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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 9th 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.
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Budo mentioned me he only just published new Higashiosaka sim. What the hell is going on? Have I died gone to hell?
Retro Japanese house on Higashiosaka(June,18 2007. from my Flickr! photostream)
Past days of Higashiosaka (April, 2007, four photographs, Japanese language description)
Posted by Second Life Resident Liqueur Felix. Visit Higashiosaka.
Apparently, I had the best photo of the worst thing in Nashville. But, as of yesterday, that worst thing (The I-65 Nathan B. Forrest statue which had no remaining defenders) was removed. It's actually a little bittersweet for me because it made me a little Internet famous, but I guess that won't happen any more. I'd sold the photo several times to comedy news shows, such as the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Quibi's America Today.
I have a photo which appears on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. It is from Season 27 episode 36 which aired on Dec. 7 2021, on the day which the statue was removed. Find the full episode here with the segment around the 4 minute mark:
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In this specific screenshot, the host points out how the statue makes Forrest look like he is fleeing a gun fight at a saloon.
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Suspended Animation Classic #79
Originally published July 1, 1990 (#26)
Taboo
By Michael Vance
As a little boy, when I broke the rules, mother would spank my hand and say, “That’s a No No!” I quickly learned what was taboo. As editors and publishers, Steve Bissette and Nancy O’Connor have broken rules, and my mother would spank more than their hands. Their new horror anthology, “Taboo”, is meant to shock, to disgust, and trigger shudders. In this case, accomplishing two of these three goals isn’t good.
“Taboo” suffers from the same weaknesses that plague every prose anthology, stories that are uneven in quality. A second flaw is that each story is reaching for a different response, a special kind of horror. There’s no single climax, and a reader is left with a vague and jumbled catharsis, especially when the book is read at a single setting. And, finally, readers need full and believable men and women. That’s an almost impossible task within the limited space of a comics short story.
The visual short stories in this collection range from unintelligible (“Catus Water” by Peter Grimes) to excellent. The best of this volume must include “A Touch of Vinyl” by Veitch and Weiner, and “From Hell” by Moore and Campbell.
I spent too much energy trying to understand what was happening in “Catus Water” to feel any sense of suspense or suspension of disbelief. Characterization is non-existant.
The strength of “A Touch of Vinyl” lies in its twisted, black humor as a man’s obsession with a vinyl doll turns into insanity. The power of “From Hell” is its wealth of detail and its luck at being long enough to build suspense and characterization. It’s the only serialized piece in “Taboo”.
Certainly not for the squeamish, “Taboo” is best suited for lovers of horror who can overlook the flaws of their beloved.
“Taboo” #3/$9.95, 128 pages/published by spiderbaby Grafix/available in comics stores.
"Friends of McMillan Park is a group of community volunteers who support sustainable development and long-term planning for McMillan Park and Washington, DC. We believe that historic preservation and sustainability go hand in hand, and we would love to see McMillan Park set a high standard as a great metropolitan park of the 21st century." - friendsofmcmillan.org/about-us/
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Select photos published in The Future of D.C.'s Abandoned McMillan Park | Architect Magazine | Urban Design, Urban Development, Developers, Development, Mixed-Use Development, Historic Preservation, McMillan Park, Frederick Law Olmsted
Published in ggwash.org/view/61108/a-court-just-halted-dcs-mcmillan-de...
Fiber Art Now magazine (US) Summer issue in the pages of 'Flora and Fauna' as a result of a call for entries. ; )
Publish! New players, new innovations, 19 July 2012 (St Bride Foundation, London). Hosted by Media Futures, The Media Society and the St Bride Foundation.
Published May 4th 2013
- As part of 'Courageous Mayhem'
A graphic comic compendium that showcased several comic artists and their stories. Edited by Gar Shanley.
(Prints available)
(Original size A3 - In ink on paper and post production colour created on computer.)
My original Inked A3 Cartoon pages could be Art Exhibited interestingly with the colouring overlaid in Acetate sheets.
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The comic story is an expression of characters heroic personal revolt against austerity and urban imprisonment, it echoes the story of Alexander the Great who is also seen as a Don Quixote. Escaping capitalist mono rationalism Alexander discovers nature is still there alive and full of wonder!
