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Retired school principal Yvonne Knight-Carter's family land qualifies for implementation and maintenance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Conservation Practice Firebreak (Code 394) on the forested land behind her childhood home and other neighboring family homes, near Moncks Corners, SC, on November 19, 2020. The firebreak line marks the stop of a lightning strike fire that threatened the homes and surrounding area. Today, a bulldozer refreshes and widens the firebreak to the full specification of a forester’s conservation firebreak plan.
She works with NRCS Soil Conservationist Jabril Wright worked with Ms. Knight-Carter during her application and conducts site visits to ensure state and local coordination and work is happening as planned. For more information about NRCS Firebreaks and associated practices, please go to nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/nra/?cid=nrcs144p2_027147. USDA Media by Lance Cheung.
Delaware Natural Resources & Environmental Control
Chevrolet Tahoe
State Park Ranger
Picture Date: 08/28/2011
The aftermath of Hurricane Irene caused major flooding in some parts of Delaware. Here, a DNREC Officer shuts down a bridge due to flooding on the other side.
My wife brought this flower home yesterday for me to exploit, and it's huge. About the size of a dinner plate. The botanical name for the flower is Magnolia grandiflora, but I used creative license and employed a more made up name.
Lighting stuff for those who care: Simple lighting with one YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox at camera left about 6 inches from the flower. I used side lighting because it creates the shadows that reveal shapes and texture. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Anacortes Community Forest Lands. Taken from our backyard.
"About 30 firefighters from the Department of Natural Resources and Skagit County Fire District 11 are responding to the fire. An additional 20 DNR firefighters are expected to arrive from Eastern Washington on Friday afternoon, with more set to arrive Saturday.
Two helicopters from the DNR are responding to the blaze, each dropping between 250 and 300 gallons of water onto the fire each time" -goskagit.com
Original Caption: Part of conservation zone along highway 72. Land use in this area is controlled by the State Department of Land and Natural Resources, October 1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-11314
Photographer: O'Rear, Charles, 1941-
Subjects:
Oahu (Honolulu County, Hawaii) island
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/553773
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Victorville, Ca is flat and dry which is perfect for an MRO service provider. These conditions provide minimum wear an tear equipment and vehicles while outside the hangars.
Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Netherlands speaking during the Session: Restoring Ocean Resources at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
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Impression from the Session: Cyber War at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary the Session: Cyber War at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary the Session: Restoring Ocean Resources at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
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THE DALLES, Ore. – Noah Williams loves it when people tell him he can’t do something.
Like when people say there’s no way he can make cover crops work in a dryland wheat cropping system. “It’s my motivation to find a way to do it,” he says. “I like the challenge.”
Noah is working with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Wasco Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) to try some new, innovative approaches to build healthier soil on his farm. “I’ve been told that cover cropping can’t work in our area, but I believe it can—we just have to change our mindset,” Noah says.
Pictured: Noah Williams examines his wheat crop in a field previously planted with cover crops. He said the wheat in the control area,
close to where he's standing in this photo, turned yellow much faster than the wheat in cover cropped areas. The wheat in the cover cropped areas (pictured behind Williams) stayed green longer into the season and appeared to handle stress better.
Ontario, California is a large city east of Los Angeles, with a population of more than 170,000, and covers nearly 50 square miles in the Southern California valley known as the Inland Empire, on Nov. 13, 2018. In here is, Huerta del Valle (HdV) where Co-Founder and Executive Director Maria Alonso and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Redlands District Conservationist Tomas Aguilar-Campos works closely with her as she continues to improve the 4-Acre organic Community Supported Garden and Farm in the middle of the city's low-income urban community
USDA NRCS has helped with hoop houses to extend the growing season, low-emission tractor replacement to efficiently move bulk materials and a needed micro-irrigation system for this San Bernardino County location that is in a severe drought condition (drought.gov). Huerta del Valle is also a recipient of a 4-year USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Community Food Projects (CFP) grant and a USDA funded California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP). She and her staff grow nearly 150 crops, including papayas and cactus. CSA customers pick up their produce on site, where they can see where their food grows. To pay, they can use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards. The price of a produce box is based on the customerâs income.
Alonsoâs inspiration came from her desire to provide affordable organic food for her child. This lead to collaborators that included students and staff from Pitzer College's âPitzer in Ontario Programâ and the Claremont Colleges, who implemented a project plan and started a community garden at a public school. Shortly after that, the City of Ontario was granted $1M from the Kaiser Permanente Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Zone initiative. Huerta del Valle was granted $68,000 from that grant for a three-year project to increase the scale of operation. The city of Ontario supported the project above and beyond the grant by providing a vacant piece of land next to a residential park and community center. Alonso says that this spot, nestled near an international airport, two major interstate highways, suburban homes, and warehouses, is a âgreen space to breathe freely.â
She far exceeded Kaiser's expectations by creating 60 10â X 20â plots that are in full use by the nearby residents. Because of the demand, there is a constant waiting list for plots that become available.
As the organization grew, it learned about the NRCS through an advertisement for the high-tunnel season extension cost-sharing program. The ad put them in touch with the former district manager Kim Lary who helped Huerta del Valle become federal grant ready with their Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) and System for Award Management (SAM) registrations and connected the young organization to NRCS as well as the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District (IERCD.) Since then, Alonso has worked closely with them sharing her knowledge with a broader community including local colleges such as the Claremont Colleges and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).
Cal Poly Pomona is an example where education institutions help the community. Cal Poly Pomona Plant Science Nursery Manager Monica Salembier has produced plant seedlings (plant trays) for transplant at HdV for many years. Aaron Fox and Eileen Cullen in the Plant Science department have hosted HdV in their classes and brought many groups on tours of the farm to learn about sustainable urban growing practices.
The centrally located garden, the shaded picnic tables have been the site of three USDA NRCS workshops for regional farmers, students, and visitors. The site also serves as a showcase for students and other producers who may need help with obtaining low-emission tractors, micro-irrigation, and high tunnel âhoop houses.â
Alonso says, âevery day is a good day, but especially at the monthly community meetings where I learn from my community.â
For more information, please see www.usda.gov and www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/community-supported-agriculture
Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Departmentâs focal point for the nationâs farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.
The agencies and service supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
Natural Resources Conservation Service has a proud history of supporting Americaâs farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.
As the USDAâs primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science.
And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.
For more information, please see www.usda.gov.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Te Huur: Heerenbehuizing Heereweg 49, hoek Barestraat, bewoond geweest door de heer De Sitter. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 9-3-1905:
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Vermoedelijk is hij Willem De Sitter, astronoom, assistent Rijksuniversiteit, geb. Sneek 6-5-1872, ovl. Leiden 20-11-1934, tr. Kaapstad 6-12-1898 Eleonore Suermondt, geb. Soerabaja 16-11-1870, ovl. Leiden 20-11-1952:
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Hij stamt af van Willem de Sitter, President van de Rechtbank, ovl. Groningen 7-6-1827, oud 76 jaar, en van Maria Albertina Johanna de Drews, geb. Groningen 5-3-1756, ovl. Midlaren 4-6-1828:
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Links stond het Café en de Concertzaal "Krasnapolsky" van Johs. Bierling (1856-1919), later "Frascati", "Ons Huis" en "Apollo", voorheen het Koffijhuis "Schoonoord" van zijn vader. Johs' schoonzoon Harry Verkade regisseerde in 1925 de première van "Het Peerd van Ome Loeks" in Utrecht.
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"Apollo is niet meer" (met foto). Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 10-2-1981: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011008157:mpeg21:a0221
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Afbraak pand Heereweg, hoek Baresteeg NZ, van Sigarenmagazijn B.H. Veldman (Baresteeg wordt dan Barestraat): hdl.handle.net/21.12105/0729c47c-5d7d-f584-b91a-eb0ed21ec5e3
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Tolboom bij de Barestraat. Lezing van Mr. J.A. Feith. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 4-11-1891: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010890112:mpeg21:a0001
Publieke Verkoping ten huize van J.P. Haarsma, Hereweg Z 43 westzijde. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 18-4-1891: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010890075:mpeg21:a0021
A. Lanting, Hereweg Z 43. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 28-8-1895: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010885655:mpeg21:a0047
Vermoedelijk is hij architect Albert Lanting, geb. Hoogkerk, ovl. Groningen 4-5-1893, oud 41 jaar.
Aanvraag van A. Lanting d.d. 2-6-1892 voor verbouw en bouw bovenwoning op adres Hereweg (Kad. C 2236, C 2237), met 1 tekening:
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Wed. A. Lanting, Hereweg. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
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De heer Wieringa, Hereweg Z 43. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 6-12-1896: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010883637:mpeg21:a0055
In het pand Hereweg 43, hoek Barestraat NZ (rechts op de foto), zat in 1907 de Barbier Friedrich Carl Michaël, geb. Groningen 29-1-1866, ovl. Wolvega 15-4-1954, zoon van muzikant Heinrich Friedrich Carl Michaël; vanaf 1914 was hier de Salon voor Scheren en Haarsnijden van J. Woldring gevestigd.
Kapper L.H. Becherer, Hereweg 43 Groningen. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 30-5-1947: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010887017:mpeg21:a0022
Louis Henderikus Becherer, geb. 's-Gravenhage ca. 1914, ovl. Groningen 15-5-1989.
Bouwvergunning verleend aan de Stichting Centraal Woningbeheer voor het veranderen van de woningen Hereweg 43-43a (Kad. C 8723) 1976-1980:
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Het pand Hereweg 45 (Sigarenmagazijn Bernard Hendrik Veldman) is in 1926/27 gesloopt om van de Baresteeg een bredere straat te maken.
Op 12-5-1894 opende Wm. Aldershoff hier zijn derde Tabak-, Sigaren- en Sigarettenmagazijn. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 11-5-1894: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010895409:mpeg21:a0046
Aanvraag van W. Aldershoff voor aanbrengen winkelpui in voorgevel op adres Hereweg Z 176 op 23-4-1894:
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Aanvraag van J. Krooder voor ijzeren pennen op dorpel kozijn op adres Hereweg 45 op 19-4-1906.
Sigarenfabrikant Willem Aldershoff, geb. Groningen 28-9-1855, ovl. Zuidlaren 21-12-1928, oud 73 jaar, was vanaf 1914 eigenaar van "Klein Laarwoud" in Zuidlaren: www.flickr.com/photos/148859204@N07/35495981741/
Verkoop Winkelbehuizing Heereweg 45, hoek Barestraat voor f. 4550. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 22-12-1915: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010667602:mpeg21:a0064
Nieuwe Vleeschhouwerij van J. Benes, Heereweg 47, hoek Barestraat. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 3-11-1899 en 9-10-1904: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010886463:mpeg21:a0048
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Johannes Bierling is een zoon van Roelf Bierling, koffijhuishouder Buiten de Heerepoort, letter Z, nr. 31 (1859), geb. Groningen 31-8-1815, ovl. Groningen (Buiten de Heerepoort, letter Z, nr. 31) 12-6-1870, oud 54 jaar, en van Fennechien Meijer uit Dilgt/Haren.
In 1832 was de wedw. Johanna van de Lande-Brade eigenaresse van het huis Kad. C 452, art. 1441, en tuin, Kad. C 451, art. 1441, staande en gelegen op de hoek van de Straatweg WZ en de Baresteeg ZZ.
Zij was renteniersche, geb. Willemstad, ovl. Groningen 6-2-1840, oud 82 jaar, weduwe van Abraham van de Lande, van Paramaribo, gewoond hebbende Buiten Heere Poort, begr. Groningen 10-10-1808, oud bijna 49 jaar.
Johanna Brade is een dochter van Christiaan Johan Brade, chirurgijn-majoor, en Jacoba Frederika Richter.
Te Koop; Heeren Behuizing met een grooten Tuin buiten de Heerepoort lett. T no. 113V, eigendom van de Wedw. v.d. Lande c.s. Groninger Courant van 17-12-1833.
Overeenkomst tussen Johanna Brade, weduwe van Abraham van de Lande, en haar zoon Cornelis Frans van de Lande, waarbij laatstgenoemde zijn moeder tegen een vaste jaarlijkse uitkering in het rustig bezit en genot laat van zijn aandeel in de nalatenschap zijns vaders en het fidei-commis, ingesteld door Catharina Adriana van de Lande, gescheiden huisvrouw van mr. W.P. Visscher, 1827: www.groningerarchieven.nl/zoeken/mais/archief/?mivast=5&a...
Dienstjaar 1834: verkoop aan de koopman Harm Harms Nap, later diens weduwe:
Harm Harms Nap, negotiant, President der Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken en Lid van de Gemeenteraad van Groningen, geb. Nieuwe Pekela , ovl. Groningen (Grootemarkt 4) 10-6-1832, oud 65 jaar, gehuwd met Elisabeth Derks Hesseling, geb. Oude Pekela, ovl. Groningen 6-12-1847, oud 74 jaar, laatst gewoond hebbende in de Heerestraat F 308, dochter van Derk Hesselink, koopman en Johanna Margaretha Kamminga:
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Dienstjaar 1838: aanbouw en splitsing, percelen worden dan C 818 en C 819.
Dienstjaar 1853: scheiding, eigenaars dochter Johanna Margaretha Nap en echtgenoot, de kapitein Johan Frederik Willem Veeren.
Johanna Margaretha Nap, geb. Nieuwe Pekela, ovl. Groningen 23-7-1878, oud 75 jaar, weduwe van Johannes Frederik Willem Veeren, geb. Lochem 21-10-1800.
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Dienstjaar 1857: verkoop aan Roelof Bierling, moesker. Dienstjaar 1858: wijziging tenaamstelling, Roelof Bierling blijkt kastelein.
Dienstjaar 1861: bijbouw, huis en erf wordt C 1117, tuinhuis C 1116, tuin wordt C1115.
Het kleine en grote huis en erven op de andere hoek van de Straatweg WZ en de Baresteeg NZ, Kad. C 426 en 427, art. 224, waren toen eigendom van koemelker Louwe Harms Bolhuis, geb. Euvelgunne gem. Noorddijk, ovl. Groningen (buiten de Heerepoort, letter Z, nr. 41) 28-11-1855, oud 78 jaar.
Deze twee huizen stonden tussen de Baresteeg en de Aduardersteeg.
