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My diary for 2012. Each month has my favourite photos attached to it.
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Happy New Year!
THE BIG PICTURE
Season's Greetings
It's been a different - and difficult - year, but the Christmas season is brightening spirits.
My pic was the winner of the daily contest with the theme- Horizons. It had won from among 300+ entries.
Unlike many other sites which depend on voting and response... the winners here are selected on the basis of qualities in the photograph and is judged by Photography gurus of the academy. That makes the contest... unbiased and all the more respected.
Self published, but still! She has written a book highlighting her adventures during 365 days of photos.
Bunion cartoons created by George Martin were published in my local newspaper The Leicester Mercury.
cartoon about Roman parade armour. One cavalryman is saying to the other 'I was just passing this little armourers shop in verulamium and I saw them...greaves to die for'.
The Postcard
A postcard that was printed and published by J. Salmon of Sevenoaks. The image is from an original 1909 painting by A. Harding Northwood.
The card was posted in Sevenoaks using a halfpenny stamp on Monday the 30th. August 1909. It was sent to:
Mrs. Newington,
Melson Cottage,
Wadhurst,
Sussex.
The message on the divided back was as follows:
"Dear A,
Arrived quite safe.
Dad says he is not
drunk yet.
We are just going
for a walk.
Love to both and a
kiss for Maggie.
From Mum & Dad."
The Witch's Oak
The huge oak, known for centuries as "The Old Oak,' but popularly called "The Witch's Oak", is one of Knole Park's great "lost" trees. The legend tells of a young tousle-haired local lass who fell in love with Richard Sackville, Third Earl of Dorset. Sadly for her he married the far more noble Lady Anne Clifford in 1609.
However the scorned girl had supernatural powers, and she placed a curse on Knole. Never again, she swore, would Knole have an immediate heir to the title. In fact the three sons of her object of desire, Richard Sackville, died in infancy, and he himself left this world in 1624 aged only 34, after “a surfeit of potatoes” (amongst other excesses).
Further misfortunes followed, including the death in 1815 of George, Fourth Duke of Dorset, who had his spine crushed by a falling horse in a hunting accident. Since the witch's curse, the issue of inheritance at Knole has been a constant source of contention, "moving crab-like from generation to generation".
The witch vowed never to leave the park, so where is she now?
Gnarled and sinister-looking, its huge hollow frame supported by wooden staves and bound in an iron girdle, The Old Oak was fancifully described in early postcards as "The oldest oak in England". Ancient it certainly was: even 360 years ago it was known as "The Old Oak".
It stood not far from the house, to the north of Echo Mount, together with King John's Oak and King Beech. They were important enough to show on the Ordnance Survey map of 1869.
Nan Horns and All: "The Old Woman Who Lived in the Tree." Nan Horns and All (so called because she was never seen without her hair in stiff curl papers) lived for many years in The Old Oak's hollow bole in the early 19th. century. She worked as a "potman", serving at the old Wheatsheaf Inn which stood in London Road.
Woe betide any passing kids who called her by her nick-name. They were soon seen off with a barrage of stones.
The tree was vandalised in 1954.
Knole
Henry VIII acquired Knole from Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1538 for hunting purposes, and he then set about enlarging and improving the house and grounds. Earlier, the estate had been bought and the first house built by Archbishop Thomas Bourchier between 1456 and his death in 1486.
Though Elizabeth I subsequently presented it to her cousin Thomas Sackville, later 1st. Earl of Dorset, in 1566 he was not able to occupy it until he bought back the lease in 1603. Over the next two years the house underwent a transformation into a great Renaissance palace, and it largely remains unaltered from that time.
Throughout part of the seventeenth century, occupation by the Sackville family was intermittent, possibly due to lack of money, and it was sometimes leased.
It was not until the beginning of the eighteenth century that the 6th. Earl and later his son, the 7th. Earl, used the house as their principal residence, renovating, improving and embellishing what the 1st. Earl had initiated.
