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England batsman Stuart Broad fens off Ravi Rampaul during the 2nd ODI West Indies v England at Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, North Sound, Antigua
Detail of "Jackson Pollock" Bottle
by British Glass Artist: Norman Stuart Clarke,1988. (now working in France).
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Stuart McClinctock scanned this image of a chamois from some ski resort en Suisse in December ’70.
DSC_5946 - MSV 452 - Bova Futura FHD12-340 - Stuarts Coaches of Carluke - Glasgow, Killermont Street 31/07/13
St John the Baptist, Upton, Cambridgeshire
From Ufford I climbed back out of the valley along the road to Marholm before turning off on a country lane. This wasn't particularly narrow, but it was very lonely. Hardly a single car passed me, and there was a wide view in every direction. There were more cyclists than cars, mostly the usual grim-faced lycra-clad hobbyists who would have been playing golf in a different decade, but also lots of cheerful ordinary cyclists venturing beyond Peterborough's Green Wheel. This happened a lot to day, and on every occasion without exception my greeting was returned. They seemed a particularly friendly lot around here.
I was glad I had my OS map, because the little lane to the remote hamlet of Upton was not signposted. Indeed, I found this a lot today. Either signposts were confusing or there were simply none at all. I put this down to the local history. Maybe Northamptonshire county council never got around to replacing the signs removed after the War, and then in 1965 the bureaucrats at County Hall in Huntingdon thought to themselves Hmmm, we ought to do something about this, but before they could it was 1974 and it was the bureacrats at County Hall in Cambridge who were scratching their heads and saying Beyond Peterborough? Is that our responsibility? It is? Well, I suppose we ought to do something about it, but suddenly it was 1999, Peterborough became a unitary authority with responsibility for its own road signs and they said Let's not bother, everyone local knows the way to everywhere else local, and that's good enough for us. Or something like that.
Anyway, the narrow lane got narrower and narrower and descended more and more steeply, so I hoped I'd got the right lane or it would be a long haul back to the road. But I had, and eventually came to the little hamlet of Upton, not to be confused with the large suburban village of Upton on the outskirts of Alconbury a few miles off. Perhaps they used the signs there instead. I said it was remote, and it is, there's a couple of miles to the nearest other settlement. But it is also enfolded in the hills, and at the end of a dead end leading into farmland. It seemed much more remote even than it actually was.
I only knew of the church from the simple cross on my OS map, and had no idea what to expect. Beyond the houses I crossed a noisy cattle grid into a wide open overgrown meadow, and there it was on the far side. It looked extraordinary, a low double-gabled frontage with a small medieval extension beyond. Was it even a church? The cross on the gates told me it was. There was no path across the meadow here so I headed down to the farm and took a track leading back off to the north.
The church was locked with a keyholder notice (at first I though there wasn't one, but on the noticeboard bolted to the west wall someone had covered it up with another notice). Now, I hadn't planned to go for the key because I wanted time to visit all the churches on my list in this area, but one peep through the window changed my mind. It looked extraordinary inside, a church of different levels with a vast bedstead memorial and a Stuart pulpit beyond. I scurried back to the keyholder just beyond the cattle grid and back to the church. I let myself into the west door.
Extraordinary. This must have been a tiny church once, but in the 17th Century the Dove family built a massive two stage extension on the north side. This consisted of a mausoleum below and a family pew on the upper floor, with balustraded stairs leading up to it as if in a country house. As if that were not enough, the family pew contains a massive memorial, quite out of scale, to Sir William Dove and his two wives (a civilised custom I always think, it's a shame it has been lost to us). He died in 1633, but the memorial is later than that and probably a composite, for his first wife is made of Barnack stone and he and his second wife (they weren't really at the same time) are made of terracotta. Stepping down into the tiny nave and chancel was like crossing the centuries. Here, a distinctly prayerbook feel has been elaborated in an early 20th Century fashion. it was enchanting, a thrilling little church. If I had come here on my 21-church trip through the middle of Cambridgeshire a couple of weeks back it would certainly have been my church of the day, but for now it had to make do with slipping in behind Barnack and Peakirk.
