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Amorous pigeons.
Right smack dab in the middle of town
I've found a paradise that's trouble proof (up on the roof)
And if this world starts getting you down
There's room enough for two
Up on the roof (up on the roof)
Up on the roof (up on the roof)
Oh, come on, baby (up on the roof)
Oh, come on, honey (up on the roof)
Everything is all right (up on the roof)
Lyrics by Carole King & Gerry Goffin.
Sign on the local kitchen showroom. I'd say it was almost mocking the discombobulated message from Boris Johnston with reference to easing COVID-19 lockdown rules.
It's not unusual to go out at any time
But when I see you out and about it's such a crime
If you should ever want to be loved by anyone
It's not unusual it happens every day no matter what you say.
Brizlincote Hall was completed in 1712 for the second earl of Chesterfield and is a Listed Building grade II*. The front and rear doors have inscriptions dated 1714: over the north door (the main entrance) NON IGNARA MALI MISERIS SUCCERRERE DISCO (‘No stranger to suffering I have learnt to aid the wretched’), and over the south door HOMO. HOMINIS. LUPUS (‘Man is a wolf to man’). In 1846, the estate passed to the Earl of Carnarvon who also owned Bretby Hall and was famous for financing the excavation of Tutankhamen’s Tomb.
The most striking architectural features are the giant segmental pediments that dominate the entire width of each elevation at the level of the first attic; behind the pediments, the lead roofs are broken by an upper attic with a hipped, tiled roof and panelled brick stacks.
Some of the windows are still bricked up as a legacy from the days of ‘Window Tax’ first introduced in 1696 under King William III. Tax was paid based on the number of windows in a property which was selected as a very simple way to gauge the prosperity of the taxpayer. The tax was thought of as very unfair and as a counter, many house owners bricked up windows (hence the term ‘Daylight Robbery’).
When explaining further his covid-19 road map, the Prime Minister said in his briefing that if there is a local issue or local flare up in a town or village, detected by the Covid Alert System, we will be firefighting, doing whack a mole to deal with it.
NOTE: Moles are protected from cruel treatment. The Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996 outlaws beating and asphyxiation, but accepted methods include the use of traps, ferrets and gas.
St Mary's Church, Dunstall and Dunstall Estate, Staffordshire.
St Mary’s Church and Church School were designed by Henry Clutton and built in 1852-53 for Peter Arkwright, succeeded by John Hardy, both of Dunstall Hall
The Dunstall Estate, which compromises over 1,000 acres of land, has been passed through and bought by seven different families since 1145, and Dunstall Hall, a stone Grade II listed 18th century mansion, was built on the original foundations of the old Dunstall Hall which was built in the 1600s, probably as a hunting lodge in the Royal Forest of Needwood. One of the previous owners was Charles Arkwright (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1849), who had inherited the estate from his father, Richard Arkwright junior, the son of Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor in 1764 of the water frame (a component of the first spinning jenny).
Charles Arkwright died in 1850 childless and the estate was sold to John Hardy, later Sir John Hardy Bt. Hardy and later his son, Sir Reginald Hardy (High Sheriff 1893) carried out extensive alterations and improvements to the property. New building works included a new entrance front with a portico and new wings.
After the death of the 3rd Hardy Baronet in 1953 the estate was sold to wealthy Midlands civil engineer Sir Robert Douglas and on his death in 1997 it was sold to property developer and racecourse owner Sir Stanley Clarke.
In 2006, two years after the death of Sir Stanley Clarke, the estate was sold to bookmaker Barry Morgan, who sold Needwood Racing to Coral for several million pounds in 2005. In 2007, following renovation and refurbishment, Morgan opened the house for corporate and business events. In 2013 the house and 85 acres were for sale for £5 million. In July 2014 former Nottingham Forest Football Club's owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi bought the house for £4 Million.
Tenant Thomas Woodward bought a brick-yard and premises from the widow of John Hunt c1848. His son James Woodward inherited it.
White's 1857 Trade Directory records Mr. Woodward as owning the largest works in Swadlincote, producing bricks, tiles, firebricks & fire clay. This was up to 1859 when sewage pipes and terra cotta chimney pots & vases were made, and the works were then known as the Swadlincote Fire Brick & Terra Cotta Works.
Thomas Wragg and Sons took over Woodward's Works in the early 1900s.
Newton Solney: St Mary the Virgin Church dates from the 14th century. Monument to Sir Henry Every, 3rd Baronet of Egginton, who died 1st September 1709, represented in Roman toga and sandals.
The Every family, lords of the manor, could trace their ancestry right back to the de Solney. Ownership of the manor was not tantamount to full control of the village, because there were several freehold estates there. Gradually, the Every family bought out most of these, with a corresponding increase in their dominance over the village. The Everys did not live in the village; their house and park lay across the river at Egginton. Their construction at Newton Solney of a substantial but whimsical, folly-like tower on the river-bank, called Rock Tower, is the only indication of their use of the Newton Solney estate for leisure in the 18th century. The tower, which survives embedded in the river frontage of the present Rock House, was built by 1758 on the site of the former manor house, and would have been used by the Every family to arrive in Newton Solney by boat.
The earliest known trademark is said to be the Bass Ale triangle, depicted on beer bottles in the 1882 painting by French artist Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère in Paris.
Sanitizer's coming to town - this cough won't go away, can you stay six feet away - the most contagious collection of songs ever recorded and the perfect accompaniment for the party you won't be having!
Former Peel Cotton Mill (left) built 1780 by Robert Peel, grandfather of the Prime Minister and founder of the Police Force, and former Burton Corn Mill/Greensmith’s Mill. The site has been restored and converted into homes and apartments.
