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As mentioned earlier in my photostream, my E-3's shutter packed it over 125,000 activations short of the 150,000 it's rated for. And as much as I love my PEN, sometimes there's still no substitute for shooting through an optical viewfinder. So out came my old E-500 to see if it can do the job. Mari still regularly shoots with the old camera and loves it, but I needed to find out if I still love it and can live with it for awhile while the E-3 goes back to Olympus for repair. What did I notice? The optical viewfinder is tiny. I'm spoiled by having more than three focus points. While the PEN might struggle to focus the adapted Zuiko Digital 50mm f/2.0 macro, the E-500 feels even slower, definitely hunts more, and sometimes won't lock focus. At low ISOs the noise control is great... and the colours out of the old Kodak sensor are awesome. But I want my E-3 back! (And an E-P3, but that's another story for another day!) Alleyway at Richards Street, near West Pender, downtown Vancouver. July 2, 2011.
A Southern Yellow Billed Hornbill caught in action. These birds are incredibly characterful and can be seen across Kruger Park.
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Taken on my E-M5 with a Minolta 28mm Rokkor-X. RAW file converted to jpg and edited in Snapseed, then Pixlromatic.
this is tattoo number eight for me...is it from edgar allan poe's poem 'a dream within a dream'...it is on the back of my right hip
This is one of a series of test shots taken with the Sony FE 70-200mm F4.0 G OSS lens. The primary purpose of uploading these is for letting anyone interested in this lens see some sample images, so many of the images are not especially great photos worthy of publishing. Most of these images are at the max resolution for anyone who wants to pixel peep.
Some of these pictures were shot with a 36MP Sony A7R camera, and the rest with a 24MP Sony A7-II. The A7R has a shutter vibration problem that is visible in some of the images. The A7-II has an electronic first curtain (EFC) shutter that is practically vibration-free.
The image quality from the Sony 70-200mm lens at f/4.0 is excellent, and compares with images from a Nikon AF-S 70-200mm F2.8 pro lens at f/2.8. That is a major achievement.
For anyone considering or using the Sony E-mount system, I would highly recommend this lens. It is not cheap - it is actually a bit more expensive than similar lenses from Nikon and Canon. But its quality compares well with my Nikon pro 70-200mm F2.8 lens, and I find this a very utilitarian lens in my E-mount system.
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After a very long wait my Sony A7RMk2 arrived. It is 42Mg full frame camera and unfortunately my E-Mount lenses [with one exception] are not designed for full-frame photography. Anyway I decided to use my original Sony 50mm [1.8] lens with the camera set to non—cropped mode to see what the resulting images might look like. As expected there was Vignetting but it was much more pronounced than I had hoped for so I decided to exaggerate the effect by post-processing in Lightroom. The next stage of the experiment will be to set the camera to cropped mode. I will do this later this week.
Golden Gate Bridge enveloped in thick fog at sunrise from Marin Hills above Bay, San Francisco, California USA The Golden Gate connects San Francisco penninsula and Marin penninsula and is nearly two miles long, San Francisco, California USA
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Sao Paulo, 24.oct.22 - Crowd attend the Act for Democracy, called by the Catholic University of São Paulo, in its seventh edition, this Monday (25). The candidate for the presidency of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended together with his vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, his wife Janja, the candidate for the state government of SP, Fernando Haddad, as well as the former Minister of the Environment Marina Silva and his rival in the first round Simone Tebet, who was warmly applauded. One week before the second round of the most tense elections since the re-democratization of the country, Lula is still ahead in the polls and took the opportunity to criticize the latest scandal involving an ally of his rival Jair Bolsonaro: Roberto Jefferson, a supporter of the current president, received police officers who were serving an arrest warrant against him with rifle and grenade fire. Two policemen were wounded, one of them seriously
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I sat and watched this family of Hyenas one morning for about 20 minutes, and was lucky enough to have them all to my self. They were not particularly active, but the light was fantastic so it was worth sticking with them. Out of the bushveld appeared a young cub who briefly interacted with an adult before continuing on out of sight. This moment made my day. The Hyenas were soon up and away, leaving me with a great big smile on my face.
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someone hacked into my computer!
Some creep hijacked my e-mail Wednesday night, changed my password, and contacted everyone in my address book, claiming that I was stranded in London!
talk about a violation......
a friend called me this morning and told me about a weird e-mail that he got. when I tried to sign in, my password didn't work.
the worse thing is, I couldn't log onto Flickr! I contacted them immediately, afraid that this mean-spirited individual would delete or play around with my photos.
I spent the entire day working to resolve this, changing all my banking information (which I will no longer do online), on the phone with Norton, on the phone with Yahoo. Most of it has been fixed, but I have two e-mail addresses, and the second (my less used) one, I am still unable to access.....hopefully that will be sorted out tomorrow.....
when I accessed my e-mail, I found all of today's mail in the trash. There was correspondence from contacts who were actually concerned, some who were sincere about helping. Reading the criminal's response to them truly creeped me out..... This lowlife was actually impersonating me.......
most of the responses were from people who weren't buying it......those who know me well knew that the tone of the e-mail didn't sound like me. One woman actually called my boss at work and said she knew it wasn't me because the grammar was so horrible...haha
(my boss was wonderful at work, suggesting I take the night off to get it together)
so, if you are the one who hacked onto my computer and are reading this, do you really think it was worth all the time? You didn't get a cent!
Not from my savvy friends....
and if I haven't made it to see your photos, forgive me, I will.....
I just need a little time.......
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Sadly I had to chop a couple of frames out of my trails stack as a couple of vans drove by and ruined a couple of the shots. Darn it!
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i haven't uploaded a 'what's in your bag' photo since 2004! it's interesting to see the single giant book i had to drag around back then, but now i have over 350 weightless books in my bag, thanks to my e-reader :-)
Rode my E-bike over to Zoo Knoxville to walk around and see some different animals I didn't see on my last visit. I brought the Rokinon 12mm f2 wide angle and the Sony 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 OSS. I also recorded some video with the Xiaomi Yi action camera. And I got photos and videos with my Apple iPhone. I rode back home and logged just under 10 miles.
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Some initials shots with one of my 2 new lens aquisitions: the Olympus 17mm f1.8 M4/3 lens.
This lens has had some fairly mixed reviews, but I have to say I am very pleased with it. It's plenty sharp enough for me (but then I was quite happy with the sharpness of the all 17mm f2.8 pancake lens!), it focuses super quick on my E-M10, and it just looks and handles superbly.
The Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II...
I've been dreaming about this baby for quite a while.
My E-3's autofocus gave up a year ago and since then the urge grew... But these pearls are, even second hand still, quite expensive. Then I found myself on holiday in Czech for the first time in 15 years, and went to see if I could get a cheaper deal over here... and I did =)
Since Olympus changed from 4/3 to Micro 4/3, I can't directly mount my trusted 14-54. So I'll have to get a converter with it.
I couldn't find the right one in Czech, so that'll have to wait for when I'm back home. Something to look forward to!
Meanwhile I get this holiday to properly enjoy my E-3 one last time before it's retirement, focussing manually as I have been for the last 12 months or so... But then so have I done for years with my analogue OM40... Which I'll be shooting with during this trip as well, as Czech was the first country to which I ever took it back in 2006, Great opportunity to shoot some film here again =)
My friend, Aidan, described Westminster Abbey as English history written in stone, which as good as a description as I could think of. And English, as the Kings and Queens of that country, later of Great Britain are buried here.
Anyway, I had a fabulous time at the Abbey, and already planning a return for the details I missed.
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Of all the churches and cathedrals in London, the one I wanted to visit and photograph was Westminster Abbey. But, the Abbey didn't allow photography didn't go. And then a few weeks back, my friend, Aidan, started to post shots from inside, and as it turns out, photography, in most areas of the Abbey, is now allowed. So it was a case of when we would visit, not "if", and once we had a free weekend, I began to plan and book.
£25 to go in, each. £10 each for the new museum. And £15 each for a hidden highlights tour. It wasn't cheap, but then if you're going to do it, do it well!
All chores were done Friday, including shopping, so we were free to catch the quarter to eight train from Dover. On the way we called into the garage to pick up some stuff to eat on the train, so we were set.
Saturday was also the last day of British Summer Time (BST), as the clocks would go back early on Sunday morning, then five long winter months would begin.
So, better make most of the daylight.
We were early for the train, so we ate breakfast on the platform, then once the train pulled in, I picked my favourite seats and we settled down for the hour run into London. THe one thing I hadn't planned well was the weather, and some rain was expected during the morning.
The train wasn't busy, and most people wore masks, though enough didn't to make one wonder if the message about COVID really hadn't got through. But then with Johnson as PM, we shouldn't be surprised.
We get off at Statford, and the rain was falling heavily even before we left the Essex marshes behind and entered the long tunnel. But at Stratford, day had become night and the rain fell in what is called stair-rods. I hoped that if we walked slowly through the shopping centre it might have eased by the time we needed to cross over the bridge to the regional station, but the rain was falling just as hard.
And there was no way to avoid it, so we just pulled our collars up and walked as quickly as possible.
Which is why, by the time we arrived at the other side, we were wet little hobbitses.
A quick walk to the Jubilee Line platforms, catching the next train out, we took seats and sat there, gently steaming.
Twenty minutes later, we arrived in Westminster, no dryer, really, taking the four flights of escalators to the surface, where outside it had, atleast, stopped raining for now.
Demonstrations are now outlawed in Parliament Square, so it was quiet, once you got to the other side of the road, its a five minute walk past the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), and round to the entrance of the Abbey.
Amazingly, there was no queue, and once inside the doorway I show my e tickets, they were scanned and we were allowed in. There was a one way system round the Abbey, so I began the first circuit with the 50mm lens, thinking I would go round again with the wide angle, and a third time with the big lens to snap detail.
That was the plan.
Westminster Abbey is where the Kings and Queens of England and Britain have been crowned. Also, where until Henry V11 thought otherwise, they were buried too, so the chancel is jammed with tombs of many famous and infamous figures from history, from Edward the Confessor to William and Mary, most tombs are grand, some less so. As well as Kings and Queens, minor royals and members of the nobility also were either buried here, or had monument erected. As have military figures, and famousnames from the arts.
It really is quite remarkable.
That and the Abbey itself, in parts dating from just before the Norman COnquest, to a rebuilding just after to the 13th Century when Henry III pulled the old Abbey down and started to rebuild it, until he ran out of money.
But it was completed, and since then had filled up with monuments, so many, I lost count and gave up trying to record them all. Instead, marvelling at their range and beauty.
I walked down the nave, through the arch into the Quire, and it was as breathtaking as expected, then round the Chancel looking and photographing the tombs of the Kings and Queens, round Henry VII's chapel.
And then repeating it with the wide angle lens, taking shots of the various chapels and tombs, all the while keeping an eye on the time as we were to go to visit the new gallery musuem at 11, and then a guided tour of some normally off limit places at half past.
Neither of these allowed photography, which is a great shame as the views from the gallery were stunning down the length of the Nave and then the ancinent chain library and the sanctuary of Henry VII's chapel where we could reach out and touch the shrine of St Edward the Confessor.
The museum had dozens of funeral effigies of the Kings and Queens, some made I'm sure to look better than they did in real life, but others had a degree of realism about them. The one of Queen Mary seemed pregnant, while the one for Queen Elizabeth Ist had a tight corset, so she would have appeared in death as she had as a young woman.
There were carvings, ceremonial cloaks, replicas of the Crown Jewels, and so much more, but we had run out of time, as we had to get to the other side of the church for the hidden secrets tour.
Us and three other couples joined our guide as he showed us the latest escavations revealing the area where monks used to prepare for services. This is hidden behind screens now, and will soon become the site of a new visitor's centre. The trenches were filled with uncvered skeletons and bones, all human of course, and these will all either be rebuuried here or some other Christian place.
