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I'm sorry for not being around. My boxes are being packed and next week I'm moving to another city. I'll miss everyone around here in Leipzig. But being to comfortable doesn't mean to stay put. New exciting things will happen, even though I'm scared of the future, I'm also looking forward to it.
We just couldn't pin down what it was but there was something about her that made her so different to her family.
I have liven in Kent since 2007, and hadn't visited Sevenoaks before yesterday. It being one of Kent's major towns, this is something of a surprise, I even had to check my photostream on here to make sure: nothing for Sevenoaks.
For me, Sevenoaks is famous for two things: 1. the seven oaks destroyed in the 1987 "hurricane" and I suppose home to the chain of hi-fi shops, Sevenoaks Audio, though I didn't see a branch during my visit.
I don't know why I decided to visit here today, the idea had been to go to Nunhead to a large rambling and overgrown Victorian cemetery (more of that later), and the Southeastern website suggested the way there was via St Pancras and then on Thameslink. I thought there must have been a route across Kent, which is how I came to be in Sevenoaks, change here for Nunhead.
So, why not explore the town before travelling on?
So, I guess that's why I was here.
The spread of the new COVID variant meant I did consider cancelling the trip, but with no new lockdowns announced on Monday, and armed with a mask I set off, Jools dropping me off at Dover Priory at half six, withenough time for a gingerbread latte (with an extra shot) before my train pulled in.
Less than a dozen got in the 12 carriages, and there service trundled through Kent, Ashford, Pluckley, Marden, Staplehurst, Tonbdrige to deposit me here at Sevenoaks.
I and half a dozen people got off, I lingered to take a couple of shots before the long walk up the hill to the town centre.
Thanks to GSV, I had travelled up London Road to the centre of town, so knew it was a hike, but worth it. I mean, no point going somewhere if there was nothing of worth to snap, was there?
At first I walked past large houses, then at the major road junction, a sparkling Ferrari Dealership, not something we have in Dover, and not sure if Canterbury even has one. But Sevenoaks does, as well as on one, not two, but three dry cleaners, all looking busy.
The main shopping area had old pubs and coaching inns, clapboard houses and other with peg tiles decorating the outside, all got photographed, of course.
Att he top of the shopping streets, where the two A roads meet, there is a fine pre-warboys signpost that I snapped good and proper.
Finally, as the hill flattened out, the buildings got older still, before coming to the parish church, which I knew from research was almost impossible to get inside judging by the reviews left.
It wasn't yet nine, my back was complaining, so I took a seat in the chuchyard to wait.
Wait for what, I do not know.
The clocked chimed mournfully for nine, to the south, a couple of workmen repair the top of the substantial wall, and I guess the ownes comes into the churchyard to find bricks that have fallen from it. The wall is at least twenty feet high, separating the church from the grand house, I wonder what the owners thought were being kept out?
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The church looks well from the main street, with its east end almost on the road. Built of local stone, the nave, aisles, chapels and tower are typical of fifteenth-century design. The church has been so often restored - in 1812, 1878, 1954 and most recently in 1994 when a crypt was built - that its historical interest is limited. However, the stained glass windows by Kempe and Heaton, Butler and Bayne are of excellent quality, especially those in the south aisle. There are also some interesting monuments, including one to William Lambarde (d. 1601), the first Kentish historian.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Sevenoaks+1
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SEVENOKE.
NEXT southward from Seale lies the parish and town of SEVENOKE, called, in the Textus Roffensis, SEOUENACCA, which name was given to it from seven large oaks, standing on the hill where the town is, at the time of its being first built. It is now commonly called SENNOCK.
THE PARISH of Sevenoke is situated partly above and partly below the great ridge of sand hills which runs across this county, and divides the upland from the Weald or southern district of it. It is divided into three districts, the Town Borough, Rotherhith or Rethered, now called Riverhead, and the Weald. The parish is of considerable extent, being five miles in length, from north to south, and about four miles in width. The soil of it varies much; at and about the town, it is a sand, as it is towards the hill southward, below which it is a stiff clay, and towards the low grounds, to Riverhead, a rich sertile soil. It reaches more than a mile below the hill, where there is a hamlet, called Sevenoke Weald, lying within that district, for it should be known, that all that part of this parish, which lies below the great range of sand hills southward, is in the Weald of Kent, the bound of which is the narrow road which runs along the bottom of them, and is called, to distinguish it, Sevenoke Weald; thus when a parish extends below, and the church of it is above the hill, that part below, has the addition of Weald to it, as Sevenoke Weald, Sundridge Weald, and the like.
