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Year: 1946
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published on behalf of the Carisbrooke Castle Museum Trust by W. J. Nigh & Sons Ltd. of Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Carisbrooke Castle
Carisbrooke Castle is one of a number of paintings that were previously in the collection of B. G. Windus, and acquired for the Nation through the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (of inheritance tax) scheme.
Turner's view of Carisbrooke Castle was allocated to the Carisbrooke Castle Museum on the Isle of Wight in 2007, and was the first work by Turner to enter a public collection on the island.
Turner's watercolour of the gatehouse to Carisbrooke Castle was painted in 1828 for the series of Picturesque Views in England and Wales, a collaborative project with the printmaker Charles Heath, who produced 96 of Turner’s engravings between 1827 and 1838. This work is regarded as one of the finest in the series.
It captures the picturesque qualities of Carisbrooke, with Turner’s trademark use of the effects of light casting a diagonal shaft of sunshine on the castle’s imposing entrance, set off by stormy clouds overhead.
Turner visited the Isle of Wight at least twice. In the summer of 1827 he stayed with the architect, John Nash, at East Cowes Castle which may be when he made the sketches for this painting.
East Cowes Castle, a Gothic Revival mansion, was Nash's home from its completion until his death in 1835. Nash himself designed the building which was built between 1798 and 1800. The castle was said to have been built at unlimited expense. The house was demolished in 1960, and most of the parkland was covered by a housing estate, although the Ice House and Lodge remain.
Carisbrooke Castle featured in a local exhibition in 2013 where John Medland noted that:
"His 1828 watercolour, Carisbrooke Castle,
illustrated his developing obsession with
light and the drama of the natural world.
The castle shines like yellowed ivory as
a vibrant purple sky threatens Newport."
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, who was born in 1775, and known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
William left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Turner was born in Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He retained his lower class accent, while assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame.
A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman.
William earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which he often only begrudgingly accepted owing to his troubled and contrary nature.
He opened his own gallery in 1804, and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828. He travelled around Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely private, eccentric, and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Evelina (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by the widow Sarah Danby.
William became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father in 1829. When his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified.
In 1841, Turner rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as present at any property in that year's census.
William lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
-- J. M. W. Turner - The Early Years
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden on the 23rd. April 1775, and baptised on the 14th. May 1775.
His father William Turner (1745 - 1829) was a barber and wig maker who had moved to london around 1770 from South Molton, Devon.
William's mother, Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers. A younger sister, Mary Ann, was born in September 1778, but died in August 1783.
Turner's mother showed signs of mental disturbance from 1785, and was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in Old Street in 1799. She was moved in 1800 to Bethlem Hospital, a mental asylum, where she died in 1804.
Turner was sent to his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, a butcher in Brentford, which was then a village on the banks of the River Thames west of London, where Turner attended school.
The earliest known artistic exercise by Turner is from this period - a series of simple colourings of engraved plates from Henry Boswell's Picturesque View of the Antiquities of England and Wales.
Around 1786, Turner was sent to Margate on the Kent coast. There he produced a series of drawings of the town and surrounding area that foreshadowed his later work.
By this time, Turner's drawings were being exhibited in his father's shop window and sold for a few shillings. His father boasted to the artist Thomas Stothard that:
"My son, sir, is going to be a painter."
In 1789, Turner again stayed with his uncle who had retired to Sunningwell (now part of Oxfordshire). A whole sketchbook of work from this time in Berkshire survives, as well as a watercolour of Oxford.
The use of pencil sketches on location, as the foundation for later finished paintings, formed the basis of Turner's essential working style for his whole career.
Many early sketches by Turner were architectural studies or exercises in perspective, and it is known that, as a young man, he worked for several architects, including Thomas Hardwick, James Wyatt and Joseph Bonomi the Elder.
By the end of 1789, he had also begun to study under the topographical draughtsman Thomas Malton, who specialised in London views. Turner learned from him the basic tricks of the trade, copying and colouring outline prints of British castles and abbeys.
He later called Malton:
"My real master".
Topography at the time was a thriving industry by which a young artist could pay for his studies.
-- J. M. W. Turner's Career
Turner entered the Royal Academy of Art in 1789, and was accepted into the academy a year later by Sir Joshua Reynolds. He showed an early interest in architecture, but was advised by Hardwick to focus on painting.
William's first watercolour, A View of the Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth, was accepted for the Royal Academy summer exhibition of 1790 when Turner was 15.