Next we went to the Dean's quarters where we saw where he prepared for services, and were allowed into, but not allowed to photograph the Jerico Room, before being allowed outside for a while, then walking around the cloisters, back into the chancel and into Henry's chapel to see the tombs and shrine. Envious looks rained down on us as we climbed the wooden steps into the usually closed area, and then only the people in the gallery above could see us.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
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Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[a] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.[1]
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed when Elizabeth was 21⁄2 years old. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother Edward VI ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the Roman Catholic Mary and the younger Elizabeth, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
Upon her half-sister's death in 1558, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel.[b] She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the supreme governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement was to evolve into the Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir; however, despite numerous courtships, she never did. She was eventually succeeded by her first-cousin twice-removed, James VI of Scotland, laying the foundation for the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had earlier been responsible for the imprisonment and execution of James's mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.
In government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and half-siblings had been.[3] One of her mottoes was "video et taceo" ("I see and keep silent").[4] In religion, she was relatively tolerant and avoided systematic persecution. After the pope declared her illegitimate in 1570 and released her subjects from obedience to her, several conspiracies threatened her life, all of which were defeated with the help of her ministers' secret service. Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs, manoeuvring between the major powers of France and Spain. She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France, and Ireland. By the mid-1580s, England could no longer avoid war with Spain.
As she grew older, Elizabeth became celebrated for her virginity. A cult of personality grew around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day. Elizabeth's reign became known as the Elizabethan era. The period is famous for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake. Some historians depict Elizabeth as a short-tempered, sometimes indecisive ruler,[5] who enjoyed more than her share of luck. Towards the end of her reign, a series of economic and military problems weakened her popularity. Elizabeth is acknowledged as a charismatic performer and a dogged survivor in an era when government was ramshackle and limited, and when monarchs in neighbouring countries faced internal problems that jeopardised their thrones. After the short reigns of her half-siblings, her 44 years on the throne provided welcome stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity.
On the setup for this one, I set my E-M5 on the table with my GorillaPod with the Olympus 60mm macro. I had the fous limiter switch set to close focus zone. I shined a flashlight on my eye from the right, and then snapped a bunch of images at a variety of apertures. Surprisingly, one of my first images, at f/2.8 was the one I liked best, with a little cropping.
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KOM Flash Report
For the week of
August 16-- 22, 2015
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I guess you must have thought we had gotten lost but no we are both fine my e-mails have been out of order for 2 1/2 months so I just got it straightened out and we are back in business I had 3600 in my box so I got them checked over and hope all is well again. Don’t know if we missed any deaths or illness . Molly and Dick McCoy Omaha, NE
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It is a shame they tore down the grandstand (at Independence) as I remember dressing in it many times for football games on Friday night. What a shame and I wanted a piece of that for memories but my wife would have given me the look if I would have brought some of it home. She at times just doesn't understand the emotions that go with some of those things. As a lady from Wisconsin the Packers and Badgers are in her heart. -- Thomas Drake Ottawa, KS
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Thanks for the great photograph of those young ballplayers. –Gale McCray--another Kansan
Well, as you can see, last week’s Flash Report drew very little attention and provoked few comments either positive or negative. In the words of the famous, Martha Stewart, “That is a good thing.” In the words of the not so famous John Hall “That’s tough.” The photo attached to that report was a casual pose of the 1949 Chanute Athletics on a road trip to Pittsburg, Kansas, which I speculated was in late June. After a week of extensive research, on what I had on file about that team photo, it would have to have been taken some time during the first two weeks of July.
This past week was spent waiting for some comments to arrive regarding the most recent report and when none did I spent considerable time documenting a few of the highlights of all the fellows on that roster. The “Classic Photo” of that team appears on Flickr at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/20383148828/
Maybe having a picture to go with a narrative description will help you get to know these guys a little better. It was my privilege to get to know seven of these fellows pretty well.
In an unbelievable story that you wouldn’t believe, unless I told, you under oath, involved a person who was dead without my knowledge of it. I called his last known
number and got a lady of a different name. I told her I was sorry for the inconvenience of the call. She asked what it was about and I remarked that it wouldn’t be of any interest to
her. She reprimanded me and told me she’d be the judge of that.
So, for the next few minutes I went through my spiel about how I was looking for former KOM leaguers. She listened, said it was fascinating and the conversation ended. A few
weeks later the lady called and asked what I planned to do with the information I was gathering from the former players. I told her that I had wanted to write a book but wasn’t
sure that there was a market or any interest in such a project. And that was the conversation.
A few weeks later the lady called again and wanted to know if she could pay my wife and I a visit. Of course, I said yes but couldn’t understand why she’d want to drive from
Uniontown, Kans. to Columbia, Missouri. We sat down at the kitchen table to visit and the lady asked for a glass of water. While getting the water I heard a thump on the table. When I looked at the table I saw a white envelope. My mother had taught me well not to grab things that belong to others. The lady looked at me and remarked “Aren’t you going to open it?” So, what I saw, upon opening it, was the most cash I had ever seen at one time in my life.
Without any further words, on my part, the lady told me that the money wasn’t for me but in memory of all the old guys who had played in the KOM league. She insisted that if
she had anything to say about it those memories would never die. Maxine is now gone but thanks to her and a belated telephone call to Dave Dennis’s old telephone number,
the book “Majoring in The Minors” was published without my having to go into bankruptcy to do it. I guess I was influenced by more ex- Chanute ballplayers, than any other group, in the initial stages of writing about the KOM league. The early KOM
newsletters bear out that statement.
1949 Chanute Athletics
Back Row L-R: Charlie Bates, Ed Morgenthaler, Jim Hansen, Al Stewart, Larry Jaros, Jake Thies, Dave Dennis, and Dave Newkirk.
Middle Row: Pete New, Jim Marks, Ray Mazzucco, Tom Imfeld and Al Fadell.
Front Row: Kent Pflasterer, Tom Tarascio, Tom Norbut, John Fehr-Batboy, Jim Imbeau and Jack Butler. By virtue of the composition of this roster this particular photo would have been taken at the start of the 1949 season. Also, the spanking white uniforms indicate they had very little use.
In the photo shared last week these guys were included: Jim Marks, Al Fadell, Ed Morgenthaler, Charles Jones, Jim Hansen, Al Stewart, Bernie Tye, Larry Jaros, Jack Butler, Kent Pflasterer, Tom Tarascio, Tom Norbut, Charles LaGrace, Al Ketchum and Vernon "Jake" Thies. Between the two photos you have 22 different guys depicted. There were 37 players on that roster at one time or another. One was the batboy and the other was the non-playing manager. Four of the fellows in the two photos all managed Chanute at one time or another. They were; Charlie Bates, Dave Dennis, Jim Hansen and Tom Imfeld.
Bates Charles William
D. 1/29/1980 Topeka, KS Stormont Vail Hosp. (Living at Alma, KS)
B. 9/17/1907 Philadelphia, PA
Citations: www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&am...
8#safe=active&q=Charles+William+Bates+baseball
He was another of the former KOM leaguers who had a stint in the big leagues but had a longer stint in the minor leagues as a player and manager as the foregoing URL group of
citations indicate. There isn’t much I could add to that other than some anecdotal items shared with me by members of that team which I will refrain from doing. As with all
managers some players approved of the way they did their job and others didn’t.
Beck Daniel Eldon
D. 7/4/2012 Dubuque, IA
B. 9/22/1925 Dubuque, IA
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93091090
www.thonline.com/obituaries/article_43906941-6fb8-571f-ae...
He played in the KOM league regardless of the obituary statement.
Boston Elmer A.
Lives in St. Louis, MO -
B: 5/22/1928 St. Louis, MO
June 9, 1949 sports column proves this player was on the roster. " Elmer Boston is listed as the probable Chanute pitcher first game. He has a 1-0 record. Chanute has been hampered by injuries for some time. Charlie LaGrace, infielder, has a hand injury, Tom Tarascio recently had nine stitches taken in a lip that was injured by a bad hopping ball, and Jim Marks has been out with an injured foot. "
www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=boston001elm
Butler Richard Neil
D. 2/20/2011 Murphy's, CA
B. 5/16/1924 Ringsted, IA
iagenweb.org/boards/jasper/obituaries/index.cgi?read=336559 The obituary shows he played at Miami, OK. He left Miami and joined Chanute on his way back to Iowa. The Find-A-Grave site mirrors the obituary. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=685643...
Butler Jackie Dean
Lives in Waynesville, MO
B. 12/9/1929 Bachelor, KS
He was another pitcher who made a career out of playing KOM ball with Miami, OK and Chanute, KS. He was first signed by Miami in 1948 and he lasted a month when they decided the 19-year lefty needed further seasoning and he was sent to Macksville, KS to play Ban Johnson league ball. He was back with Miami in 1949 but didn’t stay long and he went to Chanute and signed on with that independent club. His best year was 1949 when he won five of the eight contests in which he was involved. During the off-season he attended Emporia State Teachers College in Emporia, KS. In 1950 he returned to Chanute for his final season of professional baseball which coincided with that town’s last year hosting a professional team. Here is what Baseball Reference has regarding his career. www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=butler003joh
Callahan George Robert
D. 4/19/2008 Cedar, MI
B. 2/10/1931 Perry, IA
In my research there wasn’t much I could find on the short term hurler for the Chanute A’s. One of his few decisions occurred the evening of June 20, 1949 when he lost 10-0 to the Miami Owls. The Miami News-Record referred to him as Don Callahan. Before leaving the game, in the 4th inning, he had walked four and thrown a wild pitch, given up home run, had one base runner steal on him and his catcher had a passed ball. Overall it wasn’t the best night an 18-year old could experience.
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=685643...
Coulter Bernard Leroy
D. 12/15/1988 Kansas City, MO
B. 2/17/1931 Eldon, KS
www.baseball-reference.com:8080/minors/player.cgi?id=coul... That citation didn’t know if Coulter threw right or left. One of the great photos I own is that of Coulter in a jumping pose, at shortstop,, throwing a ball to first base with his right hand. That photo is shown on page 86 of The KOM League Remembered published by Arcadia in 2004 and is available wherever good books are sold. For those who are cheap or broke the photo could always be placed on the Flickr site. Coulter and my first cousin, Ernest Hall, both worked for the Federal Narcotics Bureau after Coulter's baseball career concluded. My cousin was his boss.
Dennis David C.
D. 10/1/1990 VA Hosp. Columbia, MO
B. 5/19/1922 Mapleton, KS
In 1946 this article appeared while Dennis was still with Miami. “The KOM baseball race grows hotter, and fire breaks out in catcher Dave Dennis's chest protector during a torrid argument at home plate in Riverside park.” The story was carried in the Street and Smith Baseball magazine in 1947 as one of the funnier incidents of 1946. Dennis played with and or managed Miami, Pittsburg and Chanute teams in 1946, 47 and 49. He was the uncle of the late Don Dennis who pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals. www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dennido01.shtml David’s brother, Laverne, also played in the KOM league in 1946.
Dercole Anthony Paul
D. 5/16/2004 Aliquippa, PA
B. 6/9/1928 Aliquippa, PA
Tony had shots with three KOM league teams. The other two were Iola and Bartlesville in 1948. He was originally signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates but while a good fielder he didn’t hit for power or average. Here is his citation on Baseball Reference: www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=dercol001ant This is shared for that site didn’t state if he was right or left handed. The KOM league never had a left handed shortstop or second baseman. I’m sticking with my notes that he hit and threw from the right side.
