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Mottisfont Abbey is a historical priory and country estate in Hampshire, England. Sheltered in the valley of the River Test, the property is now operated by the National Trust. About 350,000 people visit each year.
The site includes the historic house museum which features regularly changing art exhibitions, gardens, including a walled rose garden which is home to the National Collection of ancestral species and 19th-century rose cultivars, and a riverside walk. It is a Grade I listed building
The caption information on the back of this picture from July, 1989, still leaves a few questions unanswered. It reads: "Pictured leaving the Arbroath Venture Trust Ofices for Cherrybank on Tuesday morning are from left - Steve Wales, Colleen Mochan, Faye Gillies, Moira Wallace, Kelly Cruickshanks, Bill Gilmour, Graham Henderson, Wilma Maver and Laurie Smith."
All Saints, Shirburn, Oxfordshire.
Grade ll listed.
The Earls of Macclesfield have owned Shirburn Castle since 1716. The north transept of All Saints' Church contains their family pew and the north chapel is the Macclesfield family mausoleum. - See more at: www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurch...
Shirburn Castle is a fortress - even today. I understand even Dr Pevsner was unable to gain access for the Oxfordshire volume of his Buildings of England books.
I have read the church is also difficult of access despite it being a Churched Conservation Trust church, but I have to say the people in the Shirburn Estate office were very accommodating.
The Trust Board hosted the second of three annual 'thank you' tea parties for staff across its hospital sites today, at St Albans City Hospital.
This was an opportunity for the Board to be able to thank staff personally for their hard work over the past year. Afternoon tea was provided with a string duo playing live music.
-22 May 2013
Consider the sharp blade of the seed
within the bound solidity of silk----
how can we trust
such succulence, so mortal?
---Margaret Gibson
I was drinking coffee with Abby yesterday and the postman arrived. Elsie clambered on to the large basket by the window whilst Abby dealt with the post. Then, Abby encouraged Elsie to jump into her arms. Usually Elsie is picked up and swirled round, but this jump required Elsie to trust her mother to catch her before being whirled through the air. By the time I had my camera ready they were on jump 2 or 3 . . . there were about 8 in all. This little series is of the moments in between the jumps
Nostell Priory is a Palladian house located in Nostell, near Crofton close to Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, approached by the Doncaster road from Wakefield. It dates from 1733, and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory. The Priory and its contents were given to the National Trust in 1953 by the trustees of the estate and Rowland Winn, 3rd Baron St Oswald.Nostell Priory has interiors by Robert Adam and furniture by Thomas Chippendale.
Two of the forty two seats from the Trust Hall. The room was specially designed to accomodate the forty two trustess of the original Clyde Navigation Trust.
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, 1590-97.
Probably by Robert Smythson (1535-1614).
For Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608).
Grade l listed.
The High Great Chamber.
The chairs and stools are copies of the originals. They were made in the 6th Duke's time, c1845.
The 6th Duke also re-mounted the great embroidered canopy, bearing the arms of Countess Christian and her husband the 2nd Earl of Devonshire.
This is the most individually Elizabethan room in Hardwick, and the most magnificent. The decoration was not completed until 1599, two years after Bess had moved into the house. The room was designed as a unity, with freeze, tapestry and chimney peace fitted together into a whole glowing with incident and rich colour. The colours have faded and the contrast between the sophistication of the tapestry and the crude but immensely provocative realism of the freeze is less strong that must once have been.
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
These are the Arctic wolf cubs at UK Wolf Conservation Trust www.ukwolf.org
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"Mottisfont Abbey is a historical priory and country estate in Hampshire, England. Sheltered in the valley of the River Test, the property is now operated by the National Trust.
"In the 18th century, the old monastic cloisters and Tudor courtyard were demolished by the Mill family, creating the modern appearance of the estate's facade. It was at this time that the owners added "Abbey" to the name of the house. Then, under Sir John Barker Mill, in the early 19th century, the estate became a centre for hunting, shooting and fishing, and a new stable block was built.
"The last decades of the 19th century saw Mottisfont let to wealthy banker Daniel Meinertzhagen under eccentric terms that forbade the installation of electric light or central heating. The ten Meinertzhagen children included Daniel and Richard, who built aviaries for their collection of eagles, hawks, owls and ravens. Richard wrote detailed diaries about his childhood and growing interest in the natural world.
"The arrival of Maud and Gilbert Russell in 1934 made Mottisfont the centre of a fashionable artistic and political circle. Maud was a wealthy patron of the arts, and she created a substantial country house where she entertained artists and writers including Ben Nicholson and Ian Fleming. She commissioned some of her artist and designer friends to embellish Mottisfont, always with an eye on its history, which fascinated her. Rex Whistler created the illusion of Gothic architecture in her salon (now known as the Whistler Room), a piece of trompe-l'œil painting that recalls the medieval architecture of the priory. Boris Anrep contributed mosaics both inside and outside the house, including one of an angel featuring Maud’s face – the couple had a long love affair.
"Maud Russell gifted the house and grounds to the National Trust in 1957, although continuing to live there until 1972."
Source: Wikipedia
The ear trust are running a fundraiser for the Yorkshire cochlear implant service so we bought Eleanor a name on a step for Christmas. We went on Friday and it was up. Here she is looking really disinterested with chocolate buttons and a fruit shoot looking very suspicious. so there is her name on a step at Bradford Royal Infirmary recorded for her to remember in the future. She has Med-el implants so it's quite fitting they're in the same row together.
She's doing well with the implants. Making progress. Making noise and really really listening.
This photo should really be a depressing one, but since I don't take pictures of myself when I'm sad, I don't have any to post. I can't trust someone anymore, and I hate it. The beginning of this summer has sucked. I need to go to some island and get away from everything. Cause honestly, I can't deal with it any longer. I need to just put myself in God's hands.
On the brightside, I like this photo =)