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Mural in the Madison Square Post Office on East 23rd Street, part of the Scenes of New York series painted in 1937-39 by Kindred McCleary for the Treasury Department's New Deal-era Section of Fine Arts Program.
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Basildon Park
Basildon Park estate was bought by Francis Sykes in 1771.
Sykes had made his fortune in the East India Company and required a home befitting his status. He demolished the original house and employed architect John Carr to build the mansion, which still survives.
The Sykes family owned the house until 1838.
The Morrison family owned Basildon Park from 1838 to 1928. It was originally bought by Liberal MP James Morrison who passed it to his eldest son Charles. On his death, it was inherited by his sister Ellen, who died just seven months later, leaving it to her nephew, Major James Archibald Morrison.
The estate was requisitioned during the Second World War. It served several purposes, including being used by the 101st Airborne Division of the American Army for D-Day training and later as a prisoner-of-war camp for German and Italian soldiers. This was all vital to the war effort but inevitably resulted in severe damage to the house and estate.
In 1952, Lord and Lady Iliffe bought the semi-ruined Basildon Park.
The couple set about sensitively restoring the house to its former glory, adding modern comforts such as central heating, a contemporary kitchen, and bathrooms.
They restored the elegant interior and scoured the country, searching for 18th-century architectural fixtures and fittings to fill their comfortable new home.
The fine paintings, fabrics and furniture they bought can still be enjoyed by visitors today.
The house and gardens have been featured in several Film and TV drama productions, including Pride and Prejudice, Bridgerton, Downtown Abbey, The Gentlemen and The Crown.
Lord and Lady Iliffe gifted the house and 400 acres of parkland to the National Trust in 1978.
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basildon_Park
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Christmas 2024
Basildon Park celebrates twenty years of starring as a filming location this year.
The room decor theme is ‘Your favourite Christmas movie’.
Visitors are invited to admire the sumptuous Christmas trees, bask in the glow of the twinkling lights, and see if they can guess the movie theme of the room.
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The Library
Lord Iliffe used this room as his study.
Portrait
Edward Langton Iliffe, 2nd Baron Iliffe of Yattendon
by Graham Vivian Sutherland
1976
Oil on Canvas
Calm and peaceful in the mornings, Lower Seletar Reservoir Park is a pleasant place for leisure strolls or jogs. Benches along the edge of the reservoir offer great spots from which to enjoy the turquoise waters and the balmy breeze.
A fishing jetty (maintained by PUB) extending from the park into the reservoir caters to the fishing enthusiasts. Here to their delight, large snakeheads and tilapias can be caught.
As the day approaches the late afternoon, the reservoir park transforms into a water sports hub. Popular with kayaks and dragon-boating, the water teems with high energy amidst sporadic shouts of cheers.
Participating in such water activities is definitely the best way to enjoy the beautiful waters and scenery our reservoir has to offer. And in Lower Seletar Reservoir Park, the PA Water-Venture outlet provides a pleasant place for leisure kayak rentals.
The Active, Beautiful and Clean (ABC) Waters project can be found at the park too, and includes a Family Bay with a new performance stage, a water play area, a bioswale rain garden, as well as a Heritage Bridge. You will also find the Rowers' Bay at the other side of the reservoir too.
Source: www.nparks.gov.sg/
amazing. moments earlier this woman was actually just smacking her clitoris to the beat of the music, very loudly. quite striking. i missed a shot of it. :-(
from 21 West Street- 40-somethingth floor(?)
This neighborhood is a treasure box of amazing architectural statements; here and Chicago were truly the wombs of the skyscraper. And it's incredible that all this stands on a horizontal framework of colonial streets intended for horse and wood framed houses.
Labor Day
September 6, 2010
(Photographed by Daniel Evans)
The Lower School Concert held on Thursday, 7th February was a great success. All Year 7 boys performed as a Choir in this Concert and the Year 7 Band, Year 8 Rock School Band and a number of excellent soloists from both Year 7 and 8 also took part. Congratulations to all the students who performed and thanks to the parents and friends who came to support them. We are grateful to Daniel Evans in Year 13 who took photos of the Concert.