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Classic details from old and historic cottages in the Meon Valley.
A chocolate box collection of cottages in the Meon Valley featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding and classic oak timber frame.
Two reasons why,
It looks very difficult and with the restrictions being eased I get out more in the morning, weather permitting of course.
Located in Cathedral Close, Exeter, is the timber framed 'Mol's Coffee House', dated 1596. The building was named after Thomas Mol, an Italian, at a time when coffee had perhaps not even been properly introduced into England.
Devon born explorer and buccaneer Sir Francis Drake is said to have used Mol's as a meeting place with people such as Frobisher, Greville, Hawkins & Sir Walter Raleigh.
It may have even been during such meetings that Drake had planned how to foil the Spanish Armada. Drake was the fist English navigator to sail around the World ; between 1577 and 1580.
There can be few houses in England that possess an 'olde worlde' charm more appealing than this striking black and white timber-framed building. Resting sedately beside the clear, still waters of the moat, Little Moreton Hall represents the classic chocolate-box picture that many believe are just figments of an artist's imagination. Even more surprising is that this romantically crooked old manor house stands just yards from the busy main road between Kidsgrove and Congelton, on the borders of Cheshire and Staffordshire.
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On land owned by the Moreton family for 700 years, the house was built by three generations over a period of some 120 years. The earliest surviving structural work at Little Moreton Hall can be seen in the east wing and the great hall and, despite extensive remodelling over the centuries, very little appears to have changed since the original house was first constructed in the mid 15th century. It is interesting to note that the carpenter who carried out the modernisation work in the 1550s, Richard Dale, is immortalised with an inscription on the bay windows. Most of the stained glass in the leaded light windows is from the 16th century and demands a close inspection to appreciate the variety of colours and patterns made by these tiny, thin pieces of unbleached glass.
As Little Moreton Hall was developed and enlarged, it formed a delightful hotch-potch of buildings around a central courtyard. Looking at the external elevation of the building, from any angle, it is nigh impossible to find a perfectly straight edge anywhere, and many of the glass panes appear blown and distorted under the pressure of the heavy stone slate roof. A peculiar sensation of slight giddiness and loss of balance might be experienced whilst trying to negotiate the uneven floor surfaces which, in turn, appear to be pushing the walls outwards on either side. This is not an hallucination. The sturdy timber floors do have very pronounced dipping and swelling boards, and the huge overhead beams have put so much strain on the walls over the years that they have slowly buckled beneath the weight. Although this contorted structure seems on the verge of total collapse, it has miraculously survived intact, with hardly any obvious additional bracing or supports to spoil the intricate external decoration.
By the early 18th century, the Moretons had vacated their family home, deciding to let it to tenant farmers. Less than 100 years later many of the buildings were being used for storage purposes, with only a small area remaining inhabited by the tenant. Suffering from neglect and decay, Little Moreton Hall was substantially restored by Elizabeth Moreton at the end of the 19th century, with continuing maintenance and stabilisation work undertaken by her cousin and heir, Bishop Abraham during his time at the hall. Extremely proud of the fact that the family home had never been sold, and wishing to secure the future of such an outstanding example of period architecture, Bishop Abraham presented it to the National Trust in 1938.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Clovelly is one of the most photographed villages in the world with just one very steep cobbled street. If you're going down, the street's called Downalong and if you're coming up its called Upalong.
After taking some photos down at the bottom, I got back to the car to find I'd left a bag down there. So two punishing and potentially coronary inducing climbs up Upalong. Would you believe it !?
( People who know me would say "YES!" to that one).
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Steam locomotive 4566 on the Severn Valley Railway. The Class 45xx 2-6-2T small prairie is hauling the 10.20 train from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster on the SVR on Wednesday May 4th 2016.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Walking around small town Portugal.... I must look up the spelling...it was ages ago, but I was sort of thinking on holidays seeing as it is snowy, cool and well,.....still a long ways from spring and any warmth around these parts of Canada.....
Ex-GWR steam engine 2857 on Oldbury Viaduct near Bridgnorth in Shropshire in beautiful sunshine. The former heavy freight locomotive is hauling the 11:00 a.m. train from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster on the 16-mile Severn Valley Railway (SVR) on Sunday June 1st 2014. A wonderful rake of LMS carriages. In the foreground is Daniel's Mill, a flour mill, still operational, which can trace its history back to at least the 15th Century. You can see the 38-feet-diameter cast iron water wheel, said to be the largest of its type in England.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in the Meon Valley.
A chocolate box collection of cottages in the Meon Valley featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding and classic oak timber frame.
Steam locomotive 1501 with a three coach special running alongside the River Severn on the Severn Valley Railway. The tank engine is heading back to Kidderminster with the 10.45 a.m. departure from Highley on Sunday April 17th 2016 - during Members and Shareholders Weekend at the SVR heritage line.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in the Meon Valley.