As an academy probationer, Turner was taught drawing from plaster casts of antique sculptures. From July 1790 to October 1793, his name appears in the registry of the academy over a hundred times.
In June 1792, he was admitted to the life class to learn to draw the human body from nude models.
Turner exhibited watercolours each year at the academy while painting in the winter and travelling in the summer widely throughout Britain, particularly to Wales, where he produced a wide range of sketches for working up into studies and watercolours.
These particularly focused on architectural work, which used his skills as a draughtsman. In 1793, he showed the watercolour titled The Rising Squall – Hot Wells from St. Vincent's Rock Bristol (now lost), which foreshadowed his later climatic effects.
The British writer Peter Cunningham, in his obituary of Turner, wrote that:
"It is recognised by the wiser few as a
noble attempt at lifting landscape art
out of the tame insipidities ... and
evinced for the first time that mastery
of effect for which he is now justly
celebrated".
In 1796, Turner exhibited Fishermen at Sea, his first oil painting for the academy, of a nocturnal moonlit scene of the Needles off the Isle of Wight, an image of boats in peril.
Wilton said that:
"The image is a summary of all that had
been said about the sea by the artists of
the 18th. century".
The work in fact shows the influence of artists such as Claude Joseph Vernet, Philip James de Loutherbourg, Peter Monamy and Francis Swaine, who was admired for his moonlight marine paintings.
The image was praised by contemporary critics, and founded Turner's reputation as both an oil painter and a painter of maritime scenes.
Turner travelled widely in Europe, starting with France and Switzerland in 1802, and studying in the Louvre in Paris in the same year. He also made many visits to Venice.
Important support for his work came from Walter Ramsden Fawkes of Farnley Hall, near Otley in Yorkshire, who became a close friend of the artist. Turner first visited Otley in 1797, aged 22, when commissioned to paint watercolours of the area.
William was so attracted to Otley and the surrounding area that he returned to it throughout his career. The stormy backdrop of Hannibal Crossing The Alps is reputed to have been inspired by a storm over the Chevin in Otley while he was staying at Farnley Hall.
Turner was also a frequent guest of George Wyndham, 3rd. Earl of Egremont, at Petworth House in West Sussex, and painted scenes that Egremont funded taken from the grounds of the house and of the Sussex countryside, including a view of the Chichester Canal. Petworth House still displays a number of Turner's paintings.
-- J. M. W. Turner - The Later Years
As Turner grew older, he became more eccentric. He had few close friends except for his father, who lived with him for 30 years, and worked as his studio assistant. His father's death in 1829 had a profound effect on him, and thereafter he was subject to bouts of depression.
William never married, but had a relationship with an older widow, his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He is believed to have been the father of her two daughters Evelina Dupuis and Georgiana Thompson.
Turner formed a relationship with Sophia Caroline Booth after her second husband died, and from 1846 he lived with her as "Mr Booth" or "Admiral Booth" in her house at 6 Davis's Place (now Cheyne Walk) in Chelsea, until his death.
Turner was a habitual user of snuff; in 1838, Louis Philippe I, King of the French, presented a gold snuff box to him. Of two other snuffboxes, an agate and silver example bears Turner's name, and another, made of wood, was collected along with his spectacles, magnifying glass and card case by an associate housekeeper.
Turner formed a short but intense friendship with the artist Edward Thomas Daniell. The painter David Roberts wrote of Daniell that:
"He adored Turner, when I and others doubted,
and taught me to see and to distinguish his
beauties over that of others ... the old man really
had a fond and personal regard for this young
clergyman, which I doubt he ever evinced for
the other".
Daniell may have supplied Turner with the spiritual comfort he needed after the deaths of his father and friends, and to "ease the fears of a naturally reflective man approaching old age".
After Daniell's death in Lycia at the age of 38, he told Roberts that he would never form such a friendship again.
Before leaving for the Middle East, Daniell commissioned Turner’s portrait from John Linnell. Turner had previously refused to sit for the artist, and it was difficult to get his agreement to be portrayed. Daniell positioned the two men opposite each other at dinner, so that Linnell could observe his subject carefully and portray his likeness from memory.
-- The Death of J. M. W. Turner
Turner died of cholera at the home of Sophia Caroline Booth, in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, on the 19th. December 1851. He was 76 years of age when he died. William was laid to rest in St. Paul's Cathedral, where he lies near the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. Apparently his last words were "The Sun (or Son?) is God", though this may be apocryphal.