The family have lived at Knole ever since, but owing to the burden of upkeep and protecting the valuable collections within the house, they presented it (with the walled garden) to the National Trust in 1946, in exchange for a generous lease of 200 years.
-- More on Knole House
The excellent shelleyshouse.blogspot.com provides some fascinating information about Knole. Here are some of the highlights:
Virginia Woolf, describing Knole in her novel Orlando, 1928 wrote:
"The great house lay more like a town
than a house...with all its chimneys
smoking busily as if inspired with a life
of their own."
Underneath the Knole rooftops lies a labyrinth of apartments, each containing several rooms. These apartments once housed hundreds of people including high status staff, visitors and family members. The Sackville-West family still live in apartments here, over 400 years since the first family member lived in Knole.
Knole house stands on five acres of ground, around the size of three and a half football pitches.
There are over 300 rooms.
Knole has 51 chimneys.
The problem for me about Knole was that at the beginning of the tour most things were covered with dust sheets, in glass cases. I found it hilarious that there were signs on a lot of pieces (like enormous vases, or ornate chairs) printed with the word 'salvage'. I had to ask what this was about as I wondered if these items had been picked up from a salvage yard, though it seemed unlikely.
Turns out there is a very particular protocol in the event of a fire or other disaster about what will be saved first, and these labels referred to the priority of the items in that protocol.
Knole Park is the home of a wild deer herd. They are the descendants of those first introduced here over 500 years ago. It is Kent's last remaining medieval deer park.
Henry VIII stated in 1532:
"And as for Knole it standeth on a sound perfect,
wholesome ground. And if I should make mine
abode here, as I do surely mind to do now and
then, I myself will lie at Knole."
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer surrendered Knole to Henry VIII. The king purchased more land, and by 1556 Knole Park covered 446 acres. Today Knole Park covers 1,000 acres. It is 7.5 times bigger than St James' Park in London.
There are over 350 wild deer in Knole Park.
I remember an old bed (you know, the kind with curtains) still in pieces, being cleaned by a young man. He was using just water, and just rubbing the black pieces of wood; I think he said it was walnut, but I'm not sure. He told us that the Knole attics were so vast they still hadn't been fully explored and all the findings catalogued, even though the National Trust acquired the place in 1946 (over 70 years ago!).
In another room there was a bed covered and curtained with some sort of holey green fabric. The guide there explained that some inexperienced restorers from some workers' cooperative had used modern glue to stick the fabric back onto the wood, rather than the old fashioned fish glue.
This modern glue had eaten the fabric, and they were painstakingly trying to restore the old cloth. I had two thoughts at the time. One was how quickly they were ready to name and blame outsiders; the other was the enormous expense of restoring such a large amount of fabric. I would just frame a square or two and put up modern fabric, a copy of the original. Probably best that I don't work in restoration, eh?
Knole House is called a Calendar House, that is a house that has architectural features in quantities that mirror the numbers in a year. Knole reportedly has 365 rooms, 52 stair cases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards (give or take).
One more thing that has come back to me is one of the guides telling me about a Knole couch. If you ever watched/drooled over Downton Abbey you know exactly what one looks like (the big red one to the left of the fireplace in the library).
Visitors from the local area and further afield have enjoyed access to Knole Park since the 17th. century. A dispute over public right of way led to Mortimer, 1st Lord Sackville, closing the park in June 1884. Local people were furious, and on the night of the 18th. June 1884, over a thousand people stormed the park. They broke down barricades before marching to the front of the house. The town's people smashed windows and hurled abuse.
-- Knole and The Beatles
Knole was the setting for the filming in January 1967 of the Beatles' videos that accompanied the release of "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever".
The stone archway through which the four Beatles rode on horses can still be seen on the southeastern side of the Bird House, which itself is on the southeastern side of Knole House.
The same visit to Knole Park inspired another Beatles song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!," which John Lennon wrote after buying an 1843 poster in a nearby antiques shop that advertised Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal.
A Gusher in Russia
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 30th. August 1909, a gusher at the Maikop oil field in Russia rose to a height of 65 metres (213 ft), but most of the well's contents were lost because the operators had not made preparations to store it.
