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Bath, UK. A lone street perfomer in a courtyard whistles a melody for his appreciative audience of one (me). Shot on Tri-X and printed in my darkroom at home.
Bath, England. Breathtaking examples of fashion from the eighteenth century. I live and breathe for this style of fashion...I was born in the wrong century...maybe this style of dress will become fashionable again...would anyone else love to wear these glorious gowns besides me?
Photograph taken from the chancel roof of Bath Abbey. The church with a spire is St Michael's (G. P Manners, 1835-7), the one on the horizon is St Stephen's, Lansdown (James Wilson, 1840-5). To the right of the Union Flag can be seen Camden Crescent.
Forum Theatre, Bath. Opened in 1934 and designed by W H Watkins, with A S Gray. The Forum followed the usual path of conversion to bingo in the 1960's, which failed fairly quickly, before becoming a church. A major, and spectacularly successful restoration was undertaken and the Forum is one of the most complete 1930's former cinemas in the UK. There is a very extensive use of the theatre for live shows and concerts in addition to the religious services held by the Bath City Church.
Bath, Somerset & Avon, England, Forum Cinema / Bath City Church
August 2016
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Because of their beautiful (and highly collectable today) tightly sealed tins, Huntley and Palmers were able to send their famous biscuits (cookies) around the world. Their biscuits were especially popular in France. This is an old Victorian advertising leaflet that the company printed for their French trade.
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From Wikipedia:
Huntley & Palmers was a British firm of biscuit makers based in Reading, Berkshire. The company created one of the World's first global brands and ran what was once the world’s largest biscuit factory. Over the years, the company was also known as J. Huntley & Son and Huntley & Palmer.
Huntley & Palmers was founded in 1822 by Joseph Huntley as J. Huntley & Son. Initially the business was a small biscuit baker and confectioner shop at number 72 London Street. At this time London Street was the main stage coach route from London to Bristol, Bath and the West Country. One of the main calling points of the stage coaches was the Crown Inn, opposite Joseph Huntley's shop and he started selling his biscuits to the travellers on the coaches. Because the biscuits were vulnerable to breakage on the coach journey, he started putting them in a metal tin. Out of this innovation grew two businesses: Joseph's biscuit shop that was to become Huntley & Palmers, and Huntley, Bourne and Stevens, a firm of biscuit tin manufacturers founded by his younger son, also called Joseph.
In 1838 Joseph Huntley was forced by ill-health to retire, handing control of the business to his older son Thomas. In 1841, Thomas took as a business partner George Palmer, a distant cousin and member of the Society of Friends. George Palmer soon became the chief force behind its success, establishing sales agents across the country. The company soon outgrew its original shop and moved to a factory on King’s Road in 1846, near the Great Western Railway. The factory had an internal railway system with its own locomotives and one of these has been preserved. It is currently stored on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway but there are plans to return it to Reading during 2007 and put it on public display.
Thomas Huntley died in 1857, but George Palmer continued to direct the firm successfully aided by his brothers, William Isaac Palmer and Samuel Palmer, and subsequently by his sons, as heads of the company. They became biscuit makers to the British Royal Family and in 1865 expanded into the European continent, and received Royal Warrants from Napoleon III and Léopold II of Belgium. At their height they employed over 5,000 people and in 1900 were the world's largest biscuit firm. The origins of the firm's success lay in a number of areas. They provided a wide variety of popular products, producing 400 different varieties by 1903, and mass production enabled them to price their products keenly.
Another important part of their success was their ability to send biscuits all over the world, perfectly preserved in locally produced, elaborately decorated, and highly collectable biscuit tins. The tins proved to be a powerful marketing tool, and under their easily recognizable image Huntley & Palmer's biscuits came to symbolise the commercial power and reach of the British Empire in the same way that Coca Cola did for the United States. The tins found their way as far abroad as the heart of Africa and the mountains of Tibet; the company even provided biscuits to Captain Scott during his ill-fated journey to the South Pole. During the First World War they produced biscuits for the war effort and devoted their tin-making resources to making cases for artillery shells.
The Palmers were notable local figures in Reading who generously gave money and land to Reading, including Palmer Park and town was often known as "biscuit town". The firm was merged with other biscuit makers to become Associated Biscuit Manufacturers Ltd and the Reading factory closed in 1972; manufacturing in Reading ceased in 1976.
