Alf Jahnsen launching a yacht thought to the Corroboree into the Wallis Lake at Tuncurry NSW, with Alan McMaster standing by to assist in his fishing vessel Waratah.

This report prepared by Chris Borough, Graham Nicholson and Philip Pope

YACHT CORROBOREE

The fast sloop Corroboree was built by Alf Jahnsen at his Lake Street Forster (NSW) shipyard in 1963. She was designed by Sparkman & Stephens (Newport, Rhode Island) and registered in Sydney in 1965. She has been consistently raced with considerable success but her present status is unknown – she is not registered with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).

DETAILS

Name: Corroboree

Type: Auxiliary yacht

Rig: Sloop

Stern: Counter

Sail No. RSYS 350

Design: Sparkman and Stephens, Newport, Rhode Is.

Builder: Alf Jahnsen – Shipyard at Lake Street Forster, NSW

Launched: Tuncurry, NSW 1963; Completed 1964

Official Number: 317475

Registration: April 1965 (13/1965)

Length: 35.6 ft

Breadth: 10.0 ft

Depth in hold: 6.3 ft

Tonnage: Gross 16.78 (47.49 cubic metres) Net (Register) 16.16 (45.73 cubic metres)

n.b 1 shipping ton = 2.83 cubic metres

Engine: 36 bhp 4 cyl diesel – Perkins Engines Ltd, Peterborough, England.

Owners:

Initial – 1964–1968 Kevin Allan Gray, Killara, NSW

1968–1974 John Walter While, Petersham, NSW

1974-1976 Gray Stanley Hutchinson, Double Bay NSW

1976 - ? Rowan Sydney Murphy, George Argent, John Clement Knobel (joint owners), Townsville Q.

Known to be owned in Mooloolaba in 1993

OCEAN RACING

Corroboree first entered in the ROLEX SYDNEY – HOBART Yacht Race in 1965 skippered by owner Kevin Gray. It was during the race that she was involved in the rescued of Lieutenant Franco Barbalonga, of the Italian Navy vessel Corsaro II [see description on of the recue in following section.] Despite the time involved in the rescue she was able to complete the race

Kevin again sailed her in the 1967 SYDNEY – HOBART and finished a credible 9th place.

Corroboree’s new owner, John While, entered her in the 1968 race but she was forced to retire.

It was not until 1974 when Corroboree was again entered in the SYDNEY – HOBART by new owner Gray Hutchinson and she finished the race.

The only other reference to ocean racing comes from the BRISBANE - GLADSTONE Race in 1993 where Pocket maxi yacht Bobsled was leading on corrected time from the smaller Mooloolaba sloop, Corroboree, and the Brisbane yacht, Outsider. Both were expected to finish late last night. The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Sun 11 Apr 1993

DRAMATIC RESCUE AT SEA DURING 1965 SYDNEY HOBART Yacht Race

Sailor will not forget his anniversary

HOBART, Friday [31st December 1965]. - Lieutenant Franco Barbalonga, of the Italian Navy, will always remember his second wedding anniversary as the day he faced death in the icy waters of the Tasman Sea. "I thought the end of the world had come as I was swept into the icy sea." the 28-year-old navigator, of the Italian yacht Corsaro II said in Hobart this morning. Lt Barbalonga was picked up by the Sydney sloop Corroboree, eight minutes after he had been thrown into the Tasman. "All was going well until six am yesterday, and the ship was going well when it suddenly blew up rough," Lt Barbalonga said.

"The spinnaker halyard broke and the sail fell into the sea.

Guest of yacht crew

"Eight of us were trying to get it back on board when a rope tangled around my leg and I was flung into the sea. “It was difficult to say what my thoughts were just then. "It all happened so suddenly and my whole life came up before me. “The water was icy cold, and I thought of my wife and little son. He is only a year old and yesterday was the second anniversary of my marriage. I wondered if I would ever see them again. "Then I came to the surface, threw off my clothes, and swam for a lifebelt the crew of Corsaro II had thrown." Corroboree picked him up a few minutes later, and he completed the race as the guest of the Australian crew.

When Corroboree tied up in Hobart today Lt Barbalonga was treated for rope burns to his left leg and bruises, but said he was reasonably fit.

"It was sheer luck that we were on exactly the same course as Corsaro II" the skipper of Corroboree, Kevin Gray, said today.

Hard to manage

"We saw the Italian vessel was having spinnaker trouble, and then two flares went up and we realised something was seriously wrong. “It came over the radio almost immediately that there was a man overboard, and it was apparent that the big yacht would be hard to manage in an emergency. "We were about 400 yards from Corsaro II, and saw that she had thrown a buoy, which was hard to see in the choppy sea despite its fluttering flag. “We headed for the buoy, but there was no man near. We saw the crew of Corsaro II pointing to another spot and could just make out a bobbing head. "We rounded up and passed next to him, dropping a rope which he clung to while we hauled him aboard." The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Sat 1 Jan 1966

INFORMATION LACKING

This post is part of an attempt by glmrsnsw to document the incredible output of wooden vessels from master boat-builder Alf Jahnsen and his son Harvey Jahnsen of Tuncurry and Forster. Any assistance in adding to this record would be much appreciated – contact Chris Borough at chrisborough@gmail.com.

FISHING BOAT WARATAH

Details :

Name:Waratah

Type: Fishing

Length: 27.5ft

Beam: 8.833ft

Draft: 4ft

Underdeck : 5.86tn

Engine: Diesel

Builder: Alan McMaster

Launched: 1957 Tuncurry NSW

LFB: {LFB4253} – b63 {LFB1911}-b66

Owners:

- Alan McMaster (1957 - 1965)

- J.L. Lambert (1965 - 1967) Iluka. NSW.

- V. Lambert (1967)

- J. Dimitrios (1967)

Construction:

- Carvel

- Hull: planking ⅞": blackbutt bottom, spotted gum sides, copper fastened.

- Keel: 4¾"x4¾".

- Hog piece: 10"x 2".

- Floors: 2½" sided @ 22" centres.

- Timbers: 1⅜"x⅞" @ 7" spacing.

- Stringers: 4 off 2⅝"x 1⅛".

- Engine seating: 7"x 5".

- Deck beams: 4"x 1⅜".

- Deck: 1" Ti-tree.

- Rudder: 18"x 15".

History:

1957

Survey commenced, inspected under construction at Tuncurry on the 19th November.

1958

Launched Tuncurry NSW.

1959

Inspected on the slip at Tuncurry on the 12th February.

Survey completed on the 26th June.

Seagoing fishing vessel under 15 tons gross carrying 2 crew, later altered to 4 crew, then back to 2 crew.

1959-1964

Fishing out of Tuncurry.

Aided with the launching of a yacht in 1963 built by Alf Jahnsen.

