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The plaque on the gatepost to the Finzi’s home.
See www.flickr.com/photos/billyreed/337787503/ for the background to this.
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On a gatepost on Iffley Road in Oxford there is a plaque commemorating the fact that on the 6th of May 1954 Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. The record of 3 mins. 59.4 seconds was set on the athletics track which lies behind the gatepost.
I've seen this old gatepost so often but didn't notice the name on ituntil today, which is the same as the modern towerblock you can see behind. Does anyone know if it was a modern addition to an old gatepost, or if there was a house of this name here before the modern flats..?
This is the same waymark stone (or stone gatepost) but the benchmark at the bottom can't be seen. I can only assume the bottom of the stone has been covered due to silting up of the ground on which it's standing. If silting up has occurred, this might also explain why the river has changed it's course slightly. Perhaps years of water movement against the stone structure of the bridge has carried silt and mud against and over the walls of the bridge?
Addendum 01/09/22 - It's just occurred to me that if you look more closely at the bottom of the stone, just to left of centre, you can see the incised horizontal line of the benchmark! Beneath that and buried under the silt, must be the incised arrowhead.
Lake Vyrnwy or Llyn Efyrnwy in Welsh, is a reservoir in Powys, Wales. It was built in the 1880s for Liverpool Corporation Waterworks to supply the city of Liverpool with fresh water. The dam was constructed over a number of years and when completed, the backlog of water flooded the head of the Vyrnwy valley and submerged the old village of Llanwddyn after the residents had been relocated.
Most years, the dam is brimming with water but every now and again, when there's a severe drought, the water level drops to such dramatically low levels, that the upper reaches of the submerged village become visible again. Such an occasion has just occurred during the hot summer of 2022. The last occasion I think was 1976 or thereabouts (and 1990??).
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In February 2023 we had decided to get our rural acreage gravel driveway resurfaced with 3 truckloads of Melinga Quarry brown crushed road-base. In mid-December 2022 the contractor, Innes Earth, had prepared the surface ready for the gravel. At the time though he could not finish the job as the quarry's gravel crusher had broken down with no immediate prospect of repair.
By February 16-17 the plant was back in full swing and the contractor was able to deliver the gravel.
With the road done we turned our mind to the aesthetics of the front entrance and decided to remove the existing front gate and gateposts, having already removed, several months before, all the rural fence posts on that side of the property.
We had also, several months before, collected large rocks from a friends' new housing estate development at Diamond Beach so the opportunity to create new rock gardens either side of the entrance seemed a worthwhile project.
Because we wanted to plant Lord Howe Wedding Lilys (Dietes robinsoniana) in the two gardens, we asked the excavator operator to rip the ground and once this was done, we filled the garden with a sandy loam, planted the Dietes robinsoniana plants and then mulched both gardens with a generous amount of woodchip mulch.
Dietes robinsoniana is an attractive strap like plant that can grow to 1.5metres tall while bearing attractive white flowers.
The species in enigmatic in that it is endemic only to Lord Howe Island and is one of the world's most intriguing and remarkable biogeographic disjunctions, considering its nearest phylogenetic relatives occur in Africa.
Botanists have yet to provide a plausible explanation how Dietes robinsoniana came to co-evolve on Lord Howe Island, given the rest of the genus are so far away and strictly endemic to Africa.
It is of course possible that one day, using DNA and modern methodology, botanists will place Dietes robinsoniana in a genus of its own, separate from the African Dietes.
little window to spy on the Guinea Pigs in the Jerusalem Artichokes with test piece of broken plate mosaic- it'll work when i get to it but in the meantime it is holding the post nicely-no more wobble!
I spotted this grasshopper sitting on our gatepost so quickly grabbed my camera for a few shots while he was in the mood to pose. Best viewed zoomed in (click on the photo).
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Most of the photos I took on this trip to Penrhyn Llŷn were of rock outcrops. But I did take this one that's of more general interest.
Stone lions carved on the top of a gatepost in Putney, London.
At Christmas my sister generously gave me an old Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm lens she'd found in our Granny's old house. I had a look on eBay and ended up buying a Praktica BCA 35mm SLR to fit the lens and put it to some use. My first roll snapped in the camera, so this is actually the second roll I shot. I'm not used to using a lens with such a long focal length, most of my other cameras are 50mm, but it was really good fun. Film used was Kodak T-Max 400.