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Open-minded that is. This store has a faaaaabulous selection of t-shirts for all your Pride-ful needs.
Probably the easiest and fastest pouch pattern ever. I'll be making about a hundred more and organizing everything!
Made using the tutorial for an open-wide zipper pouch from Noodlehead. I made a size large with an extra half-inch added to the top. For the outside I did a pieced look. It is intended to be a cosmetics pouch, so the lining is from a PUL to make it at least somewhat waterproof. This is my third open-wide pouch and they always turn out great.
A field of fully-opened zinnias must be the finest expression of a southern summer. A close second would be eating a tomato sandwich. here's how to do it: Get a big, ripe tomato out of your own garden, gently pulling it off the vine. (Tomato sandwiches are best made with tomatoes harvested while warmed from the afternoon sun, so keep that in mind.) Avoid disturbing whatever assassin bugs, bumblebees, ladybugs and butterflies might be hanging around. Take your tomato into the kitchen, and slice it into cross-sections. Take 2 piece of white bread (NOT wheat, etc.). Smear BOTH pieces of bread with a generous amount of real mayonnaise...not that "lite" stuff. Adorn one slice of the bread with 2 or three pieces of tomato. Top the tomato with 4-5 BIG potato chips, straight out of the bag; it doesn't much matter if crinkle-cut, etc. Put the other slice of bread on top. Take the sandwich into BOTH hands, and leaning over the sink, eat it slowly.
The Alexandra Hotel was the first local buildings to offer a reading room as an early library before the Alexandra Library was opened as part of the Mechanic’s Institute in 1883. The Alexandra Hotel was also the meeting place for the early Roads Board.
The current 1903 Alexandra structure, which enveloped the older brick structure, is built on the corner of the busy thoroughfares of Grant and Downey Streets on a rather awkwardly shaped block. Yet it is part of the historical heart of the north eastern Victorian country town. Built of locally made bricks, the Alexandra Hotel is designed in the typical style of public bars and hotels popular in Australia at that time. It features a double storey L-shaped pillared verandah with ornate cast iron fretwork on the upper balcony. The older part of the building still features glass panes that have been hand painted with geometric patterns to imitate stained glass with leadlight panels. Around the front door to the lounge, real Art Nouveau stained glass featuring stylised tulips may be found, along with an impressive lunette above the door. The whole Grant and Downey Street facades are painted white with brickwork picked out in black.
This fine old Hotel underwent refurbishment during 2007 and 2008 and features a public bar, function room, dining room, and accommodation for up to fifteen guests.
Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.
Look, look, my heart is an open book
I love nobody but you
Look, look, my heart is an open book
My love is honest and true
De Olympische 9525 in de loods van de Zaanstraat tijdens de open dag op 15 sept.2007 De witte kop geeft het stel een heel andere uitstraling.Coll.J.Mulders
Dance Open backstage - Anastasia Kolegova (Mariinsky Theatre) and Leonid Sarafanov (Mikhailovsky Theatre) preparing for Le Corsaire
Another church I did not have high hopes of seeing inside, and so i wasn't disappointed to find it locked, but I do know the Friends of City Churches has it open at least once every two weeks, so there is a chance.
Hemmed in bot other buildings and down a narrow winding lane, hard to get a clear shot of it without resorting to the distorted end of the wide angle zoom.
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The Dutch Church, Austin Friars (Dutch: Nederlandse Kerk Londen), is a reformed church[1] in the Broad Street Ward, in the City of London.[2] Located on the site of the 13th-century Augustinian friary, the original building granted to Protestant refugees for their church services in 1550 was destroyed during the London Blitz.
The present church was built between 1950 and 1954[1] and is a familiar landmark in the Broad Street Ward.[3] With the founding of the church dating to 1550, it is the oldest Dutch-language Protestant church in the world,[4] and as such is known in The Netherlands as the mother church of all Dutch reformed churches.
The original church was a monastic priory known as the Austin Friars, London, a contraction of "Augustinian Friars", founded circa 1253 by Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford (d. 1275).[5] The pretender Perkin Warbeck, executed on 23 November 1499 for claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, the younger of the Princes in the Tower, is buried in the church.[6] The priory was dissolved in November 1538.[7] The City of London attempted to buy the church of the friary from the Crown in 1539 and again in 1546 but was rebuffed. In 1550, London's community of "Germans and other strangers" was granted the use of the friary church's nave;[8] the rest of the church was used as a storehouse, with the monuments sold for £100 and the lead stripped from the roof. The choir, tower and transepts were demolished in 1600.
The nave became the first official nonconformist chapel in England under its Polish-born superintendent John a Lasco (known in Poland as Jan Łaski) who had founded a preaching house for a group of Protestant refugees mainly from the Low Countries. The mostly Dutch and French speaking "strangers" were granted a royal charter on 24 July 1550 that allowed them to establish a Stranger Church and this was incorporated by letters patent from King Edward VI.[9] Upon incorporation, the church was named the "Temple of the Lord Jesus" and had four pastors: two for Dutch and two for the French-Walloon who by the 1580s began using St Anthony's Chapel in Threadneedle Street.
By 1570, the Dutch community was the largest group of expatriates in London, numbering 5,000 out of the 100,000 total population of the time. About half of the Dutch in London were Protestants who fled the Flemish Low Countries due to religious persecution. Others were skilled craftsman, including brewers, tile makers, weavers, artists, printers and engravers, who came to England for economic opportunities. Engraver Martin Droeshout, famous for his 1623 portrait of William Shakespeare, was among the Flemish Protestant emigrants who arrived in London.[1]
A century later, the arrival of William of Orange brought a second wave of Dutch emigrants to London. This second group included noblemen, bankers, courtiers, merchants, architects and artists.
