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Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner Jennifer Payne and the team of Sandia ecologists help Sandia uphold its commitment to protect land leased from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, and land withdrawn from the U.S. Forest Service. After construction projects, the team stabilizes the soil and re-establish the natural habitat, which benefits wildlife who use the area for cover, forage and breeding.
“I think people would be surprised and impressed to know the lengths we go to protect the environment,” said stormwater program lead John Kay.
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Energy Star homes have increased requirements for insulation and water administration. When you have a water damaged iPhone (pink sensors!), Apple will now allow you to replace it for a refurbished phone for a lower cost. It doesn't matter what the cause of the damage a pack out crew ought to always make a whole detailed checklist of private possessions being faraway from the broken area. The fee ranges from $500 to $2000 depending on the problem and the version of iPhone we are recovering.
By mistake I ended up in West Malling, but it was a good thing, as the village is chocolate box pretty, and the church very fine indeed. The only church I visited that had no wardens to welcome (I think, sorry if I have mis-remembered). Anyway, a fine church, amazing coat of arms, and glad I visited.
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A story of all's well that ends well. A Norman tower and thirteenth-century chancel are linked by a twentieth-century nave that had in its turn replaced one erected to replace its medieval predecessor in the eighteenth century! The west window and those in the south aisle are by C.E. Kempe and Co. Ltd, and of special note is the one depicting the Three Kings. On the south side of the chancel, backing on to a medieval lean-to vestry, is the splendid tomb of Sir Robert Brett (d. 1620), which has recently been restored. The colours are superb and show how churches must have looked when these monuments were new. In the north aisle is a large painting of the Last Supper by Francis Slater, the eighteenth-century artist who painted the ceilings of nearby Mereworth Castle. Hanging on the front of the west gallery are the outstanding Royal Arms of James II, of carved and painted wood. The twentieth-century rebuilding of the church was financed by the sale of an Elizabethan stoneware jug (now in the British Museum), the transaction being recorded on an inscribed stone in the north porch.
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WESTWARD from East Malling lies the town and parish of West Malling, now most commonly called Town Malling.
It is written in Domesday, MALLENGETIS, and in the Textus Roffensis, MELLINGES. In many deeds after the conquest, it is stiled MILLINGES PARVA, to distinguish it from East Malling, then the larger and more noted village of the two.
The town and parish of West Malling, excepting the borough of St. Leonard, which is under the jurisdiction of the constables of the hundred of Larkfield, is under the jurisdiction of its own constables, of which there are two chosen yearly.
THE PARISH of Town Malling, as it is usually called, is situated equally pleasant and healthy. It lies on high ground, and though dry is well watered, the soil of it being in the northern part a sand, the rest of it a loam, covering the quarry rock, which is very fertile, as has been frequently noticed before in the like situations. The high road from London through Wrotham to Maidstone, at the twenty-ninth mile stone leads along the northern boundaries of the parish, being called in king Edmund's grant of this place to the bishop of Rochester, the military way, no doubt from its having been used as such by the Romans, southward of it the ground gently rising; at less than a quarter of a mile's distance is the town of Malling, which is well built, having many genteel houses in it, the streets of a handsome width, and well paved. At the east end of it is the abbey, to which the approach is by a venerable antient gateway. Although the house itself was almost all of it pulled down and rebuilt by Mr. Honywood, yet many of the antient buildings and offices be longing to it are still remaining, and are made use of as such at present. A handsome tower of the church, the front of which is decorated with intersecting arches and zig-zag ornaments, similar to those on the west front of Rochester cathedral, built by the same founder, bishop Gundulph, is still remaining, as is an antient chapel or oratory, now made use of as a dwellinghouse.
From the foundations discovered in levelling the ground by Mr. Honywood, it appears, that this abbey consisted of two quadrangles or courts, with cloysters, and a spacious hall; and that the church had another tower, of the like size to that now standing. The burying-place seems to have been on the south side of the church, as in digging there, great quantities of human bones have been thrown up, and two stone coffins with skeletons in them, the lids of them had no inscriptions on them, but were ornamented each with a cross, having a quaterfoil pierced at the upper end, the stem of which was crossed more than once with foliage, several rings and trinkets, and some old coins have likewise been found at different times in cleaning away the rubbish.
Over the west end of the grand gateway, which stands at the entrance into the precinct of the abbey from the town, at the west end of the building, there is carved in stone, a heart distilling drops of blood, and on the other side, in a shield, Ermine, a crozier in bend sinister, on a chief three annulets.
In the meadows above the gardens, are large square excavations still visible, where the fish ponds of the aunnery formerly were.
