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Changement de port d'amarrage hier pour le Soyouz d'Oleg, Mark et Piotr. Il s’est désamarré du module MRM1, est allé faire un tour à l'avant de la Station spatiale pour prendre quelques photos puis est revenu s'amarrer au module MLM dont ce fut le tout premier docking !
Soyuz port relocation! Oleg, Pyotr and Mark undocked from MRM1, went Station forward to take some pictures, came back Station aft to dock with MLM. First docking with MLM ever!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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So I don't know what gets into me sometimes but I ended up with this conservative plaid suit and well....thought what better place to hide until the trial, than as a quiet librarian!...lol
Cuteness overload. Red squirrel (Eurasian squirrel) relocating at least 4 youngsters from one tree to another. First attempt to jump did not work out, so it is climbing down and up with the precious load.
In early July I travelled to the North West of Wales for my annual week holiday.
After 4 days of heavy rain the skies turned blue and the sun shone.
After a 40 minute drive I relocated to Cemlyn Bay, North West Anglesey.
A Juvenile Sandwich Tern flying at Cemlyn Bay.
Cemlyn Bay hosts the only colony of Sandwich Terns in Wales.
The Sandwich Tern is whitish-grey above and white below, with a large black cap and a shaggy, black crest. It has short, black legs, and a black bill with a yellow tip.
Rode around with a friend this past Saturday trying to get a few captures for his website.
I plowed snow myself for 4 years, so it's nice at this point to be able to enjoy a snow storm for it's beauty instead of burning myself out.
Picture taken 10/30/21
Relocated from their original location near B&BW to here in the old DressBarn.
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The University of the Philippines or UP was established in Manila on the 18th of June 1908 through Act No. 1870 of the First Philippine Legislature. In 1939, work on a bigger campus started in Diliman -- then part of Morong/Rizal province --- that was interrupted when World War II came to the Philippines. Four years after the war and after a massive rehabilitation work, UP’s relocation from Manila to its present site was completed.
Synonymous with UP is The Oblation --- sculptor Guillermo Tolentino’s translation of Dr. Jose P. Rizal’s “Mi Ultimo Adios” with actor Fernando Poe Sr. as the model. The statue’s cornerstone was laid by Aurora Quezon in 1931, and was unveiled in the old Padre Faura campus in 1939 by Gregoria De Jesus viuda de Bonifacio. The Oblation was relocated to Diliman in 1949. What now stands in front of the UP administration building is actually a bronze replica that was unveiled in 1958 in commemoration of UP’s 50th year. The original statue is at the 3rd floor of the main library. In 1977, members of the Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity streaked around the university to protest the banning of the movie “Hubad na Bayani”. What has become known as The Oblation Run is now an annual tradition of the university held every 16th of December in commemoration of the founding anniversary of the fraternity who started it.
This year, UP celebrates its centennial year. Last year, the lesser known school of Hogwarts held its own. My blog entry on this and more Oblation photos at Shooting Churches, Eating Noodles.
Nikon D40 (June 2008)
I like this bob hairstyle, and the whole look is completely different than most of my things. Its kind of fun to change it up. (smile)
PFF450L, a rather nice looking Gardner powered ERF LV 6x4 tipper that until fairly recently lived in North Wales.
Seen here heading South after attending the CTP Gillingham Gathering.
Originally Ross Dress for Less. Old Navy was previously Cato Fashions and Dressbarn. Shoe Dept was a GAP Factory Outlet.
Pennsdale (Muncy), PA. December 2021.
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Palmdale, CA
6/12/17
This Mack Autoreach is an ex Waste Management of the Desert (Palm Desert) truck that currently resides in Palmdale, 135 miles from Palm Desert. In 2006 Waste Management of the Desert sold all their assets and contracts to Burrtec. Before Burrtec took over, this Mack Autoreach was relocated to Corona along with 4 other Autoreach ASL's. In 2011 after recieving several Recycle Long Beach Mack Wittke Curotto Cans, Corona sent 4 ex WM of the Desert Autoreaches to Palmdale and 1 to G.I.
