in molten lakes.
This is my entry for the Eurobricks Microspace contest, wish me luck!(Because these photos are HORRIBLE!)
Also, favorites and comments are appreciated, especially in pairs. ;D
Intermittent showers and grey skies did not deter crowds who attended the annual commemoration of the demise of Sydney's former tramway system on Sunday, 25 February 2018. On that day 57 years ago the former system ceased operations.
Here's my tribute to the former system of which many Sydneysiders have fond memories.
This painting by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) featured on the Wikipedia Main Page, piquing my interest. This is a screen-grab.
I do recall the announcement of Dame Laura Knight's death and reading her obituary. Her favourite subjects were theatre and ballet scenes, traditional fairs and gypsies - all of which I deemed with the certainty and arrogance of my youth to be twee, chocolate boxy. I gave little consideration to her work thereafter. At the outbreak of World War II, Laura Knight was appointed as an official artist by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. She left a superb legacy of ordinary life during that turbulent period, focusing on the sterling contribution made by women to the war effort.
The scene here is at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport, South Wales. Aged only 22 at the time, Ruby Loftus is shown performing some highly skilled work that had once been the preserve of men, and after a long apprenticeship. Ruby Loftus learned those skills within 12 months.
Ruby Loftus and the painting have been described as Britain's version of Rosie the Riveter, and like its American counterpart, its purpose was to encourage young women to take up engineering work.
The Royal Ordnance Factory management was certainly impressed by Ruby Loftus' skills and offered her a long-term appointment. However, having married in 1943, she and her husband emigrated to Canada in the immediate postwar period. She died in British Columbia in 2004 at the age of 83. She however is not forgotten in her native Newport. The Royal Ordnance Factory has been razed to the ground, but a proposed housing development, Loftus Garden Village, will perpetuate her memory. Dame Laura Knight's original painting can be viewed in the Imperial War Museum.
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Loftus (originally named Lofthouse) station was built in 1875 by the Whitby, Redcar & Middlesborough Union Railway and was the terminus of the line from Saltburn. However, when the line to Whitby was opened in 1883 it became a 'through' station with two platforms and a goods yard.
The station was closed to passengers in 1960 and is now privately owned.
Most of the station was demolished but the Station Master's House remains as does the Goods shed on the opposite side of the line.
Today the line is freight only and goes to Boulby Potash mine.
The reputedly haunted Loftus Hall at Hook. Now open again to the public
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CPH31 leads a trailer and another CPH through the station at Loftus, which was rebuilt as part of the electrification to Waterfall. March 1979.
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A building with a dark and troubled history. Said to have been haunted by the devil and the ghost of a young woman.
Line of old trams during a depot rearrangement. Old site in the Royal National Park, Loftus. Taken on 12 Aug 1973.
of a jogger approaching as I'm riding towards her.
Bikers and pedestrians share friendly on the Santa Fe trail much better than around White Rock Lake. Dallas, Texas
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