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Molly wearing her Dogs Trust bandana, ready to add to her walking total. We're doing the 'Walk 99km in October' for Canines to raise funds for Dogs Trust in the UK. 77km so far this month, heading in the right direction!
The National Trust's Packwood House in the rural County of Warwickshire, England.
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This bridge is at the junction of the Peak Forest and Macclesfield canals, and now carries a road. It was constructed by engineer, William Crosley, in 1831.
From this view you can see the spiral towpath for the horses. In places the canal is so narrow there is no room for a towpath, so there is also a horse tunnel a short distance away on the Peak Forest section
Looking down an avenue of trees the glasshouse at Clumber Park draws you in. It wasn't for me but Shirley was drawn to the display of 130 varieties of rhubarb.
Basildon Park is a country house situated 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley in Berkshire, between the villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building. The house was built between 1776 and 1783 for Sir Francis Sykes and designed by John Carr in the Palladian style at a time when Palladianism was giving way to the newly fashionable neoclassicism. Thus, the interiors are in a neoclassical "Adamesque" style.
Never fully completed, the house passed through a succession of owners. In 1910 it was standing empty and in 1914, it was requisitioned by the British Government as an army convalescent hospital. It was again sold in 1928 and quickly sold again. In 1929, following a failed attempt to dismantle and rebuild the house in the US, it was stripped of many of its fixtures and fittings and all but abandoned.
During World War II, the house was again requisitioned and served as a barracks, a training ground for tanks, and finally a prisoner of war camp—all activities unsuited to the preservation of an already semi-derelict building. In 1952, a time when hundreds of British country houses were being demolished, it was said of Basildon Park "to say it was derelict, is hardly good enough, no window was left intact and most were repaired with cardboard or plywood."[1]
Today, Basildon Park is as notable for its mid-twentieth-century renaissance and restoration, by Lord and Lady Iliffe, as it is for its architecture. In 1978, the Iliffes gave the house, together with its park and a large endowment for its upkeep, to the National Trust in the hope that "The National Trust will protect it and its park for future generations to enjoy. Wikipedia
House Martin nest under the arch into the stables courtyard at the National Trust Trel
issick House in Cornwall
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building
currently Wells Fargo Building
sculptors: Piccirilli Brothers
window designers: d'Ascenzo Studios
architect: Simon & Simon, 1927-28
architectural style: Beaux-Arts
Center City - Rittenhouse Square
Avenue of the Arts - Broad Street Historic District
123-151 S. Broad St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A few years ago the National Trust dabbled with illumination nights at Fountains Abbey. They have now started to introduce them on a regular basis during the month of October. Photography wasn't easy (mind you it would have helped if I had taken my tripod along) as there were a great number of visitors all walking around with torches. Alas a couple of really good shots were spoiled by random torch light trails. Here's one where I appear to have got away with it.
This view looks towards the west entrance of the abbey which dates from 1146.
Breakfast is my specialty. I am the Egg Woman...They are the Egg Men....I am the Walrus. Goo goo g'joob . Thank you Beatles. Now someone make me a Mimosa! LOL
Recently I realized his life project, what he was trying to tell me....took me a long time but I did. The circles and the lines, the life trails. Smaller circles inside larger circles, circles that osculate, lines that intersect, lines with parallel traces...meeting points, shapes, forever moving, forever changing. He showed me, but I could not see then. Now, I need an eternity to digest it. Please, can you stop and think about it for a minute, can you focus? Can you put these pieces in order? The sunshine in your eyes, a random touch, the way you can see behind the walls I put in front of me, the inconvenient silence, the whispers floating above our heads, the tears-these tiny rivers of relief, the empty words and the words with endless meanings-can you really distinguish? You know, my real self wanders somewhere far away from here and all these lines, all these circles are papercuts on its skin. We all carry our cross, but some carry crosses made of silk-it's not so easy to bleed this way, especially when you stand inbetween. Still, I do believe in wonders, I do believe that a flame can burn inside an iceberg. But if I could put it down in words I wouldn't take photos, if I could write poems I wouldn't keep this imaginary diary. It is obvious for you, isn't it? I know you can decode it, I know you can burn down this labyrinth, I know you can take me by the hand and lead me to the exit. I trust you.
I Love You , I Want You and I Need You !
Baby I Breath You , Never Leave You
Life Wouldn't Be the Same Without You !
7-story Mr Robinson apartment building at Robinson Avenue and Park Boulevard, Hillcrest. Developed by Jonathan Segal, FAIA and completed in 2015, it includes 36 apartments above first floor commercial space, including the Trust restaurant.