Confronting Darius the local Scrapyard King of Ireland he abducts his daughter a young traveller woman to be his bride Roxanne! Together on the road they joust with the pursuing police and farmers tractors (Quixote's windmills) and Alexander even promises to lead all the animals in a grand revolt!
Until suddenly time and space fall away and the Poet of our Cosmos, interested, arrives to talk with them….
Alexander's search for something lost now ends up on life's cliff and limit where his escape can go no further. But as our hero's mask falls away and now completely naked he discovers he is loved by Roxanne, at last they make love and riding together upon Alexander's loyal bicycle stead Buce Phalus, returning them back to the city to bring their discoveries of love, empathy and a revolution in human values home!
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Neurdein et Cie of Paris.
The card was posted in Streatham, London SW16 on Wednesday the 30th. March 1921 to:
Mrs. Lewis,
19, Princess Street,
Chapel,
Southampton.
There is a brief pencilled message written in a childish hand on the left of the divided back of the card:
"Dear Auntie,
Thank you for my
postel order.
Jeanne.
xxxxxx"
l'Église du Saint-Sépulcre
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, situated in the heart of the old town centre of Abbeville, is a collegiate Gothic church from the 11th. century.
The church was classified as an historical monument in 1907.
During the Great War, the church's stained-glass windows were blown out. In May 1924, the municipality decided to repair the damage.
However, incendiary bombardments in WW2 on the 20th. May 1940 hit the church very hard. The vaults and some of the walls collapsed, with the windows again being destroyed by the blast from the bombs.
The church's restoration did not begin until 1970.
In 1982, the inspector of Historic Monuments proposed to Alfred Mannessier, a painter born in 1911 in Saint-Ouen in the Somme, to design 31 replacement windows for the church.
On the 2nd. April 1989, Alfred Mannessier inaugurated the first three stained-glass windows of the choir. The windows were made in Chartres.
In 2012, the bell tower of the church was endowed with its definitive roof, replacing the temporary one put in place after 1945.
Abbeville
Abbeville is located on the Somme River, 45 km north west of Amiens.
In medieval times, it was the lowest crossing point on the river, and it was nearby that Edward III's army crossed shortly before the Battle of Crécy in 1346.
The Destruction of Abbeville
The city was very picturesque until the 19th. August 1942 when it was bombed mostly to rubble in a single night by the Germans. Unexploded ordnance is still being found in the soil around Abbeville.
The town is now mainly modern and rebuilt.
The Saint Firmin Tower, at the rear corner of the church of St.-Vulfran, still exists, but it no longer has its very decorative top - presumably it fell victim to one or other of the two world wars that raged around the city.
Sean C. Finn
So what else happened on the day that Jeanne posted the card?
Well, the 30th. March 1921 was not a good day for Sean Finn, because he died on that day.
Sean C. Finn (born Michael John Finn; 1889, Rathkeale, County Limerick, was a commander of multiple units in the IRA's Irish War of Independence in the early 20th. century.
He led many attacks on the Black and Tans and the heavily-armed RIC patrols, with his brigade usually armed only with shotguns.
Training first with the scouting organisation Fianna Éireann and then being appointed a captain in the Irish Volunteers in 1914 when Ernest Blythe went to Limerick to organise there, Finn organised his west Limerick area.
He made contacts ranging from impoverished farmers in single-room cottages to the nationalist Anglo-Irish activist Mary Spring Rice, whose boat was at the disposal of his flying columns to cross the River Shannon.
He and his flying columns made west Limerick untenable for the British. By Spring 1917 he had 80 men in his brigade, and he continued to form companies in surrounding areas. In 1918 the area's Volunteers were organised into a battalion of the new Irish Republican Army, and Finn was soon appointed Brigade O/C. He brought the strength of the brigade up to 2,000 men.
Volunteers from the brigade guarded ballot boxes to prevent interference by the RIC; they sheltered various members after the Soloheadbeg Ambush. They attacked RIC plainclothesmen guarding men buying cattle from boycotted farms.
On the 13th. July 1920, a mixed RIC and Black and Tan patrol was attacked by the IRA under the command of Finn, and RIC Constable Patrick Fahey was killed.