Turner's friend, the architect Philip Hardwick, the son of his old tutor, was in charge of making the funeral arrangements, and wrote to those who knew Turner to tell them at the time of his death that:
"I must inform you,
we have lost him."
Other executors were his cousin and chief mourner at the funeral, Henry Harpur IV (benefactor of Westminster – now Chelsea & Westminster – Hospital), Revd. Henry Scott Trimmer, George Jones RA and Charles Turner ARA.
-- J. M. W. Turner's Art
Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterized by a chromatic palette, and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint.
According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles".
Turner was recognised as an artistic genius; the English art critic John Ruskin described him as:
"The artist who could most stirringly and
truthfully measure the moods of Nature".
Turner's imagination was sparked by shipwrecks, fires (including the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner witnessed first-hand, and transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog.
He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen at the 1840 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, where The Slave Ship (1840), and Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water (1840) were first shown.
A 2003 exhibition at the Clark Art Institute suggested that these two paintings were pendants, due in part to their similar content and size. (In art, a pendant is one of two paintings, statues, reliefs or other type of work of art intended as a pair. Typically, pendants are related thematically to each other, and are displayed in close proximity. For example, pairs of portraits of married couples are very common, as are symmetrically arranged statues flanking an altar.)
Turner's work however drew criticism from some contemporaries. An anonymous review of the 1840 Royal Academy exhibition, later identified as John Eagles, called the displayed paintings:
"Absurd extravagances that
disgrace the Exhibition”.
Sir George Beaumont, a landscape painter and fellow member of the Royal Academy, described Turner's paintings as "blots".
Turner's major venture into printmaking was the Liber Studiorum (Book of Studies), comprising seventy prints that he worked on from 1806 to 1819. The Liber Studiorum was an expression of his intentions for landscape art.
The idea was loosely based on Claude Lorrain's Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), where Claude had recorded his completed paintings; a series of print copies of these drawings, by then at Devonshire House, had been a huge publishing success.
Turner's plates were meant to be widely disseminated, and categorised the genre into six types: Marine, Mountainous, Pastoral, Historical, Architectural, and Elevated or Epic Pastoral.
William's printmaking was a major part of his output, and a museum is devoted to it, the Turner Museum in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1974 by Douglass Montrose-Graem to house his collection of Turner prints.
Turner's early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stay true to the traditions of English landscape. In Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature has already come into play.
His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects.
In Turner's later years, he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by the use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognisable.
The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting but exerted an influence on art in France; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.
William is also generally regarded as a precursor of abstract painting.
High levels of volcanic ash (from the eruption of Mount Tambora) in the atmosphere during 1816, the "Year Without a Summer", led to unusually spectacular sunsets during this period, and were an inspiration for some of Turner's work.
John Ruskin said that an early patron, Thomas Monro, Principal Physician of Bedlam, and a collector and amateur artist, was a significant influence on Turner's style:
"His true master was Dr. Monro; to the practical
teaching of that first patron and the wise simplicity
of method of watercolour study, in which he was
disciplined by him and companioned by his friend
Girtin, the healthy and constant development of
the greater power is primarily to be attributed;
the greatness of the power itself, it is impossible
to over-estimate."
Together with a number of young artists, Turner was able, in Monro's London house, to copy works of the major topographical draughtsmen of his time and perfect his skills in drawing.
However the curious atmospherical effects and illusions of John Robert Cozens's watercolours, some of which were present in Monro's house, went far further than the neat renderings of topography. The solemn grandeur of his Alpine views were an early revelation to the young Turner, and showed him the true potential of the watercolour medium, conveying mood instead of information.
-- J. M. W. Turner's Use of Materials
Turner experimented with a wide variety of pigments. He used formulations like carmine, despite knowing that they were not long-lasting, and against the advice of contemporary experts to use more durable pigments.
As a result, many of his colours have now faded. Ruskin complained at how quickly his work decayed; Turner was indifferent to posterity, and chose materials that looked good when freshly applied. By 1930, there was concern that both his oils and his watercolours were fading.
-- The Legacy of J. M. W. Turner
Turner left a small fortune, which he hoped would be used to support what he called "decayed artists". He planned an almshouse at Twickenham in west London with a gallery for some of his works.
His will was contested and in 1856, after a court battle, his first cousins, including Thomas Price Turner, received part of his fortune. Another portion went to the Royal Academy of Arts, which occasionally awards students the Turner Medal.
William's finished paintings were bequeathed to the British nation, and he intended that a special gallery would be built to house them. This did not happen because there was disagreement over the final site.