1964

Reported that the owner had taken the Waratah to Sydney for sale.

Inspected on slip at Tuncurry on the 22nd June. Reported to be sold.

1965

Inspected on the slip at Crowdy Heads NSW on the 9th June.

1966

Inspected on the slip at Yamba NSW on the 3rd May.

Working from Iluka NSW on the Clarence River.

1969

Reported no longer in use.

Fate: Unknown/ No further details available.

Image Source: Nicholson Family Collection

Acknowledgements: The assistance of Mori Flapan (Mori Flapan boatregister) by providing access to his extensive database is greatly appreciated.

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Decided to take this cell phone photo of questionable quality to show just how jam-packed, standing room only Sound Transit 510 that started a few minutes after 3:05 PM was. Photo was in transit before arriving at S Everett Fwy Station. Hoping more money can be found (by maybe scrapping Sounder North) for more bus capacity, like the new Double Tall buses Community Transit is buying.

Tôi ghé sát vào lỗ tai cậu ấy nói nhỏ :

- Tớ thích cậu!

- Cái gì, tớ nghe chẳng rõ?

- Humm, tớ …thích cậu

- Cậu nói rõ to hơn nữa xem nào? Sao nói nhỏ thế? Tớ chẳng nghe gì cả.

- Tớ thích cậu, nói lần cuối rồi đấy nhé. Có bắt tớ nói lại, tớ cũng không nói đâu.

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Cậu ấy là một cậu bạn mà mình thích cũng kha khá lâu. Trong câu chuyện này, mình là người bắt đầu trước, mỗi đêm trước khi đi ngủ, mình đều tìm kiếm những cách để có thể chúc cậu ấy ngủ ngon. Đổi lại, cậu cũng rep tin nhắn mình rất nhanh, điều đó khiến mình vui hết cỡ.

Cứ thế, dần dần đều đặn mỗi ngày, mình đều chúc cậu ngon giấc, và dường như điều đó đã trở thành một thói quen trong mối quan hệ của cả hai.

“ Tùng tùng tùng” mới đó mà đã 6h55, mình quay sang thấy cậu đang cười rất vui vẻ với một bạn nữ khác. Bỗng, trong lòng có chút chạnh lòng. Lên bảng ghi lại sỉ số lớp, và kí sổ đầu bài. Mình đi sát lại bàn cậu, gằn giọng:

- Này cậu kia, không lo học bài mà ngồi đùa giỡn được hả?

- Tớ đùa giỡn khi nào?

- Chắc do tôi nhìn nhầm…

- Mà nè, cậu nói, sau khi thi HSG xong, cậu có một bí mật nói với tớ mà. Sao tớ chưa thấy cậu nhắc đến thế? Hay cậu ghẹo tớ?

- Tôi đây mà thèm ghẹo cậu á?

- Vậy thì bí mật gì, nói xem nào.

- Đã là bí mật, sao tôi có thể nói ở lớp được cơ chứ?

- Thì cậu ghé sát rồi nói nhỏ vào tai tớ nè.

Khi ấy, cậu kéo mình lại gần cậu, trong tim như có điện chạy qua. Run bần bật. Mình ghé sát rồi nói nhỏ:

- Tớ thích cậu!

- Cái gì, tớ nghe chẳng rõ?

- Humm, tớ …thích cậu

- Cậu nói rõ to hơn nữa xem nào? Sao nói nhỏ thế? Tớ chẳng nghe gì cả.

- Tớ thích cậu, nói lần cuối rồi đấy nhé. Có bắt tớ nói lại, tớ cũng không nói đâu…

Trong phút chốc, mình chẳng biết mình vừa buộc miệng nói to cho đủ cả lớp nghe được. Cả lớp nhìn mình, với ánh mắt trầm trồ, sững sốt. Sau ít phút, trong lớp lại nổi lên vô số những tiếng cười, nói của các bạn “Nè, lớp trưởng thích cậu đấy. Liệu mà xem sao cho vừa với tấm lòng của người ta”, “ Tụi tao đợi tin mày đấy, đừng để anh em thất vọng”, “Giờ lớp trưởng đã là hoa có chủ rồi, nay con gái nhà người ta còn học được cách tỏ tình nữa kia, hahaha”… Còn cậu, ánh mắt như sáng lên, cậu đứng bật dậy, nói:

- Được, tớ nghe rõ lắm rồi đấy.

- Cậu im đi, rõ ràng đã nói là bí mật sao cậu lại khiến tôi để mọi người biết thế kia. Biết sớm hơn, tôi thà giữ kín cho rồi. Không thèm nói chuyện với cậu nữa!

Mình đỏ mặt, chạy về chỗ ngồi. Trống đã đánh vào tiết.

Kết thúc giờ học, mình vẫn rất ngại ngùng, đeo tập sách, mình chạy phóng ra ngoài cửa lớp. Đằng sau, có tiếng gọi:

- Nè lớp trưởng, cậu đi đâu mà sao vội vậy?

- Không thấy sao, ra về thì đi về chứ còn gì nữa.

- Cậu nói,...lúc nãy cậu nói vậy là thật đúng không?

- Còn hỏi, do ai mà tôi lại mất mặt trước cả lớp như vậy chứ. Dẫu cho tôi không có ngoại hình , học hành cũng không tốt như cậu. Nhưng xưa này, chưa hề có chuyện con gái lại đi chủ động như tôi lúc sáng.

- Vậy, cậu đang ngại vì chuyện đó ư?

.....

Bỗng nhiên, cậu hét thật lớn “Lớp trưởng, tôi thích cậu, thích nhiều nhiều lắm. Cậu đồng ý làm người yêu tôi nha!”

Lần này, không phải sỉ số 40 của lớp học, mà là toàn trường, ai cũng thấy.

- Lần này, xem như tôi tỏ tình cậu nhé. Xí xóa lúc sáng.

- Được thôi, xem như cậu còn chút đáng là nam nhi.

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Đến tối, cậu nhắn sớm hơn mọi ngày.

-Lớp trưởng, cậu nhớ ngủ sớm mai lên lớp gặp nhau nhé!

- Được. Nhưng, sao hôm nay cậu chủ động nhắn tin cho tớ?

- Vì hôm nay, tớ chính thức theo đuổi cậu. Nè cậu có đồng ý làm người yêu tớ không?

-…. Chưa biết.

- Vậy, tớ bắt đầu theo đuổi đó nhé.

(Đinh Thị Thu Thủy - Viết Lách Mỗi Ngày - GenZ )

Franziska Knuppe, Tribute to Bambi 2019 im Kurhaus Baden-Baden am 20.11.2019, © Clemens Porikys for Hubert Burda Media

Porteau Cove Provincial Park is a stunning coastal destination located along the Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99), about 38 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Nestled on the eastern shore of Howe Sound—the southernmost fjord in North America—this park is a favorite for both locals and travelers seeking a scenic escape.