Te Koop: Van ouds een beklant Wrongelhuis en Herberg aan de Westzijde van de Straatweg, hoek Baresteeg, in huur bewoond door Roelof Bierling en anderen, nagelaten door wijlen Louwe Harms Bolhuis en Egbertje Jans Zuidema. Groninger Courant van 23-12-1855 en 16-1-1856:
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Hoornmuziek van het 7de Regement Inf. in de Tuin van het Koffijhuis "Schoon Oord" van R. Bierling buiten de Heerepoort. Groninger Courant van 31-5-1857 en 28-6-1857: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010772682:mpeg21:a0004
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Aanvraag van R. Bierling voor bouw kamer op adres buiten de Herepoort op 19-9-1859.
Aanvraag van R. Bierling voor aanbouw huis op adres Hereweg-Baresteeg op 30-9-1861.
Aanvraag van kastelein R. Bierling voor nieuwe zaal timmeren op adres Baresteeg Z..., op 10-3-1865.
Aanvraag van wed. R. Bierling voor vernieuwen voorgevel op adres Hereweg Z 31 wz op 24-9-1870.
Aanvraag van wed. R. Bierling voor voorgevel vernieuwen op adres Herepoort Z 31 op 3-10-1870.
Aanvraag van R. Bierling voor maken bakkerij, vernieuwen stoep op adres Hereweg Z 39-40/Baresteeg ? op 29-1-1872.
Aanvraag van wed. R. Bierling voor plaatsen lichtkozijns zijgevel op adres Baresteeg Z 40 op 3-10-1878.
Aanbesteding van de sloop bestaand koffiehuis met bijgebouwen en het ter plaatse bouwen van een café met bovenwoning en concertzaal, winkelbehuizing met bovenwoningen en zes woonhuizen met bovenwoningen voor Joh. Bierling. De Telegraaf van 6-4-1899: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110542067:mpeg21:a0096
Aanvraag van Joh. Bierling voor bouw koffiehuis op adres Hereweg en Barestraat (Kad. C 2277, C 3184, C 3185) op 23-3-1899 (met 2 bouwtekeningen):
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Dansles van Van Coevorden in de nieuwe Concertzaal van Johs. Bierling. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden 31-10-1899: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010886460:mpeg21:a0043
Nieuwe Concertzaal van Café "Krasnapolsky" aan de Heereweg van Johs. Bierling. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 23-8-1899, 15-10-1899:
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Feestavond in de Harmonie. 't Peerd van Ome Loeks. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 4-9-1922: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010667912:mpeg21:a0084
Muziekkorps speelt 't Peerd van Ome Loeks. De Tijd van 30-8-1923: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010530742:mpeg21:a0010
Peerd van Ome Loeks door K. ter Laan opgenomen in het Nieuw Groninger Woordenboek, 3de aflevering; J.B. Wolters Groningen. De Noord-Ooster van 24-2-1925: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMVEEN01:000080371:mpeg21:a0009
Peerd van Ome Loeks in Drenthe. "Van José en Carlos, van Pedro en Sambos (de reizende Asser Muzikanten)". Provinciale Drentsche en Asser Courant van 4-8-1923: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMDA03:000109872:mpeg21:a0039
Nieuw toneelstuk "Ome Loeks, blied Grönneger spultje van aarven en vryen in drai bedrieven" van Geert Teis Pzn, opgedragen aan de Vereeniging Groningen en Ommelanden te Utrecht, met het recht van eerste uitvoering. Die vond plaats in de Stadsschouwburg o.l.v. regisseur H.A.M. Verkade op 28-11-1925.
Op 22-3-1924 verhuisde Gerhard Willem Spitzen, alias Geert Teis Pzn, van Den Haag naar Soestdijk (Julianaplein 1).
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Recensie in het Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad van 30-11-1925:
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De hoofdpersoon is rentenier Loeks Glunder.
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Regisseur H.A.M. Verkade is Henricus Augustinus Maria (Harry) Verkade, handelsreiziger (1908), winkelbediende in Utrecht, winkelbediende in Rotterdam (woonde in de Hoogstraat 153 bij Mohrmann), handelsreiziger in Rotterdam (woonde Boompjes 21 bij Deen), verkoopdirecteur van de N.V. Bataafsche Rubber Industrie (Maastricht) in Amsterdam, geb. Appingedam 7-9-1879, ovl. Rotterdam 25-10-1938, oud 59 jaar, woonachtig in Amsterdam (1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 57), zoon van Joannes Henricus Verkade, sigarenfabrikant, geb. Appingedam, en van Gergine Josephine de Chateau, geb. Leeuwarden, echtgenoot van Pietronella Bierling, geb. Groningen 24-3-1883, ovl. Groningen 27-7-1966, oud 83 jaar, dochter van koffijhuishouder en caféhouder Johannes Bierling, geb. Groningen 16-8-1856. ovl. Groningen 26-4-1919, oud 62 jaar, en van Jaapkien Bouman, geb. Groningen 19-8-1856, ovl. Groningen 2-3-1905, dochter van vleeschhouwer Geert Bouman.
Zijn broer Antonius Johannes Maria Verkade, handelsreiziger, geb. Appingedam 2-8-1882, ovl. Amsterdam 13-12-1937, speelde in 1929 de hoofdrol van Mans Wils, met de toneelclub "Geert Teis Pzn", in het toneelstuk "Dizzepie Dizzepu" van Geert Teis Pzn. in de Stadschouwburg. De Tijd van 15-5-1920: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010406257:mpeg21:a0092
Johannes is een kleinzoon van Jan Bierling, kastelein, tuinier, ged. Groningen 22-2-1793, ovl. Groningen 18-11-1880, oud 87 jaar, zoon van Roelof Bierling, moesker (in 1832 Kad. Groningen B 395, art. 144) en Grietje Bierling, gehuwd met Aaffien Hulscher, ged. Groningen 11-9-1795.
Jan Bierling was eigenaar van een herberg en koemelkerij in de Brandenburgersteeg, tussen de Heere- en Oosterpoorten: www.flickr.com/photos/hans_r_van_der_woude/37072826260/
Hof "La Solitude" buiten de Ooster-poort van Jan Bierling. Groninger Courant van 22-12-1829: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010773481:mpeg21:a0004
Koffijhuis "La Solitude" buiten de Ooster-poort. Groninger Courant van 3-2-1832: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010774207:mpeg21:a0002
Oplaten van een Luchtbol bij Kastelein J. Bierling in de Herberg "La Solitude" bij de Oosterpoort. Groninger Courant van 15-6-1838: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010771847:mpeg21:a0017
Muziek in den Tuin van Grand Café Johs. Bierling, Heereweg, hoek Baresteeg, ter gelegenheid van den Pleiziertrein.
Leeuwarder Courant van 1-9-1884: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010588931:mpeg21:a0018
Familie Korinsky en Mr. Williams, Amerikaansche Negerdanser, treden op in Grand Café Johs. Bierling aan de Heereweg. Leeuwarder Courant van 2-10-1886: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010589574:mpeg21:a0032
Johannes Bierling heeft een Gymnastiektoestel en een Hollandsche Schommel in zijn fraaien tuin bij het café aan de Heereweg in Groningen geplaatst. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 14-7-1888: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010882639:mpeg21:a0006
Café-Concertzaal "Krasnapolsky" van Johs. en Joha. Bierling-Nusmeijer aan de Heereweg 49. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 23-5-1903 en 1-1-1911:
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Gemaskerd bal in "Krasnapolsky". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 6-3-1907: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010894390:mpeg21:a0032
Publieke verkoping, op verzoek van E.J. Albers, van Koffiehuis "Frascati," met grote Concertzaal, aan de Hereweg 49, een Winkelhuis op nr. 47, hoek Barestraat, en zes Huizen in de Barestraat 2-12. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden 7-12-1912: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010666635:mpeg21:a0071
Café "Kras" in de Gelkingestraat 19 van Johs. Bierling. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 31-12-1913.
Café "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg, vroeger Café Bierling. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 1-11-1913: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010667405:mpeg21:a0148
Concertzaal "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 13-12-1913: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010667441:mpeg21:a0070
Schouwburgzaal "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 22-12-1914: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010667675:mpeg21:a0038
Café "Ons Huis", vroeger Café Bierling aan de Heereweg 49. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 17-1-1916: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010668238:mpeg21:a0034
Reciteer College Arti et Amicitiae. Opvoering van het toneelspel "Onder één Dak" van Jan Fabricius in "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg.
Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 23-12-1920: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010668222:mpeg21:a0060
Optreden van Toneelvereniging "Jong Gruno" in "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 22-12-1932: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010675521:mpeg21:a0112
Protestvergadering in "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg. De Tribune: soc. dem. weekblad van 19-8-1936: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010482363:mpeg21:a0016
Aanbesteding van de verbouw en modernisering van "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg 49, door architect Tonnis Holthuis K.H.zn, Heereweg 84a. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 15-5-1937: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010673442:mpeg21:a0164
Tonnis Holthuis (1880-1934) is ook de architect van De Oude Drogisterij aan de Lage der A 4. Hij is de zoon van architect K.H. Holthuis (1852-1942), ontwerpers van het pakhuis "Friesland" aan de Aweg 43 in Groningen: www.flickr.com/photos/148859204@N07/33753696602
Gebouw "Apollo", voorheen "Ons Huis" aan de Heereweg. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 20-9-1937: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010676406:mpeg21:a0070
Afbeelding: hdl.handle.net/21.12105/ede3ae74-f27f-77e2-679d-ebc32a9aaa96
Afbeeldingen Concertzaal "Apollo" aan de Hereweg 49, hoek Barestraat, met Circus Elleboog: hdl.handle.net/21.12105/77e7c197-5284-9bb3-836b-948fadda39f2
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Concertzaal "De Jong" voorheen "Apollo" aan de Hereweg. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 21-3-1963: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010678985:mpeg21:a0083
Pink Floyd in Concertzaal De Jong. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 13-9-1969: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011015593:mpeg21:a0067
"Steve Miller Band speelt in Apollo". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 10-9-1971: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011016134:mpeg21:a0289
"Concertzaal in as". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 22-1-1973: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011016554:mpeg21:a0008
"Zaalhouder bekent brandstichting". De Volkskrant van 2-2-1973: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010849467:mpeg21:a0125
"S. Broekema over afgebrande concertzaal: „In kleinere plaats was Apollo dè zaal geweest". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 23-1-1973: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011016555:mpeg21:a0177
"Volgende maand afbraak van Apollo". Afbraak van voormalige concertzaal Apollo en zo'n 15 aangrenzende woningen. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 16-9-1980 en 17-10-1980:
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Henricus Augustinus Maria Verkade is een kleinzoon van Henricus Augustinus Verkade, apotheker, ovl. Appingedam 25-1-1887, oud 75 jaar, en van Antoinetta Ailda Catharina Crone.
Hij is een achterkleinzoon van Joannes Cornelis Verkade, koopman, deurwaarder, ovl. Appingedam 14-3-1864, oud 79 jaar, en van Maria Catharina Ester Hoffs.
Hij is een achterachterkleinzoon van Martinus Verkade, koopman, ovl. Appingedam 11-9-1808, oud 61 jaar, en van Bibiana Sladoot, ovl. Appingedam 13-6-1817, oud 52 jaar.
Hun zoon Harmannus Verkade, geb. Appingedam, ovl. Appingedam 12-5-1824, oud 56 jaar, was logementhouder, gehuwd met Petronella Geerts Buinink. De erven Harmannus Verkade waren in 1832 eigenaar van het huis Kad. D 614, art. 407, grenzend aan de oostzijde van de kerk, bij Wijkstraat 42 (www.hisgis.nl).
Koopman M. Verkade biedt korte en lange Porceleine Pypen te koop aan. Groninger Courant van 21-4-1786: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010107466:mpeg21:a0004
Coopman M. Verkade & Comp. biedt een Cofschip te koop aan. Groninger Courant van 1-1-1799: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010639034:mpeg21:a0275
A. Westermolen van Windeweer neemt het logement "Het Wapen van Leijden" in Appingedam van wijlen H. Verkade over. Groninger Courant van 20-1-1824 en 21-5-1824:
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De Vereniging Groningen en Ommelanden te Utrecht bestond in 1923 5 jaar. De Voorzitter was de heer Riddering en de heer Van Kregten was secretaris, vertaler en regisseur. Hij is Jan Jacobus van Kregten, geb. Groningen 15-7-1873, ovl. Utrecht (van der Mondestraat 72) 8-7-1941.
Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad van 14-12-1923: www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/onderzoek/resultaten/archieven?...
Op 13-12-1923 vertoonde de verening in de Schouwburg het stuk "Hein Roekoe" van J. Fabricius, in het Gronings vertaald; secr. J.J. van Kregten woonde toen in de Valkstraat 14). Utrechts Nieuwsblad van 12-12-1923: www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/onderzoek/resultaten/archieven?...
Groninger Landdag in Utrecht. De voorzitter is Johannes Henderikus Riddering, onderafdelingchef bij de spoorwegen (1926), geb. Groningen 8-6-1868, ovl. Zuilen 19-5-1949, zoon van steenhouwer Jan Riddering. De gasten zijn o.a. de erevoorzitter van de Verenigingen Groningen en Ommelanden, de fabrikant Jan Menzo de Muinck-Keizer, geb. Burum (gem. Kollumerland c.a.) 10-2-1861, ovl. Maarssen 28-9-1932, oud 71 jaar, en G.W. Spitzen (Geert Teis Pzn). Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad van 6-7-1928: www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/onderzoek/resultaten/archieven?...
"Utrecht en z'n Groningers. Vraaggesprek met de Voorzitter van de Utrechtse afdeling van "Groningen en Ommelanden". Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad van 2-12-1947: www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/onderzoek/resultaten/archieven?...
"Wiek van Wiekshörn kwam goed uit de verf. Grönnigers op de planken". Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad van 8-12-1849: www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/onderzoek/resultaten/archieven?...
De Vereniging Groningen en Ommelanden in Utrecht bestaat 10 jaar. De jury van de toneelwedstrijd bestond uit de heren Jan Fabricius, toneelschrijver te Voorburg, geb. Assen 30-9-1871, ovl. Wimborne (Eng) 23-11-1964, K. Ter Laan te Zaandam, en M.H.Werkman, journalist te Zwolle. Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad van 22-6-1928: www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/onderzoek/resultaten/archieven?...
Groninger Landdag en de voorstelling "Hein Roekoe". Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad van 7-7-1828: www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/onderzoek/resultaten/archieven?...
