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St Mary, Flowton, Suffolk
A visit in February 2019. Two years previously, I had written: Listen: the winter is cold and dark, but the days are lengthening. On a Sunday in early February which promised gloom, but burst instead into a bright unforecast winter sunlight, I headed back to Flowton. All the way, the fields were dead, the crows in possession. Riding the hills from Nettlestead, I freewheeled down into Somersham and up the other side of the valley. Now the clouds began to gather again, but I was not downhearted, for snowdrops in the hedgerows signalled the yearly cycle beginning again, Spring not unheralded. The world will come back to life, and all too soon it will be May, Mary's month; the hedgerows will be full of birdsong, as the endless cycle of life renews itself. Chaffinches will spiral and fluster in their ritual of courting and nesting; below them, a pair of warblers will twist in a perilous skein over the road surface. A pair of jays will hammer the sky beyond.
This is spring as it has always been, adapting itself minutely from year to year as Suffolk around it changes. A hundred years ago, these lanes were full of people, for in those days the villagers were enslaved to the land. But a farm that might support fifty workers then needs barely two now, and the countryside has emptied, villages reduced to a third of their size. To be a farmworker these days is a solitary calling, and I felt at one with them as I raced over the gentle rises on my bike. In all this journey from Claydon, and apart from a brief frenzy of activity at Somersham, I had seen only one other person, and she was three miles ago. Suffolk is quieter now than at any time since before the Saxons arrived, and nature is returning to it.
In the early spring of 1644, a solemn procession came this way. The body of Captain William Boggas was brought back from the Midlands, where he had been killed in some skirmish or other, possibly in connection with the seige of Newark. The cart stumbled over the ruts and mud hollows, and it is easy to imagine the watching farmworkers pausing in a solemn gesture, standing upright for a brief moment, perhaps removing a hat, as it passed them by.
But no sign of the cross, for this was Puritan Suffolk. Even the Church of England had been suppressed, and the local Priest replaced by a Minister chosen by, and possibly from within, the congregation.
William Boggas was laid to rest in the nave of the church, beside the body of his infant daughter who had died a year earlier. His heavily pregnant widow would have stood by on the cold brick floor, and the little church would have been full, for he was a landowner, and a Captain too.
And the story doesn't end there. So, I cast my mind back to a glorious May day in 2007, with the heat of summer already more than a promise, I arrived again in Flowton. Here, the trees in the hedgerows gathered, and the early leaves sent shadows dappling across the road beneath my wheels. The antiquarian David Davy came this way in a bad mood in 1829, with his friend John Darby on their way to record the memorials and inscriptions of the church: ...we ascended a rather steep hill, on which we travelled thro' very indifferent roads to Flowton; here the kind of country I had anticipated for the whole of the present day's excursion was completely realised. A more flat, wet, unpleasant soil and country I have not often passed over, & we found some difficulty in getting along with safety & comfort.
The roads have changed here since Darby and Davy came, but the church hasn't much. The Victorians were kind to Flowton; perhaps, because the Puritans had been. It has a delicious atmosphere, that of an archetypal English country church. The narrow green sleeve of the graveyard enfolds it, rather formal to the north, but wildly overgrown on the south side. The tower is one of those curious affairs where the upper storeys have been taken down at some time, presumably because they were unsafe. The capped base looks rugged and primitive; one might think it early, even Norman. In fact, this pretty little church is almost all of a 14th century piece, in the Decorated style.
The west face of the tower still has its niches, which once contained the images of Saints who watched over the travellers passing by. Another thing curious about the tower is that it has no west door. Instead, the door is into the south side of the tower. There must be a reason for this, for it exists nowhere else in Suffolk. Perhaps there was another building to the west of the tower. However, there are several churches in this area with towers to the south of their naves, and the entrance through a south door into the porch beneath the tower. Perhaps that was originally the intention here.
The notice in the lychgate says Welcome to Flowton Church.Now, this is easily done, but how rare it is! Does it mean anything? Yes, it does, for this church is always open. I stepped into a sweetly ancient space, a slight damp in the air from the winter now gone.
