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Part of the 52 Weeks of 2017
Week:23
Theme: Multiplicity
Initially I wondered what I could do for this, but then came up with the idea of respresenting multiple versions of me.
This does kinda represent the mix of things I read, adult fiction, kids fiction with my kids and factual guides...
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Love everything about her! I couldn't believe I found her - I wasn't even looking for her - she just popped up on the side when I was looking at something else. I've wanted her for ages and never thought she'd show up here, and for a price I could pay. I'm so happy to have one of the prettiest Kayla's ever!
Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, England. It was historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. Hoxton lies north-east of the City of London and is considered to be a part of London East End and was once part of the civil parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, prior to its incorporation into Hackney.
The area is generally considered to be bordered by Regent's Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road to the west, Old Street to the south, and Kingsland Road to the east.
There is a Hoxton electoral ward which returns three councillors to Hackney London Borough Council. The area forms part of the Hackney South and Shoreditch parliamentary constituency.
History
Origins
A map showing Hoxton ward of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.
The earliest recorded names of the settlement are Hochestone, in the Domesday Book in 1086, and Hocston, which is mentioned in a fine of 1220-1221. The name is likely to derive from the possessive form of a person's name, possibly Hocg, and the Old English word tun, meaning a fortified enclosure, village, or manor.[1][2] Little is recorded of the origins of the settlement, though there was Roman activity around Ermine Street, which ran to the east of the area from the first century. In medieval times, Hoxton formed a rural part of Shoreditch parish.[3] It achieved independent ecclesiastical status in 1826 with the founding of its own parish church[4] dedicated to St John the Baptist, though civil jurisdiction was still invested in the Shoreditch vestry. The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers remains Patron of the advowson of the parish of St John's.[5]
In 1415, the Lord Mayor of London "caused the wall of the City to be broken towards Moorfields, and built the postern called Moorgate, for the ease of the citizens to walk that way upon causeways towards Islington and Hoxton"[citation needed] – at that time, still marshy areas. The residents responded by harassing walkers to protect their fields. A century later, the hedges and ditches were destroyed, by order of the city, to enable city dwellers to partake in leisure at Hoxton.[citation needed]
Tudor Hoxton
By Tudor times many moated manor houses existed to provide ambassadors and courtiers country air nearby the city. This included many Catholics, attracted by the house of the Portuguese Ambassador,[6] who, in his private chapel,[7] celebrated the masses forbidden in a Protestant country.[8] One such resident was Sir Thomas Tresham, who was imprisoned here by Elizabeth I of England for harbouring Catholic priests. The open fields to the north and west were frequently used for archery practice,[9] and on 22 September 1598 the playwright Ben Jonson fought a fatal duel in Hoxton Fields, killing actor Gabriel Spencer. Jonson was able to prove his literacy, thereby claiming benefit of clergy to escape a hanging.
Gunpowder, treason and a letter
Main article: Gunpowder Plot
On 26 October 1605 Hoxton achieved notoriety, when a letter arrived at the home of local resident William Parker, Lord Monteagle warning him not to attend the Parliament summoned by James I to convene on 5 November, because "yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow, the Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them". The letter may have been sent by his brother-in-law Francis Tresham, or he may have written it himself, to curry favour. The letter was read aloud at supper, before prominent Catholics, and then he delivered it personally to Robert Cecil at Whitehall. While the conspirators were alerted, by the public reading, to the existence of the letter they persevered with their plot as their gunpowder remained undiscovered. William Parker accompanied Thomas Howard, the Lord Chamberlain, at his visit to the undercroft of Parliament, where Guy Fawkes was found in the early hours of 5 November.[12] Most of the conspirators fled on the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, but Francis Tresham was arrested a few days later at his house in Hoxton. A commemorative plaque is attached to modern flats at the site of Parker's house in Hoxton Street....Wikipedia
COMENTEM! + ZOOM! Oi :D esses 2 dias que eu não postei nada, foi pq estava trabalhando nesse! espero que gostem, eu adorei!! (:
Sunset appears between bands of clouds at Battery Point Lighthouse. Crescent City, California USA.
Title by the Lumineers "Submarines"
a very impressive coloured cloud, I think you young ones may call this a lenticular cloud but I'm not a cloud expert so I wouldn't rightly know. Strange really, as my wife keeps telling me my heads in amongst them all the time...
Some nasty black ones in the front as well gives a nice contrast
Girls Aloud at the 2009 Brit Awards at Earls Court exhibition centre in London on February 18th.
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