Twenty-two years after his death, the British Parliament passed an act allowing his paintings to be lent to museums outside London, and so began the process of scattering the pictures which Turner had wanted to be kept together.
One of the greatest collectors of his work was Henry Vaughan, who when he died in 1899 owned more than one hundred watercolours and drawings by Turner, and as many prints.
His collection included examples of almost every type of work on paper that the artist produced, from early topographical drawings and atmospheric landscape watercolours, to brilliant colour studies, literary vignette illustrations and spectacular exhibition pieces.
It included nearly a hundred proofs of Liber Studiorum and twenty-three drawings connected with it. It was an unparalleled collection that comprehensively represented the diversity, imagination and technical inventiveness of Turner's work throughout his sixty-year career.
Vaughan bequeathed the most of his Turner collection to British and Irish public galleries and museums, stipulating that the collections of Turner's watercolours should be 'exhibited to the public all at one time, free of charge and only in January', demonstrating an awareness of conservation which was unusual at the time.
In 1910, the main part of the Turner Bequest, which includes unfinished paintings and drawings, was re-housed in the Duveen Turner Wing at the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain).
In 1987, a new wing at the Tate, the Clore Gallery, was opened to house the Turner bequest, though some of the most important paintings remain in the National Gallery in contravention of Turner's condition that they be kept and shown together.
Increasingly paintings are lent abroad, ignoring Turner's provision that they remain constantly and permanently in Turner's Gallery.
St. Mary's Church, Battersea, added a commemorative stained glass window for Turner, between 1976 and 1982. St Paul's Cathedral, Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria & Albert Museum all hold statues representing him.
A portrait by Cornelius Varley with his patent graphic telescope (Sheffield Museums & Galleries) was compared with his death mask (National Portrait Gallery, London) by Kelly Freeman at Dundee University 2009–10 to ascertain whether it really depicts Turner.
The City of Westminster unveiled a memorial plaque at the site of his birthplace at 21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, on the 2nd. June 1999.
Selby Whittingham founded The Turner Society at London and Manchester in 1975. After the society endorsed the Tate Gallery's Clore Gallery wing (on the lines of the Duveen wing of 1910), as the solution to the controversy of what should be done with the Turner Bequest, Selby Whittingham resigned and founded the Independent Turner Society.
The Tate created the prestigious annual Turner Prize art award in 1984, named in Turner's honour, and 20 years later the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours founded the Winsor & Newton Turner Watercolour Award.
A major exhibition, "Turner's Britain", with material (including The Fighting Temeraire) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from the 7th. November 2003 to the 8th. February 2004.
In 2005, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire was voted Britain's "greatest painting" in a public poll organised by the BBC.
-- Portrayal of J. M. W. Turner in the Media
Leo McKern played Turner in The Sun Is God, a Thames Television production directed by Michael Darlow. The programme aired on the 17th. December 1974, during the Turner Bicentenary Exhibition in London.
British filmmaker Mike Leigh wrote and directed Mr. Turner, a biopic of Turner's later years, released in 2014. The film stars Timothy Spall as Turner, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey and Paul Jesson, and premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, with Spall taking the award for Best Actor.
The Bank of England announced that a portrait of Turner, with a backdrop of The Fighting Temeraire, would appear on the £20 note beginning in 2020. It is the first £20 British banknote printed on polymer. It came into circulation on Thursday the 20th. February 2020.
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Uno spettacolo teatrale frizzante, ironico e sensuale con le star neo-burlesque
Direttamente dai palchi del West End a Londra, "An Evening of Burlesque" arriva in Italia con uno spettacolo frizzante e di gusto e con un cast di eleganti showgirl che incarnano lo charme parigino e il glamour di Las Vegas in una combinazione di sensualità, arguzia, magia, ballo e favolosi costumi in stile retrò.
An Evening of Burlesque è uno spettacolo frizzante e di gusto che, in una combinazione di commedia, malizia e talento vocale, porta sul palco del Teatro Smeraldo l'affascinante arte del burlesque con un cast di eleganti showgirl che incarnano lo charme parigino e il glamour di Las Vegas in una combinazione di sensualità, arguzia, magia, ballo e favolosi costumi in stile retrò. Protagoniste dello spettacolo alcune delle star più luminose del neo burlesque britannico come Chrys Columbine, Amber Topaz, Kiki Kaboom, Miss Hotcake Kitty e Ginger Blush.