The brick floors are uneven; I stepped inside carefully. Brick floors are lovely though, and once all churches must have had them. The bricks lend an organic quality to the font, which seems to grow out of them, and they spread up beyond the chancel arch into the chancel itself. Glazed Minton tiles have their place; fortunately, that place is not here. On the south side of the sanctuary there is a great rarity. The piscina that formerly served the altar here still retains its original wooden credence shelf. On the opposite wall is a fine corbel of a madly grinning devil.
I wandered back down into the nave, to the ledger stone of Captain William Boggas. It reads Here lyes waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ the body of William Boggas gent, deere to his Countrey, by whoes free choyce he was called to be Captayne of their vountaries raysed for their defence: pious towards God, meeke & juste towards men & being about 40 yeeres of age departed this life March 18: 1643.
To the north of it lie two more ledgers, the easterly one to his young daughter, which in chilling legalese records the date of her birth and her death in the next ensuing month. To the west of that is one to William, his son, who was born on April 11th 1644.
Now hang on, you may be thinking. How could his son have been born in April 1644 if William senior had died in March 1643?
Simply, in those days the New Year was counted not from January 1st, but from March 25th; this is a quarter day usually referred to as Lady Day, in an echoing memory of the pre-Reformation Feast of the Annunciation. So William Boggas died one month before his son was born, not thirteen. It would be good to tell you that William Junior led a similarly exciting and possibly even longer life than his father. But this was not to be, for he died at the age of just two years old in 1645. As he was given his father's name, we may assume that he was his father's first and only son.
A further point of interest is that both Williams' stones have space ready for further names. But there are none. There would be no more children; how could there be? But William's wife is not buried or even remembered here. Did she move away? Did she marry again, and does she lie in some other similarly remote English graveyard? Actually, it is possible that she doesn't. Since I first wrote this account in 2007, I've come across considerable evidence to show that Boggas's wife was Flowton girl Mary Branston, and she had been married before, to Robert Woodward of Dedham, Essex. Between the time of William Boggas's death in 1644 and the 1647 accounting of the Colony, Mary's daughter and nephews by her first marriage had been transported to the Virginia Colony in the modern United States. Is it possible that Mary went to join them?
And finally, one last visitor. Four months after the birth of the younger William, when the cement on his father's ledger stone was barely dry, the Puritan iconoclast William Dowsing visited this remote place. It was 22 August 1644. The day had been a busy one for Dowsing; Flowton was one of seven churches he visited that day. Like me, he came here after Nettlestead and Somersham. Like me, he noticed the piscina in the sanctuary. Unlike me, he ordered its destruction. This obviously didn't happen; perhaps it was filled in instead.
Dowsing had arrived here in the late afternoon on what was probably a fine summer's day, since the travelling was so easy. I imagined the graveyard that day, full of dense greenery. He came on horseback, and he was not alone.With him came, as an assistant, a man called Jacob Caley.
Caley, a Portman of Ipswich, was well-known to the people of Flowton. He was the government's official collector of taxes for this part of Suffolk. One thinks he must not have been a popular man. What the villagers couldn't know, of course, was that Caley was actually hiding away a goodly proportion of the money he collected.
In 1662, two years after the Commonwealth ended, he was found guilty of the theft of £3000, about a million pounds in today's money. He had collected £118 of this from Flowton alone, and John Blatchly, in Trevor Cooper's new edition of the Dowsing Journals, thinks the amount he was found guilty of stealing is probably understated.
On that May day in 2007 I stepped out into the calm of the graveyard, through clusters of yellow cowslips that were scattered here and there across the tussocky ground. In this place of the dead, I breathed deeply the smell of new life. A cluster of sparrows suddenly erupted from the undergrowth, boiling high above me in busy chatter, and on this bright day I thought this as lovely a place as any I have ever been in Suffolk.
Needs a break in his travels from afar ..
