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posting early for new years day, thanks to Jeff Wharton for photo of re enactor lady and postbox flic.kr/p/2qB6en6 background photo from timepix.uk is no. 749 Wigan Road, Manchester, England SD630522A not dated
Posting this reference photo for fellow Barbie collectors & fans. Found on the internet - photo not taken by me.
Today, instead of posting my usual one photograph nd loading it into several groups, I have decided to do this a wee tad different, the only photographs from this load that will make it into a group are the ones that moderators and administrators and kind enough to invite (so long as I am invited to the group too if it is a private one).
I do hope you like this little selection of my work from the last couple of years. I have posted this as I am currently suffering from two slipped discs and a torn lumber muscle and getting out for photography presently is to say the least almost impossible. The hospital have given me a walking stick to use but I am a wee bit uncomfortable of using it, especially in public places. One thing I have discovered, diazepam is a wonderful drug, without it, I would not have slept since Friday of last week. Anyway, thank you for reading this much, have a great weekend ahead and stay safe while you are out there shooting. The photographs you make are what is keeping me going just now because the doctors reckon they have no idea if I will ever heal properly but one thing for sure is I am going to fight to be fit again as best I can.
I'm posting an old edited photo today my friends because my mind ain't working well to edit and post a new one. I'm sick for two days now. No voice and couldn't sing with my band. I feel so bad that I wasn't able to go to work last night and help them. Thank God it's our day-off today and tomorrow. I'm praying that my voice will come back on sunday with all the medicines I'm taking now so I can sing and work again.
Love You, Guys! ♥
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Posting because I can :-).
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Link to the photoset of the delivery to LAN Airlines on 15 June 2012 of CC-BDD, a 767-316(ER). Later that 2012 this aircraft got winglets.
In 2015, CC-BDD got tail art advertising Copa América 2015, the main international football tournament for national teams in South America, and currently taking place in Chile between the dates of 11 June to 4 July 2015.
So three years after delivery, it was arguably time to uncork the archives for my followers. Enjoy and share responsibly!
Posting shots of churches we have visited has shown me that my photography has improved now I don't use the ultrawide angle lenses, so many churches need a revisit.
And with the orchid season now at an end, nearly, it is time to turn to churchcrawling.
And the easiest non-Kent church to revisit was Winchelsea, just over the border in East Sussex, also gave us the chance to call in at the fishmongers in Rye for some smoked haddock.
After the early morning coffee and then the rush round Tesco, back home to pack it all away and for me to make bacon butties and another brew.
And then: go west.
Traffic is not so mad now, so it was easy to drive to Folkestone then up the motorway to Ashford, before turning off, past the inland border facility, then out onto the Marsh past Hamstreet.
West of Brookland, the road meanders about, bend after bend, crossing and recrossing the railway until we reach Rye.
We stop to buy the fish, then round the river, over the bridge and out the other side, five miles to Winchelsea, turning off to go up the hill under the old town gate, parking near the village shop.
Whereas Rye was already busy, Winchelsea was quiet, and just past ten meaning the church had just opened.
We walk across the large churchyard through the ruins of the tower and into the church, where the triple wide nave was lines on the north and south walls with fine wall tombs.
I photograph each on in turn, and the corbel heads on each too.
I rephotograph the fine windows too, as despite being modern, they really are on another level.
One or two people come in, a family of three last 30 seconds before the mother and teenage son leave.
After completing the shots, I go out to meet up with Jools so we can walk to the shop to have ice cream, and sit to eat them on a bench looking at the north wall of the church.
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The town was planned on a gridiron pattern with the church occupying a dominant two-acre site near the centre. It was planned on a grand scale and work started in 1288 to erect a magnificent Gothic edifice, with a chancel and choir, two side chapels, a central tower, transepts and a great nave.
Building stone came from Caen in Normandy, marble from the west of Sussex and timber rafters made of sound Sussex oak. Highly skilled stonemasons worked on the carvings which include handsome sedilia in the chancel and side chapel. Three effigies of polished marble – once thought to have been rescued from the church in Old Winchelsea – were placed on the north side in memory of an unknown warrior, his wife and son, possibly the Godfrey family.
The first of the two chantries on the south side was endowed in 1312 by Stephen Alard to contain a tomb of supreme workmanship in memory of Gervase Alard, Admiral of the Western Fleet, probably Stephen’s father. The stone effigy is in full armour with raised hands to enclose a heart and a lion crouching at the feet. Two large angels supported the double cushion on which the head rests. A marginal inscription promises fifty days of pardon for those who pray for his soul. The delicately carved arch of the recessed canopy springs from the heads of King Edward I and his second wife, Margaret. The tomb provided the background for Sir John Millais’ painting ’L’Enfant du Regiment.’
The second monument is of a later date, with the arch springing from the heads of Edward II and Queen Isabella, sometimes known as ‘the she-wolf of France.’ It is reputed to be the tomb of Stephen Alard himself, who became Admiral of the Cinque Ports and the Western Fleet.
The centre of each canopy is surmounted by the head of a Green Man, a prominent pagan figure, associated with tree worship from at least as early as 500BC.
In 1337, in one of the first skirmishes of the Hundred Years War, the new town of Winchelsea was attacked and badly damaged in a French raid. Eleven years later the town was struck by the Black Death, which carried off, among many others, the Rector of St Thomas’, John Glynde.
In 1359 the French returned with a force of some three thousand men, gaining entrance one Sunday morning through the New Gate. There was little resistance as the men of the town were away on a similar mission of destruction in France. The women and children sheltered in St. Giles’s Church, now lost, where many of them were butchered ‘without regard to age, sex, degree or order.’
There was a further French raid in 1360 and, in 1380, a powerful Franco-Castilian fleet arrived to ‘fire Winchelsea and the approaches of London’. It is likely that this raid resulted in severe damage to the original nave. Over the next 100 years further deterioration occurred, including the collapse of the tower and transepts. Only very limited restoration work was affordable, particularly as the wealth of Winchelsea was ebbing away with the sea. The church was blocked off at the west end of the choir and a new entrance porch added in Tudor times.