Finn smuggled the British General Cuthbert Lucas, O/C of the British forces in the huge garrison of Fermoy, County Cork to the Shannon River while the British were searching for Lucas. After he handed Lucas over to the East Limerick IRA, the general either escaped or was released to Pallaskenry Barracks on the 30th. July 1920.)
The Death of Sean C. Finn
On the 30th. March 1921, Finn was killed in action during a three-hour engagement the Ballyhahill/Athea area near Foynes in Co. Limerick when his flying column was attacked late at night by three lorry-loads of Black and Tans.
In this battle, Tom Howard (who was later killed at an ambush at Lakelly) shot dead a Black and Tan who was about to shoot the dying Finn.
The Postcard
An Artistique Series postcard that was published by the Inter-Art Co. of Florence House, Barnes, London SW13. The artwork was by A. A. Nash, and the card was printed in Great Britain. The card would have been published during the Great War as a morale booster.
It did come right in the end, but too late for the vast numbers of men and women (and children) who died in the conflict.
The card was posted on Monday the 25th. November 1918, two weeks after the end of the Great War. It was sent to:
Miss Babie James,
Agra Ville,
Kings Road,
Fleet,
Hants.
The message on the divided back was as follows:
"I know a little girlie and
her name is Babie-Boo,
and I think she loves her
Daddy and her Mummie,
Tootle Loo.
For Dear Babie, with heaps
of love and sweetie kisses,
From Daddy and Mummie."
A Ceasefire at Abercorn
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 25th. November 1918, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of German forces in German East Africa, signed a ceasefire at Abercorn, Northern Rhodesia.
His was the last German force to end hostilities in the Great War.
Philip Streczyk
The day also marked the birth of Philip Streczyk. He was a technical sergeant in the 1st. Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II.
Streczyk was born to Polish parents Andrzej "Andrew" Streczyk (born 1876 in Austria-Hungary) and Marya (born 1886 in Austria-Hungary). Streczyk was a native of East Brunswick Township, New Jersey. He had nine siblings.
Streczyk quit school in eighth grade to help support his family, working as a truck driver until he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1940 at the age of 21. Streczyk was able to speak Polish and German, and used this ability during D-Day.
-- Philip Streczyk and D-Day
Streczyk is famous for being one of the first men off the beach at Omaha Beach. He served in the 1st. Infantry Division under Lieutenant John M. Spalding.
Streczyk and his men helped make the D-Day breakthrough at Omaha Beach possible. His platoon landed on the Easy Red sector, and made it to the shingle embankment largely intact, unlike most of the first wave.
However instead of attacking up the beach exits, as was planned, Philip instead helped to find and clear a path up the mined bluffs, left of Exit E-1. Streczyk courageously exposed himself to intense enemy fire and utilized antitank grenades to silence two enemy guns, thereby enabling his unit to continue its advance.
Once at the top, he attacked the enemy fortifications from the rear, clearing out trenches and pillboxes along Exit E-1 and taking prisoners.
He was able to interrogate several of the Ost battalion POWs because he spoke fluent Polish, German, and English. Later on D-Day, he was involved in actions further inland.
For his actions on D-Day, Streczyk was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and Great Britain's Military Medal. His company commander later called him:
"The greatest unsung
hero of World War II".
He saw action in five other major battles during World War II, including Tunisia, Sicily, and Hurtgen. He was awarded the Silver Star four times. His six theaters earned him six Bronze Stars.
One of Philip's children, Ron Streczyk later recounted:
"After D-Day, during the Normandy fighting,
one of Tech Sergeant Streczyk's men was
severely wounded in a firefight.
The stricken soldier's jaw was gone and he
begged for death. The sergeant obliged,
and put him out of his misery. Later he felt
guilty about it."
-- Philip Streczyk's Subsequent World War II Service
Streczyk continued to fight through Normandy, the Mons Pocket, Aachen, and finally the brutal Battle of Hürtgen Forest. In total, he logged 440 days of combat.
During the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, Streczyk reached a breaking point. He shook uncontrollably and babbled incoherently to the point where he had to be evacuated from the front lines with a suspected case of combat fatigue.