The precinct of this monastery is washed by a rivulet of excellent clear water, which rising in the hamlet of St. Leonard, runs by the house, and through the gardens of it, whence gushing through the wall with a cascade, it crosses the road towards the Rev. Mr. Brooke's gardens. There is a view of this abbey in its present state published by Mr. Grose, in his Antiquities of England.
Near the abbey gate there is a good house, with a large garden, canal, and pleasure grounds, behind it, reaching down to the London road. It has been many years the residence of the Brooke's, from whom it passed by the will of Joseph Brooke, esq. who died in 1792, after the decease of his widow in 1796, to the Rev. John Kenward Shaw, brother of Sir John Gregory Shaw, bart. who has since, in pursuance of the above will, and by the king's licence, taken the name of Brooke, and now resides in it. A little further westward there is a very antient stone building, called the Old Gaol, having narrow gothic windows, and the walls of great thickness. It is reported to have been the prison belonging to the abbey, and is now used as an oast for the drying of hops. About the middle of the street stands the church, and a little distance from it a good house, late the residence of Benjamin Hubble, esq. whose family have been inhabitants of this town for some length of time, several of them lying buried in this church. He died in 1780, leaving his widow, sister of Richard Savage, esq. of Boughton Monchelsea, surviving, and two daughters, his coheirs, one of whom having married Thomas Augustus Douce, esq. he now resides in it; further southward is the hamlet of St. Leonard, now making part of the town, and called St. Leonard's-street, in which is an antient seat, some years ago the residence of Charles Stewart, esq. whose father admiral Stewart purchased it of judge Twisden. This district had once a cell in it, belonging to the abbey, with a chapel. It was given at the time the manor and church was to it, as has been already mentioned. The whole of it has been long since desecrated, and in ruins; the square tower of the chapel which stands in the next field south-west from the late Mr. Stewart's house, is all that remains of it. It was purchased by him some years ago, of Sir John Honywood, in exchange for other premises near the abbey, and is now made use of as a stowage for hops. Mr. Stewart died in 1780, and was buried near his father in this church, and he was succeeded here by the hon. admiral John Forbes, who lately died posfessed of it. A market is held in the principal highstreet every Saturday, which is plentifully supplied and well frequented. There are three fairs, which are held by the alteration of the stile on August 12, October 2, and November 17, yearly, for horses, cattle, toys, &c. The whole town is excellently well watered with fine springs, which having supplied the town and abbey, collect themselves into one stream, and passing northward through Mr. Brooke's grounds, cross the high Maidstone road, and runs from thence into the Addington brook, just above Leyborne mill.
About half a mile south-east from the abbey there is a good modern-built house, called New Barne, which formerly belonged to Mr. Alchin, from whom it passed to Graham, the present possessor, who resides in it.
Above St. Leonard's street is the high road from Teston over East-Malling-heath, and through this parish to Offham, southward of which this parish extends into the large tract of coppice woods which reach to West Peckham and Mereworth.
Dr. William Briggs, an eminent physician, resided at the latter end of the last century at Town Malling, where he died, Sept. 1704, æt. 64, and was buried in this church, He was a great traveller into foreign countries, and was greatly esteemed for his skill in his profession, as well as for his learning, of which the several writings he published are sufficient testimonies. He was physician in ordinary to king William, and to St. Thomas's hospital, and bore his arms, Gules, three bars gemelles, or, a canton sable. (fn. 1)
THIS PLACE was given, about the year 945, by Edmund, king of the Angles and of Mercia, to Burhric, bishop of Rochester, by the description of a small portion of his land, called Meallingas, containing three plough lands; and he granted it to him, for the good of his soul, in perpetual inheritance, in augmentation of the revenues of his monastery of St. Andrew, with all its rights, liberties, members, and appurtenances, and this he did with the consent of his nobles and princes, whose names were subscribed to it. After the names of king Edmund, Edred his brother, and Eadgife his mother, are those of the archbishops and bishops, and then that of Ælgifu, the king's concubine, Ego Ælgifu Concubina Regis affui, and after her the dukes, &c. The bounds of this land are thus described in Saxon, viz. from the south part of it to the king's plaine, and from thence to the bounds of the parish of Offaham, and thence to the military way, and so along the said way over Lilleburne to the bounds of the parish of Est Meallinges, and so directly southward from the east of the cross or gallows to the broad way towards the south, in a direct line along the said way to the king's plaine. To which the king added certain denberies for the pannage of hogs.