Gedrukte uitgave van de "Krespedentie tusschen Ol Siebngao en Geert Teis Pzn. over 't Epos "Ome Loeks sien peerd is dood" (niet compleet), z.j. :
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Gerhard Willem Spitzen, alias Geert Teis Pzn, onderwijzer in Winschoten, voordracht voor onderwijzer te Leeuwarden (1883), woonachtig in Den Bosch, onderwijzer aan de MULO in Oudewater (1885), woonachtig in Winschoten, leraar HBS te Brielle (1893/94), leraar aan de Landbouwschool in Wageningen (1901), leraar Duits en Nederlands aan een HBS in Den Haag, erelid "grode Plattdütsche Vereen" in Bremen (1922), lid van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde (1925), geb. Stadskanaal 13-11-1864, ovl. Ruurlo (Rusthuis "Quisisana", Groenloseweg 54) 13-3-1945, zoon van Henderikus Johannes Spitzen, koopman, geb. Steenwijkerwold 2-4-1833, ovl. Breda 27-6-1896, en Wilhelmina Catharina Hegge, geb. Wildervank 9-6-1832, ovl. Stadskanaal 14-5-1887, dochter van Gerhardus Hegge, koopman, en Nicola Anna Gesina Sinnige, tr. Onstwedde 20-12-1894 Jantina Elsina Brouwer, geb. Stadskanaal, gem. Onstwedde 17-11-1864, ovl. Ruurlo (Berkelland) 8-2-1941, dochter van Derk Brouwer, landbouwer, vervener, en Margien Spier, dochter van Harm Hendriks Spier, veengebruiker, geb. Stadskanaal, gem. Wildervank en van Lummechien Hendriks van der Borgh, geb. Stadskanaal. gem. Onstwedde.
Gerhard Willem Spitzen is een kleinzoon van Hendrik Spitzen (ook Spitsen), bakker (1833), gemeente-ontvanger, ovl. Tuk (Steenwijkerwold) 10-10-1871, oud 81 jaar, tr. Steenwijkerwold 10-10-1817 Maria Fleer, ovl. Steenwijkerwold 4-6-1851, oud 52 jaar.
Hij is een achterkleinzoon van Jan Jans Spitzen, ovl. Steenwijkerwold 30-1-1825, oud 73 jaar, tr. Wolvega 6-4-1788 Annigje Hendriks Visser, geb. Wolvega, ovl. Steenwijkerwold 1-11-1819, oud 61 jaar. De ouders van Jan Jans Spitzen zijn onbekend.
Erelid "grode Plattdütsche Vereen" Bremen. Geert Teis woonde toen in Den Haag (van Boetzelaerlaan 58 en François Maelsonstraat 39). Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 31-5-1922: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010669508:mpeg21:p003
"Naobetracht'n van de Bremer Weke". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 16-8-1922: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010667896:mpeg21:a0077
Lid Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde. Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant van 10-6-1925: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010027856:mpeg21:a0140
"Derde Groningsche Landdag". Vereeniging Grönneger Spraok. Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant van 3-6-1922: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010026102:mpeg21:a0024
Gerhard Willem Spitzen, alias Geert Teis Pzn, 75 jaar, in zijn huis d'Heerd in Soestdijk.
Algemeen Handelsblad van 13-11-1939: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=KBNRC01:000087729:mpeg21:a0035
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Beknopte autobiografie "1864-1944....Omkieken" en "Geert Teis Pzn, zijn leven en werk", door G.H. Streurman; Uitgave Fa. F. Mulder, Ged. Zuiderdiep 47 in Groningen, 1950.
Het Parool van 24-4-1950: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010829310:mpeg21:a0205
"Gedenkboek Geert Teis Pzn", door G.H. Streurman en J.A. Fijn van Draat; Van der Veen, Winschoten, 1964.
"Gedenkboek uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de honderdste geboortedag van Geert Teis Pzn. ( G.W.Spitzen ) geboren 13 november 1864", door Steurkrab en Fijn van Draat; Veen N.V 1964.
Geert Hendrik Streurman (1892-1976): rkd.nl/explore/artists/75715
Zijn zoon Dirk Gerard Willem Spitzen: resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/spitzen
Geert Teis' allergeestigst blijspel "Ome Loeks". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 6-11-1925: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010668831:mpeg21:a0069
Leeuwarder Courant van 24-12-1928: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010604496:mpeg21:a0136
"De Molleboon". Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche Courant van 25-1-1926: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMHCO01:000083415:mpeg21:a0023
"Grönneger Verainen". Nieuwe Apeldoornsche Courant van
12-5-1926: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMCODA01:000154803:mpeg21:a0009
Gewestelijke bijeenkomst van de Groninger Verenigingen in Noord- en Zuid-Holland en Utrecht, met lunch en toespraken in het Kurhaus in Scheveningen, met de heer Melles uit Rotterdam, mevr. Melles-van der Meulen, schrijfster van Groningse toneelstukken, en met de heer K. ter Laan, voorzitter van het hoofdbestuur. Haagsche Courant van 15-5-1931 (met groepsfoto): resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB04:000147465:mpeg21:a0067
Johannes Melles, adj. inspecteur van politie, directeur Bank van Lening in Rotterdam, schrijver, erevoorzitter van de Groningse Vereniging Gruno (1931), erelid Groninger Genootschap (1937), lid van de Maatschappij van Nederlandse Letterkunde (!958), geb. Groningen 25-12-1897, ovl. 1-4-1969, tr. Groningen 2-8-1920 Jacoba Helena van der Meulen, geb. Leeuwarden 19-3-1898, ovl. Joure (Verpleeghuis "De Flecke", eerder woonachtig in het Servotel in Drachten) 10-10-1987.
Schrijfster C. Melles-van der Meulen in het Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 29-3-1935: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010673607:mpeg21:a0038
"Ter nagedachtenis Johannes Melles, 1897-1969", door mr. W.F. Lichtenauer: rjb.x-cago.com/GARJB/1970/12/19701231/GARJB-19701231-0219...
Kornelis ter Laan, onderwijzer, taalkundige, politicus, geb. Slochteren 8-7-1871, ovl. Utrecht 6-3-1963: www.parlement.com/id/vg09ll2mh80b/k_ter_laan
"De Molleboon". Toneelstukken "Ainigst Kind" en "Verzwegen Stried" van mevr. Melles-van der Meulen. Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche Courant van 28-3-1927 en 10-11-1930: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMHCO01:000084297:mpeg21:a0044
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"Boerenbal in het Kurhaus. Er zijn bals èn bals" (met groepsfoto). Haagsche Courant van 7-8-1933: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB04:000147151:mpeg21:a0098
Vereeniging Groningen voor Den Haag e.o. (secr. Zwarteweg 26). Gröninger Jachtwaide "Waar 't Peerd van Ome Loeks uithangt", een taveerne, waar men fladderak kan drinken....Ir. B.J. Moltke maakte het uithangbord 't Peerd van Oome Loeks in al zijn jammerlijke magerte, in de grote Kurhauszaal, en het Blijspel "Ome Loeks" van Geert Teis Pzn (1864-1945) in het Kurhaus in Scheveningen. Haagsche Courant van 4-8-1933 en 24-10-1933:
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"Haagsche Brieven". Soerabaijasch Handelsblad van 27-9-1933: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011109796:mpeg21:a0209
De Groningsche Jachtwaide "Ien 't Peerd van Ome Loeks" op den Groningen avond van de tentoonstelling „Het costuum onzer voorouders" in de Ridderzaal te Den Haag (met groepfoto) Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 23-1-1936: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010673093:mpeg21:a0140
"Hollandse toneelspelers trekken rond in Indonesië. Een praatje met het gezelschap-Bouber…... In Lawang speelden we voor de Grönnegers met hun peerd van Ome Loeks op de mouwen genaaid". Nieuwe courant van 26-5-1948: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMNIOD04:000094901:mpeg21:a0048
"De Prins komt". De Prins krijgt o.a. Het Peerd van Ome Loeks mee als geschenk voor prinses Beatrix. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 28-8-1948: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010884677:mpeg21:a0049
De heer J.J. Leeninga van de VVV en het land van het Peerd van Ome Loeks. "Groningen als trekpleister. Tien Congressen brachten ruim tweeduizend mensen. Dit jaar meer dan 6000 buitenlandse toeristen. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 27-7-1949: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010886611:mpeg21:a0039
Jan Jacob Leeninga (83) overleden. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 6-8-1971: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011016104:mpeg21:a0182
"Dertig jaar „Grönneger Sproak” Een vereniging, welke bekend is in Stad en Ommelanden......Dat aiwige peerd van Ome Loeks hong mie de keel oet. Goud veur 'n bruuloft, moar nait as volkslaid". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 15-9-1949: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010886652:mpeg21:a0124
"Groningen krijgt Peerd van Ome Loeks. Paardendrinkbak aan de Radesingel verdwijnt". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 28-2-1950: Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
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"Groningen krijgt zijn Peerd van Ome Loeks". Opdracht aan Wladimir de Vries tot het ontwerpen van een veulen (Lutje Loeks):
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Provinciale Drentsche en Asser Courant van 2-3-1950: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMDA03:000145955:mpeg21:a0014
"Het „lutje Peerd van Ome Loeks” op zijn standplaats aan de Radesingel hier ter stede. Groningen's nieuwe monument is vóór zijn totstandkoming reeds zo druk besproken, dat bij de onthulling — morgenvroeg om 10 uur — slechts een enkel woord zal worden gezegd. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 31-3-1950: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010886588:mpeg21:a0128
"Bekendste Groninger onbekend. Liet paard verhongeren en verdween". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 22-2-1951: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010761987:mpeg21:a0045
"De grote onbekende. Drie Omes Loeks en vier paarden. Wie was de ware?". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 3-3-1951: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010761995:mpeg21:a0026
"Het peerd van Ome Loeks" door Martin Hillenga: www.levenderfgoedgroningen.nl/alle-verhalen/het-peerd-van...
"Ome Loeks en Harry Lime. De vierde candidaat: Loeks Kosse". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 13-3-1951: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010762003:mpeg21:a0101
"Het Wapen van Groningen en het Peerd van Ome Loeks". Het Parool van 26-3-1955: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010830738:mpeg21:a0302
"Jan de Baat ontwerpt beeld voor Groningen". Het Parool van
31-1-1957: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010830153:mpeg21:a0278
"Peerd van Ome Loeks". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van
1-2-1957 (foto): resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677531:mpeg21:a0122
"Peerd van Ome Loeks in Groningen" Opdracht aan Jan de Baat. Trouw van 1-2-1957: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010815790:mpeg21:a0178
Ingezonden brief van D. Boer:...."Dit paard lijkt op een renpaard dat net 2500 meter heeft gelopen en nu doodmoe zoekt naar een bosje gras. Wat weet die Amsterdammer Jan de Baat er van, hoe wij ons het Peerd van Ome Loeks voorstellen". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 4-2-1957.
"Monstering in Raadzaal. Peerd van Ome Loeks komt er als „grap”. Plaats wordt nog nader bepaald. Niet daar maar dáár. Het Peerd komt er niet met groot enthousiasme". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 5-2-1957: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677534:mpeg21:a0164
Ingezonden brief van A. Bult, Kerkstraat, Wagenborgen: Ome Loeks is Lub Hansen uit Schaapsbulten, Delfzijl, wiens paard stierf van de honger. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van
8-2-1957: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677537:mpeg21:a0071
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Vermoedelijk wordt Luppo Hansen bedoeld, echtgenoot van Fokkelina Woldhuis, hun zoon Klaas is omstreeks 1920 in Schaapsbulten geboren. Luppo Hansen, dagloner, geb. Farmsum 27-10-1884, wonende te Schaapsbulten, tr. Delfzijl 12-4-1918 Fokkelina Woldhuis.
"Strijd om beeld van het „Peerd van Ome Loeks". Hans Engelman, De Telegraaf van 28-3-1957: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110587424:mpeg21:a0147
"De Raad voor de Kunst in 1957". Over de plaats van het veel omstreden Peerd van Ome Loeks is men het nog niet eens. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 21-6-1958: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010678108:mpeg21:a0137
"Peerd van Ome Loeks tijdelijk op de Gemeentewerf aan de Wilhelminakade". Leeuwarder Courant van 6-3-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010615264:mpeg21:a0012
Geef het peerd eindelijk een plaats! Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 16-6-1959 en 17-6-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677976:mpeg21:a0136
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"Peerd van Ome Loeks voor het station". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 18-6-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677978:mpeg21:a0151
"Hooi voor Peerd van Ome Loeks". Trouw van 18-6-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010816665:mpeg21:a0104
"Onthulling van Peerd van Ome Loeks?". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 28-7-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677476:mpeg21:a0037
"Peerd van Ome Loeks voor station te Groningen. Trouw van 22-8-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010817460:mpeg21:a0156
"t Peerd van Ome Loeks...stoat doar". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 22-8-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677498:mpeg21:a0170
"Het Peerd van Ome Loeks". Algemeen Handelsblad van 27-8-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=KBNRC01:000036812:mpeg21:a0061
Ingezonden brief van E. Zijlstra over het Peerd van Ome Loeks bij het Hoofdstation: "het mag dan misschien moderne kunst zijn, maar een paard blijft een paard en behoort niet op de benen van een giraffe te staan". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 1-9-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677989:mpeg21:a0134
Ingezonden brief van H.K. Winterwerp. Hij vraagt respect voor de verbeeldingskracht van de kunstenaar. De tijd zal leren of het kunstzinnige deel van het nageslacht ons voor het Peerd van Ome Loeks dankbaar zal zijn. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 7-9-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677994:mpeg21:a0021
Ingezonden brief van H.K. Winterwerp: "kunst begint waar de werkelijkheid ophoudt". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 3-9-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677991:mpeg21:a0144
Ingezonden brief van H.B.K: "Gustern nog goud gezond, draaid'e met zien steert in 't rond. Zo heeft volgens mij de beeldhouwer Ome Loeks en zien paard gezien. Beter dan Ome Loeks met een hailemaol dood peerd". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 4-9-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677992:mpeg21:a0145
"I am sorry to have to tell you that Uncle Looky's Horse is dead, heart sticker dead!". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 13-10-1959: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010678025:mpeg21:a0178
"Peerd op 't lepeltje". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 6-9-1961: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677660:mpeg21:a0176
"Peerd van Ome Loeks voor het station". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 3-10-1961: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010677682:mpeg21:a0146
"Haarlemse huisvrouwen zien Kanaalstreek". De beeltenis van het Peerd van Ome Loeks op een koekplankje. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 28-5-1963: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010678839:mpeg21:a0231
"Beeld Peerd van Ome Loeks krijgt onderhoudsbeurt". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 8-4-1964: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010679459:mpeg21:a0005
"Geen naar mottenballen riekende symboliek „Grote Verscheuring” en ’t peerd van Ome Loeks". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 17-6-1965: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010869924:mpeg21:a0247
„Het peerd van Ome Loeks is dood mag niet het werkelijke volkslied worden” Burgemeester Uithuizen: Met 3 buurgemeenten één worden. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 19-2-1966: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010869389:mpeg21:a0289
"Burgemeester Brinkman wil het Peerd van Ome Loeks niet dood hebben en daarom heeft hij een knuppel in het hoenderhok gegooid".
Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 22-2-1966: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010869391:mpeg21:a0211
Mr. Fock: „het Noorden” is een begrip geworden „Zuinig zijn op unieke samenwerking” (met foto van het Peerd van Ome Loeks). Trouw van 10-6-1966: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010815082:mpeg21:a0281
"Peerd van Ome Loeks nu in beschermend wit". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 4-7-1966: resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010869449:mpeg21:a0115
"Het mysterie van Ome Loeks en zijn peerd", door Eric Nederkoorn, in het Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 29-7-1999: www.dekrantvantoen.nl/vw/article.do?v2=true&id=NVHN-1...
"Verdwijning van Het Peerd van Ome Loeks blijkt stunt. Het mysterie rondom de verdwijning van het Peerd van Ome Loeks is opgelost. Het blijkt een stunt te zijn om aandacht te vragen voor een theatervoorstelling.
Het bekende beeldhouwwerk stond voor het hoofdstation in Groningen, maar werd vannacht weggehaald. De gemeente, de politie en het onderhoudsbedrijf hielden de lippen stijf op elkaar, meldt RTV Noord. Vanmiddag werd het beeld gezien op een dijk in Lauwersoog. Dat blijkt een replica te zijn, het origineel staat gestald bij het bedrijf dat het beeld weghaalde.
De actie om het beeld te verhuizen is een pr-stunt voor de theatervoorstelling De Stormruiter. Dat stuk is onderdeel van de Culturele Hoofdstad Leeuwarden en gaat over de oorsprong van het Friese paard. Veel promotie heeft die voorstelling overigens niet nodig, want alle 80.000 kaarten zijn verkocht en ook de wachtlijst is vol.
Het originele Peerd van Ome Loeks moet volgende week weer op zijn vertrouwde plaats voor het hoofdstation van Groningen staan.
NOS, 24 september 2018: nos.nl/artikel/2251883-verdwijning-van-het-peerd-van-ome-...
"Viertal mikt op jaarlijks Peerd-van-Ome-Loeksactie", door Dion Smits, Dagblad van het Noorden van 26-9-2018, blz. 26: www.dekrantvantoen.nl/vw/article.do?v2=true&id=DVHN-2...
"Het Peerd van Ome Loeks, door drs. S.J. Visser: rug400.nl/rug400_2/rug_definitief.dev/sites/default/files...
Remco Campert verzamelt in "Het paard van Ome Loeks" een aantal beschouwingen, invallen en mijmeringen.
AW Bruna & Zoon, 1962. Zwarte Beertjes (omslag Dick Bruna).
Het Parool van 13-9-1963 en 30-11-1963:
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Ontwerp van een herenhuis aan de Hereweg 26 te Groningen voor Otto Eerelman (1839-1926), door architect W. van der Heide (1906). Hij was in 1890 de architect van Hotel "De Twee Provinciën" in Paterswolde:
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Ome Loeks is dood. De koning is dood leve de koning.
Het was toen en daarna een strijd tussen modernisten en traditionalisten. Het ging om veel meer dan een beeld. De luiken werden open gezet.
We hebben het naar binnen gekeerde provincialisme gelukkig ver achter ons gelaten.
Geert Teis is gedateerd. Punt. Het beeld van Jan de Baat heeft de tand der tijd doorstaan.
Als geschiedenis is het prachtig, maar aan heimwee hebben we helemaal niks. Wat gaat de toekomst ons nu brengen?
Aanvraag van P. Huizenga d.d. 8-1-1880, voor het wegbreken van een deel van de koepel en het bouwen van een voorgevel op adres Hereweg Z 49.
Aanvraag van P. Huizenga d.d. 22-2-1888 voor herstel tuinhuisje op adres Hereweg (Kad. C 1247).
Aanvraag van de wed. P. Huizenga d.d. 3-6-1897 voor vernieuwen ramen van de gelagkamer op adres Hereweg Z 54.
Te Koop ten Huize van Koffiehuishouder J. Huizenga op de Grote Markt: Café Hereweg Z 54, bewoond door de Wed. J. Huizenga. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden van 19-2-1896 en 17-7-1896:
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Pieter Huizenga, schoenmaker, kastelein, geb. Groningen, ovl. Groningen 2-6-1896, oud 54 jaar, man van Frouke van Lotten.
Aanvraag van F. Hesse d.d. 7-5-1897 voor de bouw van een serre op adres Hereweg Z 49. Hij is vermoedelijk Frederic Hesse, fabrikant: allegroningers.nl/zoeken-op-naam/deeds/f868546d-2dad-07eb...
Aanvraag van J. Bierling d.d. 22-6-1906, voor vervanging ramen door schuiframen op adres Hereweg 49: www.groningerarchieven.nl/zoeken/mais/archief/?mivast=5&a...
Aanvraag van de Alg. Gron. Werkliedenvereeniging Vooruitgang Zij Ons Doel d.d. 4-6-1914, voor bouw waterplaatsen, etc. op adres Hereweg 49 (Kad. C 5803).
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John Marshall Warwick (1799-1878) was a prosperous Lynchburg, Virginia tobacco merchant and once mayor (1833). He built this structure in 1826, an example of the transition from Federal-style to Greek-Revival architecture. The architect is thought to be John Willis, a local lawyer and part-time architect, whose own home (now known as the Carter-Glass House) was built 1827 and featured the same recessed panels that highlight the front façade of the Warwick house. He had the responsibility of rearing his grandson, John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) who was a Civil War hero, a U. S. Senator and an orator. With the Civil War, John Warwick’s fortunes declined, and he lived in other housing for many years before his death. The house passed from family hands in 1879 then back into the family in 1909 when the home was bought by Don P. Halsey, Jr., great-grandson of John Marshall Warwick. In 1945 it passed out of the Halsey family. In 1975 Luther Caudill, Jr. owned the building and is credited with saving it from being demolished and in renovating the structure. At times the house was used as an office/apartment building. Today it houses Warwick House Publishing, book publisher. warwickpublishers.com/
The house is in excellent physical condition. It measures 43’x33’ and has 3-bays and 2-stories set on a raised basement. It is brick, laid in Flemish bond. The low-hipped metal-clad roof was once hidden from street-level by a balustrade above the cornice, which contains a row of dentil (not very visible in the photos). There are 4 interior chimneys, 2 on each side of the structure. The 6/6 double-hung sash windows have the original sashes and louvered shutters. In the center, just above the porch roof is a jib window. All the windows have thin sills and lintels of marble, the lintels ornamented with rosettes in the corners. An addition later in the 19th century is the wooden porch with the flat roof supported by square columns and pilasters with bases and caps and additional caps 3/4th up the height of each. Typical late 19th century scrollwork with cut-outs is seen in the column brackets; more conventional brackets in the cornice support the roof as well. Leading to the porch are stone steps and curvilinear iron balusters; these are likely the originals. The entrance is double-leaf two-panel door with colonettes to each side. A single pane rectangular transom with a cornice crowns the entryway. The side elevations have centered paired windows on each level with an additional 1st-level window near the rear. The original kitchen is in the basement and still has its cooking fireplace. Other structures on the property have been lost to time (laundry, carriage house, etc.) The major architectural embellishments are the ornamented recessed panels between the first and second stories with a swag and ribbon motif with a centered rosette. This particular ornamental feature is not common in Virginia; in 1988 molds of these panels were used in replacing those missing on the Governor’s Mansion in Richmond. The John Marshall Warwick House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) December 6, 1996, ID #96001449
The final NRHP nomination form is at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources website and includes much information on the interior of the structure.
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The 5,800-acre White Canyon Wilderness is approximately 45 miles southeast of Mesa and about seven miles south of Superior, Arizona in Pinal County.
The wilderness includes the southeast portion of the Mineral Mountains. The two major topographical features are White Canyon with its numerous side canyons and the Rincon, a large escarpment which towers above the valley floor. A perennial stream and a variety of vegetation types from saguaros to chaparral are found throughout the area.
Recreation opportunities such as hiking, rock climbing, and photography are enhanced by the diverse topography, scenic character and the botanical, wildlife, and cultural resources of the area. (BLM photo by Bob Wick)
Minus 20 degrees Celsius in the CIAT gene bank, part of the institution's Genetic Resources program.
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Richard Verma is sworn in as Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources during a ceremony, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2023. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]
The Eastbound (UP-Southbound) ZBRLC races towards Mojave, Palmdale and the Los Angeles Basin. Cresting Tehachapi Summit, this train will see no problems between here and the L.A. Basin now!
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SHERIDAN, Ore. -- With financial incentives from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and science-based guidance from the Yamhill Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), Leo Krick is improving oak habitat on his ranch with conservation practices like brush management, controlled fire, and tree thinning. Leo is one of several landowners who is restoring native white oak habitat through a new project called the North Willamette Valley Upland Oak Restoration Partnership. This five-year, $5.9 million project offers assistance to landowners in Yamhill and Polk counties to restore native oaks and improve habitat for the endangered Fender's blue butterfly. The project is funded through USDA's Regional Conservation Partnership Program. NRCS photo by Tracy Robillard.
Ranch owners Frank and Jackie Mills utilized the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS Windbreak Restoration Conservation Practice 650 to remove dead and dying trees from an existing windbreak, a.k.a. shelterbelt, and added rows of Junipers on their land in Crawford, NE, in the Great Plains region of the United States, on July 23, 2021.
Their windbreak has a tall center row that was originally planted with elm and cedar trees from the 1950s. This row was filled in with cotoneaster (Cotoneaster integerrima) shrubs. To either side are rows of rocky mountain juniper. The two rows facing the farm fields were planted in 2006 and stand approximately 15 feet tall. On the home and farm buildings side are the two rows of juniper that were planted a few years ago as two-year-old juniper saplings. Between the rows is cover grass. The grass includes drought-tolerant smooth brome (bromus inermus) and the lighter bluegrass (dino phinopyrum intermedium) which provides additional weed suppression. The bluegrass is a very aggressive grass that works well to suppress unwanted plants, especially when converting cropland into a windbreak.
24-7 the windbreaks help reduce the wind and snow that if not for them, would erode the soil, and winter snowdrifts would accumulate in greater quantities on and around the Mills' home, barns, and immediate fields.
Jackie recalls that her father started constructing windbreaks in the 1950s. He used wood that her sisters had to haul from the yard to the windbreak construction line. Eventually, trees grew to replace the windbreak fence. After the windbreak was installed, you did not notice the wind and snow, when we were in the corral and stables calving, she said, there is such a difference between not having trees and having trees. We are very appreciative of NRCS getting us the assistance. We would not have these trees if it were not for the NRCS assistance program.
Growing up, Frank's father worked for 20 years for what was called the Soil Conservation Service in Northeast South Dakota. One of his responsibilities was to help others set up windbreaks. According to Frank, his favorite windbreak plants are the Rocky Mountain Junipers which he says grow great in this area and do a great job at diffusing the wind. The added benefit is that he enjoys seeing wildlife, livestock, and sometimes wild turkey foraging on the juniper berries.
A few years ago, Frank saw that several trees were reaching the end of their expected life span. He contacted the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS who was able to cost-share the removal of dead and dying trees. The next year, a fabric mulch was installed along with the new saplings. He says it works great. When asked if his farming and ranching neighbors should do this, he gives an enthusiastic - I recommend it - highly. I think it is a great program - I really do. He adds, because of programs like this, there are more people who do this.
The history of the farm begins with Jackie's father Lawrence Raven, who started as a laborer picking corn for the farm owner. Then, one day he asked if he wanted to buy it. Saying yes in 1937, was the start of Martha and Lawrence Raven as producers. Right away Lawrence committed much of the business to the Hereford cattle operation.
When they passed, she and her sisters continued the operation. Later, Frank and she bought a portion of the land and started implementing their conservation plan and practices to make life better for them and the land.
Resource Conservationist Bryan Kahl from the Chadron field office enjoys helping producers with their conservation plan and to be more productive on the land. He began working for USDA 20 years ago and 15-years ago Kahl was assigned to the Chadron office. The Mills' windbreak restoration was one of his first assignments in the area.
While visiting with them, he shows the 15-year-old fabric mulch is still intact and suppressing the growth of weeds and recommends that every several years, the fabric mulch openings should be widened to prevents tree girdling.
Kahl enjoys the geographic diversity of the region with the nearby USDA Forest Service FS Pine Ridge National Recreation Area and forests of the region. Most of the region is rangeland. Consequently, grazing system management which includes water development, cross fencing, and promoting rotational grazing is the mainstay of work.
For the full story, go to the album description at flic.kr/s/aHsmWMyoSE
In general, windbreak/shelterbelt renovation involves widening, partial replanting, removing, and replacing selected trees and shrubs to improve an existing windbreak or shelterbelt. A period of years may also be needed for proper renovation. For more information about Windbreak Restoration Practice Code 650 please go to nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/nra/?cid=nrcs144p2_027201
USDA Photo Media by Lance Cheung.
Ranch owners Frank and Jackie Mills utilized the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS Windbreak Restoration Conservation Practice 650 to remove dead and dying trees from an existing windbreak, a.k.a. shelterbelt, and added rows of Junipers on their land in Crawford, NE, in the Great Plains region of the United States, on July 23, 2021.
Their windbreak has a tall center row that was originally planted with elm and cedar trees from the 1950s. This row was filled in with cotoneaster (Cotoneaster integerrima) shrubs. To either side are rows of rocky mountain juniper. The two rows facing the farm fields were planted in 2006 and stand approximately 15 feet tall. On the home and farm buildings side are the two rows of juniper that were planted a few years ago as two-year-old juniper saplings. Between the rows is cover grass. The grass includes drought-tolerant smooth brome (bromus inermus) and the lighter bluegrass (dino phinopyrum intermedium) which provides additional weed suppression. The bluegrass is a very aggressive grass that works well to suppress unwanted plants, especially when converting cropland into a windbreak.
24-7 the windbreaks help reduce the wind and snow that if not for them, would erode the soil, and winter snowdrifts would accumulate in greater quantities on and around the Mills' home, barns, and immediate fields.
Jackie recalls that her father started constructing windbreaks in the 1950s. He used wood that her sisters had to haul from the yard to the windbreak construction line. Eventually, trees grew to replace the windbreak fence. After the windbreak was installed, you did not notice the wind and snow, when we were in the corral and stables calving, she said, there is such a difference between not having trees and having trees. We are very appreciative of NRCS getting us the assistance. We would not have these trees if it were not for the NRCS assistance program.
