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Published by Dearden & Wade, Bournemouth.
The upper postcard is postmarked 1955.
The lower postcard is postmarked 1954.
[See the notes for the set.]
Schmap Oxford Tenth Edition
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The Postcard
An image of part of the grounds of St. Joseph's Convent in Reading on a postcard which was posted in Reading on Monday the 20th. October 1919 to an address in Rue Marcadet, Paris.
The convent was founded in Reading, Berkshire in 1910, but since then it has undergone a name change - it is now a thriving independent Catholic day school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18 called St. Joseph's College.
Notable alumnae include two singers - Marianne Faithfull and Alma Cogan.
Virginia Woolf
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 20th. October 1919, a novel by Virginia Woolf was published for the first time. It is called 'Night and Day', and is set in Edwardian London.
The book contrasts the daily lives of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, and examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness and success.
Thoughts From Virginia Woolf
"One cannot think well, love well,
sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"Why are women so much more
interesting to men than men are
to women?"
"The eyes of others our prisons;
their thoughts our cages."
"I thought how unpleasant it is to
be locked out; and I thought how
it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached
ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached
to life at all four corners. Often the
attachment is scarcely perceptible."
"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure
and simple: one must be a woman manly,
or a man womanly."
"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish
in a foreign tongue."
"Once conform, once do what other people
do because they do it, and a lethargy steals
over all the finer nerves and faculties of the
soul.
She becomes all outer show and inward
emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of
men who have minded beyond reason the
opinions of others."
"There is much to support the view that it
is clothes that wear us, and not we, them;
we may make them take the mould of arm
or breast, but they mould our hearts, our
brains, our tongues to their liking."
"Let a man get up and say, 'Behold, this is
the truth', and instantly I perceive a sandy
cat filching a piece of fish in the background.
Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
"On the outskirts of every agony sits
some observant fellow who points."
"One likes people much better when
they're battered down by a prodigious
siege of misfortune than when they
triumph."
"There can be no two opinions as to what
a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of
thoroughbred intelligence who rides his
mind at a gallop across country in pursuit
of an idea."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people."
"Some people go to priests; others to
poetry; I to my friends."
"For most of history, Anonymous
was a woman."
"If I can only note that the past is beautiful
because one never realises an emotion at
the time. It expands later, and thus we don't
have complete emotions about the present,
only about the past."
"To enjoy freedom we have to control
ourselves."
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams,
that the submerged truth sometimes
comes to the top."
"Language is wine upon the lips."
"I read the book of Job last night, I
don't think God comes out well in it."
"Every secret of a writer's soul, every
experience of his life, every quality of
his mind is written large in his works."
"The truth is, I often like women. I like
their unconventionality. I like their
completeness. I like their anonymity."
"The history of men's opposition to
women's emancipation is more
interesting perhaps than the story
of that emancipation itself."
"The older one grows, the more
one likes indecency."
"One of the signs of passing youth
is the birth of a sense of fellowship
with other human beings as we take
our place among them."
"This soul, or life within us, by no
means agrees with the life outside us."
"I want the concentration and the romance,
and the worlds all glued together, fused,
glowing: have no time to waste any more
on prose."
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary
births; they are the outcome of many years
of thinking in common, of thinking by the
body of the people, so that the experience
of the mass is behind the single voice."
"A woman must have money and a room
of her own if she is to write fiction."
"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself
very old: but now I am a woman again -
as I always am when I write."
"I would venture to guess that Anon,
who wrote so many poems without
signing them, was often a woman."
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"My own brain is to me the most
unaccountable of machinery -
always buzzing, humming, soaring
roaring diving, and then buried in
mud. And why? What's this passion
for?"
"Someone has to die in order that
the rest of us should value life more."
"The beauty of the world, which is so
soon to perish, has two edges, one of
laughter, one of anguish, cutting the
heart asunder."
"Nothing has really happened until
it has been recorded."
"These are the soul's changes. I don't
believe in ageing. I believe in forever
altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence
my optimism."
"Mental fight means thinking against
the current, not with it. It is our business
to puncture gas bags and discover the
seeds of truth."
"It is far more difficult to murder
a phantom than a reality."
"Really I don't like human nature
unless all candied over with art."
"The telephone, which interrupts the
most serious conversations and cuts
short the most weighty observations,
has a romance of its own."
"Boredom is the legitimate
kingdom of the philanthropic."
"If we help an educated man's daughter
to go to Cambridge are we not forcing
her to think not about education but
about war? - not how she can learn, but
how she can fight in order that she might
win the same advantages as her brothers?"
