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St Mary Magdalene Chapel, is within the grounds of Croome Court a National Trust property in Worcestershire, England. The Chapel is of a early Gothic Revival and sits alongside the National Trust house and landscape of Croome Park, laid out by Capability Brown. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/worcestershire-herefordshi...
A fascinating "garden room" designed by Capability Brown in the grounds of Croome Park between 1754 and 1757. This Estate is now part of the National Trust collection and was once the residence of the Early Coventry. It is a beautiful place to visit with its rolling grounds with superb buildings and idyllic setting in the shadows of the Malvern Hills.
C-GLBO, the prototype Bombardier BD-700-2A12 (serial number 70001), was one second away from touching down on runway 33 at Downsview Airport in Toronto, Ontario. It was completing its maiden flight. Originally named Global 7000, the model was subsequently renamed Global 7500 after flight tests confirmed a greater than expected range capability - 7,700NM at Mach 0.85. The chase plane during this mission was C-GERS, the prototype Global 5000 (serial number 9127). It had flown for its first time at the same airport on March 7, 2003.
The exquisite St Mary Magdalene's Church, built of warm Bath stone, stands at the top of a hill overlooking the fabulous landscaped gardens of Croome Park in Worcestershire. It was built in the 1750s by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry.
Situated about four miles from Stafford, Ingestre Hall has a history dating back to the 12th century and it was the ancestral home of two of the most powerful Staffordshire families, the Chetwynds and the Talbots. The land was part of the Baronry of Stafford which was granted by William the Conqueror to Robert de Stafford. In the 12th century, at the time of King Henry II, the manor belonged to Ivo de Mutton, and when Isabel de Mutton married Sir Philip Chetwynd in the 13th century, the estate became home to the Chetwynd family.
In 1494 a feud erupted between Sir William Chetwynd and Sir Humphrey Stanley, the Sheriff of Stafford, who were both royal courtiers. Sir Humphrey was jealous of William’s standing at Court and set a trap to eliminate his rival. He lured William out of Ingestre with a forged letter, asking him to attend a meeting early one morning at Stafford. On the way to Stafford, with just his son and two servants to accompany him, Sir William’s party was set upon at Tixall Heath by twenty heavily-armed men and Sir William was killed. It was said that Sir Humphrey then ‘happened’ to pass by the scene, claiming to be on a deer hunting expedition, despite the fact that deer had not been spotted in the area for years. Although it was clear that Stanley had been responsible for the murder of his rival, he was never brought to trial or punished.
Sir Walter Chetwynd arranged for the original hall to be built in 1613 in the Jacobean style. Walter’s grandson (also Walter) was a noted 17th century antiquarian and, under his ownership during the 1670s, a church was built alongside the hall, which was reputedly designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
In 1748 Catherine Chetwynd married the Honourable John Talbot, a British judge, who inherited the estate though his wife, becoming John Chetwynd-Talbot. The famous landscaper, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown laid out the plans for the formal grounds, and gardens in 1756, including his signature piece, a ha-ha.
During the 1830s an Orangery was built close to the hall. It was originally believed to have been designed by the architect brothers James and Samuel Wyatt, but is now believed to have been taken from the Wyatt’s plans of the Orangery at Blithfield Hall, which had been copied by Henry Ward, a Stafford planning officer.
In 1856 the 3rd Earl Talbot, Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, became the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, after a lengthy inheritance battle in the House of Lords. The original hall was more or less destroyed in 1882 when a fire swept through it, many valuable paintings and antiques were lost, and the hall was then rebuilt, in the same Jacobean style as the original build.
The 21st Earl of Shrewsbury sold the estate in 1959 and it is now a combination of business ventures. Part of the hall is owned by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council who run a Residential Arts Centre and the Orangery is an event venue.
Text source: www.citylifeinlichfieldltd.co.uk/the-history-of-ingestre-...
Flight capability might be even more interesting than electronic power assistance. 😆 Photoleap was used to create this image.
Landscape garden, parkland and woodland in East Sussex. Designed in the 18th century by Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.
47757 'Capability Brown' calling at Frodsham with the morning 1H44 0633 Bangor - Manchester Piccadilly 26/03/03. The set used at the time were ex First Great Western Mk2's.
