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Pindapata, or begging rounds, in Luang Prabang. Early in the morning the monks and novices walk down the streets to collect sticky rice and other gifts from people in the town, mostly from the women.
Following our 2005 Rapid Assessment of the Albanian coast for sea turtles and monk seals, in 2008 we launched a three-year scientific project to study sea turtles in the Patok Area of Albania. The project also included local awareness raising, training of local researchers and a pollution survey. Each summer (June-September) researchers studied sea turtles with the help of the local fishermen who caught them incidentally in their fishing gear. The level of bycatch in trawlers (background) remains unknown.
Copyright ©MEDASSET 2008-10
Find out more about the important results of this pioneer project at www.medasset.org
Project partners included the University of Tirana, Albania; University of Adnan Menderes-Department of Biology, Turkey; Herpetofauna Albanian Society; and ECAT–Tirana.
The project was funded by MEDASSET, the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grant Programme (GEF/SGP), the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA), the United Nations Environment Programme Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP), the British Chelonia Group (BCG), the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation (Greece), the Spear Charitable Trust (UK) and the Panton Trust (UK).
Silently awaiting donations to help support the monastery. A flicker of a smile passed across his face as I tried to ask him permission to take his photo. A pity that he modestly keeps his eyes covered by the rim of his hat.
in St. Peter's Church in Monks Eleigh, Suffolk (Organ: Walker, 1879)
--Church Link: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/monkseleigh.html
The Postcard
A Salmon Series postcard that was photographed and published by J. Salmon of Sevenoaks. The image is a glossy real photograph.
The card was posted in Bexhill-on-Sea using a 1d. stamp on Wednesday the 30th. June 1926. It was sent to:
Lady Smithers,
Homefield,
Knockholt,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Thank you so much.
I will keep the samples
until I return in 10 days
or a fortnight.
I had a very delightful
treat today in seeing
this wonderful and
most lovely place.
I had no idea it was
so beautiful.
With love,
Ida.
Bexhill,
June 30th. 1926."
Homefield and the Smithers Family
Homefield is a Victorian mansion that was built in 1881 for Sir Alfred Smithers, the chairman of South Eastern Railway, which had opened some 25 years before, and was the first line to run from London to Dover.
Each time his company opened a new station along the line, Sir Alfred added a few more rooms to his house, which resulted in a somewhat higgledy-piggledy layout of rooms, many of them small with few bathrooms.
Sir Alfred Waldron Smithers was born in 1850 and died in 1924. His wife Lady Emma Roberta Theobald Smithers was born in 1859 and died in 1934.
Their daughter Eva Smithers was born in Knockholt on the 4th. August 1886, and died at Homefield on the 30th. January 1973 at the age of 86.
Battle Abbey
Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex. The abbey was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings, and is dedicated to St. Martin of Tours.
The Grade I listed site is now operated by English Heritage, and includes the abbey buildings and ruins, a visitor centre with a film and exhibition about the battle, audio tours of the battlefield site, and the monks' gatehouse with recovered artefacts.
The visitor centre includes a children's discovery room and a café, and there is an outdoor themed playground.
In 1070, Pope Alexander II ordered the Normans to do penance for killing so many people during their conquest of England. In response, William the Conqueror vowed to build an abbey where the Battle of Hastings had taken place, with the high altar of its church on the supposed spot where King Harold fell in the battle on Saturday, 14 October 1066.
William started building it, but died before it was completed. Its church was finished in about 1094 and consecrated during the reign of his son William known as Rufus.
William I had ruled that the church of St. Martin of Battle was to be exempted from all episcopal jurisdiction, putting it on the level of Canterbury. It was remodelled in the late 13th. century, but virtually destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 under King Henry VIII.
The abbey and much of its land was given by Henry VIII to his friend and Master of the Horse, Sir Anthony Browne, who demolished the church and parts of the cloister and turned the abbot's quarters into a country house.
It was sold in 1721 by Browne's descendant, Anthony Browne, 6th Earl of Montagu, to Sir Thomas Webster, MP and baronet. Sir Thomas had married the heiress Jane Cheek, granddaughter of a wealthy merchant, Henry Whistler, to whose vast inheritance she succeeded in 1719.
Webster was succeeded by his son, Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd Baronet, who died childless in 1779, being succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother. Battle Abbey remained in the Webster family until 1857, when it was sold to Lord Harry Vane, later Duke of Cleveland. On the death of the Duchess of Cleveland in 1901, the estate was bought back by Sir Augustus Webster, 7th baronet.
