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My own Winter Ponies this year! ^_^
I got Soda Float around the first week of December... about a week later, I found those pink wings (and toy antlers) and I immediately thought they'd look great on her. I was right! ^_^
I know those wings aren't particularly Christmas-y... but I was thinking of how the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show always has models with wings and they always have their show during December... thought I'd give it a try.
OWN 855
new - May 1957 Creamline
chassis - Bd SB8 54726 Bedford
body/BN - Duple 1074/320
seating - C41F
withdrawn - Jan 1967
passed on to - Nash, Cardiff Feb 1967 - EG Warren, Neath May 1967
seen here in the garage at the Depot in Tonmawr
photo puchased from Swansea Bus Museum Open day June 2012
Own Little World
is a collab me and zola have been trying to finish for awhile now so im glad we are finally done and i hope you guys like it
Zola's description
Just a bit of nostalgia really, seems nowadays kids that are 12 all have phones and laptops, when I was a kid I was happy playing with Lego and such for hours! I got my first computer when I was 19..
Ahh simpler times!
Go check out my good friend zola's gallery
This is an extract from the Cape Hawke Pilot's diary when the, as yet un-named boat owned by A J Jahnsen, crossed the Tuncurry bar at 6:50 a.m. on 29th June 1946. A report in the Sydney Sun (The Sun - Mon 1 Jul 1946) confirmed that this was indeed the Yola. An 85ft hull was towed over the bar at 7:30 a.m. the same day ready for a tow to Newcastle. She was later to become the Ruena.
The ketch Yola was built by Alf Jahnsen and Leo Royan of Tuncurry, NSW. In 1945 Alf Jahnsen's Uncle, Anton Johan (Tony) Jahnsen, arranged to have the Yola built at Tuncurry. He took delivery in 1946 and she was recorded as crossing the bar at Tuncurry by the pilot master on 29th June 1946.
More images of Yola are in the album YOLA
She was Registered as the Yola J and was registered in Sydney in 1947.
Details
ON 178372 (Syd 1947/029) 3rd June
Registered Owner: Alfred Jahnsen (n.b. although built for Anton Johan Jahnsen she was not registered in his name)
Key Dimensions:
Length: 36.6 ft
Breadth: 12.2 ft
Depth: 4.0 ft
Register tonnage: Gross 17.5 Net 13.3
Owners:
1946 – 1947: Alfred Jahnsen (although operated by Anton Johan Jahnsen)
1947 – 1951: John Stanley Shurmer, David Norman Ahrenfeld, John Leslie Button (Joint owners, Pearlers) Most likely trading as A.B.S. Pearlers in this period.
1951 – 1953: John Stanley Shurmer (Pearlsheller)
May 1953: Harold Ormsby Hockings and Reginald Herman Hockings, Joint owners, (Pearlshellers)
Nov 1953: The Corporation of the People of the Diocese of Carpentaria, having its principal place of business at the Church Office Thursday Island in the State of Queensland.
1973: 25 Sept. Register closed. Vessel wrecked at Lockhart, Thursday Island [Actually Lockhart River Mission (Old Site)).prior to 1966.
Name:
Yola was chosen by the “owner” - Tony Jahnsen - Yola being the name of the steel Norwegian sailing ship of which he was a crew member prior to his migration to Australia. While only known as the Yola when under construction at Tuncurry, the name Yola J was used at registration but, from then, on she was only known as Yola.
Tony Jahnsen takes her to Dunk Island - Mackerel fishing
After a brief stopover in Newcastle to shelter from a gale, Yola</i was taken to Sydney by Tony Jahnsen in June 1946 and shortly after (late July) she departed for Dunk Island, arriving in Townsville in early August 1946. A local press report described her: “The decking and planking were obtained from a white beech log 60 feet long with a girth of 6 ft. 11 ins. The ketch has a length of 40 feet, a 12 ft. beam and a draught of 4 ft. 3 ins., and is powered by a diesel motor. Her ice boxes will carry up to two tons of fish.” Townsville Daily Bulletin -Wednesday 7 August 1946
Tony’s aim was to become involved in mackerel fishing but, by December 1946, he had returned to Sydney after an unsuccessful mackerel season.
Sold to three former RAAF members and taken to Torres Strait - Pearl Diving
In 1947 she was sold for cost £2700 to three former members of the R.A.A.F. (John Shurmer, David Ahrenfeld, and John Button) who wanted a change from city life.
Just prior to the sale, Alfred Jahnsen (Yola’s builder) registered the vessel revealing that Tony Jahnsen had either never owner her or had sold her back to his nephew Alfred Jahnsen beforehand.
They left on 11th June 1947 for North Australian waters, where they hoped to make enough money in shell diving to be able to return to Sydney in 10 years and live in comfort. With them was the former “owner”, Tony Jahnsen.
Just 12 months later Yola was back in Sydney and was put up for sale for £3000
Jack Shurmer becomes Owner and Yola operates as a Pearling Lugger at T.I.
The sale was unsuccessful and ownership remained with the three partners until 1951, John (Jack) Shurmer took over as “owner” and returned to Thursday Island (T.I.) where he established A.B.S. Pearling. During the first pearling season (late 1948 to early 1949) Jack was able report that he had “harvested a pearl, valued at £30, and a half a ton of pearl shell”. He also noted that the “finding of valuable pearls was a rarity”.
Yola operated as a pearling lugger regularly until 1953; Jack Shurmer bought his partners out in 1951.
Purchased by the Anglican Church - Diocese of Carpentaria and based at Lockhart River
In 1953 she was purchased by the Hocking Brothers who then on-sold her to the Anglican Church (The Corporation of the People of the Diocese of Carpentaria) that based her at the Lockhart River Mission on Cape York.
The Mission at Lockhart River already had one vessel the Cape Grey and this proved a great success. "At the end of 1953, we requested the Diocese to purchase the engine powered, larger boat called the Yola, a 45-foot auxiliary ketch, which was for sale at T.I. This purchase gave even greater impetus to the economic development of both the people and the Mission. But the impact upon the lives of the Aboriginal people was of even greater moment. For us all, there was light at the end of the tunnel and it was not an oncoming train. It was Hope." John Warby, “You-me Mates Eh!” - privately published in 1999.
In 1955 the Diocese purchased a third boat, the 48 foot gaff-rigged ketch, Francis Pritt, which was the original lugger used by Bishop Gilbert White, in all his journeying around the Diocese of Carpentaria.
These three boats employed fifty two men full time but, in addition, there were other men permanently engaged in building dinghies, making oars from bush timber and carrying out repairs on the boats and their engines generally, so that the total men employed, directly and indirectly, in the marine industry, would be in excess of sixty men.
The Lockhart River Aboriginal Christian Co-operative Society Ltd
In 1956 responsibility of the management of the Mission boats was transferred to "The Lockhart River Aboriginal Christian Co-operative Society Ltd."
By 1959 the Yola’s 30 h.p. engine was in need of repair. She had deteriorated to the point of being most unreliable, and although every effort was made to keep the boat at sea, it proved fruitless as the engine was worn out. It was a great relief therefore, when the Co-op was able to purchase a new 58 h.p. Perkins Marine Diesel to replace the old one, and she operated very satisfactorily. Shell production on this boat rose immediately.
Co-operative ends and Yola abandoned on the beach at Lockhart River
The era of the Co-operative came to an abrupt end in 1962, when the market for trochus shell collapsed. Repairs to the Yola led to a debt to the Diocese of £800. The Yola was passed back to the Diocese from the Co-Op, and the debt was written off. No longer in use, the Yola lay on the beach, a short distance from what is now known as the "old site" of Lockhart River. By 1963 she began to break up and by 1990, when former missionary, John Warby, and his son and daughter visited the site, John recorded the remains as "forty yards to sea… Broken and battered, the hull was long gone. All that remained was the keel, engine bearers, and a few timbers". The record of their visit on 18th September 1990 has been captured in this short film clip Finding the wreck of the Yola
The Registry was closed in 1973 with the comment “25 Sept. 1973 Register closed. Vessel wrecked at Lockhart, Thursday Island [Actually Lockhart River Mission (Old Site)] prior to 1966.”
Image Source: Great Lakes Museum, Tuncurry, NSW. From Murray Views Postcard No. 14 THE WATERFRONT, TUNCURRY, NSW.
References:
Yola departs Tuncurry - Cape Hawke Harbour Pilotmaster’s diary 1946
Yola travels to Townsville with owner Tony Jahnsen -Townsville Daily Bulletin Wednesday 7 August 1946
Yola changes hands and off to Islands - Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate Thursday 12 June 1947
For Sale - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Friday 13 February 1948
Former Joint owner Jack Shurmer buys and takes to Thursday Island. - Townsville Daily Bulletin Wednesday 1 June 1949
Result of first pearling season - Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld) - Fri 3 Jun 1949
Sold to Mission in 1953 and based in Lockhart River - Report of Director of Native Affairs for the Twelve Months ended 30th June, 1954.
Ownership transferred to The Lockhart River Aboriginal Christian Co-operative Society Ltd. Report of Director of Native Affairs for the Twelve Months ended 30th June, 1956
1962 - The end. The Co-operative got into severe debt when repairs to the Yola led to a debt to the Diocese of £800. The Yola was passed to the Diocese, and the debt was written off. - David Thompson (1995), M.A. Thesis. Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, Uni. Qld.
1963 - Yola abandoned on the beach near the "old site" - recorded in visit by John Warby in September 1990.
Acknowledgements. The assistance of Mori Flapan (Mori Flapan boatregister) by providing access to his extensive database is greatly appreciated.
The assistance of John Warby's daughter, Patty Beecham, is greatly appreciated; Patty arranged to have a home movie film taken in 1990 transferred to a digital medium and published on YouTube.
All Images in this photostream are Copyright - Great Lakes Manning River Shipping and/or their individual owners as may be stated above and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or used in any way without prior written approval.
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Cinemateca Portuguesa (film museum)
Owned by the family of lawyer and politician Morais Carvalho for nearly a hundred years (1887-1979), number 39 Rua Barata Salgueiro (the number dates from 1897, and it was from the eponymous landowner that Alberto António de Morais Carvalho bought, in 1885, the plot now occupied by the Cinemateca) was purchased by the Portuguese state in 1979 as a home for the Cinemateca Nacional, as it was then known. In 1980 it was renamed the Cinemateca Portuguesa and invested with financial and administrative autonomy under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture (Secretary of State for Culture in 79-80).
Inside, the premises were refurbished and a cinema was built in the grounds to the rear of the house, but the façade and floor plan of the original building remained unchanged. It is now one of the last houses still standing on Rua Barata Salgueiro, a street which as late as the 1960s was still almost entirely residential.
The new cinema was inaugurated in September 1980. In January 1981, Manuel Félix Ribeiro - director of the Cinemateca since 1949 - and his staff of twenty-odd helpers left their former base in São Pedro de Alcântara (headquarters of the Instituto Português de Cinema, of which the Cinemateca was a department between 1973 and 1980) and took up residence in their new home.
This new home was done out in the mudejar-revival fashion so beloved of the late 19th century, with magnificently-worked stuccoes, floral motives and ceiling frescoes depicting scenes from mythology. The former dwelling of Morais Carvalho, leader of the controlling Regeneration faction in the upper chamber of the Portuguese parliament at the time of the earliest cinema screenings by the Animatographo Rousby in the Real Colyseu, Rua da Palma (1896), became a cinema in 1981. Arabesques and cusped arches, cupids and muses looked on. A Thousand and One Nights had passed, and now the house was a cinema.