This land did not continue long in the possession of the church of Rochester, being wrested from it in the time of the Danish wars; and when William the Conqueror had attained the crown, he gave it to Odo, bishop of Baieux, his half brother, from whom it was recovered, together with the church of Mallinges, in the solemn assembly of the whole county held on this occasion, by the king's command, at Pinenden heath, in 1076, by archbishop Lanfrance, who afterward restored it to bishop Gundulph, and the church of St. Andrew; which gift was confirmed by archbishops Anselm and Boniface. (fn. 2)
In the survey of Domesday, taken about four years afterwards, this manor is thus described, under the general title of the bishop of Rochester's lands:
The same bishop (of Rochester) holds Mellingetes, it was taxed, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, at three sulings, and now at one and an half. The arable land is three carucates. In demesne there is one, and five villeins, with fix borderers, having two carucates. There is a church, and one mill of two shillings, wood for the pannage of twenty hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth forty shillings, and now four pounds.
Bishop Gundulph, in the 4th year of the reign of king William Rufus, anno 1090, having founded an abbey of Benedictine nuns in this parish, to the honor of the Virgin Mary, gave this manor and church to it, with other possessions for the endowment of it; (fn. 3) and although it was, about one hundred years after its being first erected, with the adjoining village, destroyed by fire, yet it was again soon afterwards re-edified, and continued to increase in a flourishing state.
In the 7th year of king Edward I. anno 1278, the abbess of Malling claimed sundry liberties in this parish, by grant from king Henry III. and a market weekly throughout the year on a Saturday and Wednesday; and she claimed by grant from king John to have warren in all her lands at Malling, by grant from king Henry, from time beyond memory; and to have fairs in the parish on the eve, day, and morrow of St. Matthew the apostle, and the like on the eve, and day of St. Leonard, and the like on the eve, and day of St. Peter, ad vincula.
By which, and such like favours granted to it, this place, which at the first foundation of the monastery was plain fields, and almost without an inhabitant, became notwithstanding its former calamity mentioned before, exceedingly populous from the numbers who flocked to it from all parts, who building themselves houses here, increased the village to a large size, well suited for trade, to the no small emolument of the nuns; whence it soon lost its name of Malling Parva, which was for some time transferred to the neighbouring parish of East Malling, as appears by some grants, &c. of this time, and king Edward III. (fn. 4)
In the 15th year of king Edward I. the temporalities of the abbess of Malling in this parish and East Malling were valued at forty-five pounds.
There was an annual pension of ten pounds of wax, and one boar, paid by the abbess to the bishop of Rochester, as an acknowledgment of her subjection to that see.
In the year 1321, the bishop of Rochester, at the king's request, to whom the nuns had made a complaint, that their monastery was ruined by the bad management of their abbess, sister of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, visited it, and heard the complaints against her; in consequence of which she resigned, and the lady Agnes de Leyborne, was chosen in her room. Three years after which she died, and the bishop, at the unanimous request of the nuns, appointed Lora de Retling abbess here, though much against his will, knowing her to be very ignorant, and unfit for the office. However, he inhibited her giving a corredy to her maid servant, as had been the custom, and sequestered their common seal, inhibiting her from using it without his licence.
A great pestilence raging in the year 1348, the bishop made two abbesses here, who presently died; nor were there more than four nuns professed, and four not professed, remaining in this monastery; and he com mitted the custody of the spirituals and temporals to two of them, as there was not a proper person for the office of abbess.
In the year 1493, anno 9 Henry VII. Joane Moone was abbess of this monastery. (fn. 5)
This abbey was surrendered into the king's hands, with all its possessions, (fn. 6) among which were the manors of East and West Malling, with the precincts of Ewell and Parrock annexed to the latter, by Margaret Vernon, abbess, and the convent of it, in the 30th year of king Henry VIII. at which time it was valued at 245l. 10s. 2½d. annual rent, according to Speed, and 218l. 4s. 2½d. clear value, according to Dugdale, and there was granted to the abbess a pension of forty pounds yearly, and to eleven nuns from 31. 6s. 8d. down to 2l. 13s. 4d. yearly pensions, each for their lives.
After which that king, by his letters patent, in his 31st year, granted and sold, in exchange, among other premises, to Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, the scite of the abbey, with the precinct and circuit of it, and the manors of West Malling, Ewell, and Parocke, and the parsonage of West Malling, late appropriate to it, excepting to the king all advowsons, presentations, &c. to hold by knight's service, at the yearly rent therein mentioned; and as the king was entitled to the tenths of these premises, he discharged the archbishop of them, and all other outgoings whatsoever, except the rent therein mentioned. Which grant was in consequence of an indenture made between the king and the archbishop, inrolled in the Augmentation-office.
