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Gatepost at entrance to cottage near Thornley Hall. Maybe called Thornley Hall Cottage on Up Bedlam Road, Thornley-with-Wheatley.
STO P N SIDE RD 3.0M E PRODN W FACE HO (ODN 118.116m, AGL 0.3m).
Good
Location
Grid reference: SD 6343 4102.
Landranger 102: Preston & Blackpool, Lytham St Anne's.
Landranger 103: Blackburn & Burnley, Clitheroe & Skipton.
Explorer OL41: Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale.
Structure: Gatepost.
'Whinfield' was the residence of Sir Harry Hornby at the end of the Victorian era. The Hornby family were the owners of Brookhouse Mills.
If you are looking for a quiet spot to get away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Castries, stop by Derek Walcott Square by the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The square honours two Nobel prize winners from Saint Lucia (Derek Alton Walcott - Literature 1992 and Sir William Arthur Lewis - Economics 1979). Castries, Saint Lucia
Old stone gatepost pillars, rough cut from granite. On the path beside the River Lyd leading from Beardon to Lydford, West Devon. at NGR SX 516 845.
WALL NE SIDE RD 1.8M NW JUNC (ODN 272.647m, AGL 0.5m). Actually the right hand gatepost for footpath onto Longridge Fell.
Good
Location
Grid reference: SD 6445 4006.
Landranger 102: Preston & Blackpool, Lytham St Anne's.
Landranger 103: Blackburn & Burnley, Clitheroe & Skipton.
Explorer OL41: Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale.
Structure: Gatepost.
CUT MARK: GTP E SIDE RD WALL NEAR ENTRANCE TO SCAR LAITHE (ODN 189.55m, AGL 0.5m). RELOCATION, not on OS list or old maps.
Location
Grid reference: SD 8837 5197.
Landranger 103: Blackburn & Burnley, Clitheroe & Skipton.
Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales - Southern & Western areas.
Explorer OL41: Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale.
Structure: Gatepost.
Waypoint: B48791.
CUT MARK: STO P NO1 BEECH GROVE (ODN 25.871m, AGL 0.3m).
Good
Location
Grid reference: SD 5196 3052.
Landranger 102: Preston & Blackpool, Lytham St Anne's.
Explorer 286: Blackpool & Preston.
Structure: Gatepost.
Gateposts of the palace
Taken at Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace
Royal Palace. 1825 design, begun 1826 by John Nash, rebuilding Buckingham House of 1705 as a palace for George IV, completed 1837 with alterations by Edward Blore; The east range added 1847-50 by Blore; the Ballroom block of 1853-54, with Ambassadors' Court, by Sir James Pennethorne; the east front refaced 1913 by Sir Aston Webb for George V
Marble faced east front, the rest Bath stone except for Blore's west quadrangle front in Caen stone; slate and leaded roofs. Quadrangle plan. Monumental Graeco-Roman, composed with picturesque intent by Nash; Webb's east front a stiff Dixhuitieme exercise constrained by Blore's existing range but with elegant detailing: East front: three storeys with ground and attic floor mezzanines. Fenestration in rhythm 3:7:3:7:3 with centrepiece and terminal pavilion. Channelled ground floor with semicircular arched central gateway flanked by square headed doorways, all with fine ornamental iron gates of 1847; end pavilions and main range with square headed and semicircular arched gateways respectively; architraved sashes with open pediments on first floor and cornices on second floor; fluted Corinthian pilasters rise through first and second floors supporting main entablature with blocking course and balustraded parapet; centrepiece and terminal pavilions with Corinthian columns in antis and plain outer pilasters, in pairs on centrepiece, crowned by blind attics with pediments; continuous balustraded balcony to first floor.
West front: of Blore's east range; advanced centrepiece with tetrastyle giant fluted Corinthian column portico above archway; sculpture in pediment. North and South quadrangle ranges: by Nash and given uniform three storey height, with attic, by him in 1828; slightly advanced five-window wide pilastered centrepieces; ground floor Greek Doric colonnades filled in by Blore; to the south Ambassadors' Court with temple portico-porch and flanking ranges with Corinthian colonnade in antis, adjoining Pennethorne's 1853-1854 Ballroom block which continues giant columned corner pavilion theme of Nash's garden front.
East front of Nash's West range: originally open to deep forecourt and Mall, has storeys and attic main block, 11 windows wide, with three storey three-window wings, the main block with prominent, tetrastyle, two storey portico centrepiece, its low ground storey with cast iron coupled Greek Doric columns and the upper with giant coupled stone Corinthian columns carrying entablature and pediment with sculpture by Baily and crowning figures in Coade stone by W Croggan; the cast iron Doric colonnade is returned across ground floor of main block which has pavilion end bays dressed with giant pairs of Corinthian columns; tall blind attic; the friezes either side of portico by Westmacott and originally intended for the attic of Marble Arch.
West garden front, by Nash: Long symmetrical composition with five accents; basement, ground floor, piano nobile through two storeys and attic to main block with three-storey wings; the main block with five-window central bow and three-window side ranges terminating in one-window pavilions; the wings each of four windows with similar pavilion end bays; ground floor channelled, giant engaged Corinthian columns to bow and detached coupled Corinthian columns to pavilions carrying entablature with rich rinceau frieze; large frieze panels of Coade stone over first floor by Croggan; the attic above half dome of bow (Blore's replacement of Nash's dome) has a frieze by Westmacott intended for Marble Arch; the range is flanked at east of terrace by projecting conservatories in the form of hexastyle Ionic temples with pediments; the south conservatory altered as palace chapel in 1893 and as the Queen's Gallery in 1962.
