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WHALETOWN is a settlement on Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is known as the gateway to Cortes Island. A public ferry links Whaletown to Heriot Bay on Quadra Island. It is featured in the 2013 Man Booker long-list work of fiction by author Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being.
- from - BRITISH COLUMBIA P0STAL HISTORY RESEARCH GR0UP / Volume 3 - Number 4 - Whole number 12 - December 1994 - The Type "A" split ring date stamp in use at WHALETOWN Post Office is now over 100 years old and is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest hammer in continuous use in Canada. Thanks to the efforts of Chris McGregor, a special cover was produced to mark the 100th anniversary of the Post Office. The establishment was authorized under postal order 715 dated 3 March 1894 and the WHALETOWN split ring was proofed 19 June 1894. The office opened officially on July 1, 1894 with Lawrence J. Rose as postmaster. The present Postmistress is Joan Goring. LINK to the complete article - bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-1994-12-v003n04-w012.pdf
LINK to - My Stamp Stuff - Monday, April 30, 2012 - Whaletown, British Columbia - stamp-stuff.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html
The WHALETOWN Post Office was established - 1 July 1894.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the WHALETOWN Post Office - central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=posoffposmas&id=1...
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 9 March 1932 - Mrs. Mary Thompson was the Postmistress at WHALETOWN when this letter was posted - she served from - 1 October 1928 until her death - 5 March 1932. Her husband Nicholas Thompson served as Postmaster at WHALETOWN from - 1 March 1904 to - November 1926.
Clipped from - The Vancouver Sun newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 20 September 1927 - Pioneer Postmaster Of Cortez Is Dead - Nicholas Thompson, postmaster of Whaletown, Cortes Island, died in this city Monday, in his 53rd year. Mr. Thompson was the son of Samuel Thompson, well-known pioneer of this province, and a nephew of Nichol Thompson, prominent in mining circles In British Columbia, he was born in England and had resided in Whaletown district for 20 years. Mr. Thompson is survived by his wife, his mother, one son, Leonard R., and three brothers, James C, Robert D. and John M.
Postmistress of Cortez Island Is Laid at Rest - Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Thompson, aged 60, of Whaletown, Cortez Island, who died Saturday, 5 March 1932, were held at 3 p.m. In Center & Hanna's chapel. Burial was In the family plot. Mountain View Cemetery. The deceased, who was the widow of Nicholas Thompson, was postmistress at Whaletown. She is survived by two sons.
- sent from - / WHALETOWN / OC 10 / 29 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 19 June 1894 - (RF B).
Corneille / Whaletown / B.C. - sent by a member of the Corneille family. Mrs. Sarah Christina (nee Gillespie) Corneille ran the Gorge Harbour Lodge on Cortes Island. LINK to a photo of the Lodge taken in 1929 collections.cortesmuseum.com/media/images/2020.006%20Ball...
The Corneille Family moved to Cortez Island in the mid 1920's - one of the family members sent this letter...
Sarah Christina (nee Gillespie) Corneille
(b. 3 August 1877 in Howard, Kent, Ontario, Canada – d. 21 August 1949 at age 72 in Campbell River, , British Columbia, Canada) - LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/103963714/obituary-for-corneille/ - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/82...
Her husband - Frederick Evan Corneille Sr.
(b. 18 December 1878 in Ekfrid, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada – d. 21 May 1919 at age 40 in British Columbia, Canada) - they were married - 4 May 1904 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/103963986/obituary-for-f-e-cornei...
Her son - John Malcolm Corneille
(b. 26 February 1905 in Howard, Kent, Ontario, Canada – Deceased)
Her son - Frederick Evan Corneille Jr.
(b. 15 September 1906 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada – d. 31 December 1994 at age 88 in Victoria, British Columbia) - LINK to his marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/0a... - LINK to his second wife's obituary - Mary Edna (nee Wilson) Corneille - www.newspapers.com/clip/103964110/obituary-for-mary-edna-... LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/24...
Her daughter - Laurie Christina Corneille
(b. 21 April 1908 in Thunderbay, Algoma, Ontario, Canada – Deceased)
Her daughter - Sarah Alecia Mabelle (nee Corneille) Smith
(b. September 1910 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Deceased) - LINK to her marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/be...