"The man who is aware of himself is
henceforward independent; and he is never
bored, and life is only too short, and he is
steeped through and through with a
profound yet temperate happiness."
"That great Cathedral space which
was childhood."
"This is an important book, the critic
assumes, because it deals with war.
This is an insignificant book because
it deals with the feelings of women
in a drawing-room."
"It seems as if an age of genius must
be succeeded by an age of endeavour;
riot and extravagance by cleanliness
and hard work."
"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the
best prose is that which is most full
of poetry."
"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths,
diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way
people look and laugh, and run up the
steps of omnibuses."
"Life is not a series of gig lamps
symmetrically arranged; life is a
luminous halo, a semi-transparent
envelope surrounding us from the
beginning of consciousness to the
end."
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 4th of August 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
[Published by] Otto Schmidt, Höchenschwand
Feldpost (military mail that required no postage), postmarked January 28, 1916
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 10th of September 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by L. C. H. The card has a divided back.
Enemy artillery during the Great War targeted churches, cathedrals and other tall buildings because of their value as observation posts. Shells aimed at churches which just missed their target tended to fall in the churchyards, throwing up gravestones, coffins and corpses.
'The Shell' by H. Smalley Sarson
'Shrieking its message the flying death
Cursed the resisting air,
Then buried its nose by a battered church,
A skeleton gaunt and bare.
The brains of science, the money of fools
Had fashioned an iron slave
Destined to kill, yet the futile end
Was a child's uprooted grave'.
Abba Eban
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely when they
have exhausted all other alternatives".
This was said during a speech in London UK on 16th. December 1970 by Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israeli diplomat and writer.
Visé Paris
The reference to 'Visé Paris' means that the image has been inspected by the military authorities in the French capital and deemed not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' signifies that the card was published during or soon after the end of the Great War.
Vermandovillers
Vermandovillers is a commune in the Somme département in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is situated 26 miles (42 km) east of Amiens.
A Great War Battle at Vermandovillers
A German attack occurred on the 24th. September 1914. It was partially blocked by the 75th. Infantry Regiment at Vermandovillers’ Etoilé woods near to Herleville.
The front was stabilised for two years until the spearhead attack of the 4th. September 1916 at edge of Etoilé woods. The attack had been assigned to the 132nd. Division of the 10th. Army, against heavily concreted machine gun bunkers that the Germans had been building for 2 years.
The battle ended on the 9th. September 1916 because of lack of troops. The 158th., the 366th. Infantry Regiment and the 1st. Battalion Chasseurs showed exemplary conduct and suffered heavy losses.
Between the 4th. and 9th. September 1916, the 86th. Brigade lost 1,071 men, the 264th. Brigade lost 1,513 and 108th. Brigade 1,580.
These figures account for the fact that within a 5 kilometre (3 mile) radius around Vermandovillers, there are buried 1,261 French soldiers. 22,632 German soldiers lie in the Vermandovillers German war cemetery, including the writers Reinhard Johannes Sorge and Alfred Lichtenstein.
In the Somme there are 410 Commonwealth cemeteries,
22 French Military cemeteries and 14 German cemeteries.
The largest of them is the German cemetery situated on the
French front at Vermandovillers. 10,000 men were laid to rest under black crosses; the remainder were buried in 15 mass graves.
The British are not counted because although many were killed in the fighting, they are buried mainly near the Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial.
A Poem About the Battle of the Somme
'It was 1916 on the 1st of July
That artillery and smoke blackened the sky.
Shots rang out and men fell dead,
The sky was black, while the ground was red.
To battle the Germans the French and British had come,
To the bloodiest fight of the War, The Battle of the Somme.
While artillery rained down on the German side
The allies swallowed their fear and stood with pride.
Waiting to be ordered over the top,
To run without question, don’t look back and don’t stop.
But this is when the slaughter started,
Machine guns screamed out as bodies and limbs became parted.
Fifty-eight thousand casualties in one single day
‘A necessary loss’ the Generals would say.
‘We will rest for now and recommence tomorrow
No time for the men to indulge in their sorrow’
So they readied the next batch of men for the slaughter,
Would they fare better when faced with the mortars?
The answer to this question was obviously no
As the casualty counts continued to grow.
For every single centimetre of ground that was taken
The lives of two men were sadly forsaken.
And so the battle waged on and on,
The bloodiest battle of World War One.
Yet as they made progress towards German lines,
The allies had one thing in the front of their minds.
For the Germans had a weapon the allies had yet to discover
One that would find men even if they took cover.
As the allied assault drew nearer and nearer
The time to use this weapon had never been clearer.