During the Sixteenth Century Reformation, Winchelsea’s Dominican and Franciscan endowments were confiscated and later pulled down, including the hospitals.
On the accession of Queen Mary in 1547, the rector Peter Danyell was deprived of his living and replaced by the Catholic Robert Jordan. Danyell was reinstated on the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1559.
During these turbulent years the interior of the church fell into a deplorable state of repair, made worse by the decline of trade due to the silting up of the town’s harbour and, possibly, to damage by Puritan iconoclasts. By the 1660s the diarist John Evelyn wrote of the ‘forlorn ruins’ he found in Winchelsea.
By the eighteenth century John Wesley, who came to preach here, wrote of ‘that poor skeleton of Ancient Winchelsea with its large church now in ruins.’
long serving rector at the time was the formidable Drake Hollingberry who held the living from 1767 to 1822. During his incumbency a large Georgian rectory was built on the site of the old St. Giles’, with many of its stones going to build a new harbour wall at Winchelsea Beach. An ancient Saxon tower which stood in the churchyard was also demolished for this purpose.
During the Napoleonic Wars several different regiments were lodged in Winchelsea‘s Barrack Square. The Church Register records that 72 soldiers belonging to various regiments were buried in the churchyard during the Peninsular War (1808-14).
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the church had become so dilapidated that it was declared ‘almost unfit for public worship’, but in 1850 the perilous condition of the fabric was finally realised and extensive repairs carried out. Since that time a constant watch has been kept on the state of the fabric, both inside and outside the church.
The three windows in the south aisle are dedicated to the themes of Land, Air and Fire, and Sea. The work of Dr Douglas Strachan (1875-1950) they are regarded as some of the finest stained glass of the modern era. They were presented to the church as a gift from Lord Blanesborough of Greyfriars and dedicated in 1933 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of representatives of the Cinque Ports and the Ancient Towns.
The altar and retable in the Lady Chapel were also presented by Lord Blanesborough at this time as was the splendid organ above the west porch.
The windows on the south aisle were also designed and installed by Dr Strachan, including the beautiful east window which dominates the view of the church when entering through the west porch. The unusual window over the sedilia in the south wall commemorates the heroism of the crew of the Rye lifeboat, the Mary Stanford, who lost their lives while going to the rescue of another ship during a great storm in November 1928.
The clock on the north side of the tower was overhauled in Jubilee Year 1977 and again in 1998/9 when the beautiful dial was repainted. The cost was partly born by the Friends of Winchelsea Church, a voluntary organisation started in 1966 to raise money to help maintain the fabric of this beautiful church and to whom the parish owes a great debt of gratitude for the maintenance work that has been carried out in recent years.
winchelsea-icklesham-churches.org.uk/winchelsea/st-thomas...
Last posting for now for my hidden forest series located on Fruitatious sim, home to Apple May Designs. I am very proud of how the sim looks and really enjoyed landscaping and decorating the sim. It is packed with greenery and chill areas for everyone to use.HALLOWEEN hunt going on now for men and women! Have a look at my blog for full details and go have a look at the sim yourself. Have some apple pie in the pergola or pumpkin pie I left in the cute beehive build. Thank you. My blog- majestyfiles.blogspot.com/
Fruitatious- maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fruitatious/130/148/44
Posting 'cause Deana posted the same plants and reminded me I had this. Maybe I'll shoot something new today. It's snowing again.
Today is Mr. Sadandbeautiful's birthday. We are planning to go to my parents' house for dinner as we do every week (yes, we eat there once a week and love it...I'm blessed with wonderful parents whose company I enjoy), but for Pete's birthday my mom started a tradition of making him his favorite English dish (my husband is from England): steak and kidney pie.
It's actually quite delicious!
Anyway. Happy Birthday to Pete and HBW to everyone!
A reboot of an early 2006 posting inspired by the previous shot of 7821 at Rothley. I would have never have dreamed back then that I would be firing her 25 years later.
Great Western Railway 4-6-0 7821 Ditcheat Manor is still in fairly good condition 2 years after arriving at Woodham's Barry Island scrap yard. In fact there are 3 other Manors in this view.
Later 7821 was preserved & spent several years in steam on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough (in fact I had the privilege to fire it many times). It is now on display in the shopping mall that was once Swindon Works.
One of the most striking things about this photo is the condition of the trackwork. It's a scrapyard & it's immaculate. These days the main lines through stations have more grass & weeds growing than here!
Since I was on the subject of posting up my music playlists (computer, ipod, etc.), and eventually my physical music collection (CD, LPs (still no turntable ^_^;)), I've decided to start with something related, and that has been near and dear to me.
I'm in the mood to share, and this is part of what makes me who I am.
About a decade ago, I got into the hobby of collecting radio jingles. (Those bits of presentation and production that air in between the songs, that define a radio station's identity and format, and that graced the airwaves, with the "Golden Age" most likely being around the 1950s through the 1970s.)
I got into collecting radio jingles more or less by accident, remembering the mainstream radio I listened to while growing up in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. (Yes, I'm older than I look. My cut-off point is around 1996/1997, when KOME-FM 98.5 in San Jose, CA faded out of existence. ^_^;)
I came across an online museum dedicated to archiving radio station airchecks from the latter half of the 20th century - Reelradio.com (I need to resubscribe someday.), and I'd spend my time not web surfing, chatting, or playing games, listening to radio that existed before I was born, or that was popular in other areas of the USA when I was young. Occasionally, I'd catch airchecks of Dr. Don Rose on KFRC-AM in San Francisco (I grew up listening to him ^_^;), among other radio legends.
