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A weekend up at Rampworx in Liverpool had me shooting the annual scooter competition, Dialled. I very rarely shoot anything at these events I actually like but I do quite like this candid shot of Mason on the phone just outside of the park.
Body \ Nikon D800
Lens \ Nikkor 70-200mm
Mason Paige Meyer celebrates after a Comets point during their volleyball game against McAuley, Tuesday. Sept. 3. 2013. (Tony Tribble for the Enquirer)
Fortnum & Mason, often shortened to just "Fortnum's", is possibly one of the most famous stores in the world, has held many Royal Warrants for over 150 years and is the shop most closely associated with the British Royal Family.
It is an upmarket department store situated in Piccadilly, London, established in 1707 by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason.
Its fame rests almost entirely on its magnificent food hall, (though only two of its several floors are devoted to food), stocking an extraordinary variety of exotic, speciality and also 'basic' provisions. It is also the location of a celebrated tea shop and has Britain's only hair salon dedicated to long hair.
Fortnum & Mason (colloquially often shortened to just Fortnum's) is an upmarket department store in London, England. The main store is located at 181 Piccadilly in the St James's area of London, where it was established in 1707 by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason. There are additional stores at The Royal Exchange, St Pancras railway station and Heathrow Airport in Greater London, at K11 Musea in Hong Kong, as well as various stockists worldwide. Fortnum & Mason is privately owned by Wittington Investments Limited.
Founded as a grocery store, Fortnum's reputation was built on supplying quality food, and it saw rapid growth throughout the Victorian era. Although Fortnum's developed into a department store, it continues to focus on stocking a variety of exotic and speciality food along with 'basic' provisions. It is known for its food hampers.
The main store has since opened several other departments, such as the gentlemen's department on the first floor. It also contains a tea shop and several restaurants.
History
William Fortnum was a footman in the household of Queen Anne. The royal family's insistence on having new candles every night resulted in large amounts of half-used wax, which Fortnum promptly resold. Fortnum also had a side business as a grocer. He convinced his landlord, Hugh Mason, to be his associate, and they founded the first Fortnum & Mason store in Mason's small shop at St James's Market in 1707. In 1761, William Fortnum's grandson Charles went into the service of Queen Charlotte, and the connection with the royal court led to an increase in business. Fortnum & Mason claims to have invented the Scotch egg, in 1738. The store began to stock speciality items, namely ready-to-eat luxury meals such as poultry or game served in aspic jelly.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the emporium supplied dried fruit, spices and other preserves to British officers. In the Victorian era, it was frequently called upon to provide food for prestigious court functions. Queen Victoria sent shipments of Fortnum & Mason's concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale's hospitals during the Crimean War.
Charles Drury Edward Fortnum (1820–1899), of the family, was a distinguished art collector and a Trustee of the British Museum, to which he donated his collection of Islamic ceramics.
In 1886, after having bought the entire stock of five cases of a new product made by H. J. Heinz, Fortnum & Mason became the first store in Britain to stock tins of baked beans.
he shop at 181–184 Piccadilly was rebuilt between 1926 and 1927 to a Neo-Georgian design by the architects Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie. The building also incorporates 22–27 Duke Street and 42–45 Jermyn Street.
In April 1951, the Canadian businessman W. Garfield Weston acquired the store and became its chairman following a boardroom coup. In 1964, he commissioned a four-ton clock to be installed above the main entrance of the store as a tribute to its founders. Every hour, 4-foot-high (1.2 m) models of William Fortnum and Hugh Mason emerge and bow to each other, with chimes and 18th-century style music playing in the background. The chimes were incorporated into Jonathan Dove's orchestral adaptation of Zeb Soanes' children's book Gaspard's Foxtrot, which depicts the clock and its figures as illustrated by James Mayhew. Since Garfield Weston's death in 1978, the store has been run by two of his granddaughters, Jana Khayat and Kate Hobhouse. The Chief Executive Officer is Tom Athron, who joined the business in December 2020.
The store underwent a £24 million refurbishment in 2007 as part of its tercentenary celebrations.
In March 2012, Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla (then Duchess of Cornwall) and Catherine (then Duchess of Cambridge) made their first official joint visit to Fortnum & Mason. During this visit, they were each presented with their own personalised hampers. The Queen opened the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon on the fourth floor.
In November 2013, the company's first additional store was opened at St Pancras International station. The retailer has since opened stores and restaurants at Heathrow Terminal 5 (in 2014) and at The Royal Exchange (in 2018).
Fortnum & Mason opened its first standalone store outside Britain in Dubai on 21 March 2014. This store closed on 9 July 2017.
On 4 April 2019, it was announced that Fortnum & Mason would open a Hong Kong store at K11 Musea in September 2019. The 7,000 square-foot space features a retail store and restaurant.
Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards
Fortnum & Mason runs an annual food and drinks awards scheme. According to the company's former CEO Ewan Venters, the awards recognise ‘the pinnacle of high achievement in food and drink across the media’. The awards celebrate writers, publishers, presenters, image-makers and personalities working in the food and drink industry.
The 2018 awards ceremony was hosted by Claudia Winkleman and winners included Nadiya Hussain, Nigel Slater and Jay Rayner.
Royal warrants
Fortnum & Mason holds two royal warrants, the first granted by Queen Elizabeth II as Grocers and Provisions Merchants, and the second by Charles, then Prince of Wales as Tea Merchants and Grocers.