A New Battleship
Also on that day, the German battleship Helgoland was launched at Kiel, the first of a new class of ships with larger guns and improved propulsion.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Also on the 30th. August 1909, in Fez, Morocco, the consuls of France, Great Britain and Spain presented a letter of protest to the Sultan.
They demanded the abolition of the practice of mutilation and slow death as punishment.
The initiative took place twenty days after more than 30 convicted criminals had hands or feet amputated before being left to die.
A Gift of Cherry Trees
Also on that day, the city of Tokyo announced a gift of cherry trees to be planted at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
The gift was paid for, anonymously, by Jokichi Takamini, the millionaire chemist who invented synthetic epinephrine.
Photograph published 4th September 1916.
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 recognize anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Published at Smart Meetings Magazine - Aug 2009 Issue
Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline
East Bay Regional Park
The Postcard
A postally unused Milton View Series postcard published by Woolstone Bros. of London E.C. The card was printed in Saxony prior to June 1918.
Although the card was not posted, someone has used a pen to write a name and address on the back:
Miss May Hodgson,
31, Kilbourn Street,
Nottingham.
Beddington Park
Beddington Park was the former manor house of the Carew family, lost to money lenders and bad debts by Charles Hallowell Carew in the 1850's.
The Domesday Book mentions two Beddington estates, and these were united by Nicholas Carew to form Carew Manor in 1381. The Manor, once a medieval moated house, was home to the Royal Female Orphanage from 1866 until 1968. It now contains council offices and Carew Manor School.
In about 1591 Sir Walter Raleigh secretly, and without royal permission, married one of Queen Elizabeth I's maids of honour, Elizabeth Throckmorton of Carew Manor. Raleigh spent time in the Tower of London for this, and Elizabeth was expelled from the court, but the marriage appears to have been a genuine love-match and survived the imprisonment.
A popular story is that when Raleigh was beheaded by James I in 1618, Elizabeth claimed his embalmed head and kept it in a bag for the rest of her life. His body was buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster, and after his wife's death 29 years later, Raleigh's head was returned to his tomb and interred at St. Margaret's Church. Local myths claim the head remains in Beddington Park, or was inherited by his son and buried with him.
The Grade I Listed great hall (or banqueting hall), containing a fine hammerbeam roof, survives from the mediaeval house. In the grounds are part of the orangery built in the early 18th. century around orange trees planted by Sir Francis Carew (claimed to be the first planted in England) and an early 18th.-century Grade II* listed dovecote.
Archaeologists have recently discovered a Tudor garden including a grotto at Carew Manor, believed to have been created by Sir Francis Carew in the 16th. century. Its exact location has not being disclosed in order to protect it from looting.
St. Mary's Church
The Grade II* listed 14th.-century flint parish church of St. Mary's occupies a prominent position in Beddington Park, immediately south of what is now Carew Manor School.
It contains an organ screen by William Morris. The church is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons:
-- It has substantial amounts of fabric from the 14th. and 15th. centuries.
-- It has two lych gates.
-- It was extensively restored and provided with an extremely elaborate and interesting mid-Victorian decorative scheme.
-- It has monuments and other fixtures of importance from circa 1200 to the 20th. century, including Carew tombs and the font.
-- The Morris and Co. organ is of special note.
-- The Last Judgment reredos is unusual.
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i'm so freaking excited. this is such a great way to start off my spring break.
Published 14/11/1917
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.
Published by Dover Publications, New York. Features the King family and clothes. Outfits have tabs and dolls are ready to cut out and dress. Softcover book measures 12-1/4" x 9-1/4" and is in near mint condition.
Photograph published 30/10/1918
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 recognize anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
my first published picture in a magazine from Germany, you can see their website here - www.eclipsed.de/
a german company, Bärbel Drexel, requested to use my pic of an opuntia stricta in a calendar. all i requested as payment (since they couldn't offer anything else) was credit for the photo and a calendar.
i'm really excited about having a photo published in a calendar like this. :) yay july!
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle August 1916.
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.