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Mating 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.
Melbourne Hall was originally the rectory house for the Bishops of Carlisle. In 1629-31 Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I, bought the house. It was substantially rebuilt by Thomas and George Coke in the early 18th century. Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister to Queen Victoria, inherited the house and estate in 1828. His name was given to Melbourne, Australia.
Lord Melbourne was separated from his wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, in 1825, when her liaison with Lord Byron had become notorious.
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.
Little Common (Bexhill)
Stagecoach South East
Year 66 - 2016/2017
Registered in Scotland Edinburgh (SN)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
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The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, it was supported by the Commercial Club of Chicago and opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition.
Among the museum's exhibits are a full-size replica coal mine, German submarine U-505 captured during World War II, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model railroad, the command module of Apollo 8, and the first diesel-powered streamlined stainless-steel passenger train (Pioneer Zephyr).
David R. Mosena has been president and CEO of the private, non-profit museum since 1998.
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.
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.
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.
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’).
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.
Watch the rose-seller at work at the Spanish Steps (Spagna) in Rome, Italy. It is wise to avoid these peddlers, who can turn rude and obnoxious after you refuse to pay for the flowers that are thrust upon you.
The large parkland trees scattered throughout the park are mainly oaks and are remnants of a vast forest that historically covered much of this area. These ‘veteran’ oaks are important for the invertebrates (beetles, flies and bugs) that thrive on them. This is because of the amount of dead timber that occurs both on standing trees and on fallen limbs or trunks on the ground.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The large parkland trees scattered throughout the park are mainly oaks and are remnants of a vast forest that historically covered much of this area. These ‘veteran’ oaks are important for the invertebrates (beetles, flies and bugs) that thrive on them. This is because of the amount of dead timber that occurs both on standing trees and on fallen limbs or trunks on the ground.
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.
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.
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.