Their first royal warrant was granted in 1910 by Queen Alexandra. Later Royal Warrants were granted to Fortnum & Mason by King George V, though Fortnum & Mason temporarily lost their warrant for his son, King George VI, in 1948, due to post war rationing of the time. The warrant for King George VI was restored in 1951.
Later, King George VI and his consort Queen Elizabeth, known as The Queen Mother after the death of King George VI in 1952, both granted Fortnum & Mason Royal Warrants.
Platinum Jubilee
In 2022, Fortnum & Mason was a sponsor of the Platinum Pudding Competition, as part of the official celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
Fortnum & Mason was also one of sixteen partners of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, held on 5 June 2022.
Controversies
In November 2010, animal rights group PETA UK began a campaign against Fortnum & Mason's sale of foie gras, citing the cruelty in the production process. The group regularly held demonstrations involving celebrities, activists and volunteers outside the store. Celebrities supporting the campaign included Geezer Butler, Sir Roger Moore, Owain Yeoman, Tamara Ecclestone, Bill Oddie, Twiggy and Morrissey. In 2011, Fortnum & Mason was reprimanded by Westminster Trading Standards for misleading customers about its animal welfare standards. As a result, the grocer changed its corporate social responsibility document to state that only UK suppliers are required to adhere to its welfare standards. In December 2020, Fortnum & Mason ceased sale of foie gras in favour of an alternative seen as more ethical, foie royale.
On 26 March 2011, Fortnum & Mason was targeted by the group UK Uncut, who broke off from the main 2011 anti-cuts protest march to target the tax avoidance policies of Associated British Foods, which, like Fortnum & Mason, is owned by Wittington Investments. This took the form of a mass sit-in, with some 138 UK Uncut protesters arrested.
In popular culture
Fortnum's history of offering a wide variety of foodstuffs is referenced in the 1960 Hammer Studios film, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll. Set in 1870s London, Mr Hyde quips regarding a lively and risqué London nightspot, "Rather like Fortnum & Mason ... you can buy anything here."
In Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III (also made into a 1994 film), set in the late 1780s, a footman named Fortnum leaves in a huff to start a "provision merchant's in Piccadilly." This is an anachronistic reference to the founding of the store, as William Fortnum's position as a footman in the royal household was many decades earlier, in the reign of Queen Anne.
In Anthony Trollope's novel "The Claverings," Sir Hugh Clavering disdains to trust Fortnum and Mason to provision his yachting trip to Norway. "He was not a man to trust any Fortnum or any Mason as to the excellence of the article to be supplied, or as to the price."
(Wikipedia)
Masons of Cheddington have this new VDL Futura 2, seen in Sandown coach park last night, 18th May, 2017.
This former Travelstar/Star Tours VDL Bova Futura is now with Masons Minibus & Coach Hire of Long Marston, Tring.
YJ11ANU is seen at the Martello Coach Park, Clacton-on-Sea in May 2016.
Interesting picture frame around photo of President Andrew Johnson. Located in his home in Greeneville, NC.
Mason running back Darryl Johnson works out along with his team during a pre-season practice. The Enquirer/Jeff Swinger
This lake, located at the base of the Ira Spring Trail, is a perfect representative of Pacific Northwestern beauty.
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I have seen many different mason jar lanterns. I thought there must be one more way to make them. So, I cut the mason jar from the bottom part. I removed threads with diamond grinding stone. And then I flipped jar upside down, so that the top part where the threads were, goes inside the bottom piece. Now I can simply lift the top away, insert and light the candle very quickly.
A row of mason bee houses awaits new tenants on a ledge below one of the windows of our church.
The First Unitarian Church has received an award from the Audobon Society for the landscaping on its property.
Despite its urban setting, the church has many small beds where native plants are flourishing.
It's hoped mason bees will set up house in these wooden structures. If so, they will be prolific (and sting-free) pollinators.
They're called mason bees because after they lay eggs in the small holes you see here, they block the opening with mud.
mason, you came over yesterday and spent the entire day with us. we enjoyed having you over very much. you are taking your first few steps and climbing over everything right now. it was fun to watch your mommy and daddy follow you around making sure you wouldn't get hurt. the song you are hearing is by jay chou, your auntie wendy's favorite taiwanese artist. this song is fitting for you as it is chinese new years today and you should be practicing speaking mandarin.
in this song, jay is telling you to listen to your mother, which you should since she is very smart (also, listen to your auntie too).
i love you very much and can't wait to see you again.
auntie wendy
the beautiful Renaissance palace in Arnes is now the town hall. I have been visiting Arnes for years, but only recently discovered the unusual mason marks- there are several visible in this shot.
I have been wanting to make my own kimchi for years. Our recent
fermentation class pushed me to actually look up a recipe and gather
the ingredients. I made a dumbed down version using just carrots,
cabbage, salt and two types of whey. Now I am ready to move forward
and try adding a few more ingredients such as ginger, garlic, and
chili flakes to give the kimchi a little flavor. There are two
important things I learned on my first batch.
1. There are different types of whey. The whey that is a bi-product of
our cheese making is essentially dead. The enzymes and bacteria have
been killed off due to the high temperatures. I can use my whey
leftover from the cheese stuff, but I need to also introduce a small
amount of cultured whey which I have obtained from a kefir culture.
2. Vacuum sealing the mason jars worked well for my first batch. I had
a raging boil of activity and no air exposure which can cause
dangerous purification for vegetables not completely submerged in the
whey.
I ate the first batch with jasmine rice and it was deliciously
flavorful despite the minimal ingredients.