These manors and premises were again exchanged with the crown in the beginning of the reign of queen Elizabeth, in the 12th year of which she granted them in lease to Sir Henry Brooke, alias Cobham, fifth son of Sir George Brooke, lord Cobham; after which they were held by the same possessors, as the manor of East Malling before described, till at length, after the death of Sir Robert Brett, anno 1621, king James granted the manor of West, alias Town Malling, with the precinct of Ewell annexed, the scite of the late monastery, with the house, buildings, and ground within the precinct of it with all their appurtenances, late parcel of the possessions of the late monastery, in fee, to John Rayney, esq. which was further confirmed to Sir John Rayney, his eldest son, in the 2d year of king Charles I. He was of Wrothamplace, in this neighbourhood, and was created a baronet of Nova Scotia, in 1641, and his son of the same name, about the time of the restoration, conveyed these premises to Isaac Honywood, gent. of Hampsted, Middlesex, who was the only son of Edward, third son of Sir Thomas Honywood, of Elmsted, ancestor likewise of the present Sir John Honywood, of Elmsted, baronet, and he continued to bear the same coat of arms; whose second son, Isaac Honywood, esq. of Hampsted, succeeded him in this manor and estate. Frazer Honywood, esq. of Hampsted and London, his only son and heir, rebuilt the abbey house of Malling in the antient gothic taste, at a very great expence, making it one of the seats of his residence, and having thus greatly improved it, he died possessed of this seat and manor, with the estate belonging to it, in 1764, leaving no issue by his wife, the daughter of Abraham Atkins, of Clapham. He gave them, as well as the rest of his estates here and elsewhere, by will, to his kinsman, Sir John Honywood, bart. of Elmsted, and his heirs male, with divers remainders over to the family of Honywood. Sir John Honywood, bart. is since deceased, and his grandson of the same name is the present owner of this manor, with the precinct of Ewell annexed, and the seat of Malling abbey, with the lands and appurtenances in this parish belonging to it, but Mr. Foote resides in it.
The family of Say antiently possessed THE MANOR of CLEMENTS IN EWELL, in this parish. Geoffry de Say held it in the 7th year of king Edward II. as half a knight's fee. His son, Geoffry de Say, paid aid for it in the 20th year of king Edward III. as half a knight's fee, which John at Forde held before in Ewell, in Malling, of the bishop of Rochester. This manor was afterwards in the name of Coveney, (fn. 7) and in the latter end of king Henry VIII. it was in the possession of Mr. William Fowle. Since which it has sunk into such obscurity, that neither the scite nor the owners of it can be traced out even by the most diligent enquiries.
CHARITIES.
THERE is a lecture founded in this church of a sermon every fortnight, on the Saturday; two of the preachers to be the ministers of East and West Malling, who are to be paid 10s. for every sermon they preach; the other preachers are appointed at the will of the trustees.
FRANCIS TRESSE, gent. of this town, who died in 1632, by his will gave a piece of land, and 40l. towards the building of a free school in this parish; and he charged one of his houses in Town Malling with the sum of 13s. 4d. per annum, for the keeping of it in repair; and appointed that four principal freeholders of this parish should be trustees for the execution of this part of his will for ever. This school was accordingly erected, and was made use of for the teaching of boys writing and arithmetic. The charity is veisted in the minister and tour substantial freehold inhabitants, and the estate out of which it is paid in Mr. Robert Sutton, of this parish, but there being no master, the school-house is at present let to the late master's widow at 2gs. perannum, which with the 13s. 4d. is applied towards the maintaining of the building. He also gave two silver cups for the use of the holy communion, and 6s. 8d. payable yearly out of a piece of land, called Cousin's Plat, now vested in Mary Brome, widow.
SIR ROBERT BRETT, by will in 1620, gave land sufficient to pay yearly 10s. per week, to be bestowed in bread and meat to twenty poor persons, or else to be distributed in money to them. His executors accordingly conveyed lands in Tewksbury, in Gloucestershire, for this purpose, which is now vested in lord Romney, and twenty-three others, trustees, of the annual produce of 26l. but of late years the annual produce has been but 19l. 14s.
TOWN MALLING is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURIDISCTION of the diocese of Rochester, and gives name to the deanry of Malling, in which it is situated.
The church, which is a handsome building, with an elegant spire steeple, is dedicated to St. Mary.
At the latter end of the year 1778, some of the main pillars of the body of it giving way, the whole roof of it fell in, leaving only the steeple and chancel at the two extremities of it standing. It has since been repaired, and thoroughly finished by a brief, which was obtained for that purpose.
The church of West Malling was given, with the manor, to the church of Rochester, by king Edmund, in 945; and having afterwards been taken from it, was again restored by archbishop Lanfranc to bishop Gundulph, in the time of the Conqueror, who gave it to the monastery here, at his foundation of it, and this gift was confirmed by several succeeding kings, archbishops of Canterbury, bishops of Rochester, &c. as has been already mentioned.
It was appropriated to the abbess and convent by bishop Gundulph, at the time it was given to them; which appropriation was specially confirmed by Simon, archbishop of Canterbury, in the year 1351.