Twenty-two years have elapsed since then - twenty-one since the inauguration of our new premises in January 1982, one of the last official acts presided over by Félix Ribeiro, who died a few months later.
The Cinemateca has grown, and multiplied. One cinema burned down (April 1981) and another rose from its ashes (September 1982). The acquisition of Quinta da Cerca in Freixial at the close of the decade marked the beginning of the saga of the construction of our Archive, which was finally inaugurated in 1995. In 1997, the Cinemateca finally gained legal status as a museum.
There were twenty-seven of us in 1981 and there are eighty-one of us today, some sixty of whom work in the house on Rua Barata Salgueiro. In recent years, there has been room for nothing or nobody.
We needed new projection and viewing facilities. The attic and basement offered potential. We needed a real museum area, room for pictures from past and present to move in. We needed new public areas. The solution was to add an extension to the 19th-century building - with a new look but the same spirit.
Finally, in 1998, we gained planning permission for an audacious extension plan by architects Alberto Castro Nunes and António Maria Braga. Work began in February 2001 and lasted until October 2002. In December 2002, we returned home.
The original house has been fully restored to its former splendour. Two basement cinemas have been built, plus a museum area (The 39 Steps), the best projection room in Lisbon, permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, new storage areas, new archives, a restaurant, and a bookshop.
The Cinemateca is no longer an administrative building with a cinema tacked onto it. Now, from its cellars to its cupolas, it's a meeting place. All we need now is to open the last of its seven seals and continue onwards to the museum we've always dreamed of.
And when that museum exists, time and space will come together in a meeting of image and imagination, a perpetual ebb and flow of beginnings and returns.
Deputy Director: Pedro Mexia
Rua Barata Salgueiro, 39
1269-059 Lisbon
Tel: 21 359 62 00
Fax: 21 352 31 80
Email: cinemateca@cinemateca.pt
There's no place like the Inn at Otter Crest. Here you will find an oceanfront resort hotel wth 35 acres of pristine forested and landscaped grounds, striking ocean views, nature trails, tide pools teeming with life and our own Otter Crest Beach with its ever-present Harbor Seals.
Our family friendly accommodations vary from single rooms to two-bedroom suites, all with private ocean view balconies and the sounds and scents of the ocean. The suites are complete with fireplaces, full kitchens and dining room tables - perfect for your family's vacation.
The Inn is nestled into an oceanside forest with acres of ancient trees, ferns, shrubs and native plants. Here you will find the best of Oregon's famous coastline with its spectacular rock formations, wild surf and pristine beaches.
While staying at the Inn you’ll find that many of the Oregon coast’s wonders are within walking distance. Every day our resident Harbor Seals perch on the rocks and can be viewed from many of our rooms as well as our front lawn. Whale watching at the Inn has become a popular year-around attraction since our part of the coast seems to have attracted several resident whales.
Harbor Seals
Trail to Beach
The Otter Crest tide pools are considered to be some of Oregon’s most prolific and are accessible at low tide every day. The Inn’s private stairway leads to the beach and tide pools. Otter Crest Beach is a popular place to pick up many colored pebbles and agates. A stroll southward from the stairs takes you past a small waterfall to the cave entrance of the Devil’s Punchbowl, a natural formation that can be entered at low tide.
Oceanfront Swimming Pool
Childrens Playground
Located on the Inn’s 35 acres is a landscaped children’s playground, an acre-sized grass lawn for yard games and events, a large heated outdoor swimming pool with adjoining Jacuzzi and two saunas, an outdoor tennis court, a picnic area with barbeques, and a nature preserve with ancient trees.
Old Growth Spruce
Nature Preserve
A 10 minute walk through our preserve takes you to Beverly Beach and the village of Otter Rock. Beverly Beach is a wide and pristine beach that extends from Otter Rock for 5 uninterrupted miles to the Yaquina Head light house. Surfers are present almost every day near the Otter Rock access. And it’s a great place to fly a kite.
Fun on Beverly Beach
Beverly Beach Treasures
Beverly Beach is thought to be one of the best places along the coast to pick up agates and fossils. About 15 million years ago many forms of shelled creatures were buried in the sandstone that is now exposed as cliffs along the beach. This winter an ancient stump washed in and lodged just below the Devil’s Punchbowl State Park. The snapshot shown here was taken in May. Another stump is on display at the Beverly Beach State Park about a mile south. It was carbon dated as being 4,200 years old.
Whale Watching
Ancient Stump
In Otter Rock is the Devil’s Punchbowl State Park with views into the Punchbowl, a collapsed sea cave. Whale watching is popular here and official whale watch stations are set up during the major whale migrations.
Flying Dutchman Fall Wine Grape Crush
Award Winning Wine
Otter Rock is home to the country’s western-most winery. Established in 1997 this small winery has gained national recognition for their unique method of fermenting their wines under the ocean’s salt spray. The Flying Dutchman Winery is open every day from 11 am to 6 pm during the summer months and 11 am to 5 pm the remainder of the year. Reservations for tours and barrel tasting can be made by calling 541-765-2553. See dutchmanwinery.com for more information.
Also in Otter Rock is an Oregon Coast icon, Mo’s Seafood Restaurant. Known for their chowder, Mo’s has been delighting seafood aficionados for many years.
Perhaps the most photographed attraction on the entire Oregon Coast is JoAnn’s 1934 Dodge Ice Cream and Espresso Truck. She, too, is an Otter Rock icon serving up lattes, espresso, ice cream and her ever present smile.
INN AT OTTER CREST 1-800-452-2101
Owned by Rosie O'Grady's in Pensacola, FL, here's a 1929 Ahrens-Fox firetruck ... automatic with a 1960 Corvette engine. It hums like a lullabye and handles like a well trained husband.
You can create your own elephant art or wall art using these wooden printing blocks carved from India. Here at Colouricious we have been block printing to make progress on our elephant designed quilt. To see more on these wooden printing blocks for textile printing go to www.colouricious.com/shop/craft-ideas-elephants
Owned by: City of Oxnard Envionmental Services
Chassis: Autocar Xpeditor WX-64
Body manufacturer: Bridgeport
Type of truck: Automated Side Loader
Unit number: 06106
Addition notes: CNG
Location of photo: Oxnard CA.
It is the weekend. Again.
And with Jools suffering a relapse in her chesty cough, we slept late and I said I'd go to Tesco first thing, before coffee, and she could get dressed in her own time.
So I grabbed my coat, the shopping bags and shopping list, put them in the car and drove to Tesco. First up was to fill the car with petrol, then drive round to park up, get a trolley and head into the store, grabbing a scanner on the way in.
Apart from the weekly things, I got some stuffing mix and more blocks of butter for Christmas. Meaning that apart from the fruit and veg and milk, we are all abut done here.
Yay us.
Back home for coffee, unload the car and put shopping away, before finally having breakfast 1 of fruit then bacon butties and brews for breakfast 2.
That's better.
The plan for the day was for some local churchcrawling. After some internet research I had the name of the keyholder at Bekesbourne, I called but was told she was out but would be back "soon". OK, in which case we would visit some other nearby churches and go there last.
Not far to Barham from Chez Jelltex, just along the A2, overtaking lorries and slow cars until we turned off at Wootton, down past the filling station and into Barham, stopping on the road beside the church.
Barham is always open, I thought, no worries here. As I got out all my camera gear and lugged it over the road and through the churchyard.
Round on the north side, we arrive at the porch and I find the door is locked after all. No news of a keyholder, but next week there is a coffee morning. If we feel OK after our COVID booster, we might go along.
Its a short drive along the Elham Valley to Bridge. And yes there is really a place called Bridge, and it does have a bridge. A bridge in Bridge, which takes the old Watling Street and high road over the bed of the Nailbourne.
Bridge never lets us down. And indeed it was open, door ajar, and soon a warden came and put all the lights on so snapping was easier. I'd not missed much on previous visits, but with a new-ish lens, it was always worth in redoing shots. I did have the big lens with me, great for details of carvings and in stained glass windows, which I photograph enthusiastically.
From Bridge, its a five minute drive to Patrixbourne.
I wanted to come back here to take close up details of the Tympanum and rose window from the outside, so it wasn't too much of a loss that the door was locked after all.
So, I set about getting my shots and rattle off a couple of hundred.
Back to the car, and next village along is Bekesbourne, where I had called earlier. The keyholder lives in a "large while building opposite the church", the website said. Yes, it's a palace.
An actual palace.
So, there was scruffy me shambling up the large door, ringing the bell and asking if the church keyholder was in.
She wasn't.
And her husband wasn't too keen on letting me have it.
Now I know how to get it, there'll be plenty of other times.
I leave, but on the way back to the main road, a large Audi passes us, and pretty much the only place she could be going was the palace: should we go back?
No, there'll be other times.
We head home, back along the A2, but calling in at Jen's to do some admin. That done it was back home, all back by one, and ready for some more World Cup action from the sofa.
Lunch was pizza and beer, done in ten minutes and easy as anything, so the main task of the day was to fight my heavy eyelids that threatened to send me to sleep.
Argentina beat Mexico in a bad tempered game, then France beat Denmark 2-1, by which time it was nine and time for bed.
Phew.
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LOCATION: Situated on Upper Chalk (just above the Nailbourne floodplain) at about 90 feet above O.D. with the main Roman road to Dover immediately to the north-east. Bridge Place is about a ¼ mile to the south-west, and its mother-church of Patrixbourne is about ¾ miles to the north-east. Canterbury is just under 3 miles to the north-west.
DESCRIPTION: Unfortunately the church was disastrously over-restored in 1859 by Scott (John Newman, B.O.E. (N.E. and Kent 3rd ed. 1983), 159, says it was 'done with grotesque insensitivity'). However, with the help of Glynne's description (of 1846), and various early 19th century views, as well as the few surviving medieval features, it is possible to work out something of the architectural history. Externally it has been completely refaced with heavy knapped flint, and Bathstone dressings, but the core of all the main walls, except the Vestry on the north-east and the tower stair-turret must be medieval. The west end of the north aisle also appears to have been extended westwards in 1859.
There had been an earlier small-scale repewing in 1836, followed by a restoration by Scott in 1857. The complete rebuilding took place in 1859-60, with most of the money coming from Mrs Gregory of Bridge Hill.
From the surviving remains, there is no doubt that the nave, chancel, south aisle and tower-base all date from the 12th century. It is also possible that the nave itself dates from the late 11th century, but there is no visible evidence for this. The west doorway to the nave is of a mid- to later 12th century date, and unlike virtually everything else on the outside of the church was not totally renewed in 1859. There is a decorated round-headed archway with water-leaf capitals, and much original Caenstone survives. The internal north jamb to the doorway is also mostly of original diagonally-tooled Caenstone blocks. On the north-east side of the chancel is a round-headed (c. mid-12th century) window, which was unblocked in 1859. Glynne in 1846 refers to two 'closed' windows on the north side of the chancel, and 'on the south a fine doorway and two windows, now closed; the former has fine chevron mouldings'. This doorway was reset on the east side of the north-east vestry in 1859, but its fine chevroned arch, over scalloped capitals, is still visible as an entrance to the vestry lobby. The south aisle and south-west tower seem to have been added in the later 12th century. The arcade had already gone by 1846, but part of a respond (with nook-shafts) still survives at the extreme east end. Just beyond this, in the east wall, a fragment of the north jamb of a 12th century window survives. This south aisle had a low southwall until 1859, and its steep-pitched roof continued the line of the main nave roof. The tower at the west end of this aisle has 1859 round-headed arches, on the north and east in a 'decorated Romanesque' style (? designed by Scott). Glynne tells us that originally they were 'very rude semicircular arches'. The south and east windows into the ground floor of the tower may be based on earlier 12th century ones.
