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Professor Elemental, the creation of Paul Alborough, and performer of "chap-hop".
23 August, Abney Park played at Scala, King's Cross, supported by Professor Elemental and Sunday Driver.
Professor Elemental, the creation of Paul Alborough, and performer of "chap-hop".
23 August, Abney Park played at Scala, King's Cross, supported by Professor Elemental and Sunday Driver.
Professor Elemental, the creation of Paul Alborough, and performer of "chap-hop".
23 August, Abney Park played at Scala, King's Cross, supported by Professor Elemental and Sunday Driver.
(Digital Photography, July 2010): My son playing in our pool in Derry, NH, making big splashes. Settings: Shutter - 10/10000; F - 7.8; ISO - 100.
Professor Elemental, the creation of Paul Alborough, and performer of "chap-hop".
23 August, Abney Park played at Scala, King's Cross, supported by Professor Elemental and Sunday Driver.
Wilmette, IL, 2011
Development details on FilmDev
Olympus OM-1n
Zuiko, 50mm, f/1.4
Neopan 400
Rodinal, 1:50, 20C, 11 min
Professor Elemental, the creation of Paul Alborough, and performer of "chap-hop".
23 August, Abney Park played at Scala, King's Cross, supported by Professor Elemental and Sunday Driver.
Victoria Musson
Ritual Britain
(June - July 2021)
From the 4th of June until July the 4th the artist Ben Edge and the Museum of British Folklore are collaborating for an exhibition titled ‘Ritual Britain’ In which Ben’s series of twenty paintings and documentary film titled ‘Frontline Folklore’ Will go on display alongside Simon Costin’s iconic MOBF collection. There will be events running throughout the exhibition that include talks and film showings.
[The Crypt Gallery]
Taken in the Crypt Gallery
The ancient parish of St Pancras once stretched almost from Oxford Street to Highgate. By the early 1800s the original parish church had become neglected. The local population had declined, while the population in southern part of the parish had grown rapidly. A new church was needed to serve the newly built up areas surrounding Euston Square
After a competition involving thirty or so tenders, designs by the local architect William Inwood, in collaboration with his son Henry William Inwood, were accepted. The builder was Isaac Seabrook.
The first stone was laid by the Duke of York at a ceremony on 1 July 1819. It was carved with a Greek inscription, of which the English translation is, “May the light of the blessed Gospel thus ever illuminate the dark temples of the Heathen.”
The church was consecrated by the Bishop of London on 7 May 1822, and the sermon was preached by the vicar of St Pancras, James Moore.
The total cost of the building, including land and furnishings, was £76,679, making it the most expensive church to be built in London since the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral. It was designed to seat 2,500 people.
The church has a Grade I listing from English Heritage, as an important early example of the Greek Revival architecture. It is mostly built from brick, faced with Portland stone. The portico and the tower are entirely of stone. All the external decoration, including the capitals of the columns, is of terracotta.
The Inwoods drew on two ancient Greek monuments for their inspiration – the Erechtheum and the Tower of the Winds, both on the Acropolis in Athens.
Henry William Inwood was in Athens at the time that the plans for St Pancras were accepted, and he brought back to England plaster casts of details of the Erechtheum, and some excavated fragments.
The pillars at the west end of the church are Ionic in style. The octagonal tower, modelled on the Tower of the Winds, also influences the shape of the domed central vestibule. The church’s most celebrated features are the two sets of caryatids that stand above the north and south entrances to the Crypt. Unlike the original figures on the Acropolis, each of the St Pancras caryatids holds an extinguished torch or an empty jug, reflecting their position as guardians of the dead.
The caryatids are made of terracotta, constructed in sections around cast-iron columns, and were modelled by John Charles Felix Rossi, who provided all the terracotta on the building.
[StPancrasChurch.org]
Isn't the periodic table nifty?
If only someone would write a really entertaining book about the history behind the elements. That would be a great read.
What are your favorite elements? Mine are Tungsten and Berkelium (named after my alma mater. Word.)
Professor Elemental, the creation of Paul Alborough, and performer of "chap-hop".
23 August, Abney Park played at Scala, King's Cross, supported by Professor Elemental and Sunday Driver.
Caught in a table of the Drawing Room
The House of St Barnabas
1 Greek Street
Originally a mansion house of the late 1670s; remodelled in the mid-1740s, it was bought in 1754 for £2,500 and then fitted out for Richard Beckford, MP, younger brother of Alderman William Beckford who lived at 22 Soho Square. The unobtrusive exterior is little decorated apart from obelisks each side of the door. The rococo interior has been described as the finest in Soho (where a surprising number of 18th-century houses remain) and is characteristic of the taste of the period. The staircase has a fine wrought-iron handrail in a cantilevered flight, and richly stuccoed wall panels and ceiling. There is similar decoration in the ground floor room and in the sequence of three major rooms on the first floor. The first of these has a fine fireplace and richly carved surrounds to the doors and windows. The second has an elaborate rococo plasterwork ceiling and, in the third, an oval panel has putti representing the four elements and heads of older men representing the four seasons in medallion busts.Beckford died early in 1756 and the house was sold for £6,300. In 1811 it served as the administrative offices of the Commissioners of Sewers, and then of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Joseph Bazalgette became the MBW’s Engineer in 1855 when the house was extended.It was sold to the House of Charity for £6,400. When the charity moved to No 1 Greek Street in 1862, Catherine Gladstone laid the foundation stone of a remarkable Gothic revival chapel by Joseph Clarke with five apses and particularly fine stained glass, early work, 1957/8, by John Hayward.The charity, set up in 1846 by Dr Henry Monro and others, had two principal objects: "to afford temporary relief to deserving persons specially recommended or selected" and "to enable persons whose time is much occupied by professions or other active duties, as well as those who have leisure, to co-operate in works of charity under fixed regulation". The House of St Barnabas continues to sustain its founders' objectives. The charity's current model, an integrated Employment Academy and social business "a not-for-profit private members' club" operates at the heart of the Grade l listed building, and supports those affected by homelessness and social exclusion back into lasting work.
[Open House London]