In the early 2000s, I started collecting radio jingles and related CDs, thanks to a man named Ken R. Deutsch from Ohio, who ran his own jingle sales and production company from 1977 to 2005, catering to professional disc jockeys as well as classic jingle collectors.
I'll share the few CDs I acquired from 2000 to 2005 with you here.
Up on top is the 2-CD set from the PAMS "Memory Bank" prompotion package that made the rounds around 1970. The premise was that a computer memorized the words to every song at the station, and callers had to guess the song by the handful of lyrics the computer would read.)
Below that is a set of "News Pack" instrumentals for news programs, then four CDs featuring Anita Kerr and her singers' works for selected radio stations, across the country, including the classic 1960 WLS-AM (890 AM - Chicago, IL) package.
Row 3 features a couple production element discs for the 1990s and 1960s (One of a multi-volume set), a disc of news program themes for some regional radio stations, as well as cuts for NBC's "Monitor" program that ran from 1955-1975 (More on that in an upcoming picture.), a disc spotlighting 3-letter K** call letter stations on west of the Rockies. (Bought it for the KGO-FM jingles), and disc 1 of a 2-volume set for WHB-AM (A pioneering Top-40 era station in Kansas City, MO) - Disc 2 is on the last row.
Rounding out the last row are the companion discs to "The Jingle Book" and "The Second Jingle Book", Ken R's tribute to a vanishing-era in analog terrestrial radio broadcasting here in the USA, and, one more disc of 1960s commercials and program elements.
(I'll see if I can break this group up in an upcoming series of pictures.)
In posting shots on other social media last year, it seemed that my shots at Ruckinge were not as complete as they should have been.
I did call in last year, but due to COVID, the church was locked.
On Saturday, we were in Ham Street so I could hunt butterflies, and surprisingly, Ham Street has no church within the village, instead there is Ruckinge and Orelestone to the north and east.
Orelestone I only visited last year, so have not been inside, but Ruckinge I last saw inside in 2014.
Saturday mornings there is a regular coffee morning in the shop, and I arrived just after midday as the refreshments were being packed away. Another role into which parish churches step into as other civic buildings are sold off up and down the country.
The tall, squat dower is visible from half a mile away, towering over the mature trees between. Clearly an ancient construction, Norman for sure, and topped by a wee little steeple.
Being a glorious day, I walked round the outside of the church, recording some of the finer details, like the tympanums over the west and south doors.
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A large church of Norman origins, the west door being a much-weathered example of twelfth-century work. The south doorway is also Norman and has the remains of two mass dials carved into its dressed stonework. The masonry inside the church shows clear signs of fire damage, and a nice crownpost roof of the fourteenth century probably marks the date of the rebuilding after the fire. Of the same period are the returned stalls on the south side of the chancel - the fronts being little more than a series of plain upright planks, with some spectacularly proportioned poppy-heads at each end. Outside, the upper stage of the tower dates from the thirteenth century and has a small pyramidal roof with needle spire.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Ruckinge
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RUCKING
LIES the next parish westward from Bilsington, for the most part upon the clay-hills. It is written in Domesday, Rochinges, and now usually called and written Ruckinge. Part of it, in which the church stands, is in the hundred of Newchurch, and another part in the hundred of Ham. That part of it which is below the hill southward is in the level of Romney Marsh, and within the liberty and jurisdiction of the justices of it, and the residue is within that of the justices of the county, and within the district of the Weald.
The PARISH lies so obscurely as to be but little known, it is a dreary unpleasant place, the roads are very narrow and miry, as bad as any in the Weald, the soil being a deep miry clay; that from Limne, through Bilsington, Ham-street, and Warehorne, crosses this parish on the side of the clay-hill, inclining nearer to the Marsh. The church stands on the side of the hill, overlooking the Marsh, which lies at the foot of it southward. The upper or northern side of it is mostly coppice wood. It contains about 930 acres of upland, and as many of marsh-land. There is no village, the houses being dispersed about the parish, and are mostly inhabited by poorer sort of people.
IN THE YEAR 791 king Offa gave to Christ-church, in Canterbury, fifteen plough-lands in Kent, among which was this estate of Roching, together with several dennes, for the feed of hogs, in the Weald; (fn. 1) but it was afterwards wrested from the church, during the Danish wars, and it continued in lay hands at the time of the conquest, soon after which it appears to have been in the possession of Hugo de Montfort, from whom archbishop Lanfranc recovered it again to his church, in the solemn assembly, held on this occasion by the king's command, at Pinenden-heath, in the year 1076. This estate coming thus into the hands of the church, on the division made of the revenues of it between the archbishop and his monks, was allotted by him to the latter, and the possession of it was confirmed to them by king Henry I. and II. In Somner's Gavelkind, is a transcript of a release anno 17 Edward I. of the base services of several of the tenants of this manor (gavelkind men) who brought them out, and consequently it was a mere change from service into money, by the mutual consent of lord and tenant. King Edward II. in his 10th year, granted to the prior and convent of Christ-church, free-warren in all their demesne lands in Rucking, among other places. In which state this manor continued till the suppression of the priory, anno 31 Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, where it did not remain long, for the king settled it by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it still remains. The heirs of the Rev. Dr. James Andrews, lately deceased, are now entitled to the lease of it. There is no court held for this manor.
The OTHER PART of this parish, not included in the above grant of king Offa, seems to be that which Cuthred, king of Kent, in the year 805, with the consent and leave of CÅ“nulf, king of Mercia, gave to Aldbertht his servant, and Seledrythe the abbot, being two plough-lands in Hrocing, situated on both sides of the river Limene, to hold in perpetual inheritance, free from all regal tribute, &c. (fn. 2) Soon after the Norman conquest Hugo de Montfort was become possessed of lands in this parish, some of which were those which had been given by king Offa, as above-mentioned, to the priory of Christ-church, which were again recovered from him by archbishop Lanfranc, at the great meeting held at Pinenden. The residue continued in his possession, and are accordingly entered in the survey of Domesday, under the general title of the lands of Hugo de Montfort:
Ralph, son of Richard, holds of Hugo half a suling in Rochinges, which Leuret held of king Edward. It was taxed at half a suling. The arable land is two carucates. There are now twelve villeins having one carucate and an half. Of wood the pannage for one hog. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth fifty shillings, and afterwards thirty shillings, now fifty shillings.
