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A visit to the National Trust owned Flatford Mill in Suffolk.
Flatford Mill is a Grade I listed watermill on the River Stour at Flatford in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England. According to the date-stone the mill was built in 1733, but some of the structure may be earlier. Attached to the mill is a 17th-century miller's cottage which is also Grade I listed. The property is in Dedham Vale, a typically English rural landscape.
The mill was owned by the artist John Constable's father and is noted, along with its immediate surroundings as the location for many of Constable's works. It is referred to in the title of one of his most iconic paintings, Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River), and mentioned in the title or is the subject of several others including: Flatford Mill from a lock on the river Stour; Flatford Mill from the lock (A water mill); The Lock. The Hay Wain, which features Willy Lott's Cottage, was painted from the front of the mill.
The mill is located downstream from Bridge Cottage which, along with neighbouring Valley Farm and Willy Lott's Cottage, are leased to the Field Studies Council, a group that uses them as locations for arts, ecology and natural history based courses.
Before we went on a guided tour of Flatford Mill, we popped into the RSPB Wildlife Garden. It was lightly raining on and off.
Japanese Knotweed
Tyntesfield is a Victorian Gothic Revival estate near Wraxall, Somerset, England, near Nailsea, seven miles from Bristol.
The house was acquired by the National Trust in June 2002 after a fund raising campaign to prevent it being sold to private interests and ensure it be opened to the public.
William Gibbs purchased Tyntes Place, the original Regency-Gothic house that stood on the site, in 1843. In 1863 he began the full-blown rebuilding to create the Gothic Revival extravaganza that now stands; the cost was £70,000. Notable elements of the house include glass by Powell and Wooldridge, mosaics by Salviati, and ironwork by Hart, Son, Peard and Co. The original architect was John Norton. In the 1880s further alterations were made by architect Henry Woodyer. The chapel was designed by Arthur William Blomfield in the 1870s.
The appeal by the National Trust collected £8.2 million from the public in just 100 days and the Trust also received the largest single grant ever by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (at £17.4 million), which caused some controversy. The National Lottery has earmarked a further £25 million for the major conservation work that is needed.
Since 2004 staff have been cataloging the contents of the house, which had been collected by the four generations of the family. By 2008 a total of 30,000 items had been listed including an unexploded Second World War bomb, a jewel-encrusted chalice, a roll of 19th-century flock wallpaper and a coconut with carved face and hair. A further 10,000 items are being catalogued and photographed.
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Photo by Eric Ziegler
My trek reading through Google Semantic Search book continues with some insights into trust and authority of pages and sites. I continue to see search engine optimization similarities between what happens in the internet and what should be happening in the enterprise. For instance, in this note, the idea of a page or site being authoritative can be applied directly to helping employees find content in sites that are created in a company intranet.
Inside the enterprise, often there are many different types of "sites". These sites range from sites or pages for policies, sites where projects occur, reference material sites, self help sites, business procedures sites and community sites. And for each of these sites, the level of authority of trust associated with each site varies. In addition, these trust scores vary based on the subject or topic of the site.
For example the policy pages/sites should have a high trust/authority score, since they are basically the rules the company and employees need to follow. A site for a project should have a much lower trust or authority score. Project sites typically are working on future state ideas, and do not represent the current state. Just imagine what could happen if an employee were to read and use content on a project site to answer an customers question.
Similarly, sites that are for communities of practice should have a higher trust / authority score for the subjects they are centered around. The Java community site should have a high trust / authority score on the Java topic. The customer support community should have a high trust / authority score on customer support. etc.
By improving the authority of specific sites, especially around subjects, the findability and discoverability of sites increases, making every employee's life in the enterprise that much better and makes each of them more effective.
This note was inspired by +David Amerland 's book, Google Semantic Search.
These photo are from Wendy Harding's trip to the Wiaga region of Ghana for the UK based Atiamah trust www.atiamah.com/
The trust was founded in 2004 to support community projects in the Upper East region of Ghana
These photos are all rights reserved as they are not my own but if you wish to use them, please contact me and I will seek permission
bit.ly/YmqtDN - Trust deed investments can be fruitful investment vehicles. Just keep in mind that for any financial investment to be profitable, good planning and proper management are certainly vital.
by Maryland Environmental Trust, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
The 2019 Maryland Environmental Trust Conference & Symposium was more successful than ever before! Over two days, 170 attendees from around the state participated in the conference. This year's theme was Innovation in Conservation: Readying for the Opportunities and Challenges Ahead.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Erddig is a National Trust owned country house in North Wales, given to the Trust by the Yorke family in 1973 (following subsidence caused by a collapsed coal mine shaft below, later stabilised and repaired).
Built and altered from 1684 to 1771, the Yorke family and relations retained ownership for 250 years - there was no electricity, running water, gas or a phone until at least the 1960s.
Not a typical stately home, the house and outbuildings are stuffed with the 2nd largest set of artifacts in any National Trust property.
This includes cars such as the above, a Rover 8hp 2-seater tourer car with hood, c1907. Reg. no. M-1590. Red with black coach lines, oak framed windscreen, canvas top. To the left an Austin 12 can be glimpsed.
23Dec2023