Waiting before the parade
Christmas Parade
Post Office Square
Queen St . Brisbane
AT THE RISK OF OFFENDING SOME ONE.... HAHA Like I care about being pc....... The bear with the sign 350 means there are 350 plants and animals threatened by global warming.... yeah right. Well since there is no global warming it's pretty much a moot point. And if there was global warming man can't fix it. Well I suppose some hyper sensitive climate worshiping , environmental -loving, the- sky is falling, -global warming, pious, self- righteous, gun -controling, I got way to much time on my hand, Goody Two-Shoes will tell me I'm wrong and that I need to leave a smaller carbon foot print for the good of our children and the planet..... hummmm , my kids are big and CARBONS my friend I'm going to leave the biggest foot print I can.
AND......... Global warming will lead to an unprecedented flowering of vegetation on Earth...... THAT MY FRIENDS IS A GOOD THING.
The earlier notion that global warming will lead to a drought of 70 percent of the land, were incorrect: an increase in carbon dioxide will reduce water loss by plants and their need for precipitation.
The most warm periods of the history of the world's forests have been distributed where they later disappeared from the cold snap. American researchers have studied the impact of rising carbon dioxide concentration in the Earth's atmosphere and came to the conclusion that it would be somewhat favorable for plants. The relevant article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences .
The authors calculated the need for common species of plants in the water for four-time scenario of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Last time the concentrations observed on Earth millions of years ago. As it turned out, the stomata on the leaves of plants at the same time will lose much less moisture. Through these stomata plants receive atmospheric carbon dioxide to use it later in your metabolism. It stomata are the main cause of water loss by plants. Four-growth of the main greenhouse gas concentrations significantly reduce the time during which the stomata are fully open. Thus, significantly reduced loss of moisture and water needs of plants.
Previously it was thought that global warming would lead to negative effects of drought on vegetation for more than 70 percent of the land area. Accounting for the new factor in the spread of drought indicates that no more than 37 percent of the solid surface of the Earth will actually suffer from it.
However, the authors of the article, without giving any evidence, argue that global warming will still lead to an increase in droughts. According to them, the total aridity climate (moisture reduction) will not always offset by a decrease in the demand for water. This statement is in contradiction with the findings of other research groups, which are in accordance with the laws of physics say that increase in temperature leads to an increase in evaporation and precipitation.
According to the earlier 2016 year global warming, on the contrary, it increases precipitation worldwide both in wet and in dry areas. Together with a reduction in plant water needs it can lead to planting areas previously deprived of significant vegetation. Similar phenomena were observed in the warm periods of Earth's history in the past. During the medieval climatic optimum and Atlantic climate was not only warmer but wetter. For example, Lake Chad just thousands of years ago there was more of the Caspian Sea and the Sahara was covered by an extensive network of rivers, dried up during the subsequent cooling.
www.pnas.org/content/113/36/10019.abstract
Ultimately it is God that controls the climate. For the students and teachers of " the Last Days" before Christ second coming it's not a pretty picture. Climate will be affected but that will be the least of your problems if you are on the wrong side of our creator.
Street artist Nathan Bowen's piece in solidarity with the victims of the Paris bombings in November 2015
Word reached my ears at the start of 2016 that the two surviving SRN 4 hovercrafts that plied various short sea routes between Kent and Pas de Calais between 1968 and 2000 were to be broken up. Their story post-withdrawal from active service in 2000 is a long one, including being bought for a large sum of money by somebody who has never done anything with them except re-used some of the engines elsewhere, and a proposed sale to somebody who was going to use them on Lake Ontario in Canada, which never actually happened.
A combination of factors led to them being withdrawn from service. The EU Single Market and doing away with “Duty Free” (one of the biggest cons ever foisted upon the public but that’s another story) took a sizeable chunk out of Hoverspeed’s ancillary income; the opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1995 meant that trains could match the hovercraft’s crossing times, and the crafts themselves needed serious refurbishment and the funds weren’t there to pay for it. The Hovercrafts were replaced by “Sea Cats” which provided a service only just a little faster than the ferries and were an absolute pain to load and unload with vehicles.
I used the hovercraft regularly to cross the channel and I used the Sea Cat once – once was enough. Presumably many other former passengers felt the same and Hoverspeed ceased trading in 2005.