IN THIS PART was the MANOR OF WESTBEREIS, alias Rokinges, which seems to have been once accounted as a moiety of the manor of Rucking. The former of these names it appears to have taken from the antient owners of it. After this name was extinct here, which was before the reign of king Henry IV. this manor was come into the name of Prisot, and in the 21st year of king Henry VI. was owned by John Prisot, who was that year made a sergeant-at-law, and in the 27th year of it knighted, and made chief justice of the common pleas, (fn. 3) in whose descendants it continued till the 8th year of king Henry VIII. when Thomas Prisot passed it away by sale to George Hount, in which name it continued till the 9th year of queen Elizabeth, when it was sold to Reginald Stroughill, usually called Struggle, who was in the commission of the peace in king Edward VI.'s reign, a name of antient extraction in Romney Marsh, where there were lands so called, and there they continued in good esteem at Lyd, of which town they were jurats, and possessed lands for many years afterwards. From this name this manor of Westberies, alias Rokinges, went by sale to Pearse, and anno 23 Elizabeth John Pearse, alienated it, being held in capite, to Richard Guildford and Bennet his wife, but he being indicted for not taking the oath of supremacy, they fled the realm, and were attainted of treason, and his lands became forfeited to the crown, where this manor seems to have remained till the death of the latter in 1597, anno 39 Elizabeth, when the queen granted the fee of it to Walter Moyle, gent. who sold it soon afterwards to Francis Bourne, esq. of Sharsted, and his grandson James Bourne owned it at the latter end of king Charles I.'s reign, and in his descendants it continued till it was at length sold to Parker, in which name it remained till John Parker, of London, alienated it in 1706 to Edward Andrews, of Hinxhill, and his daughter Susanna, who married George I'anns, of this parish, and left a daughter of her own name, who afterwards married first John Gray, M. D. of Canterbury, and secondly Tho. Ibbott, clerk, and entit led each of her husbands in turn respectively to the possession of this manor. On her death without issue, her heirs on her mother's side became entitled to it, and in them, to the number of more than thirty, the inheritance of it is at this time vested.
The MANOR OF BARDINDEN, or Barbodindenne, was likewise most probably situated in this part of Rucking, and was antiently so called from a family of the same name, who were possessors of it, one of whom, William de Barbodindenne, held it at his death, which was in the 9th year of king Edward III. and in his descendants it continued till at length it was alienated to Sir Robert Belknap, chief justice of the common pleas, who being attainted and banished in the 11th year of king Richard II. his estates became forfeited to the crown. Notwithstanding which, the king, who considered him as a martyr to his interest, granted him his estates again, and among others this manor, which he died possessed of in the 2d year of king Henry IV. His grandson John Belknap, in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, alienated it to Engham, in which name it continued till king Henry VIII.'s reign, when it was sold to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth, who held it in capite at his death, anno 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. His grandson Sir Thomas Browne passed it away by sale, in the 7th year of queen Elizabeth, to Thomas Lovelace, esq. whose cousin and heir William Lovelace, of Bethesden, sergeant-at-law, succeeded him in the possession of it, which afterwards descended down to Col. Richard Lovelace, who, soon after the death of king Charles I. alienated it, with his estates at Bethersden, to Mr. Richard Hulse, afterwards of Lovelace-place, in that parish, but whereabouts this manor is precisely situated, or who have been the proprietors of it since, I have not as yet been able to gain any discovery of.
POUNDHURST is a manor, situated about a mile north-west from the church. It belonged in 1651 to Richard Watts, who sold it to Gadsley, from which name it passed to Hatch, and then to Read, who passed it away to Clarke, of Ashford, and Grace Clarke carried it in marriage to the Rev. Thomas Gellibrand, and at her death in 1782, gave it by will to her son the Rev. Joseph Gellibrand, of Edmonton, the present possessor of it.
The MANOR OF MORE was antiently held by owners of the same name, one of whom, Matthew at More, held it by knight's service in the 20th year of king Edward III. after which this manor of More came into the possession of the family of Brent, who were possessed of it in king Henry VII.'s reign. At length Thomas Brent, esq. of Wilsborough, dying in 1612, s. p. by his will gave this manor to his nephew Richard Dering, esq. of Pluckley, in whose descendants it continued down to Sir Edward Dering, bart. now of Surrenden, the present possessor of it.
Charities.
A PERSON UNKNOWN gave to this parish an annuity of 20s. paid out of lands in Romney Marsh, occupied by Mr. Stone, of Great Chart, which is yearly distributed on New Year's day to the poor, who receive no parish relief.
The poor constantly relieved are about twenty, casually forty.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, is a very small building, having at the west end a pointed tower, out of which rises a small slender spire. In the tower there are five bells. It has a middle isle, and two narrow ones coving to it on each side. It has one chancel, and another building at the east end of the south isle, built of flint, with two handsome gothic windows on the south side, and seems to have been a chantry or oratory. It is now made use of to lay the materials in for the repairs of the church. There is a white stone in the north isle, having once had the figures of a man and woman in brass. There are no other memorials or gravestones in the church. On the outside of the steeple, on the west side, there is a very antient Saxon arched door-way, with carved capitals and zig-zag ornaments round it, and some sculpture under the arch. And there is such another smaller one on the middle of the south side of the south isle.
The church of Rucking seems to have been esteemed part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury ever since the restoring of it to that church, by the means of archbishop Lanfranc as above mentioned, when, on the allotment of the manor to the priory and monks of Christ-church, the archbishop most probably retained the advowson of this church to himself. His grace the archbishop is the present patron of it.