Her daughter - Mildred Elizabeth (nee Corneille) Ballantyne
(b. 1915 in Vancouver, British Columbia – Deceased) - LINK to her marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/49...
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Addressed to: Mr. Alan Scrivener, / 1345 - 11th Ave. W. / Vancouver, / B.C.
Alan Campbell Scrivener
(b. 2 April 1905 in Toronto, Ontario - d. 7 December 1987 at age 82 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - occupation - brass molder / brass foundry - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/103964440/obituary-for-alan-c-scr... - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/22...
Scrivener - Nancekivell Wedding - A grey-blue silk suit with navy accessories and a colonial bouquet of pink roses and lily of the valley was worn by Ida Louise, daughter of Mrs. E. R. Nancekivell and the late Charles Nancekivell, for her marriage on June 18, 1943 to Mr. Alan Campbell Scrivener, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Scrivener. The ceremony took place in Killarney Hall, with Rev. Gordon Melvin officiating. A reception followed the ceremony. The bride and groom will reside at 1345 West Eleventh.
His wife: Ida Louise (nee Nancekivell) Scrivener
(b. 16 July 1916 in Athabasca, Alberta - d. 19 April 1998 at age 81 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - occupation - registered nurse / Victoria Order of Nurses - LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/104018594/obituary-for-ida-scrive... - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/15...
His father: Henry James Scrivener
(b. 3 April 1868 in Greenwich, Kent, England – d. 17 December 1951 at age 83 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
His mother - Alice Maud (nee Copping) Scrivener
(b. 1870 in Toronto, Ontario – d. 22 May 1948 at age 78 in Essondale, British Columbia, Canada) - they were married - 4 June 1902 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.
The Norman Grade I Listed Church of St Genewys which dates from the 12th Century in Scotton, a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire
It is not clear why the church was dedicated to St Genewys. The name is thought to be derived from St Genesius, a 7th Century Bishop of Clermont Ferrand in France but why a church in in Lincolnshire is named after him is a mystery. There is a portrait of him in the 19th Century stained glass window in the north wall of the chancel.
It stands on the edge of the village, overlooking farmland. It is an attractive building with a small square battlemented tower, nave, side aisles and chancel. There are round pillars on the north arcade and octagonal pillars on the south arcade, both with pointed arches above. The church was heavily restored by the Victorians and the fittings are all Victorian. It is unusual as there are two small windows above the chancel arch.
At the end of the south aisle is a 13th Century effigy of a cross legged knight in chain mail and wearing a surcoat. His feet rest on a lion and it is thought this could be Robert de Neville who went to Jerusalem in 1290. Against the south wall is a 15th Century effigy of a lady in flowing robes with a dog at her feet. This is thought to be another member of the Neville Family, who were Lords of the manor during the Middle Ages. At the end of the north aisle is the tomb stone of a 15th Century priest with his head, shoulders and arms shown in relief in a recessed panel at the head of the stone slab.
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wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/england/lincolnshire/linc...
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A South Shore westbound passes a highly visible detour listing along the Indiana Toll Road between Gary and East Chicago, Indiana.
To the untrained eye it might look like a UFO filling station.
But these six giant white and red pods are actually a relic from the golden age of motoring.
The iconic Mobil station designed by U.S. architect Eliot Noyes in the 1960s is the last remaining one of its kind in the UK.
English Heritage has now granted the building on the A6 at Red Hill in Leicestershire Grade II listed status.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140777/UKs-space-age-st...
Who would have thought that the one of the most innovative and distinctive petrol stations in the world is on the A6, in Birstall, on the outskirts of Leicester’s city centre.
The garage, now owned by BP, has made the top ten list featuring the best designed gas stations in the world.Which was voted by architects of DesignCurial magazine, which is based in London.
The structure, which consists of six large mushroom-like canopies, that form a symmetrical cover for pumps on the forecourt, was voted 6th on the list that contains the most iconic gas stations in the world, including the winner, the Pops Arcadia Station that sits alongside the famous Route 66, in the USA.
During the 1960s, Texas oil giants Mobil hired the architect Eliot Noyes, who was tasked to redesign all the companies gas stations during “Operation Pegasus” a major process to rebrand the company.
Whilst enlisting the help of graphic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar, the company who had designed the iconic Mobil sign, Noyes came up with the bold red, white and blue colour schemes that became instantly recognisable, particularly on the side of a highway.