Fadell Albert Raymond
D. 10/20/2011 Huntington Beach, CA
B. 7/1/1927 Los Angeles, CA
The following citation is a PDF file on Fadell when he passed away. It is a great citation along with a photo. We kept in touch over the years and he truly enjoyed talking about the 1949 Chanute A’s. file:///C:/Users/KC/Downloads/Albert-Fadell-wall.pdf There is a great story in the aforementioned URL about a clipping he saved from the newspaper that year pertaining to something that involved him and Mickey Mantle. For those of you who can’t access URL’s here is the obituary:
Albert Raymond Fadell, born on July 1, 1927 in Los Angeles, California, second youngest of seven children; spent his childhood along the side of his siblings working hard in the family market. Albert was brought into this world being blessed with the ability to be successful in everything he applied himself to. At the age of 18, Albert was drafted into the Army which was devastating to him as he was working hard chasing his dreams of playing professional baseball. Upon his return from the Army, Albert’s dreams were becoming reality and landed a position in the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League (or KOM League) an American minor baseball league which was established in 1946. His athletic expertise allowed him to play any position but settled in as a pitcher for the A’s in Chanute Kansas. One of his proudest moments in his baseball career was striking out one of the most famous baseball historians “Mickey Mantle” with evidence of a detailed article in the local newspaper, thin, discolored, and torn in several places, remains with the family. Albert’s enormous love for baseball was greatly deviated by the love of his life; his “Honey” Patti, and married in Los Angeles on March 10, 1951, where they started their family, two daughters Tori and Tami. In 1954, Albert and Patti decided to move to the Orange fields of Huntington Beach, California where they raised their family and maintained a beautiful home. As always, the home was immaculate down to the front yard. The planters dirt overturned, shrubs manicured and the lawn being mowed in two directions creating a checkerboard appearance. Only one sprinkler placed, directly in the center of the lawn, set deep down creating enough room for a “golf ball” to be sunk. No one dared to step on Albert’s lawn, the lustrous appearance mimic the nicest putting green on any golf course. We laugh on how he was with his lawn, but this is where he practiced his putting continuously; making him known for one of the best putters in the game of golf. Being athletically gifted, Albert was the best of any sport he played, baseball, golf (accompanied by nine “Hole-in-Ones”), bowling (maintaining an average over 200 at all times down to throwing horse shoes. His love of sports was solidified by the enormous amount of hours he would spend watching his college football team USC, favorite baseball team The Angels, and golf. Albert could be heard throughout the house, if not through the neighborhood, if a call was made he did not agree with, the family would laugh and say, “gee the neighbors are going to think dad is yelling at mom”. Albert loved music and was an impeccable dancer. When entering a dance floor with Patti, people would stop and watch creating Albert to really perform. He loved to Karaoke, acting shy (if you can imagine) when ask to get up and sing, but once the microphone in hand, he turned into Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra singing his favorites “Mack the Knife” or “I left my heart in San Francisco” but a loving memory will be him singing to Patti the famous Beatle song “Something in the way she moves” The “Harbor”, not enough time in the day to express his love Albert had for the Harbor. He loved the job, the people, the reputation he had, the hard work he was known for, being a proud union member, and the relationships he built. Known as “Big Al”; he spent 60 years on the water front always dedicated to his partners, the company, and the job while creating a lifetime of stories and friendships that he held close to his heart. A book could be written of all that Albert accomplished and succeeded at but if ask words to describe him, Generosity (always giving), Religious, Loyal, Strong, Mentor, Protector, Athletic, Hard Working and Caring are just a few but most of all, he was “Proud” of the family he had. He held many titles, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather, Brother, Uncle, Godfather and Friend but he was most Proud of having the title of Papa, he loved his grandchildren and great grandchildren as much as one could love and was a major influence in their life. Albert demonstrated his strength throughout his battle of cancer for seven years. However, on October 29th 2011 he lost the battle and passed away at his home in Huntington Beach, California, with the most important thing in his life, his family by his side. He will be forever missed and loved for eternity. He is survived by his “Honey” Patti, Daughters and Sons-in-laws: Tori & Paul Daw, Tami & Don Carnes Grandchildren and spouses: Jason & Cheri Thomas, Josh & Nicole Carnes, Chad Carnes, and Danielle Carnes. Great Grandchildren: Chase Thomas, Jake Thomas, Riley Carnes, and Merric Carnes. Cemetery Good Shepherd Catholic Cemetery 8301 Talbert Ave Huntington Beach, CA, 92646 Events NOV 11 Memorial Service 10:00AM
Fehr (Batboy) John Joseph
D. 11/10/1981 Iola, KS
B. 2/11/1936 Chanute, KS
The batboy died far too young: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28031191
Hansen James E.
D. 4/30/2003 Omaha, NE
B. 7/24/1925 Omaha, NE
If I had to name five people, located in the past 20 years, who enjoyed getting back together with his KOM teammates and foes, Hansen would have been right at or near the top. We spent countless hours conversing on the telephone before cheap cell phone rates came on the scene. Hansen was probably one of the two top defensive catchers in league history and tough as nails. During WW II he played college football at both Nebraska and Iowa and led Iowa over Nebraska with the game’s only touchdown, circa 1944. His fellow Omaha friends never forgave him. Here is his career cited on Baseball Reference: www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=hansen003jam
Hosaflook Jerry Glenn
D. 2/2/2003 South Bend, IN.
B. 9/8/1927 Alton, WVA
He didn’t get much of a chance to play for Chanute. The few games he played were at third base and then he was gone. I did speak with him shortly before his death. He didn’t think he deserved much mention in any book but I told him he made it into my first one, Majoring in The Minors. komleaguebaseball.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html He played for Galaxy-Radford, VA in the Blue Ridge league in 1950
Imbeau James Ray
Lives in Kansas City
B. 10/23/1927 Ola, AR
By the time he got to Chanute his professional baseball days were over. He had started in the Ohio State league when he was 16. Baseball Reference shows his career as: www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=imbeau001jam He was in military service in 1946 and 1947 and then tried to make it with Scranton, PA of the Eastern league in 1949. That didn’t work and he showed up in Chanute and in a May 15th game he was one of the Chanute pitchers routed 13-2 by Bartlesville. He took the loss, giving up seven runs in five innings and was released. Then, on August 10, this report appeared in the Iola Register. “The Chanute A's have signed two new players, Dave Novak 19 a catcher from Pueblo, and Jim Imbeau, 21, pitcher from Kansas City. Imbeau was tried at Chanute earlier and the A's decided to look him over again after hearing he pitched two semi-pro no-hitters.” In 1950 he pitched semi-pro baseball with the Warner Drug team in Kansas City where he had tossed the two no-hitter’s in 1949.
Imfeld Thomas Joseph
D. 11/06/2012 Morristown, TN
B. 6/12/1923 Covington, KY
He started his study for the priesthood in St. Paul, MN in 1954 and he carried on as a priest until his retirement. During the 1950’s he was one of the top slow-pitch softball pitchers in that nation, playing for teams in his native Covington, KY. He had parts of three seasons in the KOM league starting with Independence in 1947 and then with Chanute in 1949 and 1950. I’ve shared many stories about Father Tom, over the years, and to my knowledge they were all true. When attending KOM league reunions he was the designated “Official Pray-er.” Here is his obituary: www.vankirkgrisellfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/2447/Fa...
Jaros Lawrence Thomas
Lives in Granite City, IL
B. 8/7/1928 Glen Carbon, IL
This fellow was a good pitcher when he had some semblance of a team around him. In 1949 he had the Chanute A’s as teammates. In 1950 he started out with Chanute and was getting no support and he was sent to Iola. The 1950 Iola and Chanute ball clubs were two of the worst teams in KOM history. They struggled mightily to win 30 games. They both won 35 but Iola wound up ahead of Chanute for Chanute played five more games than Iola and lost every one of them.. So to see how Jaros went from very good in 1949 to the “pits” in 1950, check this out: www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=jaros-001law
Jones Charles E.
Lives in Iowa, I think
B. 4/8/1933 Webb City, MO
He was signed June 22, 1949.
There isn’t much for me to share regarding this gentleman. I found a member of his family a number of years ago and was told he was residing in Iowa but the person was vague on details and I didn’t push it.
Ketchum Alfred Fred
D. 6/9/1994 Kenner, LA
B. 12/30/1929 New Orleans, LA
On the Internet baseball sites and in the Baseball Guide he isn’t credited with playing for Chanute. The only mention of him is with Hopkinsville, KY in the Kitty league in 1948.
To verify he played in the KOM league here is a blurb from the lola Register. “Al Ketchum started for Chanute last night (July 15), against Ponca City but left in the third after receiving a spike wound.” Here is proof Ketchum won a KOM league game. This account was carried in the July 10 edition of the Miami, Okla. News Record. “Although righthander Larry Jaros started on the mound for the Athletics, Al Ketchum came in with the bases loaded in the third and pitched the rest of the way without allowing a run to gain credit for the win. Although Ketchum gave up only one hit in his five inning pitching stint, the young righthander was exceptionally wild. He walked eight Miami batters.” Ketchum served in the U. S. Army from 4/26/51 to 4/11/53. The rest of his life is sketchy but after his return from Korea he worked as a party chef in New Orleans.
LaGrace Jr. Charles Joseph
D. 9/29/1990 San Diego, CA
B. 2/21/1930 Richmond, NY
He played second base and the outfield in his time at Chanute which was about a third of the season. He graduated from Freemont High School in Los Angeles, CA. in 1948 and his graduation photo mirrors what he looked like in the 1949 Chanute team picture. If you have access to Ancestry.com you can pull up this site and see him in his cap and gown. Click anywhere on this jumble of stuff and it will appear before your very eyes.
interactive.ancestry.com/1265/43134_b191311-00019?pid=349...
The foregoing is all that I could piece together on the life of LaGrace.
Marcil Jr. Leo Eugene
D. 10/1/1999 Simsbury, CT
B. 1/26/1929 Simsbury, CT
During his stint with Chanute he was a pitcher. When he reported to Chanute he was said to have come from Hartford, CT. He had tried his hand at pitching in 1948 in the Provincial and Florida State leagues. In the spring of 1949 he was one of the players who “answered the ad” in the Sporting News for baseball players in Chanute. In an April 27 column it listed he was one of about a dozen pitchers vying for a spot on that team and he was by inference a right hander. This statement in all the KOM newspapers at the time read “Pitchers working out are; Leo Marcil, Don Reed, Frankie Urban, Elmer Boston, Jim Imbeau, Pete New, Paul Rothermel, Leslie Lamb, Wayne Brickell and Larry Jaros. New and Brickell are southpaws.“ Marcil made the cut and pitched sparingly for Chanute until at least June 9 when he went in to relieve Pete New. He served his country during the Korean War as a member of the United States Air Force. For many years he was a supervisor for Western Union.
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Flash Report
For
Week of 1/14/2018
Check this link for the latest edition of the KOM League Flash Report. It is a real dandy. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27873950609/
Had it not been for some loose ends left from last week’s report there wouldn’t have been one for this week. The loss suffered by the readership would have been incalculable. Ha! Ha! A seldom used word was shared with someone on my e-mail list this past week and I liked it so much that I’m going to use it in this report. My question is: “Are these reports a source of inspiration of suspiration?” I await the reply of the half dozen or so readers that anxiously await these missives around the world and even some in the U. S of A. I suspect someone may claim these reports are sisyphean and that is probably true. To save time check this link for the definition. www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Sisyphean
While awaiting the comments solicited in the first paragraph here are the items, for this week, left over from recent reports. The first item is a collaboration between Gary Bedingfield of Glasgow, Scotland and Yours truly of Columbia, MO-- not Columbia the Gem of the Ocean.
Jack Blaylock
Date and Place of Birth: February 11, 1925 Oak Ridge, North Carolina
Died: April 14, 2016 Kernersville, North Carolina
Baseball Experience: Minor League
Position: Catcher
Rank: Aviation Radioman, Third Class (ARM3c)
Military Unit: US Navy
Area Served: United States
John W. "Jack" Blaylock, the son of Thomas and Goldie Blaylock, was born February 11, 1925, in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. He was an outstanding catcher at Oak Ridge Academy and in American Legion baseball. In 1943, and just out of high school, Blaylock had the attention of the New York Giants and even traveled with the team on their final western trip to Chicago and St. Louis, at the end of the season. But military service intervened before the 18-year-old could pull on a professional baseball uniform.
