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St Michael, Barton Turf, Norfolk
Here we are in the meadows and copses to the north of Wroxham on the quieter side of the Broads, and although Barton Turf sits beside Barton Broad its church is a way off alone in the fields, and you would not know that the water was anywhere near. The tall tower is a landmark for miles around, but closer to the trees in the sprawling churchyard huddle around it and reveal tantalising glimpses of the wide aisles and chancel as you cycle or walk up the zigzagging lanes. On a winter day with the rooks cruising around them the trees can make Barton Turf church seem rather a forbidding place, but in high summer they are as glorious as the building they guard.
The long path leads up to a fortress-like north porch, which in the past was not inappropriate because when I first came here at the start of the century the church was kept locked without a keyholder notice. On that occasion I had to make phone calls and jump through hoops to be given permission to borrow the key from one of the biggest houses of which I've ever knocked on the door. But for many years now St Michael has been open every day, and I do not recall what it was like before with intent to admonish the parish for their former behaviour, but simply to point out that circumstances change and you should never give up hope, for now this is one of the most welcoming churches in the area.
A wander around the churchyard reveals the sombre memorial against the south porch which remembers four young brothers who drowned in Barton Broad on Boxing Day 1781. To the west of the church a deeply cut memorial of the 1880s tells us that eleven year old Joseph Coleman was suddenly called from time into eternity at Norwich Hospital. Then you step through that grand north porch with its triple image niches into a wide open space full of light, for there is very little coloured glass here. Brick pamment floors sprawl beneath your feet, the nave and aisles filled with low 19th Century benches which are unfortunate but not intrusive. As if to complement the width of the church the font is a wide version of one of those traceried fonts common in these parts in the second half of the 14th Century, now sitting on a low modern pedestal, and perhaps you begin to get a sense of the harmony of the interior, as if calculated to reveal the full drama of the view to the east, for beyond the benches at the east end of the nave stands Barton Turf's great glory, the late 15th Century screen.
The structure sits beneath the chancel arch, its drama heightened by the way both aisles continue up to flank the chancel beyond. It is perhaps not as magnificent as the famous screen not far off at Ranworth, but the painting of the figures on the dado panels is generally considered amongst the finest in England. There are twelve figures, six on each side, and they depict three saints and nine of the Orders of Angels. It is these angels which almost stop the heart in wonder, for they are remarkable.
The north range features I: St Apollonia with her pincers and tooth, II: St Sitha with her household keys, and then four of the orders of angels: III: Powers, IV: Virtues, V: Dominations and VI: Seraphim. Partnering this last, the south range begins with VII: Cherubim, and then continues VIII: Principalities, IX: Thrones, X: Archangels and XI: Angels, before finishing with XII: St Barbara holding her tower. The orders of angels can also be found over the border in Suffolk at Southwold, Hitcham and Blundeston, but nothing like as good in quality. The exquisite beauty of the angels' faces is accentuated by the fact that two of them, Dominations (V) and Seraphim (VI), have their faces unrestored, and remain as they were when fundamentalist members of the congregation here scratched them out in response to the Injunctions against Images of the 1540s. Memorable too are the monstrous creature at the feet of Powers (III), the urine flask held by Principalities (VIII) and the naked sinners cosying up to Angels (XI).
The entrance to the south chancel aisle also has a screen, and it is curious. It features four kings, all easily recognisable. From the left they are Henry VI (considered a Saint by many in the late Middle Ages, but the Reformation intervened before his canonisation) St Edmund, St Edward the Confessor, and St Olaf of Norway. The quality is primitive compared with that of the roodscreen, and you might think it earlier if it were not for the inclusion of Henry VI, which gives us a terminus ante quem of 1471, suggesting that it is roughly contemporary with the roodscreen, and indeed we might think it later still, perhaps an early 16th Century attempt by locals to add to the glory of the adjacent screen. Of course, it is not impossible that it was placed elsewhere originally.
Collected fragments of 15th Century glass now reset as a panel in the south aisle include that popular late medieval image of angels peeling back the roof of the stable to see the Christ child, a fragment of a now-lost nativity scene. Perhaps it was broken up by the same enthusiastic 16th Century parishioners who defaced the screen. The fragments also include the triple-crowned head of St Gregory.
