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Plaques in various styles of Japanese script mounted at the entrance to Gyogan-ji temple, Kyoto Japan
DANVILLE VA: DAN RIVER MILLS: Once upon a time, a long time ago, factory workers lived very close to the factory. So close, in fact, they could be called to work by the ringing of the factory bell or whistle.
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Plaque in the garden of The Grand Hotel giving information about the rhino sculpture based upon the rhino in the Fellini Film And the Ship Sails On.
Nikon D7000.
Plaque with the Crucifixion and the Holy Women at the Tomb, c. 870 (Carolingian, made northern France), ivory, 23.8 x 12.3 x 0.6 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée du Louvre)
I've always had the plaque above but only in recent years have I discovered Marian spirituality, a la Saint Louis De Montfort. This gives a new depth and scope to the original sentiments on the plaque.
Daté du 21 juillet 1930.
Perrogney-les-Fontaines (52), France.
Roadtrip to France (2025).
Video: youtu.be/oyOdbjSg4D8
Number 50 for 52 in 2015 :Historical
A chance find whilst on foot in Christchurch.
The makers of this modern plaque probably meant it to say 1752, which is why it's no longer available from Amazon.
See here www.factshunt.com/2014/01/the-curious-case-of-eleven-11-m...
The American Instructor: or, Young Man’s Best Companion
Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, at the New-Printing-Office, 1748
Creator: GEORGE FISHER
Source: Plimpton A375 1748 F53 copy 1
Citation: GEORGE FISHER, The American Instructor: or, Young Man’s Best Companion, "Our Tools of Learning:" George Arthur Plimpton's Gifts to Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries, ldpd.lamp.columbia.edu/omeka/exhibits/plimpton/handwritin...
Lyttleton Gaol, situated on Oxford Street, could house a maximum of 300 prisoners; such as murderers, lunatics, debtors and thieves. Seven men were hanged inside the walls between 1868 – 1918. There were even 29 cells for female inmates. At the time it was the largest jail in the country and it did take prisoners from other parts of New Zealand.
It was closed and demolished in 1922 when Paparua Prison opened. Only 3 cells remain along with a over-bearing prison wall. During its life time, Sunnyside Mental Hospital opened which took over the care of the mentally ill prisoners and Addington Prison dealt with the overflow. Today the old gaol houses a garden, a memorial clock for Dr. Upham and Lyttelton Main School. Standing inside, you feel the depressing shadow of the place but yet, you can view the harbour in all its glory…its hard to imagine a gaol in such a place.
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‘Time to go home.’
On the extreme left of the panel sit two soldiers who are making the burial markers for the dead. The older soldier comforts the younger man. Behind them, by the side of an enormous artillery gun, stands a silent soldier lost in thought as he reads a letter, again and again. A wrecked tank dominates the background.
To the right of the tank, stands an officer who ceremoniously checks his watch for the 11 O’ Clock deadline; his free arm is raised like an umpire ready to signal the end to the deadly game of war.
In the foreground, two dead soldiers lay as they fell, like discarded puppets, flanked by two kneeling soldiers who mourn the passing of their friends.
In the middle of the frieze in the foreground lies a wounded Sergeant. He angrily gestures to a soldier that has come to his aid, to see to the critically wounded soldier behind him.
The older man, a Padre administers the last rights, as if the boy soldier was his own son and to his left, a RAMC medic also gives aid and comfort. In his hand, is a letter from his mother.
Ominously, behind the group, a member of the burial party looks out vacantly as he smokes his pipe his shovel at the ready. Two worried soldiers in the rear look on as one of them slowly unscrews his water container wondering if it is too late.
The next character we encounter, is a standing soldier wearing a poncho. One of his feet is placed in France and the other foot in his Liverpool home. He stands on guard as he dreams of home. This figure represents what soldiers are: ‘guardians of our country,’ who must, if necessary, make the ultimate sacrifice.
He, like all the characters depicted, dreams of home.
Behind the men, we see the desolate war torn landscape of scorched earth, tortured trees and mud-filled shell craters. Yet above, a clearing sky marks hopefully, a new beginning, as two planes fly back to base. All the characters in both friezes are remembering something important to themselves.
In the next scene, some of the surviving Liverpool Pals returning to Lime Street.
A lone soldier walks ahead; he is severely wounded, having lost a leg and has been blinded in one eye.
His wife, who we saw in the first frieze saying farewell to her husband as he was bound for the front, stands desolately in the foreground. She pretends she has not seen her husband, as she looks away to hide her shock. The hat she wears is reminiscent of the helmets the soldiers wore in battle. This symbolises the battle now raging in her head as she contemplates the future with her wounded and battle scarred husband.
Meanwhile her young son, now four years older, proudly salutes his brave father’s return. He is a lonely believer, as the discarded recruitment posters blow along the platform. The giant steam engine that brought the men home, angrily spouts out smoke and steam which mingles with the massive girders in the roof of the station. The station is depicted in this part of the frieze, as a giant spider’s web from which the men are emerging.
On the extreme right, the last scene is set on August 31, 2014, the date of the unveiling. The date on which we officially commemorate a century later, the men that were lost, wounded and traumatised in WWI.
The three service personnel stand in remembrance, one of whom is a woman. This women is a reference to the extraordinary contribution and sacrifice of woman at home and abroad in WWI. The remembrance ceremony takes place on St Georges Plateau, where the original recruitment took place. Finally, the bugler plays the last post.
The Liverpool Pals’ Badge of ‘Lord Derby’s Crest ‘ the distinctive ‘Eagle and Child,’ features on their bottom left corner of both panels
Sculptor Tom Murphy
Note - this is the right panel, there is a left panel, I need to look for it.