Blaylock was inducted in the Navy on November 16, 1943. He took 20 weeks training at Naval Air Technical Training Command Memphis, Tennessee, and a further five weeks at Naval Air Gunners School Purcell, Oklahoma, before moving on to Naval Training Station Bainbridge, Maryland. Aviation Radioman, Third Class Blaylock trained to be a radio operator/gunner in the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, a carrier-based dive bomber. He was at Naval Air Station Miami, Florida, and Naval Air Station Wildwood, New Jersey.
While at NAS Wildwood, Blaylock's plane was involved in a crash landing that he was lucky to survive, but left him with both his shoulders and four ribs broken, and a large gash in his lip. These injuries were to have a major impact on his baseball career.
Blaylock was honorably discharged from the Navy on April 29, 1946. He decided to give baseball a try and joined the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization, reporting to the Newport News Dodgers of the Class B Piedmont League. In June 1946, he was assigned to the Johnstown Johnnies of the Class C Middle Atlantic League, playing 49 games and batting .154. He joined the Ponca City Dodgers of the Class D K-O-M League in July 1947, and batted .208 in 17 games. His playing career seemed to be going nowhere, but Branch Rickey befriended the young military veteran and gave him a job as the Dodgers bullpen catcher for 1948. He even got a $224.68 share of the Dodgers third-place finish that year. He handled a pitching staff that included Carl Erskine, Rex Barney and Ralph Branca, and was part of a team that included Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Pee Wee Reese. “That was a great bunch of guys," Blaylock recalled. "They treated me like I was a .300 hitter instead of the bullpen catcher.”
However, Blaylock knew he'd never be able to play at that level. “I couldn’t hit the inside curve like I used to," he said. "Some days I could hardly throw the ball. Other days I could do pretty well.
“I realized I needed to get back home and get an education, and start a new career. I enrolled in the University of North Carolina.”
Blaylock was to give baseball one more try in the 1950s. He played for the Elkin Blanketeers of the Class D Blue Ridge League in 1950, batting .239 in 104 games, and signed with the Statesville Owls of Class D North Carolina State League for 1951, but, instead, was hired by Kernersville High School as head coach of athletics. Under his leadership, the school's athletic program began to thrive, and Coach Blaylock led the school baseball team to two state championships in 1957 and 1958 - the first back-to-back winners in North Carolina.
“The thing about coach Blaylock," recalled one of his students, "was that he put everyone on the same level. Nobody was better than anyone else in his eyes. That meant a lot to me because some of us were not as good (at athletics) as others.”
Jack Blaylock passed away peacefully on April 14, 2016, at his home in Kernersville, North Carolina. He was 91 years old and is buried at Eastlawn Gardens of Memory in Kernersville.
A portrait of Blaylock hangs on the wall of fame in a meeting room at the Olympic Family Restaurant in Kernersville.
Thanks to John Hall for help with this biography. Created January 7, 2018 Copyright © 2018 Gary Bedingfield (Baseball in Wartime). All Rights Reserved.
1947 Ponca City Dodgers autographs and addresses:
www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/39652221041/
www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27873953919/ The name of Chuck Goodman was the younger brother of Aletha Bartley.
Team photo: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27873950609/ old photos do fade but the memories survive.
Individuals in the photo: Ponca City Dodgers --Late Season Photo
Front Row: Dale Hendricks, Clark Taylor, Mel Waters, Jack Blaylock, Keith Baker, Howie Fisher, Art Billings and Bill Boudreau.
Back Row: Carroll "Biff" Jones, Gale Wade, Don Hall, Phil Adams, Herb McCoy, Tony Brzezowski, Boyd Bartley, Ronald Wiblemo, George Fisher and Bill Hodges.
An earlier team photo of that same team included the images of four fellows who had been or would wind up in the major leagues in some capacity. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/38943691814/
Seated: Larry Goff Batboy.
Front Row: Ted Parkinson (President), Phil Adams, Roland Wiblemo, Art Billings, Boyd Bartley (Manager), Howie Fisher, Jack Blaylock, Keith Baker, Owen Martinez (Business Manager).
Second Row: Gale Wade, George Fisher, Tony Brzezowski, Herb McCoy, Mel Waters, Biff Jones, Bill Hodges, Bill Boudreau, Dale Hendricks and Jim Baxes.
Notice: All the photos I attach to the Flash Reports are copyrighted and their use is only permissible upon written permission by the guy putting them there, or waived if you happen to be an immediate family member of any person in a photo.
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Where they were from
Last week a listing of the 1950 Independence Yankees and where they died or were still living was shared. Thomas Earp of Kansas City commented that he found that where those guys were from was interesting. Since I didn’t list where they were from, only where they died or currently reside, I decided on this feature in order to fill some space.
In descending order: (1) Name (2) Place of death or current residence (3) Place of birth
Armstrong Edward Eugene "Mike"
Richmond, VA
Grand Ledge, MI
Bartlett Charles Richard
National City, CA
San Diego, CA
Beaird Richard Arlen
1/16/2003 Valley, AL
Fairfax, AL
Beardslee Kenneth Allen
3/5/2007 Milford, IN
Vermontville, MI
Bischoff Jr. Emil Leon
Springfield, MO
Springfield, MO
Burtner Raymond Paul
1/11/2012 Edgewater, FL
Claremore, OK
Campbell Vernon Richard
3/4/2013 Tucson, AZ
Stafford, AZ
Chambers William Nelson
11/1/1978 Manchester, IA
Council Bluffs, IA
Curtis Jr Robert Wesley
Port Arthur, TX
Jasper, TX
Davis Herbert Hoover
Overland Park, KS
Rogersville, MO
Deatherage Abner Edward
Overland Park, KS
Joplin, MO
Drake William Vernon
11/25/2015 Raytown, MO
Joplin, MO
Evans Glenn Wayman
8/25/2004 Round Rock, TX
Little Rock, AR
Foell George Edward
2/07/2017 Republic, MO
Chattahoochee, GA
GablerJohn Richard
2/07/2009 Overland Park, KS
Kansas City, MO
Hecht John Louis
1/8/1994 Florissant, MO
St. Louis, MO
Heiserer Jr. Herbert Henry
6/16/2016 Atlanta, GA
St. Genevieve, MO
Holloway Samuel Neil
8/22/2006 Crab Orchard, TN
Crab Orchard, TN
Keeling Paul Thomas
Paducah. KY
Paducah, KY
Kerr Warren Richmond "Popeye"
3/6/2010 Floyds Knobs, IN
Brookport, IL
Kleasner Kenneth Fleet
11/7/2007 Missouri City, TX
Franklin, MO
Knoke Robert Albert
9/19/2012 St. Charles, MO
Raddle, IL
Lemons Carol Gordon "Bud"
Las Cruces, NM
Pocatello, ID—Moved to Cape Girardeau, MO at age 3
Long Alvin Newton
11/20/2000 St. Lukes Hosp. Kansas City, MO
Springfield, MO
MallonRobertEugene
Highlands Ranch, CO
St. Louis, MO
Michels Louis Harry
9/11/2011 Independence, KS
Springfield, MO
Mick Malcolm A. "Bunny"
9/14/2005 Odessa, FL
Odessa, FL
Moser William Andrew
1/8/1997 Treasure Island, FL
Chicago, IL
Newbill Bobby Gene
5/11/2011 Windsor, MO
Bowen, MO
Paul Francis George
Austin, MN (Probably)
Austin, MN
Popovich Charles Filmore
11/30/1996 Litchfield, IL
Mt. Olive, IL
Price Lloyd E. "Red"
Lincoln, CA
Chicago, IL
Qualls James LaVern
Sparta, IL
Jacob, IL
Ramsey Robert Lamonte
Springhill, TN
Chattanooga, TTN
Russell Richard Edward
10/17/1999 Concord, NH
Concord, NH
Salmonson Donald Ralph
4/19/2013 Moline, IL
East Moline, IL
Sanders Malone Battle "Bones"
1/27/1961 Texas City, TX
Purdon, TX
Santoro Michael John
1/28/2017 Las Vegas, NV
Chicago, IL
Schaeffler Thomas Charles
8/10/2001 Fenton, MO
St. Louis, MO
Self Thomas Dawson
2/25/2009 Escondido, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Sparks (Dr.) Ermon Barrett
6/8/2002 Jonesboro, AR
Hazen Prairie, AR
Speck Keith Virgil
Loveland, CO
Dodge, IA
Taussig Donald Franklin
Mamaroneck, NY (May have retired to FL)
New York, NY
Troy James D.
New York, NY
New York, NY
VirdonWilliam Charles
Springfield, MO
Hazel Park, MI
Walz John Alvin
3/22/2005 Troy, MO
Quincy, IL
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Others making holiday contact
Upon mentioning those who made contact over the holiday season I knew I’ve leave someone out. Now is the time to make amends.
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Jackie Swensson the widow of Conrad of the same last name sent a note recalling a visit she and her husband made to the KOM League Hall of Fame nearly two decades ago. Connie was one of the best pitchers in KOM league history and he sat for a long time in front of my computer looking at the information about the old league. After that he browsed the memorabilia that was on display in my basement and then made an utterance I haven’t forgotten. He said something to the effect that he and a lot of his Ponca City buddies thought I was contacting former ballplayers in order to get information for which to write books and subsequently get rich. He concluded with a memorable statement, “You aren’t going to get rich on what you are doing.”
Connie was wrong. I have gotten rich by associating with many great former KOMers and their families over the past quarter century. While at our house Jackie was admiring some of my wife’s hand painted Christmas gourds. I must say they were works of art and my wife gifted one to Jackie and she reported that she has displayed it every year since, at the Yuletide season.
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From the state of California came a comment from Judith Raftery. Her comment dealt with the photo of the 1950 Independence Yankees. She wrote “Happy New Year from northern California where the sun shines. Your bird photos are wonderful. Most of those birds don’t cross the Rockies and it’s a treat to see them. I don’t think that Lew Saum played for that team.
Thanks, Judy Raftery Saum
Ed comment:
It is true that Lewis O. Saum was not a member of the 1950 Independence Yankees. Most baseball researchers would claim he never saw the light, or darkness, of a KOM league ballpark, but he did. For two weeks he sat on the bench of the 1951 Iola Indians. Then, the New York Yankees wanted to send two players to Iola and manager Forrest “Lefty” Crawford was forced to cut two players from the active roster. Off to other places went Bob Heilman who had seen action in just two games and the subject of this article, Mr. Saum.
But, leaving the KOM league was no problem for Saum. He resumed his education at such places as the University of Missouri before heading west and becoming a prolific writer of stories on Native Americans. Dr. Saum wrote many books and had a career in higher education where he eventually met Judith Raftery. If you don’t recall a rather long article that was featured in this publication a couple of years ago, about Dr. Saum, spend some time reading about him on the Internet. www.google.com/search?q=Lewis+O.+Saum&oq=Lewis+O.+Sau... As a youngster I attended eight years of schooling at Eugene Field School in Carthage, MO. I never knew much about Field until reading the works of Lewis Saum. Two other grade schools in Carthage were named after Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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To show just how small the world is another connection to that 1951 Iola Indians team was experienced, yesterday. After going through the checkout line at a local super market I heard someone call my name. That is pretty remarkable for a couple of reasons since I don’t know many people and my hearing isn’t what it used to be. I looked around and spotted a lady by the name of Martha Klemme. She is the widow of Stan, of the same last name. Stan had two first cousins who played professional baseball. Dale Ward played for Carthage, in 1951, for a while and Dale’s brother, Preston, was the former big leaguer with a number of teams. Now, they are all gone just about like this report will be in a couple of paragraphs.
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Looking back
Once in a while I have reason to look back at the KOM League Remembered Newsletters. Since some of them are now nearly a quarter of a century old, there are things I wrote that I have now forgotten. As I peruse them it comes to me that replaying those stories would be more interesting than what I currently share.
So, for the fun of it, I want to share three names and challenge the readership to do their own research and come up with the connection. Who can be first to tell me the connection among former big leaguer, Walt Judnich, former Pittburg, KS Brown, Joe Katnich and health and fitness guru, Denise Austin? I have mentioned all of these in past writings so I know I’m not making this up in the twilight of my rather mediocre career.