🌲 Highlights of Porteau Cove

Camping: The park offers 44 drive-in and 16 walk-in campsites, many of which are waterfront with breathtaking views of the mountains and ocean.

Scuba Diving: It's a top diving spot with artificial reefs and sunken vessels that attract marine life.

Marine Life: You might spot seals, porpoises, otters, and even whales during the right season.

Activities: Ideal for kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing, and stargazing. The beach is rocky but great for tidepooling and photography.

Accessibility: Close enough to Vancouver for a day trip, yet remote enough to feel like a true getaway.

Thank you for your visit and any faves or comments are always greatly appreciated!

~Sonja

As I was driving to my planned cemetery visit, I passed this little cemetery. I came back and didn't even see a sign naming it. It had such fabulous stones. Still, no name. I came home and did some research. Here are two articles I found on this little cemetery located in Palmyra, Pennsylvania:

The cemetery that no one wants.

April 10, 2008

BY MONICA VON DOBENECKÂ

No one wants the Cherry Street cemetery in Palmyra, where about 1,000 people are buried, including veterans of the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War and the Civil War.

The cemetery is supposedly owned by a private corporation started in 1867 and run by a board of trustees elected by lot owners. But the trustees are long gone and nobody can find lot owners. A bank account has $30,000 for maintenance, but no one is authorized to write checks. Volunteers have been mowing the grass, but they're tired of the work.

At a news conference today, representatives of two churches that have taken care of the cemetery for the past 140 years said will do so no longer and are turning their records over to the Borough of Palmyra.

Borough manager Sherry Capello said she has no intention of accepting them. "For 140 years, the churches accepted care of the cemetery," she said. "We feel they have the responsibility."

The cemetery began in 1867, when six people who were members of the predecessors to Palm Lutheran Church and Trinity United Church of Christ formed the Palmyra Cemetery Association. Trustees were elected by lot owners, but at some point the annual elections stopped. Church members continued to manage the cemetery.

According to Palm Lutheran church member Harry Fox, the churches got a letter from the borough in 2003 saying the sidewalk next to the cemetery needed repairs. The churches hired attorney John Feather to check into their legal authority and their obligation to care for the cemetery. Feather concluded they had neither.

Capello said the borough contacted the churches when neighbors started complaining that grass and weeds were getting high.

For a while, volunteers from the Brethren in Christ church agreed to take care of it because their church was across the street. But the dozen or so volunteers decided at the end of last year they wouldn't do it any longer.

In the meantime, Feather tried to find people who would act as temporary trustees to get the cemetery association going. He was unsuccessful. He also couldn't find lot owners, although a woman was buried there as recently as a year ago.

Fox said in a written statement Thursday, "The churches have concluded that their mission and ministry is not to operate and maintain a cemetery."

Feather said he would leave the cemetery records with the library or the historical society if the borough does not accept them. He said the Pennsylvania Borough Code and the Pennsylvania Burial Grounds Law give the courts the right to direct the borough to take over neglected cemeteries.

According to Capello, that can happen if a majority of a borough's property owners agree. The code limits the amount a borough can pay for cemetery maintenance yearly to $3,000, she said.

Bob Stewart, director of the Pennsylvania Cemetery Funeral and Cremation Association, said there are hundreds of abandoned cemeteries in the state, many of them started in the 1800's. "The state doesn't have anything for abandoned cemeteries," he said. "I don't know what you do in that situation."

Capello said the situation is sad. "You can't just walk away because you don't want to do it any more and throw it at the borough," she said. "What's really sad is that it is a cemetery, and it's like disrespecting the dead."

and an update from May 2009:

Borough to mow cemetery for now

Friday, May 01, 2009

BY BARBARA MILLER arbmiller@patriot-news.com

PALMYRA - Palmyra Borough Council will mow the "orphan" cemetery on West Cherry Street this summer, while the borough and two churches say they are hoping for resolution of the dispute over care of the site.

Council agreed April 27 to mow the cemetery through Oct. 1 and bill the cemetery's trust fund for the cost, which is estimated at $1,000 per mowing.

"Council concluded it's the right thing to do for the appearance of the community in general," said Keith Costello, council president. "And it doesn't put us in a bad position if we need to proceed with litigation."

Care of the cemetery is in dispute, because its board of trustees no longer exists. While members of two churches that once had representation on the trustees cared for the cemetery for 140 years, last year they said they will no longer do so.

After the borough tried to get the churches to repair sidewalk along the cemetery in 2003, the churches researched ownership and concluded this was not their responsibility.

The borough last year filed a petition in Lebanon County court asking the churches to be held responsible for care of the cemetery.

Josele Cleary, borough solicitor, said borough officials met recently with representatives of the churches. No agreement was reached, but they will continue meeting, she said.

Representatives of Palm Lutheran and Trinity United Church of Christ met Monday and agreed on a proposal to work with the borough on this issue, said the Rev. Mike Beynon of Trinity.

"I'm glad the cemetery is going to be maintained, and I'm glad for the increasing amount of camaraderie working with the new officials in the borough," Beynon said.

Joint venture vehicles are used on peak extras in the morning on some commuter services but unusually Panther (SV56 BWC) was working an offpeak on the X17 to Elrick today.

To kick off the “PJs and Paws” campaign and build buzz for Karen Neuburger pajamas, the nationally recognized brand hosted a dog walk in the suburbs of Minneapolis in Rosedale Center!

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I had the opportunity to meet Yuta in May 2015. She was gracious enough to invite me to her place and show me some of her paintings. Later we hiked the trails near her place.

We talked about paintings, photography, the psychology of art, an artist's thought process, what constitutes art, the appreciation and critique of art, the love and romance of art, the struggles, the failures and the successes.

I took this picture of her as she was looking through her screen door and smiling at me.

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I like the mirroring in the window of the train ;-) The train itself "feels" like a "technical snake"

GUNNER LOVES TO CLIMB TREE'S AND GO TO THE BEACH AND HE EVEN FOUND A BABY OCTOPUS IN THE TIED POOLS WITH HIS DAD AND ME, HE IS THE GRANDSON OF A SCHOOL CHUM OF MINE, AND IS OUR FUTURE.

HE IS SUCH FULL OF LIFE AND JOY, AND HE IS FULL OF SUCH POSSIBILITIES,

WE HAVE TO BREAK THE WAYS OF THE PAST, SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE, SO THAT CHILDREN LIKE GUNNER, GROW UP TO BE SMILING ADULTS.

HOW WONDERFUL, IF YOU SMILED ALL DAY, NOW HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MORE BEAUTIFUL SMILE THAN THIS LITTLE GUY HAS. AND HE NEVER LOST HIS AMAZEMENT AT JOY OF LIFE, ALL ABOUT HIM,

YOU WILL SEE MORE OF GUNNER LATER.