His case was so severe that he needed to be evacuated to the United States Army General Hospital, Camp Butner, in the United States. In an interview with a journalist during his convalescence, he called his unit:
"The best platoon
a man ever had".
He was subsequently discharged from the U.S. Army. His Distinguished Service Cross was pinned onto him by Dwight D. Eisenhower on the 2nd. July 1944. Field Marshal Montgomery also personally awarded him the British Military Medal about a week later.
-- Philip Streczyk's Post-War Life and Suicide
Streczyk became a builder in Florida. He married Sophie Karanewsky, and they had four children.
Philip had frequent nightmares, and was in persistent pain from the physical and emotional wounds he sustained during his time in combat. This ultimately led to his suicide at the age of 39 on the 25th. June 1958, a delayed casualty of the horror of D-Day.
Philip was laid to rest at the Church of Religious Science in East Brunswick, New Jersey. The church is no longer active. The cemetery is on private property and not easily accessible.
Philip's brother John and their father Andrew are also buried there.
-- The Traumatic Death of John Spalding
Philip's commander John Spalding also came to a traumatic end. On the evening of the 6th. November 1959, Spalding’s wife shot him with a brand-new .22 caliber rifle.
The bullet entered his left side below his ribs, tearing his aorta, and he bled to death on the bedroom floor of their modest one-story home. Spalding, a hero of history’s greatest invasion, was dead at the age of 44.
Official Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Poster Programme
Designed poster 001
Author: David Lancashire
Date: 1999
Published by The Ink Group, Australia
TM & © SOCOG 1999
This poster is part of the Local Studies Collection at Cumberland City Council.
About a year ago, I got a message from someone at Mercedes-Benz. They wanted to make a book with photos of their cars taken by “real people” and with the stories behind these photos, and an old test shot of mine had made it into their selection.
To cut a long story short: I made a proper scan of the negative, signed an agreement, and some time later I got some cash (quite a lot for a test shot actually) and a copy of the book. It has a fancy lenticular cover featuring two different sets of 25 thumbnail images each. Actually I didn’t even notice that my photo was also on the cover until today when I started figuring out how to document this “milestone” photographically.
The book, titled “Through the eyes of the world”, contains short forewords from Dieter Zetsche (the CEO of Daimler AG), Stewart Butterfield (one of the Flickr co-founders), and Uwe Düttmann (a renowned photographer who directed many campaigns for Mercedes-Benz).
Unfortunately, “published” is not the whole truth in that the book is not really available for purchase—instead, they are giving it away to a selection of Mercedes-Benz customers. But there is a Flickr group (“Mercedes-Benz—Through the Eyes of the World”) which aims at putting all the photos from the book in one place.
Published by Offset Press, Waterloo, Sydney. The book has 14 pages and the cover shows the Victorian Railways' S class # 302 at the head of the "Spirit of Progress".
Steven Haby collection
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Dopo il fantastico tour tutto esaurito della scorsa estate The Kolors tornano sul palco per “OK LIVE 2016”. L’appuntamento con Stash e la sua band è per lunedì 16 maggio all’Alcatraz di Milano.
I The Kolors sono una band italiana formata da Stash Fiordispino (voce, chitarra), Alex Fiordispino (batteria) e Daniele Mona (synth). Appassionati di rock e musica elettronica, il trio inizia a collaborare a Milano nel 2010, quando arriva anche il primo ingaggio professionale, che li porta a diventare la resident band di uno dei locali più longevi della città: Le Scimmie.
Il loro nome inizia a crescere all’interno della scena milanese dei club undeground e nel 2011 producono l’inedito ‘I Don’t Give A Funk’. MTV New Generation programma il video di ‘I Don’t Give A Funk’ , al quale partecipa l’amico Andy dei Bluvertigo. Dopo alcuni concerti all’estero tra Stoccolma (Middag), Berlino (White Trash) e Londra (Runway), i Kolors aprono così i concerti italiani di Paolo Nutini (luglio 2012), Gossip (novembre 2012), Hurts (marzo 2013) e sono tra gli special guest della data romana di Atoms For Peace (giugno 2013).
I The Kolors partecipano all’edizione 2015 i “Amici”, programma condotto da Maria De Filippi su Canale 5 aggiudicandosi la vittoria e anche il premio della critica.