That is it for now and if a couple of people get in touch saying they received the report, and read it, it might inspire me to try another one—someday.
My friend, Aidan, described Westminster Abbey as English history written in stone, which as good as a description as I could think of. And English, as the Kings and Queens of that country, later of Great Britain are buried here.
Anyway, I had a fabulous time at the Abbey, and already planning a return for the details I missed.
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Of all the churches and cathedrals in London, the one I wanted to visit and photograph was Westminster Abbey. But, the Abbey didn't allow photography didn't go. And then a few weeks back, my friend, Aidan, started to post shots from inside, and as it turns out, photography, in most areas of the Abbey, is now allowed. So it was a case of when we would visit, not "if", and once we had a free weekend, I began to plan and book.
£25 to go in, each. £10 each for the new museum. And £15 each for a hidden highlights tour. It wasn't cheap, but then if you're going to do it, do it well!
All chores were done Friday, including shopping, so we were free to catch the quarter to eight train from Dover. On the way we called into the garage to pick up some stuff to eat on the train, so we were set.
Saturday was also the last day of British Summer Time (BST), as the clocks would go back early on Sunday morning, then five long winter months would begin.
So, better make most of the daylight.
We were early for the train, so we ate breakfast on the platform, then once the train pulled in, I picked my favourite seats and we settled down for the hour run into London. THe one thing I hadn't planned well was the weather, and some rain was expected during the morning.
The train wasn't busy, and most people wore masks, though enough didn't to make one wonder if the message about COVID really hadn't got through. But then with Johnson as PM, we shouldn't be surprised.
We get off at Statford, and the rain was falling heavily even before we left the Essex marshes behind and entered the long tunnel. But at Stratford, day had become night and the rain fell in what is called stair-rods. I hoped that if we walked slowly through the shopping centre it might have eased by the time we needed to cross over the bridge to the regional station, but the rain was falling just as hard.
And there was no way to avoid it, so we just pulled our collars up and walked as quickly as possible.
Which is why, by the time we arrived at the other side, we were wet little hobbitses.
A quick walk to the Jubilee Line platforms, catching the next train out, we took seats and sat there, gently steaming.
Twenty minutes later, we arrived in Westminster, no dryer, really, taking the four flights of escalators to the surface, where outside it had, atleast, stopped raining for now.
Demonstrations are now outlawed in Parliament Square, so it was quiet, once you got to the other side of the road, its a five minute walk past the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), and round to the entrance of the Abbey.
Amazingly, there was no queue, and once inside the doorway I show my e tickets, they were scanned and we were allowed in. There was a one way system round the Abbey, so I began the first circuit with the 50mm lens, thinking I would go round again with the wide angle, and a third time with the big lens to snap detail.
That was the plan.
Westminster Abbey is where the Kings and Queens of England and Britain have been crowned. Also, where until Henry V11 thought otherwise, they were buried too, so the chancel is jammed with tombs of many famous and infamous figures from history, from Edward the Confessor to William and Mary, most tombs are grand, some less so. As well as Kings and Queens, minor royals and members of the nobility also were either buried here, or had monument erected. As have military figures, and famousnames from the arts.
It really is quite remarkable.
That and the Abbey itself, in parts dating from just before the Norman COnquest, to a rebuilding just after to the 13th Century when Henry III pulled the old Abbey down and started to rebuild it, until he ran out of money.
But it was completed, and since then had filled up with monuments, so many, I lost count and gave up trying to record them all. Instead, marvelling at their range and beauty.
I walked down the nave, through the arch into the Quire, and it was as breathtaking as expected, then round the Chancel looking and photographing the tombs of the Kings and Queens, round Henry VII's chapel.
And then repeating it with the wide angle lens, taking shots of the various chapels and tombs, all the while keeping an eye on the time as we were to go to visit the new gallery musuem at 11, and then a guided tour of some normally off limit places at half past.
Neither of these allowed photography, which is a great shame as the views from the gallery were stunning down the length of the Nave and then the ancinent chain library and the sanctuary of Henry VII's chapel where we could reach out and touch the shrine of St Edward the Confessor.
The museum had dozens of funeral effigies of the Kings and Queens, some made I'm sure to look better than they did in real life, but others had a degree of realism about them. The one of Queen Mary seemed pregnant, while the one for Queen Elizabeth Ist had a tight corset, so she would have appeared in death as she had as a young woman.
There were carvings, ceremonial cloaks, replicas of the Crown Jewels, and so much more, but we had run out of time, as we had to get to the other side of the church for the hidden secrets tour.
Us and three other couples joined our guide as he showed us the latest escavations revealing the area where monks used to prepare for services. This is hidden behind screens now, and will soon become the site of a new visitor's centre. The trenches were filled with uncvered skeletons and bones, all human of course, and these will all either be rebuuried here or some other Christian place.
Next we went to the Dean's quarters where we saw where he prepared for services, and were allowed into, but not allowed to photograph the Jerico Room, before being allowed outside for a while, then walking around the cloisters, back into the chancel and into Henry's chapel to see the tombs and shrine. Envious looks rained down on us as we climbed the wooden steps into the usually closed area, and then only the people in the gallery above could see us.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
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The KOM League
Flash Report
for
Christmas 2017
Disclaimer:
This week’s report is filed at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/38470184004/
Upon preparing the previous Flash Report I feared there would be more deaths in 2017. I kept tracking former players and found that Ralph Liebendorfer of the 1947 Bartlesville Oilers passed away in October of this year. Then I learned of the death of a former Carthage Cardinal, Jack Hinkle early this week. So, the report starts with obituaries and then goes into other stories a reader or three might find of interest. Read on and if you don’t find anything you like return the unread portions for a full refund.
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Death of former Carthage Cardinal
www.greensboro.com/obituaries/hinkle-jr-gaston-e-jack/art...
GREENSBORO--Gaston E. Daniel "Jack" Hinkle, Jr., 88, a resident of Greensboro, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2017 after a brief illness. He certainly lived a full life. He was preceded in death by his parents, Gaston E. Hinkle, Sr. and Ruby Jester Hinkle; his son, Terry Hinkle, and a sister, Barbara H. Cranford.
Jack is survived by his wife, "Dodie" Martin Hinkle of the home; sister, Glenda Grissett and husband Steve; daughters, Marilyn Stewart and husband Danny, Carolyn Szarka; son, Jack Hinkle and wife Shirley; five grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. As a young man, Jack was an avid football and baseball player. Drafted out of high school, he was signed to play with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was on the farm team for several years until the birth of his twin daughters. He returned to High Point and became executive director of the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club. There he mentored many young people; as he said, "I love working with kids." While working, he began attending High Point College.
He quoted, "I enrolled when I was an old man." Graduating at age 32 was quite an accomplishment since he was studying, working and taking care of his children.
Eventually he went to work with the Guilford County School System, where he coached baseball and taught biology at Ragsdale High School for 28 years as well as serving as the athletic director at Ragsdale for several years. He worked two years at Northwest High School. Many of his players still speak highly of him and his knowledge and love of the game. His past players have stated how much they learned from him and the valuable skills they acquired through his teachings. Jack loved golf and was very proficient at it. He also fished, hunted and ran rabbit dogs for sport. Many high school and small college football and basketball games were officiated by him.
Later in life, he and his beloved wife Dodie attended regularly the Greensboro Grasshoppers home games. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Guilford Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Hanes-Lineberry Funeral Home Sedgefield Chapel on Tuesday from 12 p.m. until service time. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Jack's memory to the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club in High Point. Online condolences can be made at www.haneslineberryfuneralhomes.com.
Jack Morris, baseball necrologist, sent along the link to the obituary of Jack Hinkle. Here is a note that I sent to him. “Jack, before taking Hinkle's name for granted, in the obituary, do some more checking. His middle name was Edaniel in every public record I can find. Google it and check me out on that. When I spoke with him probably, two decades ago, I thought his middle name was Daniel but he corrected me. I don't have a transcript of our conversation be he told me Edaniel was a family name. It is possible the newspaper changed the obituary or else the public records were wrong for over eight decades.
Jack, as I build my case that the late Gaston Edaniel Hinkle Jr. went by that name I'm sharing his father's final resting place. www.findagrave.com/memorial/47217811
This is the official 1948 Carthage team photo site: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/38470184004/ Photo identification was verified by Hank Wlodarczyk and Jim Neufeldt.
Front Row: Ken Cox, Jack Hallowell, Dave Young, Maurice Mathey, George Schachle, Dean Walstrom and Pee Wee Smith Batboy- foreground
Back Row: Charles Williams, Don Schultz, Jack Hinkle, Jim Neufeldt, Ray Diering, Walt Marlow, Hank Wlodarczyk, Bill Buck, Art Wilson, Al Kluttz (Manager.)
There were 40 roster players for the 1948 Carthage Cardinals and 32 are now deceased.
Of the eight other members, six were alive at last check while Arthur Lee Wilson and William Hatch were never located. Wilson was born May 19, 1929 in New Albany, Indiana and I never determined where Hatch was from nor his birthdate. The six guys who were alive in mid-December of this year are: Thomas Jefferson “Snuffy” Smith, Howard Powles, Lawrence Puent, James Neufeldt, James Koukl and Raymond Paul Dame. By order of listing these guys live in Omaha, Neb. the next three in Illinois, then Irvine, California and Providence, Rhode Island.
There were some members of that team with higher baseball connections. Manager Al Kluttz had a brother, Clyde, who caught in the big leagues. Ray Diering served as player/interim manager and he had a brother, Chuck, who started out in the St Louis Cardinal organization. George Schachle, the only player in KOM history to homer over the centerfield wall, at Carthage, was the brother-in-law of Willard Schmidt who later pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Death of 1947 Bartlesville Oiler.
Ralph W. Liebendorfer, age 89, of Ellenboro, North Carolina passed away Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at Autumn Care of Saluda.
Born April 11, 1928 in Elwood City, Pennsylvania, he was a son to the late Harry Liebendorfer and Ruth Bowles Liebendorfer. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Harry "Red" Liebendorfer. Ralph was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served as a counter intelligence officer during the Korean War. His life's passion was restoring classic cars and was widely known as the "Cad Father" due to his love for the classic 1941 Cadillac. Ralph was also a member of several Classic Car Clubs. In his earlier years, he played minor league baseball for the Bartlesville Pirates( Ed note: Actually they were the Oilers) in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Those left to cherish his memory include one daughter, Renee Issa and husband, Samer of Ellenboro.
Mr. Liebendorfer will be buried with military honors in the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery in Black Mountain, NC. There will be no formal services held locally.
Ed comment:
For the past couple of decades contact between the deceased and this editor was done between his home in Piru, California and mine in Columbia, Mo. I learned quickly that his greatest interest in life was his old cars and I recall sharing links of the company he ran for many years in the car restoration business.
Liebendorfer and his brother Harry were a pitcher, catcher tandem during their high school days at Peabody High School in Pittsburgh, PA. They were scouted by the New York Giants who tendered contract offers to both but nothing came of that and both brothers signed with Pittsburgh.
As far back as 1945 with Ralph pitching and Harry catching the Peabody team was making news. This showed up in the May 12th edition of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette/. “Two Schoolboy Hurlers Win No-Hit games. Frenchy Wardwell twirled for Mt. Lebanon as the Mounties blanked Crafton by 5-0 at Crafton without a bingle or tally. Ralph Liebendorfer of Peabody fanned 17, issued three walks, hit one batter and permitted no hits or runs as Carrick was trimmed by 5-0.”
In 1947 both the Liebendorfer boys were in professional baseball. Harry caught for Rehoboth, Maryland in the Eastern Shore league and hit .309 while Ralph was a 4-8 pitcher for the Bartlesville club. Harry played on the same team with future big leaguer Joe Muir while Ralph’s teammates at Bartlesville, who made it to the big leagues, were Roy Theophilus Upright and Bill Pierro. Rather than spell out the name Upright was mostly known as R. T..
