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Sending things by post makes me happy. It has been that way for decades, and I imagine it always will. I’ve had good news to share, these past few weeks, and while I’ve done some texting and a bit of emailing, with most of my friends, I’ve shared that news via post. I’ve enjoyed writing down my joys onto a card and sending it across the city, the country, the ocean; I’ve enjoyed imagining people reading that letter and sharing in my joy, as well.
The Holme Posts, Holme Fen, Cambridgeshire. May 23, 2019.
The Holme Posts record the amount of peat wastage that has taken place in this part of the Fens since the nearby Whittlesea Mere was drained in the mid-19th century. The cast iron post on the right is thought to have replaced one of three oak piles that were driven into the peat here sometime around 1848. No contemporary record of its erection remains, but it is believed to have been sometime around 1852. Originally, its top was level with the ground surface (the pyramid capping was added in the 1980's), with its base firmly embedded in the gault clay. As the peat dried out and the ground surface dropped, more and more of the post became exposed, and steel guys were added to stabilise it in 1957. A second post was erected at the same time 6.35m NE of the original, and incorporates an Ordnance Survey bench mark, together with small plaques to mark the ground level at various dates from 1848 onwards.
Today, the Holme Posts are popularly cited as marking the lowest point in mainland Britain, approximately 2.5m below sea level, or roughly where the guys are attached to the original column. Whether or not they mark the precise lowest point is debatable, though there is no doubt that it lies somewhere close by.
For anyone wanting to know more about the history and significance of the Holme Posts, one of the best accounts is given in a paper by J.N. Hutchinson, 'The Record of Peat Wastage in the East Anglian Fenlands at Holme Post, 1848-1978 A.D.', Journal of Ecology (1980), vol 68, p229-249.
Catalonian Shield on street post
Barcelona, Spain
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Here is a common place in HK , but now I just realised that here is something special... @Central
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Canon EOS 5DmkII + Mamiya Sekor 50mm F2
This wall seems like designed by Gaudi. (Of course it's NOT Gaudi's work.)
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20th FW Wing Command Post, Upper Heyford. Taken during an excellent tour with the UH Heritage folks.
Post apocalyptic me: While pursuing a basketball career a disease broke out. Turned humans into orc like creatures. Being the only survivor of his university beside his best friend Aaron who were both 21 at the time. He had to learn how to survive in this new version of our world. Surviving countless alien and horc (the humans turned into orc like creatures) attacks him and his friend Aaron live on a house on water. While In a fight he lost his right hand and replaced it with a robotic hand which he covered up with a boxing glove. Currently he is 29.
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Again big shout out to X MAN for the inspiration
Mercer County. Photo by J Gallagher, May 1978.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
All Saints, Tilney All Saints, Norfolk
One of the best of the Marshland churches, entirely a Lincolnshire church in character, of a piece with the likes of Gedney.
In 2005, I wrote: West Norfolk is flat, but without the haunting bleakness of neighbouring Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. To be honest, it is all a bit too suburban to be mysterious, and where there aren't bungalows there is an agro-industrial busy feeling. Tilney All Saints is unusual because it is actually rather a pretty village.
All Saints is another very big church with an absolutely massive tower. The building is delightfully sleepy; ramshackle, and looking as if it would rather not be bothered too much. It reminded me a bit of a cat I used to have. The spire is like the one at nearby Walsoken, but this is a move into Decorated, and is full of confidence.
Oddly, Pevsner refers to this as one of the C12-C13 Fenland churches with very long naves, built when the land was reclaimed from the sea. While it is certainly true that evidence survives of Roman sea defences to the north of here, and there is also evidence of late Saxon attempts to prevent tidal incursions locally on a small scale, it is extremely unlikely that the technology existed in early medieval England to reclaim land from the sea on such a large scale.
Pevsner is probably confusing the Norfolk marshland with the Cambridgeshire fens, which were successfully drained by the Dutch half a millennium later. Certainly, this area was once under water; but it is the rivers themselves that have turned it to land, by bringing silt down out of Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire, and building it up into banks at the river mouths. The estuary has slowly moved northwards, but this happened long before the 12th century. We may assume that this land was more vulnerable then to inundation than it is today, but that's all.
The clerestoried and aisled nave speak of a familiar East Anglian Perpendicular. The ivy on the north side is covering windows and working its way through the north door. You enter through the vestry, which is at the west end of the south aisle and originally had two stories, not dissimilar to Terrington St John. I wondered if it had been a Priest's residence, although later I was told that it is not medieval at all, and was a school room.
You step into a glorious wide open interior, full of light. It is similarly ramshackle to the outside, laid out under a fine angel hammer-beam roof. Gorgeous Norman arcades reveal the true age of this place (again, as at Walsoken) and stretch away to the east. The capitals increase in elaboration towards the chancel, and then, just before they disappear, they jump a century and become Early English pointed arches. Turning back, you see that they are matched by the breathtaking tower arch - this is very much a church where the presiding minister gets a good view.
There is a very curious font. At first sight it appears early 17th Century, and this is the date assigned it in Pevsner and elsewhere. Its panels include two scriptural quotations in Latin, and two in English from the Geneva Bible (one reads see, here is water: what doeth let me to be baptised). One of the other panels features a Tudor rose, Unless the font was commissioned in the eight years between James I coming to the throne in 1603 and the Authorised Version of the Bible being published in 1611, it may well actually be a late 16th Century font, an unusual thing. Slightly later is the screen, dated 1618 and turned and balustered as if for a staircase in a country house. The chancel itself is full of the sobriety of the early 17th century, quite at odds with the glorious arcades behind.
A war memorial window features St George and St Martin, and there is a good Queen Anne royal arms. An old font sits on the floor in the north aisle, along with some early medieval grave slabs.
Tilney All Saints is probably less well-known than its near neighbours at Walpole, Walsoken and Terrington; but I thought it was lovely, a subtle and gently beautiful place at peace with its parish.
These are mechs I might use for a series of creations I am making. The are all controlled via a super computer..or something. Anyways, enjoy :)
Naar Arnhem, bij het passeren van Oosterbeek; 29 juli 1983. De cabine heeft de (gele) deur van een plan T of V gekregen.
I beat it back out with a rubber mallet and some heat. This is a shot of the fender now, from a good angle.
Recently read an article about a bike packing trip in California that left me scratching my head. When it comes to access, always ask for permission especially if the land has been posted. Chances are, the landowner won't mind a cyclist riding through but if the answer is no, respect that request. More on the 44HQ Blog here: www.44bikes.com/trespassing/
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Photo by Jeremy Koreski (www.jeremykoreski.com).
The Kuppenheimer Clothing Company is known for having commissioned American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker to create hundreds of paintings to be used in their print ads.
[Note: By the mid-1990s, Kuppenheimer sales were lagging, many of its stores were closing, and it entered into bankruptcy. Kuppenheimer was purchased in 1997 by the Men's Warehouse suit retailer, who closed many more Kuppenheimer stores and eventually folded the Kuppenheimer business into its own.]