Il 19 maggio 2015 pubblicano il nuovo album “Out” che, trainato dalla hit Everytime, raggiunge subito la certificazione di “disco d’oro” nella prima settimana di pubblicazione mantenendo anche per la seconda settimana il primo posto nella classifica degli album più venduti in Italia.
Stash Fiordispino (Vox/Guitar)
Alex Fiordispino (Drums)
Daniele Mona (Synth)
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Davide, Enrica, Giosada e gli Urban Strangers, i quattro finalisti di #XF9, in diretta dal Mediolanum Forum di Assago, Milano, giovedì 10 Dicembre 2015, avranno l’onore di condividere lo stesso palco con giganti della musica come i Coldplay, in vetta alle classifiche in 53 paesi. Chris Martin & Co si esibiranno live in esclusiva per l’Italia proprio sul palco della Finale per regalare al pubblico ben due successi del nuovo album: "A Head Full of Dreams" e "Adventure of a Lifetime".
X Factor Italia vuole siglare un altro primato: l’intera giuria si esibirà sulle note dei propri successi e con le proprie band: Elio e le Storie Tese, Skunk Anansie e Fedez e Mika.
Alessandro Cattelan vi racconterà questo grandissimo evento musicale scandendo i ritmi di una serata che si preannuncia veramente intensa. Avrete modo di assistere a una sfida davvero speciale tra Enrica, Davide, Giosada e Urban Strangers al fianco di un grande artista italiano: Cesare Cremonini. Dopo 34 date del Logico Tour, la pop star bolognese accompagnerà al pianoforte i ragazzi nella prima manche dedicata ai duetti, al termine della quale uno di loro lascerà la gara, oltre ad eseguire "Lost in weekend".
La sfida proseguirà con la manche degli inediti, appena presentati e già in cima alla classifica iTunes. Per lo scontro decisivo, i due super finalisti si giocheranno il podio con un brano scelto da ciascuno di loro tra quelli interpretati durante il lungo percorso ad X Factor. Solo uno di loro si aggiudicherà un contratto con Sony Music Italia e la possibilità di pubblicare un album.
Non finisce qui: un inedito duetto infiammerà il Forum, quello di Fedez & Mika, che si esibiranno per la prima volta live nel loro "Beautiful Disaster". Elio e le Storie Tese si porteranno al Forum uno dei classici storici della band, "Servi della gleba", mentre gli Skunk Anansie la nuovissima "Love Someone Else".
Il vincitore della nona edizione di X Factor Italia è Giosada.
I'm so excited to share with you that my Gratitude Pages have been published in the April issue of Art Journaling Magazine! More at my blog.
[Published by] Laffineur-Samin, Berck-Plage
Postmarked September 5, 1916. Also bears the stamp of the Hôpital bénévole N° 25bis; presumably, postage was not required for soldiers recovering from war wounds at volunteer hospitals such as this. [Note that the building pictured is not the volunteer hospital.]
Those who read French and would like to put a translation into the comments are encouraged to do so. Merci!
Marina And The Diamonds
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Bowery Presents
Webster Hall, NYC
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Published by Cassell in 1974.
Patrick Moore's mother takes us on an exciting journey to meet all manner of extraordinary creatures living on the planets which are our neighbours in space. Illustrations from 1900 to 1974.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 23rd of January 1917.
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 and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
I know, it's not Universal Studios or Time Magazine, but my name and pic are in a Zen Buddhist journal. They sent me the article that my pic is in. Not the whole journal. How cool is that??
No, I didn't get paid for it and I'm A-OK with that.
My first magazine cover! Woot! This is for the Greater Houston Partnership magazine Here is Houston. For someone who lives mostly in the digital world (even with her film) it's so wonderful to see my work in print and especially on a cover. Makes me almost feel like a real photographer. You can see the original photo here.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard published by Russell & Sons, Broadway, Worcs.
They state on the back of the card that the photograph was taken by W. Dennis Moss.
Broadway, Worcestershire
Broadway is a large village within the Cotswolds. Its population was 2,540 in the 2011 census, a small increase on the 2,496 in the 2001 census. It is situated in the far southeast of Worcestershire and very close to the Gloucestershire border, midway between the towns of Evesham and Moreton-in-Marsh. It is sometimes referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds".