MY PUTER IS ON POWER, AN AND MY POWER BELT IS OUT SO, I WON'T BE POSTING FOR A WHILE, DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH POWER. SO WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS i CAN.

BUT WANTED TO LEAVE YOU WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE. AND NOW HOW CAN YOU NOT SMILE BACK AT THIS LITTLE CHARMER.

HUGS,

BILLIE,

SEE YA SOON I HOPE

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I am continuing to go to the Fitness Center at the Valdosta Country Club about 2 or 3 times a week and workout with my personal trainer. This is the second week that Billy has had me do 4 minutes on the treadmill as a part of my routine -- 5 exercises at 4 times each. I've been walking to the mailbox and back twice a day for 5 days a week. I am watching what I eat. At first I was eating 1200 calories a day. Now I'm eating about 1500 calories a day. I have lost about 4 pounds. And last, but not least, I'm still attending my Line Dance class on Tuesday evenings. I'm not great at line dancing, but I do stay up on the floor moving for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

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Chastleton House is a Jacobean country house situated at Chastleton near Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire, England. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1991 and is a Grade I listed building. It was built between 1607 and 1612, for Walter Jones, who had made his fortune from the law, although his family were originally Welsh wool merchants. The estate was bought in 1604 from Robert Catesby, although his residence was demolished to make way for the new house and no traces of the original building on this spot remain. The house is built of Cotswold stone, round a small courtyard, called the Dairy Court. The House is different from other houses of its type in several respects. It has never had a park with a long, landscaped approach such as many other houses of its era. Rather it was built within an existing settlement, Chastleton village, which provided many of the services for the house which would otherwise have been attached, such as a laundry, a fishpond and a bakehouse. Secondly, until its acquisition by the Trust in 1991, it was owned by the same family for nearly 400 years. Its treatment by the Trust was similarly unusual, with a policy of conservation rather than restoration, enabling visitors to see the house largely as it was when acquired. As a result of the Trust's approach, a large number of the rooms in the house are open to the public. Of particular note is the Long Gallery, with its barrel vaulted ceiling. No other gallery of such a length 72 feet (22 m) and date survive. Like much of the house, the Long Gallery ceiling has been subject to damage. The neglect of the roof for almost two centuries led to the failing of part of the plaster ceiling in the early 1800s, but it was not repaired until 1904-05, when two local men were engaged to make good the losses.

Also of interest is the impressive Great Chamber. Designed for the entertainment of the most important guests and for the playing of music, the design scheme has its roots in Renaissance Italy and is the most impressive in the house. The setting out of the panelling shows some inspiration from the classical, as do the painted roundels around the frieze, depicting the twelve prophets of the Old Testament and the twelve Sybils or Prophetesses of Antiquity. Also in the Great Chamber are a set of Jacobite Fiat glasses engraved with the Jacobite emblems of roses, oakleaves, and a compass rose, which betray the families eighteenth-century sympathies. These probably belonged to Henry Jones IV, who was the president of the Gloucestershire Cycle Club, one of the oldest established Jacobite clubs. Other items of interest in the house include the Juxon Bible, which is said to have been used by the chaplain, Bishop Juxon, at the execution of Charles I. Juxon’s family lived locally in Long Compton until his family died out in the eighteenth century, when it is thought to have been given to John Jones II because the Jones’ were another family with Jacobite sympathies.

In 1919 a number of significant tapestries were discovered at the house, and were interpreted as evidence for the establishment of a tapestry-weaving venture at the manor house of William Sheldon (d 1570) at Barcheston, near Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire. One of these tapestries is currently on display in the Middle Chamber, and another is in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Grade II listed garden at Chastleton has undergone a number of revisions since the completion of the house in 1612. There is no archaeological evidence of a garden on this site before this date: indeed, the North Garden is split by an old field boundary.

There is no map or written evidence to suggest how the garden was laid out by Walter Jones in 1612, but the walls that enclose the garden are 17th century and archaeological evidence that suggests that the garden has been laid out the same way for the last 400 years. It is laid out according to the recommendation proposed by Gervase Markham in The English Husbandman (1613) – a fore court to the front of the house, with the base (or bass) court on one side, which included the stables and other farm buildings. The other two sides of the house should be composed of gardens, divided into an orchard, a kitchen garden and a best (or pleasure) garden, planted with more ornamental plants.

At the time, the Forecourt at Chastleton described the entrance area below the House court (the area directly in front of the house). The House court was raised slightly above the forecourt by a small retaining wall, probably with a balustrade on top. There were likely to be few plants in the front of the house in the early 17th century, with the House Court possibly being paved or having two grass plats on each side of the central path like the Forecourt.

To the east of this was the Pleasaunce or Pleasure Garden. This was the Best Garden, which was levelled, but with a viewing terrace along one side which also gave entrance to the church at the opposite end. The design of this garden is not known, but it was almost certainly surrounded by high walls with fruit trees trained against it. The Best Garden was laid out in the circular pattern we see today by Dorothy Whitmore Jones in 1833, although it is suggested that there were already box plants there. Beds were added within the circular hedge in the 1890s or 1900s and then grassed over again by 1972. During the periods of time when money came into the family the planting in this garden was always renewed.

To the north are terraces, levelled from the sloping ground. There is evidence of a medieval cultivation terrace and the remnants of the old boundary wall of the garden. There was a Bowling Green on the Middle terrace and the third terrace may also have been the site of the original kitchen garden.

Today, the middle terraces are the site of two croquet lawns, originally laid out by Walter Whitmore-Jones in the 1860s. His version of the rules of croquet published in The Field in 1865 became definitive, and Chastleton is considered the birthplace of croquet as a competitive sport.

The Kitchen Garden as it is now was enclosed in 1847 and was formed of the existent garden and from part of the adjoining field. It was laid out as four plots on one side of a broad path and two on the other side, and the kitchen garden today has been recently rejuvenated to form this pattern as well.

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Crazy 8's can't be beat!

A brass 8 and vintage pocket watch movement parts set onto a pin back with hanger. (You can also wear this as a pendant!) The winder still turns the gears on this beauty- you can pull it in and out for different effects. Unique and fun to play with, a Steampunk mechanical wonder.

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Creator: Schaeffer, Oskar. b. 1863

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Date: 1897

Language: eng

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From the infinite universe to the anatomy of the human body and AI-based media art to the future scenarios of “Planet B”. With the premiere of Deep Space EVOLUTION, the Ars Electronica Center has taken another step forward in its development, which can now be experienced for yourself in Linz. The opening of Deep Space EVOLUTION took place on March 30. Photo showing Horst Hörtner, Managing Director Ars Electronica Futurelab.