WMmaster626 and I decided to make a trip to Palmdale (and a pitstop at Blue Barrel Disposal) once we found out Palmdale recently received new LNG Peterbilt Amreps. There were several different trucks we wanted to find, but our first priority was a ex WM of the Desert Autoreach before they are gone. The driver Janel was very nice and certainly knows how to drive this Autoreach like a pro and was incredibly fast especially for a 15 year old truck that has worked in tough conditions. Janel picks up 2,000 carts on Wednesdays and she told us she would be working late every Wednesday if she did not rev the Autoreach. WMmaster626 and I were lucky to not only catch this truck before it went into a gated community but we also found a Mackrep (Mack Amrep) working on the same block in a couple clips. This is also what we believe is 1 of 5 ex WM of the Desert trucks still around that Waste Management still owns. Unfortunately one of the WM of the Desert trucks I filmed last year 263265, was recently retired by Baldwin Park (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIlVGUgIJM). Baldwin Park still has 1 Mack Wittke from Palm Desert that is a spare commercial truck. If you want to find a Waste Management of the Desert truck I recommend looking soon. Many WM yards had ex Waste Management of the Desert trucks until recently. El Cajon, Moreno Valley, Corona and G.I. all had at least one Waste Management of the Desert truck at one point, but no longer do to our knowledge.
Big thank you to WMmaster626 for all the information about these ex WM of the Desert Autoreaches. Also, thank you to the Autoreach driver Janel who certainly did not disappoint and the Mackrep driver.
It was early June and I was having a follow-up visit by a New York Times reporter Ava Chin PhD..
Two weeks prior, around May 30th Dr. Chin wrote a story for the times about a Honey Bee Swarm I rescued and relocated.
As we walked around the newly formed hive located in the woods where I live, I entertained Ava with the notion of catching a huge trapped Snapping Turtle…
The snapper was stuck in a series of man made motes, a concrete structure that was built in the sixties and never used. The whole mote was in a series of about six 100 meter sections, the Snapper was in one of them.
Five decades later we were going to fish out a trapped snapping Turtle.
Now I have Experience with…… …. the notion of catching Snapping Turtles, and
As I convinced the reporter to assist in such an adventure, we were quick to run to a store and
Buy chicken legs and twine to lure it in.
We were walking to the mote section where I spotted the Snapper. I was actually looking for one of my missing cats, Cole when I stumbled upon
Said Snapper……
Unpacking chicken legs and tying twine and tossing the delectable into the mote I expected a huge and very hungry Snapper to move in quickly.
With no sudden rush I suggested to Ava I will move further down the mote to place more chicken legs to lure the beast.
Looking out in the distance I saw movement, not believing my eyes at first, a deer was hunkered down in the muck.
She didn’t look well at all……..and ……I called to Ava…….”There is a deer stuck down in the swamp…. You should come quickly”
Ava stood with astonishment as my mind started analyzing the situation and developing a plan.
She was about a year old and weak looking; I estimated she was down in this for a week or two.
I thought it best to start sliding down into the swampy mote at some distance from the doe.
30 meters will do. Empting my pockets, cell phone, wallet, I slowly drifted down into the pit….
Did I mention the huge snapper ……..Oh yes…….Well that was out the window……
Moving very slowly through the algae infested swamp and no telling what was at my feet, I headed toward the deer.
I thought to talk to the deer and move my arms and hands slowly to my sides and forward to get her used to the motion.
I knew I would have to physically catch her and I had to get close. Talking in a soft voice I would tell her…. “I know how scared she was and
She should trust me……I was going to get her out of this place and that she would be so very happy”
I got to one and a half meters away and she lunged to the wall and corner that separated the motes.
Her hooves like roller skates created no traction on the concrete walls jetting out at 45% s
I could see the wounds as she bent her front legs to get traction from flesh at the knees…..
I thought how she suffered, how tired for standing so many days. The thirst and hunger…..
And now……Fear of me…..
A half a meter away and my hands extended very slowly now………I touch her….
My left hand touched and petted her head softly…my right hand touched down her back….slowly….all the way….
The plan was to cradle her , under her neck and haunches.
She could bite me but not kick me…….well that was the plan…..