During the earlier 13th century, a north transept chapel and north aisle were added. Glynne tells us that 'the north aisle is very low and narrow, divided from the nave by three rude pointed arches with large wall piers having no capitals or impost mouldings'. The pointed arches survive, though a fourth has been added on the west, as well as three extraordinary double piers. The eastern respond is mostly original, however, with bar-stopped chamfers. Another original arch (with bar-stopped chamfers) divides the north aisle from the north-east transept chapel. Glynne also says that there was a lancet at the west end of this aisle. The north-east chapel still has a pair of original lancets on the north (restored externally), and earlier there was apparently a hagioscope from this chapel into the chancel. The upper stage of the tower may be 13th century.
The one later medieval feature that survives is the 3-light early perpendicular window in the west wall of the nave. This too still contains quite a lot of original masonry, and may date from the late 14th century. The 2-light east window, now rebuilt, was probably early 14th century ('poor Middle Pointed' according to Glynne). The early 19th century views show a pair of two-light late perpendicular windows with square hoods on the south side of the chancel.
The chancel still contains some early 16th century fittings, and a roodloft was documented as being made in 1522 (see below). On the north side of the sanctuary are two low rectangular niches which contain the two halves of the effigy for Macobus Kasey (ob. 1512). Above and just to the west of this is some relief sculpture (also ? early 16th century) in a tympanum panel. Was this set originally inside a 12th century doorway? Above this is an early 17th century painting of Robert Bargrave (ob. 1649). On the chancel south wall (at the west end) are fragments of a relief memorial to a vicar, Malcolm Ramsey (ob. 1538). He was vicar of Patrixbourne and Bridge for 44 years. These include part of an inscription.
The tower appears to have been given brick south-east and south-west buttresses in the 17th or 18th century. These were removed in 1859 when a south-east stair-turret was added to the tower. This was apparently restored in 1891.
BUILDING MATERIALS: (Incl. old plaster, paintings, glass, tiles etc.): Virtually the whole of the church has Bathstone dressings, with heavy knapped flint on the exterior. Some 12th century and later Caenstone does, however, survive.
EXCEPTIONAL MONUMENTS IN CHURCH: - see above
CHURCHYARD AND ENVIRONS:
Size, Shape: Large Rectangular area around with church, but with the north-east side cut off by the main (Roman) road to Dover (Bridge Hill). Large new extension to the south - ? Late 19th century.
Condition: Good
Apparent extent of burial: Burial in churchyard from at least 1474.
Boundary walls: To road on north-east, with gateway with brick piers and iron arch.
Ecological potential: ? Yes - many fastigiate yews (and other trees) in southern part of churchyard.
HISTORICAL RECORD (where known):
Earliest ref. to church: 13th century.
Late med. status: Vicarage (with Patrixbourne).
Patron: Goes with Patrixbourne church to which it was a chapel. After the Reformation, the patron was the owner of nearby Bifrons.
Other documentary sources: Hasted IX (1800), 289-290. Test. Cant. (E. Kent, 1907), 35-6 mentions the Holy Cross (Rood) light, as well as lights of Our Lady, St. Nicholas, St. Erasmus, the Trinity, St. Loye, St. Trunion, as well as St. Peter (? in the chancel). The Eastern Sepulchre mentioned in 1535, and 'the painting of the High Cross in the Roodloft in 1504 - also 'to the making of the Roodloft, 1522'.
SURVIVAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS:
Inside present church: ? Good, except under east end of south aisle, where there is a sunken boiler house.
Outside present church: Good, but perhaps disturbed by the 1859 refacing and rebuilding.
Quinquennial inspection (date\architect): MAY 1993 A. CLAGUE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ASSESSMENT:
The church and churchyard: A 12th century nave, chancel, south aisle and south-west tower base, with an added earlier 13th century north aisle and north-east transept chapel, which was very heavily restored and refaced externally in 1859-60.
The wider context: One of a group of medieval parish churches, which was technically only a chapel-of-ease (to Patrixbourne, in this case).
REFERENCES: For the vicars, see W.A. Scott Roberton 'Patricksbourne church, and Bifrons' Arch. Cant. 14 (1882), 169-184. (A list of vicars, by T.S. Frampton (1900) is on the S.W. side of the nave). S.R. Glynne Churches of Kent (1877), 131-2 (he visited in 1846).
Plans and early drawings: Petrie view from S.W. in 1807, and views from S.W. and S. in 1828 in Victoria and Albert Museum. Also view of church from S.W. in oil (? early 19th cent.) and Watercolour of church from S.E. (June 1869) in the vestry and plan of graveyard (new part) in 1942 (also in vestry).
DATE VISITED: 21st February 1994 REPORT BY: Tim Tatton-Brown
www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/BRI.htm
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BRIDGE
LIES the next adjoining parish to Patrixborne southward, being written in old deeds, Bregge, and taking its name from the bridge, which was antiently over the stream which crosses it. This parish was in early times so considerable, as to give name both to the hundred and deanry in which it is situated.
IT IS SITUATED about two miles and an half eastward of Canterbury, on the high Dover road, formerly the Roman Watling-street way, which appears high and entire almost throughout it; in the valley on this road stands the village of Bridge, with the church and vicarage in it, a low moist situation, the bourn or stream of the Little Stour crossing it under a stone bridge, built a few years ago by the contributions of the neighbouring gentlemen. At a small distance southward is Bridge place, now inhabited by lady Yates, widow of the late judge Yates, and of Dr. Thomas, late bishop of Rochester. The hills, form which there is a most pleasing prospect, are wholly chalk, as are in general the other upland parts of it, towards the south especially, where the country is very barren, with heathy ground and woodland, and much covered with stones. In this part of the parish is Gosley wood, once belonging to St. Augustine's monastery, afterwards granted to Thomas Colepeper, esq. It belongs now to Mr. Beckingham.
The MANOR OF BLACKMANSBURY, alias BRIDGE, claims over the greatest part of it, and the manor of Patrixborne over that part of this parish on the north side of the Dover road. There are two boroughs in it, viz. of Blackmansbury and of Bridge.
The MANOR OF BLACKMANSBURY, alias BRIDGE, was parcel of the possessions of the abbey of St. Augustine, belonging to the sacristie, as appears by the registers of it, in which frequent mention is made of this manor, with the free tenants belonging to it, in Honpit, Rede, and Blackmansbury. In which state this manor continued till the suppression of the abbey in the 30th year of king Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, (fn. 1) where it remained till the 36th year of that reign, when this manor, with divers lands in Houndpit and Blackmanbury, was granted to Henry Laurence, to hold in capite by knight's service, and he that year held a court here; and in his descendants it continued till the 18th of queen Elizabeth's reign, when it was alienated by fine levied, by John Laurence, to William Partherich, esq. whose arms were, Vaire, argent and sable, on a chief of the second, three roses of the first. His grandson Sir Edward Partherich, of this place, passed it away in 1638 to Sir Arnold Braems, descended of a family originally out of Flanders, where his ancestors were opulent merchants. Jacob Braems, his ancestor, was of Dover, merchant, and built the great house now the Custom house there, where he resided. Sir Arnold Braems above-mentioned, bore for his arms, Sable, on a chief, argent, a demi lion Tampant, gules. He built a spacious and magnificent mansion on the scite of the antient court-lodge here, which he named BRIDGE-PLACE, in which he afterwards resided, as did his son Walter Braems, esq. till his death in 1692; but the great cost of building this seat so impoverished the estate, that his heirs, about the year 1704, were obliged to part with it, which they did by sale to John Taylor, esq. of Bisrons, who soon afterwards pulled down the greatest part of this mansion, leaving only one wing of it standing, the size and stateliness of which being of itself full sufficient for a gentleman's residence, cannot but give an idea of the grandeur of the whole building when entire. He died in 1729, since which this manor and seat has continued in his descendants, in like manner as Bisrons abovedescribed, down to his great-grandson Edward Taylor, esq. the present possessor of them. There is not any court held for this manor.
BEREACRE, now called Greatand Little Barakers is another manor in this parish, which in the 21st year of king Edward I. was in the possession of Walter de Kancia, as appears by an inquisition taken that year, at his decease; not long after which it has passed into a family of its own name. After this name was become extinct here, it came into the possession of the Litchfields, who owned much land about Eastry, Tilmanstone, and Betshanger, and in this name it continued till the 22d year of Edward IV. and then Roger Litchfield passed it away to Richard Haut, whose only daughter and heir Margery carried it in marriage to William Isaac, esq. of Patrixborne, from whose descendant Edward Isaac, about the latter end of king Henry VIII. it was sold to Petyt and Weekes, who joined in the sale of it to Naylor, of Renville, from which name it was alienated to Smith and Watkins; after which it was conveyed by sale to John Taylor, esq. of Bisrons, in whose descendants it has continued down to Edward Taylor, esq. the present owner of it.
Charities.
SIR HENRY PALMER, of Bekesborne, by will in 1611, gave 10s. to be yearly paid out of his manor of Well-court, towards the relief of the poor of it.
The poor constantly relieved are about eighteen, casually the same.
BRIDGE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of its own name.
¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, consists of three isles, a high chancel, and a north sept or chancel in the middle of the north isle. It has a spire steeple at the south-east corner, in which are three bells. In the high chancel, within the altar-rails, is a monument for Jane, second daughter of Walter Harslete, of Bekesborne, first wife of Sir Arnold Braems, ob 1635, and lies buried in St. Mary's church, in Dover; and for Elizabeth, (second daughter of Sir Dudley Diggs) his second wife, obt. 1645, and lies in the middle of this chancel. Against the north wall is a painted portrait of Robert Bargrave, gent. of Bridge, obt. 1649. Under a circular arch in the same wall are two rows of small imagery, carved in stone, the uppermost repre santing God the Father, with several figures on each side; the lower one, figures taken from the history of the Old Testament. Underneath these, in the hollow of the wall, is the figure of a man lying at full length, in robes, with his two hands joined and uplifted, having on his head seemingly a full perriwig. A memorial for John Hardy, esq. of Bridge-place, obt. 1779. On the east side of the south window is a hollow in the wall, and under it an inscription for Macobus Kasey, vicar of Patrixborne, obt. m.v.c.i.xii. and of his being vicar there xxi years. On the opposite side of the window is carved the figure of a scull, with a snake entering in at one eye, and the end of it out at the other, and a hand with a finger pointing up to it, as if it had been the cause of the person's death, and several bones are interspersed about it. The north chancel is made use of for a school, by voluntary contributions. On the south side of the chancel is a circular arched door-way, with Saxon ornaments. In the register are many entries, from the year 1580 to 1660, of the family of Bargrave, alias Bargar, residents in this parish, and one for Thomas, son of John Cheney, gent. who died in 1620.