For the last few years they have been quietly rusting away in the Hovercraft Museum at Lee on Solent, and now the land is required for housing development. For those who don’t know, the SRN4s were remarkably big buggers so, whilst the smaller hovercraft in the museum (of which there are many ) could probably be easily housed elsewhere, the SRN 4s are a different matter altogether.
Better news came in early August 2016 that the Hovercraft Museum had been given a further three year lease on the site and that one of the SRN 4s, “Princess Anne,” was to be “saved for the nation” which probably means being cosmetically restored (it is highly unlikely that it will ever put to sea again unless huge sums of money are forthcoming from somewhere). “Princess Margaret,” however, is likely to Cease To Be in the not too distant future.
They can currently both be seen at the Hovercraft Museum at Lee on Solent that is currently open most Saturdays. This is a shot of “Princess Anne” at the Hovershow at Lee on Solent on the weekend of 20th August 2016.
My sadness photo needs an explanation...
this is an empty desk at work...there are a lot of empty desks at work, with the government freezing job hiring our empty desks are not being filled and that is sad for many reasons.
The work still needs to be done, those of us that are left are left to do more with less. BUT what is worse, is that there are millions of young Canadians out there who just want to work...and our government is not giving them any chances.
this to me is sadness
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Here would be at the likely physiological needs stage, where the metabolic requirements would be met. Up in Tondo, I like it.
this is the resident's lovely cast, he needs some casting classes for sure,, cannot see or wiggle toes, even though my attending dr, which is my reg dr said I am suppose to do,,, hummmmm
From the back of the cabinet, this lovely tea mug given to me by my friends Nick and Kelly when I saw them last year in Hong Kong.
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Richard Whalley 1489-1583 with feet on a whale a pun on his name.
"Behold his Wives were number three :Two of them died in right good fame :The Third this Tomb erected she, For him who well deserv'd the same.
Both for his life and Godly end, Which all that knows must needs commend:
And they that knows not, yet may see, A worthy Whalleye loe was he.
Since time brings all things to an end, Let us our selves applye,
And learn by this our faithful friend,That here in Tombe doth lye,
To fear the Lord, and eke beholde The fairest is but dust and Mold:
For as we are, so once was he : And as he ys, so must we be".
The son of Thomas Whalley & Elizabeth daughter of John Strelley of Woodborough, and grandson of Richard Whalley and Elizabeth Leak heiress fo Kirton Hall Screveton, he succeeded to his grandfather's estate which brought him great opulence.
As a ‘servant’ of Lord Protector Somerset and later Thomas Cromwell he had easy access to abbey lands. In 1538 he obtained possession of Welbeck Abbey and adjoining lands and later enriched by a grant of the college of Sibthorpe and its possessions. Whalley, in his capacity as Crown Receiver for Yorkshire was accused and convicted of appropriating Crown funds for his own use and imprisoned in the tower, only escaping the fate of his patron Somerset on payment of a heavy fine He was MP for Scarborough during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) and was Knight of the Shire for the County of Nottingham, and one of the most splendid sheriffs of that county. He was again imprisoned in 1552 for illegal alchemical activities through an employee named Richard Eden. A quarrel erupted after Eden's unsuccessful search and Eden then
betrayed his former employer and Whalley was imprisoned and fined heavily once again. He was forced to sell Welbeck to Edward Osborne ‘citizen and clothworker’ of London along with other substantial properties At Mary's accession, Richard successfully repaired his damaged reputation and reacquired massive wealth and extensive properties In his later years he was enriched by grants from Queen Elizabeth and left behind him substantial possessions for his children to enjoy. His children intemarrying with families of influence and position.