Just as I moved in she ………lunged over my shoulder and called out like a calf……Moooo…
I bear hugged her and we went down……..But I have her and I wasn’t letting go…..and all I could hear was our hearts beating and Ava’s camera
Clicking away…….and time stood still for a moment, like it has for me many times before.
God is good Msabu………(Out of Africa)
My heart was racing as I tried to maneuver the doe for a good and safe hold for the two of us……
At that moment I totally handled her she gave up and went limp……..
Like a sack of potatoes…..
I was so worried she would have a heart attack and die in my care.
I went to a corner of the mote to use as leverage to hoist the doe up and over the top….
To freedom…….
I stood at the base and pushed her over my head to the edge…….
She could see safety……Freedom…….Home…..
The doe just didn’t have it in her, she didn’t try to go…..to get up….
To help me help her and I could not get her any higher…..
I shouted……..Ava….
I need you to help me….
She replied…”Do I have to put the camera down?”
Yes!!! Dear I said…
What shall I do asked Ava…….
Grabbing the doe’s ears, Ava was able to hold the deer so I could relocate to get better leverage.
A heave and a push the deer was over the top and I collapsed on top of her.
After a brief rest I carried her off to a meadow next to where I live, a travel trailer totally off the grid in the woods.
Getting some water I washed out her mouth with my fingers, washed her tongue and let her rest…….
I was a mess…….so swampy smelling……..Shall I Go On….
I’m getting naked outside and going into my camper to take a hot shower…..or Two…..
I had to shower my shower…..what a mess…….
Returning to Ava and the Doe we had a friend come to join us…….
Cole my Black Cat……
He plopped down right between all of us……
We sat for a bit, reflecting what all just happened…….
Moments passed and I invited Ava in for tea…….
As we talked……this was the third encounter we had in a very short time.
The second was the Honey Bee rescue…..
And the first was…
Well I invited her to go to my secret place to hunt for the……Elusive Morel Mushrooms…..
I picked over six hundred this year…..
Ava picked 100 morels with me, the day before she was with the New York City Mycology Society……
And was skunked out…I think the group as a whole found twenty….
I was a Morel mushroom god……
As time passed I excused myself to check on the team……
Walking up I could see Cole cuddling with the doe……..
That’s my boy……
The doe jumped…startled…..stumbled……fell………
Cole ….startled of all this went the other way…….
The doe……..jumped over a shrubbery….
I turned to go back home a job well done……
Here are some related post pertaining to the stories
www.flickr.com/photos/28771820@N03/4656138822/
www.flickr.com/photos/28771820@N03/4693435602/
Snapper story
www.flickr.com/photos/28771820@N03/3709904362/in/set-7215...
20.8.2014. The former signal gantry at Falsgave, Scarborough is still doing its job (albeit a little narrower) - but now at the northern end of Grosmont station on the NYMR.
LNER Thompson B1 Class 4-6-0 No 61034 'Chiru' (aka 61264) pulls into Grosmont station with the 10.25 Whitby - Pickering passenger service.
I was relocating this poisonous snake from a back patio a few years ago. It was behind this covered love seat
Feed train 48T "crosses over" from the old NS track alignment to the north to the new NS alignment over the Laurel Street, Ash Street, and 5th/6th Street bridges to the south.
Eventually, NS' new double track mainline will be shifted east to the graded area on the far right side of this photo. This is needed to make room for UP's new double track mainline along the 10th Street Corridor.
Lot's of work has been completed, but much, much more will be needed to finish this massive project by late 2025.
BNSF 6151 - ES44AC
BNSF 7849 - ES44DC
BNSF 5115 - C44-9W
Laurel Street - Springfield, Illinois
November 6, 2022
The road was closed to the lighthouse, so Lamar and I hike down the beach. The next day the lighthouse was down, so I got photos before they took it down. The city is going to relocate it. Port ST. Joe Florida.(HDR)
This church was relocated from Wolseley, South Australia to its present location at Old Tailem Town, Tailem Bend. A journey of approx 200kms.
CF4412, Black Caviar and CF4411, Revenue operate QUBE's 1311N between Sydney and Junee / Harefield. Until recently, this train operated out of Melbourne. The train is captured on Colorado Road between Demondrille and Nubba, New South Wales with some impressive Spring scenery featuring. 2nd October 2014.