The firm manufactured over 400 different types of biscuits and innovated many new types of biscuits including the famous Nice biscuit.
As of 2006, Huntley & Palmers has resumed operations from Sudbury in Suffolk. They are targeting the speciality and fine-food sector.
Memorial Quarter Peal rung for Private Albert Edwin Seers (Service no. 19409), 6th Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment; died 12 October 1918, aged 32; buried in Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, France (XIII. D. 22.); Son of Mr. and Mrs. W H. Seers, of Bath; husband of Emilie Seers, of 23, Magdalen Avenue, Holloway, Bath:
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Alfred Seers was a member of the band at St Michael's. The performance record says that Pte Seers had been wounded in the German advance of March 1918 and that he composed the date touch rung here while he was recovering in hospital.
Bath, Som (St Michael). 21 October 1918, 1918 Grandsire Triples: Albert F Alexander 1, Thomas Hogsflesh 2, Frederick C Rich 3, Charles Goodenough 4, Charles W Bell 6, Richard J Cousins (C) 7, William J Prescott 8.
Occasional reports of change ringing in the Bath Chronicle demonstrate that A. E. Seers was heavily involved in Bath ringing in the pre-war period. His father, W. E. Seers was also a bell ringer, described in 1914 as instrumental in getting St Matthew's, Widcombe affiliated to the Association (Bath Chronicle, 31 January 1914, p. 9). Albert called his first 720 Bob Minor at St. Mark's, Widcombe in 1907 with J. H. Odey (another First World War casualty) ringing the Treble. Seers featured in various Bath ringing performances, including a "farewell peal" of Grandsire Triples rung at Colerne in 1916 by eight ringers, "all of whom have attested as married men under Lord Derby's Scheme." He also rang in Bath when on leave, including a quarter peal shortly before his death.
Bath Chronicle, Saturday, 14 September 1918, p. 16:
"A special peal at St. Saviours.
At the Church of St. Saviour on Sunday morning a quarter peal of Grandsire Triples, 1,260 changes, was rung in honour of the re-opening of the Men's Afternoon Services, in 41 minutes, by the following members of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Association of Change Ringers: Treble, Henry W. Brown; 2nd. Thomas Hogsflesh; 3rd, Horace Taylor; 4th, Albert E. Alexander; 5th, Albert Seers; 6th, Richard J. Cousins; 7th, Charles W. Bell; tenor, Herbert E. Holder; conducted by H. E. Holder. The ringer of the 5th is a Bath ringer home on leave from the trenches."
Oddly enough, five years before, Albert Seers and another Bath ringer (W. J. Prescott) happened to ring a peal at St Margaret's, Westminster at the wedding of Winston Churchill and Clementine Hozier. This was reported in the Bath Chronicle of Thursday, 17 September 1908, p. 7:
"CHANGE RINGING.-- At St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, on Saturday evening in honour of the wedding of Mr. Winston Churchill and Miss Clementine Hozier, a peal of Stedman Caters, consisting of 5,003 changes, was rung in three hours twenty-eight minutes by the following members of the Middlesex County Association and London Diocesan Guild:-- Treble, H. Flanders; 2nd, J. J. Lamb; 3rd, F. G. Perrin; 4th, J. Cheeseman (conductor); 5th, A. E. Seers; 6th, W. J. Prescott; 7th, A. W. Coles; 8th, J. E. Davis; 9th, W. Pickworth; tenor, A. N. Hardy. The first peal on ten bells was by A. E. Seers, who, with W. J. Prescott are both members of the St. Mary's Company, Bathwick, Bath."
In 1950 (Bath Chronicle, 22 July 1950, p. 1), W. J. Prescott (by then Tower Master of Bath Abbey) explained that: "A party of us [Bath ringers] were going on a ringers' outing to London. We wrote to the secretary of the Diocesan Guild of Ringers and asked to ring at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, where Mr. Churchill was to be married," [...] We all thought it a great honour, of course, but I think much more of it now."
Rebuilding around Bristol requiring diversion of Cross Country Trains. River Avon just east of Bath Spa station.
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