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Uno spettacolo teatrale frizzante, ironico e sensuale con le star neo-burlesque
Direttamente dai palchi del West End a Londra, "An Evening of Burlesque" arriva in Italia con uno spettacolo frizzante e di gusto e con un cast di eleganti showgirl che incarnano lo charme parigino e il glamour di Las Vegas in una combinazione di sensualità, arguzia, magia, ballo e favolosi costumi in stile retrò.
An Evening of Burlesque è uno spettacolo frizzante e di gusto che, in una combinazione di commedia, malizia e talento vocale, porta sul palco del Teatro Smeraldo l'affascinante arte del burlesque con un cast di eleganti showgirl che incarnano lo charme parigino e il glamour di Las Vegas in una combinazione di sensualità, arguzia, magia, ballo e favolosi costumi in stile retrò. Protagoniste dello spettacolo alcune delle star più luminose del neo burlesque britannico come Chrys Columbine, Amber Topaz, Kiki Kaboom, Miss Hotcake Kitty e Ginger Blush.
File name: 06_10_021001
Title: Entrance to Fort Lee, Va.
Created/Published: Pub. by Petersburg News Agency, Petersburg, VA. 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
Subject: Military facilities
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
Group of officers of the 9th Rifle Brigade bathing in a stream behind the lines are (left to right, excluding the two obscured faces): Captain Arthur Mckinstry, wounded (date unknown), Second Lieutenant William Hesseltine, killed (August 21, 1916), Captain William Purvis, wounded September 15, 1916), Second Lieutenant Joseph Buckley, killed (December 23, 1917), Lieutenant Morris Heycock, wounded (August 22, 1916), (Two obscured faces behind him unknown), Captain Eric Parsons, killed (September 15, 1916), Second Lieutenant Sidney Smith (in background) killed (August 25, 1916) and Second Lieutenant Walter Elliott, killed (November 20, 1916).
'Tis an honor to be published in Toyota Trails Magazine. This story and photos appeared in the Nov/Dec 2013 issue.
Photographed by Chris Sikich
Some photos and a review were published by Philadelphia City Paper here: citypaper.net/article.php?Concert-review-photos-Julie-Rui...
No biggie, but my shot of a malfunctioning computer at the Sears Tower Skydeck is on Schmap and now on the iPhone version of the site too!
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Cie des Arts Photomécaniques of 44, Rue Letellier, Paris. The image is a glossy real photograph, and the card has a divided back.
The Prince's Palace of Monaco
The Prince's Palace of Monaco is the official residence of the Sovereign Prince of Monaco. Built in 1191 as a Genoese fortress, during its long and often dramatic history it has been bombarded and besieged by many foreign powers.
Since the end of the 13th. century, it has been the stronghold and home of the Grimaldi family who first captured it in 1297. The Grimaldi ruled the area first as feudal lords, and from the 17th. century as sovereign princes, but their power was often derived from fragile agreements with their larger and stronger neighbours.
Thus while other European sovereigns were building luxurious, modern Renaissance and Baroque palaces, politics and common sense demanded that the palace of the Monegasque rulers be fortified.
This unique requirement, at such a late stage in history, has made the palace at Monaco one of the most unusual in Europe. Indeed, when its fortifications were finally relaxed during the late 18th. century, it was seized by the French and stripped of its treasures, and fell into decline, while the Grimaldi were exiled for over 20 years.
The Grimaldis' occupation of their palace is also unusual because, unlike other European ruling families, the absence of alternative palaces and land shortages have resulted in their use of the same residence for more than seven centuries. Thus, their fortunes and politics are directly reflected in the evolution of the palace.
Whereas the Romanovs, Bourbons, and Habsburgs could, and frequently did, build completely new palaces, the most the Grimaldi could achieve when enjoying good fortune, or desirous of change, was to build a new tower or wing, or, as they did more frequently, rebuild an existing part of the palace.
Thus, the Prince's Palace reflects the history not only of Monaco, but of the family which in 1997 celebrated 700 years of rule from the same palace.
During the 19th. and early 20th. centuries, the palace and its owners became symbols of the slightly risqué glamour and decadence that were associated with Monte Carlo and the French Riviera.
Glamour and theatricality became reality when the American film star Grace Kelly became a chatelaine of the palace in 1956. In the 21st. century, the palace remains the residence of the current Prince of Monaco.
The Car Crash
'To Catch a Thief' (1954) was an Alfred Hitchcock film with Monte Carlo and its famous casino as the setting. It featured Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco, as the stars.
