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With a gathering of cloud and a low winter sun there was a sharp contrast between light and shade giving this burst of colour on the trees in the foreground and on the horizon.
Collingrove in Flaxmans Valley.
A son of George Fife Angas, one of the major financiers and promoters of the SA Company, named John Howard Angas emigrated to SA in 1843 to oversee some of his father’s business interests. Angas’ private secretary Charles Flaxman had undertaken all tasks for Angas before this time, including the purchase of the seven Special Surveys (28,000 acres) in the Barossa Valley. (Flaxman purchased part of the Barossa Special Survey towards Mt Crawford in his own name and he stayed on in SA after 1843 when John Angas arrived. Flaxman then moved to Victoria and died there in 1869. Flaxman valley was named after him because he owned some land there.) In 1854 John Angas returned to England, married and then returned to Angaston where his brother-in-law designed and built for the new family Collingrove homestead in 1856. John’s wife was Suzanne Collins hence the house name. Also on the property John’s father, a devout Baptist early in his life had a small family chapel built for his employees and family to worship in. It opened in 1874 and was run as a Congregational Church. The Congregational minister from Keyneton usually conducted the services there. Angas supported all protestant denominations but he was openly hostile towards Catholics. John Howard Angas was buried from this church in 1904. He left £2,000 in his estate to Congregational trustees to continue to run the church. When the Anglican Bishop took over the church in 1911 a court case was threatened as the trustees had possibly breached the trust placed in them by the will of John Howard Angas. The church became St. Faiths Anglican until it closed. It was closed by the time Ronald Angas, grandson of John Howard Angas donated Collingrove to the National Trust in 1976.
Collingrove homestead has been extended and altered several times but the north-facing bay window was part of the original 1856 house. The house was constructed of squared slate quarried on the property with bay windows, stone gables and verandas. In the 1920s the house was considerably altered inside with wood panelling installed and externally with the classical style curved verandas between Greek columns between the bay windows being added then. The cement quoins on the corners and around the windows are painted cream. The eastern bay, to the left of the photograph was probably added in the 1870s to match the original western bay. Note how the house has decorative chimneys (the original ones were almost round) and a wooden finial on the central gable section which was probably added around 1900. A striking feature of Collingrove is the use of wooden shutters painted in green to tone with the cream quoins. Separate kitchen, storerooms and laundry rooms were built to the rear of the main dwelling.
John Howard Angas established himself quickly in the colony as a pastoralist and businessman. Apart from Collingrove estate he acquired Mt Remarkable run next to Melrose in 1856 to which he added other significant SA properties- Kingsford near Gawler, Point Sturt on Lake Alexandrina, and Hill River near Clare. The Angas family still reside on and operate Hill River one of the richest properties in SA. John Howard Angas also purchased leasehold stations in the far north such as Finniss Springs, Wirrialpa, Arrowie etc. In 1882 he sold the Mt Remarkable run to the Willowie Pastoral Company of which he was the major shareholder. He was a significant philanthropist to many church organisations and charities in SA as well as the University of Adelaide. He was a funder of the Inebriates institution at Belair called Retreat House because of his strong commitment to temperance.
Lindsay Park.
This house was built in the late 1840s as a home for the brother-in-law of John Howard Angus, Henry Evans. Henry Evans had married a daughter of George Fife Angas and he was the one who designed Collingrove homestead and Lindsay Park homestead for the Angas family. Henry’s wife was so opposed to alcohol and wine making that she made Henry have his grape vines grafted with currents rather than grapes for wine. Thus, almost by accidental Henry Evans founded the dried fruit industry in the Angaston district! When George Fife Angas came out to SA Henry Evans and his family moved to Keyneton a mile or so away From 1851 Lindsay Park was used as the family home of the “founder of SA” George Fife Angas. It was extended several times. After George Fife Angas’ death the house and property remained in the Angas family until 1965 when the last the inheritor of the Lindsay Park, Sir Keith Angas, sold the property to horse breeding trainer Colin Hayes. It was then developed into the preeminent horse training facility and breeding stud in Australia. Even Queen Elizabeth visited there on one of her trips to SA. When Colin Hayes retired in 1990 the stud and training facility was continued by his son David Hayes. David Hayes sold his share of Lindsay Park facility to his nephew and business partners in 2008 when he moved to Euroa in Victoria. The property was then sold to winemaker David Powell for $10 million in 2013 to become an exclusive tourist resort. The mansion is not visible from the roads. Both George Fife Angas and his wife were buried in the family vault at Lindsay Park estate. George Angas had a town house in Prospect.
Old trees photographed at Babbacombe Cliff Top Gardens in February © Nicky Scholnick 2015.
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I just love old motels and neon, and was so happy to find so many on my road trip up to Reno last week. This is in Bridgeport, California, a sweet little town on Hwy. 395. Oh, but it was cold there!
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Equestrian statue of Louis XIII
The Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.
Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m x 140 m), it embodied the first European program of royal city planning. It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henri II was wounded and died. Catherine de Medicis had the Gothic pile demolished, and she removed to the Louvre.
The Place des Vosges, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carrousel to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, is the prototype of all the residential squares of European cities that were to come. What was new about the Place Royale in 1612 was that the housefronts were all built to the same design, probably by Baptiste du Cerceau, of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted arcades that stand on square pillars. The steeply-pitched blue slate roofs are pierced with discreet small-paned dormers above the pedimented dormers that stand upon the cornices.
Only the north range was built with the vaulted ceilings that the "galleries" were meant to have. Two pavilions that rise higher than the unified roofline of the square center the north and south faces and offer access to the square through triple arches. Though they are designated the Pavilion of the King and of the Queen, no royal personage has ever lived in the aristocratic square. The Place des Vosges initiated subsequent developments of Paris that created a suitable urban background for the French aristocracy.
Within a mere five-year period, King Henri IV oversaw an unmatched building scheme for the ravaged medieval city: additions to the Louvre, the Pont Neuf, Place Dauphine and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares.
Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected in the center (there were no garden plots until 1680). The original was melted down in the Revolution; the present version, begun in 1818 by Louis Dupaty and completed by Jean-Pierre Cortot, replaced it in 1825.
Cortot also erected four fountains in 1825.
The square was renamed in 1799 when the département of the Vosges became the first to pay taxes supporting a campaign of the Revolutionary army. The Restoration returned the old royal name, but the short-lived Second Republic restored the revolutionary one in 1848.
Today the square is planted with a bosquet of mature lindens set in grass and gravel, surrounded by clipped lindens.
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