A few weeks ago I posted a image of the ornamental lake at Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire. Capability Brown planned the extensive parkland including the lake in the eighteenth century. Nothing about this lake is natural but was designed to give the owner a pleasing outlook from his house. To add to the owner’s pleasure this mock classical summerhouse was built at the top of the lake allowing the family to enjoy the vita in some style
Good heavens I managed a fence on a Friday HFF
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This was an experiment: use the long exposure capability on my iPhone on the rain falling on the windshield. The rain was in full focus when I took this photograph, including a long rivulet of rain that ran down diagonally from top right down the middle. It turned out that invoking the Long Exposure option blurred some of the rain, but not all. It makes a nice abstract!
301/366 pictures in 2020
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The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Barbara, Countess of Coventry in 1798–1799. Broadway Hill was a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester—about 22 miles (35 km) away—and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the tower was clearly visible.
From 1822 to 1862, the tower housed the private printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps.[1] By the mid-1870s, it was being rented by C. J. Stone and Cormell Price. Price was headmaster of the United Services College at Westward Ho! and a friend of artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in 1876 Morris wrote in a letter to Aglaia Coronio that he was "up at Crom Price's Tower among the winds and the clouds".
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
In the late 1950s, an underground Royal Observer Corps bunker was built 50 yards (46 m) away to collect evidence of nuclear explosions. It was decommissioned in 1991 but has been restored and is now one of the few such Cold War monitoring facilities in England still extant and accessible to visitors.
Information by Wikipedia.
Artwork by William Walton & Topaz Studio 2
Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath in East Sussex. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
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Science Mall
Glasgow Science Centre from the west
The largest of the three main, titanium-clad buildings takes a crescent shape structure and houses a Science Mall. In architectural terms it represents the canted hull of a ship, a reference to the adjacent 'canting basin', where vessels were brought to have the marine growth removed from their hulls. Internally, there are three floors of over 250 science-learning exhibits. As is usual for science centres, the exhibits aim to encourage interaction, and can be used or played with as part of the informal learning experience the centre aims to deliver. The building was designed by BDP.
On Floor 1, amongst the many interactive exhibits that demonstrate scientific principles, visitors can access a Science Show Theatre and the Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium.]The planetarium contains a Zeiss optical-mechanical projector that projects images of the night sky onto a 15m diameter dome. There is an area specifically aimed at young children called, The Big Explorer.
On Floor 2, visitors can explore opportunities in STEM careers in the My World of Work Live interactive exhibition space. There is also The Lab, primarily used as an educational workshop space.
Floor 3 was refurbished in 2012 and reopened to the public on 28 March 2013. It now houses an interactive exhibition about human health and wellbeing in the 21st century called, BodyWorks. Visitors are invited to consider their bodies, health and lifestyle from a new perspective through 115 interactive exhibits, research capsules and live laboratory experiences.[7]
The Ground Floor of the Science Mall contains the Ticket desk, Cafes, Gift Shop, and a cloakroom. There are a number of flexible room spaces on the Ground Floor that are used for a variety of educational and corporate purposes: an education space called, The Egg; a lecture-theatre space called, The Auditorium; and The Clyde Suite. Access to Glasgow Tower for the public is also via the Ground Floor.
IMAX Cinema
The IMAX cinema was the first IMAX cinema to be built in Scotland. The single auditorium seats 370 in front of a rectangular screen measuring 80 feet (24 m) by 60 feet (18 m) and has the capability to show 3D films as well as standard 2D films in IMAX format. It opened to the public in October 2000 Premiered The First Film Entitled "Dolphins", several months prior to the opening of the two other buildings. On 6 September 2013, Cineworld agreed a 10-year lease to operate the IMAX cinema and opened a Starbucks on site.
Cardiff Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff.. The original motte and bailey castle was built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders on top of a 3rd-century Roman fort. The castle was commissioned either by William the Conqueror or by Robert Fitzhamon, and formed the heart of the medieval town of Cardiff and the Marcher Lord territory of Glamorgan. In the 12th century the castle began to be rebuilt in stone, probably by Robert of Gloucester, with a shell keep and substantial defensive walls being erected. Further work was conducted by the 6th Earl of Gloucester in the second half of the 13th century. Cardiff Castle was repeatedly involved in the conflicts between the Anglo-Normans and the Welsh, being attacked several times in the 12th century, and stormed in 1404 during the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr.