The little grey canisters flew through the air
Giving the allied forces more than a scare.
The men now engaged in a fight for their lives,
They could not protect themselves with their guns or their knives.
Their only weapon now was a mask
But fitting it in time was a very hard task.
‘Gas, Gas!’ some men would cry
Most had masks, the rest would die.
Their screams could be heard as they approached their death,
Blood curdled in their lungs as they drew their last breath.
Eventually their eyes would roll back in their head
And with a final twitch and spasm they lay still, dead.
And so the battle waged on and on,
The bloodiest battle of World War One.
Even with the threat of the German gas,
It was time for a final allied assault to mass.
And with this Britain unveiled their tank
When the battle ended they had this to thank.
It stormed over No-Man’s Land, through German wire,
The Germans shook in fear as it prepared to fire.
For the British troops it opened the way,
For the deaths of their comrades the Germans would pay.
And the German death count grew and grew
As the allied assault continued to break through.
And though the fighting had not ended,
The morale of the allies began to get mended.
They pushed with valor towards their objective,
With a new vigour the Germans had not expected.
Although the enemy held, and did not retreat
This battle is viewed as a German defeat.
It was 1916 on the 21st of November
That the five month long battle was finally over.
No shots rang out but thousands were dead,
The sky was still black, the ground was stained red.
To battle the Germans the French and British had come,
To the bloodiest fight of the War, The Battle of the Somme'.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
Several of my photos have been used in the Spring 2013 edition of NCT Mattters, the magazine of the National Childbirth Trust in the UK.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of July 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Published in 1957 by The Children' Press, London. Found in a Charity Shop in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The Postcard
A postcard published by the Photochrom Co. Ltd.
The card was posted in Margate on Friday the 19th. September 1919 to:
Miss G. Stiles,
36, Brookwood Road,
Southfields,
London S.W.
The pencilled message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Churchfield Boarding
House,
Churchfields,
Margate.
Dear Grace,
We are having a ripping
time.
Our faces are quite sore
being sunburnt.
Fancy George being in
England.
I am glad I have an extra
week's holiday, I want the
time we have down here
not to go quickly.
Love from Rose".
The Photochrom Co. Ltd.
The Photochrom Co. Ltd. of London and Royal Tunbridge Wells originally produced Christmas cards before becoming a major publisher and printer of tourist albums, guide books, and postcards.
These mainly captured worldwide views as real photos, or were printed in black & white, monochrome, and color.
They also published many advertising, comic, silhouette, novelty, panoramic, and notable artist-signed cards in named series as well. The huge number of titles that Photochrom produced may well exceed 40,000.
In 1896 they took over Fussli’s London office established three years earlier, and began publishing similar photo-chromolithographic postcards after securing the exclusive English licence for the Swiss photochrom process.
This technique was used to produce a great number of view-cards of both England and Europe. While they captured the same fine details as the Swiss prints, their colours were much softer and reduced.
Apart from their better known photochroms, they produced their Celesque series of view-cards printed in tricolor.
One of the largest unnamed series that Photochrom produced was of view-cards printed in brown rotogravure. Many of these cards were simply hand coloured with a dominant red and blue, which gives these cards a distinct appearance. They are similar to cards produced in their Photogravure and Velvet Finish Series.
Photochrom postcard series include:
-- Night Series - Line block halftone over a blue tint depicting London.
-- Carbofoto Series - Black & white real photo cards.
-- Sepiatone Series - Sepia real photo cards.
-- Grano Series - View-cards printed in black & white.
-- Exclusive Photo-Color Series - View-cards printed in colour.
-- Duotype Process Series - View-cards printed in two tones.
Cliftonville
Cliftonville is a coastal area of the town of Margate, situated to the east of the main town. It contains the area known as Palm Bay.
The original Palm Bay estate was built in the 1930's as a number of large, wide avenues with detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, garages and gardens. This land was sold by Mr Sidney Simon Van Den Bergh to the Palm Bay Estate Co. on the 23rd. June 1924. Such avenues include Gloucester Avenue and Leicester Avenue.
East Cliftonville
The Palm Bay estate covers the eastern part of Cliftonville, and was fields before the first avenue was built. It extends east beyond Northumberland Avenue and has been developed in phases. The later phase extending eastwards of Princess Margaret Avenue is a modern-style housing estate with small houses largely identical in appearance and of less substantial build quality than the original 1930's estate.
The eastward expansion of Cliftonville has included much of the former parish of Northdown, including Northdown Park and House.
West Cliftonville
West Cliftonville was originally developed as the up-market alternative to bustling Margate, and had many small private hotels and guest houses with outstanding Victorian architecture which catered for the many visitors to what was in the first half of the 20th. century a thriving holiday resort.