In the reign of king Edward III. great discutes arising between the abbess and nuns of this monastery, and Robert de Beulton, perpetual vicar of this church, especially concerning the receiving of the tithes of flax and hemp, and the payment of archidiaconal procurations, they were at last settled by Hamo, bishop of Rochester, who in the year 1339, decreed, that, saving the due and accustomed portion of the prebend of the great mass in the conventual church of Malling, and the portion of the vicar, as undermentioned, the religious should take all tithes of corn within the parish, and all oblations and obventions belonging to their conventual church, and the cell of St. Leonard; and that they should not be bound to pay to the vicar the tithes of their hay, woods, or mills. And whereas the bishop was informed, and it was allowed, that the above-mentioned prebendary, and other domestics, serving in the monastery, or in the houses of the prebendary, or perpetual chaplain, celebrating for the dead, as also the brothers and sisters, and other persons dwelling in the monastery, or house of the prebendary, who, when they were without the monastery and houses, were not housekeepers in the parish, were wont to receive the sacraments and sacramentals, in life and in death, and to be buried there, if they happened to die within the monastery or houses, unless by chance they chose to be buried elsewhere; in which case, the religious had the first mass for the body before them, in their monastery, and received all the oblations then and there made, so that no portion was left for the vicar of the parish church. And further, that the prebendary for the time being had been used to receive antiently, and to that time, in part of the portion due to him, all the great and small tithes of the demesne lands of the religious, and of the food of their cattle, and also the great tithes arising from many of the crofts of their tenants situated in the said parish, and also the small tithes of his house, and of the house and land of the perpetual chaplain aforesaid, and all the predial tithes arising from the houses or messuages, curtilages and gardens, late of Thomas atte Shoppe and William Cake, in the street, called Holirode-strete, of this parish of Malling, situated above the house of the prebendary; and of all the houses, messuages, curtilages, and gardens whatsoever, from thence towards the east and north in Holirode-street, and in the street, called Tan-street, as far as the end of the parish of Malling on that side; and that the religious and prebendary had possessed all and singular the premises aforesaid, in certain distinct portions, peaceably and without contradiction, from the time beyond memory. (fn. 8)
The bishop, therefore, that none of the premises should be altered, decreed, saving all and every matter as aforesaid, that the vicar should receive for his portion all other small tithes, oblations, obventions and profits belonging to the parish church more especially, viz. the tithe of herbage, silva cedua, apples, pears, flax, hemp, wool, milk, cheese, calves, lambs, pigs, pidgeons, geese, ducks, bees, eggs, merchandizings, fowlings, fishings, swans, pulse, and other fruits, and also of corn growing in orchards or gardens, as he had-been accustomed to receive them.
¶And that the vicar should also receive the personal tithes of the inhabitants of the houses or messuages of Thomas atte Shoppe and William Cake, and of others, inhabiting in the houses or messuages situated in the streets, called Holirode-strete and Tan-strete, and the oblations due and accustomed to the parish church, and should administer ecclesiastical rights to them, and should have the burial of them in the parish church; and that the vicar should have for his habitation, as assigned to him by the religious, the dwelling with its precinct, which the vicar then inhabited, and his predecessors used to inhabit, which he should repair at his own expence, and preserve in a decent state, and should pay the yearly rents and services, due and accustomed from thence; all which the bishop adjudged to be a sufficient portion for the vicar for the time being. And he further decreed, that the vicar should cause the books to be bound, the vestments to be washed; and the same, and the rest of the ornaments of the parish church, which belonged to the religious to find, as often as need should require, to be repaired, and should cause them to be safely and honestly kept; and that he should provide and find bread, wine, processional tapers, and other lights necessary and accustomed in the chancel, the necessary and accustomed ministers, rochets, surplices, napkins, unconsecrated vessels, basons, and also green rushes to strow the church, if they had been so accustomed, and did not belong to the parishioners to find; and that he should pay the dues to the bishop, and the archidiaconal procurations, and that the vicar should acknowledge and undergo, according to the rate of the taxation of his portion as under-mentioned, all ordinaries and extraordinaries, which, although it might amount to five marcs, being near the moiety of the value of the whole church, according to the estimation then had, he decreed should remain according to the antient taxation of it, as often as burthens of this kind were to be borne, and paid from small benefices. And he decreed, that the religious should acknowledge and undergo all and singular other burthens happening to the parish church, by reason of their portion, which he estimated at twelve marcs, according to the antient taxation of it, notwithstanding this assignation, which was made with the consent of both parties, and which by his episcopal authority, he corroborated and confirmed, &c. and that it might not be called in doubt in future times, or be litigated, he had caused it to be entered in his register, and to be reduced into three different writings, of which he decreed one to remain in the hands of the religious, another in the hands of the vicar, and the third in the hands of the prebendary aforesaid, to perpetuate the memory of it, and had caused it to be authenticated with his seal, &c.
