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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 3rd of November 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 8th of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Artist: James Coutts Crawford. Watercolour 165 x 254 mm. A-229-003. Alexander Turnbull Library
Published in FishHead magazine, December 2013
Here is Miramar in the mid-1840s, viewed from Lyall Bay, looking toward Mt Crawford in the distance. The lake and surrounding swamp covered much of what is Miramar now.
Early Maori inhabitants called the lake Rotokura. More recent arrivals from Taranaki called it Para, and began to stock it with eels from the Hutt Valley. When the European settlement of Wellington was established the lake was renamed Burnham water.
This sketch was done by James Coutts Crawford, a lively figure in early Wellington history, who then owned most of what you can see in his picture. Clearly he was a better businessman than he was an artist. That is his new farm house, Glendavar, up on the slopes of Mt Crawford in the distance.
Burnham water was picturesque, but it was taking up good farmland so, in 1847, soon after he did this drawing, Crawford commissioned New Zealand’s first tunnel, through the hills on the left, and drained most of it away. The surrounding fern and flax was turned into pasture and Miramar became a successful cattle and dairy farm.
Crawford always hoped that he could eventually make a further fortune through subdivision, but those plans were not so successful. After the lake was drained a new racecourse was opened nearby to try and bring the crowds. A local paper reported that opening day “was remarkably fine, and crowds of people visited Lyall’s Bay, in carts, on horseback and on foot, and several boats were employed carrying passengers.” But the racecourse was not a success. It was too sandy, windswept and remote.
It was not until the early 1900s, when trams made city commuting possible, that Miramar began to resemble the busy suburb we know today.
See other sketches of the Wellington region by Crawford
Wellingtonians: From the Turnbull Collections contains a selection of the entries from this Flickr set, and some new ones too. This high-quality publication costs just $29.99. You can pick it up at good bookshops or from the publisher, Steele Roberts.
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Published – A Telugu wedding in Wedding Vows Magazine
by anrb Tags: candid documentary, fine art, Photojournalistic, Published, Telegu wedding, wedding photography, Wedding Vows
Sanjay and Aamani’s telugu wedding that I shot recently has been featured in Wedding vows along with the write up detailing about the various rituals involved in a telugu wedding. Apart from catering the exclusive wedding market, what I really like about the magazine is the quality of the articles, the print, pictures and the paper used for printing. If you getting married anytime soon, I suggest you subscribe to this magazine. Here’s a little snippet of what to expect in the article.
Coloured engravings of heaths :
London :Published by the Author. Printed by T. Bensley,1802-09 [1830?]
OK, so only 'cos I entered a photo competition in Berkshire Life magazine. Winner of the National competition gets £5000.... Keep your fingers crossed for me.
Still - nice to see one's work (& ugly mug) in print.
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Opening-act di Soy Luna Live il 2 febbraio 2018 al Mediolanum Forum di Assago, Matteo Markus Bok.
Quello di Matteo Markus Bok è un nome che in Germania è già molto conosciuto e apprezzato e che, ne siamo certi, nei prossimi mesi inizierà a girare sempre più insistentemente anche nel nostro paese come vi abbiamo spiegato in questo editoriale.
Semplicità e spensieratezza dovrebbero essere tratti comuni per tutti i ragazzini di quell’età, anche se, purtroppo, spesso non è così, specialmente se si è già famosi, ricchi di impegni lavorativi e anche di responsabilità. E’ così però per Matteo, mamma italiana, papà tedesco, tredici anni e già tantissime esperienze alle spalle. La prima tra tutte è la partecipazione allo spettacolo teatrale The Lion King nel ruolo di Little Simba per il Teatro S. Carlo; a cui hanno fatto seguito i ruoli di Max in L’amico immaginario al Teatro San Babila, Peter Pan nell’omonimo musical al Teatro Litta e Benji in Priscilla – La regina del deserto al Teatro Manzoni e in Billy Elliot di Massimo Piparo. Attraverso queste prime esperienze Matteo capisce che il suo “gioco” preferito è la musica e inizia a studiare canto, chitarra e pianoforte per affinare le sue doti.
Dal 2014 al 2016 Matteo conduce gli episodi di Disney English in programmazione su Disney Channel Junior e nel 2011 partecipa a Sanremo Junior arrivando secondo esibendosi sulle note di I just can’t wait to be a king sul palco dell’Ariston con l’orchestra di Sanremo.