Broadway village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment. The "broad way" is the wide grass-fringed main street, centred on the Green, which is lined with red chestnut trees and honey-coloured Cotswold limestone buildings, many dating from the 16th. century.
Broadway is known for its association with the Arts and Crafts movement, and is situated in an area of outstanding scenery and conservation. The wide High Street is lined with a variety of shops and cafes, many housed in listed buildings.
The village also featured in the 2018 video game Forza Horizon 4.
History of Broadway
Broadway is an ancient settlement whose origins are uncertain. There is documentary evidence of activity in the area as far back as Mesolithic times.
In 2004, the Council for British Archaeology's Worcestershire Young Archaeologists' Club found evidence of early occupation. Their fieldwork uncovered a large amount of Roman and medieval domestic waste and, most importantly, a large amount of worked Mesolithic flints, raising the possibility that the site might have been a stopping point for hunter-gatherers.
This work makes the known history of the village to be over 5,000 years and so may be evidence of one of the first partially settled sites in the United Kingdom.
Broadway gained the name Bradsetena Gamere (Broad Village) around the 9th. century and underwent a number of changes until the modern spelling ‘Broadway’ became common usage in the 16th. century.
By the 11th. century the village was already well-established and apparently thriving. It is listed in the Domesday Book as part of the land holdings of the Church of St. Mary of Pershore.
Broadway continued to prosper, becoming a borough by the 13th. century. For Broadway this marked a considerable departure from the entirely peasant community that had existed in former times, though the following two centuries saw it decline in the wake of the Black Death.
Its fortunes were revived during the late 16th. century after the Dissolution of the Monasteries relieved Pershore Abbey of ownership in 1539. The Crown sold the Manor of Broadway in 1558. There followed three centuries of almost unbroken growth, during which the population increased to about five times its Elizabethan level.
As in other Cotswold towns, wealth was based on the wool and cloth trade. In the first half the 19th. century Broadway was part of a short-lived Cotswolds silk industry, centred on Blockley, with a water-powered silk mill.
By around 1600 the village had become a busy stagecoach stop on the route from Worcester to London. The village provided all the services that might be needed, including grooms, places of refreshment and extra horses for the steep haul up Fish Hill. As a result, there were once as many as 33 public houses in Broadway compared to the three which exist today.
The road between Evesham and the summit of Fish Hill became a toll-road as a result of legislation dated 1728. Tolls were collected at Turnpike House, which can be found (now renamed Pike Cottage) in the Upper High Street.
However, the introduction of the railways in Britain in the mid-19th. century reduced the passing trade on which Broadway relied. Travel by stagecoach stopped almost immediately with the opening of the railway in Evesham in 1852.
Stripped of its role of staging post, Broadway became a backwater; a haven of peace and tranquillity. Victorian artists and writers were drawn to the village's calm, and the famous Arts and Crafts movement made its home in the area. The artists and writers to whom Broadway became home included Elgar, John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, J. M. Barrie, Vaughan Williams, William Morris, Mary Anderson and American artist and writer, Francis Davis Millet.
In 1912 Millet boarded the RMS Titanic in Cherbourg, France, as a first class passenger, heading to Washington via New York. He died in the sinking of the Titanic aged 65, and is commemorated by a memorial in St Eadburgha's Churchyard, Broadway.
In 1932 Millet's son Jack donated £120 to St Eadburgha's Church for the construction of lychgates in his father's memory at the churchyard.
Broadway is thought (by Sir Steven Runciman (1903–2000), a Cambridge historian who knew Benson well) to have been the model for a fictional Elizabethan village in the Cotswolds, Riseholme, the home of Lucia in the novels of E. F. Benson, before she moved to Tilling (based on Rye in East Sussex).
The arrival of the motor-car at the turn of the 20th. century, and the advent of popular tourism, restored Broadway's vitality, placing it now among the most frequently visited of all Cotswold villages.
In 1934 J.B. Priestley published his book English Journey, a travelogue in which he re-visits areas of the Cotswolds, including Broadway. He described the Cotswolds as:
"The most English and the least spoiled
of all our countrysides. The truth is that
it has no colour that can be described.