Growing up, Frank's father worked for 20 years for what was called the Soil Conservation Service in Northeast South Dakota. One of his responsibilities was to help others set up windbreaks. According to Frank, his favorite windbreak plants are the Rocky Mountain Junipers which he says grow great in this area and do a great job at diffusing the wind. The added benefit is that he enjoys seeing wildlife, livestock, and sometimes wild turkey foraging on the juniper berries.
A few years ago, Frank saw that several trees were reaching the end of their expected life span. He contacted the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS who was able to cost-share the removal of dead and dying trees. The next year, a fabric mulch was installed along with the new saplings. He says it works great. When asked if his farming and ranching neighbors should do this, he gives an enthusiastic - I recommend it - highly. I think it is a great program - I really do. He adds, because of programs like this, there are more people who do this.
The history of the farm begins with Jackie's father Lawrence Raven, who started as a laborer picking corn for the farm owner. Then, one day he asked if he wanted to buy it. Saying yes in 1937, was the start of Martha and Lawrence Raven as producers. Right away Lawrence committed much of the business to the Hereford cattle operation.
When they passed, she and her sisters continued the operation. Later, Frank and she bought a portion of the land and started implementing their conservation plan and practices to make life better for them and the land.
Resource Conservationist Bryan Kahl from the Chadron field office enjoys helping producers with their conservation plan and to be more productive on the land. He began working for USDA 20 years ago and 15-years ago Kahl was assigned to the Chadron office. The Mills' windbreak restoration was one of his first assignments in the area.
While visiting with them, he shows the 15-year-old fabric mulch is still intact and suppressing the growth of weeds and recommends that every several years, the fabric mulch openings should be widened to prevents tree girdling.
Kahl enjoys the geographic diversity of the region with the nearby USDA Forest Service FS Pine Ridge National Recreation Area and forests of the region. Most of the region is rangeland. Consequently, grazing system management which includes water development, cross fencing, and promoting rotational grazing is the mainstay of work.
For the full story, go to the album description at flic.kr/s/aHsmWMyoSE
In general, windbreak/shelterbelt renovation involves widening, partial replanting, removing, and replacing selected trees and shrubs to improve an existing windbreak or shelterbelt. A period of years may also be needed for proper renovation. For more information about Windbreak Restoration Practice Code 650 please go to nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/nra/?cid=nrcs144p2_027201
USDA Photo Media by Lance Cheung.
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This Lynchburg, Virginia home, called the Fanny Hughes House in the final nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), was built ca. 1907 or 1910. It’s a 2 1/2 story brick structure with basement and has a garden and patio at the lower level. I didn’t take any photos from the side, but the building is much larger than the photos show, supposedly with 21 rooms. Depending on the sources online, the home has 5, 6 or 8 baths; it is either 5,260 square feet or 6, 740 square feet—so much for reliable Internet information! The Georgian Revival structure has a tiled gambrel roof (barely visible in the first image) with simple rectangular brackets. A small central front gable with returns marks the central bay of the front facade; to either side is a small 6/1 double hung sash dormer window with pediment. The façade corners are highlighted with quoining of a different color brick. The quoin pattern also divides the central bay from the two flanking bays. Each of these has a single 6/1 double hung sash window on each floor; a flat jack arch and keystone accent the first level windows. Corbelled brick detailing on the façade divides the first and second floors. The central bay contains a fanlight in the gable, below which is a tripartite window. This window has involved molding (image 4) and patterned panes. Below this central window is the entrance, framed by engaged Ionic columns and made colorful by the use of stained-glass (image 5). The transom is a singular stained-glass pane with floral and geometric motifs (image 4). The wooden double doors each have a single vertical stained-glass pane with geometric patterns (images 6 and 8). A 2-story wing to the left is noticeable for its tripartite bay casement windows with tracery (image 3). An iron fence surrounds the lot, the front gate quite elaborate in ornamentation (image 9). At one time shutters may have been on the front façade. The house was for sale several months ago and may still be. The tax assessment was about $300,000. The Fannie Hughes House is listed within the Court House Hill/Downtown Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places August 16, 2001 with reference ID# 01000853. There was a boundary increase of the district (ID# 02001361) which was listed on the NRHP November 22, 2002. As usual I’m grateful to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources for the online posting of NRHP nomination forms.
The original nomination form is located at— www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lynchburg/118-5163_...
The boundary increase is at— www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lynchburg/118-5163_...
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04 February 2016, 4.30pm
Crews from St Neots, Sawtry and St Ives were called to a building fire in Station Road, Tilbrook.
A fire had broken out in a baler at a straw recycling facility.
Further resources were requested at 5.40pm and fire engines from Kimbolton and Papworth attended. Relief crews were also provided by Papworth, Ramsey, Huntingdon and a water carrier from Ramsey that assisted with the firefighting operation.
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used hose reels and jets to extinguish the fire and assisted with removing some of the straw product from the baler.
Station Commander Dave Lynch said: "This job had the potential to develop into something more significant if it wasn't for the efforts and local knowledge of all the attending crews.
"Large amounts of straw needed to be moved manually and this work was completed by crews in breathing apparatus working in arduous conditions. Excellent collaboration between Wholetime, On-call and Tacticdal Delivery Group crews brought the job to a speedy conclusion.
"One significant factor was the knowledge the attending crews had of the factory, through previous incidents and visits. This allowed for a greater understanding of potential fire spread and hazards and in no doubt was a major contributory factor to the conclusion of this job."
The fire was extinguished by 7.45pm.
The cause of the fire was accidental, by equipment.
The Flying Leatherneck Ranch, where owner, Hay Producer, and Marine Jim McClain has an easement agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), where some of his property enters the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) while retaining a lifetime of grazing rights and ensuring a legacy of working agricultural land use in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on Nov 18, 2020.
His premium coastal hay is grown to feed his cattle and for sale to horse owners. The ACEP provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and wetlands and their related benefits. Under the Agricultural Land Easements component, NRCS helps landowners or land users to protect working agricultural lands and to keep them in their current state. For more information, please go to nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/programs/easements/acep/?cid=stelprdb1242695. USDA Media by Lance Cheung.
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USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Dr. Homer Wilkes, right, poses for a photo with White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation John Podesta, April 12, 2023, at Lincoln Park in Newark, New Jersey. USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Dr. Homer Wilkes, U.S. Senator Cory Booker and White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation John Podesta announced historic funding through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand access to urban nature, combat the climate crisis, and advance environmental justice, after meeting with local and state stake holders.
The funding announced today is part of a $1.5 billion investment in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The grant funding is available to community-based organizations, tribes, municipal and state governments, nonprofit partners, universities, and other eligible entities as they work to increase tree cover in urban spaces and boost equitable access to nature while bolstering resilience to extreme heat, storm-induced flooding, and other climate impacts. This historic level of investment will enable the Forest Service to support projects to improve public health, increase access to nature, and deliver real economic and ecological benefits to cities, towns and tribal communities across the country. (USDA photo by Christophe Paul)
With the DB Cargo Class 92 fleet down to one working locomotive (036) and two out of service (011 and 019) at Dollands Moor on the morning of 7 July, the return of 92041 and 92015 from Crewe ETD was a very welcome sight.
92041 "Vaughan Williams" had been at the ETD for a long-weekend for a C Exam and tyre-turning.
92015, however, had been out of action for much longer. Having suffered wheelset damage at the tunnel in late February it was eventually moved by road to Crewe in late April to be repaired.
Arriva Trains Wales-liveried Class 67, 67001 was performing the towing honours for the Dysons on 0A06, with the last remaining Wrexham & Shropshire / Chiltern-liveried Skip 67012 on the rear ready to be the taxi home from Wembley for the Crewe driver. 67001 then took the two 92s on to Dollands as 0B71.
What craziness is this, a day in that London on a weekday? Well, working one day last weekend, and another next weekend, meant I took a day in Lieu.
So there.
And top of my list of places to visit was St Magnus. This would be the fifth time I have tried to get inside, and the first since I wrote to the church asking whether they would be open a particular Saturday, and then any Saturday. Letters which were ignored
So, I walked out of Monument Station, down the hill there was St Magnus: would it be open?
It was, and inside it was a box, nay a treasure chest of delights.
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St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge is a Church of England church and parish within the City of London. The church, which is located in Lower Thames Street near The Monument to the Great Fire of London,[1] is part of the Diocese of London and under the pastoral care of the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Fulham.[2] It is a Grade I listed building.[3] The rector uses the title "Cardinal Rector". [4]
St Magnus lies on the original alignment of London Bridge between the City and Southwark. The ancient parish was united with that of St Margaret, New Fish Street, in 1670 and with that of St Michael, Crooked Lane, in 1831.[5] The three united parishes retained separate vestries and churchwardens.[6] Parish clerks continue to be appointed for each of the three parishes.[7]
St Magnus is the guild church of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and the Worshipful Company of Plumbers, and the ward church of the Ward of Bridge and Bridge Without. It is also twinned with the Church of the Resurrection in New York City.[8]
Its prominent location and beauty has prompted many mentions in literature.[9] In Oliver Twist Charles Dickens notes how, as Nancy heads for her secret meeting with Mr. Brownlow and Rose Maylie on London Bridge, "the tower of old Saint Saviour's Church, and the spire of Saint Magnus, so long the giant-warders of the ancient bridge, were visible in the gloom". The church's spiritual and architectural importance is celebrated in the poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, who adds in a footnote that "the interior of St. Magnus Martyr is to my mind one of the finest among Wren's interiors".[10] One biographer of Eliot notes that at first he enjoyed St Magnus aesthetically for its "splendour"; later he appreciated its "utility" when he came there as a sinner.
The church is dedicated to St Magnus the Martyr, earl of Orkney, who died on 16 April in or around 1116 (the precise year is unknown).[12] He was executed on the island of Egilsay having been captured during a power struggle with his cousin, a political rival.[13] Magnus had a reputation for piety and gentleness and was canonised in 1135. St. Ronald, the son of Magnus's sister Gunhild Erlendsdotter, became Earl of Orkney in 1136 and in 1137 initiated the construction of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.[14] The story of St. Magnus has been retold in the 20th century in the chamber opera The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1976)[15] by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, based on George Mackay Brown's novel Magnus (1973).
he identity of the St Magnus referred to in the church's dedication was only confirmed by the Bishop of London in 1926.[16] Following this decision a patronal festival service was held on 16 April 1926.[17] In the 13th century the patronage was attributed to one of the several saints by the name of Magnus who share a feast day on 19 August, probably St Magnus of Anagni (bishop and martyr, who was slain in the persecution of the Emperor Decius in the middle of the 3rd century).[18] However, by the early 18th century it was suggested that the church was either "dedicated to the memory of St Magnus or Magnes, who suffer'd under the Emperor Aurelian in 276 [see St Mammes of Caesarea, feast day 17 August], or else to a person of that name, who was the famous Apostle or Bishop of the Orcades."[19] For the next century historians followed the suggestion that the church was dedicated to the Roman saint of Cæsarea.[20] The famous Danish archaeologist Professor Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–85) promoted the attribution to St Magnus of Orkney during his visit to the British Isles in 1846-7, when he was formulating the concept of the 'Viking Age',[21] and a history of London written in 1901 concluded that "the Danes, on their second invasion ... added at least two churches with Danish names, Olaf and Magnus".[22] A guide to the City Churches published in 1917 reverted to the view that St Magnus was dedicated to a martyr of the third century,[23] but the discovery of St Magnus of Orkney's relics in 1919 renewed interest in a Scandinavian patron and this connection was encouraged by the Rector who arrived in 1921
A metropolitan bishop of London attended the Council of Arles in 314, which indicates that there must have been a Christian community in Londinium by this date, and it has been suggested that a large aisled building excavated in 1993 near Tower Hill can be compared with the 4th-century Cathedral of St Tecla in Milan.[25] However, there is no archaeological evidence to suggest that any of the mediaeval churches in the City of London had a Roman foundation.[26] A grant from William I in 1067 to Westminster Abbey, which refers to the stone church of St Magnus near the bridge ("lapidee eccle sci magni prope pontem"), is generally accepted to be 12th century forgery,[27] and it is possible that a charter of confirmation in 1108-16 might also be a later fabrication.[28] Nonetheless, these manuscripts may preserve valid evidence of a date of foundation in the 11th century.
Archaeological evidence suggests that the area of the bridgehead was not occupied from the early 5th century until the early 10th century. Environmental evidence indicates that the area was waste ground during this period, colonised by elder and nettles. Following Alfred's decision to reoccupy the walled area of London in 886, new harbours were established at Queenhithe and Billingsgate. A bridge was in place by the early 11th century, a factor which would have encouraged the occupation of the bridgehead by craftsmen and traders.[30] A lane connecting Botolph's Wharf and Billingsgate to the rebuilt bridge may have developed by the mid-11th century. The waterfront at this time was a hive of activity, with the construction of embankments sloping down from the riverside wall to the river. Thames Street appeared in the second half of the 11th century immediately behind (north of) the old Roman riverside wall and in 1931 a piling from this was discovered during the excavation of the foundations of a nearby building. It now stands at the base of the church tower.[31] St Magnus was built to the south of Thames Street to serve the growing population of the bridgehead area[32] and was certainly in existence by 1128-33.[33]
The small ancient parish[34] extended about 110 yards along the waterfront either side of the old bridge, from 'Stepheneslane' (later Churchehawlane or Church Yard Alley) and 'Oystergate' (later called Water Lane or Gully Hole) on the West side to 'Retheresgate' (a southern extension of Pudding Lane) on the East side, and was centred on the crossroads formed by Fish Street Hill (originally Bridge Street, then New Fish Street) and Thames Street.[35] The mediaeval parish also included Drinkwater's Wharf (named after the owner, Thomas Drinkwater), which was located immediately West of the bridge, and Fish Wharf, which was to the South of the church. The latter was of considerable importance as the fishmongers had their shops on the wharf. The tenement was devised by Andrew Hunte to the Rector and Churchwardens in 1446.[36] The ancient parish was situated in the South East part of Bridge Ward, which had evolved in the 11th century between the embankments to either side of the bridge.[37]
In 1182 the Abbot of Westminster and the Prior of Bermondsey agreed that the advowson of St Magnus should be divided equally between them. Later in the 1180s, on their presentation, the Archdeacon of London inducted his nephew as parson.