La grande svolta però arriva per lui in Germania grazie alla partecipazione a The Voice Kids Germany 2016, dove riscuote un grande successo conquistando il pubblico tedesco con le interpretazioni di Caruso di Lucio Dalla e di Breath easy/A Chi Mi Dice dei Blue. Dopo il programma è stato protagonista, nell’inverno del 2016, di un tour in Germania che lo ha visto calcare i palchi importanti di Francoforte (davanti 3500 persone), Stoccarda e dello Sparkassen Arena di Kiel, a nord di Amburgo, per terminare il 25 novembre con un’esibizione a Colonia in occasione del 14° Gala dell’UNICEF, unico italiano ad esibirsi su quel palco.
Partecipa a Italian's Got Talent nella primavera del 2017.
Aldous Huxley
Here's a thought from the pacifist Aldous Huxley (1894 to 1963):
"What is absurd and monstrous about war
is that men who have no personal quarrel
should be trained to murder one another
in cold blood".
The Postcard
The postcard is postally unused, and was published after the Great War, because on the back is printed the following:
"Six million acres of land in France have
been laid waste.
Two million people, driven out by the war,
are returning to rebuild their homes.
The British Committee of the French Red
Cross is giving them clothes, furniture,
seeds, implements and infant food".
The sub-text there is clearly a request for donations.
6 million acres is an enormous area. It is larger than the whole of Wales. It is equivalent to 2,428,114 hectares, or 9,372 square miles. To contain this area, you would need a square with sides 97 miles long.
Armentières
Armentières is famous for featuring in the WW1 song 'Mademoiselle from Armentières', AKA 'Hinky-Dinky-Parlay-Voo'. (Some authorities quote Pinky rather than Dinky. Another variation is 'Inky Pinky').
The tune of the song was popular in the French Army in the 1830's, and the original words told of an encounter between an inn-keeper's daughter and two German officers who had crossed the Rhine.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the tune was resurrected, and again in 1914 when the Old Contemptibles got to know of it.
Many of the WW1 lyrics were probably composed in Armentières in 1915 when the town served as a rest and recreation area for units coming out of the trench lines.
Here is one set of lyrics to the song:
'Mademoiselle from Armentières parlay-voo,
Mademoiselle from Armentières parlay-voo,
Mademoiselle from Armentières -
She hasn't been tamped for forty years,
Inky-pinky-parlay-voo.
Mademoiselle from Gay Paree parlay-voo,
Mademoiselle from Gay Paree parlay-voo,
Mademoiselle from Gay Paree -
Had the crabs and gave 'em to me,
Inky-pinky-parlay-voo.
The French they are a funny race parlay-voo,
The French they are a funny race parlay-voo,
The French they are a funny race -
They fight with their feet and f*** with their face,
Inky-pinky-parlay-voo".
And so on - there are many many more verses, most of which are on the Internet, and most of which you wouldn't want to sing to your granny.
The first verse was probably made up by a member of the Royal Artillery, because 'tamp' has a specialised meaning in the context of heavy weaponry - some artillery pieces had to be tamped with powdered explosive in a bag - this would be compressed, or tamped down into the barrel, and when ignited would propel the shell at high velocity towards the enemy.
The Reconstruction of Armentières
Reduced to rubble in the fighting, the town centre was redesigned after the Great War by the architect Louis-Marie
Cordonnier.
His regionalist ideas can be seen in many features
of the town, notably the design of the bell tower which adheres faithfully to the style of the Flemish Renaissance.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
I got some unexpected mail today. Several months ago, I received an email from one of the editors of Canadian Geographic. They were going through images from their photo club (where you submit images for their photo contests) looking for the best wildlife shots of the year. They asked me to submit a few hi-res shots.
I did and that was sort of the end of it as far as I can remember. Then I received this today! I was flabbergasted to find one of my images in the magazine among a collection of some truly stunning shots.
I'm incredibly honoured to have been chosen as one of the best amateurs of the year and to be included with so many talented photographers.
Published February 2, 2014 in „Seid keine Glassholes“: Google veröffentlicht Verhaltensregeln für Google Glass » t3n
LOOK what Addie discovered just now in the latest issue of Strawberry Shortcake magazine - she is giddy with happiness - her first published artwork!