Sir Augustus (son of Sir Augustus, 7th baronet) was born in 1864 and succeeded his father as 8th baronet in 1886. In 1895, he married the only daughter of Henry Crossley of Aldborough Hall, Bedale. Sir Augustus was formerly a captain in the Coldstream Guards.
The descendants of Sir Augustus Webster, 8th baronet (died 1923) who brought the extinction, finally sold Battle Abbey to the British government in 1976 and it is now in the care of English Heritage.
It was an all-girls boarding school when Canadian troops were stationed there in the Second World War, and continues to this day as a successful school for both boys and girls.
All that is left of the abbey church itself today is its outline on the ground, but parts of some of the abbey's buildings are still standing: those built between the 13th. and 16th. century. These are still in use as the independent Battle Abbey School.
Visitors to the abbey usually are not allowed inside the school buildings, although during the school's summer holidays, access to the abbot's hall is often allowed.
The church's high altar reputedly stood on the spot where Harold died. This is now marked by a plaque on the ground, and nearby is a monument to Harold erected by the people of Normandy in 1903. The ruins of the abbey, with the adjacent battlefield, are a popular tourist attraction, with events such as the Battle of Hastings re-enactments.
Sir Alan Cobham
So what else happened on the day that Ida posted the card?
Well, on the 30th. June 1926, English pilot Alan Cobham took off from the River Medway in order to begin a round-trip flight from England to Australia in his de Havilland seaplane.
Sir Alan John Cobham, KBE, AFC, who was born on the 6th. May 1894, was an English aviation pioneer.
-- Alan Cobham - The Early Years
As a child Alan attended Wilson's School, which was then in Camberwell, London. The school was relocated to the former site of Croydon Airport in 1975.
Alan Cobham began work as a teenage commercial apprentice in the City of London. He enjoyed the outdoors, and after completing his apprenticeship, spent a year working on his uncle's farm, hoping to make a career in estate management.
After a brief return to London commercial work, in August 1914 he joined the British Army, and was directed to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps due to his farming experience.
Alan served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1917, dealing mainly with injured horses, and attained the rank of Staff Veterinary Sergeant.
-- Alan Cobham's Career
After transfer to the Royal Flying Corps and then the Royal Air Force, he became a Pilot Officer flying instructor.
After the war Cobham became a test pilot for the de Havilland aircraft company, and was the first pilot for the newly formed de Havilland Aeroplane Hire Service.
In 1921 he made a 5,000-mile air tour of Europe, visiting 17 cities in three weeks.
Between the 16th. November 1925 and the 13th. March 1926, he made a trip from London to Cape Town and returned in his de Havilland DH.50, in which he had replaced the original Siddeley Puma engine with a more powerful, air-cooled Jaguar.
On the 30th. June 1926, he set off on a flight from Great Britain (from the River Medway) to Australia. 60,000 people swarmed across the grassy fields of Essendon Airport, Melbourne, when he landed his de Havilland DH.50 floatplane (it had been converted to a wheeled undercarriage earlier, at Darwin).
During the flight to Australia, Cobham's engineer of the D.H.50 aircraft, Arthur B. Elliot, was shot and killed after they left Baghdad on the 5th. July 1926. The return flight was undertaken over the same route. Cobham was knighted the same year.
On the 25th. November 1926, Cobham attempted but failed to be the first person to deliver mail to New York City by air from the east.
He planned to fly mail from the White Star ocean liner RMS Homeric in a de Havilland DH.60 Moth floatplane when the ship was about 12 hours from New York harbour on a westbound crossing from Southampton.
However after the Moth was lowered from the ship, Cobham was unable to take off owing to rough water, and had to be towed into port by the ship.
Cobham starred as himself in the 1927 British war film The Flight Commander directed by Maurice Elvey.
In 1927–28 Alan flew a Short Singapore flying boat around the continent of Africa, landing only in British territory. Cobham wrote his own contemporary accounts of his flights, and recalls them in his biography.
The films With Cobham to the Cape (1926), Round Africa with Cobham (1928) and With Cobham to Kivu (1932) contain valuable footage of the flights.
In 1929 Cobham mounted his first tour of Great Britain, called the Municipal Aerodrome Campaign. This was an ambitious plan to encourage town councils to build local airports in the hope of drumming up business for his activities as an aviation consultant.