I felt thoroughly lifted up, despite the fact that I emerged to find the sky had clouded over. I took back the key and descended by the other narrow lane to the A47, which took me by surprise, I was halfway around the roundabout before I realised I was on it, and then off the other side and down into the tiny village of Sutton.
British cigarette card by Player's Cigarettes in the second Film Stars series. no. 43. Photo: Universal.
American actress Gloria Stuart (1910-2010) played lead roles for director James Whale in The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933). More than sixty years later, Stuart won a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar nomination for her performance as the Old Rose in Titanic (1997).
Gloria Stuart was born Gloria Stewart on her family's dining room table on 4th Street in Santa Monica, California in 1910. She was the first child of Alice (née Deidrick) and Frank Stewart. At the time of her birth, her father was an attorney representing The Six Companies. When Stuart was nine years old, her father died as the result of an infection from an injury sustained when an automobile grazed his leg. Hard-pressed to support two small children, her mother soon accepted the proposal of local businessman Fred J. Finch. Her early roles as a performing artist were in plays she produced in her home as a young girl. She was the star of her senior class play, 'The Swan', at Santa Monica High School in 1927. Attending the University of California, at Berkeley, she continued to perform on the stage. Stuart married Blair Gordon Newell,  a young sculptor, and moved to Carmel, where she performed in a production of Anton Chekhov's 'The Seagull' which was transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse in 1932. It was at the Opening Night there that talent scouts for both Paramount and Universal saw her. She decided to sign a contract with Universal, which paid a bit more than Paramount. After a few film appearances, Stuart was selected as one of WAMPAS Baby Stars that year. These were new movie actresses "Most Likely to Succeed". She played lead roles for director James Whale in the horror comedy The Old Dark House (1932) with Boris Karloff, the fantasy The Invisible Man (1933) starring Claude Rains and the drama The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) with Nancy Carroll and Paul Lukas. In The Old Dark House (1932), she played the glamour role of a sentimental wife who winds up stranded among strangers at a spooky mansion, among the ensemble cast (Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore and Raymond Massey). The film was critically praised, and The New York Times called Stuart's performance "clever and charming," with the film later becoming a cult classic. The hard work at the studio estranged her from her first husband. Stuart later helped create the Screen Actors Guild. Stuart was given a co-starring role by director John Ford in Air Mail (1932), playing opposite Pat O'Brien and Ralph Bellamy. She played the leading lady opposite Eddie Cantor in Roman Scandals (Frank Tuttle, 1933), on the set of which she met her second husband, screenwriter Arthur Sheekman. They married in 1934. She was dissatisfied with the roles in which she was cast at Universal and moved to 20th Century Fox. She had some success with The Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley, 1935) as Dick Powell's love interest, and The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford, 1936), but she was not to make the leap into the front row of Hollywood stars. In June 1936, she helped Paul Muni, Franchot Tone, Ernst Lubitsch, and Oscar Hammerstein II form the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. That same year she and writer Dorothy Parker helped create the League to Support the Spanish Civil War Orphans. A few years after having her daughter Sylvia (1935), she left the cinema and sought roles on the stage in New York.
