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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and a delegation of administration officials traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands today to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Irma. The trip comes after Governor Mapp requested that Governor Cuomo travel to the region to survey the damage. Governor Cuomo has pledged to identify how New York can best provide additional assistance to the impacted area as they begin the recovery process. The New York delegation includes experts with a range of experience in incident management and disaster recovery at the local, state and federal levels dealing with crises such as Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. During the assessment, the delegation is using this expertise to work with U.S. Virgin Island officials to determine the state of critical infrastructure, as well as identify how best to allocate resources. (Don Pollard/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
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The New Amsterdam Theater, built in 1902-03 for the theatrical producers Klaw & Erlanger, was for many years one of the most prestigious Time Square theaters and home of the famous Ziegfeld Follies. Designed by the noted theater architects, Herts & Tallant, the New Amsterdam Theater achieved distinction both for its functions and for its artistic program.
More than just a theater, the structure was planned, at the request of Klaw & Erlanger, to incorporate two performing spaces with an office tower to house their varied theatrical interests. Even more importantly, however, the New Amsterdam is a rare example of Art Nouveau architecture in New York City, and, as such, is a major artistic statement by Herts & Tallant.
Working in conjunction with sculptors, painters, and other craftsmen, they used the Art Nouveau style to carry out a dual theme—the representation of the spirit of drama and the theater and the representation of New Amsterdam in its historical sense as the city of New York. The form of the building vividly expresses the dual functions of office tower and theater, while the Art Nouveau-inspired ornamental detail expresses the spirit of drama.
The Clients
By the beginning of the 20th century, New York's theater district had moved uptown to the Time Square area, continuing a northward shift which had prevailed throughout the 19th century, and many theatrical producers commissioned new theaters to meet an expanding need. Among them were the producing partnership of Klaw & Erlanger.
Marc Klaw and Abraham L. Erlanger , both of whom had served as advance agents and managers of touring companies, joined forces in 1886 to buy the Taylor Theatrical Exchange, a New York booking agency. By 1895 the Klaw & Erlanger agency was the second largest in the nation, controlling nearly 200 theaters. In 1896 they joined with Charles Frohman, Al Hayman, Samuel F. Nixon, and J. Frederick Zimmerman to organize the Theatrical Syndicate.
The Syndicate avowed its intention of bringing about needed reforms in the booking of shows, but in the process created a monopoly with exclusive control of bookings for more than 500 theaters throughout the country.
The firm of Klaw & Erlanger was made responsible for all attractions presented in theaters controlled by the Syndicate. Beginning about 1910 the Syndicate was challenged by the growth of the organization of the Shubert brothers, and it was formally dissolved in 1916. Klaw & Erlanger retained its dominant position as a booking agency, and the partners continued their roles as managers and producers.
It was in the role of producer that Klaw & Erlanger purchased, in 1902, a parcel of property west of Seventh Avenue and extending through the block between 41st and 42nd Streets and commissioned the noted firm of theater architects, Herts & Tallant, to design a multi-use theater structure, incorporating two theaters and a ten-story office tower to house their booking and producing enterprises.
The Architects
By 1902 Henry Beaumont Herts and Hugh Tallant had begun to achieve a reputation as theater architects. Herts, the son of Henry B. Herts who had established the decorating firm of Herts Brothers, had studied at the Columbia University School of Mines, while Tallant received two degrees from Harvard College.
They became friends while students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked together on student projects. Also a talented painter, Herts exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1898.
Returning to New York, the two formed the firm of Herts & Tallant in 1900 which quickly began to achieve a reputation in theater architecture. In addition to the New Amsterdam, other theaters which the two designed were: the Lyceum , the Liberty , the Gaiety , the Folies-Bergere , the Booth , the Longacre , the Shubert , all in Times Square; and the Brooklyn Academy of Music .
In the New Amsterdam, they pioneered the use of cantilever construction to create theater balconies without supporting pillars that would obstruct the vision of those in the lower seating area. This innovation is generally credited to Herts.
The partners were also talented acousticians, and Tallant wrote extensively on the subject. Careful attention to fireproof construction and extensive stage facilities were other hallmarks of Herts & Tallant theaters. Tallant also wrote a series of articles on "The American Theater: Its Antecedents and Characteristics." As an architect Tallant was especially anxious to understand the precedents offered by Greek, Roman, and Renaissance theaters and to incorporate these precedents into the firm's designs. The firm dissolved in 1911, and each partner went on to other architectural associations.
The New Amsterdam as a Playhouse
Construction of the New Amsterdam Theater began in the summer of 1902, but political difficulties arose in 1903. The ornamental portions of the building were designed to project beyond the building line, and the Manhattan Borough President ordered work stopped.