Successfully meeting the design brief of being immediately identifiable, he designed a structure that fitted the golden age of motoring perfectly. The futuristic flying saucer-like parasols were created.
The circular canopies – unique for their overlapping design – were first built in New haven, Connecticut in the USA in 1966.
The stations were originally accompanied by Noyes’ cylindrical shaped pumps with brushed aluminium casings.
The design was used in 19,000 new and remodelled Mobil stations around the world. This particular petrol station in Birstall was built and finished in 1978/79.
Stations over the years have often been refurbished and replaced with new covers. Many stations have closed down and been demolished as larger supermarkets have bought up forecourts. Experts say ‘it is extremely rare to find any remaining canopies of this design’.
The Grade I Listed Salisbury Cathedral, (formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary), one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. The main body of the cathedral was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Salisbury and seat of the Bishop of Salisbury. In Salisbury, Wiltshire.
As a response to deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum Cathedral, the decision was taken to resite the cathedral and the bishopric was moved to Salisbury. The move occurred during the tenure of Bishop Richard Poore, a wealthy man who donated the land on which it was built. The new cathedral was paid for by donations, principally from the canons and vicars of southeast England who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until it was completed. A legend tells that the Bishop of Old Sarum shot an arrow in the direction he would build the cathedral but the arrow hit a deer that died in the place where Salisbury Cathedral is now. The cathedral crossing, Old Sarum and Stonehenge are reputed to be aligned on a ley line, though Clive L.N. Ruggles asserts that the site, on marshland, was chosen because a preferred site several miles to the west could not be obtained.
The foundation stone was laid on 28 April 1220. Much of the freestone for the cathedral came from Teffont Evias quarries. As a result of the high water table in the new location, the cathedral was built on only four feet of foundations, and by 1258 the nave, transepts and choir were complete. The only major sections built later were the cloisters in 1240, the chapter house in 1263, tower and spire, which at 404 feet (123 m) dominated the skyline from 1320. Because most of the cathedral was built in only 38 years, it has a single consistent architectural style, Early English Gothic.
Although the spire is the cathedral's most impressive feature, it has proved to be troublesome. Together with the tower, it added 6,397 tons (6,500 tonnes) to the weight of the building. Without the addition of buttresses, bracing arches and anchor irons over the succeeding centuries, it would have suffered the fate of spires on later great ecclesiastical buildings (such as Malmesbury Abbey) and fallen down; instead, Salisbury remains the tallest church spire in the UK. The large supporting pillars at the corners of the spire are seen to bend inwards under the stress. The addition of reinforcing tie beams above the crossing, designed by Christopher Wren in 1668, arrested further deformation. The beams were hidden by a false ceiling, installed below the lantern stage of the tower.
Significant changes to the cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including replacement of the original rood screen and demolition of a bell tower which stood about 320 feet (100 m) north west of the main building. Salisbury is one of only three English cathedrals to lack a ring of bells, the others are Norwich Cathedral and Ely Cathedral. However it does strike the time every 15 minutes with bells. In total, 70,000 tons of stone, 3,000 tons of timber and 450 tons of lead were used in the construction of the cathedral.
The Grade II Listed Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station, in Manchester, Greater Manchester.
Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester. It opened as Store Street in 1842 and renamed Manchester London Road in 1847, it became Piccadilly in 1960. It serves intercity destinations such as London (Euston), Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, South Wales, and Glasgow as well as other destinations throughout Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, and York. Piccadilly is also a major interchange of the Metrolink light rail system, two platforms used by Metrolink trams are in the station's undercroft, under the railway platforms.
Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group ahead of Oxford Road, Victoria, Salford Central and Deansgate.
The station received a five-year £100m refurbishment in 2002, which was the most expensive improvement on the UK rail network at the time. According to an independent poll carried out in 2007, Manchester Piccadilly has the highest customer satisfaction level of any UK station, with 92% of passengers satisfied compared with the national average of 60%.
To accommodate High Speed 2 (HS2), an extension to Piccadilly would have four platforms and a 7.5 miles tunnel would be built under south Manchester to join the West Coast Main Line at Ardwick. Journey times to Manchester Airport would be reduced to 9 minutes, Birmingham 41 minutes and London 68 minutes – from 18 minutes, 86 minutes, and 128 minutes, respectively. Station upgrades could include enhanced Metrolink services, improved road access and car parking. The line is planned to be completed by 2032.
