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"St Nicholas' Church, the original parish church, dates back to the 14th century but the current building is 17th century. The entrance to the churchyard features a set of skull-and-bones on top of the posts. A plaque on the north wall commemorates playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered in a nearby house, and buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard on 1 June 1593."
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Wow, I just discovered the "Detail Stylizer" on the Nik Color Efex software.
This is a detail from a gatepost outside a very large and beautiful, but very abandoned old house near the Kansas City Art Institute. Someone just bought the place, and I hope they're going to show it some love.
The right-hand gatepost to what had originally been the main entrance to the King George's Field, Romford.
On the Eastern Avenue West, A12.
The other gate pillar has, of course, the lion, also sejant-rampant, holding the shield, but with the notice, 'George V, 1910-1936' underneath.
Gatepost near Saul
In March 1983, I made a drawing trip to both Northern Ireland and the Republic. This sketchbook has now been scanned. It interests me in that like my current work the drawings were in many cases panoramic and span two pages. As with most of my graphic work they are concerned with representing landscapes and places by using a variety of marks and both linear and tonal methods that replicate the visual sensations of being there.
On a gatepost on an industrial estate in Swindon (the premises belonging to International Decorative Surfaces - as per the tape), but probably not the decorative surfaces that they envisage or sell
One of the two slotted gateposts at the entrance to the old Longstone Manor at Burrator reservoir on Dartmoor. Nice and distinctive moss covering to this.
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??).
Looking west from the ancient farmstead of Binns Pasture towards another glorious Lancashire sunset.
#216 in "Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding", described as "recumbent gate-post, probably lying where made. Two cups, one, perhaps both, with ring."
This lies a few metres away from the Swastika Stone, near the path, yet is probably overlooked by the hordes that visit there. I've upped the contrast to aid the visibility of the cup and ring half-way up the post.
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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.