Between the late Saxon period and 1209 there was a series of wooden bridges across the Thames, but in that year a stone bridge was completed.[39] The work was overseen by Peter de Colechurch, a priest and head of the Fraternity of the Brethren of London Bridge. The Church had from early times encouraged the building of bridges and this activity was so important it was perceived to be an act of piety - a commitment to God which should be supported by the giving of alms. London’s citizens made gifts of land and money "to God and the Bridge".[40] The Bridge House Estates became part of the City's jurisdiction in 1282.
Until 1831 the bridge was aligned with Fish Street Hill, so the main entrance into the City from the south passed the West door of St Magnus on the north bank of the river.[41] The bridge included a chapel dedicated to St Thomas Becket[42] for the use of pilgrims journeying to Canterbury Cathedral to visit his tomb.[43] The chapel and about two thirds of the bridge were in the parish of St Magnus. After some years of rivalry a dispute arose between the church and the chapel over the offerings given to the chapel by the pilgrims. The matter was resolved by the brethren of the chapel making an annual contribution to St Magnus.[44] At the Reformation the chapel was turned into a house and later a warehouse, the latter being demolished in 1757-58.
The church grew in importance. On 21 November 1234 a grant of land was made to the parson of St Magnus for the enlargement of the church.[45] The London eyre of 1244 recorded that in 1238 "A thief named William of Ewelme of the county of Buckingham fled to the church of St. Magnus the Martyr, London, and there acknowledged the theft and abjured the realm. He had no chattels."[46] Another entry recorded that "The City answers saying that the church of ... St. Magnus the Martyr ... which [is] situated on the king's highway ... ought to belong to the king and be in his gift".[47] The church presumably jutted into the road running to the bridge, as it did in later times.[48] In 1276 it was recorded that "the church of St. Magnus the Martyr is worth £15 yearly and Master Geoffrey de la Wade now holds it by the grant of the prior of Bermundeseie and the abbot of Westminster to whom King Henry conferred the advowson by his charter.
In 1274 "came King Edward and his wife [Eleanor] from the Holy Land and were crowned at Westminster on the Sunday next after the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady [15 August], being the Feast of Saint Magnus [19 August]; and the Conduit in Chepe ran all the day with red wine and white wine to drink, for all such as wished."[50] Stow records that "in the year 1293, for victory obtained by Edward I against the Scots, every citizen, according to their several trade, made their several show, but especially the fishmongers" whose solemn procession including a knight "representing St Magnus, because it was upon St Magnus' day".
An important religious guild, the Confraternity de Salve Regina, was in existence by 1343, having been founded by the "better sort of the Parish of St Magnus" to sing the anthem 'Salve Regina' every evening.[51] The Guild certificates of 1389 record that the Confraternity of Salve Regina and the guild of St Thomas the Martyr in the chapel on the bridge, whose members belonged to St Magnus parish, had determined to become one, to have the anthem of St Thomas after the Salve Regina and to devote their united resources to restoring and enlarging the church of St Magnus.[52] An Act of Parliament of 1437[53] provided that all incorporated fraternities and companies should register their charters and have their ordinances approved by the civic authorities.[54] Fear of enquiry into their privileges may have led established fraternities to seek a firm foundation for their rights. The letters patent of the fraternity of St Mary and St Thomas the Martyr of Salve Regina in St Magnus dated 26 May 1448 mention that the fraternity had petitioned for a charter on the grounds that the society was not duly founded.
In the mid-14th century the Pope was the Patron of the living and appointed five rectors to the benefice.[56]
Henry Yevele, the master mason whose work included the rebuilding of Westminster Hall and the naves of Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, was a parishioner and rebuilt the chapel on London Bridge between 1384 and 1397. He served as a warden of London Bridge and was buried at St Magnus on his death in 1400. His monument was extant in John Stow's time, but was probably destroyed by the fire of 1666.[57]
Yevele, as the King’s Mason, was overseen by Geoffrey Chaucer in his capacity as the Clerk of the King's Works. In The General Prologue of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales the five guildsmen "were clothed alle in o lyveree Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee"[58] and may be thought of as belonging to the guild in the parish of St Magnus, or one like it.[59] Chaucer's family home was near to the bridge in Thames Street.
n 1417 a dispute arose concerning who should take the place of honour amongst the rectors in the City churches at the Whit Monday procession, a place that had been claimed from time to time by the rectors of St Peter Cornhill, St Magnus the Martyr and St Nicholas Cole Abbey. The Mayor and Aldermen decided that the Rector of St Peter Cornhill should take precedence.[61]
St Magnus Corner at the north end of London Bridge was an important meeting place in mediaeval London, where notices were exhibited, proclamations read out and wrongdoers punished.[62] As it was conveniently close to the River Thames, the church was chosen by the Bishop between the 15th and 17th centuries as a convenient venue for general meetings of the clergy in his diocese.[63] Dr John Young, Bishop of Callipolis (rector of St Magnus 1514-15) pronounced judgement on 16 December 1514 (with the Bishop of London and in the presence of Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London) in the heresy case concerning Richard Hunne.[64]
In pictures from the mid-16th century the old church looks very similar to the present-day St Giles without Cripplegate in the Barbican.[65] According to the martyrologist John Foxe, a woman was imprisoned in the 'cage' on London Bridge in April 1555 and told to "cool herself there" for refusing to pray at St Magnus for the recently deceased Pope Julius III.[66]
Simon Lowe, a Member of Parliament and Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company during the reign of Queen Mary and one of the jurors who acquitted Sir Nicholas Throckmorton in 1554, was a parishioner.[67] He was a mourner at the funeral of Maurice Griffith, Bishop of Rochester from 1554 to 1558 and Rector of St Magnus from 1537 to 1558, who was interred in the church on 30 November 1558 with much solemnity. In accordance with the Catholic church's desire to restore ecclesiastical pageantry in England, the funeral was a splendid affair, ending in a magnificent dinner.
Lowe was included in a return of recusants in the Diocese of Rochester in 1577,[69] but was buried at St Magnus on 6 February 1578.[70] Stow refers to his monument in the church. His eldest son, Timothy (died 1617), was knighted in 1603. His second son, Alderman Sir Thomas Lowe (1550–1623), was Master of the Haberdashers' Company on several occasions, Sheriff of London in 1595/96, Lord Mayor in 1604/05 and a Member of Parliament for London.[71] His youngest son, Blessed John Lowe (1553–1586), having originally been a Protestant minister, converted to Roman Catholicism, studied for the priesthood at Douay and Rome and returned to London as a missionary priest.[72] His absence had already been noted; a list of 1581 of "such persons of the Diocese of London as have any children ... beyond the seas" records "John Low son to Margaret Low of the Bridge, absent without licence four years". Having gained 500 converts to Catholicism between 1583 and 1586, he was arrested whilst walking with his mother near London Bridge, committed to The Clink and executed at Tyburn on 8 October 1586.[73] He was beatified in 1987 as one of the eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales.
Sir William Garrard, Master of the Haberdashers' Company, Alderman, Sheriff of London in 1553/53, Lord Mayor in 1555/56 and a Member of Parliament was born in the parish and buried at St Magnus in 1571.[74] Sir William Romney, merchant, philanthropist, Master of the Haberdashers' Company, Alderman for Bridge Within and Sheriff of London in 1603/04[75] was married at St Magnus in 1582. Ben Jonson is believed to have been married at St Magnus in 1594.[76]
The patronage of St Magnus, having previously been in the Abbots and Convents of Westminster and Bermondsey (who presented alternatively), fell to the Crown on the suppression of the monasteries. In 1553, Queen Mary, by letters patent, granted it to the Bishop of London and his successors.[77]
The church had a series of distinguished rectors in the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th century, including Myles Coverdale (Rector 1564-66), John Young (Rector 1566-92), Theophilus Aylmer (Rector 1592-1625), (Archdeacon of London and son of John Aylmer), and Cornelius Burges (Rector 1626-41). Coverdale was buried in the chancel of St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, but when that church was pulled down in 1840 his remains were removed to St Magnus.[78]
On 5 November 1562 the churchwardens were ordered to break, or cause to be broken, in two parts all the altar stones in the church.[79] Coverdale, an anti-vestiarian, was Rector at the peak of the vestments controversy. In March 1566 Archbishop Parker caused great consternation among many clergy by his edicts prescribing what was to be worn and by his summoning the London clergy to Lambeth to require their compliance. Coverdale excused himself from attending.[80] Stow records that a non-conforming Scot who normally preached at St Magnus twice a day precipitated a fight on Palm Sunday 1566 at Little All Hallows in Thames Street with his preaching against vestments.[81] Coverdale's resignation from St Magnus in summer 1566 may have been associated with these events. Separatist congregations started to emerge after 1566 and the first such, who called themselves 'Puritans' or 'Unspottyd Lambs of the Lord', was discovered close to St Magnus at Plumbers' Hall in Thames Street on 19 June 1567.
St Magnus narrowly escaped destruction in 1633. A later edition of Stow's Survey records that "On the 13th day of February, between eleven and twelve at night, there happened in the house of one Briggs, a Needle-maker near St Magnus Church, at the North end of the Bridge, by the carelessness of a Maid-Servant setting a tub of hot sea-coal ashes under a pair of stairs, a sad and lamentable fire, which consumed all the buildings before eight of the clock the next morning, from the North end of the Bridge to the first vacancy on both sides, containing forty-two houses; water then being very scarce, the Thames being almost frozen over."[83] Susannah Chambers "by her last will & testament bearing date 28th December 1640 gave the sum of Twenty-two shillings and Sixpence Yearly for a Sermon to be preached on the 12th day of February in every Year within the Church of Saint Magnus in commemoration of God's merciful preservation of the said Church of Saint Magnus from Ruin, by the late and terrible Fire on London Bridge. Likewise Annually to the Poor the sum of 17/6."[84] The tradition of a "Fire Sermon" was revived on 12 February 2004, when the first preacher was the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of London.
Parliamentarian rule and the more Protestant ethos of the 1640s led to the removal or destruction of "superstitious" and "idolatrous" images and fittings. Glass painters such as Baptista Sutton, who had previously installed "Laudian innovations", found new employment by repairing and replacing these to meet increasingly strict Protestant standards. In January 1642 Sutton replaced 93 feet of glass at St Magnus and in June 1644 he was called back to take down the "painted imagery glass" and replace it.[86] In June 1641 "rail riots" broke out at a number of churches. This was a time of high tension following the trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford and rumours of army and popish plots were rife. The Protestation Oath, with its pledge to defend the true religion "against all Popery and popish innovation", triggered demands from parishioners for the removal of the rails as popish innovations which the Protestation had bound them to reform. The minister arranged a meeting between those for and against the pulling down of the rails, but was unsuccessful in reaching a compromise and it was feared that they would be demolished by force.[87] However, in 1663 the parish resumed Laudian practice and re-erected rails around its communion table.[88]
Joseph Caryl was incumbent from 1645 until his ejection in 1662. In 1663 he was reportedly living near London Bridge and preaching to an Independent congregation that met at various places in the City.[89]
During the Great Plague of 1665, the City authorities ordered fires to be kept burning night and day, in the hope that the air would be cleansed. Daniel Defoe's semi-fictictional, but highly realistic, work A Journal of the Plague Year records that one of these was "just by St Magnus Church"
Despite its escape in 1633, the church was one of the first buildings to be destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.[91] St Magnus stood less than 300 yards from the bakehouse of Thomas Farriner in Pudding Lane where the fire started. Farriner, a former churchwarden of St Magnus, was buried in the middle aisle of the church on 11 December 1670, perhaps within a temporary structure erected for holding services.[92]
The parish engaged the master mason George Dowdeswell to start the work of rebuilding in 1668. The work was carried forward between 1671 and 1687 under the direction of Sir Christopher Wren, the body of the church being substantially complete by 1676.[93] At a cost of £9,579 19s 10d St Magnus was one of Wren's most expensive churches.[94] The church of St Margaret New Fish Street was not rebuilt after the fire and its parish was united to that of St Magnus.
The chancels of many of Wren’s city churches had chequered marble floors and the chancel of St Magnus is an example,[95] the parish agreeing after some debate to place the communion table on a marble ascent with steps[96] and to commission altar rails of Sussex wrought iron. The nave and aisles are paved with freestone flags. A steeple, closely modelled on one built between 1614 and 1624 by François d'Aguilon and Pieter Huyssens for the church of St Carolus Borromeus in Antwerp, was added between 1703 and 1706.[97] London's skyline was transformed by Wren's tall steeples and that of St Magnus is considered to be one his finest.[98]
The large clock projecting from the tower was a well-known landmark in the city as it hung over the roadway of Old London Bridge.[99] It was presented to the church in 1709 by Sir Charles Duncombe[100] (Alderman for the Ward of Bridge Within and, in 1708/09, Lord Mayor of London). Tradition says "that it was erected in consequence of a vow made by the donor, who, in the earlier part of his life, had once to wait a considerable time in a cart upon London Bridge, without being able to learn the hour, when he made a promise, that if he ever became successful in the world, he would give to that Church a public clock ... that all passengers might see the time of day."[101] The maker was Langley Bradley, a clockmaker in Fenchurch Street, who had worked for Wren on many other projects, including the clock for the new St Paul's Cathedral. The sword rest in the church, designed to hold the Lord Mayor's sword and mace when he attended divine service "in state", dates from 1708.
Duncombe and his benefactions to St Magnus feature prominently in Daniel Defoe's The True-Born Englishman, a biting satire on critics of William III that went through several editions from 1700 (the year in which Duncombe was elected Sheriff).
Shortly before his death in 1711, Duncombe commissioned an organ for the church, the first to have a swell-box, by Abraham Jordan (father and son).[103] The Spectator announced that "Whereas Mr Abraham Jordan, senior and junior, have, with their own hands, joinery excepted, made and erected a very large organ in St Magnus' Church, at the foot of London Bridge, consisting of four sets of keys, one of which is adapted to the art of emitting sounds by swelling notes, which never was in any organ before; this instrument will be publicly opened on Sunday next [14 February 1712], the performance by Mr John Robinson. The above-said Abraham Jordan gives notice to all masters and performers, that he will attend every day next week at the said Church, to accommodate all those gentlemen who shall have a curiosity to hear it".[104]
The organ case, which remains in its original state, is looked upon as one of the finest existing examples of the Grinling Gibbons's school of wood carving.[105] The first organist of St Magnus was John Robinson (1682–1762), who served in that role for fifty years and in addition as organist of Westminster Abbey from 1727. Other organists have included the blind organist George Warne (1792–1868, organist 1820-26 until his appointment to the Temple Church), James Coward (1824–80, organist 1868-80 who was also organist to the Crystal Palace and renowned for his powers of improvisation) and George Frederick Smith FRCO (1856–1918, organist 1880-1918 and Professor of Music at the Guildhall School of Music).[106] The organ has been restored several times - in 1760, 1782, 1804, 1855, 1861, 1879, 1891, 1924, 1949 after wartime damage and 1997 - since it was first built.[107] Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was one of several patrons of the organ appeal in the mid-1990s[108] and John Scott gave an inaugural recital on 20 May 1998 following the completion of that restoration.[109] The instrument has an Historic Organ Certificate and full details are recorded in the National Pipe Organ Register.[110]
The hymn tune "St Magnus", usually sung at Ascensiontide to the text "The head that once was crowned with thorns", was written by Jeremiah Clarke in 1701 and named for the church.
