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Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless.
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless.
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless.
Great Dixter House and Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, it is a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless. Bodiam Castle is only 4.5 miles away, so it would be very easy to combine the two visits together.
This is the second and final series of photographs that I will post from here. Please do look through my Album ‘Gardens of Sussex’ to see the first postings.
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless.
Great Dixter House and Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, it is a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless. Bodiam Castle is only 4.5 miles away, so it would be very easy to combine the two visits together.
This is the second and final series of photographs that I will post from here. Please do look through my Album ‘Gardens of Sussex’ to see the first postings.
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless.
National Trust Properties
Smallhythe Place, Small Hythe, nr Tenterden, Kent.
Smallhythe is a half-timbered house built possibly at the end of the 15th or at the beginning of the 16th century. If anyone had visited it in the last 200 odd years it would been difficult to believe that it was a thriving shipyard. The river Rother used to come up to the house which was then called ‘Port House’ for that very reason the sea receded many years ago. The word ‘Hythe’ in Old English means a landing place I believe that the ‘Time Team’ had a dig here and they found much evidence of the ship building trade and also the existence of old river beds.
It was the home from 1899 – 1928 of the famous Victorian Actress Ellen Terry. In the house are many show cases of her costumes and many other items from other famous actors, playwrights and theatre managers. The grounds include an orchard, a rose garden, a nuttery and a fully working Barn Theatre. The house was opened to the public in 1929 and from 1947, The National Trust have cared for the property. It was designated a Grade II listed building in 1950.
A great place to visit, especially that Sissinghurst Castle is very near by.
National Trust Properties
Smallhythe Place, Small Hythe, nr Tenterden, Kent.
Smallhythe is a half-timbered house built possibly at the end of the 15th or at the beginning of the 16th century. If anyone had visited it in the last 200 odd years it would been difficult to believe that it was a thriving shipyard. The river Rother used to come up to the house which was then called ‘Port House’ for that very reason the sea receded many years ago. The word ‘Hythe’ in Old English means a landing place I believe that the ‘Time Team’ had a dig here and they found much evidence of the ship building trade and also the existence of old river beds.
It was the home from 1899 – 1928 of the famous Victorian Actress Ellen Terry. In the house are many show cases of her costumes and many other items from other famous actors, playwrights and theatre managers. The grounds include an orchard, a rose garden, a nuttery and a fully working Barn Theatre. The house was opened to the public in 1929 and from 1947, The National Trust have cared for the property. It was designated a Grade II listed building in 1950.
A great place to visit, especially that Sissinghurst Castle is very near by.
Britain has many architectural achievements of which it can be globally proud – and this is certainly one of them. It’s just a small part of the hammer-beam roof at Westminster Hall, the oldest building in London's Houses of Parliament.
The roof was commissioned by King Richard II in 1398. Great oak beams were selected to serve as horizontal supports fixed to the buttressed walls, with wooden arches joined to the top of the beams. Onto the arches were built the slopes of the roof, its weight borne by the hammer-beams supported in their turn by the walls.
Dimensions were huge. The roof measured – indeed, measures – 20.7m by 73.2m (68ft by 240ft), the height is 28m (92ft), the timber weighs some 600 tons, and the roof a further 176 tons. And it’s all still standing, thanks to the exquisite and highly dangerous work carried out by medieval craftsmen more than 620 years ago.
Information adapted from the UK Parliament website, acknowledged with thanks
The County of Essex
These latest collection of images have been photographed over a long period of time. The greater part has been taken when I have visited a church in that town or village. Some of the villages are so small that apart from a few houses which I won’t post, have no significant features to them that I could find, apart from the village signs. Some of the larger towns have had the greater share of visits, because of their churches and to my book buying travels.
As usual with my stuff, please enjoy.
National Trust Properties
Smallhythe Place, Small Hythe, nr Tenterden, Kent.
Smallhythe is a half-timbered house built possibly at the end of the 15th or at the beginning of the 16th century. If anyone had visited it in the last 200 odd years it would been difficult to believe that it was a thriving shipyard. The river Rother used to come up to the house which was then called ‘Port House’ for that very reason the sea receded many years ago. The word ‘Hythe’ in Old English means a landing place I believe that the ‘Time Team’ had a dig here and they found much evidence of the ship building trade and also the existence of old river beds.