1947 Bartlesville team photo. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/39150051072/ This photo had all the players lined up in the dugout. This is half of those guys which includes the decease, Ralph Liebendorfer. These guys are identified in the photo posted on the aforementioned site. The team members in the other half of the photo are: Elmo Maxwell, Lou Godla, Jim Fink, Bill Pierro (pitched later for the Pittsburgh Pirates), Wayne Caves, Jess Nelms, Bill Waggener and Charles Stock.
There were 43 roster players for Bartlesville in 1947. With the passing of Liebendorfer there are 36 now deceased. The following members of that team are those who I never found: Elton Leo Downing, Wilson (first name unknown) Jack McDonald, John L. Moore and Charles Stock Jr,. William R. Waggener was tracked to a Peoria nursing home where he was still residing at the time of this report. Joseph R. Turek is the oldest living member from that team. He is now 94 years young. Downing appeared in one game as a pinch hitter and then returned to Miami, Okla. in 1949 where he caught a few games, Wilson and McDonald were pitchers, Moore a 1st baseman and Waggener was a 2nd baseman.
Although not finding some of these guys I know a little bit about them. Downing was born in Texas, circa 1926, and was living in Arizona with his step-grandparents by 1930. He later moved to the State of Nevada and that is where he went to high school and was living when he signed with the 1949 Miami, Oklahoma Owls. He most likely lived there when he signed with Pittsburgh in 1947.
Charles Stock was on the Bartlesville roster for parts of three seasons and was a catcher from Chicago. He later played semi-pro ball in the Manitoba-Dakota (Man-Dak) league. A good friend of his attended a KOM league reunion and told me Stock had died a number of years earlier. I could never verify that so I still carry Stock in the unknown status with a birthdate of 11/24/1926 and a SSN that I check once in a while to see if he has passed on. There is always the chance that the SSN he had in the late 1940’s was incorrectly transcribed by the Bartlesville Pirates.
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Check out everything
During this past week former Detroit Tiger pitcher, Frank Lary, passed away. It was mentioned to me in an e-mail and I replied that he had a brother, Robert Yale, who was a Pro-football Hall of Famer, having played defensive back with the Detroit Lions as well as being an excellent punter.
Barry McMahon of Ladysmith, British Columbia stated that he never knew of the relation between Frank and Yale Lary. I had heard that story ever since I first watched Jack Drees do NFL games, back in the 1950’s. Thus, I thought I would check that out. Frank Lary had five brothers but not a single one of them was named Yale. In checking on Yale’s ancestry I found that he was most likely an only child. So, another myth was exploded.
Back in my early days I thought Harry Caray was the best baseball announcer on the planet and everything he said had to be true. Oh, how wrong I was. The Dodgers had a pitcher by the name of Claude Osteen. Later a young man joined the Cincinnati Reds by the name of Darrell Osteen and from that time forward until the Osteens left baseball, Caray claimed they were brothers.
Claude Osteen’s career ended in 1975 and Darrell hung up the spikes in 1970. A decade and a half later I ran into Claude when he was instructing some Dodger hopefuls with the Albuquerque Dukes. He was a very personable gentleman until I asked if he would answer a question for me. When I asked him if Darrell was his brother he replied something to the effect that Harry Caray had come up with that out of thin air and no matter how many times he told Caray there was no kinship, he persisted in making that claim.
That story about my dealing with Claude Osteen was shared with McMahon. He had a similar encounter that involved the exchange of a few letters with former big league pitcher, Frank Sullivan. Tony Kubek was doing the game of the week on NBC and claimed Frank and Heywood Sullivan were brothers. This prompted my Canadian friend to contact Frank to verify that statement. He wrote back “Kubek may be senile! If Haywood was my brother I’d have killed myself and he probably feels the same way. So set Kubek straight, again. By the way it isn’t true, is it, that Kubek and (Howard) Cosell are related?”
The moral of the story: Saying things out of ignorance is forgivable, what isn’t is making the same dumb statements over and over when you know better, or at least should
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Another Tommy Warren story
Many stories have been carried in my writings over the past 20+ years, regarding Thomas Gentry Warren who was probably the most fascinating character ever to play/manage in the KOM league. He was the first ballplayer to return from WWII to rejoin a professional team, he was a deputy sheriff, used car dealer, convicted felon etc, etc.
One of Warren’s biggest problems was gambling which caused most of his other problems. It finally led to his death for he bet so much on the football bowl games of 1968 that he didn’t have the money cover his losses that he committed suicide in a Tulsa motel.
In going through some old clippings this past week it confirmed Warren would bet on anything. He placed a bet with Bartlesville catcher, Bill Phillips, that he could beat him in a foot race if given a four step head start. The race was run after a game at Miami on a downtown street. Warren won by one step. Phillips told the Bartlesville Examiner that when Miami came to Bartlesville there would be another wager but he would only give Warren a two to three step lead.
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From being anonymous to becoming the author of a “Masterpiece.”
Three short years ago an author from New York sent a message after having found references, on the Internet to my writing about minor league baseball. He was interested in knowing if I knew anything about prison teams. At the time I told the gentleman that I would put that information in my Flash Report to ascertain if any of the readers knew anything about that subject from the “old” days. The years went swiftly and recently this note appeared in my e-mail. “Hello John: You had kindly corresponded with me about bush-league baseball a few years back. I was then researching a book about Oklahoma prisons, including prison baseball programs. Well, that book is now finally finished. So I wanted to thank you again for your contributions. If you have a moment, check out firsttoknock.com/products/bobby-bluejacket-the-tribe-the-... There's a pretty cool photo of my subject batting on the prison baseball diamond. The book itself has several great baseball shots. If you know of other folks that would be into this, please spread the word. I'd love to send you a gratis copy. Let me know if you'd like one, and if so, send a mailing address. This is the webshop for others who might be interested in purchasing. Thanks! Best, Michael”
Since the Christmas spirit was upon me I responded to Mr. Daley with “Lo, send it unto me oh wise man.” No, I really didn’t say it that way but it had the same effect. A few days later a book, in excess of 700 pages arrived. Not knowing where to start I went to the end and read the bibliography. In a few minutes I was engrossed in some of the names found therein for they were people I knew in my “salad days” as a citizen of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Daley’s account of these those folks was spot on accurate. One of the sources he quoted was Terrell Lester. Many people recall Lester for his attendance and coverage of KOM reunions dating to the first one in Pittsburg, Kansas. He was also the first guy to critique the book “Majoring in The Minors” and gave it a half page spread in the Sunday edition of the Tulsa World way back in the dark ages…1995. Another name mentioned in the book had the same last name as this author. He was a Tulsa attorney, later prosecuting attorney and then Governor of the State of Oklahoma. That is all I have to say about that. Read the book and see if you can figure out what became of my namesake who had the first name of David.
So, if you live in Oklahoma and especially Tulsa, you would enjoy Michael P. Daley’s masterpiece. “Bobby BlueJacket—The Tribe-The Joint-The Tulsa Underworld.”
Never has this tidbit been shared but every “joint” mentioned in that book has been frequented by Yours truly. That includes the big house at McAlester to the reformatory at Stringtown. The town of Stringtown’s most famous former resident was guy named Willie Stargell.
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Annual Christmas call from Homer
Each Christmas season a very great treat is experienced. The telephone rings and when I pick it up the voice conveys the Christmas spirit with “Hello John and Noel, I love you and want to say Merry Christmas.” This call is repeated to others with whom the caller knew in his KOM league days and later met at the reunions each time they were held.
Homer is not the name of a person but the town in which he lives. At the age of 92 this man is as alert, happy and as optimistic as anyone I have ever known. As we spoke the caller mentioned that he had called to also find out the number of another of his KOM friends. Upon asking who it was he replied “I’m having a senior moment and forgot.” He asked if I had arrived at the juncture where those moments come into my daily life. I advised him that they didn’t occur more than twice each minute. Thus, I expect another call from him when he recalls the name of the person whose telephone number he was seeking.
You might think a senior moment arrived in the preparation of this article and that I forgot who called me from Louisiana but it isn’t likely I’ll ever forget Bill Bagwell, the former New York Yankee farmhand who spent the summer of 1948 in Independence, Kansas and it has held a special place in his heart for 69 years due to the people he met.
Many others have been in touch this holiday season so if you have been wondering why I haven’t mentioned guys like Joe Stanka, lately, it was due to him not communicating. I did get a Christmas card from his wife this year with a new e-mail address. So, if any of you former Ponca City Dodgers wish to reestablish contact, let me know.
And to all a Merry Christmas!!!
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Here's another in-camera focus stacked closeup, courtesy of my E-M1 and 12-40. I need to start taking my tripod along to get better images, but think this is pretty good for hand held.
Vancouver gets lots of rain, so mushrooms are usually plentiful.
Trên cơ sở các nguyên lý chung về thiết kế trồng cây đường phố, việc chọn loài giống cây cần xem xét đến yếu tố sinh lý, sinh thái cây trồng. Trên quan điểm đó, một số tiêu chí đề nghị để chọn loại cây trồng đường phố như sau:
1. Cây có tán lá đẹp, hoa lá trái có màu sắc xinh tươi.
2. Dây leo có tán lá đẹp, hoa lá có màu sắc sinh tươi.
3. Hoa, lá, trái, mùi, nhựa không gây độc hại.
4. Không có hệ thống rễ ăn ngang, lồi lõm làm hư hại mặt đường nhà cửa công trình, dễ đổ ngã.
5. Thân cành nhánh không thuộc loại dòn dễ gãy, trái không to, dễ gây nguy hiểm cho người đi đường, không thu hút ruồi muỗi.
6. Lá thường xanh, không thuộc chủng loại rụng lá toàn phần, kích thước không nên quá nhỏ (sẽ gây khó khăn cho việc vệ sinh đô thị).
7. Cây (hoặc dây leo) có khả năng thích nghi, có thể thích nghi và phát triển tốt trong môi trường bị ô nhiễm, đất đai nghèo dưỡng chất, chu trình nước rối loạn ở đô thị.
8. Tăng trưởng không quá nhanh cũng không quá chậm.
Trên thực tế rất ít có chủng loại nào thỏa mãn được tất cả các yếu tố trên do đó việc chọn chủng loại cây trồng đường phố chỉ có tính tương đối.
Đối với khu chung cư, khu phố, khuôn viên công sở thì tùy theo hiện trạng có thể sử dụng các loài cây bóng mát, kiểng, hoa, dây leo,... tùy theo yêu cầu.
Đối với một số vòng xoay, tiểu đảo (vòng xoay Hàng xanh, Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, Quách Thị Trang, Phú Lâm, An Lạc,...), dãy phân cách (đường Điện Biên Phủ, Hùng Vương, Lê Lợi, Nguyễn Huệ,...) sẽ bố trí những chủng loại có hoa và màu sắc làm điểm nhấn để gây ấn tượng.
Một số loài được chọn trồng trên đường phố và công viên.
Dầu con rái (Dipterocarpus alatus) Mạc nưa (Diospyros mollis)
Sao đen (Hopea odorata) Bằng lăng (Lagerstroemia speciosa)
Gõ đỏ (Afzelia xylocarpa) Sò đo cam (Spathodea campanulata)
Gõ mật (Sindora cochinchinensis) Bò cạp nước (Cassia fistula)
Nhạc ngựa (Swietenia macrophylla) Phượng vĩ (Delonix regia)
Me chua (Tamarindus india) Lim sét (Peltophorum pterocarpum)
Viết (Mimusops elengi)
Một số cây tiềm năng đang thực nghiệm có khả năng trồng trên đường phố và công viên.