Canaletto drew St Magnus and old London Bridge as they appeared in the late 1740s.[112] Between 1756 and 1762, under the London Bridge Improvement Act of 1756 (c. 40), the Corporation of London demolished the buildings on London Bridge to widen the roadway, ease traffic congestion and improve safety for pedestrians.[113] The churchwardens’ accounts of St Magnus list many payments to those injured on the Bridge and record that in 1752 a man was crushed to death between two carts.[114] After the House of Commons had resolved upon the alteration of London Bridge, the Rev Robert Gibson, Rector of St Magnus, applied to the House for relief; stating that 48l. 6s. 2d. per annum, part of his salary of 170l. per annum, was assessed upon houses on London Bridge; which he should utterly lose by their removal unless a clause in the bill about to be passed should provide a remedy.[115] Accordingly, Sections 18 and 19 of 1756 Act provided that the relevant amounts of tithe and poor rate should be a charge on the Bridge House Estates.[116]
A serious fire broke out on 18 April 1760 in an oil shop at the south east corner of the church, which consumed most of the church roof and did considerable damage to the fabric. The fire burnt warehouses to the south of the church and a number of houses on the northern end of London Bridge.
As part of the bridge improvements, overseen by the architect Sir Robert Taylor, a new pedestrian walkway was built along the eastern side of the bridge. With the other buildings gone St Magnus blocked the new walkway.[117] As a consequence it was necessary in 1762 to 1763 to remove the vestry rooms at the West end of the church and open up the side arches of the tower so that people could pass underneath the tower.[118] The tower’s lower storey thus became an external porch. Internally a lobby was created at the West end under the organ gallery and a screen with fine octagonal glazing inserted. A new Vestry was built to the South of the church.[119] The Act also provided that the land taken from the church for the widening was "to be considered ... as part of the cemetery of the said church ... but if the pavement thereof be broken up on account of the burying of any persons, the same shall be ... made good ... by the churchwardens"
Soldiers were stationed in the Vestry House of St Magnus during the Gordon Riots in June 1780.[121]
By 1782 the noise level from the activities of Billingsgate Fish Market had become unbearable and the large windows on the north side of the church were blocked up leaving only circular windows high up in the wall.[122] At some point between the 1760s and 1814 the present clerestory was constructed with its oval windows and fluted and coffered plasterwork.[123] J. M. W. Turner painted the church in the mid-1790s.[124]
The rector of St Magnus between 1792 and 1808, following the death of Robert Gibson on 28 July 1791,[125] was Thomas Rennell FRS. Rennell was President of Sion College in 1806/07. There is a monument to Thomas Leigh (Rector 1808-48 and President of Sion College 1829/30,[126] at St Peter's Church, Goldhanger in Essex.[127] Richard Hazard (1761–1837) was connected with the church as sexton, parish clerk and ward beadle for nearly 50 years[128] and served as Master of the Parish Clerks' Company in 1831/32.[129]
In 1825 the church was "repaired and beautified at a very considerable expense. During the reparation the east window, which had been closed, was restored, and the interior of the fabric conformed to the state in which it was left by its great architect, Sir Christopher Wren. The magnificent organ ... was taken down and rebuilt by Mr Parsons, and re-opened, with the church, on the 12th February, 1826".[130] Unfortunately, as a contemporary writer records, "On the night of the 31st of July, 1827, [the church's] safety was threatened by the great fire which consumed the adjacent warehouses, and it is perhaps owing to the strenuous and praiseworthy exertions of the firemen, that the structure exists at present. ... divine service was suspended and not resumed until the 20th January 1828. In the interval the church received such tasteful and elegant decorations, that it may now compete with any church in the metropolis.
In 1823 royal assent was given to ‘An Act for the Rebuilding of London Bridge’ and in 1825 John Garratt, Lord Mayor and Alderman of the Ward of Bridge Within, laid the first stone of the new London Bridge.[132] In 1831 Sir John Rennie’s new bridge was opened further upstream and the old bridge demolished. St Magnus ceased to be the gateway to London as it had been for over 600 years. Peter de Colechurch[133] had been buried in the crypt of the chapel on the bridge and his bones were unceremoniously dumped in the River Thames.[134] In 1921 two stones from Old London Bridge were discovered across the road from the church. They now stand in the churchyard.
Wren's church of St Michael Crooked Lane was demolished, the final service on Sunday 20 March 1831 having to be abandoned due to the effects of the building work. The Rector of St Michael preached a sermon the following Sunday at St Magnus lamenting the demolition of his church with its monuments and "the disturbance of the worship of his parishioners on the preceeding Sabbath".[135] The parish of St Michael Crooked Lane was united to that of St Magnus, which itself lost a burial ground in Church Yard Alley to the approach road for the new bridge.[136] However, in substitution it had restored to it the land taken for the widening of the old bridge in 1762 and was also given part of the approach lands to the east of the old bridge.[137] In 1838 the Committee for the London Bridge Approaches reported to Common Council that new burial grounds had been provided for the parishes of St Michael, Crooked Lane and St Magnus, London Bridge.
Depictions of St Magnus after the building of the new bridge, seen behind Fresh Wharf and the new London Bridge Wharf, include paintings by W. Fenoulhet in 1841 and by Charles Ginner in 1913.[139] This prospect was affected in 1924 by the building of Adelaide House to a design by John James Burnet,[140] The Times commenting that "the new ‘architectural Matterhorn’ ... conceals all but the tip of the church spire".[141] There was, however, an excellent view of the church for a few years between the demolition of Adelaide Buildings and the erection of its replacement.[142] Adelaide House is now listed.[143] Regis House, on the site of the abandoned King William Street terminus of the City & South London Railway (subsequently the Northern Line),[144] and the Steam Packet Inn, on the corner of Lower Thames Street and Fish Street Hill,[145] were developed in 1931.
By the early 1960s traffic congestion had become a problem[147] and Lower Thames Street was widened over the next decade[148] to form part of a significant new east-west transport artery (the A3211).[149] The setting of the church was further affected by the construction of a new London Bridge between 1967 and 1973.[150] The New Fresh Wharf warehouse to the east of the church, built in 1939, was demolished in 1973-4 following the collapse of commercial traffic in the Pool of London[151] and, after an archaeological excavation,[152] St Magnus House was constructed on the site in 1978 to a design by R. Seifert & Partners.[153] This development now allows a clear view of the church from the east side.[154] The site to the south east of The Monument (between Fish Street Hill and Pudding Lane), formerly predominantly occupied by fish merchants,[155] was redeveloped as Centurion House and Gartmore (now Providian) House at the time of the closure of old Billingsgate Market in January 1982.[156] A comprehensive redevelopment of Centurion House began in October 2011 with completion planned in 2013.[157] Regis House, to the south west of The Monument, was redeveloped by Land Securities PLC in 1998.[158]
The vista from The Monument south to the River Thames, over the roof of St Magnus, is protected under the City of London Unitary Development Plan,[159] although the South bank of the river is now dominated by The Shard. Since 2004 the City of London Corporation has been exploring ways of enhancing the Riverside Walk to the south of St Magnus.[160] Work on a new staircase to connect London Bridge to the Riverside Walk is due to commence in March 2013.[161] The story of St Magnus's relationship with London Bridge and an interview with the rector featured in the television programme The Bridges That Built London with Dan Cruickshank, first broadcast on BBC Four on 14 June 2012.[162] The City Corporation's 'Fenchurch and Monument Area Enhancement Strategy' of August 2012 recommended ways of reconnecting St Magnus and the riverside to the area north of Lower Thames Street.
A lectureship at St Michael Crooked Lane, which was transferred to St Magnus in 1831, was endowed by the wills of Thomas and Susannah Townsend in 1789 and 1812 respectively.[164] The Revd Henry Robert Huckin, Headmaster of Repton School from 1874 to 1882, was appointed Townsend Lecturer at St Magnus in 1871.[165]
St Magnus narrowly escaped damage from a major fire in Lower Thames Street in October 1849.
During the second half of the 19th century the rectors were Alexander McCaul, DD (1799–1863, Rector 1850-63), who coined the term 'Judaeo Christian' in a letter dated 17 October 1821,[167] and his son Alexander Israel McCaul (1835–1899, curate 1859-63, rector 1863-99). The Revd Alexander McCaul Sr[168] was a Christian missionary to the Polish Jews, who (having declined an offer to become the first Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem)[169] was appointed professor of Hebrew and rabbinical literature at King's College, London in 1841. His daughter, Elizabeth Finn (1825–1921), a noted linguist, founded the Distressed Gentlefolk Aid Association (now known as Elizabeth Finn Care).[170]
In 1890 it was reported that the Bishop of London was to hold an inquiry as to the desirability of uniting the benefices of St George Botolph Lane and St Magnus. The expectation was a fusion of the two livings, the demolition of St George’s and the pensioning of "William Gladstone’s favourite Canon", Malcolm MacColl. Although services ceased there, St George’s was not demolished until 1904. The parish was then merged with St Mary at Hill rather than St Magnus.[171]
The patronage of the living was acquired in the late 19th century by Sir Henry Peek Bt. DL MP, Senior Partner of Peek Brothers & Co of 20 Eastcheap, the country's largest firm of wholesale tea brokers and dealers, and Chairman of the Commercial Union Assurance Co. Peek was a generous philanthropist who was instrumental in saving both Wimbledon Common and Burnham Beeches from development. His grandson, Sir Wilfred Peek Bt. DSO JP, presented a cousin, Richard Peek, as rector in 1904. Peek, an ardent Freemason, held the office of Grand Chaplain of England. The Times recorded that his memorial service in July 1920 "was of a semi-Masonic character, Mr Peek having been a prominent Freemason".[172] In June 1895 Peek had saved the life of a young French girl who jumped overboard from a ferry midway between Dinard and St Malo in Brittany and was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society and the Gold Medal 1st Class of the Sociâetâe Nationale de Sauvetage de France.[173]
In November 1898 a memorial service was held at St Magnus for Sir Stuart Knill Bt. (1824–1898), head of the firm of John Knill and Co, wharfingers, and formerly Lord Mayor and Master of the Plumbers' Company.[174] This was the first such service for a Roman Catholic taken in an Anglican church.[175] Sir Stuart's son, Sir John Knill Bt. (1856-1934), also served as Alderman for the Ward of Bridge Within, Lord Mayor and Master of the Plumbers' Company.
Until 1922 the annual Fish Harvest Festival was celebrated at St Magnus.[176] The service moved in 1923 to St Dunstan in the East[177] and then to St Mary at Hill, but St Magnus retained close links with the local fish merchants until the closure of old Billingsgate Market. St Magnus, in the 1950s, was "buried in the stink of Billingsgate fish-market, against which incense was a welcome antidote".
A report in 1920 proposed the demolition of nineteen City churches, including St Magnus.[179] A general outcry from members of the public and parishioners alike prevented the execution of this plan.[180] The members of the City Livery Club passed a resolution that they regarded "with horror and indignation the proposed demolition of 19 City churches" and pledged the Club to do everything in its power to prevent such a catastrophe.[181] T. S. Eliot wrote that the threatened churches gave "to the business quarter of London a beauty which its hideous banks and commercial houses have not quite defaced. ... the least precious redeems some vulgar street ... The loss of these towers, to meet the eye down a grimy lane, and of these empty naves, to receive the solitary visitor at noon from the dust and tumult of Lombard Street, will be irreparable and unforgotten."[182] The London County Council published a report concluding that St Magnus was "one of the most beautiful of all Wren's works" and "certainly one of the churches which should not be demolished without specially good reasons and after very full consideration."[183] Due to the uncertainty about the church's future, the patron decided to defer action to fill the vacancy in the benefice and a curate-in-charge temporarily took responsibility for the parish.[184] However, on 23 April 1921 it was announced that the Revd Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton would be the new Rector. The Times concluded that the appointment, with the Bishop’s approval, meant that the proposed demolition would not be carried out.[185] Fr Fynes-Clinton was inducted on 31 May 1921.[186]
The rectory, built by Robert Smirke in 1833-5, was at 39 King William Street.[187] A decision was taken in 1909 to sell the property, the intention being to purchase a new rectory in the suburbs, but the sale fell through and at the time of the 1910 Land Tax Valuations the building was being let out to a number of tenants. The rectory was sold by the diocese on 30 May 1921 for £8,000 to Ridgways Limited, which owned the adjoining premises.[188] The Vestry House adjoining the south west of the church, replacing the one built in the 1760s, may also have been by Smirke. Part of the burial ground of St Michael Crooked Lane, located between Fish Street Hill and King William Street, survived as an open space until 1987 when it was compulsorily purchased to facilitate the extension of the Docklands Light Railway into the City.[189] The bodies were reburied at Brookwood Cemetery.
The interior of the church was restored by Martin Travers in 1924, in a neo-baroque style,[191] reflecting the Anglo-Catholic character of the congregation[192] following the appointment of Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton as Rector.[193] Fr Fynes, as he was often known, served as Rector of St Magnus from 31 May 1921 until his death on 4 December 1959 and substantially beautified the interior of the church.[194]
Fynes-Clinton held very strong Anglo-Catholic views, and proceeded to make St Magnus as much like a baroque Roman Catholic church as possible. However, "he was such a loveable character with an old-world courtesy which was irresistible, that it was difficult for anyone to be unpleasant to him, however much they might disapprove of his views".[195] He generally said the Roman Mass in Latin; and in personality was "grave, grand, well-connected and holy, with a laconic sense of humour".[196] To a Protestant who had come to see Coverdale's monument he is reported to have said "We have just had a service in the language out of which he translated the Bible".[197] The use of Latin in services was not, however, without grammatical danger. A response from his parishioners of "Ora pro nobis" after "Omnes sancti Angeli et Archangeli" in the Litany of the Saints would elicit a pause and the correction "No, Orate pro nobis."