Southwold is a charming north Suffolk seaside town on the Suffolk Heritage Coast. Almost an island, being bounded by the North Sea to the East, by the River Blyth and Southwold harbour to the South–West and by Buss Creek to the North.
Tomb of William Bass (1717 – 2 March 1787) was a British entrepreneur who founded Bass Brewery. ... In 1756 William married Mary Gibbons, daughter of a London publican who ran the Red Lion Inn, Holborn close to the London depot.
A sign on the Galveston Causeway (Interstate 45) reads 'Stay Alert - Talk or Text Later' with a no cell phones icon as a distracted driving campaign, in Galveston, Texas.
River Trent in flood from Storm Christoph.
Former Peel Cotton Mill (right) built 1780 by Robert Peel, grandfather of the Prime Minister and founder of the Police Force, and former Burton Corn Mill/Greensmith’s Mill. The site has been restored and converted into homes and apartments.
Former Peel Cotton Mill built 1780 by Robert Peel, grandfather of the Prime Minister and founder of the Police Force. The site has been restored and converted into homes and apartments.
Peel Croft, former home of Burton Rugby Club, before moving to a new stadium in nearby Tatenhill. Peel Croft to be demolished and replaced with a retail park.
It was bought by Burton Swifts football club in 1890 and officially opened as a football stadium on 2 September 1891 with a friendly match against Derby County. Swifts became members of the Football League in 1892, and the crowd of 5,500 who attended an FA Cup match between Swifts and local rivals Burton Wanderers on 10 December that year was probably the ground's record attendance. In 1901 Swifts and Wanderers merged to form Burton United, with the new club using Peel Croft as its home ground, before being voted out of the Football League. They eventually folded in 1910, after which the ground was taken over again by Burton RFC.
Peel Croft, former home of Burton Rugby Club, before moving to a new stadium in nearby Tatenhill. Peel Croft to be demolished and replaced with a retail park.
It was bought by Burton Swifts football club in 1890 and officially opened as a football stadium on 2 September 1891 with a friendly match against Derby County. Swifts became members of the Football League in 1892, and the crowd of 5,500 who attended an FA Cup match between Swifts and local rivals Burton Wanderers on 10 December that year was probably the ground's record attendance. In 1901 Swifts and Wanderers merged to form Burton United, with the new club using Peel Croft as its home ground, before being voted out of the Football League. They eventually folded in 1910, after which the ground was taken over again by Burton RFC.
Peel Croft, former home of Burton Rugby Club, before moving to a new stadium in nearby Tatenhill. Peel Croft to be demolished and replaced with a retail park.
It was bought by Burton Swifts football club in 1890 and officially opened as a football stadium on 2 September 1891 with a friendly match against Derby County. Swifts became members of the Football League in 1892, and the crowd of 5,500 who attended an FA Cup match between Swifts and local rivals Burton Wanderers on 10 December that year was probably the ground's record attendance. In 1901 Swifts and Wanderers merged to form Burton United, with the new club using Peel Croft as its home ground, before being voted out of the Football League. They eventually folded in 1910, after which the ground was taken over again by Burton RFC.
Bladon House School.
Bladon House What was built c1860 for John Gretton, a director of the Burton-on-Trent brewing firm of Bass, Ratcliff, and Gretton. In 1945 Lord Gretton gave the house to Burton Infirmary for use as a convalescent home. In 1947 the house was acquired by the Staffordshire Yeomanry as its headquarters and was renamed Yeomanry House. It reverted to the name Bladon House in 1968 when it became a school.
Former Peel Cotton Mill built 1780 by Robert Peel, grandfather of the Prime Minister and founder of the Police Force. The site has been restored and converted into homes and apartments.
Pleasurewood Hills Family Theme Park. The Jolly Roger goes up to a height of 40 metres before the exhilarating ride back down to earth which takes just 0.8second and reaches 5.5g.
Caffeinated gum that's been in my artbin for 16 years. It was terrible then (only one piece missing from this five-pack), I'm sure it's even worse now.
The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. Built for the Harpur family in 1703, Calke Abbey has remained virtually unaltered since the death of the last baronet, Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe in 1924.
When Sir Vauncey died with no surviving male heir, his eldest daughter, Hilda, who was married to Godfrey Mosley, took over the running of the Estate, but having no children, left it in trust to the three children of her sister Frances, namely Charles, Henry and Airmyne Jenney.
In order to inherit the children had to change their name to include either Harpur or Crewe, and all three, in turn, decided to keep both names, becoming Harpur Crewe. Charles was the first to change, followed at a later date by Henry and Airmyne. The legal papers were submitted to effect this change and were returned with an added hyphen, so the last family residents of Calke Abbey became Charles, and then Henry and Airmyne Harpur-Crewe.
It was handed over to the National Trust in 1985 following the sudden death of Sir Charles Harpur-Crewe in March 1981, while out setting mole-traps on the estate.
It is set in beautiful parkland containing ponds, ancient oaks and open pasture.
In memory of the Derbyshire village that once self-isolated to save others. During the bubonic plague outbreak of 1665-6, the inhabitants of Eyam quarantined themselves, in a famous act of self-sacrifice, to prevent the spread of the plague. Villagers would come to place money in six holes drilled into the top of the boundary stone to pay for food and medicine left by their anxious neighbours. By the end of the outbreak, more than a quarter of the village’s population of almost 1,000 were dead. The plague, however, was contained.
For residents of Eyam today, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has already touched a nearby village, the lessons of that self-imposed isolation have powerful echoes.