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Plaster completed on the first horn. Still held and supported by the wire attached to the stool at this point. Optimistically had the second stool ready for attaching the second horn. Didn't get to it that night though.
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Invoice and receipt issued by W. N. Hardacre (plastering and tiling contractor) of Sandywood Street, Keighley, dated October 1958.
The item is part of the John Normington Collection, donated to Keighley and District Local History Society by John's daughter Liz Hornby in September 2021.
John Normington was born in Keighley on 26th May 1929, the son of William Normington, and grew up in the Exley Head area of the town. He was joined by younger brother William five years later. John attended Ingrow Primary School and later won a scholarship for Keighley Boys’ Grammar School. His interest in music started with playing the drums at the age of six, then swapping to take up the piano.
His first job was at Keighley Library, where he remained (except for a break for National Service in 1947-49) until taking early retirement in March 1984. He was made Chief Assistant (Deputy) in 1953 having studied at the Leeds School of Librarianship. He ultimately became a lecturer himself in Cataloguing and Classification. He worked alongside local historian Ian Dewhirst for many years. Six months after he retired from Keighley Library in 1984, he took up the part-time role of Library Assistant at South Craven School. He got married to Sarah Spencer Hudson and they had a daughter, Elizabeth.
One of his passions beyond the library was his music, and in performing. In the 1940s and 1950s he both acted with and played the drums for the Ingrow St. John’s Parish Church Players. Later he played the piano (and occasionally the drums) for Keighley Amateurs (of which he was a member for 72 years). Utilising his musical skills, he joined the Good Time Jazz Band in 1978. Another passion was potholing, having been introduced to it in the late 1940s, and he joined the Craven Pothole Club in 1952. He served as President of the Club in 1982 and as treasurer from 1984 to 1992. He was also a member of the 40 Club, the Grafton Club and Haworth Round Table. John died on 11th January 2020 at the age of 90.
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Front and back of a carte de visite featuring the portrait of an unidentified woman. The photograph was taken at William Cooke's Studio on Skipton Road, Keighley, in the 1870s. The card measures approximately 65mm by 105mm.
William Cooke is one of six photographers listed in William White’s 1870 General and Commercial Trades Directory for Keighley. He was one of the first commercial photographers in the town, with a studio off Skipton Road. This allowed him to benefit from the emerging trend for carte de visites (small photographic portraits), or the larger cabinet cards, that was triggered by Queen Victoria herself taking up the trend in the early 1860s.
The earliest found mention of Cooke as a photographer is in an 1861 copy of White’s directory where he is listed as an optician and photographer, working from Turkey Street. However the census of 7th April 1861 describes his occupation as a Tinner (likely making and repairing things made of tin or other light metals from needle cases and candle moulds to stovepipes and guttering). He was described as such at the baptism of his son Francis at Keighley Parish Church in March 1860. So it seems he made the move into optics in 1861.
In 1866 he advertises in White’s Leeds and Bradford Directory as being a “telescope, microscope and drawing instrument maker” based at Strawberry Cottage off Strawberry Street in Keighley. The advert says he offers “magnetic machines and every description of optical and mathematical instruments wholesale and for exportation”. He moved to Earl Street, at the corner with Skipton Road, in around 1870 and as well as the photography studio he held exhibitions of works of art at various times.
He is mentioned in the Keighley News of 13th January 1872, but not in connection with his photography work. He was taken to Keighley County Court by a Mr Hiram Brooksbank of Bradford who alleged that Cooke had not paid him for some plastering work carried out on the house Cooke had had built on Earl Street, to the tune of £16 and 8 shillings. The judge, Mr W. T. S. Daniel, Q.C., found in the plaintiff’s favour and Cooke was expected to pay up.
Many examples of his portrait photography work have survived from the 1860s up to the 1880s. Men, women and children wishing to have their portrait taken would have to attend his studio and pose absolutely still for a number of seconds in rooms that allowed plenty of natural light. Sometimes it would be simple head and shoulders shots, but more elaborate portraits required set dressing with chairs and small tables, props such as books or boxes, drapes and/or painted backdrops.
His carte de visite were produced on stiff card with the photographs printed on thin paper and then glued to the mounts. The backs of the carte de visite featured a coloured surround with the studio name printed in the centre (Strawberry Cottage initially and then Skipton Road). The name was surrounded by a garland of leaves and a ribbon bearing the Latin phrase “arte & labore” (by art and by labour – which seems a fair summary of Cooke’s skills). Sadly, most of the images that survive are of unknowns, but one of his sitters was Robert Holmes, J. P., who was the fifth Mayor of Keighley between 1886 and 1887. He is photographed wearing his chain of office.
It is known that Cooke was still at the Earl Street premises in December 1896 but by 1901 he seems to have moved / retired to Addingham. With thanks to Eddie Kelly for his research into many of the listings.
The item was loaned to the History Society for scanning by Tim Neal in 2022.