It is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 14l. 13s. 4d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 9s. 4d. In 1588 it was valued at one hundred pounds, communicants one hundred. In 1640 it was valued at eightyfive pounds, communicants the same as before. There are about eighteen acres of glebe.
In the petition of the clergy, beneficed in Romney Marsh, in 1635, for setting aside the custom of twopence an acre, in lieu of tithe-wool and pasturage, a full account of which has been given before, under Burmarsh, the rector of Rucking was one of those who met on this occasion; when it was agreed on all sides, that wool in the Marsh had never been known to have been paid in specie, the other tithes being paid or compounded for.
¶There is a modus of one shilling per acre on all grafs lands in this parish within the Marsh, and by custom, all the upland pays four-pence per acre for pasturage, and one shilling per acre when mowed, no hay having ever been taken in kind, the other tithes are either taken in kind, or compounded for. Formerly the woods of this parish paid tithes, after the rate of two shillings in the pound, according to the money paid for the fellets of them; but in a suit in the exchequer for tithe of wood, anno 1713, brought by Lodge, rector, against Sir Philip Boteler, it was decreed against the rector, that this parish was within the bounds of the Weald, and the woods in it consequently freed from tithes. Which decree has been acquiesced in ever since.
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Instead of posting the pieces put together, for this update I am showing what is left. From a distance they all look dark, which they are, but details can be made out in good lighting. I was expecting this part to be difficult, but so far it has been a ton of fun to do fill-in work. I now have 8 of 16 smaller sections completely filled in.
The board in back is the giant temple, front left is any foliage particles, front right is what's left--very black. Since taking this photo, I have combined the front 2 boards Organizing by shape here has greatly increased my speed.
I currently have 706 pieces remaining, no missing pieces yet (fingers crossed), and I fully expect to be done by the end of the month, even though I can currently only puzzle on the weekends for a few hours.
The main reason for visiting Cambridge was to see King's College Chapel.
I must first than two friends, Simon K and Aidan for posting shots from Cambridge and so firing up my desire to visit.
Things fell into place and I found myself on a train last Sunday, and a place on the first tour of the day Monday morning.
I will add more thoughts as I post shots, but this for a start.
Quite the strongest emotional response I have ever had to a building, I had to choke back tears!
All chairs and seating have been removed, so there is just the building.
"Just."
Just a handful of us early visitors had the entire chapel to ourselves.
I followed up, not on purpose, a Japanese lady who was walking round with an i phone of a selfie stick, recording herself walking round the chapel, rather than the chapel itself. Which I know is her choice.
I saw the wonderful glass in the windows of the side chapel, so decided to photograph those too. Took some time.
No restrictions on photography, just don't "use flash on the Rubens" in the chancel. I was told.
In truth, there's more than enough in the Chapel for a whole day, as I'm sure new details would reveal themselves each time you looked.
I walked out into the college grounds, to walk to the bridge over the river. I mean, really, there was no one else out there, and a couple of punts were drifting past, so I wandered round the large square of grass, half of which had been apparently wild flowers, but now cut to look like a rough lawn.
The chapel has a 16th sundial, and marvellous lead drain downpipes. I snap them all.
I had, I thought, photographed what I could, and as I saw the next group coming in, I thought I would leave them to enjoy the chapel as sparsely crowded as I had.
So I walk to the south door, where the roped off path lead round to the west end of the chapel, then around another large grassed area to the banks of the river and a bridge to the meadows beyond.
I paused by the west door to photograph the arch and carvings, and gilded dragons on the ironwork.
On the bridge, I meet up with a volunteer already on a break. She looked at my two cameras and asked if I had good shots.
I had no idea and modest to say I had. But I scroll through some shots taken with the 50mm lens and show her shots of the side chapel glass. She was impressed, hardly anyone goes in there, she says. Even the guides don't take groups in the chapels.
Which I guess I can understand, as the chapel is a heck of a building as a whole, but the parts of it, from the glass panels, the chapels, carvings, rood screen, Rubens and all the other things make for one hell of an experience, but to pause and drink in the details, to be lost in a pair of ancient windmills, of bear witness to some ancient king's coronation, while the world turns without us noticing.
That is something not to miss.
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Begun by Henry VI, completed under the direction of Henry VII, the glass scheme installed under the somewhat-disinterested Henry VIII. 'The heart and soul of early 20th Century Anglicanism' according to M R James, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols begun here during the First World War helped invent the modern Christmas. The fan vaulting is spectacular, the proportions (300ft long, 40ft wide, 90ft high) almost shocking in their single-minded Perpendicular triumphalism. The Chapel vies with Ely and Peterborough Cathedrals as the best single medieval building in Cambridgeshire, but the vast scheme of early 16th Century glass is undoubtedly the biggest and best of its kind anywhere in the British Isles.
www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/21007385075/in/album...
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King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture and features the world's largest fan vault.[3] The Chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515, a period which spanned the Wars of the Roses and three subsequent decades. The Chapel's large stained glass windows were completed by 1531, and its early Renaissance rood screen was erected in 1532–36. The Chapel is an active house of worship, and home of the King's College Choir. It is a landmark and a commonly used symbol of the city of Cambridge.