It was the home from 1899 – 1928 of the famous Victorian Actress Ellen Terry. In the house are many show cases of her costumes and many other items from other famous actors, playwrights and theatre managers. The grounds include an orchard, a rose garden, a nuttery and a fully working Barn Theatre. The house was opened to the public in 1929 and from 1947, The National Trust have cared for the property. It was designated a Grade II listed building in 1950.
A great place to visit, especially that Sissinghurst Castle is very near by.
Great Dixter House and Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, it is a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless. Bodiam Castle is only 4.5 miles away, so it would be very easy to combine the two visits together.
This is the second and final series of photographs that I will post from here. Please do look through my Album ‘Gardens of Sussex’ to see the first postings.
At the end of this unprepossessing row of cottages is 167 Camp Hill, the Wilson family home, my late wife's parents.
Inside the house that was built in 1707, a Black Oak ceiling beam ran through the whole row, the floorboards were 12 inch wide oak and the steep wooden staircase had no nails or screws, it was wooden pegged. On the down side it had no hot water system, just a cold tap in the kitchen, obviously no bathroom or indoor toilet either. The shared toilet was part of the wash house and was between the houses in the back garden, if one so wished it was possible to sit with the door open and watch trains being banked up the Camp Hill line, you could also see the floodlights and hear the cheers from St Andrews as another goal was scored against 'The Blues' The back of the cottages was accessed from the front by a tunnel under the houses, that tunnel had a very steep slope, that is why 167 has a walled yard at the front the wall preventing a fall down an eight foot drop onto the engineers blue brick tunnel floor, the other side is the original 7th day Adventist church a new church was built to replace it further along when this was demolished. The attic window was from where I took a number of pictures of Camp Hill and by leaning out, Bordesley flyover. The cottage next door but one was occupied by a family of numerous children, the head of that family collected motor cycles, when each one failed it was wheeled round the back and dumped in the garden, The father was nicknamed 'The Mariner' by the Wilson family, this stemmed from his arrival home one day with a boat atop the double adult sidcar attached to his wheezing BSA A7. The boat was turned sideways, manoeuvred down the tunnel and put in the back garden, never to see water again.
The house had a beautiful polished oak front door with brass fittings polished lovingly every week until Birmingham City Council bought the cottages and painted all the doors in cheery bright Corporation Red, grandma Flynn wept, that was the sum total of maintenance that Birmingham did to the houses. Eventually notice to quit arrived, the Wilsons being first to go to a house in Acocks Green, the picture was taken that day, the green Commer minibus loaded with the last of the family belongings. The houses emptied, one by one and stood empty and rotting for over 10 years until demolition. Of the old Camp Hill only Holy Trinity Church remains, my wife sang in the choir here in the morning and in the afternoon trotted across to the Catholic church and sang there, she would probably have sang at the 7th Day Adventist church too if there had been time.
I remember 167 as a happy place, good parties with generous food and drink, we sat late into the night talking politics, religion, books, photography and music. I first heard good jazz here and was taught that classical music was not just a load of old rubbish, it was heady stuff for a scruffy Rocker working on the track at BSA. I still miss the place.
The new picture is a car park, roughly where 167 stood.
Copyright Geoff Dowling; all rights reserved
The County of Essex
These latest collection of images have been photographed over a long period of time. The greater part has been taken when I have visited a church in that town or village. Some of the villages are so small that apart from a few houses which I won’t post, have no significant features to them that I could find, apart from the village signs. Some of the larger towns have had the greater share of visits, because of their churches and to my book buying travels.
As usual with my stuff, please enjoy.
Great Dixter House and Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex
Great Dixter was the family home of the Gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. His style of planting and placing of colour combinations is synonymous with Great Dixter itself, a vision for over 40 years. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, it is a truly wonderful garden to visit. It is quite small but timeless. Bodiam Castle is only 4.5 miles away, so it would be very easy to combine the two visits together.
This is the second and final series of photographs that I will post from here. Please do look through my Album ‘Gardens of Sussex’ to see the first postings.