A major redevelopment of Piccadilly station and the surrounding area has been proposed to complement the HS2 plans; the project would involve the construction of a large new canopy over the HS2 platforms, the creation of a new entrance to the station, and new office, retail and residential buildings. Architectural designs indicate that the derelict Mayfield Station and the curved Gateway House office block will be demolished.
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The Grade II* Listed Old School House dates from 1610. An inscription above the front door reads 'Much Woolton Old School House - The Oldest Elementary School Building in Lancashire'.
Probably the oldest building in the area. The date 1610 is displayed but it is thought to be earlier. It stopped being used as a school in the 19th. Century.
After being converted into a house in the 1980s it has been back in use for educational purposes since about 1990 as a nursery school.
Located on School Lane, Woolton.
We're in the process of getting Jessie to start taking showers on her own as opposed to taking baths with Sydney. She wanted clarification on what she had to clean, so Jane wrote her this list on the bathtub wall with bath crayons. :)
Pier Head
The spectacular Liverpool Waterfront is one of the most recognised skylines in the world.
The Three Graces
Three spectacular buildings located on the Waterfront.
The Three Graces are the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building.
The Three Graces from left to right:
Royal Liver Building
1908
byWalter Aubrey Thomas
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Liver_Building
Cunard Building
1914-16
by Willinck & Thicknesse with Arthur J. Davis
Grade II* Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunard_Building
Port of Liverpool Building
1903-07
by Briggs & Wolstenholme with Hobbs & Thornely
Grade II* Listed
Reading Street in the Grade II Listed Railway Village, Swindon, Wiltshire.
In 1840 three hundred cottages were built by the GWR for their workers. These cottages were tiny, with 2 or 3 small bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen. There was no bathroom and the toilet was outside in the yard. Food could be cooked on an iron stove heated with coal, and water had to be fetched in. These cottages were modernised in 1980 and provide limited but stylish accommodation.
The Works transformed Swindon from a small 2,500 population market town into a bustling railway town. Built to the north of the main town centre, the works had need to build locally accessible housing and services for the workers. The development of the railway village was on the lines of similar Victorian-era socially-encompassing lifestyle concepts, such as that at Bournville, but architect/builder Rigby's were given license to create a commercially viable development by the GWR. The completed village provided to the town medical and educational facilities that had been sorely lacking, plus St Mark's Church and the Bakers Arms public house, all completed before 1850.
The terraced two-storey cottages were built on two blocks of four parallel streets, not dissimilar in appearance to passing trains. Each road was named after the destinations of trains that passed nearby: Bristol, Bath, Taunton, London, Oxford and Reading among them. Built in the nearby open area, named Emlyn Square after GWR director Viscount Emlyn (later known as John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor), was the Mechanics Institute, paid for via subscription by the workers. Designed and constructed by Edward Roberts, it was completed in 1855, containing the UK’s first lending library and provided health services to workers.
Enlarged in 1892-93, Nye Bevan, mastermind of the NHS later said “There was a complete health service in Swindon. All we had to do was expand it to the country.” In the 1960s, Swindon Borough Council applied to demolish much of the village, but poet and railway enthusiast Sir John Betjeman led a successful campaign to preserve it. Today much of the village is a conservation area, and many structures within it are listed buildings.
Information source:
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101023517-3-18-reading-stree...
I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the HSCC Pre ’60 Historic Sports Car Championship race at the HSCC Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987. It's a 3.8 litre Lister Jaguar driven by Aidan Mills-Thomas and has the 'knobbly' body which featured on the early Lister Jaguars. The car was apparently severely damaged at one point, to the extent that it's registration number (WTM 446) and chassis number (BHL126) were transferred to another Lister Jaguar. This change of identity was subsequently disputed, and the result was an extremely expensive court case in which the judge finally decided that it was not his place to decide such a matter.
The 18th Century Grade II Listed Pigeoncote in Scotter a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
Scotter has its own unique potato, known as the ‘King Edward Potato’. It was bred by a gardener who called it ‘Fellside Hero’ and passed into the hands of a grower in Yorkshire and in turn a potato merchant in Manchester who having no use for it passed it onto John Butler of Scotter in Lincolnshire. He in turn purchased all the seed stocks available and multiplied the variety on 50 aces of land before renaming the variety King Edward on the advice of a potato merchant. It is claimed Butler wrote to Buckingham Palace seeking permission to name his potato after the monarch and that a reply was received granting royal assent. It is one of the oldest surviving varieties in Europe.