Interior: State Apartments in west range at firs floor level, with two suites divided by the Picture Gallery, c1829-36 by Nash and Blore, in rich and already eclectic Graeco-Roman style with Louis XIV and Wren details in mouldings and motifs, approached via the Grand Hall with marble columns and Nash's recasting of the original Buckingham House staircase as well as by Pennethorne's Grand Staircase to south extended by Pennethorne to give access to his Ballroom block; the Picture Gallery redecorated 1914; the interior of the Ballroom retains Pennethorne's ceiling and throne recess but redecorated by Ludwig Gruner in 1902 when the walls, windows and doorways were remodelled by Verity; the plainer ground floor rooms below the State Apartments survive virtually as designed by Nash. Marble Arch (qv) designed by Nash in 1828 as the forecourt gateway was removed by Blore's east range and re-erected in 1851 on its present site.
[Historic England]
Buckingham Palace Gardens
Buckingham Palace’s 39-acre garden fulfils many roles. It is The King's private London garden, but it also plays a key part in the busy calendar of royal events. The most famous of these events are Garden Parties, which in an average year see around 24,000 guests from all walks of life welcomed into the garden each summer. For over 200 years the garden has been used by the Royal Family for official entertaining and celebratory events...
The central feature of the garden is the lake, created in the 19th century and originally fed from the overflow from the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Today it is a self-regulating eco-system fed from the Buckingham Palace bore hole. A ‘long-grass policy’ has encouraged the natural lakeside environment to flourish, and the area is now a favourite nesting site for a variety of water birds. The garden provides a habitat for native birds rarely seen in London, including the common sandpiper, sedge warbler and lesser whitethroat.
In 1608 James I established a plantation of mulberries for the rearing of silkworms on the site under royal patronage. Unfortunately the wrong type of mulberry bush was chosen and the scheme came to nothing. The garden is now home to 45 different types of mulberry trees, and since 2000 it has held the National Collection of Mulberries.
During the first half of the 18th century, Buckingham House, the London home of the Duke of Buckingham, occupied the position where the Palace now stands. The house with its surrounding land came into royal ownership in 1761, when it was bought by George III as a private residence. During the reign of George III and his consort, Queen Charlotte, the garden was home to a collection of exotic animals, including an elephant and one of the first zebras seen in England.
The design of the garden as seen today dates back to George IV’s conversion of Buckingham House into Buckingham Palace from 1825. The new royal residence needed a suitably private garden, and George IV appointed William Townsend Aiton, who was in charge of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to oversee the remodelling of the grounds. By this date the taste for very formal gardens had been replaced by a desire for more naturalistic landscaping, inspired by the work of Capability Brown and Humphry Repton. Aiton’s main alterations were the creation of the lake and the construction of the Mound, an artificial high bank on the south side to screen the Palace from the Royal Mews.
Like the Palace itself, the garden has undergone changes over the years. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth chose to clear many of the dense Victorian shrubberies and introduced a wide selection of decorative flowering trees and scented shrubs.
A number of commemorative specimens planted by members of the Royal Family are identified by plaques recording the occasion, including birthdays, wedding anniversaries and jubilees. The plantings are constantly added to by today’s team of gardeners, to introduce new areas of interest and to enhance the historic landscaping.
[Royal Collection Trust]
CUT MARK: NBM P SE SIDE RIBCHESTER RD 9.1M SW HEDGE JUNC (ODN 29.209m, AGL 0.5m).
Damaged
Location
Grid reference: SD 6679 3581.
Landranger 103: Blackburn & Burnley, Clitheroe & Skipton.
Explorer 287: West Pennine Moors.
Structure: Gatepost.
this is the finish I imagined polished and shiny showing the passage of years and seemingly eternal yet actually fleeting - however I would have to polish the rust daily and service all the water traps in order to limit the ravages of time. I don't have the time and I don't think it's worth the effort
CUT MARK: WALL NE SIDE BURNLEY RD OPP PO (ODN 94.241m, AGL 0.7m).
Good
Location
Grid reference: SE 0381 2497.
Landranger 104: Leeds & Bradford, Harrogate & Ilkley.
Explorer OL21: South Pennines.
Structure: Gatepost.
Springfield House became a maternity hospital that was eventually demolished and a care home was built on the site.
CUT MARK: GT P NOS140 AND 142 TULKETH RD (ODN 20.309m, AGL 0.5m).
Good
Location
Grid reference: SD 5199 3008.
Landranger 102: Preston & Blackpool, Lytham St Anne's.
Explorer 286: Blackpool & Preston.
Structure: Gatepost.
GTP NW SIDE RD 3.7M SW WALL JUNC (ODN 267.633m, AGL 0.7m).
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Location
Grid reference: SD 6372 4007.
Landranger 102: Preston & Blackpool, Lytham St Anne's.
Landranger 103: Blackburn & Burnley, Clitheroe & Skipton.
Explorer OL41: Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale.
Structure: Gatepost.
It's no longer hanging there but I can almost see it, sun bleached and worn but proudly guarding the road long before the steel gate came along.
An old stone gatepost at the entrance to a field opposite the office I work in, overlooking Stocksfield, towards County Durham in the distance.
The sky was just phenominal when I got to work yesterday morning, I was pleased to have a good camera with me for once.
Although taken at the smallest aperture possible with the lens I used, the sky was still blown out (well what did I expect, shooting in to the sun?). I corrected this and recovered the clouds with Lightrooms graduated filters.