After being held by the de Clare and Despenser families for several centuries, the castle was acquired by The 13th Earl of Warwick and Comte de Aumale in 1423. Lord Warwick conducted extensive work on the castle, founding the main range on the west side of the castle, dominated by a tall octagonal tower. Following the Wars of the Roses, the status of the castle as a Marcher territory was revoked and its military significance began to decline. The Herbert family took over the property in 1550, remodelling parts of the main range and carrying out construction work in the outer bailey, then occupied by Cardiff's Shire Hall and other buildings. During the English Civil War Cardiff Castle was initially taken by a Parliamentary force, but was regained by Royalist supporters in 1645. When fighting broke out again in 1648, a Royalist army attacked Cardiff in a bid to regain the castle, leading to the Battle of St Fagans just outside the city. Cardiff Castle escaped potential destruction by Parliament after the war and was instead garrisoned, probably to protect against a possible Scottish invasion.
In the mid-18th century, Cardiff Castle passed into the hands of the Stuart dynasty, Marquesses of Bute. John, 1st Marquess of Bute, employed Capability Brown and Henry Holland to renovate the main range, turning it into a Georgian mansion, and to landscape the castle grounds, demolishing many of the older medieval buildings and walls. During the first half of the 19th century the family became extremely wealthy as a result of the growth of the coal industry in Glamorgan. However, it was the 3rd Marquess of Bute who truly transformed the castle, using his vast wealth to back an extensive programme of renovations under William Burges. Burges remodelled the castle in a Gothic revival style, lavishing money and attention on the main range. The resulting interior designs are considered to be amongst "the most magnificent that the gothic revival ever achieved". The grounds were re-landscaped and, following the discovery of the old Roman remains, reconstructed walls and a gatehouse in a Roman style were incorporated into the castle design. Extensive landscaped parks were built around the outside of the castle.
In the early 20th century, the 4th Marquess of Bute inherited the castle and construction work continued into the 1920s. The Bute lands and commercial interests around Cardiff were sold off or nationalised until, by the time of the Second World War, little was left except the castle. During the war, extensive air raid shelters were built in the castle walls; they could hold up to 1,800 people. When the 4th Marquess died in 1947, the castle was given to the City of Cardiff.
Today the castle is run as a tourist attraction, with the grounds housing the "Firing Line" regimental museum and interpretation centre. The castle has also served as a venue for events, including musical performances and festivals.
Click here for more photographs of Cardiff Castle: www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Cardiff-Caerdydd/Cardiff-Castle
The original mill for Britain's well-loved Hovis flour, and a landmark in Macclesfield since the end of the 19th century, now converted to apartments. I used this image to try out Lightroom's perspective correction capability...
Operator: NATO - Strategic Airlift Capability
Aircraft: Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
Registration: 08-0001 (SAC 01)
C/n: F-207
Time & Location: 24.11.2019, EFTP, Finland
Remarks: New titles.
Dachte, wir brauchen alle etwas mehr "Heile Welt" und etwas mildere Temperaturen.
Sheffield Park and Garden ist ein informeller Landschaftsgarten fünf Meilen östlich von Haywards Heath in East Sussex, England. Er wurde ursprünglich im 18. Jahrhundert von Capability Brown angelegt und im frühen 20. Jahrhundert von seinem damaligen Besitzer Arthur Gilstrap Soames als Waldgarten weiterentwickelt. Es ist jetzt im Besitz des National Trust.
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Thought we all need a little more “perfect world” and slightly milder temperatures.
;-) ...
Sheffield Park and Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath in East Sussex, England. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown and further developed as a woodland garden in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
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The National Trust's Croome in Worcestershire is an 18th century house in grounds designed by ‘Capability’ Brown. At the heart of the park is Croome Court, the former home of the 6th Earl of Coventry.
Sheffield Park and Garden is owned by the National Trust. The original landscaping was done by Capability Brown in the 18th century, but the woodland garden was developed in the early 20th century with trees from many different countries. I love our native trees, but they lack reds in the Autumn, so I always enjoy visiting Sheffield Park, where I can lose myself in wonderful, vibrant colour.
The ruined grounds of Roche Abbey (by Maltby Beck), a ruined Cisterian monastery situated near Maltby, in South Yorkshire. The abbey is at the Northern edge of what was once Sherwood forest, and Robin Hood is said to have taken mass there regularly.
