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Cared for by the National Trust since 1952, Powis Castle & Gardens near Welshpool include world-famous garden.
Powis Castle & Gardens bij Welshpool wordt al sinds 1952 verzorgd door de National Trust en omvat wereldberoemde tuinen.
Seven Days of Self Day 03 — Trust: Being able to trust yourself is important. I rely hugely on instinct, rationality & logic to get me through life, without them I'd be pretty lost. Sometimes I need to sit quietly for a few minutes to let me mind work through whatever is going on in life.
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Strobist:
• 580ex camera left on 1/8th power.
• 430ex behind subject pointed at the wall on 1/16th power.
Make: Leyland Panther PSUR1A/1R
Body: MCW B47D
Year : 1968
Stafford Street
Liverpool City Centre
14-09-2014.
On a warm but overcast sky it was a excellent day for visiting this great National Trust property, our first since the countries lockdown but not our first to this property as shown in my flickr albums.
Calke Abbey was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the National Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties.
Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms, such as this one, are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was acquired.
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts." Rita Mae Brown
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Cragside is a country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power. Built into a rocky hillside above a forest garden of just under 1,000 acres, it was the country home of armaments manufacturer, Lord Armstrong, and has been in the care of the National Trust since 1977. The property was opened to the public in 1979.
Cragside, named after Cragend Hill above the house, was built in 1863 as a modest two-storey country lodge, but was subsequently extended to designs by Richard Norman Shaw, transforming it into an elaborate mansion in the Free Tudor style. At one point, the building included an astronomical observatory and a scientific laboratory. The Grade I listed house is surrounded by one of Europe's largest rock gardens, a large number of rhododendrons and a large collection of mostly coniferous trees. One variety of rhododendron is named after Lady Armstrong.
Lord Armstrong spent much of his time as a child in Rothbury to get away from industrial Newcastle to alleviate his ill health. He returned to Rothbury after not having a holiday for many years and decided to build a modest house on the side of a moorland crag. The original house was completed in 1863 by an unknown architect but was transformed by architect Richard Norman Shaw between 1869 and 1884 into an imposing mansion. Cragside is an example of his English Gothic style. The interiors are of national importance for its collection of furnishings, furniture (much designed especially for Cragside), and fine and decorative arts, including work by many other outstanding designers of the age, such as John Hancock and Albany Hancock and William Morris.
In 2007, Cragside reopened after undergoing "total refurbishment."
In 1868, a hydraulic engine was installed, with water being used to power labour-saving machines such as laundry equipment, a rotisserie and a hydraulic lift. Armstrong was inspired by a watermill on the Dee in Dentdale, and in 1870, water from one of the estate's lakes was used to drive a Siemens dynamo in what was the world's first hydroelectric power station. The resultant electricity was used to power an arc lamp installed in the Gallery in 1878. The arc lamp was replaced in 1880 by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamps in what Swan considered 'the first proper installation' of electric lighting.
The generators, which also provided power for the farm buildings on the estate, were constantly extended and improved to match the increasing electrical demand in the house. The 2006 regeneration project included extensive rewiring.
A new screw turbine was installed in 2014; it can provide 12 kW, supplying around 10% of the property's electricity consumption. The new system uses an Archimedes' screw 17 metres (56 ft) long.
The use of electricity in many of the houses gadgets and internal systems has also led it to be described by some as a smart home as it was the first private residence to use incandescent lighting, a dish washer, a vacuum cleaner and a washing machine. One of Armstrong's stated aims of both using and funding these new automation technologies was to "emancipate the world from household drudgery", as shown on a plaque at Bamburgh Castle, his other residence.
The forthcoming Benedict Cumberbatch film “The Current War” was filmed partly at Cragside - the film tells the story of electricity pioneers Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.
New Zealand - Ron stands in front of a roadside trust box.
A trust box is untended roadside stand in which farmers sell their goods without being present. The trustbox uses the honor system for payment. There will usually be a box for buyers to slip in the posted amount. This particular stand sells local honey.
I paid special attention to this particular spot as I love honey (mmm, honey cookies!) and find the notion of trust one of the most attractive characteristics of rural tourism.
BTW, trust boxes are also something I have not yet seen in Latin America.
I visited Ploughman Wood, a Nature Reserve in the good hands of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. It's between between Lambley and Woodborough in the Nottinghamshire countryside. Just a short distance from the Woodland. Here you can see some of the wonderful views on the approach to the woods.
Position on the map is approximate.
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