This parsonage, prebend, and the advowson of the vicarage, were, on the dissolution of the abbey in the 30th year of king Henry VIII. surrendered into the king's hands. After which the king, next year, granted this parsonage, with the manor of West Malling, and other premises, to Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, to hold by knight's service, at the yearly rent therein mentioned. After which it passed, with the manor of West Malling, in a like succession of ownership, down to Sir John Rayney, bart. who sold these premises, about the time of the restoration, to judge Twisden, and his descendant, Sir John Papillon Twisden, bart. is the present possessor of this parsonage, and the advowson of the vicarage of West or Town Malling.
The vicarage is valued in the king's books at ten pounds, and the yearly tenths at one pound.
Capitol Visitor Center guides admire the freshly restored space.
Full Rotunda Interior Restoration project details are at www.aoc.gov/rotunda.
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The J.C. Davis is the last steam engine damaged in the 2003 Roundhouse roof collapse to be restored.
It is now on display at the B&O Railroad Museum.
synthetic grid/net/fabric?? don't know what it's called in English, (please if anybody can tell me?) to reinforce the plaster on the walls
Image from SDASM's Restoration Department
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Image from SDASM's Restoration Department
Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
A friend asked me to do a restoration on a 70 year old photo he had of his grandfather. The original was about 2x3 inches. I would like to do better, but I don't think that there are any more details to bring out, and if anything over sharpened.
A restoration I did to for my friend Areti. First pic is the listing pic on ebay, that's how she got them, but taadaa I made them look all new again! Megara's hair have two different styles of curls and Pocahontas has handmade necklace and added belt (made by me). Well, I'm proud!
In this photo: The Miller Barn Restoration Project wrapped up last week. The HistoriCorps team did an outstanding job. We thank the team tremendously for helping us to preserve America's heritage.
September 8 through October 4, 2019, HistoriCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging volunteers in the rehabilitation of historic structures on publicly accessible lands, in partnership with the National Elk Refuge, worked to restore the 121 year old Historic Miller Barn.
The Historic Miller Barn on the National Elk Refuge, represents a range of historic events significant to the development of the National Elk Refuge and Jackson, WY. The 30-by-40 foot barn was built in 1898 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The barn is part of the Historic Miller Ranch on the National Elk Refuge. The site referred to as the Historic Miller Ranch includes the original log home or Miller House, the Miller Barn, and a one-room log building that was once used as the original office for what later became Teton National Forest, known currently as Bridger-Teton National Forest.
HistoriCorps is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides volunteers of all skill levels with a hands-on experience preserving historic structures on public lands across America. Volunteers work with HistoriCorps field staff to learn preservation skills and put those skills to work saving historic places that have fallen into disrepair. HistoriCorps works to ensure America’s cultural and historical resources exist for generations to come.
Photo: Kari Cieszkiewicz/USFWS
A restoration/hand colorization I did at the request of another Flickr user who has asked to remain anonymous.
My 1976-model Suzuki TS50 photographed on Sunday, July 12, 2009. It's pictured outside my mom's flat in Pretoria, South Africa after being carried out of the cellar and into the daylight for the first time since 1989. It was wonderful to see her again...and she still had gorgrous 1970's lines :-) The Suzuki was shipped to the UK ten days later.
Adolphus Hotel / Dallas, Texas
*** Adolphus Busch, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch ***
Adolphus Busch aimed to grow his Missouri brewing company to Texas and Dallas would be the Texas hub. He and St Louis business partners already owned the Oriental Hotel on the SE corner of Commerce and Akard. For years, The Oriental Hotel was considered the finest hotel in Dallas. It was torn down in 1924 to make way for the Baker Hotel. Dallas Mayor Stephen Hay and other city officials traveled to St. Louis in May 1910 to lobby Adolphus Busch to build a huge additon to the Oriental hotel. Busch agreed, but he desired the site opposite the Oriental Hotel - which was the Dallas City Hall. The committee agreed to the sell the lot on the spot to Busch. City offices were relocated to 411 Commerce Street. Demolition began and the site for the "New Oriental Hotel," as it was first named, was ready by January 1911. The Dallas chamber of commerce telegrahed Busch in March 1911 suggesting that the new hotel be named the Adolphus in his honor. Busch responded "I shall cheerfully acquiesce and be proud of it".
The hotel was designed by the St. Louis architect Tom P. Barnett, of the firm Barnett, Haynes, and Barnett. The architects used a strong familiarity with the design of the Astor Hotel in New York City which had elaborately decorated public rooms, a roof garden, an exterior faced with a combination of stone and brick and capped with a Mansard roof. The architects previously designed the 425-room Hotel Jefferson (1904) in St. Louis. Construction began in 1911 on the site by Louis J. Haenni of the Gilsonite Construction Company. Busch would spent $1.8 million (about $45 million today) to build a 20 story hotel befitting Dallas’ aspirations, aiming for world-class status. Adolphus Busch died in 1913, but members of the family, including his son August, continued the hotel operation.