Like most other abbeys, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, following which the local community despoiled it for timber, stone and lead, as well as the property within. The remains were left to fall to ruin, and the land came into the hands of the Earl of Scarborough, who emplyed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown who buried much of it under turf in the late 1700s. There it remained for two centuries until excavated in the 1920s, and is now cared for by English Heritage.
Taken on a walk with the NTU Chaplaincy, using a Pentax Optio S.
More of my photos can be found here.
SAC 01 NATO Strategic Airlift Capability Boeing C-17A Globemaster III - cn F-207 take- off @TRD/ENVA 02.03.18
Broadway Tower is a unique Capability Brown Folly Tower open to visitors wanting to experience great English heritage in an inspiring location. It is one of England’s outstanding viewpoints and at 1024 feet (312m) above sea level, it is the second highest point on the Cotswold escarpment with unrivalled views. You can survey an expanse of a 62 mile radius and as many as 16 Counties. With Graphic displays on three floors, roof viewing platform and Tower Shop.
A view looking across the front lawn towards this stunning example of Elizabethan Archietcure. Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.
What is it like to be a bat? Can we ever truly know what is meant by the subjective experience, or the objective? Do we even perceive the same reality..? What a peculiar existence we perpetuate ;)
Croome Court mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry, and were Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the mansion's rooms were designed by Robert Adam.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust which operates it as a tourist attraction. The National Trust owns the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
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Twistleton Scar End, Ingleton
I'm not convinced by this one. Like most people we were lead to believe these ravaged windblown trees were the work of nature herself but now we are not so sure.
For on our decent we came across the remains of a pristine skeleton, picked clean to the bone by the indigenous carnivorous Swaledale sheep that use to terrorise these dales in the early 18th century. We deduced the remains to be that of a gardener, possibly Capability Grey (so named for his love of granite) - the little know brother of Capability Brown - the famous 18th century landscape gardener. So called for his creative workings of the landscape that we now know today as the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.
He disappeared at the height of his fame, just before his younger brother got the gig to do Chatsworth. Could this be sibling rivalry or fowl play... only history and a proper forensic investigation will determine the truth, but rural budgets are tight at the moment.
I hear you ask, what makes you think these are the remains of a gardener and the unknown Capability Grey?... it was the rusty pruning shears still gripped in his skeleton hand!
Morning all - back from my hols. Got lots to catch up on so I won't be back up to full speed for a bit but wanted to resume posting in a limited way.
We stopped off at Blenheim Palace on our way so we could show the girls the splendour of the place while our annual ticket was still valid. We certainly picked a good day!
The rear of Roche Abbey (by Maltby Beck), a ruined Cisterian monastery situated near Maltby, in South Yorkshire. The abbey is at the Northern edge of what was once Sherwood forest, and Robin Hood is said to have taken mass there regularly.
Like most other abbeys, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, following which the local community despoiled it for timber, stone and lead, as well as the property within. The remains were left to fall to ruin, and the land came into the hands of the Earl of Scarbrough, who emplyed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown who buried much of it under turf in the late 1700s. There it remained for two centuries until excavated in the 1920s, and is now cared for by English Heritage.
Taken on a walk with the NTU Chaplaincy, using a Pentax Optio S.
More of my photos can be found here.
1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress
2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (Merriam-Webster)
Resiliencia:
Del ingl. resilience, y este der. del lat. resiliens, -entis, part. pres. act. de resilīre 'saltar hacia atrás, rebotar', 'replegarse'.
1. f. Capacidad de adaptación de un ser vivo frente a un agente perturbador o un estado o situación adversos. (Real Academia Española).
I know it is not a daily use word. But this word, along with empathy, which this should be known by everyone, and holistic, among others, are unknown words for my ignorant president of my country (yes, without capital letters), and he is proud to say it. He says that he cannot rule the country with such "elegant" words. But any man that doesn't know empathy for the people in his country and that does not how how the majority of the Mexican people how they have need to adapt to this adverse times, he doesn't deserve to be in front of our great Country.
Sé que esta no es una palabra de uso común. Pero esta palabra, junto con empatía, la cual debería de ser conocida, y practicada por todos, y holístico, entre otras, son desconocidas por el presidente ignorante de mi país (sí, así con letras minúsculas, porque así se lo ha ganado) y él está orgulloso de mencionarlo. Él dice que no puede gobernar al país con "esas palabras elegantes". Pero aquel hombre que no practica la empatía con sus connacionales y que no conoce cómo la mayoría de los Mexicanos se han tenido que adaptar a las situaciones tan adversas en estos últimos años, no merece estar al frente de un país tan grande como el nuestro.