....kind of weird that they didn't give us any advance notice, but then kind of awesome that we didn't know and she just found it on her own. I don't think I've ever seen her so close to peeing herself with joy :)
The Postcard
A postcard published by E. T. W. Dennis & Sons of London and Scarborough bearing an early image of the pier and pierhead at Llandudno.
The card was posted on the 6th. August 1919 to an address in Cornwallis Road Walthamstow.
What the recipient read nearly a century ago was as follows:
"Dear Mother,
Lizzie and I are here having a
bit of a holiday.
We are making the best of it,
the weather is not so nice as
it might be, it's rainy and cold.
Had a nice day yesterday we
went to the slate quarries at
Bethseda.
The country is beautiful round
there, we quite enjoyed it.
Sorry to hear of Tom's
misfortune.
I hope you are well.
Yours affectionately,
Jack."
Llandudno
Llandudno is a seaside resort in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. The town's name is derived from its patron saint, Saint Tudno.
Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales, and as early as 1861 was being called 'the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places' (a phrase later also used in connection with Tenby and Aberystwyth; the word 'resort' came a little later).
History of Llandudno
The town of Llandudno developed from Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements over many hundreds of years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula.
The origins in recorded history are with the Manor of Gogarth conveyed by King Edward I to Annan, Bishop of Bangor in 1284.
The Great Orme
Mostly owned by Mostyn Estates, the Great Orme is home to several large herds of wild Kashmiri goats originally descended from a pair given by Queen Victoria to Lord Mostyn.
The summit of the Great Orme stands at 679 feet (207 m). The Summit Hotel, now a tourist attraction, was once the home of world middleweight champion boxer Randolph Turpin.
The limestone headland is a haven for flora and fauna, with some rare species such as peregrine falcons and a species of wild cotoneaster (cambricus) which can only be found on the Great Orme.
The sheer limestone cliffs provide ideal nesting conditions for a wide variety of sea birds, including cormorants, shags, guillemots, razorbills, puffins, kittiwakes, fulmars and numerous gulls.
There are several attractions including the Great Orme Tramway and the Llandudno Cable Car that takes tourists to the summit. The Great Orme also has the longest toboggan run in Britain at 750m.
The Development of Llandudno
By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand people, served by the new church of St. George, built in 1840. The great majority of the men worked in the copper mines, with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture.
In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from Liverpool, presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marshlands behind Llandudno Bay as a holiday resort. These were enthusiastically pursued by Lord Mostyn.
The influence of the Mostyn Estate and its agents over the years was paramount in the development of Llandudno, especially after the appointment of George Felton as surveyor and architect in 1857.
Between 1857 and 1877 much of central Llandudno was developed under Felton's supervision. Felton also undertook architectural design work, including the design and execution of the Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.
The Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway operated an electric tramway service between Llandudno and Rhos-on-Sea from 1907, this being extended to Colwyn Bay in 1908. The service closed in 1956.
Llandudno Attractions
The Beach and The Parade
A beach of sand, shingle and rock curves two miles between the headlands of the Great Orme and the Little Orme.
For most of the length of Llandudno's North Shore there is a wide curving Victorian promenade. The road, collectively known as The Parade, has a different name for each block, and it is on these parades and crescents that many of Llandudno's hotels are built.
Llandudno Pier
The pier is on the North Shore. Built in 1878, it is a Grade II listed building.
The pier was extended in 1884 in a landward direction along the side of what was the Baths Hotel (where the Grand Hotel now stands) to provide a new entrance with the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre, thus increasing the pier's length to 2,295 feet (700 m); it is the longest pier in Wales.
Attractions on the pier include a bar, a cafe, amusement arcades, children's fairground rides and an assortment of shops & kiosks.
In the summer, Professor Codman's Punch and Judy show (established in 1860) can be found on the promenade near the entrance to the pier.
The Happy Valley
The Happy Valley, a former quarry, was the gift of Lord Mostyn to the town in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. The area was landscaped and developed as gardens, two miniature golf courses, a putting green, a popular open-air theatre and extensive lawns.
Ceremonies connected with the Welsh National Eisteddfod were held there in 1896, and again in 1963.
In June 1969, the Great Orme Cabin Lift, a modern alternative to the tramway, was opened with its base station adjacent to the open-air theatre. The distance to the summit is just over 1 mile (1.6 km), and the four-seater cabins travel at 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h) on a continuous steel cable over 2 miles (3.2 km) long.