In the night of 15–16 October 1940, just a decade before the Dutch Church celebrated its 400th anniversary, the medieval building was completely destroyed by German bombs. The church's collection of rare books including Dutch Bibles, atlases and encyclopedias had been moved out of London for safe-keeping one day before the bombing raid that destroyed the building. Today the collection is housed in the church library and includes a multilingual Bible published by the Plantin Press of Antwerp in 1569-1571, and a 1649 atlas of all the cities in the Low Countries by Willem Blaeu. The church's manuscript collection and original charter are kept in the London Metropolitan Archives. The church's library collection is currently being digitalised and a launch date for the online catalogue of September 2015 has been announced.
The foundation stone of the new church was laid on 23 July 1950 by the 10-year-old Princess Irene of the Netherlands. The new church, built to the design of Arthur Bailey, was completed in 1954. The new building is a concrete box frame, externally clad in Portland stone.[10] The church possesses detailed archives,[11] and is a popular tourist attraction.[12]
The church was designated a Grade-II listed building on 25 September 1998.[10] In 2000, the church celebrated its 450th anniversary; Prof. Keetie E Sluyterman at the University of Utrecht published a book about the church and its history, De Kerk in de City.
The church remains active today, with weekly Dutch-language church services, confirmation classes, and meetings for various groups. The church also does outreach to the Dutch community in London, including ministering to the elderly. The church is home to two other UK registered charities: The Netherlands Benevolent Society (NBS) and The Dutch Centre. On 24 April 2015, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands was honorary guest in the Dutch Church for a jubilee celebration to mark 150 years since the founding of the NBS. On the same day the Dutch Centre was officially opened by Laetitia van den Assum, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United Kingdom, Liesbeth Knook, Chairman of the Church Council and Paul Beiboer, General Manager of London branch of Rabobank.
In April 2014, the current minister of the Dutch Church, Rev. Joost Röselaers, confirmed that the Dutch Church is able to perform weddings for same-sex couples.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Church,_Austin_Friars
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The best 20th Century church in the City, and one of the best in the whole of London, but at what a price! For here was the priory church of the Austin Friars, rebuilt in spectacular Decorated style by the Augustinians in the 1350s, a mark of piety in that decade after the Black Death. At the Reformation it was all sold off or demolished apart from the vast nave, which was given as the Temple of Jesus to the Dutch Protestants by the crown to help them put down error among the Flemish community, which had developed a taste for anabaptism. The advisers to the young Edward VI were keen to encourage Bible-based teaching and a rejection of Popish practices like the consecration of Bishops and sacramental worship. Thanks to their uncompromising Reformation, the Dutch were felt to be the best defenders of the fundamental protestant faith, although in fact the church was used by protestant sects from a number of European countries, including Scandinavian ones - Wayland Young notes that the Swedish ambassador had his own pew beside that of the Dutch ambassador. In the 19th Century, one of the Dutch Reformed congregations here was of South African Boers.
Young goes on to describe the Temple of Jesus as throughout a place of the highest seriousness. The pulpit was attached to one of the nave piers and the pews were grouped around it, leaving the rest of the great nave bare. Offenders, however trivial, stood on a raised place while their offences and their penance were read out from the pulpit. The congregation debated moral questions such as might a Christian attend a Catholic marriage service? The church was gutted by fire in 1870 and stood roofless for a few years before being repaired, but the interior 16th Century furnishings were all lost of course. Eventually restored, it remained one of the most stunning 14th Century buildings in the whole of London.
On the night of 15th October 1940, in an early raid on the City, the church received a direct hit from a half-ton high explosive bomb, and was vaporised. The Dutch, being a practical people, built a completely new church in its place. The architect was Arthur Bailey. He was clever enough to maximise the use of space on the site by raising the floor of the new church and building offices and meeting rooms beneath. This split level interior is complemented by other offices to the west of the church. The whole thing was complete by 1957.
No City church is so full of light as this one - it is breathtaking. The simplicity of Dutch Reformed worship coupled with an opulent scheme of 1950s stained glass by the likes of Max Nauta, Hugh Easton and William Wilson creates a sense of being inside a hollow jewel. Floors, furnishings, glass - everything is of the highest quality. The acoustic is designed for robust scriptural worship, which is the kind of thing the Reformed Dutch like best. This acoustic creates a sense of gravitas - not seriousness exactly, more a feeling of the importance of this place. All in all, a stunning achievement despite the loss.
Simon Knott, December 2015
On heritage open weekend the roof of the college was opened for visitors to scan the horizons around the tower.
weather was fair, but cloudy and the results mixed, but a great opportunity was seized upon by many.
Looking north over the town. The red roof of Suffolk County Council's St Edmund House very prominent, with the form of St Helen's church and Primary School in view.
Photos by Tony Marsden
Two doors - open and closed - a shot taken in Shaniwar Wada. The color of the closed, weathered door tells a bit the age of the structure.
The 2007 Derbyshire Open Wrestling Competition was held at Wirksworth Leisure Centre On Saturday 6th October 2007.
Wirksworth Leisure Centre,
Hannage Way,
Wirksworth,
Derbyshire,
DE4 4JG..
Entrance to the 盛庭会所 hotels taken from the lobby. This is my favourite hotel there but it was not open that weekend. My hotel cannot process foreign credit cards so I have to come over to this one to pay. Wuzhen 乌镇, Zhejiang 浙江, China
Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus, vautour fauve) from the Sainte-Croix Parc near Rhodes in Moselle, France.
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