A not-wholly attractive cherub leans with an upturned torch, weeping beside a broken pillar on the 1787 memorial to Sarah Norris who lies, we are told, in the same vault which contains the bodies of her husband and son. It goes on to say that when she was deprived of an only son eminent for his virtues and abilities, her orphan nieces became the objects of her care and bounty. A broken pillar often represents a life cut short, but Sarah lived her full three score years and ten so perhaps in this case it was intended merely as a compliment.
A curiously undated, but obviously late 19th Century plaque at the west end records the gift by John Francis of the interest of £1100 in three percent consols to be expended in the purchase of clothing, bread and coals to be distributed during the winter of each year amongst the deserving poor of this parish who attend this church. Three per cent consols were a form of government borrowing that had been offered in 1855 providing a form of annuity for investors. Surprisingly, they were finally paid off as recently as 2015 by the coalition government.
John Francis's inscription goes on to tell us that he also in his lifetime inserted a beautiful stained glass window over the west door of this church in memory of the members of his family. This glass, by Ward & Hughes, is there today, and although we might wish it away so that clear light might play across the woodwork on a bright summer evening or a winter afternoon, it is by no means the worst work of that sometimes unfortunate workshop, and tucked away beneath the tower does not intrude too much.
On the day of the National Census of Religious Worship of 1851, the registrar John Dix gave a figure of 70 people who had made the journey across the fields to attend morning worship at Barton Turf, 30 of whom were scholars and thus for them attendance would have been compulsory. Dix added the note that I certify the foregoing return to be the best estimation I can make, so we might judge that it would not have been higher than this. Out of a parish population of 429 this is barely one in six, even if we include the scholars, which is rather low for east Norfolk. Meanwhile, 36 people stayed in the village to attend morning service at the Methodist chapel. It is likely that rather more than either of these two congregations were attending non-conformist services elsewhere, and were probably among the several hundred congregants at William Spurgeon's Baptist church a few miles off at Neatishead, for these were heady times for non-conformist worship, and the 19th Century Anglican revival in East Anglia was only just beginning.
Als grondstof voor de turffabriek van Klasmann Dielmann in Sedelsberg wordt (heel verrassend) turf gebruikt. Dit wordt in de omgeving van de fabriek afgegraven en per veldbaan naar de fabriek gebracht. Zoals op de achtergrond te zien is, is voor de veiligheid de veldbaan voorzien van een overweg met lichtinstallatie.
Op 7 maart 2014 heeft Schöma loc 6945 bijna de poort van de fabriek bereikt. Met een snelheid van 5 km/h gaat dat echter niet heel snel.
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The youngster on the zinnia has been fiercely trying to shoo my adult hummingbird away. The adult, which has built several nests in our oak trees over the last two years, was only interested in the feeder next to my garden so she now has her own feeder in our front yard so the feuding has decreased quite a bit 😆
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... hotel between the Exe Estuary and the locks at the start of the Exeter Ship Canal, Devon, England.
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The coast road is close to the cliff edge as it crosses Afton Down, just east of Freshwater Bay. Compton Bay stretches out in front. The turf is full of wild flowers and littered with chalk stones.
We're staying around Ballymena for another day. I like this photo for its own sake, but this was probably also a challenge on a par with locating the Linen Bleach Green, only with even fewer landscape features.
Thanks to everyone for working away on this one to establish exactly where in the vicinity of Ballymena this was taken, especially to Robin Parkes. As Robin said: “We’ll get it. It may take a bit of time but we don’t give up”.
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photographic Collection
Date: Around 1880s
NLI Ref.: LROY 2870
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
82' diameter labyrinth in the back lawn of Allisonville Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is an 11-circuit labyrinth created in the path layout of the 800 year old Chartres Cathedral labyrinth in France.
A visit to Turf Moor (not for football) to take bloods for prostate testing. Well worth the 5am alarm as we tested 250 men.
Turf Paradise opened its doors January 7, 1956, making Valley history as the first organized professional sports franchise in Arizona. Hosting only five owners in 50+ years Turf Paradise was purchased by Jerry Simms, a self-made successful valley businessman.
The Turf Hotel, by the Exe Estuary, Exminster Marshes, Devon, England.