Many of the large hotels have been converted into one bed flats; this has brought about positive action from Thanet District Council which introduced selective licensing, ensuring that quality home improvements are maintained by landlords (2006) and restricting planning permission for one bedroom flats (2007).
Cliftonville now has many of its streets protected by conservation area orders. The seafront area once included many large hotels, including at one time a large Butlins complex. Some fantastic hotels remain, e.g. Smiths Court Hotel overlooking the sea, and The Walpole Bay Hotel.
Tourism and visitor numbers have increased in Cliftonville (2018) with the addition of newly opened bed and breakfasts changing the Cliftonville landscape. Northdown Road and Cliff Terrace have also had a resurgence, with many trendy and hip businesses opening up.
The Oval Bandstand and lawns run by community group GRASS Cliftonville bring an opportunity to bring community engagement to Cliftonville, and they host a monthly award-winning farmers' market on the last Sunday of every month.
During the summer there are a number of activities and events, including musical shows. The Tom Thumb Theatre brings a host of music events and theatre to Cliftonville.
Writing and Poetry
During the first half of the 20th. century, Cliftonville was considered the fashionable hotel quarter of Margate. It was during the autumn of 1921 that T. S. Eliot spent a period of convalescence at the Albermarle Hotel. His widow has confirmed that he found inspiration for, and wrote significant sections of 'The Waste Land' in the Grade II listed Nayland Rock promenade shelter.
The spirit of early 20th. century Margate and Cliftonville was caught by John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) in his poem "Margate 1940":
Margate 1940
From out The Queen's Highcliffe for weeks at a stretch
I watched how the mower evaded the vetch,
So that over the putting-course rashes were seen
Of pink and of yellow among the burnt green.
How restful to putt, when the strains of a band
Announced a thé dansant was on at The Grand,
While over the privet, comminglingly clear,
I heard lesser Co-Optimists down by the pier.
How lightly municipal, meltingly tarr'd,
Were the walks through the lawns by the Queen's Promenade
As soft over Cliftonville languished the light
Down Harold Road, Norfolk Road, into the night.
Oh! then what a pleasure to see the ground floor
With tables for two laid as tables for four,
And bottles of sauce and Kia-Ora and squash
Awaiting their owners who'd gone up to wash -
Who had gone up to wash the ozone from their skins
The sand from their legs and the rock from their chins,
To prepare for an evening of dancing and cards
And forget the sea-breeze on the dry promenades.
From third floor and fourth floor the children looked down
Upon ribbons of light in the salt-scented town;
And drowning the trams roared the sound of the sea
As it washed in the shingle the scraps of their tea.
Beside The Queen's Highcliffe now rank grows the vetch,
Now dark is the terrace, a storm-battered stretch;
And I think, as the fairy-lit sights I recall,
It is those we are fighting for, foremost of all.
We know from Betjeman's letters that he visited Margate in 1929 while staying at nearby Birchington with his convalescing employer.
This visit alone would have been sufficient to acquaint him with Margate's pre-war gaiety, the innocent pleasures it offered as a family seaside resort, as well as the more upmarket pretensions of its eastern extension, Cliftonville.
There were probably subsequent visits, one of which must have taken place in the early years of the second World War, as recorded in the poem 'Margate, 1940'.
The evocation of the resort's former glories poignantly conjures up, by contrast, the neglected, bomb-battered desolation it had become.
Note: 'Vetch' is a climbing plant in the pea/legume family. It produces small, pealike flowers (often blue, purple, yellow, or white). It grows quickly and is highly valued in farming for forage (animal feed) and as green manure. Like other legumes, vetches host bacteria on their roots that take nitrogen from the air and convert it into a natural fertilizer, thereby improving soil health.
Trevor Howard
The actor Trevor Howard was born in Cliftonville on the 29th. September 1913.
Sugar Consumption in the U.S.
So what else happened on the day that Rose posted the card?
Well, on the 19th. September 1919, the Chicago Tribune reported that the consumption of sugar in the United States for the first 7 months of 1919 was 362,000 tons more than during the corresponding period in the previous year.
This was according to statistics compiled by the United States Sugar Equalization Board.
This represents an increased per capita consumption of one pound per month. So now you know.
This photograph was published in an online magazine article in DEVON LIVE, on 10th December 2024, written by Victoria Chessum & Lauren Haughey (Lifestyle and Money Reporter), titled:
'' Warning to place bird feeders 'the right way' to avoid garden pests -
Gardeners' World has urged green-thumbed fans to carefully consider the placement of bird feeders in their gardens ''.
