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Thanks to New Invention Junior School in Willenhall for such a warm welcome. (5th December, 2019)
Labour will ‘poverty-proof’ schools, introducing free school meals for all primary school children, encouraging breakfast clubs, and tackling the cost of school uniforms.
Wearing Bath Unibus purple but now with Somerset Coaster fleetnames is B7TL 32006 KFX791, entering the car park of Weston General Hospital.
Today we took our grand sons (6 and 3 years old) to Munich aquarium. A very interesting visit for every one.
The foot trail through the snow ends at the first rock climbing pitch for the ascent of the Matterhorn.
This is as far as we got.
Hello and thanks for visiting.
This is a photograph of a terraced row of houses in St Ives that has been given punishing treatment in Photoscape and Picasa to achieve this look - yes, it's deliberate :-)
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The 2014 Stampede Queen and Princesses accompanied by visiting royalty.
Photo Credit: Mike Ridewood / Calgary Stampede
Visiting Japanese students thinning hazel
Cressbrook Dale
Derbyshire
Copyright Natural England/Chris Gomersall
2002
Week three ended with a blast. It was very exciting to have all of our Willows family members join us for our visiting day. We hope you had as much fun as we did. The children really enjoyed the magic show. Also, the campers thoroughly had fun making delicious chocolate chip cookies in cooking.
We can’t believe that four wonderful weeks have flown by. Although the temperature rose and the rain fell, the fun and excitement continued. This week’s theme was “Wild, Wild, Willows.” The Tadpoles and Minnows created horseshoe picture frames. In Ceramics, the campers enjoyed making flip flops out of clay.
Picture day for The Willows was a huge success as the campers and staff had big smiles on their faces. Trick or Treat for Summer Sweets was really great. The campers looked marvelous in their costumes and proudly walked in the parade. The week ended with Waterworld. Everyone had fun driving bumper cars and climbing the obstacle course.
About Willow Grove Day Camp
Willow Grove Day Camp provides summer fun for kids who live in Willow Grove, Abington, Blue Bell, Hatboro, Horsham, Huntingdon Valley, Lafayette Hill, Philadelphia, Plymouth Meeting, Southampton and the surrounding areas. For more information on Willow Grove Day Camp and the services they provide please visit: www.willowgrovedaycamp.com.
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Listen and enjoy: Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Grab shot taken inside one of the galleries in Tate Britain, where the 2 visitors seem to take on the appearance of themselves being exhibits.
No. 1 - 5:- Exploring Churchend, Redbourn.
Church End - Considered to be the original site of the village.
So, one may assume that in Tudor times the village 'moved'; that is to the attraction of serving the travellers along Watling Street. As we have seen before there were numerous hostelries of all types serving a public with liquor and other refreshments and there was the best place to earn ones money! So, that was where you built your house, and you leave the elderly, and the children behind, to tend the fields in this agricultural area.
Looking down the street towards the Parish Church, whose tower can just be seen amidst the trees at the far end. To see the church look at my Photostream for the 17th August.
On the extreme left here is the Workhouse, as was, a row of cottages, as is, see Photostream of 16.08.09 no. 5 - 5.
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Edlingham Castle was a dinky delight of a building, a fortified manor house with the potential to become something much grander which was sadly nipped in the bud during its history. Visiting Northumberland for the first time I discovered that 'castles' in this county are smaller and more home-made than in the 'soft south' of England. Close proximity to the Scottish border meant that every large home had to be capable of defence against raiders or Reivers.
The next-door village church was consecrated as early as 831 to 847 AD but by 1230 to 1256 John de Edlingham had built a two-storey hall house near the river with a hall, parlour, chambers, kitchen, bakehouse, brewhouse and other services. This was defended by a moat fed from nearby springs.
The property was taken over by Sir William de Felton in 1296 who appears to have added fortifications including a palisade (timber stockade) inside the moat and built a gatehouse. His son William had better ideas and added a magnificent solar tower on the sunny side of the hall from 1340 onwards. This tower would have provided warm and comfortable accommodation for the family as well as providing a more formidable defence in the style of a Border peel or pele tower - common in this area. The guide notes in the neighbouring Norman church make no reference to this but we noted that one side of the solar had projecting stones which were clearly intended for a larger curtain wall but which was never built. William junior also improved the gate which at some stage gained a portcullis and probably a drawbridge. Why the work on the better wall next to the solar tower was never finished is unknown but the arrival of the Black Death (1348) affected many building projects in the UK, often for several decades. Disease, death or the border wars could equally be to blame.
This solar tower would have been a little stunner in its prime - 35 feet wide on all sides with round bartizan towers at each corner in the style of some Scottish castles and Border peels. It had a lower fore building and an external portcullis gate. A particular feature inside the solar was the 'joggled' fireplace lintels on two floors each made 'Lego' style by slotting multiple stones together each keyed by a line of '3's (see picture). This was a feature I had never seen before. The solar had at least two garderobes (toilets) on different levels. The guide in the church suggests that the subsequent collapse of the solar tower may be due to it being partly placed over the filled-in moat and then insufficiently supported at foundation level. By 1400 the site was robust enough to be called a castle implying that a formal licence to crenellate (fortify) had been obtained.
After 1420 it passed into the hands of the Hastings family and stayed with them until 1519. Under later owners there was much stone robbing and it degenerated into a farm but two metres of wind blown soil managed to cover the surviving (and almost complete) cobbled yard which was first unearthed by English Heritage in 1978.work finally finished in 1985 with steel ties being used to hold the two halves of the solar tower together. It is a very sick building!
The guide in the church said that the peaceful early 13th century reflected the first - minor - defences of the site but once the Scottish wars of independence began the whole Borders area became an unstable war zone, not helped by the raiding families from either kingdom 'nipping over the border' to do a little shopping at their neighbours' expense. Sheep, goats, cattle, horses - any portable wealth that could be moved quickly plus the contents of any strong boxes which could be opened or carried off by the Reivers.
While visiting in Seattle we went to the Point Defiance Zoo south of Seattle. I have't been to a zoo for many years, and I was impressed by this one ! Their conservation message was very evident and presented to the zoo visitors in many ways.
One of the star attractions is "E.T." In 1982, oil workers in Alaska found a starving orphan walrus pup and gave him his "movie star" name (he certainly bears a resemblance). He was raised at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and now weighs over 3,400 pounds.
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