It is the longest single-stage cabin lift in Great Britain, and the longest span between pylons is over 1,000 feet (300 m).
The popularity of the 'Happy Valley Entertainers' open-air theatre having declined, the theatre closed in 1985. Likewise the two miniature golf courses closed, and were converted in 1987 to create a 280-metre (920 ft) artificial ski slope and toboggan run. The gardens were extensively restored as part of the resort's millennium celebrations, and remain a major attraction.
Marine Drive
The first route round the perimeter of the Great Orme was a footpath constructed in 1858 by Reginald Cust, a trustee of the Mostyn Estate. In 1872 the Great Orme's Head Marine Drive Co. Ltd. was formed to turn the path into a carriage road.
Following bankruptcy, a second company completed the road in 1878. The contractors for the scheme were Messrs Hughes, Morris, Davies, a consortium led by Richard Hughes of Madoc Street, Llandudno.
The road was bought by Llandudno Urban District Council in 1897. The 4 mile (6.4 km) one-way drive starts at the foot of the Happy Valley. After about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) a side road leads to St. Tudno's Church, the Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine and the summit of the Great Orme.
Continuing on the Marine Drive the Great Orme Lighthouse (now a small hotel) is passed, and, shortly afterwards on the right, the Rest and Be Thankful Cafe and information centre.
Below the Marine Drive at its western end is the site of the wartime Coast Artillery School (1940–1945), now a scheduled ancient monument.
The West Shore
The West Shore is a quiet beach on the estuary of the River Conwy. It was here at Pen Morfa that Alice Liddell (of Alice in Wonderland fame) spent the long summer holidays of her childhood from 1862 to 1871.
There are a few hotels and quiet residential streets. The West Shore is linked to the North Shore by Gloddaeth Avenue and Gloddaeth Street, a wide dual carriageway.
Mostyn Street
Running behind the promenade is Mostyn Street, leading to Mostyn Broadway and then Mostyn Avenue. These are the main shopping streets of Llandudno. Mostyn Street accommodates the high street shops, the major high street banks and building societies, two churches, amusement arcades and the town's public library.
The last is the starting point for the Town Trail, a planned walk that facilitates viewing Llandudno in a historical perspective.
Victorian Extravaganza
Every year in May bank holiday weekend, Llandudno has a three-day Victorian Carnival, and Mostyn Street becomes a funfair.
Madoc Street and Gloddaeth Street and the Promenade become part of the route each day for a mid-day carnival parade. Also the Bodafon Farm fields become the location of a Festival of Transport for the weekend.
Venue Cymru
The North Wales Theatre, Arena and Conference Centre, built in 1994, and extended in 2006 and renamed "Venue Cymru", is located near the centre of the promenade on Penrhyn Crescent.
It is noted for its productions of opera, orchestral concerts, ballet, musical theatre, drama, circus, ice shows and pantomimes.
The Llandudno Lifeboat
Until 2017, Llandudno was unique within the United Kingdom in that its lifeboat station was located inland, allowing it to launch with equal facility from either the West Shore or the North Shore as needed.
In 2017, a new lifeboat station was completed, and new, high-speed, offshore and inshore lifeboats, and a modern launching system, were acquired. This station is close to the paddling pool on North Shore.
Llandudno's active volunteer crews are called out more than ever with the rapidly increasing numbers of small pleasure craft sailing in coastal waters. The Llandudno Lifeboat is normally on display on the promenade every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from May until October.
The Ancient Parish Church
The ancient parish church dedicated to Saint Tudno stands in a hollow near the northern point of the Great Orme, and is two miles (3 km) from the present town.
It was established as an oratory by Tudno, a 6th.-century monk, but the present church dates from the 12th. century and it is still used on summer Sunday mornings.
Llandudno's Links with Mametz and Wormhout
-- Mametz
The 1st. (North Wales) Brigade was headquartered in Llandudno in December 1914, and included a battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had been raised and trained in Llandudno.
Skirting the Fricourt salient, the British 7th. Division took the village of Mametz in the afternoon of the 1st. July 1916. However Mametz Wood to the north-east of the village held great German resistance. This blocked all Allied progress in a northeasterly direction.
After eight days of fierce combat, with heavy losses, did the 38th. Welsh Division capture the wood on the 12th. July 1916.