Vấp (Mesua ferrea) Râm (Anogeissus acuminata)
Long não (Cinnamomum camphora) Cóc (Sponidas cythera)
Xoay (Dialium cochinchinensis) Xoài (Mangifera india)
Chập choại (Beilscmiedia roxburghiana) Mít (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
Chiêu liêu (Terminania chebula) Nhãn (Dimocarpus longan)
Tách - Giá tỵ giả (Berrya cordifolia) Sấu (Dracontomelom duperreanum)
Giáng hương (Pterocarpus macrocarpus) Xa kê (Artocarpus altilis)
Các loại hoa dùng trang trí trên vỉa hè trong dịp Lễ, Tết
Cúc chuồn (Cosmos sulphureus) Hoa plốc (Phlox drummondii)
Cúc ngũ sắc (Cosmos bipinnatus) Mười giờ (Portulaca pilosa)
Cúc vạn thọ (Tagetes erecta) Mào gà (Celơsia argentea)
Hướng dương (Helianthus erecta) Thu hải đường (Begonia semperflorens)
Hoa hồng (Rosa chinensis)
Các loại dây leo được trồng trên đường phố, công viên, khuôn viên cơ quan, trường học, bệnh viện...
Hoa giấy (Bougainvillea brasiliensis) Thiên lý (Telosma cordata)
Huỳnh anh (Allamanda cathartica) My ê (Strophanhus gratus)
Dây giun (Quiqualis indica) Dây kim đồng (Tristellateia australasiae)
Tigon (Antigonon leptpus) Sừng trâu (Strophanthus caudatus)
Lá tỏi (Bignonia floribunda) Thượng cán xẻ (Epipremnum pinnatum)
Bìm bìm khói (Ipomoea carnea) Nho (Vitis vinifera)
Cát đằng (Thunbergia grandiflora)
Các loại tre, trúc, cau - dừa trồng trong công viên, khuôn viên, tiểu đảo, cơ quan, trường học, bệnh viện...
Tre vàng sọc (Bambusa vulgaris) Cau trắng (Veitchia merrillii)
Trúc đùi gà (Bambusa ventricosa) Cau tua (Dypsis pinnatifrons)
Cau (Areca catechu) Cau vua (Roystonia regia)
Cau vàng (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) Đủng đỉnh (Caryota mitis)
My friend, Aidan, described Westminster Abbey as English history written in stone, which as good as a description as I could think of. And English, as the Kings and Queens of that country, later of Great Britain are buried here.
Anyway, I had a fabulous time at the Abbey, and already planning a return for the details I missed.
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Of all the churches and cathedrals in London, the one I wanted to visit and photograph was Westminster Abbey. But, the Abbey didn't allow photography didn't go. And then a few weeks back, my friend, Aidan, started to post shots from inside, and as it turns out, photography, in most areas of the Abbey, is now allowed. So it was a case of when we would visit, not "if", and once we had a free weekend, I began to plan and book.
£25 to go in, each. £10 each for the new museum. And £15 each for a hidden highlights tour. It wasn't cheap, but then if you're going to do it, do it well!
All chores were done Friday, including shopping, so we were free to catch the quarter to eight train from Dover. On the way we called into the garage to pick up some stuff to eat on the train, so we were set.
Saturday was also the last day of British Summer Time (BST), as the clocks would go back early on Sunday morning, then five long winter months would begin.
So, better make most of the daylight.
We were early for the train, so we ate breakfast on the platform, then once the train pulled in, I picked my favourite seats and we settled down for the hour run into London. THe one thing I hadn't planned well was the weather, and some rain was expected during the morning.
The train wasn't busy, and most people wore masks, though enough didn't to make one wonder if the message about COVID really hadn't got through. But then with Johnson as PM, we shouldn't be surprised.
We get off at Statford, and the rain was falling heavily even before we left the Essex marshes behind and entered the long tunnel. But at Stratford, day had become night and the rain fell in what is called stair-rods. I hoped that if we walked slowly through the shopping centre it might have eased by the time we needed to cross over the bridge to the regional station, but the rain was falling just as hard.
And there was no way to avoid it, so we just pulled our collars up and walked as quickly as possible.
Which is why, by the time we arrived at the other side, we were wet little hobbitses.
A quick walk to the Jubilee Line platforms, catching the next train out, we took seats and sat there, gently steaming.
Twenty minutes later, we arrived in Westminster, no dryer, really, taking the four flights of escalators to the surface, where outside it had, atleast, stopped raining for now.
Demonstrations are now outlawed in Parliament Square, so it was quiet, once you got to the other side of the road, its a five minute walk past the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), and round to the entrance of the Abbey.
Amazingly, there was no queue, and once inside the doorway I show my e tickets, they were scanned and we were allowed in. There was a one way system round the Abbey, so I began the first circuit with the 50mm lens, thinking I would go round again with the wide angle, and a third time with the big lens to snap detail.
That was the plan.
Westminster Abbey is where the Kings and Queens of England and Britain have been crowned. Also, where until Henry V11 thought otherwise, they were buried too, so the chancel is jammed with tombs of many famous and infamous figures from history, from Edward the Confessor to William and Mary, most tombs are grand, some less so. As well as Kings and Queens, minor royals and members of the nobility also were either buried here, or had monument erected. As have military figures, and famousnames from the arts.
It really is quite remarkable.
That and the Abbey itself, in parts dating from just before the Norman COnquest, to a rebuilding just after to the 13th Century when Henry III pulled the old Abbey down and started to rebuild it, until he ran out of money.
But it was completed, and since then had filled up with monuments, so many, I lost count and gave up trying to record them all. Instead, marvelling at their range and beauty.
I walked down the nave, through the arch into the Quire, and it was as breathtaking as expected, then round the Chancel looking and photographing the tombs of the Kings and Queens, round Henry VII's chapel.
And then repeating it with the wide angle lens, taking shots of the various chapels and tombs, all the while keeping an eye on the time as we were to go to visit the new gallery musuem at 11, and then a guided tour of some normally off limit places at half past.
Neither of these allowed photography, which is a great shame as the views from the gallery were stunning down the length of the Nave and then the ancinent chain library and the sanctuary of Henry VII's chapel where we could reach out and touch the shrine of St Edward the Confessor.
The museum had dozens of funeral effigies of the Kings and Queens, some made I'm sure to look better than they did in real life, but others had a degree of realism about them. The one of Queen Mary seemed pregnant, while the one for Queen Elizabeth Ist had a tight corset, so she would have appeared in death as she had as a young woman.
There were carvings, ceremonial cloaks, replicas of the Crown Jewels, and so much more, but we had run out of time, as we had to get to the other side of the church for the hidden secrets tour.
Us and three other couples joined our guide as he showed us the latest escavations revealing the area where monks used to prepare for services. This is hidden behind screens now, and will soon become the site of a new visitor's centre. The trenches were filled with uncvered skeletons and bones, all human of course, and these will all either be rebuuried here or some other Christian place.
Next we went to the Dean's quarters where we saw where he prepared for services, and were allowed into, but not allowed to photograph the Jerico Room, before being allowed outside for a while, then walking around the cloisters, back into the chancel and into Henry's chapel to see the tombs and shrine. Envious looks rained down on us as we climbed the wooden steps into the usually closed area, and then only the people in the gallery above could see us.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burials_and_memorials_in_Westminste...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey
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Built by the royal masons in 1250, the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey was originally used in the 13th century by Benedictine monks for their daily meetings. It later became a meeting place of the King's Great Council and the Commons, predecessors of today's Parliament.
A beautiful octagonal building with a vaulted ceiling and delicate central column, it offers rarely seen examples of medieval sculpture, an original floor of glazed tiles and spectacular wall paintings.
The 11th century Pyx Chamber also has a medieval tiled floor, and was used as a monastic and royal treasury. It contains a 13th century stone altar which survived the Reformation.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/chapter-house-an...
This is one of a series of test shots taken with the Sony FE 70-200mm F4.0 G OSS lens. The primary purpose of uploading these is for letting anyone interested in this lens see some sample images, so many of the images are not especially great photos worthy of publishing. Most of these images are at the max resolution for anyone who wants to pixel peep.
Some of these pictures were shot with a 36MP Sony A7R camera, and the rest with a 24MP Sony A7-II. The A7R has a shutter vibration problem that is visible in some of the images. The A7-II has an electronic first curtain (EFC) shutter that is practically vibration-free.
The image quality from the Sony 70-200mm lens at f/4.0 is excellent, and compares with images from a Nikon AF-S 70-200mm F2.8 pro lens at f/2.8. That is a major achievement.
For anyone considering or using the Sony E-mount system, I would highly recommend this lens. It is not cheap - it is actually a bit more expensive than similar lenses from Nikon and Canon. But its quality compares well with my Nikon pro 70-200mm F2.8 lens, and I find this a very utilitarian lens in my E-mount system.
No need to feel obligated to comment - just enjoy whatever pictures you like.
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Some initial shots from one of my 2 recent lens aqusitions, the Olympus 60mm f2.8 macro lens for M4/3.
I thought I'd take it to the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, for a try out. Very happy so far! Very sharp and also very compact and easy to carry.
Focusing is on the whole very quick though my E-M10 did have some very occaisional difficulty focuing at close range.
My friend, Aidan, described Westminster Abbey as English history written in stone, which as good as a description as I could think of. And English, as the Kings and Queens of that country, later of Great Britain are buried here.
Anyway, I had a fabulous time at the Abbey, and already planning a return for the details I missed.
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Of all the churches and cathedrals in London, the one I wanted to visit and photograph was Westminster Abbey. But, the Abbey didn't allow photography didn't go. And then a few weeks back, my friend, Aidan, started to post shots from inside, and as it turns out, photography, in most areas of the Abbey, is now allowed. So it was a case of when we would visit, not "if", and once we had a free weekend, I began to plan and book.
£25 to go in, each. £10 each for the new museum. And £15 each for a hidden highlights tour. It wasn't cheap, but then if you're going to do it, do it well!
All chores were done Friday, including shopping, so we were free to catch the quarter to eight train from Dover. On the way we called into the garage to pick up some stuff to eat on the train, so we were set.
Saturday was also the last day of British Summer Time (BST), as the clocks would go back early on Sunday morning, then five long winter months would begin.
So, better make most of the daylight.
We were early for the train, so we ate breakfast on the platform, then once the train pulled in, I picked my favourite seats and we settled down for the hour run into London. THe one thing I hadn't planned well was the weather, and some rain was expected during the morning.
The train wasn't busy, and most people wore masks, though enough didn't to make one wonder if the message about COVID really hadn't got through. But then with Johnson as PM, we shouldn't be surprised.
We get off at Statford, and the rain was falling heavily even before we left the Essex marshes behind and entered the long tunnel. But at Stratford, day had become night and the rain fell in what is called stair-rods. I hoped that if we walked slowly through the shopping centre it might have eased by the time we needed to cross over the bridge to the regional station, but the rain was falling just as hard.
And there was no way to avoid it, so we just pulled our collars up and walked as quickly as possible.
Which is why, by the time we arrived at the other side, we were wet little hobbitses.
A quick walk to the Jubilee Line platforms, catching the next train out, we took seats and sat there, gently steaming.
Twenty minutes later, we arrived in Westminster, no dryer, really, taking the four flights of escalators to the surface, where outside it had, atleast, stopped raining for now.
Demonstrations are now outlawed in Parliament Square, so it was quiet, once you got to the other side of the road, its a five minute walk past the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), and round to the entrance of the Abbey.
Amazingly, there was no queue, and once inside the doorway I show my e tickets, they were scanned and we were allowed in. There was a one way system round the Abbey, so I began the first circuit with the 50mm lens, thinking I would go round again with the wide angle, and a third time with the big lens to snap detail.
That was the plan.
Westminster Abbey is where the Kings and Queens of England and Britain have been crowned. Also, where until Henry V11 thought otherwise, they were buried too, so the chancel is jammed with tombs of many famous and infamous figures from history, from Edward the Confessor to William and Mary, most tombs are grand, some less so. As well as Kings and Queens, minor royals and members of the nobility also were either buried here, or had monument erected. As have military figures, and famousnames from the arts.
It really is quite remarkable.