Devon Live has offices in South Devon, North Devon and Exeter and community correspondents and columnists around the county. Articles are in print in the Express & Echo, the Torquay Herald Express, the Mid Devon Gazette and the North Devon Journal.
They are part of Reach Plc, which is a member of and regulated by IPSO, the Independent Press Standards Organisation.
This photograph had previously been Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on September 9th 2020
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 10:38am on Monday 7th September 2020, of a male Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus), after a summer rain shower off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
The male is identified by a more striking blue skull cap,darker blacker around the eyes and around the chin, a darker taile and more vibrant plumage than the female and these little birds are bestowed with wonderful acrobatic skills.
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The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Philip G. Hunt & Co. of London SW. The image is a glossy real photograph.
The card was posted in London on Monday the 8th. March 1920 to:
Miss G. N. Robinson,
29, Bryan Road,
Blackpool.
Rotten Row
Rotten Row (on the right of the photograph) is a broad track running along the south side of Hyde Park in London.
Rotten Row was established by William III, who created the broad avenue and lit it with 300 oil lamps in 1690 - the first artificially lit highway in the UK.
Rotten Row is a common street name in towns and villages in England and Scotland. It describes a place where there was once a row of tumbledown cottages infested with rats (raton), and goes back at least to the 14th. century.
In the 18th. century and onwards, Rotten Row became a popular meeting place for upper-class Londoners. Particularly on weekend evenings and at midday, people would dress in their finest clothes in order to ride on horseback along the Row and be seen by others.
The adjacent South Carriage Drive (on the left in the photograph) was used by society people in carriages for the same purpose. In the photograph you can see people standing and admiring the carriages as they pass.
Rotten Row is still maintained as a bridleway to ride horses in the centre of London, but it is little used - there are few horses in central London, although the Household Cavalry, stabled nearby at Hyde Park Barracks in Knightsbridge, exercise their horses there.
The IRA Car Bomb
A sad day in the Regiment's history was the 20th. July 1982, when the IRA set off a car bomb by remote control as The Queen's Life Guard were passing. Four men and seven horses were killed.
To this day, each time the The Queen's Life Guard pass where the bomb was detonated, they bring their swords down from the "slope" to the "carry", coupled with an "eyes right" or "eyes left" as an ongoing tribute.
Eva Dahlbeck
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 8th. March 1920 marked the birth of Eva Dahlbeck.
Eva Elisabet Dahlbeck was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Brink of Life (1958).
Dahlbeck retired from acting in 1970 and became an author.
Eva Dahlbeck
Eva Dahlbeck was born in Saltsjö-Duvnäs near Stockholm. She attended the prestigious Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1941 to 1944, and acted on the Theatre's stage from 1944 to 1964.
She made her film debut playing the role of Botilla in Ride Tonight! (1942).
Eva Dahlbeck's Acting and Literary Career
Among Eva's roles in Swedish films were the shrewd celebrity reporter Vivi in Love Goes Up and Down (1946), the working-class mother Rya-Rya in the drama Only a Mother (1949); Mrs. Larsson, the warmhearted mother of seven in the popular children's film Kastrullresan (1950), and the young primary school teacher in Gustaf Molander's Trots (1952).
In the mid-1950's Dahlbeck was one of Sweden's most popular and successful actresses. She became internationally known for her strong female leads in a number of Ingmar Bergman's films, in particular his comedies Secrets of Women (1952), A Lesson in Love (1954), and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955).
In 1961 Eva was honoured with the Eugene O'Neill Award for her stage work, and in 1965 she won the award for Best Actress at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards for her role in the film The Cats (1965).
Eva retired from the stage in 1964, and made her final appearance on screen in the Danish film Tintomara (1970).
Eva published several novels and poems in her native Sweden, and wrote the screenplay for Arne Mattsson's dark film The Yngsjö murder in 1966.
Eva Dahlbeck's Personal Life and Death
Eva married Sven Lampell, an air force officer, in 1944, and the couple had two sons. Sven died in 2007. Eva lived out the last years of her life in Hässelby Villastad, Stockholm, where she died on the 8th. February 2008 at the age of 87.
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Received an email from National Geographic that one of my deer has been published in their "Daily Calm: 365 Days of Serenity' book.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 18th of May 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images or have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by Neurdein Frères.
Jean Armand de Maillé
Jean Armand de Maillé (né le 18 Octobre 1619 à Milly-le-Meugon - mort le 14 juin 1646 à la Bataille d'Orbetello), duc de Fronsac, marquis de Brézé, était un célèbre marin français du xviie siècle, disparu prématurément à l'âge de 27 ans.