A monument to the 38th. Welsh Division was inaugurated on the 11th. July 1987. The monument takes the form of a plinth surmounted by a red dragon, the emblem of Wales. With its wings held aloft, it carries in its claws pieces of barbed wire, attesting to the fierce nature of the fighting.
The hostilities brought about the total destruction of Mametz village by shelling. After the war, the people of Llandudno (including returning survivors) contributed generously to the fund for the reconstruction of the village of Mametz.
-- Wormhout
Llandudno is twinned with the Flemish town of Wormhout which is 10 miles (16 km) from Dunkirk. It was near there that many members of the Llandudno-based 69th. Territorial Regiment were ambushed and taken prisoner.
The Site Mémoire de la Plaine au Bois near Wormhout commemorates the massacre of these prisoners on the 28th. May 1940. The men had been retreating towards Dunkirk ahead of the advancing Germans.
About 100 troops, having run out of ammunition, surrendered to the Germans, assuming that they would be taken prisoner according to the Geneva Convention.
However they were all imprisoned in a small barn, and the SS threw stick-grenades into the building, killing many POW's.
However the grenades failed to kill everyone, largely due to the bravery of two British NCO's, Stanley Moore and Augustus Jennings, who hurled themselves on top of the grenades, using their bodies to shield their comrades from the blast.
In order to finish off the remaining soldiers, the SS fired into the barn with rifles and automatic weapons. A few survived to tell the tale, but no-one was ever indicted for war crimes because of insufficient evidence.
A replica of the barn can be seen at the site of the massacre.
Llandudno's Cultural Connections
Matthew Arnold gives a vivid and lengthy description of 1860's Llandudno - and of the ancient tales of Taliesin and Maelgwn Gwynedd that are associated with the local landscape - in the first sections of the preface to 'On the Study of Celtic Literature' (1867).
Llandudno is also used as a location for dramatic scenes in the stage play and film 'Hindle Wakes' by Stanley Houghton, and the 1911 novel, 'The Card', by Arnold Bennett, and its subsequent film version.
Elisabeth of Wied, the Queen Consort of Romania and also known as writer Carmen Sylva, stayed in Llandudno for five weeks in 1890.
On leaving, she described Wales as "A beautiful haven of peace". Translated into Welsh as "Hardd, hafan, hedd", it became the town's official motto.
Other famous people with links to Llandudno include the Victorian statesman John Bright and multi-capped Welsh international footballers Neville Southall, Neil Eardley, Chris Maxwell and Joey Jones.
Australian ex-Prime Minister Billy Hughes attended school in Llandudno. Gordon Borrie QC (Baron Borrie), Director General of the Office of Fair Trading from 1976 to 1992, was educated at the town's John Bright Grammar School when he lived there as a wartime evacuee.
The international art gallery Oriel Mostyn is in Vaughan Street next to the post office. It was built in 1901 to house the art collection of Lady Augusta Mostyn. It was requisitioned in 1914 for use as an army drill hall, and later became a warehouse, before being returned to use as an art gallery in 1979. Following a major revamp the gallery was renamed simply 'Mostyn' in 2010.
Llandudno has its own mini arts festival 'LLAWN' (Llandudno Arts Weekend). It is a mini festival that rediscovers and celebrates Llandudno’s past in rather a unique way; via art, architecture, artefact, sound, performance, and participation.
The festival takes place over three days of a weekend in late September, originally conceived as a way to promote what those in the hospitality sector refer to as the ‘shoulder season’, which means a lull in the tourist calendar.
In January 1984 Brookside character Petra Taylor (Alexandra Pigg) committed suicide in Llandudno.
In 1997, the English cookery programme "Two Fat Ladies" with Jennifer Patterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright filmed an episode in Llandudno.
Can you believe that the first published website is already 20 years old? Web design has come a long way since the first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. This infographic is a peek at the evolutionary tale of web design, which is ironically still in its infant stages. Enjoy the in ... read more at: Yagua Piru
Texas Veterans Commission contacted me a couple months back, to ask if they could use this photo for their magazine. Though I really need to crank out more new work, I'm very happy to have another architectural photo published.