In 1890 Scotter lost both doctors, Robert Eminson Senior and Robert Eminson Junior, when they became ill and died as a result of attending patients in the pleuro-pneumonia epidemic of that year. Dr. Thomas Benjamin Franklin Eminson followed his father and older brother as our village doctor. His patients knew him as ‘Doctor Tommy’ and he served the community for over 50 years. Doctor Tommy was interested in local history and became a published author. It seems that every Christmas he would write an article about the past year. One from 1939 survives.
Scotter memorial is an obelisk of Portland Stone situated in the middle of The Green in the centre of the village. It was unveiled in 1921 to commemorate the Thirteen men who died and the eighty who served in and survived the great war. Sadly, eight more names had to be added for the men who lost their lives in World War II.
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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1207307
Date First Listed : 27 September 1979
Built 1901-3, the Post Office was designed by Henry Tanner, and is in a mix of Renaissance and Jacobean styles. It is built in sandstone and has a large rectangular plan. The building is in three storeys with a basement and attic, and the main front is in seven bays. The outer bays project forward and have shaped gables containing Diocletian windows. Most of the other windows are mullioned and transomed. The attached railings are included in the listing.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207307
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Preston,_Lancashire
Listed Building Grade I
List Entry Number : 1208577
Date First Listed : 1 June 1949
Prior's tower with hall range, extension and adjoining stables; now Deanery, museum and flats. For the Priory of St Mary, Carlisle. Late C15 tower and hall with C17 extensions and alterations; further 1853 extensions by James Stewart (internal alterations now partly removed, 1882 by CJ Ferguson); 1949-51 alterations dated 1950 on rainwater head. Red sandstone ashlar, some of the extensions are of squared red sandstone, on chamfered plinth, with string courses on tower and battlemented parapet. Flat lead roof on tower; otherwise greenslate roofs with coped gables and kneelers; full and half-gabled dormers; ashlar ridge and end chimney stacks. Stable range has sandstone flag roof. The main facade faces towards the Cathedral. Central square tower of 2 storeys over basement; the hall range at the right is 2-storey, 3 bays with projecting 2-storey extension; left 3-storey, 3-bay extension and beyond is the single storey, 4-bay stables. Tower has a central 2-light cusped headed oriel window, corbelled out, in a deeply chamfered surround under hoodmould and pent roof. Other small irregular casement windows; upper floor 2-light mullioned window with diamond leaded panes. The right return has a high crease for the original roof on the hall range. Rear has similar oriel and other windows. INTERIOR has rib-vaulted basement, contemporary with the tower; panelled upper floor room with panelled doors; painted wooden ceiling has decorative and heraldic devices, applied during Prior Senhouse's term of office c1494 - 1521. Angle newel stair to top storey and roof. The Deanery has a 1950 right doorway with projecting stone porch, in a single-storey 3-bay pent extension of 1853. First floor is C17 with 2-light mullioned windows and late C17 carved panel of Bishop's arms. 2-light gabled 1/2 dormers (appear on a view of 1715). The projecting facing double gable extension at right is of 1853 with 2- and 3-light mullioned and cross-mullioned windows. The rear wall of the hall range is probably C15 stonework but now with sash and mullioned windows. INTERIOR has ground floor C16 segmental-arched stone fireplaces; an upper floor fireplace is on corbels. Now internal front wall has former C17 doorway. Wooden staircase is probably of 1882 by CJ Ferguson; C19 panelled doors. Extensive repairs in 1988-9 required the gutting of the hall range. No.5 (the left extension) was formerly part of the Deanery but now a flat. Central panelled door in stone architrave with segmental pediment and flanking windows in stone architraves were all inserted in 1950 when an 1853 pent extension was removed; left blocked opening has a double chamfered surround; a right projecting stone porch (added since 1950) gives access to tower. Above are sash windows with glazing bars in C17 stone architraves with hood cornices. The V-jointed quoining at the left of calciferous sandstone is 2-storey and above it changes to red sandstone; the third storey was added in C19 with 1/2 gabled dormers. Rear 2- and 3-light mullioned and cross-mullioned windows. INTERIOR altered. Prior's Stables, Nos 5A and 5B, have a left recessed doorway now with C20 door, the C15 flattened arch with the initials TG (for Prior Thomas Gondibour, prior c1464-1494). Further right C15 doorway has segmental chamfered arch with hoodmould. Between the doors are a small and larger sash window with glazing bars in chamfered surrounds; further left C20 window in C20 opening. Left return has C20 double plank doors in C20 former garage opening. The roof had to be rebuilt in the 1960s. INTERIORS not inspected. It is now thought that the tower was built in the 1490s, not c1507 as previously thought.