66532 "P&O Nedlloyd Atlas" hauls TPE Mk5 stock over the Chat Moss at Glazebury on 29th June 2020 with 5Q66 1551 Longsight to Basford Hall.
The stock was heading to Crewe for unspecified modification work on the coaches by CAF. The loco had run up to Manchester earlier in the day as 0Z66.
Reflected in a puddle is the neon sign for the bookshop Foyles, now relocated to a new premises nearby.
WEEK 43 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: Old Store, Set I
(cont.) ...these sorts of scenes were present here even earlier than March; you'll see plenty more throughout this photoset, including this view looking across the store. I'm standing in one of the bath and bedding aisles for this shot. The fitting rooms are nearby, across the way on the left, with lingerie on the right. Lots of empty carpet in the foreground... not a great sign. And no, your eyes (cynical though they may be, haha!*) don't deceive you – it does indeed look even worse beyond that.
* - Yes, I know the song reference was at the previous photo, but the link worked better here, so deal with it XD
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Williamsport, PA. November 2019.
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Not long transferred from Eastfield to Bristol Bath Road, Class 47/4 47658 approaches Cheltenham Spa while working the 1V60 15:05 Leeds to Bristol Temple Meads InterCity Cross Country service.
D1720 was delivered in March 1964 from Brush Falcon Works. As 47129, it was ETH fitted and re-liveried as illustrated in August 1986 to become 47658. In August 1989 it was re-numbered to 47813 and re-liveried to BR InterCity colours. Post BR it worked for First Great Western and Cotswold Rail before joining the DRS fleet.
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An element from a Leeds City Council show garden at Chelsea flower show. Now in Roundhay Park, Leeds.
**Cleveland, Robert, Log House** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 72001003, date listed 1972-02-01
(relocated to Wilkesboro)
Wilkesboro, NC (Wilkes County)
About 1775 Robert Cleveland moved from Virginia to what is now Wilkes County, North Carolina, and settled on a tract he had been granted near the Yadkin River. During the Revolution Robert Cleveland and his brother, Benjamin, who lived nearby, took an active part in reprisals against local Tories who were often accused of various crimes. Benjamin in particular was known for pursuing and hanging without delay a number of Tories. In the Battle of Kings Mountain, Benjamin served as a colonel in the militia and led one of the four columns which successfully assaulted the British position. Robert Cleveland was captain of a company in his brother's regiment. This victory of the colonial militia over the British was a significant one in that it forced General Cornwallis to withdraw into South Carolina and gave much-needed encouragement to revolutionary forces throughout the colonies.
It was probably around 1780 that Captain Robert Cleveland, as he was called, built the present log house located on the "north fork of Lewis's Fork of the Yadkin River." The census of 1790 shows the Cleveland household consisted of twenty-four persons, including ten slaves. At least part of the activity of the farm was devoted to the making of whiskey as is evident from Cleveland's will. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WK0001.pdf
relocated to the south side of Frankenmuth, a very old iron bridge built by Joliet Bridge and Iron Co. 1907
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Relocated from the former Roses space at Ashton Square to the former Marshalls space at Plantation Point Shopping Center
They're not by any means under the Federal witness protection program but the floral MOCs have been moved to a much safer spot on the wall at the top of the stairs together with other sets built on display. Wasn't even looking for them when I got in the store but one of the staff who recognized me pointed out their new location. They'll remain on display as long as the original Flower Box remains on display at the LEGO House.
WEEK 17 – Barnes & Noble Ole Miss Relocation, Set I
As we leave the bookstore, here’s a look at its entrance from inside the Union. Certainly very customized to Ole Miss! The image seemed a little dark, so I edited it to try to brighten it. Once I happened upon this effect, though, I had to stick with it (I especially like how it brings out the wood paneling on the right!), so I don’t know how successful I was in my mission :P Anyway, for what the note on the door says, see my photo note.
Barnes & Noble at Ole Miss (inside the Ole Miss Student Union; now closed) // 419 Student Union Drive, University, MS 38677
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Batavia, NY. June 2020.
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I had a few hours walking through Fraserburgh Harbour capturing as many vessels as I could on 19th April 2018, its a fine busy harbour and when the sun shines you can capture the trawlers etc at their best .