Henry VI planned a university counterpart to Eton College (whose Chapel is very similar, but not on the scale intended by Henry). The King decided the dimensions of the Chapel. Reginald Ely was most likely the architect and worked on the site since 1446.[6] Two years earlier Reginald was charged with sourcing craftsmen for the Chapel's construction.[6] He continued to work on the site until building was interrupted in 1461, having probably designed the elevations.[6] The original plans called for lierne vaulting, and the piers of the choir were built to conform with them.[6] Ultimately, a complex fan vault was constructed instead.[6] Reginald probably designed the window tracery at the extreme east of the church's north side: the east window of the easternmost side chapel, which unlike the Perpendicular style of the others is in curvilinear Gothic style.[6] The priest and later bishop Nicholas Close (or Cloos) was recorded as the "surveyor", having been the curate of St John Zachary, a church demolished to make way for the Chapel.[7][8][9]
The first stone of the Chapel was laid, by Henry himself, on the Feast of St James the Apostle, 25 July 1446, the College having been begun in 1441. By the end of the reign of Richard III (1485), despite the Wars of the Roses, five bays had been completed and a timber roof erected. Henry VII visited in 1506, paying for the work to resume and even leaving money so that the work could continue after his death. In 1515, under Henry VIII, the building was complete but the great windows had yet to be made.
The Chapel features the world's largest fan vault, constructed between 1512 and 1515 by master mason John Wastell. It also features fine medieval stained glass and, above the altar, The Adoration of the Magi by Rubens, painted in 1634 for the Convent of the White Nuns at Louvain in Belgium. The painting was installed in the Chapel in 1968; this involved the lowering of the Sanctuary floor leading up to the High Altar. It had been believed that gradations were created in 1774 by James Essex, when Essex had in fact lowered the floor by 5 1/2 inches,[10] but at the demolition of these steps, it was found that the floor instead rested on Tudor brick arches.
During the removal of these Tudor steps, built at the Founder's specific request that the high altar should be 3 ft above the choir floor, human remains in intact lead coffins with brass plaques were discovered, dating from the 15th to 18th centuries, and were disinterred.[12]
The eventual installation of the Rubens was also not without problems: once seen beneath the east window, a conflict was felt between the picture's swirling colours and those of the stained glass.[13][title missing] The Rubens was also a similar shape to the window, which "dwarfed it and made it look rather like a dependent postage stamp".[14] Plain shutters were proposed, one on each side, to give it a triptych shape (although the picture was never part of a triptych) and lend it independence of form, which is how one sees the Rubens today. The installation was designed by architect Sir Martyn Beckett, who was "philosophical about the furore this inevitably occasioned - which quickly became acceptance of a solution to a difficult problem."[15]
During the Civil War the Chapel was used as a training ground by Oliver Cromwell's troops, but escaped major damage, possibly because Cromwell, having been a Cambridge student, gave orders for it to be spared. Graffiti left by these soldiers is still visible on the north and south walls near the altar.[16] During World War II most of the stained glass was removed and the Chapel again escaped damage.[17]
Today's Posting Assignment 146
"Go white on white today. Make a photograph of a white subject on a white background"
The postings: www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=TP147&w=1793744@N21&a...
A wall belonging to "Louisiana" Museum of Modern Arrrrt
for Today's Posting Group: "Plastic is everywhere. Make a photograph that illustrates a use of plastic in your life today.."
after coming home from shopping: a quick look into the basket and a quick shot of plastic-wrapped apples
I couldn't resist posting something, I'm so proud and excited. It's a terrible picture, but there are my suspicious new boys.
Basically, I answered an internet ad for a woman who was giving rats away, along with a cage, for free. My friend Marianne, who has a zoo of her own that includes rats, kindly came with me to offer moral support (and her husband Kevin generously provided his services as a driver--I wouldn't have been able to do it without them). The "free" part turned out because the cage is broken and the rats are feeder rats for her snakes--she had them in a shit-smeared tupperware container. The rats were unnamed and untrained. The apartment stank of filth and animal waste, and when she opened the container, her six- or seven-year-old daughter began shrieking with glee and punching the rats on their backs while they panicked.
The stupidest thing possible is to take an animal that is clearly unsocialized from an irresponsible owner. They're probably aggressive. They may very well be sick. I know this very well. I know, I know, I know. But I also knew that if I left them there, I wouldn't be sleeping for a long, long time.
And we grabbed two of the three males (the females would probably be pregnant)
that didn't actively try to bite a hand put near them and we got the hell out. The woman told us that she had just cleaned the cage and we had to drive with the windows down because it stank so much; who knows what it was like before it was "clean."
At home, I emptied all our wastepaper bins and took every accessory and put it all on the balcony to soak in a mixture of soap, vinegar, and hospital-grade disinfectant. And then I stripped and put the cage in the shower with a brush, a brillo pad, and a sponge and just went to work. Then I put it all on the balcony and sprayed it all heavily with disinfectant and just let it sit for half an hour before wiping it down.
And now Kehua and Maihara have a clean, quiet home. I spent some time cooing to them and feeding them muesli through the cage bars, and they've been cleaning themselves and each other like crazy. They already have two totally different personalities. Maihara, a hooded with a grey head and dots down his back, is a bit of muscle. I believe Kehua, the easily spooked little ghost, is a Himalayan (half pink-eyed albino and half siamese), and therefore he is very beautiful but almost blind, with a poor sense of smell and coordination. Don't you love pure-breeding? Grrrr... At least his sense of hearing is normal, and he needs to have a constant murmur of reassurance more than Maihara does.
Interestingly enough, when they were in the dirty cage waiting for me to clean the new one, they were defecating all over the place, and I was so disappointed because I've read rats naturally lean to being housetrained and I'd missed my opportunity with these. But once they were in the clean cage, they immediately scratched a little place in one corner and poo nowhere else.
They are incredibly nervous and jumpy, understandably, and any sudden move or noise causes an explosion of scuffling. I'm already in the habit of sing-songily calling out all my moves: "Nobody panic, I'm getting up!" "Nobody panic, I'm pouring a juice!" "Nobody panic...!" Funnily enough, it seems to work--obviously they don't understand the words, but I think they get the idea and seem to be calmer, though they still flinch and flatten to the ground if you raise your hand suddenly.
I don't know how I thought I could know true happiness before I saw two freshly cleaned rats in a quiet room lay their heads on each other's shoulders, close their eyes, and sigh.
The main reason for visiting Cambridge was to see King's College Chapel.