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إلى المساجد-بالخط الكوفي المملوكي- تتحول الحروف الرأسية (كالألف واللام) إلى مآذن-

The Arabic Phrase : Ela Almasajed (= To the mosques) -Written in Kufi Font - Memluke style- It is formed like mosque minarets.

By Alexandrian

A visit to the East Anglian Railway Museum.

The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. Services on the Sudbury Branch Line are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.

The museum has a wide collection of locomotives and rolling stock, some of which are fully restored, three are converted into Thomas, Percy and Toby replicas while others are undergoing repair and restoration. The Restoration Shed was built in 1983–4, before which most work had to take place in the Goods Shed or in the open. On event days, steam or diesel train rides are operated over a short demonstration track.

The museum also plays host to three popular annual events: the Winter Beer Festival held each February, the Cider Festival held each June, and the Summer Beer Festival held each September. During the festivals, additional late-evening trains on the Sudbury Branch Line allow festival-goers to return home by train subject to provision by the train operation companies. There are no moving exhibits during the festivals, although train carriages are usually open to sit in and drink, with one wagon doubling up as The Shunters Arms at the summer festival.

The museum was originally formed as the Stour Valley Railway Preservation Society on 24 September 1968. The SVRPS was established at Chappel & Wakes Colne Station in December 1969 after a lease was obtained from British Rail to use the vacant goods yard and railway buildings, including the station building. The first public steam day took place three months later.

The goods shed and station buildings were quickly restored; with a workshop being set up in the goods shed to enable maintenance and restoration work to be undertaken on the rolling stock.

The Stour Valley Railway Preservation Society was renamed to The East Anglian Railway Museum in 1986 to confirm its focus on representing railway history of the Eastern Counties rather than just operating trains. The museum gained charitable status in 1991 (Registered Charity No. 1001579) and became a Registered Museum in 1995.

Since 2005, the museum has had a greater emphasis on interpretation and display facilities, a large variety of events take place each year to raise funds to support the museum's activities.

Heritage Centre - exhibits inside of this building.

signs - British Railways Sudbury and British Railways Kelvedon

On the 26th July I made my way to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight by coach trip. The day was in the heat wave we had during July 2018 and was very hot and humid. The trip over by Red Funnel Ferries was great, their ferries are very comfortable and much larger than the ones at Lymington, no criticism intended. Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat. Prince Albert designed the house himself in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo. The builder was Thomas Cubitt, the London architect and builder whose company built the main facade of Buckingham Palace for the royal couple in 1847. An earlier smaller house on the site was demolished to make way for a new and far larger house, though the original entrance portico survives as the main gateway to the walled garden.

Queen Victoria died at Osborne House in January 1901. Following her death, the house became surplus to royal requirements and was given to the state, with a few rooms being retained as a private museum to Queen Victoria. From 1903 until 1921 it was used as a junior officer training college for the Royal Navy, known as the Royal Naval College, Osborne. In 1998 training programmes consolidated at the Britannia Royal Naval College which is now at Dartmouth, thus vacating Osborne House. The House now under the watchful eye of English Heritage is now open to the public for tours.

In 1903, the new stable block became a junior officer training college for the Royal Navy known as the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Initial training began at about the age of 13, and after two years studies were continued at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. The college closed in 1921, with the last students leaving on 9 April 1921. The traditions of Osborne helped inspire the operations of the Nautical College Pangbourne, after its founding in 1917. The NCP has now become Pangbourne College, but its students continue the tradition of wearing naval uniform, and maintaining certain naval traditions.

One of the buildings called Swiss Cottage in the grounds, here you will find inside, the story of the life of a Victorian royal child. Thanks to funding from donors including the Heritage Lottery Fund, vivid new displays, a garden trail and a new play area enable families to experience for themselves how the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert played and learnt in this unique and special place. Osborne House is famous for its selection of formal gardens containing rare and unusual plants, and there is also plenty of space to run around. Enjoy the formal walled gardens, visit the sheltered the Walled garden, admire the view the Solent from the Palm Terrace or visit the charming gardens which surround the miniature Swiss Chalet. As well as a stunning array of plants, rare red squirrels can be spotted amongst the trees. Gravel, tarmac and concrete provide access for all abilities. Benches and rest points are dotted throughout the grounds.

The organisers of the London Capital & Finance were holding an event day on the 25th and 26th July 2018. This meant many parts of the gardens could not be visited on these two days having been reserved for the visitors to these trials. Osborne Horse Trials hope to attract a new audience to the sport and to the Isle of Wight with this easy to follow two day eventing format. Horses will perform dressage and show jumping on the House lawns, before setting out across the estate parkland. Each phase will finish before the next commences, enabling spectators to see 70% of the action from one spot. Both days will feature two classes at open intermediate level with a Grand Prix class and three further categories tailored to either top level or less experienced horses. Pictures can be taken inside the house but not using flash. However Videos cannot be made while in the house itself.

(left to right) Hugh Robertson, MP and Minister for Sport and the Olympics, Laurence Tricker, Cyclopark Project Manger and Tony Mack, Cyclopark campaigner and supporter on site with a map of the park’s planned layout.

On Friday 20th August, Hugh Robertson, Member of Parliament for Faversham and Mid Kent and Minister for Sport and the Olympics visited Cyclopark to see for himself the exciting opportunity that this regeneration project will provide for South East residents. Sport England, the government agency responsible for creating a world-leading community sport system of clubs, coaches, facilities and volunteers; have agreed Lottery funding for the project from their Sustainable Facilities programme. Fellow funders include British Cycling, Kent County Council and the Homes and Communities Agency.

Cyclopark is the innovative park set to bring first class cycling, running and extreme sports facilities to North Kent. The park will be one of the leading multi sport centres in the South of England and Jamie Staff MBE, Olympic gold medallist, World BMX champion and Cyclopark’s champion hopes to develop a ‘Jamie Staff Academy’ on-site for young people to develop their talent. When completed in 2012, Cyclopark will also offer an exciting range of activities for everyone from the enthusiastic beginner right up to the seasoned professional. It will create a lifelong interest in sport and healthy living from youth through competitive activities to old age.

The project will be a Kent Thameside gateway to sport, leisure and recreation through its links to Jeskyns Farm, Ashenbank Woods and Shorne Country Park. Set within 43 hectares of landscaped parkland and with a 340m BMX racetrack, a skate park and a 2.9km circuit track for cycling and running, Cyclopark really will be a unique activity venue.

Mr Robertson was impressed with the scale of the project and offered his support in helping to ensure that Cyclopark would contribute to a lasting legacy after the Olympics in 2012. He says; “Cyclopark is going to be a huge draw for Kent and the wider South East. It’s so important that we provide the facilities and resources for local people to enjoy sport and keep fit and healthy. With the Olympics taking place in the year that Cyclopark is due to open, 2012 looks set to be an incredible year for sport; not only in London but throughout the South East.”