Fraserburgh Harbour is situated in Aberdeenshire in the North East corner of Scotland and is ideally positioned for the fishing grounds of the North and East of Scotland, as well as being in close proximity to the North Sea oil and gas fields and the emerging offshore renewables market. The location also makes it well placed for trade with Scandinavia and the Baltic sea ports.
Google and Wiki have the folowing info on this fine town.
Fraserburgh (/ˈfreɪzərbrə/; Scots: The Broch or Faithlie, Scottish Gaelic: A' Bhruaich) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland with a population recorded in the 2001 Census at 12,454 and estimated at 12,630 in 2006.
It lies at the far northeast corner of Aberdeenshire, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Aberdeen, and 17 miles (27 km) north of Peterhead. It is the biggest shellfish port in Europe, landing over 12,000 tonnes in 2008, and is also a major white fish port and busy commercial harbour.
History
The name of the town means, literally, 'burgh of Fraser', after the Fraser family that bought the lands of Philorth in 1504 and thereafter brought about major improvement due to investment over the next century. Fraserburgh became a burgh of barony in 1546. By 1570, the Fraser family had built a castle (Fraserburgh Castle) at Kinnaird's Head and within a year the area church was built. By the 1590s the area known as Faithlie was developing a small harbour.
In 1592, Faithlie was renamed Fraserburgh by a charter of the Crown under King James VI. Sir Alexander Fraser was given permission to improve and govern the town as Lord Saltoun. At present this title is still in existence and is held by Flora Fraser, 20th Lady Saltoun and head of Clan Fraser. The Royal Charter also gave permission to build a college and university in Fraserburgh allowing the Lord Saltoun to appoint a rector, a principal, a sub-principal, and all the professors for teaching the different sciences.
A grant from the Scottish Parliament in 1595 allowed the first college building to be erected by Alexander Fraser, and in 1597 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland recommended the Rev. Charles Ferme, then minister at the Old Parish, to be its first (and only) principal.
In 1601, Fraserburgh became a burgh of regality. The college, however, closed only a decade or so after Ferme's arrest on the orders of James VI for taking part in the 1605 General Assembly, being used again only for a short time in 1647 when King's College, Aberdeen temporarily relocated owing to an outbreak of plague. A plaque commemorating its existence may be seen on the exterior wall of the remains of the Alexandra Hotel in College Bounds.
Fraserburgh thereafter remained relatively quiet until 1787 when Fraserburgh Castle was converted to Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, Scotland's first mainland lighthouse. In 1803, the original 1571 church building was replaced and enlarged to seat 1000 people. The Auld Kirk was to be the standing authority in the town up until the 1840s.
The Statistical Account on the Parish of Fraserburgh, written between 1791–1799 (probably 1791) by Rev. Alexander Simpson of the Old Parish Church, shows that the population of Fraserburgh was growing with peaks due to seasonal employment. He records a population of about 2000 in 1780 of whom only 1000 resided in the town.
There was an additional population of 200 in the village of Broadsea. He makes a point of the arrival of Dr. Webster in Fraserburgh in 1755 claiming that the population then only stood at 1682. By the time the account was written the population had increased by 518 souls since 1755. Rev. Simpson also gives accounts of deaths, births and marriages. Between 1784-1791, he claims to have an average of 37 baptisms, 14 marriages and 19 deaths per year. The statistical account mentions activities with the harbour. He describes the harbour as small but good, telling that it had the capability to take vessels with '200 tons burden' at the time the account was written.
The account also mentions that Fraserburgh had tried and succeeded in shipbuilding especially after 1784. His account finishes speaking of a proposed enlargement of the harbour. He claims that the local people would willingly donate what they could afford but only if additional funding was provided by the Government and Royal Burghs.
The second statistical account, written as a follow up to the first of the 1790s, was written in January 1840 by Rev. John Cumming. He records population in 1791 as 2215 growing to only 2271 by 1811, but increasing massively to 2954 by 1831. He considered the herring fishing, which intensified in 1815, to be the most important reason for this population boom. By 1840 he writes that seamen were marrying early with 86 marriages and 60 births in the parish in the space of one year. On top of this increased population, he explains that the herring season seen an additional 1200 people working in the Parish. There is also mention of the prosperity of this trade bringing about an increase in general wealth with a change in both dress and diet. Cumming also records 37 illegitimate children from 1837–1840 although he keeps no record of death.