The church of Bridge, which is a vicarage, was always esteemed as a chapel to the church of Patrixborne, and as such is included in the valuation of that vicarage in the king's books, the vicar of which is instituted and inducted into that vicarage, with the chapel of Bridge annexed to it. (fn. 2)
The parsonage of this parish therefore, as an appendage to that of Patrixborne, is the property of Edward Taylor, esq. of Bifrons. In 1588 here were eightynine communicants, in 1640 one hundred and twenty.
Ruru was a small village that had it's own railway station. The trains go quickly past this old shed now.
Format: Lysbilde i farge, positiv
Dato / Date: Oktober 1986
Fotograf / Photographer: Ukjent
Sted / Place: Ilsvikveien 28, Trondheim
Eier / Owner Institution: Trondheim byarkiv, The Municipal Archives of Trondheim
Arkivreferanse / Archive reference: A2S2B5 F23364
Merknad: Fra Byantikvarens lysbildesamling.
Ilsvika (Ølsvika, av fjordnavnet Ylir, gen. Ylis, som kommer av varm, altså 'den lune vika'), Ilsvikveien 28, gnr. 417/1, landsted ved Trondheimsfjorden og arvefesteplass i Trondheims Bymark, en km vest for utløpet av Ilaelva. Stedet var den mest omtalte og også den mest attraktive av plassene i Bymarka. Dette skyldtes beliggenheten ved sjøen, de fine bygningene og hageanlegget og muligheten for næringsdrift, med bl.a. god og rikelig jord, Ilsvikens laksevarp og nærhet til Ilaelva.
Ilsvika oppstod 1660, da Boye Petersen fikk privilegium på å anlegge et møllebruk ved Ilaelva og samtidig fikk utvist en del av byens takmark. Etter hans død overtok enken og etter henne Jens Schive, som 1681 fikk eiendomsrett til plassen for seg og sine arvinger. Skipsfarten var på denne tiden i fremgang og Schive hevdet at dette var ødeleggende for laksefisket og han krevde som kompensasjon mer jord som lå til Bymarka. Dette ble innvilget. 1730 fantes det i Ilsvika en enetasjes trefløyet bygning med hage mot nord og vest.
1752 overtok kjøpmann, kammerråd Hilmar Meincke eiendommen. Han oppførte omkring 1760 den nåværende hovedbygningen, med tre fløyer og fasade med midtark mot fjorden. Dessuten utvidet Meincke eiendommen ytterligere, på Bymarkas bekostning. Sønnen Henrik Meincke bygde ut parkanlegget, som faren hadde begynt. Dette ble en av de fineste lystgårdsparkene ved Trondheim. Parken var terrassert, og ved sjøen lå et lysthus med mansardtak. Fra dette førte en allé opp til hovedbygningens hovedinngang, som lå i midtaksen på huset. Fra 1828 tilhørte Ilsvika frøken Catharina Meincke, som 1835 solgte den til kemner Hans N. Ellefsen.
Ellefsen solgte den 1872 til kommunen, som var spesielt interessert i havnerettighetene, men som også hadde behov for å ha et sted hvor de kunne isolere folk med smittsomme sykdommer. Etter at kommunen hadde overtatt Ilsvika, ble bygningene derfor først brukt som koppelasarett, men etter hvert som vaksineringen fjernet koppeepidemiene, ble huset benyttet som isolat for personer som var smittet av andre smittsomme sykdommer. En difteriepidemi brøt ut 1889 og satte seg fast i byens fattigstrøk. Ilsvika ble da tatt i bruk som difterilasarett, en funksjon som stedet hadde til 1907. Hovedbygningen ble 1910 igjen tatt i bruk som bolighus og ombygd til 9 mindre leiligheter. Under den annen verdenskrig ble eiendommen benyttet som kaserne for tyske offiserer.
Hovedbygningen er et midtgangshus med kvadratiske stuer på begge sider og mindre rom innenfor. Bygningen har fløyer mot sør og avrundet trappehus tilbygd på gårdssiden. Fasaden mot sjøen har vakre pilastre og toløpet trapp opp til en plattform. Huset har saltak med kobbhus og høy, gjennomgående midtark, tekt med svartglassert teglstein. Bygningen er laftet med stående panel i to etasjer, og fløyene i en etasje, med murte partier ved gjennomkjøringen i sidefløyene. Innvendig var enkelte av stuene prydet med arkitekturmalerier av J. C. C. Michaelsen. Tre av disse finnes i dag i Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum.
Atkomsten til Ilsvika var tidligere via en lang allé fra øst, langs sjøen. Foran hovedfløyen i nord lå hagen, som bestod av to høye, smale terrasser nærmest huset, deretter to lavere, brede terrasser, forbundet med aksiale trapper. Hagen var prydet med alleer og springvann. Terrassen nede ved sjøen hadde en utvidelse i husets midtakse, hvor det lå et lysthus. I Ellefsens eiertid forfalt hageanlegget.
Ute i sjøen utenfor lå Prins Frederiks batteri, som var utnyttet som en del av anlegget. Ved fjorden nedenfor Ilsvika lå det i mellomkrigstiden en populær badeplass.
Bygningene ble oppusset utvendig i 1970-årene og ligger i dag omgitt av industri- og boligbebyggelse. Ilsvika ble fredet i 1941, men fredningen ble opphevet i 1962, da det var planer om å benytte området til industriformål. Det ble imidlertid ikke noe av den prosjekterte ødeleggelsen, og anlegget ble fredet på nytt 1966. Ilsvika ble restaurert 1989 - 92 i regi av Miljøpakke Trondheim.
Også de gjenværende parkarealene er istandsatt 2005.
Kilde: Bratberg, Terje: Trondheim Byleksikon (Oslo 2008)
I love the addition of the Employee Owned logo on the cab nose. What a perfect touch. Thank you, Bailey Lauerman!
Having owned the 2008 Kona Sutra for ten months, and just completed the first chain/cassette replacement, I thought it was about time for a long term review, to give other people an idea of what living with the Sutra has been like. My previous post explains why I chose the Sutra - I came up with what I thought was an impossibly eclectic list of requirements from a bicycle, and the Sutra ticked every single box.
Here's some specs, for the statophiles out there: Frame size C54cm Frame tubing Dedacciai COM 12.5 Butted Cromoly Fork Kona P2 700c TB Disc w/Lowrider Headset TH Crankarms FSA Gossamer MegaExo Chainrings 30/39/50 B/B FSA MegaExo Pedals Shimano PD-M520 SPD - Silver Chain Shimano HG53 --> Shimano HG93 XT Freewheel Shimano Deore (11-32, 9 Spd) --> Shimano XT M760 (11-32, 9spd) F/D Shimano Tiagra Triple R/D Shimano XT Shadow Shifters Shimano Bar-Con Handlebar FSA RD30 0S Stem FSA OS-190LX Grips Velo Wrap with Gel Brakes Avid BB7 Road Disc Brake Levers Shimano BLR-600 Front Hub Shimano M525 Disc Rear Hub Shimano M525 Disc Spokes DT Stainless 14g Tires Continental Contact 700 x 32C --> Schwalbe Marathon Plus 700x38c Rims Mavic A 317 Disc Saddle Selle Italia XO SE --> Brooks B17 Seatpost FSA SL-280 Seat Clamp Kona Clamp Rear Rack Tubus Logo Panniers Bikebins Computer Sigma DTS 1606 L Fenders SKS Chromoplastic
My primary (i.e. 99% of the time) use of the Sutra has been for commuting. I have covered over 2700 miles (4500km) in the time I have owned it. My commuting route through London is pretty tough on bikes - the roads south of the Thames are awful and full of potholes, through the City there is broken glass all over the place, and further north of the river there are speedbumps everywhere. When I first got the Sutra she was wearing Continental Contact tyres, and they were pretty poor for commuting. They punctured easily and transmitted the bumpiness of the road right up into my forearms. Not much fun. After one puncture too many I replaced the tyres with Schwalbe Marathon Pluses, in their largest diameter, and the difference was marked. The increased volume of air provides a lot more cushioning for the arms, and I have not had a single puncture yet, despite having pulled 6mm long pieces of glass out of the tyre surfaces. The tyres are relatively heavy, but then so is the rest of the bike, and extra weight makes you stronger!
The original rear rack was pretty flimsy, and it did not allow the attachment of the Bikebin panniers I bought to try and add some rigidity. I ended up having to angle grind chunks out of the rack to fit the panniers, which can't have improved their structural integrity. After a month of experiencing the odd sensation of the bike wagging its tail whenever I stood up to pedal hard, I bit the bullet and upgraded the rack to a Tubus Logo. It was a tight fit with the rear disc brake, but the difference was immense. Gone was the sensation of a jelly-like bike, to be replaced by a sensation of rigid stability. Whilst the rack was expensive, it made all the difference, and I would highly recommend it.
Speaking of the brakes, they have saved my life on more than one occasion, usually when a Taxi decides to perform an emergency stop to pick up a fare. The brakes stop consistently in all conditions, and so far I have not had to replace the pads, althoguh I think it will be time to do it soon. Not bad considering I have travelled almost five thousand kilometres in all weathers in the stop-start conditions of London. I was concerned that the brakes might be too powerful, but the modulation provided by the levers and the flex in the arm of the brake means that whilst the power is there if necessary, you have a lot of control over it. There is some disc drag, but this is owing more to my laziness than the brakes themselves, and seems to have little impact on cruising speeds.
Using the bike in all conditions has been excellent. The all-over fenders (something I have never fitted to a bike previously) really keep the rain off and eliminate spray from the road. I had to saw a bit of the front fender off to fit it over the larger tyres, and a little bit off the rear for the same reason, but after the modification they have been flawless.
I had heard reports of spokes snapping, and nothing happened to me until recently, when I noticed a detached spoke whilst replacing the rear cassette. I had no idea how long the spoke had been damaged for, and replaced it myself. The rear wheel is slightly askew, but it does not foul on anything, which is good considering the small tolerance between it and the fender. To be fair, I have been jumping off kerbs and sometimes it is impossible to miss a massive hole in the road when you are in busy traffic. An upgrade I am considering is a stronger rear wheel, although it is not pressingly urgent.
The ride of the bike is super smooth, and certainly not anything like the road bikes I am used to. I use my other road bike for triathlons, and whilst it is a lot more nimble, it is much less comfortable. The Sutra is comfortable all day long, owing in no small part to the Brooks B17 saddle, which took about two thousand miles to properly break in! It was worth it though - sitting on the bike is like sitting in an armchair (albeit a very odd armchair, but an armchair nonetheless). I tend to cruise at about 20mph on her, and my 10.5 mile commute to work takes about 37 minutes. I have started seeking out hills in preparation for some touring of Wales, and the sutra certainly loves to climb. The aggressive, mountain-bike-like frame geometry no doubt assists in this, and is confidence inspiring when climbing and descending. The bar-con shifters were a novelty for me, but they make a lot of sense, especially if replacement shifters were needed on a tour. There are even bosses on the downtube to fit truly old-school shifters in an emergency.
The weight of the bike was a shock initially - weighing in at 15kgs without the accessories, she weighs significantly more than my Specialized Hardrock mountain bike, which is saying something! Over time I have become accustomed to the weight, and now it feels normal. The main advantage of this is that when I ride anything else, it feels super light and goes very rapidly. This makes this bike an ideal training steed.
In conclusion, I have found a lot to love about the Kona Sutra - she's tough, strong and surprisingly fast. There were some niggles about fitting add-ons, but they were all easy to overcome, and the result has been a reliable bike that I think will keep delivering for years.
