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"But the most sensational, as well as the most practical, effort to lessen the cost of daily sustenance to our countless toilers in the East-end, is the "Alexandra Trust." "
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Sir Thomas Lipton, on being consulted by Her Royal Highness, saw, with the keen insight of the practical man of business, that there was every reason to anticipate that restaurants for the working-classes could be maintained upon the sound lines of honest trade, as much as tenement dwellings or the Rowton Houses, and expressed himself as ready to contribute for her gracious purpose a sum that was originally fixed at £100,000, but which has since been much increased.
The great building in which well-cooked meals are served at a cost below anything previously attempted commercially in London, is close to the important tram and omnibus junction at Old Street, and is in the midst of a crowded population of workers.
The most interesting department of the great scheme is, of course, the kitchens, which, in accordance with the latest ideas, are at the top of the building, on the fourth floor.
It is, naturally, only by working with prodigious quantities that cheap rates can be maintained, but even then, it is a little startling to be told that "those steam-chests for potatoes can cook a ton and a half an hour."
The hungry customer in want of a meal finds in the bill of fare items that start from a halfpenny.
For that sum, a cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa, a bowl of soup or porridge, a slice of bread, with butter, jam, or marmalade, a piece of cake, a portion of pastry, pudding, or vegetables or pickles, may be had.
The penny alone does not seem a much-favoured coin, and a bloater, kipper, or sardines, or mineral waters are the chief items it purchases.
With, however, an additional halfpenny, it allows of a choice of a rasher of bacon, a haddock, two sausages, a buttered tea-cake, a small steak-pudding, a pork-pie, or two boiled eggs.
The house was recognised as a local tourist attraction and was purchased by the town and doanted to the National Trust in 1926 where it operates as a visitor centre in summer months.
Finally got my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D. :)
For this picture I used my Nikon D40 with my 55-200mm lens, at the end of that I reversed my new 50mm 1.8 with a macro coupler. As I understand it this give me a 4:1 magnification.
Shot on the Hasselblad H1 using Kodak Ektar 100 color film. Not to be used or blogged without my permission.
These houses are not allowed to have wheelie bins for their recycling. The council/cleaning company say it is for obscure operational reasons.
But the way they collect the normal rubbish bags is to put them into their own wheelie bins (identical design. Different colour) to take them to the dustcart.
I am still confused.
Bodnant Garden (Welsh: Gardd Bodnant) is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, Conwy, Wales, overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau mountains.
Founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family, it was gifted to the National Trust in 1949. The garden spans 80 acres of hillside and includes formal Italianate terraces, informal shrub borders stocked with plants from around the world, The Dell, a gorge garden, a number of notable trees and a waterfall.
Since 2012, new areas have opened including the Winter Garden, Old Park Meadow, Yew Dell and The Far End, a riverside garden. Furnace Wood and Meadow opened in 2017. There are plans to open more new areas, including Heather Hill and Cae Poeth Meadow.
Built for William Gibbs (1790-1875) whose fortune came from fertiliser, Bought in 1843 as a modest Tudor Gothic house built in c1813 but greatly enlarged by John Norton in 1863-5. Acquired by the National Trust in 2002 through generous public donations and grants.
The Castle Inn, Chiddingstone, a National Trust village seen from the churchyard. Seen here in monochrome.
the first time I've seen them. lots of haws and sloes for them to eat. I saw 3 but some have seen 4.
~No more blood
just ice in my veins
your backstabbing made me this way
i used to think that we were the same
now i just want to watch you bleed
watch you bleed
broken trust~
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