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The Bears of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
The Bears of Sheffield raised more than £750000 for a new Cancer and Leukaemia Ward at Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
Bear Name: Pastel Pattern Patchwork Bear
Artist: Fun Makes Good
Location: Castlegate Lady’s Bridge
Description: Fun Makes Good design studio often takes inspiration from contemporary architectural forms and geometric shapes, combining a love of texture with graphic patterns and creative colour combinations to produce pieces that are instantly uplifting, playful and eye-catching.
The design for Pastel Pattern Patchwork Bear is a continuation of some of FMG’s previous work made for Sheffield Children’s Hospital with Artfelt. The Bear has a more subtle and gentle design than the previous work, with the grid of the ‘patchwork’ broken up with soft curved shapes that flow and move around the Bear, giving him a softness and warmth through delicate colour and pattern.
Picture of Hole 6 from CastleGate Minigolf in New Jersey. See our review at www.theputtingpenguin.com
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St Mary, Castlegate : Medieval Glass - St James
St Mary, Castlegate, York.
St James the Great, c1330-40.
The Gordon Highlanders Statue at Castlegate in Aberdeen centre was built in 1844 as the Military Barracks from 1796 to 1935 were in this area.
The Gordon Highlanders started off in 1794 as the 100th Regiment of Foot raised by Alexander - 4th Duke of Gordon, mainly men from his Estates, seeing action in India in the 1850s, and Europe during the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 to 1815.
The 100th Regiment of Foot was renamed the Gordon Highlanders in 1881 to cover the northeast eara of Scotland, also used in campaigns in Egypt from 1882, South Africa for the Boer Wars from 1899, World War One from 1914 to 1918, and World War Two 1939 to 1945.
The Gordon Highlanders Museum is on the west side of Aberdeen, 3 miles west of the city centre.
Gordon Castle was one of the largest Country Houses built in Scotland, built from the 1470s, enlarged in the 1700s, 58 miles northwest of Aberdeen by the town of Fachabers.
Clan Gordon became large landowners after fighting with Robert the Bruce in the early 1300s during the First War of Scottish Independence, the more support a Clan gave to a King, the more land they were awarded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Castle
Looking west onto Union Street with Archibald Simpson's, the old Tolbooth and Townhouse on the right.
St Mary, Castlegate : Medieval Glass - St John the Baptist.
St Mary, Castlegate, York.
St John the Baptist, c1330-40.
Fairfax House, Castlegate, York, 1755-62.
By John Carr of York (1723-1807).
For Viscount Fairfax of Emley.
Grade l listed.
Sideboard, c1810. English.
Mahogany, pine.
The brass rail was hung with silk curtains to protect the wall from splashes while serving. A small cupboard has been incorporated on the side to house a chamber pot.
Noel Terry & his Collection.
An exceptional collection from the golden age of English cabinet-making and clock-making forms the centrepiece to the Noel Terry Collection.
Born in York in 1889, Noel Terry was the longstanding chairman and great grandson of the founder of the confectionery business, Terry’s of York. Over the course of his lifetime he formed an outstanding collection of Georgian domestic furniture and clocks which Christie’s have stated to be one of the best private collections of mid-eighteenth-century English furniture. The collection was originally housed at Goddards, Noel and Kathleen Terry’s Arts and Crafts style-home. He bought each piece on its own merit and was not interested in creating interiors in the style of the eighteenth century.
Terry’s tastes in collecting furniture were particular and surprisingly consistent, a dislike of gilding and anything too ornate, coupled with a demand for excellent quality. The collection, however, is not only significant because of its exceptional quality, but also because of its provenance. Indeed, its completeness as a collection (kept together in nearly its full entirety) helps to illustrate Terry’s collecting passions, the development of his taste and the evolutions which took place in the process of collecting in the 20th century.
A passionate lover of the city of his birth, in 1946 Terry was one of the four Founders of York Civic Trust, for which he served as Honorary Treasurer for twenty five years. It was this that led to his determination that the collection should remain for the benefit of the City of York and, after his death in 1979, his trustees offered the collection to the Civic Trust as a gift on the proviso that it was placed on permanent display.
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Fairfax House is a triumph of Georgian design. Bought by Charles Gregory, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, for £2000 in 1759, he employed master architect John Carr of York to transform the existing building into a magnificent and fashionable townhouse. Lord Fairfax gifted the house to his sole surviving child making Anne Fairfax a property-owning woman in her own right.
Here both Anne and her Father spent the winter season. Standing on the thriving street of Castlegate, the main thoroughfare to York Castle, and sitting on the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss, Fairfax House was at the very centre of York’s polite society and perfectly positioned as a base from which to enjoy York’s burgeoning city-life and social scene.