In 1922 Fynes-Clinton refounded the Fraternity of Our Lady de Salve Regina.[198] The Fraternity's badge[199] is shown in the stained glass window at the east end of the north wall of the church above the reredos of the Lady Chapel altar. He also erected a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham and arranged pilgrimages to the Norfolk shrine, where he was one of the founding Guardians.[200] In 1928 the journal of the Catholic League reported that St Magnus had presented a votive candle to the Shrine at Walsingham "in token of our common Devotion and the mutual sympathy and prayers that are we hope a growing bond between the peaceful country shrine and the church in the heart of the hurrying City, from the Altar of which the Pilgrimages regularly start".[201]
Fynes-Clinton was General Secretary of the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union and its successor, the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association, from 1906 to 1920 and served as Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury's Eastern Churches Committee from 1920 to around 1924. A Solemn Requiem was celebrated at St Magnus in September 1921 for the late King Peter of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
At the midday service on 1 March 1922, J.A. Kensit, leader of the Protestant Truth Society, got up and protested against the form of worship.[202] The proposed changes to the church in 1924 led to a hearing in the Consistory Court of the Chancellor of the Diocese of London and an appeal to the Court of Arches.[203] Judgement was given by the latter Court in October 1924. The advowson was purchased in 1931, without the knowledge of the Rector and Parochial Church Council, by the evangelical Sir Charles King-Harman.[204] A number of such cases, including the purchase of the advowsons of Clapham and Hampstead Parish Churches by Sir Charles, led to the passage of the Benefices (Purchase of Rights of Patronage) Measure 1933.[205] This allowed the parishioners of St Magnus to purchase the advowson from Sir Charles King-Harman for £1,300 in 1934 and transfer it to the Patronage Board.
St Magnus was one of the churches that held special services before the opening of the second Anglo-Catholic Congress in 1923.[207] Fynes-Clinton[208] was the first incumbent to hold lunchtime services for City workers.[209] Pathé News filmed the Palm Sunday procession at St Magnus in 1935.[210] In The Towers of Trebizond, the novel by Rose Macauley published in 1956, Fr Chantry-Pigg's church is described as being several feet higher than St Mary’s Bourne Street and some inches above even St Magnus the Martyr.[211]
In July 1937 Fr Fynes-Clinton, with two members of his congregation, travelled to Kirkwall to be present at the 800th anniversary celebrations of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. During their stay they visited Egilsay and were shown the spot where St Magnus had been slain. Later Fr Fynes-Clinton was present at a service held at the roofless church of St Magnus on Egilsay, where he suggested to his host Mr Fryer, the minister of the Cathedral, that the congregations of Kirkwall and London should unite to erect a permanent stone memorial on the traditional site where Earl Magnus had been murdered. In 1938 a cairn was built of local stone on Egilsay. It stands 12 feet high and is 6 feet broad at its base. The memorial was dedicated on 7 September 1938 and a bronze inscription on the monument reads "erected by the Rector and Congregation of St Magnus the Martyr by London Bridge and the Minister and Congregation of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall to commemorate the traditional spot where Earl Magnus was slain, AD circa 1116 and to commemorate the Octocentenary of St Magnus Cathedral 1937"
A bomb which fell on London Bridge in 1940 during the Blitz of World War II blew out all the windows and damaged the plasterwork and the roof of the north aisle.[213] However, the church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950[214] and repaired in 1951, being re-opened for worship in June of that year by the Bishop of London, William Wand.[215] The architect was Laurence King.[216] Restoration and redecoration work has subsequently been carried out several times, including after a fire in the early hours of 4 November 1995.[217] Cleaning of the exterior stonework was completed in 2010.
Some minor changes were made to the parish boundary in 1954, including the transfer to St Magnus of an area between Fish Street Hill and Pudding Lane. The site of St Leonard Eastcheap, a church that was not rebuilt after the Great Fire, is therefore now in the parish of St Magnus despite being united to St Edmund the King.
Fr Fynes-Clinton marked the 50th anniversary of his priesthood in May 1952 with High Mass at St Magnus and lunch at Fishmongers' Hall.[218] On 20 September 1956 a solemn Mass was sung in St Magnus to commence the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the restoration of the Holy House at Walsingham in 1931. In the evening of that day a reception was held in the large chamber of Caxton Hall, when between three and four hundred guests assembled.[219]
Fr Fynes-Clinton was succeeded as rector in 1960 by Fr Colin Gill,[220] who remained as incumbent until his death in 1983.[221] Fr Gill was also closely connected with Walsingham and served as a Guardian between 1953 and 1983, including nine years as Master of the College of Guardians.[222] He celebrated the Mass at the first National Pilgrimage in 1959[223] and presided over the Jubilee celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Shrine in 1981, having been present at the Holy House's opening.[224] A number of the congregation of St Stephen's Lewisham moved to St Magnus around 1960, following temporary changes in the form of worship there.
In 1994 the Templeman Commission proposed a radical restructuring of the churches in the City Deanery. St Magnus was identified as one of the 12 churches that would remain as either a parish or an 'active' church.[226] However, the proposals were dropped following a public outcry and the consecration of a new Bishop of London.
The parish priest since 2003 has been Fr Philip Warner, who was previously priest-in-charge of St Mary's Church, Belgrade (Diocese in Europe) and Apokrisiarios for the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Serbian Orthodox Church. Since January 2004 there has been an annual Blessing of the Thames, with the congregations of St Magnus and Southwark Cathedral meeting in the middle of London Bridge.[227] On Sunday 3 July 2011, in anticipation of the feast of the translation of St Thomas Becket (7 July), a procession from St Magnus brought a relic of the saint to the middle of the bridge.[228]
David Pearson specially composed two new pieces, a communion anthem A Mhànais mo rùin (O Magnus of my love) and a hymn to St Magnus Nobilis, humilis, for performance at the church on the feast of St Magnus the Martyr, 16 April 2012.[229] St Magnus's organist, John Eady, has won composition competitions for new choral works at St Paul's Cathedral (a setting of Veni Sancte Spiritus first performed on 27 May 2012) and at Lincoln Cathedral (a setting of the Matin responsory for Advent first performed on 30 November 2013).[230]
In addition to liturgical music of a high standard, St Magnus is the venue for a wide range of musical events. The Clemens non Papa Consort, founded in 2005, performs in collaboration with the production team Concert Bites as the church's resident ensemble.[231] The church is used by The Esterhazy Singers for rehearsals and some concerts.[232] The band Mishaped Pearls performed at the church on 17 December 2011.[233] St Magnus featured in the television programme Jools Holland: London Calling, first broadcast on BBC2 on 9 June 2012.[234] The Platinum Consort made a promotional film at St Magnus for the release of their debut album In the Dark on 2 July 2012.[235]
The Friends of the City Churches had their office in the Vestry House of St Magnus until 2013.
Martin Travers modified the high altar reredos, adding paintings of Moses and Aaron and the Ten Commandments between the existing Corinthian columns and reconstructing the upper storey. Above the reredos Travers added a painted and gilded rood.[237] In the centre of the reredos there is a carved gilded pelican (an early Christian symbol of self-sacrifice) and a roundel with Baroque-style angels. The glazed east window, which can be seen in an early photograph of the church, appears to have been filled in at this time. A new altar with console tables was installed and the communion rails moved outwards to extend the size of the sanctuary. Two old door frames were used to construct side chapels and placed at an angle across the north-east and south-east corners of the church. One, the Lady Chapel, was dedicated to the Rector's parents in 1925 and the other was dedicated to Christ the King. Originally, a baroque aumbry was used for Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, but later a tabernacle was installed on the Lady Chapel altar and the aumbry was used to house a relic of the True Cross.
The interior was made to look more European by the removal of the old box pews and the installation of new pews with cut-down ends. Two new columns were inserted in the nave to make the lines regular. The Wren-period pulpit by the joiner William Grey[238] was opened up and provided with a soundboard and crucifix. Travers also designed the statue of St Magnus of Orkney, which stands in the south aisle, and the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham.[239]
On the north wall there is a Russian Orthodox icon, painted in 1908. The modern stations of the cross in honey-coloured Japanese oak are the work of Robert Randall and Ashley Sands.[240] One of the windows in the north wall dates from 1671 and came from Plumbers' Hall in Chequer Yard, Bush Lane, which was demolished in 1863 to make way for Cannon Street Railway Station.[241] A fireplace from the Hall was re-erected in the Vestry House. The other windows on the north side are by Alfred Wilkinson and date from 1952 to 1960. These show the arms of the Plumbers’, Fishmongers’ and Coopers’ Companies together with those of William Wand when Bishop of London and Geoffrey Fisher when Archbishop of Canterbury and (as noted above) the badge of the Fraternity of Our Lady de Salve Regina.
The stained glass windows in the south wall, which are by Lawrence Lee and date from 1949 to 1955, represent lost churches associated with the parish: St Magnus and his ruined church of Egilsay, St Margaret of Antioch with her lost church in New Fish Street (where the Monument to the Great Fire now stands), St Michael with his lost church of Crooked Lane (demolished to make way for the present King William Street) and St Thomas Becket with his chapel on Old London Bridge.[242]
The church possesses a fine model of Old London Bridge. One of the tiny figures on the bridge appears out of place in the mediaeval setting, wearing a policeman's uniform. This is a representation of the model-maker, David T. Aggett, who is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers and was formerly in the police service.[243]
The Mischiefs by Fire Act 1708 and the Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1774 placed a requirement on every parish to keep equipment to fight fires. The church owns two historic fire engines that belonged to the parish of St Michael, Crooked Lane.[244] One of these is in storage at the Museum of London. The whereabouts of the other, which was misappropriated and sold at auction in 2003, is currently unknown.
In 1896 many bodies were disinterred from the crypt and reburied at the St Magnus's plot at Brookwood Cemetery, which remains the church's burial ground.
Prior to the Great Fire of 1666 the old tower had a ring of five bells, a small saints bell and a clock bell.[246] 47 cwt of bell metal was recovered[247] which suggests that the tenor was 13 or 14 cwt. The metal was used to cast three new bells, by William Eldridge of Chertsey in 1672,[248] with a further saints bell cast that year by Hodson.[249] In the absence of a tower, the tenor and saints bell were hung in a free standing timber structure, whilst the others remained unhung.[250]
A new tower was completed in 1704 and it is likely that these bells were transferred to it. However, the tenor became cracked in 1713 and it was decided to replace the bells with a new ring of eight.[251] The new bells, with a tenor of 21 cwt, were cast by Richard Phelps of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Between 1714 and 1718 (the exact date of which is unknown), the ring was increased to ten with the addition of two trebles given by two former ringing Societies, the Eastern Youths and the British Scholars.[252] The first peal was rung on 15 February 1724 of Grandsire Caters by the Society of College Youths. The second bell had to be recast in 1748 by Robert Catlin, and the tenor was recast in 1831 by Thomas Mears of Whitechapel,[253] just in time to ring for the opening of the new London Bridge. In 1843, the treble was said to be "worn out" and so was scrapped, together with the saints bell, while a new treble was cast by Thomas Mears.[254] A new clock bell was erected in the spire in 1846, provided by B R & J Moore, who had earlier purchased it from Thomas Mears.[255] This bell can still be seen in the tower from the street.
The 10 bells were removed for safe keeping in 1940 and stored in the churchyard. They were taken to Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1951 whereupon it was discovered that four of them were cracked. After a long period of indecision, fuelled by lack of funds and interest, the bells were finally sold for scrap in 1976. The metal was used to cast many of the Bells of Congress that were then hung in the Old Post Office Tower in Washington, D.C.
A fund was set up on 19 September 2005, led by Dickon Love, a member of the Ancient Society of College Youths, with a view to installing a new ring of 12 bells in the tower in a new frame. This was the first of three new rings of bells he has installed in the City of London (the others being at St Dunstan-in-the-West and St James Garlickhythe). The money was raised and the bells were cast during 2008/9 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. The tenor weighed 26cwt 3qtr 9 lbs (1360 kg) and the new bells were designed to be in the same key as the former ring of ten. They were consecrated by the Bishop of London on 3 March 2009 in the presence of the Lord Mayor[256] and the ringing dedicated on 26 October 2009 by the Archdeacon of London.[257] The bells are named (in order smallest to largest) Michael, Margaret, Thomas of Canterbury, Mary, Cedd, Edward the Confessor, Dunstan, John the Baptist, Erkenwald, Paul, Mellitus and Magnus.[258] The bells project is recorded by an inscription in the vestibule of the church.
The first peal on the twelve was rung on 29 November 2009 of Cambridge Surprise Maximus.[260] Notable other recent peals include a peal of Stedman Cinques on 16 April 2011 to mark the 400th anniversary of the granting of a Royal Charter to the Plumbers' Company,[261] a peal of Cambridge Surprise Royal on 28 June 2011 when the Fishmongers' Company gave a dinner for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at their hall on the occasion of his 90th birthday[262] and a peal of Avon Delight Maximus on 24 July 2011 in solidarity with the people of Norway following the tragic massacre on Utoeya Island and in Oslo.[263] On the latter occasion the flag of the Orkney Islands was flown at half mast. In 2012 peals were rung during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on 3 June and during each of the three Olympic/Paralympic marathons, on 5 and 12 August and 9 September.
The BBC television programme, Still Ringing After All These Years: A Short History of Bells, broadcast on 14 December 2011, included an interview at St Magnus with the Tower Keeper, Dickon Love,[264] who was captain of the band that rang the "Royal Jubilee Bells" during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on 3 June 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.[265] Prior to this, he taught John Barrowman to handle a bell at St Magnus for the BBC coverage.
The bells are currently rung every Sunday around 12:15 (following the service) by the Guild of St Magnus.
Every other June, newly elected wardens of the Fishmongers' Company, accompanied by the Court, proceed on foot from Fishmongers' Hall[267] to St Magnus for an election service.[268] St Magnus is also the Guild Church of The Plumbers' Company. Two former rectors have served as master of the company,[269] which holds all its services at the church.[270] On 12 April 2011 a service was held to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the granting of the company's Royal Charter at which the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres KCVO, gave the sermon and blessed the original Royal Charter. For many years the Cloker Service was held at St Magnus, attended by the Coopers' Company and Grocers' Company, at which the clerk of the Coopers' Company read the will of Henry Cloker dated 10 March 1573.[271]
St Magnus is also the ward church for the Ward of Bridge and Bridge Without, which elects one of the city's aldermen. Between 1550 and 1978 there were separate aldermen for Bridge Within and Bridge Without, the former ward being north of the river and the latter representing the City's area of control in Southwark. The Bridge Ward Club was founded in 1930 to "promote social activities and discussion of topics of local and general interest and also to exchange Ward and parochial information" and holds its annual carol service at St Magnus.