There is a scene in the movie where the-then Grace Kelly drives a car very quickly—and dangerously—along the steep winding roads of Monaco that surround the heights of Monte Carlo; a tragic precursor to her actual fate in 1982.
On the 13th. September 1982, Kelly was driving back to Monaco from her country home in Roc Agel. She lost control of her 1971 Rover P6 and drove off the steep, winding road down the 120 foot (37 m) mountainside.
Her daughter Stéphanie, who was in the passenger seat, tried but failed to regain control of the car. Kelly was taken to the Monaco Hospital (later named the Princess Grace Hospital Centre) with injuries to the brain and thorax and a fractured femur.
Doctors believed that she had suffered a minor stroke while driving. She died the following night aged 52 at 10:55 p.m. after Prince Rainier chose to take her off life support.
Stéphanie suffered light concussion and a hairline fracture of a cervical vertebra, and was unable to attend her mother's funeral.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle 22 Aug 1916 p12.
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.
Public Domain: Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825
by Hall, Manly P. (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990
Published 1600
Published in The Manitoba Co-operator - October 27, 2011
PICKING UP THE PUMPKINS
It was pumpkin-pickin day at Mayfair Farms near Portage la Prairie Oct. 10.
The Postcard
A Kings Series postcard that was published by G. R. Thompson of Llandudno.
The Pier Pavilion Theatre to the left of the Grand Hotel burnt down in 1994.
The card was posted in Llandudno using a ½d. stamp on Friday the 16th. August 1907. It was sent to:
Miss Louie Dearlove,
Walton Lodge,
Boston Spa,
Yorks.
The brief pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Having a good
time.
A. G. L."
Boston Spa
Boston Spa is a village in the Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire. In 1744, John Shires established it as a spa town when he discovered sulphur springs in the magnesian limestone. Spa baths were built to allow visitors to take the waters.
By 1819, Boston Spa had a population of more than 600, and several inns and other houses offering accommodation had been built.
However Boston Spa declined when Harrogate became more popular as a spa town.
The Boston Spa hoard, a Romano-British coin hoard dating to the mid second-century AD was found in 1848. It comprised a grey ware vessel and 172 silver denarii.
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.
Harry Frederick Whitchurch VC
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 16th. August 1907 marked the death of Harry Frederick Whitchurch.
Harry Frederick Whitchurch, who was born in Kensington, London on the 22nd. September 1866, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Whitchurch was 28 years old, and a surgeon-captain in the Medical Service of the Indian Army during the Chitral Expedition of 1895 when, on the 3rd. March, the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. It was published in the London Gazette on the 16th. July 1895:
"During the sortie from Chitral Fort at the commencement of the siege, Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch went to
the assistance of Captain Baird, 24th. Bengal Infantry, who was mortally wounded, and brought him back to
the fort under a heavy fire from the enemy.
Captain Baird had only a small party of Gurkhas and men of the 4th Kashmir Rifles. He was wounded at a
distance of a mile and a half from the fort. When Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch proceeded to his rescue, the
enemy, in great strength, had broken through the fighting line.
Darkness had set in and Captain Baird, Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch, and the sepoys were completely isolated
from assistance. Captain Baird was placed in a dooly by Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch, and the party then
attempted to return to the fort.
The Gurkhas bravely clung to the dooly until three were killed and a fourth was severely wounded.
Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch then put Captain Baird upon his back and carried him some distance with heroic
courage and resolution. The little party kept diminishing in numbers, being fired at the whole way.
On one or two occasions Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch was obliged to charge walls, from behind which the
enemy kept up an incessant fire. At one place particularly the whole party was in imminent danger of being
cut up, having been surrounded by the enemy.
Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch gallantly rushed the position, and eventually succeeded in getting Captain Baird
and the sepoys into the fort. Nearly all the party were wounded, Captain Baird receiving two additional wounds
before reaching the fort."
Harry Whitchurch was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, on the 27th July 1895.
-- The Death of Harry Frederick Whitchurch
Harry later achieved the rank of Surgeon-Major, and died at the age of 40 in Dharmsala, Punjab, India from enteric fever. He was laid to rest in the churchyard of St. John in the Wilderness, Dharmsala.
Harry's VC forms part of the Lord Ashcroft collection in the Imperial War Museum, London.
Publish! New players, new innovations, 19 July 2012 (St Bride Foundation, London). Hosted by Media Futures, The Media Society and the St Bride Foundation.
DROWNING in a SEA of PLASTIC
written and illustrated by © Phillip Hughes, originally published in Argus, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, NOV 1974
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