Glamouria Magazine, February 2019
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This postcard was published by H.Lee, Bull Ring Grimsby. As it was phototyped in Berlin it must date from before the First World War.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contacted me and requested that they can use one of my images for an article on the drought in South Eastern Colorado. A subject very near and dear to me. While the article focuses on Rocky Ford, Co the image was taken far to the North outside the little town of Keota, CO. This image depicts the start of a sandstorm and within 20 seconds of taking this pic visibility was down to nothing.
I took screenshots of the article for vanity reasons but if you are interested in reading the full article here is the link:
www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/despite-fall-...
To see the image and read the description of what happened please click on this link.
Real photo postcard. Postally unused.
Published by Charles Howell & Son, Photographers. 95/97 High Street, Chatham, also Pleasure Beach, Blackpool.
Bought from an eBay seller in Greensboro, United States.
The Postcard
A postcard published by F. Frith & Co. Ltd. of Reigate. The card was printed in England.
The card was posted in Swanage on Tuesday the 11th. August 1931 to:
Mrs. Carlisle,
'Twysdens',
Foots Cray,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"This little man called
Quarter Jack strikes the
quarters at Wimborne
Minster.
It rained all the way home
from W. to S.
Your first letters came on
from the Grosvenor this
evening!
So now we know where
we are!
Thanks for them.
L.M."
Wimborne Minster
Wimborne is a market town in Dorset in South West England
For hundreds of years Wimborne Minster has been a centre for pilgrimage, prayer and worship. It is not a museum, although it has inherited many noteworthy treasures and artefacts.
The Minster's two Towers are visible as one enters the Town, and from various vantage points within the Town.
The foundation goes back to c. 705 AD when Cuthburga, sister to Ina, King of the West Saxons, founded a nunnery on the site. 500 nuns are reputed to have lived at Wimborne, many of whom followed St. Boniface to the then-pagan Germany, as missionaries.
The Nunnery was destroyed by the Danes in 1013, but an old Saxon Chest still remains in the Minster today.
The present building dates from c. 1120 with many additions spanning the centuries.
Education has always been a priority. Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, founded a school at Wimborne Minster in 1497, and her parents' tomb is in the Minster.
A Chained Library was established in 1695, although the first books had been donated in 1686. The Chained Library, one of only four in the country, is open to the public from Easter to the end of October most weekdays.
In 1612, the Quarter Jack was placed on the north side of the West Tower where he can be seen striking his bells every quarter-hour throughout the day and night.
Time was important to local people in the 14th. century, and this was provided via the Astronomical Clock in the West Tower and the three-faced sundial.
Other points of interest include the Man in the Wall, the Man with two left feet, and the only memorial brass dedicated to a king in the country. The Minster also has a fine set of thirteen bells.
Louisa Fagan
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 11th. August 1931 was not a good day for Louisa Matilda Fagan (née Ballard), because she died in London on that day.
Louisa, who was born in Naples on the 9th. January 1850, was an Italian–British female chess master.
Miss Ballard learned to play chess as a child from her father William. She married an Irishman, J. G. Fagan who was an officer with the Bombay Lancers, and as a result, the Fagans lived for a period of time in India.
Mrs. Fagan was part of the chess scene in India, and had some of her problems published in The City of London Chess Magazine.
She was a winner of a chess tournament in Bombay, in which 12 men took part. She won all her games, but was disqualified because she was a woman playing in a club whose membership was confined to men. She appealed this decision in court and won.
Mrs. Fagan became an emancipation activist, and was one of the founding members of the Ladies' Chess Club of London, which had 100 members at its peak and lasted until after the Great War.
She took 2nd. place, behind Mary Rudge, in the first Ladies’ International Chess Congress held at the club in London from June 22nd. to July 3rd. 1897.
She was the younger sister of Dr. William Robert Ballard, born in Naples in 1848. He was a strong London chess player in the late 19th. and early 20th. century.
December 2014
Zoom.nl and Nikon "I AM DIFFERENT" video about my light art:
Overall view of progress for the new terminal, most of the ground work has been done with regards to rail lines, just a case of all the extra peripheral items to resolve.
Published in 'Loco Review 2014'
A small community church in the hamlet of Binalong, NSW. Services are held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month.
I've just received my complimentary copies of Clarissa Dixon Wright's new book "Rifling Through My Drawers", featuring two of my shots!
Something from yesterday's trip to the greenhouse. Thanks to Rona for such a nice display in our Metro section!
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 15th of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.