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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?
Oro supplex et acclinis
Venanzio Rauzzini (19 December 1746-8 April 1810) was an Italian castrato, composer, pianist, singing teacher and concert impresario. As a boy he was a member of the Sistine Chapel Choir and studied in Rome and Naples. It has been suggested that Rauzzini may not in fact have been a castrato, but rather had an endocrine condition that prevented his voice from breaking, hence his many affairs, as he was thought to be 'safe'.
Rauzzini was born at Camerino. He made his professional opera debut in 1765 at the Teatro Valle in Rome portraying one of the female characters in Niccolo Piccinni's opera 'Il finto astrologo'. He sang at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice in 1766, after which he performed at the Munich Hopofer in 1776-1767. Rauzzini had to leave the Munich court because of his many affairs with married women. He next sang at the court at Vienna in 1767, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reacted with delight when he heard Rauzzini singing and offered him the role of 'primo uomo' in his Lucio Silla (1772), in Milan, before composing the motet 'Exsultate Jubilate (1773) especially for him.
Rauzzini returned for performances in Venice and Munich during the early 1770s and also had a very successful run in London from 1774 until his retirement from the stage in 1778. After his opera career ended he worked as a singing and piano teacher and also composed a number of operas. After living in London for some years he settled in Bath in 1780 and became Director of the New Assembly Room Concerts in 1781. Joseph Haydn stayed with him in 1784 and composed the canon 'Turk was a Faithful Dog' as a gift for his host, taking the words from the garden memorial to Rauzzini's favourite dog. Rauzzini directed and financed concert life in Bath from c. 1781 until his death in 1810; many of his pupils appeared in the subscription concerts that he organised each year. Before his death he published vocal exercises and a treatise on his ideas on singing. Venanzio Rauzzini is buried in Bath Abbey where there is a memorial erected to him by his pupils Anna Selina Storace and John Braham.
Bath Abbey, south aisle.
Peal board, recording peals of PB Minor rung in 1906 and 1908
Bath (All Saints, Weston)
27 September 1906, in 2 hrs 50
5,040 Plain Bob Minor
Treble: William F. Flower
2: John Odey
3. Herbert Lewis
4. Richard J. Cousins
5. Herbert E. Holder
Tenor: William J. Prescott (C)
PB-ID: 2DA-F94
Bath (All Saints, Weston)
22 February 1908, in 2 hrs 48
5,040 Plain Bob Minor
Treble: William Seers
2: Herbert E. Holder
3. William J. Prescott
4. Charles W. Bell
5. Albert E. Seers (C)
Tenor: Thomas F. King
PB-ID: 2DA-F89
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Nikon D90
Nikkor 50mm 1.8D
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Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, South West England, 97 miles west of London and 13 miles south-east of Bristol. In 2011, its population was 88,859. It became a city by Elizabeth I granting it a Royal Charter in 1590 and a county borough in 1889. The city became part of Avon in 1974; since Avon's abolition in 1996, it has been the principal centre of Bath and North East Somerset.
The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") c. AD 60 when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although oral tradition suggests that the hot springs were known before then. It became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, leaving a heritage of Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone.
Alu and Maria enjoys a bath together
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Milestone. Early C19. Stone. Square with rounded corners and top. Incised Roman
letters read:
On east face To Reading 9 Miles Bath 78
On west face To Hyde Park Corner 30 ? Miles
Maidenhead 4 Colnbrook 13
From www.milestonesociety.co.uk/aboutmilestones.html
Turnpike Trusts were set up, by Acts of Parliament, from 1706 to the 1840s. Groups of local worthies raised money to build stretches of road and then charged the users tolls to pay for it.
From 1767, mileposts were compulsory on all turnpikes, not only to inform travellers of direction and distances, but to help coaches keep to schedule and for charging for changes of horses at the coaching inns. The distances were also used to calculate postal charges before the uniform postal rate was introduced in 1840. At the height of the turnpike era, there were 20,000 miles of roads with milestones.
From the 1840s, rail travel overtook road for longer journeys and many turnpike trusts were wound up. In 1888, the new County Councils were given responsibility for main roads and rural district councils for minor routes. As faster motorised transport developed so the importance of the milestones waned.
Such waymarkers are fast disappearing; around 9000 are thought to survive in the UK. Most were removed or defaced in World War II to baffle potential German invaders and not all were replaced afterwards. Many have been demolished as roads have been widened, or have been victims of collision damage, or have been smashed by hedge-cutters or flails. Nowadays, roadside milestones generally fall within the remit of the local Highways Authority or the Highways Agency and their contractors.
The Guildhall in Bath, Somerset, England was built between 1775 and 1778 by Thomas Baldwin to designs by Thomas Warr Attwood. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The current Bath stone building replaced a Stuart Guildhall, built in 1625, which itself replaced an earlier Tudor structure.
The facade has 4 Ionic columns and the building is surmounted by the figure of Justice. The central dome was added in 1893. It forms a continuous building with the Victoria Art Gallery and the covered market.
The interior includes a banqueting hall with engaged Corinthian columns. It contains 18th century chandeliers and original royal portraits. The room is used on royal visits to the city including Queen Elizabeth II who had lunch in the banqueting room in May 2002.
It now houses the Council Chamber and Register office for Bath and North East Somerset and is used as a wedding venue, and for filming period dramas. The Guildhall also serves as one of the venues for the Bath International Music Festival.
The Guildhall was originally built as a town hall: it has never served as the meeting place of any specific guild. A suggested etymology is from the Anglo Saxon "gild", or "payment"; the guildhall being where citizens came to pay their rates.