This is the first one of a couple of photos I took on Bengts Nöjesfält when it was here in town. I'll add them over the next days and am also adding them to their own set.
I wish this one had been in focus, but I still like it as it is so here you go. :)
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Hire your very own Amsterdam Minion Bar Crawl!
There is nothing worse than turning up in an unfamiliar city and spending all night wandering the streets looking for somewhere suitable to have a few drinks. So, why not have your very own MINION show you way around? (Yes…It’s a real midget!) She wi...
The MOC (My Own Creation) is restored by LEGO for the Sungnyemum and Seoul old city wall.
The MOC was created 1/35 ratio to match the LEGO mini-figure size by BrickMaster lego club members(café.daum.net/brickmaster). Two BrickMaster designers(Brian Yu & Bong Jae Kim) took a month to finish the project with help of 20 participants. The designer put great effort on expressing the beautiful curves especially unique roof structure and its outstanding color that was common in traditional Korean architecture. Also the designers used actual pictures of the 1890s, customized the hanbok, Korean traditional cloth and accessories, to add realism for the diorama.
Namdaemun, officially known as the Sungnyemun(literally Gate of Exalted Ceremonies), is one of the Eight Gates in the Fortress Wall of HanYang(currently city of Seoul, The Republic of Korea) which surrounded the city in the Joseon Dynasty. The gate is located in Jung-gu between Seoul Station and Seoul City Plaza, with the historic 24-hour Namdaemun market next to the gate.
Sungnyemum was served as a main gate to the city of Hanyang, which was the capital of Joseon Dynasty(1392-1897). The gate is currently designated as the first national treasure of the republic of Korea. It was first built in the last year of King Taejo of Joseon's reign in 1398, and rebuilt in 1447, during the 29th year of King Sejong the Great of Joseon's reign. It was once one of the three major gateways through Seoul's city walls which had a stone circuit of 18.6 kilometres(11.5 miles) and stood up to 6.1 metres(20 ft) high. Seoul City wall was registered the potential candidate for World Heritage sites in 2012.
The MOC is permanent exhibition in the Seoul City Wall Museum(eng.museum.seoul.kr/eng/images/html/org/1172983_649.html).
2006 Dodge Charger R/T Daytona Review:
The 300C has been a certifiable hit for Chrysler, and it didn't take long for Dodge dealers to want their own reinterpretation of the classic American rear-drive sedan — the wagonlike Magnum notwithstanding.
So the company wasted little time going back to the drawing board to come up with the Charger — a design that sparked a bit of controversy because it has two more doors than the original muscle car. But for those who really understand the genre, the door count isn't as important as the overall shape. The new car is not as sleek as the 2000 concept of the same name, which also had four doors but shared the same so-called fuselage styling of the original.
The first photographs of the car didn't impress, but seeing it in the flesh, and especially in the striped and winged Daytona version, I must admit that it has grown on me. Particularly effective is the shark-nose front end, which adds much-needed attitude. In profile, the curvy haunches and taller greenhouse recall mid-1950s' Chevrolets. The Charger is actually taller and has a lower beltline than the pillbox-topped 300C, which further distinguishes the Dodge from the Chrysler.
The interior of the Charger is similar to the Magnum's, although a bit spiffed up with additional brightwork on the center-stack. The added chrome touches on the switches and the use of silver accents on uplevel models of the Charger play nicely against the large brushed-silver bezels around the instruments. The Daytona is particularly colorful thanks to a color-keyed console and stitching on the seat, wheel and shifter complementing the "Go Man Go" orange exterior paint (originally marketed in the 1970s with the un-PC name of "Catch Me If You Can Copper").
The Charger is available in four trim levels: SE and SXT, which are powered by the 250-bhp 3.5-liter V-6; and two R/T Hemi models, although the nomenclature gets a bit confusing. The base R/T has the 340-bhp 5.7-liter Hemi V-8. If you want larger 18-in. wheels and tires and the performance-tuned suspension, you must specify the Road/Track package on the R/T. That package comes standard on the Daytona R/T, which also has a throatier exhaust and 350 bhp that come from improved breathing.
The Road/Track perform-ance package has ride and handling characteristics very similar to those of the 300C SRT-8 (an SRT-8 version with the 425-bhp 6.1-liter V-8 is also expected by year's end in the Charger line, adding even more complexity to the Dodge order sheet). The ride is nicely damped and controlled with minimal body lean. The large 4-wheel disc brakes, with 13.6-in. front and 12.6-in. rear rotors, provide excellent stopping power.
The output provided by the 5.7-liter V-8 is a hoot to summon with your right foot. It spools up quickly with a nice exhaust rumble and the power is transferred to the rear wheels via a 5-speed automatic. Unlike the Magnum, there are no plans to offer the Charger with all-wheel drive at this time. The chassis is well balanced, and the power available allows you to hang the rear end out when the stability control is switched off, stepping out in a predictable and linear fashion. Simply lift the throttle and the back end tucks in neatly.
Generally, the steering is competent with good on-center feel. It's only when moving the wheel off center at speed that there comes a hint of vagueness, as if the system is a bit overboosted. Once you transition through this lightness, the steering begins to gain enough effort to reacquire feel.
The taller greenhouse of the Charger also makes the cabin feel a bit less claustrophobic than in either the 300C or the Magnum. And top-end models offer all the accouterments, from onboard navigation to Sirius satellite radio, that we've come to expect from this LX-series of rear-drive cars.
In keeping with Dodge's value image, the Charger Daytona, which will be offered in limited runs of 3000 each in Go Man Go (and later Top Banana yellow), stickers at $32,495, while base V-6 Chargers start at $22,995. While the cost is modest, the styling and performance of the Charger are anything but.
(Source: www.roadandtrack.com/car-reviews/first-drives/2006-dodge-...)
A supermoon is a full moon (or a new moon) that approximately coincides with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.
A long lens is a must for shooting the moon alone. The most obvious composition is the moon right in the center of the frame. This works well with at least 400 mm, or better 600 mm. A tripod is essential to avoid motion blurr and control the composition.
With shorter focal lengths, it's better include something on the frame as a tree brench or or a building. Another option is placing the moon out of center, as I did. High contrast is good to highlight the crater details.
Supermoon over Itajobi, Brazil.
November 14th, 2016.
Camera: Sony DSC-RX10.
Focal length: 200 mm (equivalent in 35 mm format), cropped in post.
No filter. Tripod mounted (Benro IT15).
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WM167 (G-LOSM) Armstrong Whitworth (Gloster) Meteor NF.11 owned and operated by Aviation Heritage Ltd.
Classic Air Force’s Gloster Meteor NF.11 is the only surviving Night Fighter Meteor left in airworthy condition and was one of the first privately owned jet fighters to operate in the UK.
WM167 was built under licence from Gloster by the Armstrong Whitworth Company at Baginton (Coventry) airport in 1952. It entered service with the RAF’s 228 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) at RAF Leeming, Yorkshire in August but after just a month she was passed to 33MU at RAF Colerne in Wiltshire for storage.
The aircraft returned to 228 OCU the following year and remained on charge with the unit until 1960 when she headed south to 33MU at Colerne yet again. Her stay was brief yet again as she was returned to Armstrong Whitworth in January 1961 for modification to TT.20 target towing configuration. Upon completed WM167 was allocated to the Aeroplane and Armaments Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire where she was used for target towing trials.
By now WM167 still only had 559 hours ‘on the clock’ and a quiet year at Boscombe Down only added another 20 hours to the logbooks. At the end of the trials exercise WM167 headed back to 33MU at Colerne yet again before being delivered to Flight Refuelling Ltd. The aircraft spent the next ten years towing targets under an MoD contract at both Tarrant Rushton in Dorset and Llanbedr in North Wales.
The aircraft was declared surplus in 1975 and purchased by well-known ‘warbird’ collector Doug Arnold for his Warbirds of Great Britain (WoGB) collection, which at that time was based at Blackbushe. She was ferried to Blackbushe on December 1, 1975 by the late-Neil Williams and converted back into NF.11 Night Fighter configuration before entering storage.
When the Arnold family sold Blackbushe in 1984 the WoGB collection needed to be moved and the simplest way to move WM167 was by air. By now a sale had been sale had been negotiated with Mike Carlton’s ‘Hunter One’ collection at Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport and the aircraft was registered to Carlton’s Brencham Group on June 8, 1984. The highly appropriate G-LOSM (GLOSter Meteor) was allocated to the aeroplane and it was ferried to Hurn a month later on July 6.
The aircraft operated successfully until Mike Carlton was killed in a flying accident whilst on holiday in Zimbabwe in August 1986. The Meteor, along with other jets belonging to Hunter One, was auctioned off by Christies on October 1, 1987 and remained at Hurn as part of LGH Aviation, which traded as Jet Heritage Ltd. The company later became Hunter Wing Ltd and Bournemouth Aviation Museum but G-LOSM was acquired by Air Atlantique in March 2004.
Over the years G-LOSM has featured in a variety of documentaries and has taken part in a number of important flights – including carrying the ashes of jet-engine designer Sir Frank Whittle. Today the aircraft remains airworthy at Coventry and is painted in a camouflage scheme typical of the Night Fighting Meteors of its day. It carries no squadron markings at present but depicted 141 Sqn for many years during the 1980s and 90s.
G-LOSM flies not only as a tribute the early jet pilots but also to those preservation pioneers who led the way in civilian jet fighter operations during the early 1980s.
This is not one of my own, but I print I picked up last week, there are about 40 which by the writing on the back were all taken by the same photographer. If you own the copyright to this please let me know and I will remove the image if you wish.
Here we have Western D1071 waiting to leave Paddington on the 20th of July 1975 on the 1B46 16.45 to Bristol.
This bike, covered with somebody's entire possessions in plastic bags was standing in a bus shelter near London's Leicester Square.
Public Domain Book: The baby's own Aesop
being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
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#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj`s Multilevel Marketing (MLM Meaning) success tips
Multilevel Marketing is a huge business. According to #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj, one of the most important things to ensure success in a MLM venture is to be genuine and ethical. He stresses the importance of strong character building while getting involved in this type of marketing. He lays emphasis on the need to develop a good value driven character. This he says can be attained either through one`s own efforts or by drawing inspiration through reading motivational books.
Some of the books suggested by him are ` Think and Grow Rich` by Napoleon Hill, `Rich Dad, and Poor Dad `by Robert Kiyosaki and also books by Zig Ziglar like `Born to Win`. Zig Ziglar is an American motivational speaker who has inspired thousands with exhortations to be positive and goal-oriented in order to achieve success through focused work. These books were suggested to #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj by his close friend, Vijay and it is only on reading such great books that he could change his way of thinking completely. These motivational self-help books introduced him to a new lease of life, filled him with positive thoughts, saturated him with tremendous energy, altered his thinking patterns to find success and abundance in life.
#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj didn’t stop here. He proceeded to read several more of these motivational books written by well known authors. One of the books that made him a highly moral person was `Truth Is`. These books made him do self- analysis, set goals, stay focused, do introspection, change his flaws and drawbacks, and guided him directly to a path of self mastery and ultimate victory.
Apart from character building, he also laid importance to professional appearance. He said that appearance is the first impression and this makes dressing very important.