"Bucket List" is the challenge for Our Daily Challenge today. Its my birthday and honestly, having personally survived Covid since my last birthday, I feel my Bucket List is gratifyingly full. Of course I can always wish for more foreign travel. Oh India! My life has been blessed with riches of many kinds and I have long known it. The task now is to be mindfully thankful and kind. And when restless review memories and photos.
There is a lot that I want to get done this year, so I designed a list to keep track of what I want to do.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270136
Date First Listed : 19 April 1996
An early 19th century roughcast house with a slate roof, it has three storeys and a symmetrical front of two bays. The central doorway has Doric pilasters, and the windows are sashes.
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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1292379
Date First Listed : 31 May 1949
Originally an early 19th Century house, later used as shops and an office, in brick on a chamfered plinth, with dressings in calciferous sandstone, quoins, and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front is an engaged Roman Doric porch that has an entablature with a paterae frieze and cornice. In the ground floor are shop bow windows, and in the upper floor the windows are sashes. At the rear is an extension with a bowed bay window.
The Grade I Listed Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
Gloucester Cathedral, or in full the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity in Gloucester, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter.
The foundations of the present church were laid by Abbot Serlo (1072–1104). Walter Gloucester the abbey's historian, became its first mitred abbot in 1381. Until 1541, Gloucester lay in the see of Worcester, but the separate see was then constituted, with John Wakeman, last abbot of
Tewkesbury, as its first bishop. The diocese covers the greater part of Gloucestershire, with small parts of Herefordshire and Wiltshire. The cathedral has a stained glass window containing the earliest images of golf. This dates from 1350, over 300 years earlier than the earliest image of golf from Scotland. There is also a carved image of people playing a ball game, believed by some to be one of the earliest images of medieval football.
The cathedral, built as the abbey church, consists of a Norman nucleus (Walter de Lacy is buried there), with additions in every style of Gothic architecture. It is 420 feet (130 m) long, and 144 feet (44 m) wide, with a fine central tower of the 15th century rising to the height of 225 ft (69 m) and topped by four delicate pinnacles, a famous landmark. The nave is massive Norman with an Early English roof; the crypt, under the choir, aisles and chapels, is Norman, as is the chapter house. The crypt is one of the four apsidal cathedral crypts in England, the others being at Worcester, Winchester and Canterbury.
The south porch is in the Perpendicular style, with a fan-vaulted roof, as also is the north transept, the south being transitional Decorated Gothic. The choir has Perpendicular tracery over Norman work, with an apsidal chapel on each side: the choir vaulting is particularly rich. The late Decorated east window is partly filled with surviving medieval stained glass. Between the apsidal chapels is a cross Lady chapel, and north of the nave are the cloisters, the carrels or stalls for the monks' study and writing lying to the south. The cloisters at Gloucester are the earliest surviving fan vaults, having been designed between 1351 and 1377 by Thomas de Cambridge.
The most notable monument is the canopied shrine of King Edward II of England who was murdered at nearby Berkeley Castle. The building and sanctuary were enriched by the visits of pilgrims to this shrine. In a side-chapel is a monument in coloured bog oak of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror and a great benefactor of the abbey, who was interred there. Monuments of Bishop Warburton and Dr Edward Jenner are also worthy of note.
The Grade II Listed Gothic Revival style St Alban's Church, on Mount Pleasant, in Blackburn, Lancashire.
St Alban's parish was founded in 1773 by Bishop Petre and Father William Fisher. In 1773 just two baptisms were entered in the register but by 1780, Bishop Matthew Gibson confirmed 31 parishioners at Blackburn and 110 communicants recorded. It has been estimated that there were 745 Catholics in Blackburn in 1805.