In the 1940s, Gloria Stuart opened an art furniture shop where she created decoupage lamps, tables and trays, many of which sold to stars like Judy Garland and others. Later, Stuart took up oil painting and was very prolific, showing and selling her work in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Her landscapes of The Watts Towers are on permanent collection at The Los Angeles County Museum. She also took up and mastered the art of bonsai and some of her trees are on permanent collection in the Huntington Library Japanese Garden. When her husband fell ill in the 1970s and died in 1978, she returned to acting doing a range of television series. In 1982, she returned to the screen appearing in a brief dance scene with Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin, 1982). After that, Stuart was in Jack Lemmon's drama Mass Appeal (Glenn Jordan, 1984) and Goldie Hawn's comedy Wildcats (Michael Ritchie, 1986). Stuart learned the craft of fine printing and established a printing press in her home studio called Imprenta Glorias, where she created a body of artist's books. Her book, 'Flight of Butterfly Kites' is in the permanent collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum. At the age of 87, she made a comeback in the cinema. Gloria Stuart won a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar nomination for her performance as the Old Rose, the 101-year-old survivor of shipwreck, in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet. Titanic became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time. A vintage publicity photo of her was also used for the image of 'Peg', the sister of butler Alfred Pennyworth, in Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher, 1997). She played her last film roles in director Wim Wenders' films The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) and Land of Plenty (2004), starring Michelle Williams. In 2010, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Gloria Stuart with a Centennial Celebration. She was the first such honoree to be living for a centennial. At 100 years of age, she had completed her greatest artist's book with her great-granddaughter working as her apprentice and also her final appearance on film in her grandson's documentary about her, entitled Secret Life of Old Rose: The Art of Gloria Stuart (Benjamin Stuart Thompson, 2012) when she died at home at the age of 100 in 2010. Stuart's great-granddaughter, Deborah B. Thompson, produced an e-book, 'Butterfly Summers: A Memoir of Gloria Stuart's Apprentice'.
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Looking straight down at Stuart Manor in the Celery Flats Historical Area, Portage, Michigan.
"Stuart Manor, originally built in 1860, is a charming example of late 19th-century vernacular architecture. This historic home was relocated to the Celery Flats Historical Area in Portage, Michigan, in 1990 as part of an effort to preserve the region’s agricultural and residential heritage. The house's architectural style reflects a practical and modest design typical of farm homes during its era, with clean lines, functional spaces, and period-appropriate detailing. Today, Stuart Manor serves as a centerpiece of the historical park, showcasing the lifestyle of Portage’s early settlers and their connection to the celery farming industry that once thrived in the area."
My first 'house' in Florida. Located along US1 just north of Stuart.
Yashica TL Electro X 35mm SLR.
It was converted from a roadside fruit stand into a house.
Stuart + Creek 2. (Another composition from nearby: Stuart + Creek)
Ingalls Lake and South Ingalls Peak (Attempt), October 5, 2008.
St Nicholas, Blakeney, Norfolk
Orate, Fratres, Pro Anima
Kenneth Bruce Stuart
Qui In Bello Magno
Vitam Pro Patri Amisit.
('Pray, Brothers, for the Soul
of Kenneth Bruce Stuart
Who in the Great War
Laid Down his Life for his Country')
Lieutenant Kenneth Bruce Stuart of the Durham Light Infantry was the son of Robert and Jane Campbell Stuart, of 23, Old Elvet, Durham. He was killed at the Butte de Warlencourt on the 5th of November, 1916, and is buried in Warlencourt British Cemetery.
Stuart attended the Loretto School in Edinburgh, and the Old Lorettonian Roll of Honour adds more details:
2ND LIEUTENANT KENNETH BRUCE STUART, 6th (Service) Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, was born in January 1896, and was at Loretto 1906 to 1914. Musical Scholar. XV. Corporal, O.T.C. On leaving school he went to the Royal College of Music. After the outbreak of war he obtained a commission in the 6th D.L.I., and went with them to France. During the Battle of the Somme his Battalion was attacking the Butte de Martencourt. Few officers were left, and Lieut. Stuart, who was Signalling Officer, volunteered to lead the assault. Three times the attack was held up by machine-gun fire, but Stuart insisted on a fourth attempt, during which he was shot dead at the head of his men, November 5, 1916.
There is a photograph of Stuart on the Old Lorettonian website.
I have no idea why this banner is in Blakeney church. Using the words "Kenneth Bruce Stuart" + "Blakeney" as search terms on Google produces just one result - these photographs.
DSC_5247 - LSV 380 - Volvo B10M/Plaxton Premiere - Stuarts of Carluke (Ex-Stagecoach Western 52425; R103 LSO) - Glasgow, Killermont Street 31/07/13
Marty Stuart @ KEXP 5-22-2017
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