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So far, the northern parts of our house have waited for the beautification of the final plaster coat, once we had it weatherproof with the first two coats in 2013. We then concentrated on finishing the interior of the house. It's lovely to get to the point where the exterior is going to be beautiful. Compare the rough second coat on the garage wall on the right, or the wall behind Brett, with the smooth finish we made on the northern exterior wall of our front guest room! Brett is using a water spray and his small steel trowel to even out inconsistencies at the end of plastering that wall.
The completed project, these photos were taken on a beautifully sunny but very cold November day.
Fall is the perfect time to renovate your community pool ahead of the next swim season.
Wet Edge Technologies Signature Matrix Tahoe pebble plaster installed by Pearl Pool Plastering
Signature Matrix Tahoe previously called Satin Matrix Northshore Tahoe
This picture is part of a large online photo album of renovation pictures of the new home and office of Designia / Verse Inhoud. Designia is Freelance Senior Graphic / Web / Interaction Designer Michiel Nagtegaal. Verse Inhoud is Freelance Communication Consultant Janette van Tol. Our home / office is located in Voorburg, The Netherlands.
This picture is part of a large online photo album of renovation pictures of the new home and office of Designia / Verse Inhoud. Designia is Freelance Senior Graphic / Web / Interaction Designer Michiel Nagtegaal. Verse Inhoud is Freelance Communication Consultant Janette van Tol. Our home / office is located in Voorburg, The Netherlands.
St Mary Stelling dates from the 13th Century, although a Church on this site is noted in the Domesday Book and the date of consecration of Stelling Church is reputed to be 1130. The Church started its life as an outlying chapel, firstly to the basilica at Lyminge, and after the Norman invasion, to nearby Hardres. In 1988 The Conservation Foundation, of which Professor David Bellamy is a member, aged one of the yew trees in the churchyard as 1,500 years old; the implication of this, together with the proximity of St Mary’s to the Roman road linking Canterbury to the Port of Lympne, is that this was an early Christian site dating from the Roman occupation.
St Mary Stelling is, on the face of it, a typical east Kent rural church, constructed in flint with stone quoins and comprising a nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch and tower. It seats some 120 people, and is located approximately half a mile from the village of Stelling Minnis, a rural community of about 1000 people.
The Church, however, is unique and of exceptional importance, because in 1790 it was re-ordered in a non-conformist style. This involved placing the pulpit midway along the north wall of the nave (opposite the south aisle), and rearranging the box pews. The pulpit itself is a three-decker pulpit with a sounding board, which is understood to be unique in an Anglican church in east Kent. At the same time, a gallery was installed above the south aisle facing the pulpit, and to provide a view of the pulpit the south arcade was removed and replaced by a single large arch.
Importantly, this re-ordering was not subsequently altered by 19th Century restorers, and we have today a unique non-conformist modification of a medieval church.
After the Civil War, non-conformism in this area, though sparsely populated, became rife; that this non-conformism should succeed in invading the established church of St Mary is quite remarkable. These changes reflected a strong non-conformist element in the local community which can also be illustrated in the fact that three Methodist Chapels were built within a mile of the Church during the next 100 years. The Church is an outstanding historical record for all to see of social and religious developments in this corner of Kent.
A further unusual feature of St Mary Stelling was revealed in 1999 when the nave ceiling was removed following damage. The roof construction was found to be based on King posts and not Crown posts as is the norm for churches of this age and style in this area. The Canterbury Archaeological Trust examined and recorded the structure before the ceiling was replaced, and although there is little to be seen to indicate its unusual character, our knowledge of this roof construction adds yet more interest to the building and its history. Archaeological inspections following the removal of the historic box pews undertaken as part of the current repair works have added to St Mary’s history and mystery. Indeed, the Kent Archaeological Society, which is the oldest and most respected local historical society, recently visited and referred in their Journal to St Mary’s Stelling as “Kent’s most extraordinary parish church”.
The Quinquennial inspection of November 2006 identified the need for essential major repairs to the historic box pew foundations, upgrading of the electrical installation, the provision of a lightning conductor, and other repairs to the fabric of the building – stonework, window cills, replacement of some gutters & down-pipes, gallery repairs, some re-plastering, and other general repairs. Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, the local community, and several grant bodies, over £85,000 was raised, and these essential major repairs were completed in July 2009, the medieval bells have been recommissioned, and internal redecoration has been carried out.
We pray that St Mary Stelling will be not just a building, but a living beacon for the worship of Christ in our local community. We seek to hand on to succeeding generations not only the building, but the living faith symbolised by it.
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Lisa and I discovered we had a Facebook friend in common. Somehow I wasn't surprised at this; the world is getting smaller every day even in the remote countryside of Thailand.
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On behalf of the landlords and in conjunction with Graham & Sibbald building surveyors AGM Interiors were instructed to carry out the demolition of the old Crosshill post office and construction of a new fitted shop for Superdrug. Works comprised internal demolition and shopfront demolition, new hardwood custom manufactured shopfront, isolation of electrics, asbestos removal, concrete floor screeding, new toilet facilties, fireline plasterboard installation, plastering, stone masonry, granite stall riser installation, new steel work for ramp install, cutting of floor slab for new lift, new glazing to shopfront.