Pearly Dewdrops-Drops: youtu.be/s-5Xgw6d3h0
View from the Terrace over the South lawn. A Capability Brown landscape. The tent and disturbed ground near the lake are part of an excavation of Gawthorpe Hall which stood on the site until the early 1700's when Edwin Lascelles had Harewood House built.
Seajacks Hydra has the capability to work world wide, in up to 48 metres water depth. As she is fully self-propelled the need for additional tugs or barges is eliminated therefore reducing costs when compared to traditional jack-up barges.
Seajacks Hydra is fully adaptable for work in both the Offshore Wind and Oil and Gas industries. Hydra joined the Seajacks fleet in June 2014 and has since worked on providing accommodation including the SylWin Alpha substation.
Source: www.seajacks.com/self-propelled-jack-up-vessels/seajacks-...
from the gardens - spot the deer by zooming in.
This was the work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown who was commissioned by the 4th Duke of Devonshire to landscape the parkland - and what a good job he did !
see the link for more information about his contribution to Chatsworth
www.capabilitybrown.org/sites/default/files/capability_br...
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.
It is a neoclassical country house building which was designed by Henry Holland in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. It has a somewhat austere exterior, but the interiors are subtle and delicate. Berrington Hall is home to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837) and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill which can be viewed by appointment. The 'below stairs' areas and servants' quarters which are open to the public include a Victorian laundry and Georgian dairy. Berrington has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957 and is, along with its gardens, open to the public.
Berrington features Capability Brown's last landscape design [1]. A notable feature is the ha-ha wall which was subject of extensive renovation in the late 20th century by local craftsmen. Berrington Pool, a lake and island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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From the destroyer, USS Cassin Young, docked in Boston.
“Built for speed and capability, USS Cassin Young engaged in seven Pacific battles in World War II, survived two Kamikaze hits, and served another full decade beyond her expected lifetime. Built in 1943 in San Pedro, California, she is one of 175 Fletcher-class destroyers built during World War II. Here in Charlestown, this navy yard built dozens of similar ships during the war. In the 1950s, Cassin Young and many other destroyers received regular repairs and modernization in Charlestown. Maintained by the National Park Service and an army of dedicated park volunteers, Cassin Young remains to this day as a testament to the crews who sailed her, and the men and women who built and maintained her.”—https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyculture/usscassinyoung.htm
Taken with my iPhone and processed on the iPad using the following apps:
Decim8
SuperimposeX
Repix
Handy Photo (add canvas)
Affinity Photo
Tangent
Deco Sketch
Snapseed
If your camera has the capability, I hope you'll consider shooting in the RAW format if you have not already done so.
Scenes like this one are so hard to expose properly because of the colors and the nuances of light and shadow at dusk. I ended up shooting this in RAW format, which then gave me a lot of room when I went to "develop" the image with Photoshop Lightroom.
I was hesitant to use the RAW format initially, but the more I've experimented with it, the more I recommend it to others......
Ickworth House, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The House was built between the years of 1795 and 1829 to the designs of the Italian Architect Mario Asprucci, his most noted work being the Villa Borghese. It was this work that Frederick Hervey, the then 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry had seen.
Asprucci’s plans were then taken up by the brothers Francis & Joseph Sandys, English architects.
The Parkland, of which there is 1,800 acres in total, was designed by Capability Brown and was Italianate in style. This style much loved by the 4th Earl.
Most of the friezes running around the rotunda were based upon John Flaxman’s illustrations of The Iliad and The Odyssey although, within the entrance portico there are some panels designed by Lady Caroline, the Earl’s Granddaughter and are based upon the Roman Olympic Games.
There are many works of art inside the house and very much well worth the visit.
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# Redheads - Creating Capability, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Berrington Hall's landscape designer, Capability Brown.
A display of manikins throughout the grand house all dressed in paper clothing with different hair designs made from paper too. This chap is part of a group of three and looking at the designs for the garden with Capability,. The costumes reflect the fashions of Capability Brown's era and focus on the people who helped build and shape Berrington Hall. Berrington Hall in Shropshire is part of the National Trust.