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The birches are like gateposts on this barely open road, signing spaces, winding ruts to wherever we widen again. Schoolhouse Branch slips tangled brush and marshy earth, squelching underfoot. It's a very auditory place, in bubbling mud, in buzzing bugs and birds. One of the many roads that only exist as shortcuts from days before cars. Now, you'll drive around those extra couple minutes, and no one misses the time. What remains is a sleepy kilometer, a single span that no one needs beyond a right-of-way or the will to wander. Short adventures, when you're pleased with the distance and don't need more. Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal of disappearing deeply, going way off the clock and modern map. But on all those weeks that steal your hours, you can take back a little where you will. It's either this or eyes to the screen staring, and I do my share of that. Enter from one obvious end or the other, it's the nowhere in the middle that's calling.
June 3, 2021
St. Alphonse, Nova Scotia
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Lions and foo dogs are a dime a dozen, but these cattle are a new addition to the menagerie. Given that we're in Richmond Hill, it's probably a good bet that a Hindu family lives here; there's also a pair of elephants watching over the driveway.
St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk
Superlative church in the wilds of East Suffolk. With its two near neighbours Badingham and Brundish it makes a delicious group.
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I was out in east Suffolk test-driving the new Buildings of England: Suffolk , a real pleasure. At nearly every church I found something I hadn't noticed before.
The new edition is in two volumes, Suffolk:East and Suffolk:West. Pevsner had only needed a single volume of about 500 pages for the first edition, but the fabulous new expanded edition runs to more than 1300 pages. The new Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk are published on April 23rd. People will just have to buy both.
Weighing in at just under two tons, the barrel of this 18th century Cannon was cast in the reign of George II 1727-1760 and served as a gatepost guardian at the Royal Arsenal until 1983 when it was removed and mounted on a replica gun carriage, which would have traditionally been painted yellow, it now stands on Great Yarmouth’s South Quay, and is reputed to have been used in the Napoleonic Wars 1799-1815.
Great Yarmouth has a significant Maritime and Naval history dating back over one thousand years and is considered to be one of the most important historic ports on the east coast of England. While the people benefitted from the spending power of the Navy there was a price to pay, ''alcohol-fuelled'' what today would be described as, anti-social behaviour. Men of the sea have always enjoyed a drink or three and some of the worst offenders were the Russian Soldiers who went as far as drinking the oil from street lamps ! The seaman often decided to hide away in the town rather than be pressed into the Navy.
By the end of 1814 the Naval support base had been dismantled after fulfilling its main purpose of sustaining Warships operating in the North Sea and the Baltic. The timeless anchorage remains, The Jetty which for centuries symbolised the town’s relationship with the sea was demolished in 2012. Its existence is marked by an interpretation panel and three of its old piles as seen in a flower bed, placed there by Great Yarmouth in Bloom. Then there is the Norfolk Pillar on Monument Road close to the seafront, erected in 1819 to commemorate the victories of Norfolk’s most famous son Lord Nelson. There are a few other reminders of those days, the Cannon barrel on South Quay, but the most significant survivor is the former Royal Naval Hospital which had had several lives after the Waterloo wounded departed.
Eventually a planning brief was prepared by the Borough Council, the complex was bought by Historic Buildings Rescue and under the guidance of architect Kit Martin was converted into apartments, town-houses and cottages, the first occupied in 1996. Which now stands as a fitting Memorial to the time when Great Yarmouth played an important part in the defence of the realm.
Sourced from www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/history-book-great-yar...
Terracotta gatepost tops on Victoria Rd, Macclesfield. Sadly the house has been demolished and the site awaits better times for the building industry.
I would love to know where these tops were manufactured. The facing bricks are by the Randlay Brickworks at Stirchley in Shropshire, but I cannot find and evidence of that works producing this sort of decorative feature. I suspect that the tops are a product of one of the Accrington brickworks.
outside the lavish family mausoleum (photo) of 19th-century impresario William Niblo. Niblo was the proprietor of the famed Niblo's Garden, "a vibrant drink and entertainment antecedent to modern Broadway theater-going", where "the first of the great Broadway hits" — a five-and-a-half-hour extravaganza of "art and bodily allurement" called The Black Crook — premiered in 1866.
Niblo's wife died well before he did, and in his later years he would frequently spend summer afternoons at Green-Wood, whiling away the hours inside the family tomb, "novel in hand, until the shadowing of the grand path before the door showed him that evening was near." During one visit, however, a great burst of wind slammed the vault door shut and trapped him inside. It wasn't until the next morning that he was discovered, "sitting composed in the tomb, and by no means near so much agitated as was any one of those who were looking for him. He explained the accident, his shrieks for assistance, and then his relapse into a calm and philosophical consideration of the circumstances. He knew that no one could hear him call, but he felt that the active brains of his friends would seek him out, and that sooner or later he would be liberated."
