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Cliveden
(aka Cliveden House)
There have been three houses on the site.
The first house, built in 1666, burned down in 1795. The second house, built in 1824, burned down in 1849. The present house, built in 1851, by the architect Charles Barry for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland.
Cliveden has been the home to a Prince of Wales, two Dukes, an Earl, and finally the Viscounts Astor. As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 1930s—a group of political intellectuals.
Later, during the early 1960s, when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair.
The house was passed to The National Trust in 1942 with the condition that the family would continue to live there.
The Astor family stopped living at Cliveden in the 1970s.
The house is surrounded by 376 acres of gardens and woodland that are always open to National Trust visitors.
The house is currently on lease to a company that operates the estate as a luxurious, five-star, Relais & Châteaux hotel and is generally not open to National Trust Visitors.
Grade I Listed
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliveden
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profumo_affair
The Clock Tower
by Henry Clutton, London
1861
A prominent and historical landmark located in the grounds of Cliveden.
Described by the architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the epitome of Victorian flamboyance and assertiveness."
Commissioned by the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, who owned Cliveden at that time.
The tower was part of the Duke’s vision to enhance the grandeur of the estate and to illustrate his wealth and status.
Originally intended to serve as a water tower supplying water to the estate. Over time it became more of an ornamental feature but it is still a functional water tower that provides water to the house.
The structure is built in the Italianate style and is notable for its elaborate design and the use of gold leaf.
Topped with a gilded ball and a weathervane which adds to the decorative appeal.
The clock was made by the famous clockmaker James McCabe of the London firm McCabe & Sons.
The tower stands at 100 ft making it a prominent feature on the estate’s skyline.
Grade II* Listed
Two masked Tibetan monks waiting to dance at the Tibetan monastery of Yazer Gon in Manigango.
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The Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 was a two-seat, low-level, strike and reconnaissance aircraft of all-metal, stressed-skin construction, powered by two Rolls-Royce RB Spey Mk.101 turbofans, delivering 11,100 lb thrust. It had a maximum speed at sea level of 690 mph (Mach 0.92), a tactical radius of 500-600 miles and a range of 2000 miles.
The Buccaneer served in the Fleet Air Arm for a number of years as its major low-level strike aircraft before being enlisted by the Royal Air Force for long-range strike and photo- reconnaissance. About 100 Buccaneers entered Royal Air Force service from February 1969 until their retirement after the Gulf War.
In 1991 a Buccaneer had the unique distinction of destroying a taxiing Iraqi transport aircraft with a laser guided bomb.
Photoshoot of sisters modeling bikinis and swimsuits.
Cowgirl models with cowboy hats, revolvers, and cowboy boots.
It was a wet Monday and I spent some time in the market. People shooting was the order of the day and I spotted these two ladies at the fruit and vegetable stall. This was the first shot in the sequence as both girls saw me making pictures. The brunette saw me in this shot and then the blonde. I did approach the two ladies afterwards. They liked the picture and I offered them a copy.
The 102 Club at Grade II Listed 73 Friar Gate with a facade on Vernon Street. In Derby, Derbyshire.
It was built in 1841 as a Diocesan school where Rev Cannon Massey and Fred Adcock were the longtime secretary and headmaster during the late Victorian to 1912 period. They were succeeded by Rev FS Boissier and Corneluis Swanson.
Around 1952 the principal, Raymond C Swanson announced that the school was to be called Vernon High School.
In the past it has also been the Alma club.
Above the doorway is a large stone panel which reads "Erected by the Diocesan board of education aided by a benefaction of one thousand pounds from Thomas Cox esquire Auno Domini 1841"
The late Percy Thrower (TV gardening personality) was a past student of this school, also Tony Picard Wimbeldon tennis player and international tennis coach.
The School moto was "Persevera Y Vinci: Persevere And Conquer"
Brick with stone dressings; 2 storeys; 2 two-light stone mullioned windows, those to ground storey with transoms; 5-light stone mullioned and transomed oriel window on splayed angle, having geometrical pattern iron lights, gable above with clock and obelisk finial; doorway in moulded surround, pointed arched head, hood mould carried across as band, and 8-panelled divided door; stone eaves cornice, coped parapet and gable. 5-windowed return side to Vernon Street.
#8 Tom Armstrong, 1968 Camaro Z28 leads #7 Terry Miller, 1967 Camaro Z28, Pacific Northwest Historics, July 2001
On September 24, 2012, President George W. Bush and 22 wounded service members participate in the sponsor/practice round for the Bush Center's 2nd Warrior Open golf tournament. Opening ceremony of the final round of the 2012 Warrior Open.
Photo by Eric Draper warrioropen.com/
Two Polish soldiers await to attack the invaders of Poland. They will stop at nothing to stop them!
The polish decal is made by me on Photoshop CS5
house two up the hill from us and unfortunately, she also has one at ortley beach, but don't know how that faired - watchung, nj
we were lucky and had no damage, but wound up staying with friends in new hope, pa for 8 days due to lack of power - the bright spot was our refrigerators were completely cleaned for the first time in years
Two women take refuge from the heat during ramadan in Marrakech.
Olympus OM2n - 50mm f/1.4 - film unknown (Marrakech, Morocco) - no editing
By chance I found these two wonderful one sixth scale glass teapots, which have matching cups, on eBay. They were made by a master glassblower. I bought these two teapots and the two matching cups for each.
He did a gorgeous creating them. What luck!
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Two elks enjoying and soaking in the summer rain. Captured this moment from a moving vehicle as these two were waiting to cross the road. While the one on the left was happy to pose for me, standing tall and looking majestic; the other guy got busy in looking for something in the prairie grassland. We stood there for a while in our vehicle for these guys to cross the road, but they wouldn’t budge. Not that I am complaining though- gave me the time to capture these beautiful red deer against the lush green background in the Wildlife Prairie State Park, Illinois.
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We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw. Time to get back to editing.
Photoshoot of sisters modeling bikinis and swimsuits.
Cowgirl models with cowboy hats, revolvers, and cowboy boots.