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A late afternoon walk in Sutton Park, where the sun had mostly dropped below the horizon, leaving only the treetops lit in the golden light.
Here, the stream and birches remind me of a damp Finnish forest. Sadly no bears or Siberian tits to enliven the wildlife.
Sutton House is a Grade II listed Tudor manor house in Homerton High Street, Hackney, London. It is owned by the National Trust.
Most train shots of Kings Sutton usually include the parish church. This, however is the more enclosed view achievable from the station footbridge. Freightliner's 70005 speeds north with a late running 4M99, 14.57 Southampton - Crewe Basford Hall on 17th September.
(I've removed a lamppost in Photoshop)
A look at Sutton Coldfield Station, before I headed into the town centre for a look around.
The station is on the Cross-City Line (north) between Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley.
It's between Railway Road and Station Street.
The station was built in 1862. Repairwork took place in 2003.
Sutton Park Station building on 02/10/80.
Situated on the Midland Railway's Walsall to Water Orton line, Sutton Park station closed to passengers in 1965. The main station building lingered on in commercial use for many years but is now demolished. The Sutton Park line itself is still open as a busy freight route.
This view was taken from the Station's public approach off Clifton Drive.
See my full photo set of this station.
Scanned from an Ilford FP4 black & white negative.
The London Borough of Sutton presents ‘Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho it’s off to work we go!’ From a collection of photographs taken at the 29th London New Year's
Day Parade 2015 (LNYDP 2015). We were standing on opposite sides of the road in Picadilly
near the junction with Regent Street. The parade featured bands and particpants
fronm all over the road, along with representatives from London
Boroughs whose theme was "London on the Move". See www.lnydp.com for more
information.
Sutton Valence Castle in Kent is a Norman stone keep and bailey fortress, founded by Baldwin de Béthune, count of Albermarle. Standing against an escarpment are the broken ragstone walls of a small 12th century two storey keep with a square forebuilding. The castle was abandoned in the 14th century and now there are only glimpses of the bailey curtain wall, tracking the ridge.
Web site: www.english-heritage.org.uk/server.php?show=conProperty.221
The house was designed by the architect Francis Smith from 1724. The ruin encases an earlier house that stood on the site. The present ruin extended the house towards the Parish Church. There is only a few feet between this pavilion of the house and the Parish Church. This might explain the blind windows.
Edward Poynton of Nottingham carved the exterior stonework. The house contained some very fine stucco plasterwork made by two Italian master craftsmen Arturi and Vasalli. It is thought that Grinling Gibbons contributed some of the interior wood carvings.
In 1919 the estate was broken up and the house sold. The buyers sold the internal features as architectural salvage. The house was quickly reduced to being a shell. Some rooms still exist in the United States. Three interiors are displayed at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. It is also possible to see a pine-panelled room from this house at the Huntington Library, California.
The details of the rooms that are locally said to have gone to Philadelphia can be seen here www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/42068.html?mulR...|1 . Although I note that the Museum is less certain than the information boards on site and local knowledge.
The house was saved by the writer Sir Osbert Sitwell in the 1940's. When Sir Osbert died in 1969 the ruins were given to the Ministry of Works and are now in the care of English Heritage. When I first visited here in the 1980's you could not get this close to the ruins. The interior of the ruin was littered with fallen masonry, beams and lumps of plaster and general debris. The debris was cleared out and the ruin made safe so that it has been possible to walk through the interior since the late 1990's.
Southern Class 377, 377620 with 377613 standing at Sutton working 2R57 1245 to London Victoria, taken 23rd November 2017
The ruinous shell of Sutton Scarsdale Hall is seen by many as they travel along the Derbyshire stretch of the M1 motorway. Sutton Scarsdale Hall was remodeled from an earlier outbuilding in 1724 by Francis Smith of Warwick for Nicholas, fourth Earl of Scarsdale and was one of the finest country houses in Derbyshire at that time.
The interior was once very rich with superb plasterwork by Atari and Vassali some of which can still be seen, monumental carved marble fireplaces and a very superior carved mahogany staircase. The whole was set in formal gardens and a fine landscaped park, now parlty given over to agriculture. Much was known of the craftsmen who worked on the hall, thanks to a leaden plaque once attached to the fabric, but now lost.
Following the death of the fourth Earl of Scarsdale, Godfrey Clarke of Somersall Hall in Derbyshire purchased the estate in 1740. Ownership was subsequently transferred by marriage to the Marquis of Ormonde. In 1824 following the Marquises death, Richard Arkwright, son of the Cromford Mill Arkwrights, became the new owner and the estate remained in the family until 1920.
Sutton Scarsdale Hall then fell into a sad state of disrepair. After years of neglect, a consortium of Chesterfield businessmen purchased the property but due to its poor general state, it was decided to dismantle the building and sell off the contents including the lead roof. The hall deteriorated even more until in 1946 Sir Osbert Sitwell of Renishaw Hall purchased the surviving shell with the intention of preserving the remains as a ruin.
Some of the interior fixtures now reside in the United States at the Philadelphia Museum. Sutton Scarsdale Hall is now in the care of English Heritage and is freely accessible to visitors. It is a Listed Grade 1 building.