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Baroque monument on the south side of the chancel to Nicholas Breton (d.1658) and his wife.
Norton lies a short distance to the east of Daventry and its fine church dedicated to All Saints has much of interest to reward the visitor. It is a mainly 14th century building with a west tower and nave flanked by aisles, though the short chancel beyond is much later rebuilding. The material throughout is the deep brown ironstone which takes on the colouring of baked bread in sunshine, though sadly the lighting was much more subdued on this visit (unlike my previous two years before).
Within the church is surprisingly spacious and light, owing to the rendering of the walls and the large windows glazed by Thomas Willement in the 1840s, largely with armorial glass and small figures of saints (only the east window is fully coloured and pictorial). The outstanding features here are the series of monuments to members of the Knightly family from the beginning of the 17th to 19th centuries, the most impressive being that to Lady Elizabeth Seymour in the south aisle which is a very fine example of a richly canopied Elizabethan tomb. Later monuments fill the chancel including several tablets, while a further 17th century memorial adorns the end of the north aisle. The west end of the nave is dominated by the organ in its gallery, behind which are the Ten Commandments from the former 18th century reredos.
Norton church is normally kept open and welcoming to visitors in normal daylight hours. I nearly ran out of luck here when I arrived as I found it locked despite a 'church open' sign, but happily a nice lady with the key arrived soon afterwards to unlock, apologising for having been delayed that particular morning. It's a church well worth visiting in an area with several particularly rewarding examples.
www.northamptonshiresurprise.com/organisation/all-saints-...
Le monument Barrès est situé sur le signal de Vaudémont, au sommet de la colline de Sion. Il a été inauguré en 1928 en l'honneur de l'écrivain Maurice Barrès, originaire de la colline de Sion, qu'il avait célébrée dans son roman La Colline inspirée.
Une des citations inscrite sur le monument :
"L’horizon qui cerne cette plaine, c’est celui qui cerne toute vie. Il donne une place d’honneur à notre soif d’infini en même temps qu’il nous rappelle nos limites." La colline inspirée." 1913
A pix of the Burns Monument, with the Edinburgh Castle & Balmoral Hotel in the background. This is in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ref the comments about the tilt...I attempted to straighten and I replaced the pix.
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Marconi Monument, in the background the Poldhu Cove Hotel and the Marconi centre, Poldhu, Cornwall, Great Britain.
On the location of the Marconi visitor centre stood from 1900 to 1935 the famous Poldhu wireless station designed by John Ambrose Fleming and erected by the Marconi company of London. On 12 December, 1901 Guglielmo Marconi proved that radio waves could bend round the planet by transmitting the Morse Code letter S from this station to his temporary radio receiver and antenna in Newfoundland. This site in Cornwall was chosen for its westerly location, its freedom from obstruction, for the convenience of the Poldhu Hotel to house his workforce and for its remoteness to keep the project out of the public eye and out of the newspapers. In 1900, Marconi decided to work in secret without the press hounding him or speculating on the outcome of his endeavor. He was only 27 years old at the time and would not be dissuaded by critics. In 1923 and 1924, pioneering shortwave experiments were conducted from Poldhu Station. The Poldhu Wireless Station was dismantled in 1933, four years before the death of Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi's buildings may have gone, except for foundations, but the combined efforts of the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club, the National Trust and the Marconi Company resulted in a permanent Marconi Centre Museum which opened at Poldhu Point in 2004. The earlier monument on the clifftop commemorates Marconi's feat and bears four commemorative plaques.
Sources: Virginia Dahms (Marconi Revisited) and The Royal Navy's Museum of Radar and Communications.
Just behind the headstone for Mr. Rockefeller is this 70 foot tall obelisk. Other members of the Rockefeller family are also laid to rest surrounding the monument.
As I walked toward the monument, the perspective and light kept changing, so I've include multiple shot.
Sunstar at sunrise over Independence Monument in Colorado National Monument. Bigger and prints: smu.gs/YLtoHG
North Window. Full Frame. No crop. No post processing.
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Standing in the Boston (MA) neighborhood of Jamaica Plain is the "Soldier's Monument", the large white structure honoring the 23 local citizens who died in the Civil War. I've been here previously, but this time taking the picture in black and white with film.
www.jphs.org/victorian/civil-war-monument-and-streets.html
Fuji GW690III 6x9, 90mm lens
Ilford Delta 100 medium format film (ISO 100)
1/250 second, f/5.6
Red 25A Filter
Ilford DD-X developer +4
Negative scanned on Canon 8800f using VueScan software
Edited with Photoshop Elements & NIK Silver Efex Pro
The Washington Monument stands 555 feet, and is the world's tallest obelisk and the tallest structure in Washington, DC. Construction on it began in 1848 but was not completed until 1884.
the highest obelisque in the world, and a well known land mark in the BlackdownHills AONB overlooking Wellinton in Somerset. Built to comemorate Wellingtons victory at Waterloo
- monument in commemoration of Chief Peguis was erected in 1923 by the Lord Selkirk Association of Rupert’s Land.
hi guys. just a quick hello from states. we are at hotelroom in Mammoth Lakes on the way to Yosemite. we have seen grand canyon,monument valley, death valley, sierra nevada etc. ill show more pictures later. right now im toooo tired to write. see ya all soon
These images are from a recent trip to the American Southwest, with destinations of Arches National Park (Utah) and Monument Valley (Arizona). With me on the trip was Charlie Chapman 75 . We camped at both locations to have a better opportunity to photograph early and late in the day.
Awkward thing to photo - perched high on a drumlin surrounded by trees. This was taken from the Stirling causeway about 3/4 mile away using an ancient Canon AE1 and a 200mm lens.
Located on the Northwest corner of Wrigley Square in Millennium Park, this is actually a replica of the original monument that stood in the same location up until 1953. This one was erected in October 2002.
Taken with a Samsung SCH-U640 2MP phone camera
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Attribution: Eric C. Gutierrez
The Hardy Monument is a 72-foot (22 m) high monument erected in 1844 by public subscription in memory of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, a commander at the Battle of Trafalgar (not to be confused with the author Thomas Hardy, who also has local connections). Admiral Hardy lived in Portesham and his family owned the Portesham estate which stretched from the middle of Portesham to Black Down. The site for the monument was chosen because the Hardy family wanted a monument which could be used as a landmark for shipping. The monument has been shown on navigational charts since 1846 and is visible from a distance of 100 kilometres.
The monument is situated on Black Down, a hill overlooking the English Channel near Portesham in Dorset, England. It was restored in 1900 by his descendants and bought in 1938 by the National Trust for the sum of £15.00.
The monument was designed to look like a spyglass, as Admiral Hardy would have used on board ship and not as many people think - a factory chimney. Its eight corners are aligned with the compass points. Viewed from the ground the corner to the right of the lightning conductor points due south. The bench mark on the northwest face denotes the height of Black Down at 780 feet (242 metres).
From the top of the monument at a height of 850 feet above sea level it is possible to see on a clear day: Start Point, Devon, St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight both of which are 90 kilometres distant and to the North can be seen Pen Hill in the Mendip Hills which is 65 kilometres away.
One of the reasons I'm walking the South West Coast Path. I visited this monument to answer one of the clues in the British Cycle Quest and whilst here I noticed a few walkers going past. And I guess that sowed the seeds in my mind.
Oh, and out of curiosity I turned off airplane mode on my mobile phone to see if I could get a signal. Which I did. Marconi would be so proud.