The New Oriental's monumental facade is of the Louis XIV period. The buildings architectural ornamentation was unheard of this side of the Mississippi. Its exterior was Parisian Beaux Arts style, with a tapestry of red velvet brick, trimmed with Bedford stone, and gargoyles flanked by the colossal, helmeted heads of Greek gods. The building is topped with a handcrafted Turret in the shape of a beer bottle. The exterior included stone figures of Apollo, Ceres and Mercury. The gargoyles symbolized barley, malt, hops and other brewing motifs. The opulent interior was unlike anything Dallas had ever known — vaulted ceilings, sculptured panels in bas-relief, fixtures of brass, ormolu (gilding with gold paste), alabaster carved ornaments decorated with silk and velvet draperies. Busch commissioned two identical Chandeliers. One hangs in the hotel lobby. It is a gilded chandelier, with eagles hovering wingtip to wingtip. The other hangs at the Clydesdale stables in St. Louis.
In 1917, the Busch heirs elected to enlarge the hotel with the West Annex, which brought the total number of rooms to 482 when the new section opened in January 1918. The architects Otto Lang and Frank Witchell designed the West Annex, called the "Junior Aolphus", which added 229 hotel rooms. With a roof top restaurant the Adolphus was a hot spot during the Roaring '20s. A third addition was made in 1926.
Otto Schubert was the Adolphus general manager from 1922 to 1946. National Hotel Management, headed by Ralph Hitz, served as the hotel management company. NHM also managed the New Yorker, the Lexington and the Belmont Plaza hotels (New York); the Congress Hotel(Chicago); the Netherland Plaza(Cincinnati) and the Book-Cadillac (Detroit).
The Century Room on the 19th floor, was the hotel's popular and classy nightclub. It even went Hawaiian for a brief period in 1938 to help showcase a Hawaiian band that was in town. But the Century Room's big attraction was the ice shows. The Century Room had a retractable 20’ X 24’ ice rink used for touring ice revues. When not in use it was retracted and the area used as a dance floor. In the early ’40s, retired speedskater and Olympic gold medalist Dot Graney brought her Broadway-on-ice show to Dallas for a month. Franey ended up staying at the Adolphus for 14 years, where she directed, produced, and choreographed her own shows in the Century Room. Century Room Entertainment included the likes of Phil Harris and Orchestra, Bill Bardo's Band, Art Jarrett and Orchestra with singer Eleanor Holm, Fiddler Joe Venuti, Andrews Sisters, Rudy Vallee, Ben Berne, Ozzie Nelson and Harriett Hilliard, Jack Benny and Phyllis Diller. During the 1950's Liberace broke all Century Room attendance records. In the 1970's The Century Room went Tiki Hawaiian for awhile with such acts as singer "Meteliko" accompanied by five Hula Girls, and fire/knife drummer named Enoka Fetui with the Johnny Scat Davis Band.
The Busch family owned the Adolphus hotel for 37 years until 1949 when Dallas investor Leo F. Corrigan Sr purchased the 825 room property for $2,977,000. Under Corrigan's ownership the facility was again expanded to include an additional hotel tower (the Adolphus Tower), an adjoining office tower, and parking garage. Corrigan claims the 1,350 room Adolphus was the largest totaly air conditioned hotel in the world. Corrigan's hotel portfolio included the Biltmore in Los Angeles and Emerald Beach in Nassau. Corrigan made unsuccesful attempts to buy the Empire State Building in NYC and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. In Dallas Corrigan had previously bought the Stoneleigh Hotel (owned for over 50 years) and Maple Terrace hotel. H.H. Andy Anerson was Managing Director from 1956 to 1967 and again in 1977.
In 1980 the Adolphus had its third owner - a California investment group lead by Patrick R. Colee, president of the Westgroup Parnters. With finacning from New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, Colee purchased the commercial block of improved real estate in downtown Dallas which consisted of office buildings and the well-known but poorly maintained hotel known as the Adolphus Hotel. In disrepair and subjected to mismanagement for years, the Adolphus was initially considered a liability to the viability of the purchased block. Colee lead a charge to fully renovate the hotel and create his own hotel ownership and management organization. For the next twenty-five years under the auspices of Colee, the Adolphus thrived in its tradition of elegance, charm and excellence. On February 3, 1980 after 68 years of continuous service, Westgroup closed The Adolphus for restoration and refurnishing.