I must first than two friends, Simon K and Aidan for posting shots from Cambridge and so firing up my desire to visit.
Things fell into place and I found myself on a train last Sunday, and a place on the first tour of the day Monday morning.
I will add more thoughts as I post shots, but this for a start.
Quite the strongest emotional response I have ever had to a building, I had to choke back tears!
All chairs and seating have been removed, so there is just the building.
"Just."
Just a handful of us early visitors had the entire chapel to ourselves.
I followed up, not on purpose, a Japanese lady who was walking round with an i phone of a selfie stick, recording herself walking round the chapel, rather than the chapel itself. Which I know is her choice.
I saw the wonderful glass in the windows of the side chapel, so decided to photograph those too. Took some time.
No restrictions on photography, just don't "use flash on the Rubens" in the chancel. I was told.
In truth, there's more than enough in the Chapel for a whole day, as I'm sure new details would reveal themselves each time you looked.
I walked out into the college grounds, to walk to the bridge over the river. I mean, really, there was no one else out there, and a couple of punts were drifting past, so I wandered round the large square of grass, half of which had been apparently wild flowers, but now cut to look like a rough lawn.
The chapel has a 16th sundial, and marvellous lead drain downpipes. I snap them all.
I had, I thought, photographed what I could, and as I saw the next group coming in, I thought I would leave them to enjoy the chapel as sparsely crowded as I had.
So I walk to the south door, where the roped off path lead round to the west end of the chapel, then around another large grassed area to the banks of the river and a bridge to the meadows beyond.
I paused by the west door to photograph the arch and carvings, and gilded dragons on the ironwork.
On the bridge, I meet up with a volunteer already on a break. She looked at my two cameras and asked if I had good shots.
I had no idea and modest to say I had. But I scroll through some shots taken with the 50mm lens and show her shots of the side chapel glass. She was impressed, hardly anyone goes in there, she says. Even the guides don't take groups in the chapels.
Which I guess I can understand, as the chapel is a heck of a building as a whole, but the parts of it, from the glass panels, the chapels, carvings, rood screen, Rubens and all the other things make for one hell of an experience, but to pause and drink in the details, to be lost in a pair of ancient windmills, of bear witness to some ancient king's coronation, while the world turns without us noticing.
That is something not to miss.
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Begun by Henry VI, completed under the direction of Henry VII, the glass scheme installed under the somewhat-disinterested Henry VIII. 'The heart and soul of early 20th Century Anglicanism' according to M R James, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols begun here during the First World War helped invent the modern Christmas. The fan vaulting is spectacular, the proportions (300ft long, 40ft wide, 90ft high) almost shocking in their single-minded Perpendicular triumphalism. The Chapel vies with Ely and Peterborough Cathedrals as the best single medieval building in Cambridgeshire, but the vast scheme of early 16th Century glass is undoubtedly the biggest and best of its kind anywhere in the British Isles.
www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/21007385075/in/album...
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King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture and features the world's largest fan vault.[3] The Chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515, a period which spanned the Wars of the Roses and three subsequent decades. The Chapel's large stained glass windows were completed by 1531, and its early Renaissance rood screen was erected in 1532–36. The Chapel is an active house of worship, and home of the King's College Choir. It is a landmark and a commonly used symbol of the city of Cambridge.
Henry VI planned a university counterpart to Eton College (whose Chapel is very similar, but not on the scale intended by Henry). The King decided the dimensions of the Chapel. Reginald Ely was most likely the architect and worked on the site since 1446.[6] Two years earlier Reginald was charged with sourcing craftsmen for the Chapel's construction.[6] He continued to work on the site until building was interrupted in 1461, having probably designed the elevations.[6] The original plans called for lierne vaulting, and the piers of the choir were built to conform with them.[6] Ultimately, a complex fan vault was constructed instead.[6] Reginald probably designed the window tracery at the extreme east of the church's north side: the east window of the easternmost side chapel, which unlike the Perpendicular style of the others is in curvilinear Gothic style.[6] The priest and later bishop Nicholas Close (or Cloos) was recorded as the "surveyor", having been the curate of St John Zachary, a church demolished to make way for the Chapel.[7][8][9]
The first stone of the Chapel was laid, by Henry himself, on the Feast of St James the Apostle, 25 July 1446, the College having been begun in 1441. By the end of the reign of Richard III (1485), despite the Wars of the Roses, five bays had been completed and a timber roof erected. Henry VII visited in 1506, paying for the work to resume and even leaving money so that the work could continue after his death. In 1515, under Henry VIII, the building was complete but the great windows had yet to be made.
The Chapel features the world's largest fan vault, constructed between 1512 and 1515 by master mason John Wastell. It also features fine medieval stained glass and, above the altar, The Adoration of the Magi by Rubens, painted in 1634 for the Convent of the White Nuns at Louvain in Belgium. The painting was installed in the Chapel in 1968; this involved the lowering of the Sanctuary floor leading up to the High Altar. It had been believed that gradations were created in 1774 by James Essex, when Essex had in fact lowered the floor by 5 1/2 inches,[10] but at the demolition of these steps, it was found that the floor instead rested on Tudor brick arches.
During the removal of these Tudor steps, built at the Founder's specific request that the high altar should be 3 ft above the choir floor, human remains in intact lead coffins with brass plaques were discovered, dating from the 15th to 18th centuries, and were disinterred.[12]
The eventual installation of the Rubens was also not without problems: once seen beneath the east window, a conflict was felt between the picture's swirling colours and those of the stained glass.[13][title missing] The Rubens was also a similar shape to the window, which "dwarfed it and made it look rather like a dependent postage stamp".[14] Plain shutters were proposed, one on each side, to give it a triptych shape (although the picture was never part of a triptych) and lend it independence of form, which is how one sees the Rubens today. The installation was designed by architect Sir Martyn Beckett, who was "philosophical about the furore this inevitably occasioned - which quickly became acceptance of a solution to a difficult problem."[15]
During the Civil War the Chapel was used as a training ground by Oliver Cromwell's troops, but escaped major damage, possibly because Cromwell, having been a Cambridge student, gave orders for it to be spared. Graffiti left by these soldiers is still visible on the north and south walls near the altar.[16] During World War II most of the stained glass was removed and the Chapel again escaped damage.[17]
I'm happy to be posting to flickr again. Hope everyone survived the long, harsh winter.