#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj says that reading good motivational books taught him how to dress well and understand the importance of professional appearance in marketing. They also taught him how to achieve his goals. These books guided him how to groom his hair, face and what type of clothes to wear and footwear to choose in order to look best. In MLM type of business, one has to meet several new people every day. So he says, it paves way to show people good business opportunity. According to him, the right clothes during marketing help increase not only one`s own confidence but also helps increase the confidence of the potential customer in your abilities. He says that the prospective customer notices you first even before you start talking about money, success, change or growth. The customer begins to form an opinion of you even before you start the pitch. He therefore says that for salesmen, projecting the right appearance from the start is crucial. He always maintained that the `First Impression is the Last Impression`. He said to achieve that; the change should first begin from within. Even as a police officer, #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj was always honest and maintained highest standards of integrity. He also was known to have dressed impeccably adorned with good pair of shoes, well designed clothes. His dressing style was remarkable.
In MLM marketing field, #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj countered many untold challenges and struggles. As the saying of Swami Vivekananda goes ` A man without difficulties is not living at all`, M #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj faced innumerable disappointments in his marketing career that ultimately showed him the way of life and shaped him into a fine strong personality. Many times he had to face rejections from customers. Some people spoke ill of him too. It is at these moments, we have to keep our mind steadfast with unwavering faith in our abilities, unshaken by external factors says
M #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj. Such a mindset must be cultivated to see success, he emphatically says.
At the same time, one has to understand the truth `No pain, No gain`. He always advised that efforts are important to achieve one`s goals and enjoy success. Without taking efforts, victory will always remain elusive, he adds. He spent time to become fit and energetic with various exercise workouts to get a six pack body. He dedicated time and energy to achieve his fitness goals.
#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj`s success formula for life
Life is filled with ups and downs. It is not an easy path. Whatever work we do, we must excel in it, he advises. To become a millionaire, you will face obstacles. But they must be overcome with an indomitable will, guides#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj. The strong thought, `I will definitely become a millionaire ` should always be affirmed in the conscious and the sub conscious mind by constantly repeating to oneself is most vital for achievement of goals and success, he says.
His father always used to instill rich thoughts of prosperity in his mind until his last breath by telling him, `Son, you must become a millionaire`. It was his father`s positive thoughts that paved way for his success in life. He always valued his father`s words and heeded his advice in every step of his life. He understood the greatness of the wise words of his loving father, to which he faithfully abided.
Those who wish to attain a good position in life should not only work but work endlessly with untiring efforts, he says. Firstly, he guides us to ask these three questions, in other words, frame these questions in our mind. .
•What is that I want to become?
•What am I going to do to achieve this?
•What is the height I am going to reach?
For goal setting in order to become a rich person, you must fix a time frame to achieve this goal. Within how many years or months, you are going to take to achieve this goal – such thoughts should be framed in the conscious mind, he says. What type of work you are going to do in order to achieve the goal of becoming rich. He points out three steps to achieve these goals.
Short Term, Mid Term, Long Term
Take for example, he says, if you sell ten rupees pen, you are going to get two rupees as commission. So, how many pens you are going to sell in order to earn a million. This should be the question in your mind. To sell so many pens, how many years or months is it going to take?. All these questions must be in the mind and must be calculated. He tells, if you think you can`t earn a million by selling just pens, then change your job or else forget your thought of becoming a millionaire. If you have decided to earn million, you must decide how many million you want to make, whether you want to make one million or ten million. This should be clear in your mind, he advises. After setting the amount, one must draw a suitable plan and work towards the goal with hard efforts. However, goal setting must be practical and within attainable limits, he adds. You must also weigh whether your job or the kind of work you do, will help you achieve your goal.
Goals alone must stay in your mind and nothing else must dominate your mind, says#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj. Your efforts must be directed in the achievement of your goals always, he advises. Thoughts must be positive. Only then will actions become positive. Only if actions are positive and strong, can success be reaped, says the talented speaker. Every day, you must affirm to yourself, that you are going to see success, you are going to become rich, he says. He strongly advocates self- confidence in the achievement of victory. Faith in oneself, belief in the power of personal victory, enjoyment of abundance is our birthright – These are his views which he strongly believes that can take one to the path of success.
#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj`s Social Work
Malaysia is a Southeastern Asian country that is multiracial, with many different ethnic groups living in the country. These include Malays, Chinese, Indians, Arabs, whites and other groups. In his organization,#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj works extensively to improve the lives of people irrespective of race, color or religion. In this multiracial setup, all children are imparted knowledge and awareness on various social evils like drugs without any bias from this selfless human being, Mr. #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj. His organization is dedicated in rendering social services through education to children along with tradition and he is the founder member of such an organization.
In order to raise socially aware children, M#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj worked hard to spread awareness on human trafficking, prostitution, corruption. Besides raising awareness on such issues, he also spoke to children about history and imparted general knowledge of the world around.
His younger brother, Mr. Madurai Pillai is the head of the organization. He runs this organization through the guidance of his elder brother, M#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj. Emmanuel along with his brother and other active members toil tirelessly by giving their time, energy and money to work towards the upliftment of socially deprived downtrodden children.
Building Social Awareness on Prostitution
The growing evil of prostitution does not affect women alone, it extends to men too. It is not only harmful for girls, but for boys as well. In order to spread awareness of sex trafficking and prostitution, M#DatoEmmanuelErwinraj decided to start from the grassroots. In order to bring an end to child sex trafficking, he decided to educate them. The more knowledge one has about what child sex trafficking is, the better prepared and equipped one is to stop it, he felt. He understood that children need protection especially girls from predatory criminals who turn the vulnerability and desperation of their victims into big business. Girls who have no idea about what prostitution is, are easily absorbed into this business. If girls are educated on such matters, they can become empowered to handle such issues when confronted with and can save themselves from such forceful sexual exploitation, he decided. Some women are forced into such acts or abuse at some point of their lives due to the lack of such knowledge. Girls and children should be taught warning signs of sex abuse like any touching them inappropriately, talking vulgar or sexual topics, showing pornographic material, seeing them in a bad manner, expressing unusual interest in them that is not age appropriate, spending time alone with them. When girls or women are undergoing such situations and if they are aware that they are being abused, it will be an empowering for them to come out of such vicious cycle. Girls must be taught the boundaries of their interaction with a male in order to protect themselves of sexual abuse, he felt.
Apart from sex abuse in women, society faces the problem of gays among men and transgenders. Philippines has a record number of transgenders in its soil. In this country, many men get their sex changed to a female. Women too undergo change as males. The most affected by such phenomena are the young adolescents. If young children both boys and girls are given such education on sex in their early stages of learning, then they will be empowered to fight the challenges and protect themselves of any sex abuse when faced by them, he felt. If they are not made aware of such happenings, then these young adolescents will go searching for answers to their lurking questions in their mind that arises at the growing phases of their lives. As a result, many get sexually abused or assaulted at some stages of their lives, he felt. #DatoEmmanuelErwinraj sole concern is to protect children of sex abuse and create awareness on prostitution in the young children`s mind through education on such matters. He felt knowledge alone can be an empowering factor to make the children grow as socially aware beings. He on his part strived hard to create awareness on such issues among children through his social services rendered through means of education.
IF you’ve always longed to be king of your own castle but also want to stay in Adelaide, here’s your chance — all that’s missing is a moat.
A two-storey home on Gorge Rd at Paracombe in the Adelaide Hills, designed to look like a castle and with a fitout to match, has hit the market for the first time.
Vendor April Ling, who started building the home in 2000 and completed it 10 years later, said the style was chosen to match the location.
“We built it from scratch. When we bought it, it was just a vacant piece of land,” she said.
“I thought being in the lower Adelaide Hills, it suited the environment and using the local stone, it blended in well.”
The property has five bedrooms in the main building set over two floors, as well as two kitchens, a home theatre with a bar, a billiard room, a conservatory and a balcony, as well as a detached self-contained apartment.
It is covered in features traditional to castles, including gargoyles, ornate ceilings, stained-glass windows and battlements, and also has modern features such as ducted airconditioning and vacuuming, modern appliances and built-in TVs.
The home also has curtains in the dining room and living room made from fabric from a unique source.
“I ordered fabric from a place in England. They didn’t have any stock of what I wanted (but) they called me back and said if I don’t mind they have fabric already cut and put aside for Princess Diana,” Ms Ling said.
“It’s a really unique fabric, they didn’t know if that would put me off ... but I was a huge fan and said I would love to have it.”
Ms Ling says the home’s location in the outer northeastern suburbs feels like the countryside but is still close to the city.
“It is quite close, it is only 20km to the city, it is far enough away to enjoy the country lifestyle without being too far away,” she said.
“A lot of people have asked about the moat, maybe the new owners can put one in.”
Toop & Toop sales consultant Troy Tyndall, who is selling the property, said he has never seen a home like it in South Australia.
“It is only built in 2000 but it feels like it is 400 years old,” he said.
“The whole house is automated, there’s a ‘good night’ button next to the bed that turns off all of the lights, sets the alarm, and secures it.
“There’s a huge amount of marble and mahogany, the detail in the timberwork is crazy.”
While built as a residence, Mr Tyndall said the home could have several different uses.
“It has a commercial-grade kitchen with a dumbwaiter and a standard kitchen, you could run a business if you wanted to ... you could run a bed and breakfast, or a wine-tasting place,” he said.
“When you drive through those gates, you are back in Macbeth’s day. It is incredible.”
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Ever since he started building cars under his own name, Ettore Bugatti dreamed of creating the ultimate, no compromise luxury car. To that end, he started the development of an eight cylinder engine in 1913 and wrote in great detail about his ambitions in a letter to his friend Espanet. The project was cut short by the outbreak of war throughout Europe. Bugatti redesigned the engine and was used in the war to power airplanes. With peace returned to Europe, Bugatti continued to produce the four cylinder engined cars that had proven so popular before the war.
A first sign of things to come was an experimental eight cylinder engined chassis shown at various motor shows in 1921. The displacement of the production version was just two litres, which was far short of what would be required to build Bugatti's dream machine. In both road (Type 30) and competition (Type 35), the new eight cylinder engine was very successful, freeing up resources for what was referred to as the 'Golden Bug'. In 1926 Ettore Bugatti revealed his plans for a fifteen litre engined luxury car. It would eclipse the best the likes of Rolls-Royce had to offer and was targeted at the very richest of customers and in particular royals, giving the Golden Bug its more familiar 'Royale' nickname.
Although displacing well over seven times more than the Type 30/35 eight cylinder engines, the engine in the Type 41 followed the same design, just at a completely different scale. The in-line engine had a block cast in one piece with an integral cylinder, measuring a staggering 1.4 metres in length. Actuated by a single overhead, each cylinder featured three vertically mounted valves; two intake and exhaust. The dry-sump engine was fed by just one Bugatti designed Carburetor and sported two plugs per cylinder. The prototype engine had the promised displacement of around 15 litres, but for the subsequent production cars a slightly smaller displacement of 12.8 litre was chosen.
To allow room for the absolutely massive engine, Bugatti constructed a chassis with a wheelbase of 4.3 metres. Like most Bugatti's chassis, the Type 41's was a highly conventional ladder frame, suspended by live axles front a rear. At the front semi-elliptic leaf springs were fitted while the rear suspension featured the traditional Bugatti reversed quarter elliptic leaf springs. Operated by cables, the drum brakes followed the cars massive dimensions with a diameter of 18 inches. As with the successful racing cars, the one-piece aluminium wheels doubled as brake drums. While the Type 41 chassis was not the most advanced available, the meticulous finish was absolutely fantastic.