The prosperity of the economy also brought about improvement within the town with a considerable amount of new houses being built in the town. The people were gaining from the herring industry as in real terms rent fell by 6% from 1815 to 1840. Lord Saltoun was described as the predominant land owner earning £2266,13s,4d in rents.
This period also saw the extension of the harbour with a northern pier of 300 yards built between 1807–1812 and, in 1818, a southern pier built by Act of Parliament. Cumming states that no less than £30,000 was spent developing the harbour between 1807 and 1840 by which time the harbour held eight vessels of 45–155 tons and 220 boats of the herring fishery.
A railway station opened in 1865 and trains operated to Aberdeen via Maud and Dyce, as well as a short branch line to St. Combs. It was, however, closed to passengers in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts, though freight trains continued to operate until 1979, after which the station site was redeveloped. Currently, the closest operating station is Inverurie, 56 km (35 miles) away.
Climate[
Fraserburgh has a marine climate heavily influenced by its proximity to the sea. As such summer highs and winter lows are heavily moderated, with very mild winter temperatures for a location so far north. The differences between seasons are very narrow as a result, with February averaging highs of 6.7 °C (44.1 °F) and August 17.2 °C (63.0 °F).[6] As a result of its marine influence, there is significant seasonal lag, with September being milder than June and October has slightly milder nights than May, in spite of a massive difference of daylight. The climate is overcast and wet with 1351.8 hours of sunshine. Temperature extremes have ranged from 26.6.C (July 1995) down to -14.4.C (February 1991) 747.7 millimetres (29.44 in) of precipitation per annum.
This stone wall is part of the remains of The Forrest Tavern, and 18th century coaching inn, that stood near this spot until it finally closed its door in 1954.
In the 18th and 19th century coaches travelled this road, now the R108 between Dublin and Drogheda.
Later farmers in Fingal and Meath halted for welcome refreshment at the Tavern, while driving their cattle to market in the Dublin Cattle Market at Hanlon's Cross on the North Circular Road.
This relocation was necessary to facilitate constrction of the new northern runway at Dublin Airport, where the original remains of The Forrest Tavern stood.
Virginia House
Virginia House was formerly an English manor house that was relocated to Richmond in 1925. The home is now owned and operated by the Virginia Historical Society.
Virginia House was completed a few months before the stock market crash of 1929. Designed by Alexander and Virginia Weddell, the home is situated on a hillside overlooking the historic James River and was constructed from the materials of a sixteenth century English manor house. Although Virginia House was a blend of three romantic English Tudor designs, it was for its time a thoroughly modern home complete with seven full baths, central heat, modern kitchen, and commodious closets.
Mrs. Weddell's appreciation of style is evident as the visitor moves through rooms decorated with English and Spanish antiques, silk draperies, Oriental carpets, and fine silver and china. The nearly eight acres of gardens and grounds that Virginia House rests on were designed by Charles Gillette and provide a rich backdrop to the house throughout the year. The house has been preserved much as it was when the Weddells resided there.
Source: www.vahistorical.org/your-visit/virginia-house
Origins of Virginia House
The Priory of the Augustinian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem was established by Henry de Newburgh, first earl of Warwick, in 1109. The building that housed the order was completed sometime around 1119. Warwick was the seat of all the Holy Sepulcher houses in Britain and enjoyed a golden age for close to a century.
When Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church in 1536, he confiscated the priory at Warwick. The hundreds of monasteries and nunneries that were closed throughout Britain in the sixteenth century were sold to the king's favorites. The first owner of the priory was Thomas Hawkins, alias Fisher, a fishmonger, who acquired the building and lands during the short reign of Edward VI. Fisher later purchased much of the land surrounding the priory and eventually dismantled most of the monastic buildings and built a house he called "Hawk's Nest," set in a landscaped park. It was at his Tudor manor house that Fisher entertained the newly crowned Elizabeth I. The curvilinear Dutch gables were added to the front façade around 1620, during the reign of James I. The fortunes of the priory at Warwick rose and fell with its subsequent owners, among whom were Henry Wise, royal gardener to Queen Anne, who acquired the house in 1709. The Lloyd banking family bought the priory in the mid-nineteenth century but were forced to sell it in the early part of the twentieth century.