Colonel à 15 ans, général des galères à 20 ans, grand-maître de la navigation à 24 ans, Maillé-Brézé participa à huit campagnes de guerre à la mer, au cours desquelles il remporta un nombre impressionnant de victoires, qui assurèrent, pour un temps, à la marine de Louis XIII la maîtrise de la Méditerranée occidentale.
Fils d'Urbain de Maillé, marquis de Brézé et Maréchal de France, Jean-Armand de Maillé, neveu de Richelieu par sa mère, Nicole du Plessis-Richelieu, sœur cadette du cardinal, fut élevé par l'Abbé d'Aubignac sous la surveillance et la protection de son oncle, et commença à servir dans l'armée avec son père dès l'âge de 15 ans.
Comme le lui permettaient les revenus de sa puissante famille, il leva un régiment d'infanterie à ses frais pour débuter dans la guerre de Quatre-Vingts Ans, entrant ainsi directement dans l'armée au grade de mestre de camp ou colonel.
En 1636, Richelieu lui fit donner en survivance sa charge de grand-maître de la navigation, créée pour le cardinal. Il remplaça, l'année suivante, le vice-amiral de Sourdis, relevé de son commandement, à la tête de la flotte du Ponant.
Nommé en 1639 général des galères, il opéra alors en Méditerranée, alla battre le 27 Juillet 1640, devant Cadix, la flotte Espagnole, s'empara de Villafranca et neutralisa les Génois.
L'année suivante, Maillé-Brézé est envoyé en ambassade au Portugal, alors en révolte contre l’Espagne.
En 1642, il reprit la mer avec 20 vaisseaux armés à Brest. Le 25 Mai, il arriva à Barcelone, où il concentra une escadre de 41 vaisseaux, 17 galères et treize brûlots. Le 30 Juin, il rejoignit la flotte Espagnole et engagea alors devant Barcelone une terrible bataille de quatre jours (1er-3 Juillet), au terme de laquelle il força l'ennemi à la retraite. Il assura ainsi le succès de l'armée de Catalogne et permit la prise de Perpignan et la conquête du Roussillon.
Devenu en Décembre 1642, à la mort de Richelieu, intendant et grand-maître de la navigation, gouverneur de l'Aunis et de La Rochelle, il hérita du cardinal le duché-pairie de Fronsac. L'année suivante, il remporta un nouvel et éclatant succès, le 3 Juillet 1643, en infligeant un véritable désastre à une flotte Espagnole au cap de Gate, près de Carthagène et s'assura ainsi la maîtrise presque absolue de la Méditerranée occidentale.
Cette même année 1643, Jean Armand de Maillé rendit à la reine sa charge de grand-maître, mais en conservant le commandement de la flotte. Il remporta de nouveau une double victoire les 9 Août et 4 Septembre lors de la bataille de Carthagène où l'ennemi perdit huit vaisseaux, dont le vaisseau Amiral de Naples et 3,000 marins. Deux médailles furent frappées en l'honneur de ces succès.
En 1646, après une campagne à Tarragone, il reprit la mer. La guerre s'étant transportée en Italie, d'où Mazarin cherchait à chasser les Espagnols, Maillé-Brézé était sur le point de remporter une brillante victoire au large d'Orbetello, le 14 Juin, lorsqu'il fut coupé en deux par un boulet.
Il eut sous ses ordres le très-controversé Saint-Germain Beaupré, dont il était, selon Tallemant, tout à fait entiché.
Son corps fut rapporté à l'église de Milly. Le 5 Juillet, un service solennel est célébré à Saint-Maurice d'Angers, et son éloge funèbre prononcé par le Père Bonichon, de l'Oratoire. Il avait porté l'esprit d'offensive à un tel degré que sa disparition prématurée laissa un temps la Marine royale, privée d'un chef exceptionnellement doué, désorientée, précipitant une décadence qui ne cessait de s'accélérer depuis la mort de Richelieu.
Par sa sœur Claire-Clémence, le duc de Fronsac était lié au premier prince du sang, qui hérita les qualités, titres et biens des Maillé-Brézé à la mort de son épouse.
Maillé-Brézé était parfois appelé, de son vivant, duc de Brézé6, bien qu'il semble que Brézé soit resté marquisat.
Jean Armand de Maillé, marquis de Brézé figure peint sur toile dans une salle du Château de Jalesne (commune de Vernantes), ainsi que dans la salle des amiraux au Château de Versailles, où trois toiles de Théodore Gudin représentent les combats du cap Saint-Vincent, de Carthagène et d'Orbitello.