Equipped with a place-holder Packard body, the first chassis was completed in 1927. Despite its exceptional dimensions, the Royale impressed by its road holding capabilities and fabulously quiet ride. Ettore Bugatti had certainly succeeded in building the ultimate luxury car, but now came the difficult part; finding customers. The biggest obstruction was the high price Bugatti asked for the car. At the 1932 Olympia Show in London one of the chassis was offered for a staggering £6,500, which was twice as much as a the most expensive Rolls Royce.
Eventually only five additional Royales were constructed, which was well short of the 25 car run Bugatti had quietly hoped for. Only four of these found an owner; the first and last car produced remained in the hands of the Bugatti family for many years. Ironically none of the Royale's owners were royals and to this date none of the six Type 41s has ever been owned by a royal. Bugatti did manage to turn a profit out of the project by selling Type 41 engines to a train manufacturer. With the subsequent Type 46, 50 and 57 models, Bugatti did manage to conquer the luxury market.
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It is the weekend. Again.
And with Jools suffering a relapse in her chesty cough, we slept late and I said I'd go to Tesco first thing, before coffee, and she could get dressed in her own time.
So I grabbed my coat, the shopping bags and shopping list, put them in the car and drove to Tesco. First up was to fill the car with petrol, then drive round to park up, get a trolley and head into the store, grabbing a scanner on the way in.
Apart from the weekly things, I got some stuffing mix and more blocks of butter for Christmas. Meaning that apart from the fruit and veg and milk, we are all abut done here.
Yay us.
Back home for coffee, unload the car and put shopping away, before finally having breakfast 1 of fruit then bacon butties and brews for breakfast 2.
That's better.
The plan for the day was for some local churchcrawling. After some internet research I had the name of the keyholder at Bekesbourne, I called but was told she was out but would be back "soon". OK, in which case we would visit some other nearby churches and go there last.
Not far to Barham from Chez Jelltex, just along the A2, overtaking lorries and slow cars until we turned off at Wootton, down past the filling station and into Barham, stopping on the road beside the church.
Barham is always open, I thought, no worries here. As I got out all my camera gear and lugged it over the road and through the churchyard.
Round on the north side, we arrive at the porch and I find the door is locked after all. No news of a keyholder, but next week there is a coffee morning. If we feel OK after our COVID booster, we might go along.
Its a short drive along the Elham Valley to Bridge. And yes there is really a place called Bridge, and it does have a bridge. A bridge in Bridge, which takes the old Watling Street and high road over the bed of the Nailbourne.
Bridge never lets us down. And indeed it was open, door ajar, and soon a warden came and put all the lights on so snapping was easier. I'd not missed much on previous visits, but with a new-ish lens, it was always worth in redoing shots. I did have the big lens with me, great for details of carvings and in stained glass windows, which I photograph enthusiastically.
From Bridge, its a five minute drive to Patrixbourne.
I wanted to come back here to take close up details of the Tympanum and rose window from the outside, so it wasn't too much of a loss that the door was locked after all.
The rose window here is of the same design as at Barfrestone, so wanted to follow up the detailed shots of the one there and do the same at Patrixbourne.
So, I set about getting my shots and rattle off a couple of hundred.
Back to the car, and next village along is Bekesbourne, where I had called earlier. The keyholder lives in a "large while building opposite the church", the website said. Yes, it's a palace.
An actual palace.
So, there was scruffy me shambling up the large door, ringing the bell and asking if the church keyholder was in.
She wasn't.
And her husband wasn't too keen on letting me have it.
Now I know how to get it, there'll be plenty of other times.
I leave, but on the way back to the main road, a large Audi passes us, and pretty much the only place she could be going was the palace: should we go back?
No, there'll be other times.
We head home, back along the A2, but calling in at Jen's to do some admin. That done it was back home, all back by one, and ready for some more World Cup action from the sofa.
Lunch was pizza and beer, done in ten minutes and easy as anything, so the main task of the day was to fight my heavy eyelids that threatened to send me to sleep.
Argentina beat Mexico in a bad tempered game, then France beat Denmark 2-1, by which time it was nine and time for bed.
Phew.
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A charming village church with a greater number of interesting furnishings than is usual in this part of the county. There are twelfth-century window openings in the chancel, whilst a lavish south doorway tells of an extremely wealthy medieval church. Next to it are the remains of eight mass dials - which must be a record! Inside the south, or Bifrons, chapel is separated from the aisle by a screen and steps and there is a plain hagioscope to the chancel. Many mural tablets catch the eye and tell of the long association with the village of the Conyngham family. However, it is the stained glass which really deserves our attention at Patrixbourne. Set among very basic nineteenth-century glass are many panels of seventeenth-century Swiss origin, including scenes of the Garden of Gethsemane, St Elizabeth of Hungary and the Raising of Lazarus. With the exception of Temple Ewell. this is the largest collection of pictorial Swiss glass in a Kent church. By way of contrast, the north aisle displays an excellent twentieth-century window by G.C. Abbs.
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PATRIXBORNE
IS situated the next parish southward from Bekesborne last-described. It is called in Domesday, Borne, which name it took from the bourn or stream which runs through it; and it was afterwards called Patrixborne, to distinguish it from the neighbouring parishes of Borne, situated on the same stream. There are two boroughs in this parish, viz. of Marten, alias Cheney, and of Patrixborne.
The PARISH is pleasantly situated in a fine healthy country; the bourn or stream of the Little Stour runs through this parish, close to it in the valley is the village, with the church, court-lodge, and vicarage near together, the latter a neat genteel habitation; opposite to them is a house called Heart-hall, formerly belonging to the family of Sabine, or Savin, but now to Mr. Taylor, of Bifrons. The upper, or north part of the village, is in the parish of Bekesborne, in which is a house, formerly the residence of the Coppins, now the property of Mr. Milles, of Nackington; and further on, one formerly owned by the Pordages, and afterwards by Mr. Litheridge. Eastward this parish extends up the hill, over the high downs, to within one field of Ileden, and from the village southward, across the Dover road, to a wild hilly country, as far as Whitehill wood, part of which is within this parish. It is well cloathed with trees along the valley, where the soil is fertile, especially towards Hoath, for both hops and corn, but the hill parts round the outskirts, are in general poor chalky land, covered with stones. There is no fair.
AT THE TIME of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1084, this parish was chiefly owned by Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the general title of whose lands it is thus described in that survey;
In Brige hundred, Richard, son of William, holds of the bishop, Borne. It was taxed at six sulings. The arable land is eight carucates. In demesne there are three carucates, and forty-four villeins, with three borderers having ten carucates. There is a church, and one servant, and four mills of sixteen shillings and eight pence. A fishery of six-pence. Pasiure, of which the foreign tenants have plougbed six acres of land. Wood for the pannage of four hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth eighteen pounds, when be received it ten pounds, now nineteen pounds.
Four years after the taking of this survey, the bishop was disgraced, and this manor, among the rest of his possessions, escheated to the crown. After which it appears to have been divided into moieties, one of which, called afterwards THE MANOR OF PARTIXBORNE MERTON, was held by Margerie de Bornes, who carried it in marriage to John de Pratellis, or De Pratis, as he was sometimes written, a Norman, who soon after the year 1200, gave it to his new-erected priory of Beaulieu, or De Bello loco, in Normandy, to which it afterwards became an alien cell. (fn. 1) In which state this manor continued till the 11th year of king Henry IV. when it was, with the king's licence, alienated to the priory of the same order of Augustine canons of Merton, in Surry, whence it acquired the name of Patrixborne Merton; and with this priory it remained till the suppression of it by the act of the 31st of king Henry VIII. when this manor coming into the hands of the crown, was granted that year, together with the rectory and advowson of the vicarage of Patrixborne, and all liberties, free-warren, &c. to Sir Thomas Cheney, to hold to him and his heirs male in capite, as of the castle of Rochester. After which, king Edward VI. by new letters patent, in his 4th year, regranted the whole of them, to hold to him and his heirs for ever. He was succeeded in it by his only son Henry Cheney, esq. afterwards lord Cheney; (fn. 2) and he soon afterwards alienated it to Sir Thomas Herbert, who in the 21st year of that reign sold it to Thomas Smith, who passed it away before the end of the same reign to William Partherich, and his grandson Sir Edward Partherich, of Bridge, alienated it in 1638 to Mr. afterwards Sir Arnold Braems, of that parish, the heirs of whose son Walter Braems, sold it in 1704 to John Taylor, esq. of Bifrons, in this parish, in whose descendants it continued down to Edward Taylor, esq.' the present possessor of this manor, with the rectory and advowson of the church of Patrixborne.
The OTHER MOIETY of the manor of Patrixborne, called afterwards THE MANOR OF PATRIXBORNE CHENEY, after the bishop's disgrace, came into the possession of the family of Say, in which it continued till Sir William de Say, in Henry III.'s reign, gave it to Sir Alexander de Cheney. He afterwards resided here, whence it gained the name of Patrixborne Cheney; but his son William having married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Robert de Shurland, of Shurland, in Shepey, removed afterwards thither. After which it remained in his descendants down to Sir T. Cheney, K. G. of Shurland, who having obtained from Henry VIII. in his 31st year, a grant of the other moiety of the manor of Patrixborne, as above-mentioned, became possessed of the whole of this manor, which, notwithstanding, continued as two separate manors, in both which he was succeeded by his son Henry Cheney, (afterwards created lord Cheney, of Tuddington) who in the beginning of that reign alienated them to Sir Thomas Herbert. Since which they both remained in the same succession of ownership, as has already been mentioned before, in the description of the manor of Patrixborne Merton, down to Edward Taylor, esq. the present possessor of both these manors; which appear now to be united, as one court only is held for both of them, stiled, the court leet and court baron of the manors of Patrixborne Merton and Cheney.