RHS Wisley
RHS Wisley was founded by George Ferguson Wilson, a Victorian businessman in 1878, he made it his ambition to make difficult plants thrive in English conditions. So he created The Oakwood Experimental Garden. This was a 60 acre plot in total, of which part became the garden. Unfortunately he died in 1902 and the whole site was purchased by Sir Thomas Hanbury. Sir Thomas also owned the famous ‘Giardini Botanici Hanbury, at Mortola in Italy, close to the French border. He gave both properties to the RHS in and around 1903, just four years before his death in 1907.
The main laboratory for scientific research was opened in 1907 but this building proved to be inadequate so major improvements were made and the exterior was rebuilt during the First World War. In 1985 it was designated a Grade II Listed building.
This garden now covers 240 acres in which are housed a large glasshouse for tropical, temperate and arid climates, formal and informal gardens, an arboretum, Alpine Houses, Rock garden, Pinetum, a Wild garden and a Walled garden plus many more features.
This is another place worth while visiting, especially, if like me, you’re a member of the RHS.
This will be the first posting of 7 images. There are 6 postings in all.
Unfortunately, at the Houses of Parliament photography is only allowed in Westminster Hall - so here is another shot taken inside the hall looking towards the entrance door.
The work on constructing the Westminster Hall Roof in 1393 was largely undertaken by the King's chief mason Henry Yevele and the carpenter Hugh Herland. Yevele had been involved in nearly all the great building projects of the late 14th century, such as the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. He also built the Jewel Tower in 1365-66.
In redesigning the roof, Herland fashioned great oak beams to serve as horizontal supports fixed to the walls (which Yevele strengthened by massive buttresses). Wooden arches joined to the top of these beams met centrally in a span of 18 metres (60 feet) or more.
Onto these arches the craftsmen built the slopes of the roof, with its weight borne by the hammer-beams supported in their turn by the buttressed walls.
The "Shambles" (officially known as just Shambles) is an old street in York, England, with overhanging timber-framed buildings, some dating back as far as the fourteenth century. It was once known as The Great Flesh Shambles, probably from the Anglo-Saxon Fleshammels (literally 'flesh-shelves'), the word for the shelves that butchers used to display their meat. As recently as 1872 twenty-five butchers' shops were located along the street, but now none remain.
The street was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Many of the current buildings are from circa 1350-1475. Among the structures of the "Shambles" is a shrine to Saint Margaret Clitherow, who was married to a butcher who owned and lived in a shop in the street. Her home is thought to have been No. 10 Shambles, opposite the shrine, which has a priest hole fireplace.
Although the butchers have now vanished, a number of the shops on the street still have meat-hooks hanging outside and, below them, shelves on which meat was displayed. The shops currently include a mix of restaurants and shops as well as a bookshop and a bakery. Five "snickelways" (see below) lead off the "Shambles". Shambles Market operates daily and is situated between "Shambles" and Parliament Street. The market was previously known as Newgate Market after the street on which it is located, but was renamed in 2015.
"Shambles" is touted as an iconic medieval street and tourist draw.
The Snickelways of York, often misspelt Snickleways, are a collection of small streets and footpaths in the city of York, England. The word Snickelway was coined by local author Mark W. Jones in 1983 in his book A Walk Around the Snickelways of York, and is a portmanteau of the words snicket, meaning a passageway between walls or fences, ginnel, a narrow passageway between or through buildings, and alleyway, a narrow street or lane. Although the word is a neologism, it quickly became part of the local vocabulary, and has even been used in official council documents, for example when giving notice of temporary footpath closures.
The County of Essex
These latest collection of images have been photographed over a long period of time. The greater part has been taken when I have visited a church in that town or village. Some of the villages are so small that apart from a few houses which I won’t post, have no significant features to them that I could find, apart from the village signs. Some of the larger towns have had the greater share of visits, because of their churches and to my book buying travels.
As usual with my stuff, please enjoy.
Location: New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
The New Inn, with its low ceilings and exposed oak beams, is situated in the heart of historic Salisbury and has been providing food, drink and rest for the weary traveller since the 12th Century.
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