Trois bâtiments de guerre ont déjà porté le nom de Maillé-Brézé:
Un vaisseau au xviie siècle.
Un contre-torpilleur de 2 400 tonnes lancé en 1930 et détruit accidentellement en 1940.
Un escorteur d'escadre admis au service actif le 4 Mars 1957, désarmé en 1988. Remorqué jusqu'à Nantes, il y est devenu le premier musée naval à flot de France.
Rouen
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France, and is relatively close to the English Channel. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as Rouennais.
“Upon approaching Rouen one is sure to be struck
by the insolent daring of its situation. Lying on a
sloping plain beside the river, it seems to disdain the
well-nigh impregnable site afforded by the steep cliffs
which rise just to the northeast.
The history of the city bears out the audacity of its
location. Through all the centuries, its inhabitants
concerned themselves so continuously in conquering
other peoples that little time was left in which to
consider the security of their own homes.”
-- Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, Stained Glass Tours in France (1908).
Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th. to the 15th. centuries.
From the 13th. century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade. Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was in Rouen that Joan of Arc was tried and burned alive.
Severely damaged by a wave of bombing in 1944, Rouen nevertheless regained its economic dynamism in the post-war period thanks to its industrial sites and busy seaport, which is the fifth largest in France.
Endowed with a prestige established during the medieval era, and with a long architectural heritage in its historical monuments, Rouen is an important cultural capital. Several renowned establishments are located here, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the Secq des Tournelles Museum, and Rouen Cathedral.
“Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Rouen
when viewed from a distance is the great number
of its spires that shoot up above the housetops,
earning for it the sobriquet of the City of Churches.”
-- Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, Stained Glass Tours in France (1908).
Sadly not all of those churches are still there because of the ravages of war.
Seat of an archdiocese, Rouen also hosts a court of appeal and a university. Every four to six years, Rouen becomes the showcase for a large gathering of sailing ships called "L'Armada"; this event makes the city an occasional capital of the maritime world.
Rouen Cathedral
Rouen Cathedral was commenced in the 12th. Century on the site of an earlier structure. It has a Roman crypt.
The Butter Tower dates from the 16th. century. The name of the Tour de Beurre comes from the fact that butter was banned during Lent, and those who wished to carry on eating it had to donate 6 Deniers Tournois towards the building of the tower. Practically everyone in Rouen must have carried on eating butter in order to fund a tower like that!
The Victorian cast-iron Lantern Tower in the centre of the building made the cathedral the tallest building in the world from 1876 until 1880, when it was overtaken by Cologne Cathedral.
The Lantern Tower was designed by the architect Jean-Antoine Alavoine who proposed the use of cast iron, a modern material for the time, because it was less combustible than wood, and lighter than stone. The Lantern Tower took 50 years to construct. The 151 metre height of the spire still makes Rouen Cathedral the tallest cathedral in France.
The presence of a lantern tower at the crossing of the transept is a frequent feature in churches in Normandy (St. Ouen in Rouen, and Bayeux) and in England (Gloucester, Salisbury, and Winchester).
The lantern is in a bulge in the ironwork near the top of the spire, which is surmounted by a weathercock.
The Cathedral holds the heart of Richard the Lionheart. His bowels were buried within the church of the Château de Châlus-Chabrol in the Limousin. The cathedral seems to have got the better end of that particular deal!
Claude Monet painted a series of studies of the cathedral's façade 1894. Roy Lichtenstein also made a series of pictures of the front of the building.
The Cathedral has had to put up with a lot of wilful destruction during its lifetime:
- The Calvinists damaged much of what they could easily reach during the religious wars of the 16th. Century - the furniture, tombs, stained glass and statuary.
- The French State nationalised the building in the 18th. Century, and sold some of its furniture and statues to make money. The chapel fences were melted down to make guns.
- In WW2 the Cathedral was first bombed in 1944, taking 7 bombs. The bombs narrowly missed destroying a key pillar of the Lantern Tower, but damaged most of the south aisle, and destroyed two medieval rose windows. One of the bombs was fortunately a dud and failed to explode.
- As a consequence of a subsequent WW II bombing, the north tower, on the left of the façade, was entirely burned. During the fire the stonework calcified and the bells melted, leaving molten metal on the floor. The cathedral is still being restored after the extensive damage incurred during World War II.
Also, during the violent storm of December 1999, a copper-clad wooden turret weighing 26 tons fell into the Cathedral and damaged the choir and the stalls. The three other turrets were removed for maintenance and safety purposes before being replaced in 2012.
The Execution of Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne d'Arc was executed not far from the Cathedral in the Vieux-Marché on Wednesday the 30th. May 1431.