St Katherine, near Stradhampton.In his book of "England's Thousand Best Churches" Simon Jenkins said:-
"This charming church does not require a lengthy entry. Set between two gateposts across a lawn from the road is an unspoiled Georgian chapel of 1762, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. To the right is Chislehampton House, whose architect was a Londoner named Samuel Dowbiggin. It is not known whether he also designed the church.The building is a simple stuccoed preaching box, surmounted by an attempt at a swannecked pediment with corner urns and a topheavy clocktower with bellcote. It has a modest dignity, like a Massachusetts college chapel. The interior is unaltered Georgian. The walls are articulated by pilaster strips and arches which contain large round-headed windows on the south side. The modest chancel is no more than a shallow recess. Box pews and a west gallery on columns are all in place, as are the candle brackets, chandeliers and wooden reredos with text boards. The pulpit is 17th century, surviving from an earlier church.All is most decorous. Betjeman honoured the church with a charming poem in support of its restoration in 1952. He wrote of November worship by the light of Chislehampton's candles: 'How gracefully their shadow falls I On bold pilasters down the walls I And on the pulpit high. I The chandeliers would twinkle gold I As pre- Tractarian sermons roll'd I Doctrinal, sound and dry.'
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Chiselhampton, St Katherine
This delightful church, outstanding for the completeness and beauty of its Georgian furnishings and arrangement, was rebuilt by Charles Peers in 1762–63, as was Chiselhampton House nearby in 1768. It is a striking, stuccoed building, unsophisticated but with curious classical details and a clock turret resembling those on stable blocks of the period. Inside it is lit through clear glass in round-headed south windows and, apart from an earlier pulpit, the woodwork, including the altar-piece, box pews and gallery, is all contemporary.
Wellswood Hall Gateposts, Wellswood Avenue, Torquay.
These are the only surviving remains of Wellswood Hall, a large mansion built in 1840 in the then-popular Italianate style for the March-Phillips family. Wellswood Hall was sold in 1932 and gradually the estate was broken up and built upon; the Hall itself survived as a hotel until 1975 after which it was demolished.
Wellswood Avenue, which was laid out in the 1930s, ends here; however there is a footpath link through to Marlborough Close which is built on the site of the Hall. This leads on to Lower Warberry Road, adjacent to where Wellswood Path crosses.
Easter Saturday, 19th April 2025
The memorial is located on the gateposts of the Woodville Methodist Churchyard, High Street, Woodville
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE BOYS OF THIS CHURCH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918
BRADBURY C.
BIRCH F.
BENTLEY G.
BUCKLEY N.
CASH H.
COOPER R.
DAWKINS M.
ELLIS F.
FAIRBROTHER A.
FAIRBROTHER F.
HALL R.
STREET C.
FAIRBROTHER H.
FAIRBROTHER J.
FAIRBROTHER R.
HARRIS C.
HARRIS F.
HARRIS T.
HARRISON L.
HAYWOOD J.
INSLEY H.
KINSEY W.
LEESE H.
MARCER C.
MANSFIELD A.
MANSFIELD P.
POYNTON G.
SMITH F.
SWINDEL G.
SHAW W.
WRIGHT A.
WILKINSON R.
WILSON A.
WILSON W.
ORME E.
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.
Gatepost
Hillside Avenue & 191st Street
Hollis Park Gardens
Holliswood, Queens
Hollis Park Gardens was established in 1906. Streets from 191st to 195th were to be lined with substantial homes for affluent middle-class families. An advert in HOUSE & GARDEN in July 1910 noted: "Its homes are not of the stereotyped sort but are distinctive without being expensive."
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI14-1428
DIED
ON THE FIELD OF HONOUR
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HARRY GREEN
SEPT. 5, 1918
WALTER EMMONS
DEC. 1918
CHARLES POWELL
AUG. 11, 1918
ARCHILLIS HEARN
AUG. 24, 1917
I walk past this on my home from work and always stop and wonder what was here when this gatepost was new. it is on Goodman Street outside motorsave Hunslet Branch. Theres not much left of old (50 year +) Hunslet but this looks like it has seen some life. Nice shape with lovely pattern carved in Top front face.
St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk
Superlative church in the wilds of East Suffolk. With its two near neighbours Badingham and Brundish it makes a delicious group.
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I was out in east Suffolk test-driving the new Buildings of England: Suffolk , a real pleasure. At nearly every church I found something I hadn't noticed before.
The new edition is in two volumes, Suffolk:East and Suffolk:West. Pevsner had only needed a single volume of about 500 pages for the first edition, but the fabulous new expanded edition runs to more than 1300 pages. The new Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk are published on April 23rd. People will just have to buy both.