Thursday we went to the Clergy House in Alfriston, Sussex, and snapped 4 chairs for my National Trust chairs project.
The property was the first to be purchased by the National Trust in 1896. Up until then, the NT had only acquired land for use by one and all.
Catching up on my photos from our Cornwall trip in March as Monday is always my gardening day @ Home & never go out. This is National Trusts Godolphin house. Most not open to public & used as holiday appartments. Gardens are kept in the format of when the house was the centre of a large mining estate
Journal Page Elements: Stencils, old book paper, acrylic paints, label, black pen, printed tissue paper, white gesso, staples, scrapbook paper and glaze.
Quote: "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes."
National Trust. Lyme. Disley, Stockport, Cheshire, northwest England. (Cheshire & Greater Manchester).
Had a wonderful time visiting here. It's about 60 miles, 1 hour 50 mins drive for me.
Lyme is a glorious house, surrounded by gardens, moorland and a deer park. Nestling on the edge of the Peak District, Lyme was once home to the Legh family and, in its heyday a great sporting estate. The 1,400 acre estate with its medieval herd of red deer offers fantastic walks and stunning views.
There is an elegant Rose Garden, Ravine Garden or the luxurious herbaceous borders next to the reflecting lake where a certain Mr Darcy met Miss Bennet in the BBC production of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
The site catalogues approximately three-quarters of a million National Trust objects with more being added daily.
The house is the largest in Cheshire, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I Listed Building. The estate was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 and passed to the Leghs of Lyme by marriage in 1388.
The house dates from the latter part of the 16th century (1720s). The house is the largest in Cheshire, measuring overall 190 feet (58 m) by 130 feet (40 m) round a courtyard plan. It has a symmetrical 15-bay three-storey south front overlooking the the beautiful lake.
Architects were Giacomo Leoni and Lewis Wyatt incorporating the Elizabethan, Palladian, Baroque styles.
The house is surrounded by formal gardens of 6 hectares (15 acres) in a deer park of about 550 hectares (1,359 acres) which are listed at Grade II* in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. In the gardens and deer park are a number of structures.
To the west of the house is the former mill pond. From the south side a lawn slopes down to another pond beyond which is a small ravine with a stone bridge.
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I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
John Edward Masefield
tones: Pioneer Woman actions and Bärbel's PS/PSE actions
texture: kim klassen
good start into the weekend :)
A tiny section of Knole just to show the concentration of building work within it's itself .
Knole feels almost weighed down by its own history – six centuries of it. People are often impressed by all the absolutes of Knole: its enormous size, the number of rooms, its completeness. But those who live, work and visit here love its quiet dignity, its almost melancholy feel – the grandeur has passed but its old, glinting beauty remains.
What we see today is a remarkably preserved and complete early Jacobean remodelling of a medieval archiepiscopal palace. From an even older manor house, it was built and extended by the Archbishops of Canterbury after 1456. It then became a royal possession during the Tudor dynasty when Henry VIII hunted here and Elizabeth I visited.
From 1603, Thomas Sackville made it the aristocratic treasure house for the Sackville family, who were prominent and influential in court circles. Knole's showrooms were designed to impress visitors and to display the Sackville family’s wealth and status.
Over more than 400 years, his descendants rebuilt and then furnished Knole in two further bursts of activity. First, at the end of the 17th century, when the 6th Earl acquired Stuart furniture and textiles from royal palaces, and again at the end of the 18th century, with the 3rd Duke's art collection.
The Sackvilles gradually withdrew into the heart of the house, leaving many rooms unused and treasures covered. This helps to explain the relative lack of modernisation at Knole (central heating was never installed in the showrooms, for example) and the survival of its collections.
Knole has been welcoming visitors to see its splendours and curiosities for centuries. We know that visitors have followed the same route as you do today for at least the last 400 years.
There's a popular myth that Knole is a calendar house - with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards. While fascinating, the reality is that it all depends on how you count the rooms and Knole is such a large, rambling estate that it would be impossible to say for certain.
When the National Trust acquired the house in 1946, the majority of the rooms were leased back to the Sackville family, with the Trust retaining the more formal spaces. The 7th Baron Sackville and his family still live at Knole today in private apartments.
Now, visitors can experience so many different parts of Knole, from the grand showrooms to the cosy Gatehouse Tower, the tranquil Orangery to the sweeping parkland. Discover the vast estate and all it has to offer, home to a world-class collection of portraits and furniture, a state-of-the-art conservation studio and a wild deer herd. There really is something for everyone at Knole.
info taken from NT webpage on Knole .