It was a five year journey finding a cooperative Snowy Owl. This year the number that irrupted into our area increased. If I was lucky, I would capture one on a natural perch, but most of the Snowy's perched on hydro poles, silos, barns, etc. This pretty girl was very cooperative and spending time with her made the winter more bearable (not baited). This was her favourite perch along a Snowmobile trail. She would fly off when sledders went by and usually return within 5 or 10 minutes. Named for the dirty coloured patch of feathers on her face and feet :)
Copyright Barb D'Arpino
Random postings of photos I have taken over the last few years. Explore the photo set to find other work by the artist or of the same theme or event.
All photos © Ian Cox. If you would like to use this image please ask first. Best viewed as a set here
Follow Wallkandy on Instagram to see photos as they are posted. These images are also being posted on the Wallkandy facebook page and Tumblr.
I photographed this bush over and over again last year without posting any of those images. This, my first effort, was the best--so here it is.
About a year after I bought this place I planted a lilac hedge along the back of the property. The bushes were marketed as miniatures, which turned out to be untrue as the hedge grew to be about a dozen feet tall. But that's OK.
This is the largest bush in the set. It's kind of spooky.
Mayhap I'll post another effort or two before the year ends.
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One of my doctors grounded me for the day a year back, so I kept to the house and yard. It seemed like a good opportunity for a selfie--so I took a bunch of 'em, and posted one.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2021 photo-a-day project, 365^4.
Number of project photos taken: 67
Title of folder: Around the Yard-Selfies
Other photos taken on 3/18/2021: none
Since I was on the subject of posting up my music playlists (computer, ipod, etc.), and eventually my physical music collection (CD, LPs (still no turntable ^_^;)), I've decided to start with something related, and that has been near and dear to me.
I'm in the mood to share, and this is part of what makes me who I am.
About a decade ago, I got into the hobby of collecting radio jingles. (Those bits of presentation and production that air in between the songs, that define a radio station's identity and format, and that graced the airwaves, with the "Golden Age" most likely being around the 1950s through the 1970s.)
I got into collecting radio jingles more or less by accident, remembering the mainstream radio I listened to while growing up in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. (Yes, I'm older than I look. My cut-off point is around 1996/1997, when KOME-FM 98.5 in San Jose, CA faded out of existence. ^_^;)
I came across an online museum dedicated to archiving radio station airchecks from the latter half of the 20th century - Reelradio.com (I need to resubscribe someday.), and I'd spend my time not web surfing, chatting, or playing games, listening to radio that existed before I was born, or that was popular in other areas of the USA when I was young. Occasionally, I'd catch airchecks of Dr. Don Rose on KFRC-AM in San Francisco (I grew up listening to him ^_^;), among other radio legends.
In the early 2000s, I started collecting radio jingles and related CDs, thanks to a man named Ken R. Deutsch from Ohio, who ran his own jingle sales and production company from 1977 to 2005, catering to professional disc jockeys as well as classic jingle collectors.
I'll share the few CDs I acquired from 2000 to 2005 with you here.
These two discs are important, as an interest to me, related to some of the last wave of programming on NBC's radio network from the mid 1950s to 1975.
1955 brought about a radical rethink in NBC's radio programming, thanks to Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, president of NBC at the time. (He was Sigourney's daddy! ^_^;)
The "NBC Monitor" radio was a magazine-style program, designed to help radio compete and retain market share, as television was emerging and eroding their audience. The prorgram offered a mix of news, sports, comedy, variety, music, celebrity interviews, and other short segments.
"NBC Monitor" ran initially as a weekend program, airing 40 hours consecutively from early Saturday to Sunday evening.
As time went on, hosts changed, hours were scaled back, and programming simplified, as regional NBC radio affiliate stations concentrated on developing their own formats and identities separate from the network.
NBC kept the show going through the early 1970s, introducing some major changes (Including hiring Don Imus, Wolfman Jack, and KHJ's Robert W. Morgan as hosts for a brief period of time), before the Monitor Beacon (and the program itself) faded out for good at the end of January 1975, barely making 20 years on the air.
NBC Monitor gave way for the launch of NBC News and Information Service (NIS) in mid-1975, with the intent to launch a national network for all-news radio stations. Failure to expand the service beyond smaller market stations, among other issues plaging the service, led to the demise of NIS nearly two years after its inception.
The NIS package has a rather broad and consistent series of programming themes and formatic elements.
No Surrealist exhibition would be complete without something by Dutch mathematician Maurits Cornelis Escher! I'd like to think God gave Brother Martin a helping hand, don't you?
Posting 2 perspective shots ... We had some insane winds and some rain in California over the past couple of weeks. The wall couldn't stand up to the elements.
Posting a few of my shots taken at Aberdeen Harbour Scotland, my home is a five minute drive away,hence I visit often.
I am posting some art photography from Dave LaTrobe, who is nearly 90 this year. Much of his work include using the techniques of Posterization and Solarization all from analog positives and negatives. Much of this is a lost art in the photographic world.
Photography: Dave LaTrobe
Edit: Dennis Huey
Posting of the Colors at the Veteran's Day ceremony at Paris-Yates Chapel. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Communications
Posting several pages from a booklet promoting 75 years of Ford Motor Company in Britain, covering 1911 to 1986. I think they have done a nice job covering subjects in one page. The seven pages I chose are less than half the booklet, but cover the most history.