Each event started with free flights to local dignitaries, followed by free flights for local schoolchildren, the latter funded by Sir Charles Wakefield, the founder of Castrol, who paid the fares for ten thousand such flights.
The day would finish with as many paid-for pleasure flights as could be managed for the public, the income from which would pay Alan's expenses and make him a profit.
The tour visited 110 venues between May and October 1929 using a ten-passenger de Havilland DH.61 Giant Moth G-AAEV named Youth of Britain. Cobham declared the tour to have been a great success.
In 1932 he started the National Aviation Day displays – a combination of barnstorming and joyriding. This consisted of a team of up to fourteen aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, and many skilled pilots.
It toured the country, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion.
Generally known as "Cobham's Flying Circus", it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying, and bringing "air-mindedness" to the population.
In 1933 there were two simultaneous tours throughout the season, named Number 1 and Number 2.
In the British winter of 1932–33, Cobham took his aerial circus to South Africa (with the mistaken view that it would be the first of its kind there).
Alan closed the circus within weeks of a mid-air disaster in which two of his planes collided over Blackpool on the 7th. September 1935. The pilot of an Avro biplane, South African war veteran, Captain Hugh P Stewart and two Blackpool sisters, Lilian and Doris Barnes, were killed.
Cobham was also one of the founding directors of Airspeed Limited, the aircraft manufacturing company started by Nevil Shute Norway (better known as the famous novelist, Nevil Shute).
Another director was the designer Hessell Tiltman; who, had been discharged by the Airship Guarantee Company (a subsidiary of Vickers) after the R101 disaster had also caused the grounding of the more successful R100.
Cobham was an early and enthusiastic recruit: indeed, it was thanks to Sir Alan – who placed early orders for two "Off Plan" aircraft (the three-engined ten-seater Airspeed Ferry) for his National Aviation Day Limited company – that Airspeed managed to commence manufacturing at all.
Cobham's early experiments with in-flight refuelling were based on a specially adapted Airspeed Courier. This craft was eventually modified by Airspeed to Cobham's specification, for a non-stop flight from London to India, using in-flight refuelling to extend the aeroplane's flight duration.
In 1935 Alan founded a small airline, Cobham Air Routes Ltd, that flew from London Croydon Airport to the Channel Islands.
Months later, after a crash that killed one of his pilots, he sold it to Olley Air Service Ltd. and turned to the development of inflight refueling. Trials stopped at the outbreak of World War II until interest was successfully revived by the RAF and United States Army Air Forces in the last year of the war.
He once remarked:
"It's a full time job being
Alan Cobham!"
-- Sir Alan Cobham's Personal Life
In the summer of 1922 Alan married Gladys Lloyd, and they subsequently had two sons; Geoffrey (born 1925) and Michael (born 1927). Lady Cobham died in 1961 at the age of 63.
Alan retired to the British Virgin Islands, but returned to England, where he died at the age of 79 on the 21st. October 1973.
-- Sir Alan Cobham's Legacy
In 1997, Cobham was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
The company he formed is still active in the aviation industry as Cobham plc.
In 2015 the Royal Air Force Museum in London staged an exhibition about Cobham. In 2016 the RAF exhibited his Flying Circus.
In 2016 he was inducted into the Airlift/Tanker Association Hall of Fame.
Round the Bend, the novel by Nevil Shute, features Cobham's National Aviation Day flying circus as an integral part of the plot. The principal character Tom Cutter is said to have been modelled upon one of Cobham's pilots, Martin Hearn, who was a pioneer of wing walking stunts, and who later ran his own aircraft assembly plant at Hooton Park in Cheshire.
Frederick Cunliffe-Owen
The 30th. June 1926 also marked the death of Frederick Cunliffe-Owen.
Frederick Philip Lewis Cunliffe-Owen, CBE, who was born on the 30th. January 1855, was an English-born writer and newspaper columnist.
-- Frederick Cunliffe-Owen - The Early Years
Frederick was a son of exhibition organizer and museum director Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen (1828 – 1894) and his German wife, Baroness Elisa Amalie Philippine Julie von Reitzenstein (1830 - 1894), known as "Jenny".
His younger brother was industrialist Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st. Baronet Cunliffe-Owen.
Frederick Cunliffe-Owen was educated at Lancing College and the University of Lausanne. He joined the diplomatic service and spent time in Egypt and Japan.