THE TOWN of Sevenoke lies about thirty-three miles from London, on high ground above the sand hill, the church, which is situated at the south end of it, is a conspicuous object each way to a considerable distance. The high roads from Westram; and from London through Farnborough, meeting at about a mile above it; and that from Dartford through Farningham and Otford, at the entrance of the town; and leading from thence again both to Penshurst and Tunbridge. Between the town and the hill there is much coppice wood, and a common, called Sevenoke common, on which is a seat, called Ash-grove, belonging to Mrs. Smith. The town of Sevenoke is a healthy, pleasant situation, remarkable for the many good houses throughout it, inhabited by persons of genteel fashion and fortune, which make it a most desirable neighbourhood. In the middle of the High-Street is the house of the late Dr. Thomas Fuller, afterwards of Francis Austen, esq. clerk of the peace for this county; near which is the large antient market-place, in which the market, which is plentifully supplied with every kind of provisions, is held weekly on a Saturday; and the two fairs yearly, on July 10, and Oct. 12, and where the business of the assizes, when held at Sevenoke, as they were several times in queen Elizabeth's reign, and in the year before the death of king Charles I. and once since, has been usually transacted. At the south end of it is a seat, the residence of Multon Lambard, esq. at a small distance westward is the magnificent mansion and park of Knole; and eastward, a small valley intervening, the seat of Kippington; at a little distance northward of the town is an open space, called Sevenoke Vine, noted for being the place where the great games of Cricket, the provincial amusement of this county, are in general played; this joins to Gallows common, so called from the execution of criminals on it formerly. In the valley below it is Bradborne, and the famous silk mills, belonging to Peter Nonaille, esq. called Greatness, near which are the ruins of the hospital or chapel, dedicated to St. John, where this parish bounds to Otford.
About a mile north-west from the town, where the two roads from London and Westerham meet, is the large hamlet of Riverhead, bounded by the river Darent and the parish of Chevening; in which, among others, is the seat of Montreal; that of Mrs. Petley; and of the late admiral Amherst and others; most of which the reader will find described hereafter.
In the Account of the Roman Stations in Britain, written by Richard, a monk of Cirencester, published by Dr. Stukely, the station, called Vagniacæ, is supposed to have been at Sevenoke, which is there set down as eighteen miles distant both from Medum, Maidstone; and Noviomagus, Croydon; but in this opinion he has hardly been followed by any one.
THE MANOR OF SEVENOKE was always esteemed as an appendage to that of Otford, and as such was part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, till it was exchanged with the crown for other premises, by archbishop Cranmer, in the 9th year of Henry VIII. as will be further mentioned below.
THE MANOR OF KNOLE, with that of Bradborne, in this parish, had, according to the earliest accounts, for some time the same owners as the manors of Kemsing, Seale, and Bradborne. Accordingly, in king John's reign, they were in the possession of Baldwin de Betun, earl of Albemarle, from whom they went in marriage into the family of the Mareschalls, earls of Pembroke. Whilst one of these, William Mareschal, earl of Pembroke, sided with the rebellious barons at the latter end of king John's, and beginning of king Henry III's reign, the king seized on his lands, as escheats to the crown; during which time these manors seem to have been granted to Fulk de Brent, a desperate fellow, as Camden calls him. He was a bastard by birth, of mean extraction, who had come out of the low countries, with some foreign auxiliaries and freebooters, to king John's assistance, and became a great favorite, both with that king and his son, Henry III. from both of whom he was invested with much power, and had the lands of many of the barons conferred on him; till giving loose to his natural inclination, he became guilty of many cruelties and oppressions, and at length sided with prince Lewis of France in his design of invading England. But failing in this, he fled into Wales, and the king seized on all his possessions throughout England; after which, returning and pleading for mercy, in consideration of his former services, he was only banished the realm, and died in Italy soon afterwards, as is said, of poison. After which, the earl returning to his obedience, obtained the possession of these manor's again. (fn. 1) Hence they passed again in like manner to Hugh Bigod, earl of Norfolk, whose heir in the 11th year of king Edward I. conveyed them to Otho de Grandison; on whose death without issue, William de Grandison, his brother, became his heir; his grandson, Sir Thomas Grandison, passed away Knole to Geoffry de Say, and Braborne, Kemsing, and Seale, to others, as may be seen under their respective descriptions.