Even when the sun is obscured and the
light is cold, these walls are still faintly
warm and luminous, as if they knew the
trick of keeping the lost sunlight of
centuries glimmering about them."
The war memorial on the village green, dating from 1920, marks the deaths of local individuals who died fighting in the Great War and World War II.
Broadway takes its name from the wide main street, now High Street (one of the longest in England). By the 18th. century, it was a toll-road and a prominent stagecoach stop. In the beginning the ‘broad way’ probably began as a drove road and may be unusually wide because of the two small streams that used to run each side of the main street; people built on either side of the brooks, and a road formed down the middle.
In the winter, the mud from the road was piled up, and in the summer, grass grew on the piles; these verges still remain today. Water used to flow down from the hills and straight through the village then in later years the streams were mostly hidden inside underground pipes, only emerging at occasional ‘dipping’ points. Nowadays, the streams are almost entirely invisible.
Broadway in Modern Times
Today, Broadway is a centre for arts and antiques and serves as a natural base from which to explore the Cotswolds or see the horse racing during the busy Cheltenham Gold Cup week. Tourism is important; a reputation as a gateway to the Cotswolds and the many well-preserved buildings attract numerous visitors.
The village is well-served with hotels, including the Broadway Hotel, Russell's "A restaurant with rooms", the 1600's Cotswold inn the Lygon Arms, a caravan site, holiday cottages, bed and breakfast lodges, old pubs including the Swan Inn and Crown & Trumpet, shops, restaurants and tea rooms.
Local attractions include the Gordon Russell Museum (celebrating the work of the 20th.-century furniture maker Sir Gordon Russell MC), the Ashmolean Museum Broadway displaying objects from the 17th. to the 21st. centuries in 'Tudor House' a former 17th.-century coaching inn, the 65-foot (20 m) high Broadway Tower on its hilltop site in the Broadway Tower Country Park, Snowshill Manor (owned by the National Trust), and, for the many ramblers, the Cotswold Way.
The Lygon Arms
The Lygon Arms is a Grade II* listed hotel in Broadway, Worcestershire, originally a coaching inn. The current building dates from the seventeenth century.
The Lygon Arms was originally built in the 14th. century, and was a key connection between Wales, Worcester and London during the Elizabethan period.
The earliest written record of the inn dates to 1377 and refers to the building as "The White Hart". However, the listing dates the current structure to the early seventeenth century.
The coaching inn played a role in the English Civil War in 1649, serving both sides. Oliver Cromwell stayed there before the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Charles I also used it as a place to meet his supporters during the unrest.
The inn continued to be used as a staging post into the eighteenth century for mail coaches travelling between London and Wales. By the 1900's, the Lygon Arms was owned by Sydney Bolton Russell, whose son, Gordon Russell, restored antique furniture for the hotel in a loft above the coach house. Gordon Russell became one of England’s leading designers in the 1930's.
King Edward VII visited the hotel between 1905 and 1910, as did his grandson, the future Edward VIII.
In 1963 Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor stayed at the hotel during the height of the scandal surrounding their affair. The hotel has also been visited by Prince Philip, Evelyn Waugh, and Kylie Minogue.
Sydney Bolton Russell (1866–1938) bought the Lygon Arms in 1903 from the Midlands brewer Samuel Allsopp & Sons, after first visiting the property in the early 1900's while he worked as a manager for the company.
Russell renovated the property in 1910 in a Tudor and Stuart period style, with the help of the Arts and Crafts architect Charles Bateman (1863–1947). Russell recounted the experience of acquiring the Lygon Arms in his book 'The Story of an Old English Hostelry', published in 1914.
In 1915, Russell moved out of the newly refurbished hotel to the village of Snowshill with the aim of separating his business and personal life.
At the start of 2016 the new owners of the Lygon Arms, Ian Livingstone and Richard Livingstone, announced that the property would be going under extensive redevelopment.
File name: 06_10_020190
Title: Scene showing Murdock's bath house and the Buccaneer Hotel, Galveston, Texas.
Created/Published: Pub. by Galveston Wholesale News Co., Galveston, Texas. "Tichnor Quality Views," Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Made Only by Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass.
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subjects: Hotels; Sports & recreation facilities
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions