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From the STRONGBOX Magazine cover shoot.

 

STRONGBOX issue 3 will be available for free download tomorrow morning.

Angry Broccoli - Totally qualified life advice dispenser since sometime last week! Read this and more in the new issue of Strongbox Magazine - www.strongboxmagazine.com

Cadishead and Irlam Guardian 1966.

  

Parish records for 1654 re-discovered.

  

Some extremely fragile, but readable, parts of a 300-year-old parish register of St Helen's Church, Hollinfare, are among a collection of records which have been re-discovered there by the Vicar (Father J.A. Orrell). They were lying underneath more recent records in the church's strongbox.

  

Thr fragments, which, says the Vicar, look "as if they have come through fire and flood," cover the years from 1654 to 1723 and the other "finds" are the first complete registers dating from that year until 1783, and from then until the early part of the 19th century.

  

They bring to light all the registered births, marriages and deaths, not only in Hollins Green, but also in Irlam, Cadishead, and Partington, during the period. The probable reason is that St. Helen's was one of the four places of worship in the area - a church has been on the site since 1498 and was rebuilt in 1735 and 1880.

  

The entries were made in chronological and not classified sequence. In addition to the relevant names (some of which have been perpetuated) and dates, the records also reveal the status of the people mentioned.

  

The word "pauper" is written in capitals against many of the names and the word "base" is written after some births, to indicate that they were illegitimate.

  

One disaster recorded involved the drowning of seven people while they were attempting to cross the River Mersey by ferry. A typed copy of some of the earlier records was made by the Rev. Mr Firth, who was vicar for 23 years until his retirement in 1947.

  

Mrs M. Beeston, librarian in-charge of Irlam County Library, who is particularly interested in local history, visited the vicarage recently to read the records, and subsequently borrowed them to put on display in the Library.

  

Father Orrell told the "Guardian" that eventually he would probably pass them on to Mr J.R. Rimmer, Director of Warrington Museum, subject to permission of the Church.

  

Image:Cadishead and Irlam Guardian 1966: FATHER J.A. ORRELL, vicar of Hollinfare, examining one of the ancient parish registers which he has rediscovered in Church. Cadishead Library 2015.

Issue 4 of STRONGBOX is out... check it out some time & see if there's a number there for you.

 

Believe it or not, health care reform (or is it insurance reform?) here in the states is all about numbers big and small. What number are are you?

 

Hopefully, the truth about your number won't be impacted by anyone else's NUMBER...

Sanctuary Bar Scarborough

 

Sanctuary provides an eclectic range of lagers, beers and ciders, and includes 4 cask ales as well as 2 rotating craft keg beer lines. In addition, the venue offers an extensive range of premium wines and spirits, plus an exciting new cocktail menu developed by Camerons’ own mixologist.

 

Address: 4-13, St Nicholas St, Scarborough YO11 2HF

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What a frozen little hand,

let me warm it up1.

what use is looking?

In the dark we won't find it.

 

But by good fortune

it is a moonlit night,

and here the moon

we have it close to us.

 

Wait, Miss,

I'll tell you in two words

who I am, and what I do,

and how I live.

 

Is that ok2?

Who am I? I'm a poet.

What do I do? I write.

And how do I live? I get by3.

 

In my happy poverty

I squander like a great lord

rhymes and hymns of love.

 

For dreams and for fantasies4

and for castles in the air

I have a millionaire soul.

 

At times, from my strongbox,

two thieves, beautiful eyes,

steal all the jewels.

 

They came in with you just now

and the dreams I use

and all my sweet dreams

disappeared immediately!

 

But the theft doesn't bother me,

because, because hope

has taken their place!

 

Now that you know me

you speak, for pity's sake!

Speak. Who are you?

May it please you to tell!

 

La Boheme - Puccini

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Chuck full of awesome photography and arty goodness the new issue of Stongbox Magazine is available to download for free!

 

Check it out - www.strongboxmagazine.com

It is not very well lit and you are not allowed to use a flash, but hopefully you can sort of see that the whole inner lid of this box is a big lock, kind of reminiscent of the serpent lock on the Chamber of Secrets in the second Harry Potter movie.

New issue is hot off the internet presses. Go get it!

 

You can also get friendly with SB on facebook.

Church of St Mary, ,Wedmore, Sedgemoor, Somerset, BS28 4AN

 

Overview

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grade: I

List Entry Number: 1262159

Date first listed: 09-Feb-1961

County: Somerset

District: Sedgemoor (District Authority)

Parish: Wedmore

National Grid Reference: ST 43468 47926

Details

 

Parish church. Predominantly C15, though C12 and C13 work survive, restored 1880. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed stone, lead roofs. Nave, North and South aisles, South aisle chapel, South tower porch, crossing tower, chancel, transcepts, North and South chancel chapels. Tower with set back buttresses, triple 2-light bell chamber windows, those to centre louvred, those to each side blank, stair turret, arcaded parapet. Similar blank parapet to South side, lesser parapet to North side. Earliest feature the South porch doorway of c1200 with 2 orders of detached shafts with leaf capitals; door dated 1677. Chancel and South East chapel of C1300; the latter with a 2-light window with a cusped head. Remainder Perpendicular; single bay transepts, 2-bay South aisle chapel, 5-bay aisles; 4 and 5-light windows with renewed tracery. Inside aisles with tall thin piers of 4-hollow section. South aisle chapel latest of all, entered through a 2 bay arcade formed from 2 earlier windows. Roofs predominantly C19, though on earlier carved corbels, roof to nave dated 1810; C15 lean-to roofs to South aisle chapel and North chancel chapel, the latter with the remains of some painted decoration. Piscinae to chancel, North chancel chapel and South aisle chapel. Fan vault under tower. Staircase in porch to parvise; entrance to rood. C14 octagonal font; medieval slab altar; C17 pulpit with a sounding board; medieval chest; 2 C17 chests; church wardens strongbox dated 1813; chandelier dated 1779, 2 further chandeliers of the C19; 2 C17 coffin stools; several large wall monuments, Boulting and family of 1622, Elizabeth Boulting 1751; C17 wall monument to chancel; 2 C18 wall monuments to porch; 24 C19 monuments by many local firms; C19 stained glass, particularly to East and West windows. Brasses to George and Thomas Hodges of 1684 and 1583 respectively. C15 wall painting of St Christopher over the pulpit. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

 

Listing NGR: ST4346647926

one of the many highlights from this year's HU trip...

Clea Newman & Leigh

She definitely has her father's piercing blue eyes!

    

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Photos by Ron Agnello — in Zebegény, Pest.

A portable English strongbox, 1600-1650. Victoria & Albert Museum, Col. G Stovell Collection. Museum number M.209-1928.

Maple Ridge Museum, British Columbia, Canada

Used to hold valuables for the Darien Expeditions.

 

The National Museum of Scotland.

Museum of Science and Industry

Chicago

 

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Frederiksborg Castle, Danish Museum of National History, 2017

Help yourself, but remember to drop your money in the box at self-service Amish roadside stands.

Used to hold valuables for the Darien Expeditions.

 

The National Museum of Scotland.

Museum of Science and Industry

Chicago

 

Copyright: R.Agnello LLC & Strongbox Photography

Wonderful old trunk in the church at Fingringhoe, Essex.

Death by Ketchup themed photo shoot with Lacey (MM# 1167503) in my kitchen. Idea was inspired by a photo challenge involving Heinz ketchup by the guys at Strongbox Magazine.

 

Lighting was with a mix of a 22" white beauty dish with grid, AB800 with 20 degree grid, and a Pentax 540fgz flash with homemade snoot depending on the photo.

 

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Museum of Science and Industry

Chicago

 

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Poor picture quality due to flash not being allowed inside Palazzo Davanzati. I previously took pictures of the same chest but thought that this time I'd lighten it up so that the lock mechanism could be seen.

Church of St Mary, ,Wedmore, Sedgemoor, Somerset, BS28 4AN

 

Overview

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grade: I

List Entry Number: 1262159

Date first listed: 09-Feb-1961

County: Somerset

District: Sedgemoor (District Authority)

Parish: Wedmore

National Grid Reference: ST 43468 47926

Details

 

Parish church. Predominantly C15, though C12 and C13 work survive, restored 1880. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed stone, lead roofs. Nave, North and South aisles, South aisle chapel, South tower porch, crossing tower, chancel, transcepts, North and South chancel chapels. Tower with set back buttresses, triple 2-light bell chamber windows, those to centre louvred, those to each side blank, stair turret, arcaded parapet. Similar blank parapet to South side, lesser parapet to North side. Earliest feature the South porch doorway of c1200 with 2 orders of detached shafts with leaf capitals; door dated 1677. Chancel and South East chapel of C1300; the latter with a 2-light window with a cusped head. Remainder Perpendicular; single bay transepts, 2-bay South aisle chapel, 5-bay aisles; 4 and 5-light windows with renewed tracery. Inside aisles with tall thin piers of 4-hollow section. South aisle chapel latest of all, entered through a 2 bay arcade formed from 2 earlier windows. Roofs predominantly C19, though on earlier carved corbels, roof to nave dated 1810; C15 lean-to roofs to South aisle chapel and North chancel chapel, the latter with the remains of some painted decoration. Piscinae to chancel, North chancel chapel and South aisle chapel. Fan vault under tower. Staircase in porch to parvise; entrance to rood. C14 octagonal font; medieval slab altar; C17 pulpit with a sounding board; medieval chest; 2 C17 chests; church wardens strongbox dated 1813; chandelier dated 1779, 2 further chandeliers of the C19; 2 C17 coffin stools; several large wall monuments, Boulting and family of 1622, Elizabeth Boulting 1751; C17 wall monument to chancel; 2 C18 wall monuments to porch; 24 C19 monuments by many local firms; C19 stained glass, particularly to East and West windows. Brasses to George and Thomas Hodges of 1684 and 1583 respectively. C15 wall painting of St Christopher over the pulpit. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

 

Listing NGR: ST4346647926

Church of St Mary, ,Wedmore, Sedgemoor, Somerset, BS28 4AN

 

Overview

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grade: I

List Entry Number: 1262159

Date first listed: 09-Feb-1961

County: Somerset

District: Sedgemoor (District Authority)

Parish: Wedmore

National Grid Reference: ST 43468 47926

Details

 

Parish church. Predominantly C15, though C12 and C13 work survive, restored 1880. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed stone, lead roofs. Nave, North and South aisles, South aisle chapel, South tower porch, crossing tower, chancel, transcepts, North and South chancel chapels. Tower with set back buttresses, triple 2-light bell chamber windows, those to centre louvred, those to each side blank, stair turret, arcaded parapet. Similar blank parapet to South side, lesser parapet to North side. Earliest feature the South porch doorway of c1200 with 2 orders of detached shafts with leaf capitals; door dated 1677. Chancel and South East chapel of C1300; the latter with a 2-light window with a cusped head. Remainder Perpendicular; single bay transepts, 2-bay South aisle chapel, 5-bay aisles; 4 and 5-light windows with renewed tracery. Inside aisles with tall thin piers of 4-hollow section. South aisle chapel latest of all, entered through a 2 bay arcade formed from 2 earlier windows. Roofs predominantly C19, though on earlier carved corbels, roof to nave dated 1810; C15 lean-to roofs to South aisle chapel and North chancel chapel, the latter with the remains of some painted decoration. Piscinae to chancel, North chancel chapel and South aisle chapel. Fan vault under tower. Staircase in porch to parvise; entrance to rood. C14 octagonal font; medieval slab altar; C17 pulpit with a sounding board; medieval chest; 2 C17 chests; church wardens strongbox dated 1813; chandelier dated 1779, 2 further chandeliers of the C19; 2 C17 coffin stools; several large wall monuments, Boulting and family of 1622, Elizabeth Boulting 1751; C17 wall monument to chancel; 2 C18 wall monuments to porch; 24 C19 monuments by many local firms; C19 stained glass, particularly to East and West windows. Brasses to George and Thomas Hodges of 1684 and 1583 respectively. C15 wall painting of St Christopher over the pulpit. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

 

Listing NGR: ST4346647926

Peça criada exclusivamente para um cliente.

 

Custom-made Game of Thrones themed strongbox. This unit was commissioned by a client and it's not for sale.

 

If you're interested in purchasing/commissioning one of our units, contact us at guerra.weyer@gmail.com

  

Mixed media on MDF

The sun setting in Zebegény just over the mountains of Slovakia to the right and the Danube in the middle... needless to say this place is special. I tried to capture the moment as best I could.

    

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Photos by Ron Agnello

Peça criada exclusivamente para um cliente.

 

Custom-made Game of Thrones themed strongbox. This unit was commissioned by a client and it's not for sale.

 

If you're interested in purchasing/commissioning one of our units, contact us at guerra.weyer@gmail.com

  

Mixed media on MDF

Minibike "ice" Throwdown 14

Columbia, CT

  

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Photos by Ron Agnello

4th Annual MurderCycles MINIBIKE THROWDOWN

Andover, CT

 

Copyright: R.Agnello LLC & Strongbox Photography Studios LLC

Strong-box 3D

Laurenskerk Rotterdam

Death by Ketchup themed photo shoot with Lacey (MM# 1167503) in my kitchen. Idea was inspired by a photo challenge involving Heinz ketchup by the guys at Strongbox Magazine.

 

Lighting was with a mix of a 22" white beauty dish with grid, AB800 with 20 degree grid, and a Pentax 540fgz flash with homemade snoot depending on the photo.

 

For updates, contests, and other photo shoots, join my Facebook Fan Page. Also check out my www.photoburgh.com.

Prior to The Reformation, churches had chests for the collection of "Peter's Pence", a tribute of a silver penny a year by parishioners of all Roman Catholic countries to support the Chair of St Peter in Rome. This was levied from the 8th Century until repealed by Elizabeth I. In 1559. She ordered churches to have "a strong chest with a hole in the upper part thereof, to be provided at the cost and charge of the parish, having three keys (one for the parson and one each for the two churchwardens)". This was to be placed where parishioners could conveniently place alms in it for their "poorer neighbours". These chests thus became known as the Poor Man's Chest. This is one of two chests in the church.

 

The church of St John the Baptist dates from the 12th Century, but construction is chiefly from the 14th and 15th Centuries; it is another church on which the Victorian architect Gilbert Scott worked. In the churchyard is the base of an ancient preaching cross, and inside, the WW1 memorial bears int. al. the name of Captain Noel Chavasse, one of only three servicemen to earn two Victoria Crosses.

 

Peça criada exclusivamente para um cliente.

 

Custom-made Game of Thrones themed strongbox. This unit was commissioned by a client and it's not for sale.

 

If you're interested in purchasing/commissioning one of our units, contact us at guerra.weyer@gmail.com

  

Mixed media on MDF

ROM Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2017

Issues of STRONGBOX. For free. Especially the one that just came out like three seconds ago. C'mon...before your neighbors have it and you have to play catch-up. C'Mon!

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