A chocolate box collection of cottages in the Meon Valley featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding and classic oak timber frame.
A chocolate box collection of cottages in the Meon Valley featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding and classic oak timber frame.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Candid capture @ Ambleside, a typical old English lakeland town in the county of Cumbria. (North West England.)
Classic details from old and historic cottages in the Meon Valley.
A chocolate box collection of cottages in the Meon Valley featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding and classic oak timber frame.
I've walked past this old alleyway off Liverpool's 'Dale Street' a million times but, never ventured through to the pub.
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Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Ye Olde Black Horse Rottingdean.
We spent a short while in Rottindean after walking from Brighton Pier to Rottingdean with the local U3a
Merry-Go-Round / Carousel fairground ride with horses.
Photo taken at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, Sep 2010
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Classic details from old and historic cottages in the Meon Valley.
A chocolate box collection of cottages in the Meon Valley featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding and classic oak timber frame.
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
Liverpool's Town Crier. Caught candidly at Liverpool's Pier Head while meeting & greeting some cruise liner passengers
If you like reading or just like old books, then Oliver's Bookshop on Whitley Road, Whitley Bay is always worth a visit if you are in the area.
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Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
On the seafront overlooking Tankerton Slopes. Probably 1930s and with a bit of everything olde worlde.
A delightfully quaint pedestrian passageway that runs from Fish Street through to Market Street in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
December 2008.
The Stockings Were Hung By The Chimney With Care...
(This very festive image - from the lobby of La Conner's Wild Iris Inn, Dec. 2007 - warranted an olde-worlde treatment.)
SVR steam locomotive 2857 heads light engine through the picturesque Severn Valley. The former Great Western Railway heavy freight engine, built at Swindon Works, is seen here between Highley and Arley on the Severn Valley Railway near the border of Shropshire and Worcestershire in England. This was the 9 a.m. working from Bridgnorth. 2857 is off to collect the first train of the day, the 10.30 a.m. service from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth on Wednesday August 27th 2014. It was a largely sunny morning and the mist in the valley had just cleared when the loco made its appearance. A few moments earlier it appeared that the driver closed the regulator, but opened up again just as the engine entered my frame to give a nice trail of steam. With a slight nip of Autumn in the air, it was just cool enough to create visible exhaust. The abundant riverside flowers are starting to die back and the berries are out. The River Severn, just visible here, is moderately high following some recent showers, but quite normal for the time of year. Not everyone likes photos of light engines, but I think they have their own charm, especially in scenery like this. And they are, of course, very much a part of the railway scene I feel compelled to document.
Another great day out day in York with the Last of the Summer Wine crew - Sadloafer and Adobe Man! Immediately after taking this image (which is largely OOC and deliberately on a slant!!), the heavens opened. Thanks guys, enjoyed your company and repartee, as ever. The mono treatment reflects the late Autumn weather! Hope you are not suffering from the torrential downpours and flooding.
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Blue Door 124 High Street Rottingdean.
We spent a short while in Rottindean after walking from Brighton Pier to Rottingdean with the local U3a
Classic details from old and historic cottages in Hampshire
A chocolate box collection of cottages in Hampshire featuring traditional building materials of slate, clay roof tiles, flint walling, red bricks, cedar boarding, thatch and classic oak timber frame.
The Stockwell Arms, West Stockwell Street, Colchester. "15th-century but over-restored", pronounces the recently revised Pevsner. Actually I was delighted by its un-smart, down-at-heel look, but I see what the book means. These are non-structural stick-on timbers by the look of it.
These jettied, timber-framed houses are no longer routinely painted in strident black and white. All over the country such buildings are having their timbers de-blacked, greatly to their advantage. The blacking was a product of the Victorian taste for the picturesque. It was said to be necessary to the preservation of the timber, but this is not so. Oak hardens with time. As long as the timbers are protected above and below from damp ...a good hat and a good set of shoes, as the late Alec Clifton-Taylor was fond of saying... they will be more durable even than stone. The treatment we see above is not exactly what I would recommend. All over East Anglia timber-framed buildings are now being limewashed in the correct vernacular manner. This is not always popular. My own preference ...moderate as I am in all things... is for a mere de-blacking of the timbers, which leaves them a lovely aged silver-grey.
The view down Church Street in Hereford from Cathedral Close. Church Street dates back to the Norman Conquest and was previously known as 'Cabbage Lane' as it was the site for the city's fruit and vegetable market.
This and the other shot of Church Street were part of an otherwise unsuccessful attempt at taking some decent HDR night shots of Hereford city centre's Christmas lights! I guess it was worth it to get these two though...