Tony Mack, long-serving campaigner for Cyclopark organised the ministerial visit to raise the project’s profile with the recently appointed Minister. Tony Mack is a Kent resident and was delighted to spend some time talking to the Minister and outlining the huge opportunity that Cyclopark offers. Tony says; “Mr Robertson took time out of his busy schedule for this visit and we were grateful for the opportunity to show the Minister around the site and bring to his attention the huge potential of this highly innovative and imaginative project. I think it’s really important that we raise the profile of the park and ensure that everyone who can help with promoting and championing the project knows what an asset it is going to become to Kent.”

Laurence Tricker, Cyclopark Project Manager also attended the visit and was able to provide background information on the project. He answered a number of questions from the Minister regarding funding, timescales and local support as well as the key question, 'Would it be ready in 2012?’. Laurence says; “If all goes to plan and we secure the last remaining funds we need, we will open in the summer of 2012. With construction starting this autumn and only two years until completion it is vital that we spread the word about Cyclopark and its value as a unique and exciting local project. The park fits perfectly within the massive regeneration of Kent Thameside and will support the positive change already going on in the area. It will not only be a centre of excellence for the cycling world, but also a ‘must see’ for visitors to North Kent.”

The project forms a key part in the regeneration of Kent Thameside which is lead by Kent Thameside Regeneration Partnership (KTRP). This partnership of public and private sector organisations including Gravesham and Dartford Borough Councils, supports and champions the regeneration of Kent Thameside, a hub for innovation and one of the fastest growing areas in the UK covering the boroughs of Dartford and Gravesham and Ebbsfleet Valley. With a commitment to provide 25,000 new homes and 50,000 new jobs over the next two decades, KTRP will make Kent Thameside a distinct and vibrant destination.

Sand to Surf, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga, Saturday 21 March 2014. Photo: Simon Watts/ www.bwmedia.co.nz

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Right up next to the fence, ready to depart to ADD as ETH503.

Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tansania

Mtoni Palace & Persian Baths

Beit el Mtoni literally means The Palace by the stream. The palace owes this name to its beautiful location on the western shore of Zanzibar. It is one of the oldest buildings of Zanzibar and it was the largest palace on the island during the reign of Sultan Sayyid Said, who moved the capital of his Omani empire form Muscat to Zanzibar during the first half of the 19th century. At that time, over a thousand people lived in the palace and its direct surroundings. But around the 1880s the palace was abandoned and fell into ruin. One of the most famous inhabitants of Zanzibar was Sayyida Salme. Beit el Mtoni is strongly connected with her story, since it is the place where she was born. Salme, one of the many daughters of Sultan Said, became world famous as Emily Ruete, the Arabian princess who fell in love with the German merchant Rudolph Heinrich Ruete. The couple eloped to Hamburg, which meant that Salme had to say farewell to Zanzibar. In her beautiful book Memoirs of an Arabian Princess Salme, or Emily as she was called later after being baptized a Christian, wrote down her memories of the bristling Mtoni Palace during her youth, and the decay she encountered many years later, when she returned to Zanzibar one last time.

The basilica is dedicated to the Christian martyrs, known and unknown. It was also a personal monument of Pope Pius IV, whose tomb is in the apsidal tribune that culminates the series of spaces.

The thermae of Diocletian dominated the Quirinal Hill with their ruined mass and had successfully resisted Christianization. Michelangelo Buonarroti worked from 1563 to 1564 to adapt a section of the remaining structure of the baths to enclose a church. Some later construction directed by Luigi Vanvitelli in 1749 only superficially distracts from the grand and harmonious Michelangelesque volumes. At Santa Maria degli Angeli, Michelangelo achieved an unexampled sequence of shaped architectural spaces with few precedents or followers. There is no true facade (illustration); the simple entrance is set within one of the coved apses of a main space of the thermae. The plan is developed from a Greek cross, with a transept so dominant, with its cubical chapels at each end, that the effect is of a transverse nave. The transept, with the Roman columns. The vestibule with canted corners and identical side chapels leads to a second vestibule, repeated on the far side of the transept, dominated by the over lifesize Saint Bruno of Cologne by Jean Antoine Houdon (1766). The great vaulted transept gives a striking display of the magnificent scale of Roman constructions, 90.8 meters long, and with the floor that Michelangelo raised to bring it up to the Seicento street level, 28 meters high. Raising the floor truncated the red granite Roman columns that articulate the transept and its flanking spaces. Michelangelo made the transept 27 meters wide, thus providing vast cubical spaces at each end of the transept. In 2006, Polish-born sculptor Igor Mitoraj created new bronze doors as well as a statue of John the Baptist for the basilica. In April 2010, a five metre high bronze statue of Galileo Galilei Divine Man (designed by 1957 Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee) was unveiled in a courtyard within the complex. The statue (a dedication to the 17th century scientist and philosopher) was a donation from CCAST (China Center of Advanced Science and Technology) and WFS (World Federation of Scientists). Santa Maria degli Angeli was the official state church during the Kingdom of Italy (1870-1946). More recently, national burials have been held in the church. The church hosts the tombs of General Armando Diaz and Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel, who were the commanders responsible for winning World War I on the Italian front.Also today the Basilica is used for many ceremonies, included the funeral of soldiers killed aboard. William Henry Keeler is the Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Mariae Angelorum in Thermis.

300 Students and workers march through Birmingham City Centre and 60 occupy the council chambers at Birmingham City Council for over 4 hours. Remaining protesters maintained a public protest outside the building to ensure the action was visible to a busy market square. Protests remained peaceful throughout the day.

The action in Birmingham today took place against a back from of what was the 3rd national day of action by students. It was a day of revolt—across Britain, from Dundee to Bournemouth, young people rose up against the attacks on education. The protest named X2 following day X on the 24th November and the 50, 000 NUS/UCU protest on the 10th of November.

These protests are a revolt against £9,000 university fees, the closing off of universities to all but the rich, and the abolition of the EMA allowance that 16-18 year olds rely on to go to college. But it was also about the way the Tories are ripping up people’s futures.

From the beginning of the occupations messages of solidarity flooded in from trade union representatives all over the city representing some of the most vulnerable members of the public and public sector workers under attack from the cuts including UNISON, PCS and UCU unions.

These included support workers, council workers and civil servants, support staff, teachers and lecturers in education, Connexions youth workers faced with job cuts and cuts to the services for the most vulnerable young people in Birmingham. Refugees and migrant workers will see a massive cut in legal aid, what little there is between what can mean life and death for those that are already exploited and degraded in the most appalling ways.