In 1925, Alexander and Virginia Weddell bought the priory at a demolition sale. The Weddells had the house dismantled and rebuilt part of it in Richmond, Virginia, where they hoped the west wing would serve as a museum for the Virginia Historical Society. They planned that the remainder of the house would one day serve as the society's headquarters. With these plans in mind, in 1929 the Weddells deeded Virginia House to the VHS and maintained a lifetime tenancy for themselves.
Packing and shipping
The company that was to demolish the priory felt the stones would crumble in the process, so they decided to make a small explosion in the middle of the building and send only those stones that survived the blast to America. To their amazement, most of the stones fell intact. The more fragile ornaments were packed in boxes with sand to cushion them. The ship bringing the stones to America had to turn back to port as it was taking on water. Consequently, when the stones arrived in Richmond they were soaked in seawater and had to be washed and dried. The first group of stones arrived in Richmond in the spring of 1926. The stones were stored and sorted in a barn on the corner of Massie and Canterbury roads in Windsor Farms over a period of six months.
Construction and design
The west wing of the house is, on the exterior, a replica of Sulgrave Manor, a submanorial house in Northamptonshire, England, belonging at one time to Lawrence Washington, an ancestor of America's first president, George Washington. The center section of the house is a reproduction of the priory in Warwickshire, England. This priory section exhibits the curvilinear gables that the English adopted from the Low Countries in the early seventeenth century. The strapwork design seen on the parapets and on the exterior and interior balustrades was also imported from the Low Countries. Wormleighton Manor, a Spencer-Churchill family estate in England, was the model for the east wing. The architect of Virginia House was Henry Grant Morse, who was primarily a designer of public buildings. Morse traveled in the English countryside with Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as they looked for a model for the house they hoped to build in Windsor Farms.
William Lawrence Bottomley designed the loggia, incorporating columns imported from Spain on the south side. The painted ceiling in the loggia came in part from a sixteenth-century house that once stood on the site of Knole in England. A frieze of old tiles on the walls of the loggia illustrates the early use of gunpowder. The roof of the loggia is a belvedere from which the visitor can have a view of the gardens of Virginia House and the historic James River beyond. Beyond the loggia, the east wall of the west wing bears mason's marks from various periods, some surviving perhaps from the original priory. A porch, built after the completion of the main house, extends from Mrs. Weddell's bedroom. Mrs. Weddell would retreat to her porch on hot summer nights to catch the breezes from the river and, in the morning, she and Mr. Weddell would have breakfast served to them there.
House museum
Virginia House was completed in 1928, and in 1929 it was presented to the Virginia Historical Society with the Weddells retaining lifetime tenancy. Virginia House became the sole responsibility of the VHS in 1948 after Ambassador and Mrs. Weddell, and Mrs. Weddell's personal maid Violet Andrews, were killed in a train crash on New Year's Day.
Today Virginia House is owned and operated by the Virginia Historical Society. The museum and gardens are open by appointment only. The site is also available for meetings and special events.
Source: www.vahistorical.org/your-visit/virginia-house/house
Edited at snipshot.com. Yet another baby Western Rattlesnake is moved to a new location away from camp.
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Cow horses are bred with a desire to work cattle. This is my buckskin, Sam, aka "Scarface".
This is another picture that needed a little something to make it more interesting than how it came out of my camera. You can tell more if you enlarge it.
I hadn't seen them for almost 10 days.......but tonight I watched as
mom herded the two pups back to their first den (under my deck!)
This handsome pup has really grown!
WEEK 45 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: Old Store, Set II
Back outside again, here's a look at the store's entrance and logo. I kept going back and forth on whether to cut this one from the album due to the angle it was taken at, but ended up keeping it in just because I like how well the pictures from this visit turned out with the blue skies and sunshine :)
Burlington Coat Factory (now closed) // 550 Stateline Road W, Southaven, MS 38671
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)