The famous depiction of 19 year old Joan of Arc's execution showing her on top of a pile of wood and straw is wrong.
The site for her execution comprised a stake at the centre of a large ring of wood, with a gap left for Joan to be led to the stake. Once she was tied to the stake and the gap closed, she was hidden from sight.
One authority has suggested that her body would have burnt in the following sequence: calves, thighs and hands, torso and forearms, breasts, upper chest and face.
However in all likelihood she would have died from heatstroke, loss of blood plasma and carbon dioxide poisoning before the fire attacked the upper parts of her body.
After Jeanne had expired, the English exposed her charred body so that no-one could claim that she had escaped alive, then burned her body twice more to reduce it to ashes in order to prevent the collection of relics.
They then cast her remains into the Seine.
A modern church now stands on the site of her execution.
Without the sun the astonishing colour of the clear waters of Nellie Lake isn’t evident, but it’s still a beautiful lake.
First Minister: “Choice is between economic recovery or economic retreat."
Growth in Scotland’s onshore revenues last year has more than offset the downturn in oil revenues, figures published today in Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland 2015-16 (GERS) have shown.
Published by Usborne books in 1979, The Detectives Handbook (also published as 3 separate books) was quite simply my favourite childhood book.
Usborne are always known for the wealth of their illustrations, and these were no different. Pages of Colin King's artwork that made me want to go out and copy it, and above all, I wanted that detectives office!
Hello everyone, another photo published. We are very delighted they took the
time and effort to ask us. For our flickr friends, what is ours, is yours - always
will be - enjoy our photos as we enjoy yours !
Magazine: die biene (German)
Title: die biene
Date: July 2007
Congratulations to Paul Miller and Doug Vaughn for front page photos and
details. This is our photo - page 13 ... Thanks ...
Our Original Photo that appeared in this magazine:: Orchards in Bloom
Wow! see credit Debra Lewis (center bottom) exciting! I can't save bees but I can save turtles - one at a time.
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior. Nació el 5 de febrero de 1992 en Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo. Neymar o Neymar Jr. se destaca por por su cambio de ritmo, por la velocidad con la que deja rivales en el camino, por habilidad en el dribling, técnica y definición.
Ref: www.ovaciondigital.com.uy/futbol/neymar-barcelona-messi-f...
Peñarol: Sebastián Sosa; Alejandro González, Carlos Valdez, Guillermo Rodríguez, Darío Rodríguez; Matías Corujo (m.67 Antonio Pacheco), Luis Aguiar, Nicolás Freitas, Matias Mier (m.55 Fabian Estoyanoff); Alejandro Martinuccio y Juan Manuel Olivera (m.82 Diego Alonso). Entrenador: Diego Aguirre.
Santos: Rafael; Pará, Bruno Rodrigo, Durval, Alex Sandro; Adriano, Danilo, Arouca, Elano (m.78 Alan Patrick); Neymar y Zé Eduardo (m.89 Bruno Aguiar). Entrenador: Muricy Ramalho.
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 ZE
Focal Length: 50 mm
Exposure: ¹⁄₂₀₀ sec at f/2.0
ISO: 250
Published: www.qdeporte.com/neymar-y-su-santos-logran-la-libertadore...
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.
It features a character called Wullie Russell .
Wullie is the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William.
His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat - most strips since early 1ii937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket.
The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!").
The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936.
Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s.
New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties.
Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.
The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie.
The Oor Wullie bucket Trail begins on the 17th June 2019 and is even bigger than the last one 3 years ago.
In 2016 Dundee held a bucket trail with over 50 sculptures all painted with different designs to celebrate 80 years of Oor Wullie.
This was a huge success with the sculptures raising over £800,000 at auction for the local childrens charity.
They have decided to bring it back this year but on a far bigger scale with 150 sculptures and this time you will be able to find them not only in Dundee, but Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and a few dotted in other towns and cities across the country.
At the end of the summer these will once again be auctioned off and the money will be split between 3 childrens charities.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail runs for 11 weeks from 17th June 2019 – 30th August 2019, culminating in a series of Farewell Events and nationwide auctions in each of the five host cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Scotland’s first ever national public art trail aims to unite the country as it raises awareness and vital funds for Scotland’s children’s hospital charities.
Funds raised through the trail will support Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity,Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity,and the ARCHIE Foundation, helping children in hospital across the country.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail is a Wild in Art event, and would not be possible without the support of DC Thomson Media.
I have taken a keen interest in this event and intend to capture all of the sculptures across the city, posting some of my favourite shots here on Flickr.