The population of Blackburn continued to grow and between 1801 and 1821, the census confirmed it had almost doubled from 11,980 to 21,940. A similar increase in the Catholic community, no doubt assisted by the Irish immigration, meant that the little St Alban's chapel in Chapel Street needed to be replaced by a larger church on a new site – Larkhill.
The building of the new church began in 1824 and unlike the previous chapels was not hidden by other buildings. Blackburn Catholics were no longer afraid to pin their hearts on their sleeves and this was demonstrated on the Feast of St Alban on 21st June 1826 when the opening of the new church was advertised in the "Blackburn Mail".
This church was to fulfil the needs of the St Alban's congregation for the rest of the nineteenth century until a new building in 1901 which remains to this day.
Information Sources:
www.stalbanandgoodshepherd.org.uk/
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101223094-holy-trinity-churc...
This is a photograph I took at Britten's chicane during the Hawthorn International Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008. It's Barry Wood in his 1959 Lister Knobbly leading Tom Walker in his 1952 Allard J2X Le Mans. Brian Lister started producing sports cars in 1954 first with an MG engine and later with a Bristol engine, but he had the most success with the 1957 car which used the Jaguar D-type engine. The first version of this car was known at the time as a Lister-Jaguar, but after the 1959 car was given a smoother aerodynamic body designed by Frank Costin (and designed to use the Chevrolet Corvette powerplant) the more bulbous earlier car became known as the Lister Knobbly. Barry Wood's car has the 3,781cc version of the Jaguar XK6 engine and is chassis BHL117. The Allard J2X Le Mans was developed from the Allard J2 which had motor cycle style mudguards and the J2X was introduced to comply with 1952 FIA regulations which said that cars must have all-enveloping bodywork. Tom Walker's car has a 5,425cc Cadillac V8 engine.
The Grade II Listed Church of St John built in 839 by Scott and Moffat. In the village of Wall, just south of Lichfield in Staffordshire.
The earliest evidence of settlement in Wall is the discovery of flints dating to the Neolithic period found in the upper part of Wall village. The first detailed evidence of human settlement comes in the 1st century. A Roman fort named Etocetum (reflecting an indigenous name reconstructed as Lētocaiton or Greywood) was established at Wall in or soon after AD 50 to accommodate Legio XIV, then advancing towards Wales.
A fort was certainly built in the upper area of the village near to the present church in 50s or 60s and Watling Street was constructed to the south in the 70s. A bath house and mansio was built on the lower ground south west of the fort in the late 1st century for use by its soldiers. It was later used by the inhabitants of a civilian settlement which grew up around Watling Street. In the 2nd century the settlement covered approximately 30 acres west of the later Wall Lane. By the 1st or 2nd century there was a burial area beyond the western end of the settlement. The settlement was mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary.
In the late 3rd or early 4th century the eastern part of the settlement of approximately 6 acres, between the present Wall Lane and Green Lane and straddling Watling Street, was enclosed with a stone wall surrounded by an earth rampart and ditches. Civilians continued to live inside the settlement and on its outskirts in the late 4th century. The settlement appears to have declined rapidly soon after the Romans left Britain in AD 410 and the focus of settlement shifted to Lichfield. Despite this shift of population, Ford identifies the community as the Cair Luit Coyd ("Fort Grey Woods") listed by Nennius among the 28 cities of Britain in his History of the Britains, previously identified with Lincoln or Lichfield.
Development of Wall since the Romans has been slow, and it has never developed beyond a small village. The earliest medieval settlement may have been on the higher ground around Wall. Wall House on Green Lane, although dating from the 18th century, is probably on the site of the medieval manor house. Wall Hall to the south also dates from the mid 18th century but replaced a house which existed in the 17th century. By the late 18th century several dwellings were built on Watling Street west of Manor Farm and formed the lower part of the village. In 1837 the church was built, which in 1843 was consecrated as the Parish Church of St John. The church's architects were Moffat and Scott, Scott later became the internationally renowned architect Sir Gilbert Scott. The Trooper Inn existed by 1851. In the 1950s ten council houses were built on a road called The Butts. The re-routing of the A5 around Wall, as the Wall By-pass in 1965, relieved the village of traffic, re-establishing its quiet nature.