By 1981 the Adolphus re-opened after a $45 million facelift. The hotel was again a showplace, with $25 million in "new" antiques and art. The work on the original structure was confined to restoration of existing elements on the exterior, with a major redecorating campaign on the interior. The room count was reduced from 850 to 437 - creating one guest room from two. The hotel received new plumbing and individually controlled air conditionand heating and an advanced emergency alert system. Rooms and halls have sprinklers and smoke alarms. The stairways have been pressurized to prevent the entrance of smoke. The French Room opened as the finest restaurant in Dallas. In the early 80's Jean Banchet, the owner and chef of Le Francais in Wheeling IL. was rated as the America's best restaurant, was the food consultant for the French Room. Westgroup selected Amfac, the Hawaiian sugar, real estate and resort company, to manage the hotel. John Kirk was Amfac's first general manager at the Adolphus. After the $45 million renovation the once great but greatly deteriorated property staged a comeback as one of the world's finest hotels and in a short time earned the AAA Five Diamond Rating. Amfac's 1981 annual meeting was held at the Adolphus. Westgroup also bought in 1985 the Biltmore in Los Angeles for $45 million and the Newporter Resort for $25 million.
In 2012 Adolphus Associates/Met Life sold the Adolphus to a company set up by RockBridge Cabital for $33.5 million. Cresent Hotels was retained as manager. Rockbridge is a Columbus Ohio based private equity firm.
Rockbridge and Crescent Hotels & Resorts commenced a multi-million dollar renovation to Dallas’ historic Adolphus Hotel in 2013. The legendary hotel (currently at 407 rooms) will receive a comprehensive, property-wide renovation that will modernize and vitalize the property while preserving its history, elegance and charm. The scope of the renovation includes the complete refurbishment of all guest rooms, public spaces and meeting spaces; the addition of a new 19th floor ballroom; construction of a 7th floor rooftop pool and bar; introduction of a new luxury spa and fitness center; refreshment of the acclaimed French Room Restaurant (restored the ceiling of the storied French Room to its original white, a move that pained fans of the rococo cherub frescoes, a relic of eighties excess); and the development of new dining and retails outlets. Rockbridge President and CEO Jim Merkel said the renovation is led by RB Hotel Development and design firm Duncan Miller Ullmann. Merkel is the co-founder of Rockbridge and helped grow it to over $2.0 billion in managed assets. The Adolphus remained open throughout the project. Other Rockbridge properties include Cliff House in Cape Neddick, ME and The Lay Low, Honolulu (formerly the Coral Reef Hotel). Merkel says "We fix broken hotels. We reinvent them and make them relevant to the market and to today's customers".
With renovations completed in 2017, The Adolphus, shed its independence and become part of the Marriott brand's "Autograph Collection" of hotels.
Compiled by Dick Johnson / October, 2018
The great pyramid of Djozer in Memphis being restored. This is the site of the original Pyramids in Egypt from 2650 BC. The king was seen as the living embodiment of the God Horus.
For most of our time in Egypt there was a heat haze and the sky was generally Grey, so sepia, black & white and split toning seem to be the only options for these photos...
Capitol Visitor Center guides admire the freshly restored space.
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Many people think if it's a fibreglass cab you escape any rot. Not the case most fibreglass structures have some strengthening in them, be it wood or steel, once the water gets in there's nowhere for it to get out, and here's what happens with wood, steel just spall's and bursts the fibreglass, most of the wood in this cab will have to be replaced, and then re-glassed back in.
The backfilling of the MacArthur Ditch is part of the larger Kissimmee River Restoration project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project will eliminate an artificial drainage feature in the floodplain that was created more than 50 years ago by the MacArthur family to protect their property from flooding.
A small borrow canal resulting from the construction of a levee around this property has grown to almost 3 miles in length and up to 60 feet wide as a result of the reintroduction of flow to the Phase I restoration area in 2001. This dated feature drains the floodplain quickly while it continues to grow in length and width. If not backfilled, it would decrease the inundation depth and duration of water in the floodplain wetlands and impact the quality of fish and wildlife habitat.
Awaiting it's turn for restoration at the Oxford Bus Museum in one of the smaller sheds across from the main hall is Ex Chiltern Queens 1962 AEC Reliance / Duple Brittania C41F. Photo taken 15/12/13
A big thank you to Gerard Caffrey for allowing me to share my restoration of this photographer of his grandfather Martin O’Brien, taken during World War 1.
Martin O’Brien is on the left of the photograph.
Martin was a private in the 9th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers (Reg. No: 8794). He was killed in action on the Somme in the battle for the village of Ginchy, Flanders on the 9th of September 1916. Martin was born in Donnybrook and at the time of his death he was 34 years old married with children.
The photograph is believed to have been taken shortly before his death. At first glance the men appear to be posed in a comfortable environment note the furniture, but look more closely and you can see the rough ground beneath their feet.