Geoffry de Say was only son and heir of Geoffry de Say, by Idonea his wife, daughter of William, and sister and heir of Thomas lord Leyborne, and was a man of no small consequence, having been summoned to parliament in the 1st year of king Edward III. and afterwards constituted admiral of all the king's fleets, from the river Thames westward, being then a banneret. He died in the 33d year of king Edward III. leaving William, his son and heir, and three daughters. William de Say left issue a son, John, who died without issue in his minority, anno 6 king Richard II. and a daughter Elizabeth, who was first married to Sir John de Fallesley, and afterwards to Sir William Heron, but died s. p. in the 6th year of king Edward IV. (fn. 2) so that the three sisters of William de Say became coheirs to the inheritance of this family. (fn. 3)
¶How the manor of Knole passed from the family of Say I do not find; but in the reign of king Henry VI. it was in the possession of Ralf Leghe, who then conveyed it by sale to James Fienes, or Fenys, as the name came now to be called, who was the second son of Sir William Fynes, son of Sir William Fienes, or Fynes, who had married Joane, third sister and coheir of William de Say above-mentioned. He was much employed by king Henry V. and no less in favor with king Henry VI. who, in the 24th year of his reign, on account of Joane, his grandmother, being third sister and coheir to William de Say, by an especial writ that year summoned him to parliament as lord Say and Seale; and, in consideration of his eminent services, in open parliament, advanced him to the dignity of a baron, as lord Say, to him and his heirs male. After which he was made constable of Dover-castle, and warden of the five ports, lord chamberlain, and one of the king's council; and, in the 28th year of that reign, lord treasurer; which great rise so increased the hatred of the commons against him, that having arraigned him before the lord mayor and others, they hurried him to the standard in Cheapside, where they cut off his head, and carried it on a pole before his naked body, which was drawn at a horse's tail into Southwark, and there hanged and quartered.
Of the THREE DISTRICTS, into which this parish is divided, of which those of Town Borough and the Weald have already been described, the remaining one of Riverhead is by no means inconsiderable. It lies about a mile from Sevenoke town, and seems formerly to have been written both Rotherhith and Rothered, comprehending the western part of this parish; it contains the large hamlet of Riverhead, in which are situated lord Amherst's seat of Montreal; that of Cool Harbour, late admiral Amherst's; and Mrs. Petley's; through this hamlet the road branches on the one hand to Westerham, and on the other across the river Darent towards Farnborough and London; hence it extends beyond Bradborne to the bounds of this parish, north-eastward, at Greatness, which is within it.
In this hamlet was the antient mansion, called Brook's Place, Supposed to have been built by one of the family of Colpeper, out of the materials taken from the neighbouring suppressed hospital of St. John. It afterwards came into the possession of a younger branch of the family of Amherst. Jeffrey Amherst, esq. bencher of Gray's-inn, was owner of it, and resided here at the latter end of the last century. He was descended of ancestors, who had been seated at Pembury in the reign of king Richard II. from whom, in a direct line, descended Richard Amherst, esq. who left three sons; the eldest of whom, Richard, was sergeant at law, and of Bayhall, in Pembury, in the description of which a full account will be given of him and his descendants. Jeffry, the second, was ancestor of the Riverhead branch, as will be mentioned hereafter; and William, the third son, left an only daughter, Margaret, married to John Champs of Tunbridge.