He m1 Lora daughter of Thomas Brookman
5 Children (4dsp)
1. Thomas d1582 m Elizabeth daughter of Henry Hatfield of Willoughby & Alice Hercy of Grove (their son Richard was the heir to the estate)
m2 Ursula Thwaites
13 children
1. William m Barbara daughter of Henry Hatfield of Willoughby & Alice Hercy
2, Benyuenter)
3. Marshall )
4 .Ralph ) died unmarried
5.Edward )
1. Elinor m Sr John Zouch of Codnor
2. Jane m Thomas Marshall of Austie Sussex
3. Gertrude m John son of John Neville of Grove by Barbara Hercy (daughter Barbara m John Meres son of Anthony Meres of Aubourn www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8537681904/ )
4. Ursula m1George son of Sir James Foljambe 1558 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6117196120/ & Alice Fitzwilliam www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6117196150/ m2. Ralph Stansel m3 Edmund Slater
5 ?. Mary b1548 m Richard son of Edward Bellingham of Newtimber & Barbara Benister of Idworth
m3 Barbara Cope / Coope - 7 children
1. Marcham
2. James
3. Cordall
4. Frances
1. Susan m Coop' of Horringan.
2.Barbara m Coop' of Kankelworth.
3.Winifret m Dighton in Lincolnshire
Barbara his wealthy widow erected this monument and also one to her next husband Edward Burnell of Sibthorpe www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/VRxRq0
familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Helen-M-Freeman...
...which obviously needs cleaning. The building to the left is the Minoritenkirche; the structure on the left-hand side is the Museum of Applied Arts. The indoor plant is just that - a houseplant on a window sill. The gleaming of its leaves in the evening light made me take this photograph.
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The 7th Annual 5K Run/Walk on the Horizon fundraiser, hosted by New Horizons, was held at the Hansen Dam Aquatic Center in Lake View Terrace with actress Lauren Potter serving as Grand Marshal, kicking off the “dress in your favorite decade” run/walk fundraiser. Following the event, both run and walk participants stay for the awards ceremony with commemorative medals given to the top three 5K finishers (Men’s and Women’s Division) and awards given to the top fundraisers. For more information, visit www.walkonthehorizon.dojiggy.com.
New Horizons is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping indivividuals with special needs reach their potential and fulfill their dreams. Founded in 1954 by eight parents whose children had mental retardation, the agency has evolved to provide services and support each year to nearly 1,000 individuals (age 18 and older) and social/recreational services to nearly 3,000 individuals from throughout the greater San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys of Los Angeles.
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Historically, the village has several special features, including Het Posthuys (the Post House), Rhodes' Cottage and the site of the Battle of Muizenberg.
Rhodes' Cottage is a small house on the seafront that Cecil Rhodes bought as a holiday cottage and this was where he died in 1902. The house is preserved as a museum dedicated to Rhodes' life and is open to the public.
Het Posthuys is one of the oldest buildings in South Africa,[2] dating to circa 1742. It was built by the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) as a toll-house to levy a tax on farmers passing by to sell their produce to ships lying in Simon's Bay. One of the early postholders was Sergeant Muys (meaning "mouse"), from whom Muizenberg (formerly Muysenbergh and Muys Zijn Bergh (Muys' mountain) before that) gets its name. After a varied career as a police station, stables, brothel, hotel and private house the building was identified for what it was in the 1980s and restored with funds from Anglo American Corporation. The house is cared for by the Muizenberg Historical Conservation Society and contains a small collection of photos and items of interest relating to early days in Muizenberg. It is open to the public.
The Battle of Muizenberg was a small but significant military affair that began in June 1795 and ended three months later with the (first) British occupation of the Cape. Thus began the period (briefly interrupted from 1804 to 1806) of British control of the Cape, and subsequently much of Southern Africa. The historical remnant of the Battle of Muizenberg is a site on the hillside overlooking False Bay that holds the remains of a defensive fort started by the Dutch in 1795 and expanded by the British from 1796 onwards.
The Zandvlei estuary enters the ocean in Muizenberg. The estuary is one of the most important estuaries for fish spawning on the coastline and is home to the Imperial Yacht Club and Peninsula Canoe Club.
Muizenberg houses one of the False Bay College campuses in the Cinnabar Building, a high-rise apartment tower. The college, a Public Further Education and Training Institution (FET), was established in September 2002 when the South Peninsula College (established 1970) and the Westlake College (established 1954) were merged. Muizenberg is also home to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), a pan-African centre for education and research in mathematical sciences.
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