BIFRONS is a seat in this parish, situated at a small distance westward from the church, which was originally built by Mr. John Bargar, or Bargrave, whose ancestors were originally of the adjcining parish of Bridge. Robert Bargrave, of Bridge, died in 1600, leaving a numerous issue; of whom John, the eldest son, was the builder of Bifrons, and Isaac, the sixth, was dean of Canterbury, and ancestor of Isaac Bargrave, esq. of Eastry, where further mention will be made of him. They bore for their arms, Argent, on a pale, gules, a sword with the point upwards, the pomel, or, on a chief, azure, three bezants. His grandson John Bargrave, esq. sold it in 1662 to Sir Arthur Slingsby, knight and baronet, descended of a younger branch of the Slingsbys, of Scriven, in Yorkshire, and created a baronet at Brussells in 1657; his arms were, Gules, a chevron, between two leopards faces, in chief, and a bugle born, in base, argent. His son and heir Sir Charles Slingsby, bart. in 1677, alienated it to Mr. Thomas Baker, merchant, of London, (fn. 3) on whose death it came to Mr. William Whotton, gent. of London, and he in 1680 passed it away to Thomas Adrian, esq. who kept his shrievalty here in 1690. He alienated it in 1694 to John Taylor, esq. the son of Nathaniel Taylor, barrister at law, descended of a family at Wlitchurch, in Salop, whose arms were, Gules, three roses, argent, a chief chequy, argent and sable. He died in 1729, leaving four sons and four daughters. Of the former, Brook, the eldest, was LL.D. and F. R. S. a learned and ingenious gentleman, who, among other treatises, wrote one on perspective. He died in 1731, leaving an only daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir William Young, bart. Herbert, in holy orders, of whom hereafter; Charles, a merchant at Moscow; and Bridges. Of the daughters, Mary died unmarried, at Bridge-place, in 1771, and Olive married John Bowtell, D. D. vicar of Patrixborne. The eldest son Dr. Brook Taylor succeeded his father in this seat, but dying without male issue in 1731, his next brother the Rev. Herbert Taylor became possessed of it, and resided here. He died in 1763, leaving by Mary, one of the daughters of Edward Wake, clerk, prebendary of Canterbury, and first-cousin to the archbishop, two sons, Herbert and Edward, the eldest of whom succeeded him in this seat, with his other estates in this county, but dying unmarried in 1767, his brother, the Rev. Edward Taylor, succeeded him in it, and afterwards rebuilt, nearly on the old scite, this seat of Bifrons, so called from its double front, and the builder of it, in commendation of his wife, placed this motto on the fore front: Diruta ædificat uxor bona, ædificata diruit mala. It was a handsome spacious house, the front of which had a very grand and venerable appearance. He died in 1798, leaving by Margaret his wife, daughter of Thomas Turner Payler, esq. of Ileden, who died at Brussells in 1780, four sons and three daughters, of whom Edward, the eldest, is a captain in the Romney fencible dragoons; Herbert is a captain likewise in the army, private secretary, and aid de camp to the duke of York; Brook is private secretary to the secretary of state for foreign affairs; and Bridges, the youngest, is a lieutenant in the navy. Of the daughters, the eldest, Mary Elizabeth married Edward-Wilbraham Bootle, esq. M. P. Charlotte married the Rev. Mr. Northey, and Margaret. Edward Taylor, esq. the esdest son, succeeded on his father's death to this seat, and continues owner of it.
HODE, now usually called Hothe, and Hothe-house, in this parish, was antiently part of the possessions of the family of Isaac, who bore for their arms, Sable, a bend, in the sinister point, a leopard's head, or; one of whom, John Isaac, held it in the 20th year of king Edward III. His descendant Edward Isaac had his lands disgavelled by the act of 31 Henry VIII. and his descendant of the same name, at length leaving only three daughters his coheirs, this estate went in marriage by Jane, his only daughter by his first wife, first to Martin Sidley, esq. of Great Chart, and secondly to Sir Henry Palmer, of Howlets, who by his will in 1611, gave it to his son in-law Sir Isaac Sidley, bart. and he conveyed his right in it to his brother-inlaw Sir Henry Palmer, from whose descendant it went by sale to Merriweather, and Edward Merriweather, about the year 1680, alienated it to Thomas Adrian, gent. who conveyed it, with Bifrons and other estates in this parish, in 1694, to John Taylor, esq. in whose descendants it has, in like manner, continued down to Edward Taylor, esq. the present possessor of it.
RENVILLE is a manor, in this parish, which formerly belonged to owners of the name of Crippen, one of whom, Thomas Crippen, died possessed of it in the beginning of king James I.'s reign, leaving an only daughter and heir Joane, who carried it in marriage to Robert Naylor, gent. whose arms were,Argent, on a bend, sable, three covered cups of the field, their rims, or. His son John, about the year 1638, sold it to William Kingley, S. T. P. archdeacon of Canterbury, who left a numerous issue, of whom George, the eldest son, succeeded to this estate, whose only son William died in 1701, leaving William, of whom mention will be made hereafter; and Anthony, who was ancestor of Thomas Pincke Kingsley, gent. now of London. From William Kingsley, esq. the eldest son, this estate came down at length to his grandson lieutenant general William Kingsley, who resided at Maidstone, where he died in 1769 unmarried, and bequeathed this manor by will to his first-cousin Mr. Charles Kingsley, of London, for his life, (fn. 4) on whose death in 1785, it came by the entail of the above will to his second son Mr. Thomas Pincke Kingsley, now of London, who is the present possessor of it.
HIGHAM is another manor, for it was formerly so accounted, though it has long since lost the reputation of having been one, situated at the boundary of this parish, upon the high grounds, at a small distance from the northern side of Barham-downs. It was antiently owned by a family of the same name, one of whom, Nicholas, son of William de Higham, by a deed of the 13th year of king Edward III. to which his seal is appendant, viz. a lion passant regardant, between six crosses formee, fitchee, appears to have held it at that time, together with the manor of Northington, in the hundred of Downhamford, not far distant. Not long after which it passed into the name of Bourne, and afterwards of Haut, of the adjoining parish of Bishopsborne, in which it remained till at length Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir William Haut, of Bishopsborne, carried it in marriage to Thomas Colepeper, esq. of Bedgbury, and he, in the 34th year of king Henry VIII. alienated it to Sir Anthony Aucher, in whose descendants it continued down to Sir Hewit Aucher, bart. who dying in 1726, s. p. by his will gave it to his sister Elizabeth, who entitled her husband John Corbet, LL. D. of Salop, to the possession of it. He left five daughters his coheirs, viz. Katherine, married to Stephen Beckingham; Elizabeth to Thomas Denward; Frances, to Sir William Hardres, bart. Antonina, to Ignatius Geohagan; and Hannah, to William Hougham, who became on his death jointly entitled to it. After which, Ignatius Geohagan, esq. before-mentioned, about the year 1768, built the present seat, called HIGHAM PLACE, and resided in it for some time, and then alienated his fifth part of it, as did the heirs of Katherine, Elizabeth, and Hannah, who were before deceased, their respective fifth parts, about 1781, to James Hallet, esq. who now resides in it, and has since purchased the remaining fifth part of the heirs of Frances, widow of Sir William Hardres, bart. who died in 1783. (fn. 5)
Charities.
SIR HENRY PALMER, of Bekesborne, by will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to be yearly paid out of his manor of Well-court, towards the relief of the poor of this parish, and he left the like som towards the relief of the poor of several of the neighbouring parishes, none of which has ever been paid to them.
The poor constantly maintained are about eight, casually 12.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, consists of one middle and two smaller side isles, a high and a south chancel, having a spire steeple on the south side, in which there is only one bell. This church is but small. It seems very antient. The pillars in it are very large and clumsy, and the arches circular. In the middle isle are several memorials of the Dennes, of this parish. The south chancel, formerly called the Isaac, but now the Bifrons chancel, as belonging to that seat, is covered with pews. In it are monuments for the Taylors, of Bifrons. At the entrance a memorial for John Bargrave, builder of Bifrons. In the north isle, in a window, are the arms of Fogge. Under the steeple, on the south side, is a fine arched doorway, circular, ornamented with much carvework and emblematical figures of Saxon architecture, much like that at Barfriston, (of which a plate is given in Grose's Antiquities, vol. i. præf. p. 66); and a smaller one on the south side of the high chancel, of a similar sort, over which is a small stone figure, having on its head, seemingly, a crown, and head-dress on each side hanging down, with its hands listed up as if having had something between them, perhaps for the virgin and child; but it is so corroded by time, that what it was meant for, can only be guessed at. At the east end of the chancel is a small circular window, of different compartments, like that at Bartriston. In the west part of the church-yard, are tombs for James De Roussell, esq. a truly good and worthy man, obt. 1775, and Elizabeth his wife; and for John Bowtell, D. D. vicar of Patrixborne, and Olive his wife; and one for Mrs. Mary Taylor, who died in 1771.
¶The church of Patrixborne, with the chapel of Bridge annexed, was given and appropriated to the priory of Merton, in Surry, as early as the year 1258, anno 43 Henry III. on condition that three canons should reside, for the performance of all parochial duties; and if the profits increased, more should be sent for that purpose. (fn. 6) In which state this church continued till the dissolution of the priory, by the act of the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it came, together with the manor of Patrixborne Merton, belonging to the priory, into the king's hands, who granted both that year to Sir Thomas Cheney. Since which they have passed, in the same tract of ownership as has been already related before, in the description of that manor, down to Edward Taylor, esq. the present owner of the appropriation and advowson of the vicarage of this church, with the chapel of Bridge annexed.
It is, with the chapel of Bridge, valued in the king's books at 5l. 7s. 3½d. and the yearly tenths at 10s. 8¾d. In 1578 here were thirty-nine communicants. In 1640 it was valued at fixty pounds, communicants fifty.
This shot had its own bokeh, which was pretty, but I enhanced it which brought out some different tones to the pic. It wasn't a very flattering shot, as many are not these days without a whole lot of work! Just the wrong angle, or as in the case with this shot, an HDR filter in post processing to bring up detail adds details I'd rather NOT see, and out comes the wrinkle remover tool, airbrush, or whatever I need to help it out a bit.
I liked the original pic, but I think the enhanced version is more interesting, even if it brought up a lot of skin flaws. IPiccy has an advanced HDR filter that I like. It really enhances a lot of shots, bringing out colors and detail that the originals don't reflect, but it can be tricky as the noise created by the treatment takes a lot of patience to remove, mostly because it's not everywhere- just in dark areas, and right where you don't want it, like on skin. Once you get the hang of adjusting for all that, though, you can make any pic a more detailed, HDR-like version. Scenics really benefit, and despite the necessary corrections, portraits do, too. It can give the piece a much more artistic flair.
This set is based on an image of the cobbled road to an old fishing village on the North Devon coast. The village, Clovelly, is privately owned and has been made into a tourist attraction. This small cobbled street is the only way down to the village and cars cannot use it. The locals drage their good around on improvised sleds...
I was attracted to the blue of the cobbles and their regular pattern. The cobbles originally came from the beach.
There are eight versions here - rather a lot I am afraid but I have been working on them for a month or so every now and again. Here are the processing notes:
I - Based on one of my own presets in Topaz Studio 2 (TS2). I like the textural look added in the stones.
II - TS2 based on the Ghostly Natural preset. This is one of my favourite versions for its abstract watercolour look.
III - Nik Analog Efex for the double exposure look. Curious.
IV - This is a more interesting version, at least to make. There are two layers here. The bottom layer is a straight Nik SIlver Efex mono and the top layer is a colour version with Box Blur used on it, and blended with Difference mode. Easy to do and an interesting haloed result.
The combination of a blurred version and a plain version is as old as photographic processing - it was used for all sorts of creative effects not least Unsharp Mask sharpening (the unsharp bit is the blurred layer superimposed on the original - the technique originally used film). I have an old creative darkroom techniques book and the idea that creative processing only arrived with digital programs is a complete myth.
V - This is another experiment. I used the TS2 preset Electrify which creates lines from the splines of curves in the image. The novelty here was that I only used the effect at reduced opacity and left some of the original to come through. I like the result - it reminds me a bit about how we perceive images in terms of curves and lines. This one is for Sliders Sunday.
VI - The regular lines make this an interesting image for mirroring. This is a straightforward 4-mirror distort in Affinity.
VII - TS2 again based on another preset I made for another picture. This is another subtle one adding a glass window effect in the stones. As the lines go the other way from the cobbles it creates a sense of balance.
VIII - This one is using Nik Color Efex, solarising in mono and then using a bicolor filter to get the colour gradient. Strongly sharpened with High Pass sharpening. One of my favourites, I think - almost pen and ink.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment of variant I. The commentary is the same for all.
Do let me know if you like any of these. They’re not the most interesting, I fear, but it was a fun play :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)