A statement from PCS Union representing over 300,000 civil servants said “Student protests against the attacks on education are inspirational to the rest of us. This is part of a concerted attack by this government to take away people’s rights to education, work, welfare, healthcare, housing and more. The question ultimately is: who pays for the crisis? It is clear that students should not pay for it, and it’s clear the public sector workers shouldn’t either. We should be unified in demanding that those who cause the crisis should pay for it. Keep up the fight, we can win.”

The student action was providing them inspiration and hope that there is an alternative to the CON-DEM cuts which would wreck the lives of millions.

Day X2 and day X has showed that the angry march and the occupation of Tory headquarters on 10 November was not a one-off event and there were as many if not more people involved each time.

Tens of thousands of students, especially school students, took to the streets. These school students know universities are being closed off to them by soaring fees. They know the cuts mean that only a few will get more than low-paid jobs.

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DIGITAL MIZCHIEF (Robert Delano) has been a underground staple for the last decade or better. With hundreds of gigs under his belt, he is a master showman, recording engineer, producer, and talented DJ, his sets come strong with a agressive, nothing held back, insane style.

Flavors to a tasty set can include Psycotic Psy to Screaming Americian Hardstylz, Filthy Electro to Disco, and everything inbetween.

Robert is also owner and chief recording engineer of Blue Aura Recording Studio, and owner of DIGITAL MIZCHIEF Stage Systems.

CHARLIE BROWN SUPERSTAR

Charlie Brown Superstar (aka Brett Fuller) has been spinning records in Huntington's most popular nightclubs since

1994, covering a wide range of musical genres. He currently holds residency at the V Club, where he DJ's the area's most popular and longest-running dance night, New Moon on Mondays, mixing the best new wave, rock and pop that the 80's had to offer. He has had the honor of performing with such nationally recognized recording artists as Arrested Development and Electric Six.

Charlie Brown Superstar is also one of the first House music dj's in the area and was the resident at the legendary local venue Gyrationz (the first club to feature an all EDM format) He is known for his marathon sets of Deep House and Electro.

In addition, Charlie Brown Superstar is an LBA Records recording artist and has been composing original electronic music since 1999. He did sampling for and toured with the popular local rock band, Chum, during the mid-90's and is currently a member of the critically acclaimed drone/doom metal band, Hyatari. His influences include everything from Mercury Rev, Gary Numan, Curtis Mayfield, H.G. Lewis, robots and even B-movies.

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Army Family Action Plan leads to change

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By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Home on leave from Iraq, Matthew Smith swerved across an Indiana roadway to avoid a soda can he thought was a roadside bomb and nearly crashed into oncoming traffic.

Smith, 27, now a sergeant with the Kaiserslautern-based 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, mentioned the 2007 memory to his wife Stephanie, who had an idea. Why doesn’t the Army make mental health screenings mandatory for deployed Soldiers before their Rest and Recuperation leave?

“That event really scared him,” said Stephanie Smith, an Army Community Service employee at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. “If someone had warned him – to take time to reintegrate and make adjustments on R&R – that could have been prevented.”

Last year, the Smith’s submitted the idea as a suggestion the Army Family Action Plan – a grassroots program where community members indentify quality of life issues for the Army to address. It ended up being considered at the highest Army levels.

“Change starts with people like me, just another community member,” Smith said.

Representatives from U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg and U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern came together Oct. 19 for a combined 2011 AFAP conference. Roughly 200 people attended the three-day event held at the Kaiserslautern Community Activity Center on Daenner Kaserne.

In past years, ideas were submitted anonymously in community drop boxes. This year, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern webmaster Brandon Spragins created a way for community members to offer AFAP ideas online – significantly increasing submission numbers from previous years, said Michelle Thomas, Army Community Service director at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. Also, mobile device photographed a special bar code that pointed them directly to the submission site.

“This allowed users to offer ideas with ease, from either their workplace or the comfort of their home,” Spragins said. “Using today’s interactive technology revolutionizes how community members can suggest improvements and make changes both locally and Army wide.”

At the conference, issues were prioritized and solutions recommended. Some topics brought up this year included improvements to parking, housing, speeding on post and the transformation of Sembach Kaserne, where several Army units are moving.

Some issues were raised to higher commands or senior Army leadership. Other problems can be addressed at the local level, Thomas said.

“We have command team that has no problem with confronting issues and finding solutions. They’re family and Soldier oriented,” Thomas said. “When you have that in a command team, you have a wonderful thing.”

AFAP conferences began in 1983. Early issues focused on child care standards and volunteer support. Since then, milestones included changes to pay, healthcare, insurance, single

Soldier programs and school liaisons. AFAP suggestions also led to an increase of annual leave carryover, toll-free hotlines for wounded service members and education benefits for surviving spouses. AFAP issues even led to legislative changes as well as changes of Army and DoD policies, AFAP program manager Kimberly Lazarow said.

“Our first step is to see if the submitted issues affect the local community or is it something Army-wide,” Lazarow said. “About 90 percent of issues submitted are worked at the local level, others are pushed higher.”

Last year, the Smith’s issue was elevated through Installation Management Command to the Department of the Army for consideration.

“This really works. Everything has to get looked at and nothing gets pushed off to the side,” Stephanie Smith said. “One little event in my husband’s life may change Army policy.”

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Members of the Canadian Armed Forces respond to the province of Nova Scotia’s request for assistance with relief efforts during Operations LENTUS, in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona that took place on September 24, 2022.

Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes répondent à la demande d'aide de la province de la Nouvelle-Écosse dans le cadre de l’opération LENTUS, à la suite de l'ouragan Fiona qui a eu lieu le 24 septembre 2022.

Photo By: Corporal Connor Bennett, Canadian Armed Forces Imagery Technician

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”

Kutumsang to Tharepati

Eager to catch the fall colors, we took a week in late autumn and headed to Austria and Italy for a road trip exploring the back roads while chasing creative photography opportunities.

From the Alps to the Dolomites - these photos are the result.

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...to let the color in? Still not sure if like the color version better!? However, I'm still wondering how it would have looked behind this heavy door.

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right during homage to the victims of the attack against French magazine Charlie Hebdo. 9 January 2015. UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré

Looking east to Wah Fu Centre in Wah Fu Estate, Wah Lok House is seen on the right at the back

向東看華富村華富中心，右後方為該村的華樂樓

¡VAMOS! came to Liverpool with a Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) extravaganza at the spectacular St. Georges Hall featuring Mexican musicians, wrestlers, street food, DJs, a Day of the Dead shrine!

Delivered in partnership with Monkey Mind Productions, before the main night time event there was a Guinness World Record attempt at the largest gathering of people dressed as La Calavera Carinas and her male counterparts, Catrines!