Jeffry Amherst was rector of Horsemonden, and resided at Southes, in Sussex, where he died, and was buried in 1662; whose grandson, Jeffry Amherst, esq. was of Riverhead, as has been before mentioned. and a bencher of Gray's-inn, and dying in 1713, was buried at Pembury. By his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Yates, esq. of Sussex, he had several children, of whom, Jeffry, the second son, only arrived at maturity, and was of Riverhead; he was a bencher of Gray's-inn, and dying in 1750, was buried in Sevenoke church, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Kerrill, esq. of Hadlow, by whom he had seven sons and two daughters, viz. Elizabeth, married to John Thomas, clerk, of Welford, in Gloucestershire; and Margaret, who died unmarried.
Of the sons, Sackville, the eldest, died unmarried in 1763, Jeffry the second, will be mentioned hereafter; John, the third, was of Riverhead, and viceadmiral of the blue squadron; he married Anne, daughter of Thomas Lindzee, of Portsmouth, by whom he had no issue; he died in 1778, and his widow re-married Thomas Munday, esq. The seventh son, William, was a lieutenant-general in the army, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Patterson, esq. of London. He died in 1781, leaving one son, William-Pitt, and a daughter, Elizabeth-Frances.
Jeffry Amherst, esq. the second son, became, at length, possessed of the mansion of Brooks, and attaching himself early in life to the prossession of a soldier, he acquired the highest military honours and preferments, after a six years glorious war in North America, of which he was appointed governor and commander in chief in 1760; which, when he resigned, the king, among other marks of his royal approbation of his conduct, appointed him governor of the province of Virginia.
¶The victorious atchievements of the British forces in North America, during Sir Jeffry Amherst's continuance there, cannot be better summed up than by giving two of the inscriptions on an obelisk, in the grounds of his seat at Montreal; viz.
Há semanas a chuva não dava um tempo, Otto ficava deprimido com aquele clima, em dias como hoje Celle sempre o fazia melhor, mas agora quem o acompanhava era o tablet, e ao invés de planejar suas aulas, o rapaz olhava fotos de pouco antes de chegar ao Brasil, talvez aquilo fosse saudade. A porta abriu e Misha entrou na sala correndo, quebrando os pensamentos do rapaz.
Misha: Otto, posso pegar seu casaco? Tá frio hoje! (perguntou a menina já pegando a peça que estava no encosto da cadeira).
Otto: Ok! E... Misha, como... (Otto estava um pouco sem graça, mas ele apontou para o cabelo dela, pois além da falta de jeito também lhe faltava vocabulário no idioma para perguntar o que havia com o cabelo da menina).
Misha: Meu cabelo?! Ele é original assim, Oscar e eu somos gêmeos, e mesmo não idênticos temos muitas características iguais, então desde nova tenho o costume de usar peruca ou pintar o cabelo, não gosto muito de parecer com ele, a pesar de amá-lo muito, entende?
Otto: Hm... verdade. E ele já é tão feminino.
Misha: Sim, ele bem andrógino, mas só visualmente, acho que é por sermos gêmeos. (a menina sentou do lado do rapaz, ela sabia que ele não era fácil mas queria conversar) O que está fazendo?
Otto: Só vendo umas fotos que o Mayu upou aqui.
Misha: Se importa de ter companhia?
Otto: Não, mas quer me fazer companhia para um chá? Já que está frio, será bom pra você.
Misha: E as fotos? (chorou a menina com um pouco de manha)
Otto: Não são minhas, Misha, pede ao Sao depois ok?
Otto percebeu que Misha não sabia de muita coisa que estava acontecendo de baixo do seu próprio nariz, e o que é pior com alguém que ela tinha muito carinho. Talvez isso tivesse que mudar.
I had a request for something from a friend on Facebook ....... Something recovery or uplifting from the horror of the destruction of the Moorse Tornado in Oklahoma ......... Sadly the truth is I did not see any uplifting rescues ....... Well at least I saw no people rescued alive from the wreckage ............ but I did see this little dog immediately after she was pulled out of a cupboard under the wreckage of a house ....... but alive and well having been buried for over 24 hours .......... here above ...... Her owner Tracey Stephan is just bringing her out from the rubble ....... Tracey was so happy to have her little dog back .......... And the little dog seemed a tiny bit scared and shakey but otherwise completely fine ........... Oh....... and the little dogs name ??????? ........ Pheonix of course !!!!!!! Almost literally rising from the ashes and living up to her name :-)))))) ......... But thats it Im afraid [Steve](photo-dialogue.com) ........ my only specifically good news picture from all that terrible devastation ...... :-(((((((( ............ :-)))))))))
Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Junk Jet n°4 was combing through studios, laboratories, and garages to find those works and theories that make 1 become 2, 2 become 3, 3 …, works that make something out of nothing or nothing out of something, that discover new – even if microscaled – galaxies, that believe in alchemy and maintain a certain kind of apocalyptic thought; works that move from mumbo-jumbo to real magic and back.