That and the Abbey itself, in parts dating from just before the Norman COnquest, to a rebuilding just after to the 13th Century when Henry III pulled the old Abbey down and started to rebuild it, until he ran out of money.
But it was completed, and since then had filled up with monuments, so many, I lost count and gave up trying to record them all. Instead, marvelling at their range and beauty.
I walked down the nave, through the arch into the Quire, and it was as breathtaking as expected, then round the Chancel looking and photographing the tombs of the Kings and Queens, round Henry VII's chapel.
And then repeating it with the wide angle lens, taking shots of the various chapels and tombs, all the while keeping an eye on the time as we were to go to visit the new gallery musuem at 11, and then a guided tour of some normally off limit places at half past.
Neither of these allowed photography, which is a great shame as the views from the gallery were stunning down the length of the Nave and then the ancinent chain library and the sanctuary of Henry VII's chapel where we could reach out and touch the shrine of St Edward the Confessor.
The museum had dozens of funeral effigies of the Kings and Queens, some made I'm sure to look better than they did in real life, but others had a degree of realism about them. The one of Queen Mary seemed pregnant, while the one for Queen Elizabeth Ist had a tight corset, so she would have appeared in death as she had as a young woman.
There were carvings, ceremonial cloaks, replicas of the Crown Jewels, and so much more, but we had run out of time, as we had to get to the other side of the church for the hidden secrets tour.
Us and three other couples joined our guide as he showed us the latest escavations revealing the area where monks used to prepare for services. This is hidden behind screens now, and will soon become the site of a new visitor's centre. The trenches were filled with uncvered skeletons and bones, all human of course, and these will all either be rebuuried here or some other Christian place.
Next we went to the Dean's quarters where we saw where he prepared for services, and were allowed into, but not allowed to photograph the Jerico Room, before being allowed outside for a while, then walking around the cloisters, back into the chancel and into Henry's chapel to see the tombs and shrine. Envious looks rained down on us as we climbed the wooden steps into the usually closed area, and then only the people in the gallery above could see us.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
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My friend, Aidan, described Westminster Abbey as English history written in stone, which as good as a description as I could think of. And English, as the Kings and Queens of that country, later of Great Britain are buried here.
Anyway, I had a fabulous time at the Abbey, and already planning a return for the details I missed.
-------------------------------------------
Of all the churches and cathedrals in London, the one I wanted to visit and photograph was Westminster Abbey. But, the Abbey didn't allow photography didn't go. And then a few weeks back, my friend, Aidan, started to post shots from inside, and as it turns out, photography, in most areas of the Abbey, is now allowed. So it was a case of when we would visit, not "if", and once we had a free weekend, I began to plan and book.
£25 to go in, each. £10 each for the new museum. And £15 each for a hidden highlights tour. It wasn't cheap, but then if you're going to do it, do it well!
All chores were done Friday, including shopping, so we were free to catch the quarter to eight train from Dover. On the way we called into the garage to pick up some stuff to eat on the train, so we were set.
Saturday was also the last day of British Summer Time (BST), as the clocks would go back early on Sunday morning, then five long winter months would begin.
So, better make most of the daylight.
We were early for the train, so we ate breakfast on the platform, then once the train pulled in, I picked my favourite seats and we settled down for the hour run into London. THe one thing I hadn't planned well was the weather, and some rain was expected during the morning.
The train wasn't busy, and most people wore masks, though enough didn't to make one wonder if the message about COVID really hadn't got through. But then with Johnson as PM, we shouldn't be surprised.
We get off at Statford, and the rain was falling heavily even before we left the Essex marshes behind and entered the long tunnel. But at Stratford, day had become night and the rain fell in what is called stair-rods. I hoped that if we walked slowly through the shopping centre it might have eased by the time we needed to cross over the bridge to the regional station, but the rain was falling just as hard.
And there was no way to avoid it, so we just pulled our collars up and walked as quickly as possible.
Which is why, by the time we arrived at the other side, we were wet little hobbitses.
A quick walk to the Jubilee Line platforms, catching the next train out, we took seats and sat there, gently steaming.
Twenty minutes later, we arrived in Westminster, no dryer, really, taking the four flights of escalators to the surface, where outside it had, atleast, stopped raining for now.
Demonstrations are now outlawed in Parliament Square, so it was quiet, once you got to the other side of the road, its a five minute walk past the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), and round to the entrance of the Abbey.
Amazingly, there was no queue, and once inside the doorway I show my e tickets, they were scanned and we were allowed in. There was a one way system round the Abbey, so I began the first circuit with the 50mm lens, thinking I would go round again with the wide angle, and a third time with the big lens to snap detail.
That was the plan.
Westminster Abbey is where the Kings and Queens of England and Britain have been crowned. Also, where until Henry V11 thought otherwise, they were buried too, so the chancel is jammed with tombs of many famous and infamous figures from history, from Edward the Confessor to William and Mary, most tombs are grand, some less so. As well as Kings and Queens, minor royals and members of the nobility also were either buried here, or had monument erected. As have military figures, and famousnames from the arts.
It really is quite remarkable.
That and the Abbey itself, in parts dating from just before the Norman COnquest, to a rebuilding just after to the 13th Century when Henry III pulled the old Abbey down and started to rebuild it, until he ran out of money.
But it was completed, and since then had filled up with monuments, so many, I lost count and gave up trying to record them all. Instead, marvelling at their range and beauty.
I walked down the nave, through the arch into the Quire, and it was as breathtaking as expected, then round the Chancel looking and photographing the tombs of the Kings and Queens, round Henry VII's chapel.
And then repeating it with the wide angle lens, taking shots of the various chapels and tombs, all the while keeping an eye on the time as we were to go to visit the new gallery musuem at 11, and then a guided tour of some normally off limit places at half past.
Neither of these allowed photography, which is a great shame as the views from the gallery were stunning down the length of the Nave and then the ancinent chain library and the sanctuary of Henry VII's chapel where we could reach out and touch the shrine of St Edward the Confessor.
The museum had dozens of funeral effigies of the Kings and Queens, some made I'm sure to look better than they did in real life, but others had a degree of realism about them. The one of Queen Mary seemed pregnant, while the one for Queen Elizabeth Ist had a tight corset, so she would have appeared in death as she had as a young woman.
There were carvings, ceremonial cloaks, replicas of the Crown Jewels, and so much more, but we had run out of time, as we had to get to the other side of the church for the hidden secrets tour.
Us and three other couples joined our guide as he showed us the latest escavations revealing the area where monks used to prepare for services. This is hidden behind screens now, and will soon become the site of a new visitor's centre. The trenches were filled with uncvered skeletons and bones, all human of course, and these will all either be rebuuried here or some other Christian place.
Next we went to the Dean's quarters where we saw where he prepared for services, and were allowed into, but not allowed to photograph the Jerico Room, before being allowed outside for a while, then walking around the cloisters, back into the chancel and into Henry's chapel to see the tombs and shrine. Envious looks rained down on us as we climbed the wooden steps into the usually closed area, and then only the people in the gallery above could see us.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
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My friend, Aidan, described Westminster Abbey as English history written in stone, which as good as a description as I could think of. And English, as the Kings and Queens of that country, later of Great Britain are buried here.
Anyway, I had a fabulous time at the Abbey, and already planning a return for the details I missed.
-------------------------------------------
Of all the churches and cathedrals in London, the one I wanted to visit and photograph was Westminster Abbey. But, the Abbey didn't allow photography didn't go. And then a few weeks back, my friend, Aidan, started to post shots from inside, and as it turns out, photography, in most areas of the Abbey, is now allowed. So it was a case of when we would visit, not "if", and once we had a free weekend, I began to plan and book.
£25 to go in, each. £10 each for the new museum. And £15 each for a hidden highlights tour. It wasn't cheap, but then if you're going to do it, do it well!
All chores were done Friday, including shopping, so we were free to catch the quarter to eight train from Dover. On the way we called into the garage to pick up some stuff to eat on the train, so we were set.
Saturday was also the last day of British Summer Time (BST), as the clocks would go back early on Sunday morning, then five long winter months would begin.
So, better make most of the daylight.
We were early for the train, so we ate breakfast on the platform, then once the train pulled in, I picked my favourite seats and we settled down for the hour run into London. THe one thing I hadn't planned well was the weather, and some rain was expected during the morning.
The train wasn't busy, and most people wore masks, though enough didn't to make one wonder if the message about COVID really hadn't got through. But then with Johnson as PM, we shouldn't be surprised.
We get off at Statford, and the rain was falling heavily even before we left the Essex marshes behind and entered the long tunnel. But at Stratford, day had become night and the rain fell in what is called stair-rods. I hoped that if we walked slowly through the shopping centre it might have eased by the time we needed to cross over the bridge to the regional station, but the rain was falling just as hard.
And there was no way to avoid it, so we just pulled our collars up and walked as quickly as possible.
Which is why, by the time we arrived at the other side, we were wet little hobbitses.
A quick walk to the Jubilee Line platforms, catching the next train out, we took seats and sat there, gently steaming.
Twenty minutes later, we arrived in Westminster, no dryer, really, taking the four flights of escalators to the surface, where outside it had, atleast, stopped raining for now.
Demonstrations are now outlawed in Parliament Square, so it was quiet, once you got to the other side of the road, its a five minute walk past the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), and round to the entrance of the Abbey.
Amazingly, there was no queue, and once inside the doorway I show my e tickets, they were scanned and we were allowed in. There was a one way system round the Abbey, so I began the first circuit with the 50mm lens, thinking I would go round again with the wide angle, and a third time with the big lens to snap detail.
That was the plan.
Westminster Abbey is where the Kings and Queens of England and Britain have been crowned. Also, where until Henry V11 thought otherwise, they were buried too, so the chancel is jammed with tombs of many famous and infamous figures from history, from Edward the Confessor to William and Mary, most tombs are grand, some less so. As well as Kings and Queens, minor royals and members of the nobility also were either buried here, or had monument erected. As have military figures, and famousnames from the arts.
It really is quite remarkable.
That and the Abbey itself, in parts dating from just before the Norman COnquest, to a rebuilding just after to the 13th Century when Henry III pulled the old Abbey down and started to rebuild it, until he ran out of money.
But it was completed, and since then had filled up with monuments, so many, I lost count and gave up trying to record them all. Instead, marvelling at their range and beauty.
I walked down the nave, through the arch into the Quire, and it was as breathtaking as expected, then round the Chancel looking and photographing the tombs of the Kings and Queens, round Henry VII's chapel.
And then repeating it with the wide angle lens, taking shots of the various chapels and tombs, all the while keeping an eye on the time as we were to go to visit the new gallery musuem at 11, and then a guided tour of some normally off limit places at half past.
Neither of these allowed photography, which is a great shame as the views from the gallery were stunning down the length of the Nave and then the ancinent chain library and the sanctuary of Henry VII's chapel where we could reach out and touch the shrine of St Edward the Confessor.
The museum had dozens of funeral effigies of the Kings and Queens, some made I'm sure to look better than they did in real life, but others had a degree of realism about them. The one of Queen Mary seemed pregnant, while the one for Queen Elizabeth Ist had a tight corset, so she would have appeared in death as she had as a young woman.
There were carvings, ceremonial cloaks, replicas of the Crown Jewels, and so much more, but we had run out of time, as we had to get to the other side of the church for the hidden secrets tour.
Us and three other couples joined our guide as he showed us the latest escavations revealing the area where monks used to prepare for services. This is hidden behind screens now, and will soon become the site of a new visitor's centre. The trenches were filled with uncvered skeletons and bones, all human of course, and these will all either be rebuuried here or some other Christian place.
Next we went to the Dean's quarters where we saw where he prepared for services, and were allowed into, but not allowed to photograph the Jerico Room, before being allowed outside for a while, then walking around the cloisters, back into the chancel and into Henry's chapel to see the tombs and shrine. Envious looks rained down on us as we climbed the wooden steps into the usually closed area, and then only the people in the gallery above could see us.
-------------------------------------------
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
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