In 1877, he married Emma Pauline de Couvreu de Deckersberg (1856 - 1918), with whom he had two children. They divorced in Switzerland in 1887.
-- Frederick Cunliffe-Owen - The Later Years
In 1885, Cunliffe-Owen moved to New York City with his second wife, Marguerite. He wrote for the New York Tribune, becoming first the paper's foreign editor, and later its society editor.
Using the pseudonym "Marquise de Fontenoy", Cunliffe-Owen wrote syndicated feature articles about European aristocratic and court society.
He also wrote a series called "An Ex-Attaché's Letters" about European diplomatic and political affairs, and wrote editorials on these subjects for the New York Times.
He was a military attaché in Constantinople during the July Crisis that led to the Great War.
In 1916, he was sued by Rudolph de Landas Berghes for libel, after writing to the Bishop of Pennsylvania to warn him "against giving any countenance whatsoever to the soi-disant 'Prince de Berghes'."
He secondly married Countess Marguerite de Godart de Planty et de Sourdis (1861 - 1927), later known as Countess Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen.
Cunliffe-Owen was appointed a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1908, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and Knight Commander of the Order of the White Eagle (Serbia) in 1920.
Frederick Cunliffe-Owen died in New York on the 30th. June 1926. Countess Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen died on the 29th. August 1927.
A monk in Bangkok temple
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Young monks at a temple in Bangkok. You're not really supposed to take photos of the monks without asking permission - so this was shot from the hip.
Buddhist monks wash saffron robes in the klong near Bangkok, 14 Aug 74 during our round the world trip
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by H. Morez-Decroo of Furnes. The card has a divided back. All the people in the Grand'Place have been especially positioned for the photograph.
Veurne
Veurne (French: Furnes) is a city in the Belgian province of West Flanders.
Veurne was originally a possession of the Saint Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer. Around 890 AD, it was noted as a successful fortification against the Viking raids. It soon was placed at the head of the castellany of Veurne, a large territory containing 42 parishes and some 8 half-independent parishes, owing allegiance to the Count of Flanders.
Veurne became a city in the 12th. century. During the following century, trade with England flourished. In 1270, however, the relations with England came to a standstill and the city's economy went into a long decline; hence the nickname 'The Veurne Sleepers'.
On the 20th. August 1297, the Battle of Veurne was fought in the ongoing struggle between the Flemish cities and the French king.
The Gothic church of Saint Walburga and the tower of the church of Saint Nicolas both date from that period. Saint Walburga housed a chapter of canons.
Veurne From The 15th. Century until the French Revolution
The 15th. century saw the construction of a new city hall (on the left of the photograph), which is known today as the Pavilion of the Spanish officers, from its use in the 17th. century as military headquarters. Most of the other historic buildings in the city date from this time which encompassed the prosperous reign of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella around 1600.
In 1644 the Capuccins organised a procession. Since 1646, this procession has been organised by the "Sodales", a religious confraternity under the leadership of the Norbertine monk Jacob Clou. The hooded "Sodales" carried a cross for penitence. The procession was expanded at the end of the 17th. century with scenes from the Bible, and is now the only one of his kind in Flanders.
The second half of the 17th. century was marked by the miseries brought to the region by Louis XIV’s wars. Vauban built heavy fortifications around the city, the outlines of which are still visible from the air today. Joseph II of Austria removed them and closed some of the religious institutions, putting a temporary end to the penitents’ procession, until Leopold II of Austria allowed it again in 1790. Those few cloisters that were still operating were closed during the French Revolution.
Veurne in The 19th. and 20th. Century
From the Battle of Waterloo until World War I, Veurne enjoyed a century of quiet and prosperity. In 1831, Veurne was the first city to welcome Belgium's new king, Leopold I, in his new country.
During the Great War, Veurne was located within the Yser pocket of Belgian resistance against the Germans. During the Battle of the Yser, the Veurne city hall became the headquarters for the Belgian troops under King Albert I, and a military hospital was set up in the city.
In 1920, the French President, Raymond Poincaré, came to Veurne to award the city the Croix de guerre with palm.
Veurne suffered some damage during World War II, mainly from allied bombing but also from the strategic flooding that engulfed the whole area. Today, the city is a regional centre, which gives commercial, medical, and educational services to the surrounding communities while enjoying increasing tourist attention.