Junk Jet daydreamt of alga plantations, crystal architectures, optical jamboree, synthetic foam buildings, multimagic rainbow colorings, of all that has the potential to question contemporary design and architecture and its statistical rationality. Junk Jet nightdreamt of something that has the potential to fluidize what has become monumental, of something that speculates on speculation. Something that is able to create an alternative universe, in which thrilling transformation, mystic metamorphosis, and insane invention build up a modern wunderkammer, a visionary show window and a living laboratory. It asked for contributions from those who turn the everyday into the unique and the ordinary into the xxxxxxtra-ordaniary.
With mystical contributions by: Alan Smart, Alex McLeod, Alexander Trevi, Alice Deusser, Amy Franceschini, ar hitecture, Asli Serbest, Austin Houldsworth, Christine Jetter and Nicolas Ebner, Christine Nasz and Stefanie Hunold, Christoph Steinbrener/Rainer Dempf, Corinna Koch, Cornelia Lund, Daniel Krawczyk, Emmeline de Mooij, Enrique Ramirez, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, The Functionality, Ghostlab, Herwig Weiser, Holger Lund, Ioanna Angelidou, Jan Kempenaers, Jason Hopkins, Jenny Michel and Michael Hoepfel, Jimmy Stamp, Julia Pfeiffer, Kazys Varnelis, Network Architecture Lab, Marshall Rake, Mauser: Micro-architecture-unit-star-energy-ray, Michael Schoner, Mona Mahall, Nelly Ben Hayoun, N.I.E.I. Hektor, Olia Lialina, Raphaël Bastide, Sam Jacob, Simon Boudvin, The Office of PlayLab, Inc., Thorsten Fleisch, visiondivision, Wilhelm Jan Neutelings, Yoshi Sodeoka
Junk Jet n°4 is limited with only 888 copies and comes with a "Mystic Insert" and a "Magic Mask"!
Release Date: October 2010
ISBN: 978-3-00-032228-0
Number of pages: 88
Measurements: 27 x 19 x 1 cm
Print run: 888
3. Something you fear
I'm so afraid of drowing or not being able to breathe.
For the Photogamer #10 Challenge
There is something almost other-worldly (for lack of a better term) that comes with being fully dressed, especially in a marvelous dress
Something refreshing about taking a walk on a beautiful monday morning when your home city looks like this
Something I didn't think I'd come across whilst on a bike ride through West Lancashire was this ancient Leyland Olympian on the borders of Burscough and Scarisbrick.
This was originally new to Kentish Bus in 1990, and later an Arriva London vehicle until it moved to Shoreys Travel of Maulden before the vehicle was withdrawn in 2017 when it was supposedly to be converted into a mobile bar but it seems this never got anywhere and the vehicle was stored for a few years before it was sold around 2022/23. No idea whether it's owned by a company or a private owner, if anyone has seen this vehicle presumably around the area information is much appriciated!
Something a bit unusual from one of today's walks, for me anyway, I came across some LTT's happily feeding on the Hawthorn and Silver Birch trees, so I hoped to get a few shots like the first one, but what happened next surprised me, they left the relatively safety of the trees to feed in the open, not just in the open but on razor wire, nothing unusual in seeing birds sit on razor wire and barbed wire I see that quite often, but it's the first time I've seen a full group purposely leave cover to feed on razor wire, they obviously know were the insects are and have adapted :-)
PS. No jokes and puns about the pictures not being sharp lol ;-)
i took these the day my baby jovi was born last march, walking through capitol hill to grab some food and movies for enjoyment our birthing suite.
trying to mix old and new ..
New items with old effect ..
Dunno if it works or not .. just worth the try ..
Something For Kate
Pier Band Room, Frankston
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