This event featured live Mexican wrestling with superstar Cassandro, plus punk rock ’n’ roll Mexican star El Vez (Mexico’s Elvis), the world-renowned Latin rock outfit Los Straitjackets, plus Mariachi troupe – Mariachi Las Adelitas, a vast Day of the Dead shrine by folk artist Francisco Monterrosa, star spangled couture from designer to the stars Manuel Cuevas and live DJ performance by electronic producer Daferwa of Mexican label Kumbale!

Photography by Mark McNulty

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¡VAMOS! Liverpool Day of the Dead event was supported by Arts Council England, the Government of Mexico as part of the Year of Mexico in UK 2015, Liverpool City Council, St. Georges Hall, MX Proyecta, Wahaca, Hotel Indigo and Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar and Grill.

¡VAMOS! Liverpool continues in 2016 with announcements to follow soon!

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And so we come to the first of the Kent churches visited this month. Well, not quite true, as the very first church I tried to enter, St Mildred's in Preston, was locked fast as usual. Being the heritage weekend as well as ride and stride, and being on the latter list, one really hoped that the church would have made an effort, it being so remote and all.

But, they put a trestle table out, placed a rock on top of the check in sheet to stop it blowing away, and left the church for the day, despite arrangements having been made by another church the day before for it to be open.

This really is not good enough.

Anyway, St Mildred's was the first of three that were locked, but I managed to gain entry to seven previously closed churches to me. So, on the whole, I was pleased.

St Nicholas is a large and imposing church, with a huge churchyard, showing that it is one of the larger and better populated parishes in the area of east Kent.

There was a warden sitting at the table in the large doorway, and after a warm welcome we entered inside.

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The present parish of Ash, more than 7,000 acres in extent and one of the largest in Kent, was once only a part of the great manor of Wingham. Originally a royal manor, Wingham was given by King Athelstan of Kent to the See of Canterbury about 850 : it covered the present parishes of Ash, Goodnestone, Nonington, Wingham and parts of Staple and Womenswold.

In a list of churches probably made in 1071, in which 'Aesce' is said to belong to Wingham, mention is also made of an apparently more important church 'de Raette', as well as one at 'Fleota' belonging to the manor of Folkestone. If, as seems likely, 'de Raette' refers to Richborough, this is the only record of that church; but the chapel of Fleet, actually within the 3rd century Roman walls of Richborough Castle, continued in use until the 16th century. Leland in the time of Henry VIII wrote that 'withyn the castel is a lytle paroche Chirch of S. Augustine'.

It was believed that when St. Augustine first stepped ashore in England in 597 the impression of his foot was miraculously left upon a stone. This relic was afterwards kept in this chapel dedicated to him, and pilgrims flocked there upon the anniversary of the landing to pray and to recover their health. Excavations have uncovered the ground plan of the chapel, and confirm that it was pre-Norman in origin. Excavations in the northwest comer of the Roman fort have also, revealed the foundations and font of an even earlier church of c.400, one of the earliest Christian structures known in Britain.

By the 13th century there was another chapel in the northwest of the parish, at Overland, where complaint was made in 1294 that 'there used to be a baptistery and seven years ago it was taken away and is at Esse'. Edward Hasted, writing about 1790, said that the chapel had been 'for some time in ruins ... having been desecrated about the beginning of this century'. Its exact site has now been lost : some carved stonework which may come from it is at Knell; a few more pieces are in the church.

In 1282 Ash became a separate parish. In the deed founding a College of Canons at Wingham and dividing that parish into four, Archbishop Peckham explained, 'We have turned our eyes to the church of Wingham as it were to a fruitful vineyard..... which cannot be easily cultivated by the labours of one husbandman... from the great extent of the parish as well as its numerous population'. He assigned to Wingham parish church the chapel of Overland; to Ash he gave the chapel of Fleet. It was the duty of the canons of Wingham College, to whom the tithes of Ash were paid, to provide a vicar. In 1535 the parishioners of Ash complained: 'There has always been a vicar here to serve the cure till for the last 22 years the said Canons have usurped the vicarage to their own use ... within a quarter of a year we have had seven curates, which has caused much strife as we are 500 residents.'

In 1547 Wingham College was suppressed by Henry VIII, and its possessions forfeited to the Crown. In 1549, "the late chapel called Richborough Chapel in Ash Parish with its burial ground, buildings, lead, glass, iron, stones and tiles except the bells and leaden roof", and "the late Chapel of Overland in Ash parish next Sandwich in width 22 feet in length 34 feet, with its burial ground of half a rod, buildings, etc.", were both sold to William Hyde and Hugh Cartwright.

The right of presentation to the benefice of Ash was granted by Queen Mary to the Archbishop in 1558, and three years later Queen Elizabeth I gave the rectory - the right to the great tithes - to the See of Canterbury. The Archbishop is still the patron of the living today.

In the 19th century the need again arose for chapels in the more distant parts of the parish. In 1842 Holy Trinity Church at Ware was built, and Westmarsh was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1849. The corrugated-iron mission room of St. Augustine's, Richborough, was opened in 1888. It was followed in 1892 by a similar room at Goldstone, rebuilt in 1904. But by the 1960s the motor car had made these separate buildings less necessary. In 1967 the parish of Westmarsh was re-united with Ash; St. Augustine's, Richborough, was closed in 1969, and Holy Trinity Church in 1970.

An unusual feature of the church is the south chancel, whose axis is out of alignment with the nave. It was once supposed that this architectural oddity represented the inclined head of Christ on the Cross, but a structural fault caused by rebuilding and restoration is a more likely explanation.

(Bygone Kent, 1985, Michael David Mirams.)

In recent years the Parish of Ash with Westmarsh has been linked to the parish churches at Goodnestone and Chillenden through a united benefice. Further pastoral reorganisation in the East Bridge Deanery means that a new canonry benefice is to be formed of the parishes of Ash, Chillenden, Elmstone, Goodnestone, Preston and Wingham. This is expected to be undertaken between 2012 and 2014.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) Kaibab National Forest, Williams Ranger District's Cougar Park Task Order has âTimber Tomâ Dauenhauer, a timber sale administrator for the Kaibab National Forest, visiting restoration work site, in Arizona, on December 4, 2018. The 1,342-acre Cougar Park Task Order is part of the broader Four Forest Restoration Initiative, which is intended to treat more than 2.4 million acres of ponderosa pine forest across northern Arizona. The work within the Cougar Park timber sale, located south of Bill Williams Mountain, is about 60 percent complete. Current activity includes heavy logging equipment such as feller bunchers, skidders, and loaders. The ultimate goal of the timber sale is to improve forest health and reduce the potential for high-intensity wildfires that could threaten lives, property, and natural resources. The Four Forest Restoration Initiative seeks to increase resilience in the fire-adapted ponderosa pine forest by reducing tree stand densities to a more historical level, which eventually reduces the potential for uncharacteristic wildfire. This work also offers greater protection for residents living in and adjacent to the wildland-urban interface, where developments and forested areas merge.

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