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'20 for a Shilling'
'20 for 1/-
50 for 2/6
100 for 5/-'
'Slip a box of TURF Virginia in your next parcel for the firing line'
'IT is noteworthy that in the midst of bitter warfare a box of 20 such admirable cigarettes can be retailed for a shilling'
'Made by ALEXANDER BOGUSLAVSKY Ltd, Specialists in High-Grade Cigarettes 55 PICCADILLY London W.'
It would have been a difficult life living in these turf huts in the long harsh winters.
Laugarholl, West Iceland
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This and many others were at the Banksy (second I think) London exhibition, Turf War, held at a warehouse on Kingsland Road, a few years back. He's repeated the diving helmet theme on a number of graffs most noteably the artwork for the last Blur Think Tank album. Painted on to cardboard.
Cutting turf for the family fire is a centuries-old tradition in European countries where bogs are prevalent. Ireland gets more of its fuel from peat than any country except Finland, and bogs cover one-sixth of the available land. Turbary, or the right of private individuals to cut turf for domestic use has been carried on in Ireland for hundreds of years. Since the fifteenth century, hand-cutting of turf has been responsible for the loss of eleven percent of the blanket bog area. Upland Blanket bog covers mountain flanks from Kerry's McGillicuddy's Reeks to the Mourne Mountains and is common to the wettest portions of the country. Where the rainfall is less, bogs develop in shallow lake beds which over the years fill with peat, then aquatic plants, until finally a dome is formed. These are called raised bogs or sometimes red raised bogs and cover a sizeable portion of the Midland Plain.
A third type of bog is found in the flat lowlands to the west. Lowland blanket bogs are unique in that they are formed in a rainfall-rich locale where the supply of minerals is kept up and the acidity down. The makeup of vegetation includes plants which thrive normally in poor fen land in the rest of Europe, namely, black rush, sweet gale, and purple moor grass.
Other plants typical of the various bog types include moorland spotted orchid, carnation and brown-beaked sedges, heath milkwort, butterwort, and a newcomer from America--the pitcher plant, introduced in this century. These form undulating lawns of bright reds, oranges, yellows, greens, and metallic blue-pinks.
A bog both grows and expands, burying whatever lies in its path. Trees in the path of the bog are first killed, and then their stumps buried. In County Mayo, there are discoveries of stone field walls, houses, even tombs, long buried under the encroaching bog. In many instances, relics of a fairly well-developed, four-thousand-year-old civilization practicing sophisticated animal husbandry methods have been unearthed. Surprisingly enough, evidence reveals the turf cutter of today utilized techniques known and practiced thousands of years before.
There are so many new families in the nests this year in such close proximity to each other in the nesting areas of the rookery, so many different species that there are bound to be spats. This one lasted for about ten minutes. It's hard to say who was too close to who as the Great Egrets and the Anhingas chose to raise their families in the same general area, but this Anhinga male knows that the Great Egrets are notorious for grabbing chicks out of the nest, so it lets the egret know in no uncertain terms to stay back as it protects its family. Survival of the fittest...that's nature ~ Anhinga and Great Egret ~ Florida Wetlands
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Videoed at Elgin Park, Surrey, British Columbia, CA by my son, David.
I was taking some fairly long distance shots of this heron preening on a dead tree about 30-40 feet away when another heron came out of nowhere and barrel rolled him off the branch he was perched on. They fell to the ground about 20 feet away and started going at it. This video began about 5 seconds into the fight (love that instant video button!). After chasing the other heron to the Yukon, ;) he returned for a nice relaxing fishing session. When I refer to 'this' heron, I mean the defender who was also the victor in this fight!
David
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Neon sign for Rodeway Inn & Suites, 741 E Washington Street in Charles Town, West Virginia. This establishment was once known as the "Turf Motel". I like the dramatic red arrow directing travelers off the road.
An ecohouse with a turf roof! I saw this in the community of Findhorn, in the Scottish highlands, earlier this summer. I've been travelling a lot of late - which is partly why I've been so sporadic in my Flickring.... Even if I'm not here as much as before, I frequently think about my Flickrfriends, and often miss your company... I hope you are all thriving, like this extraordinary roof :)
no milk today
the team's
playing
somewhere else
i mean away
(from: the future is the shape of a football)
I am working on a new website for all of my Toy Car Project shots:
Another shot of the two tooned cars I picked up the other day. The one in the front is a woody style wagon, called Surf 'N Turf. The VW Beetle is also in the tooned style, which I'll post next.
Cheers,
Wade
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