Klaw and Erlanger asserted that the owner of the adjacent property, former Parks Commissioner Samuel McMillan, was exerting his influence because they had refused to buy McMillan's property. The partners noted that a number of new buildings, including several theaters, projected beyond the building line and that the New Amsterdam should not be discriminated against. In response to the controversy, the Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance allowing ornamental projections four feet beyond the building line. Thus the exterior of the New Amsterdam Theater was able to be completed as planned.
The New Amsterdam Theater officially opened on October 26, 1903, with a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream accompanied by Mendelssohn's incidental music, additional music by Victor Herbert, and starring Nathaniel C. Goodwin as Bottom.
While home to serious drama in its early years, the New Amsterdam quickly became very highly regarded as a musical comedy house. Among early productions there were: George M. Cohan's Forty-five Minutes from Broadway with Fay Templeton and Victor Moore; Her Own Way with Maxine Elliott and Charles Cherry; Richard III and Peer Gynt, both starring Richard Mansfield; the American premiere of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in 1907; Sardou's The Sorceress with Mrs. Patrick Campbell; Kitty Gray with Julie Sanderson; The Pink Lady of 1911 and The Little Cafe, both starring Hazel Dawn; Margaret Schiller with Elsie Ferguson; and Irving Berlin's first musical, Watch Your Step, in 1914, starring the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle.
In 1913 Florenz Ziegfeld , the world-famous theatrical producer, began an association with the New Amsterdam Theater which lasted until his death. Ziegfeld had entered the entertainment business in 1893 at the Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition. In 18 9 6 he introduced Anna Held to the American stage in A Parlor Match; this was quickly followed by a series of lavishly mounted musical comedies.
Their success led him to produce a 'revue' which he called The Follies of 1907. The show proved so popular that he produced a new Follies each season for over 20 years. The stage facilities of the New Amsterdam were ideal for these productions, and Ziegfeld presented the Follies there between 1913 and 1920, from 1922 to 1925, and in 1927.
Among the notable performers Ziegfeld featured in the Follies were Ann Pennington, originator of the Black Bottom dance, comediennes Fanny Brice and Ina Claire, Ed Wynn, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, and Marilyn Miller. Beginning in 1915 Ziegfeld used the rooftop theater of the New Amsterdam to produce his Midnight Frolic. Ziegfeld also produced ether shows at the New Amsterdam, even after he opened his Joseph Urban-designed Ziegfeld Theater in 1927 on Sixth Avenue.
Other productions added to the luster of the New Amsterdam: Sunny and Rosalie , starring Ziegfeld's discovery, Marilyn Miller; Whoopee , a Ziegfeld production starring Eddie Cantor; Trelawney of the Wells with John Drew, Pauline Lord, Helen Gahagan, Estelle Winwood, and Peggy Wood; The Bandwagon with Fred and Adele Astaire; Irving Berlin's Face the Music with Mary Boland; also in 1931, Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory productions of The Cherry Orchard and Alice in Wonderland;' Jerome Kern's Roberta with Fay Templeton and Bob Hope; and George White's Scandals of 1936 with Bert Lahr, Eugene and Willie Howard, and Rudy Vallee. Othello with Walter Huston was the last legitimate theater production at the New Amsterdam.
With the onset of the Depression, many Broadway theaters fell onto hard times and were converted for use as movie houses. The New Amsterdam proved no exception. The mortgage on the property was foreclosed in 1936. The building was sold in 1937, and the new owner began showing motion pictures in the theater. Ironically the first presentation was a film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, echoing that opening night of 1903.
The Building and its Design
The New Amsterdam had opened to widespread praise for its facilities, innovative features, and beautiful design. Stylistically the theater is a rare example of Art Nouveau architecture in the United States. Critic Theodore Waters headlined the New Amsterdam as "A Triumph for the New Art."
While the Art Nouveau style had been popularized in France and Belgium in the last years of the 19th century where Herts and Tallant surely must have discovered it firsthand, the style was little used in the United States. Most French-trained American architects preferred to use the classical forms they had learned at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Herts and Tallant, too, were adept at using Beaux-Arts forms, but the design for the New Amsterdam Theater offered them an unparalleled opportunity to create a total unified statement—one of the fundamental principles of Art Nouveau— expressing the excitement and artistry of the theater.
The form of the building resulted partially from the constraints of the site and partially from the requirements of Klaw & Erlanger. The major portion of the building, located on 41st Street on a site approximately 150 by 100 feet, houses the two theaters. However, Klaw & Erlanger wished to have the theater entrance on the more important 42nd Street, so they purchased a narrow piece of property 25 by 100 feet facing on 42nd Street.
This enabled the architects to create a major entrance, and to build above the entrance the tall office tower which was desired by Klaw & Erlanger to house their booking and producing activities. Because the side walls of the tower were built to the lot line they were faced with plain brick in anticipation that other towers would soon rise along side of them. To meet the dual requirements of the building—theaters and offices— the architects made extensive use of structural steel in the framing—
2000 tons. The roof theater is supported by a 70-ton girder, 90 feet in length and 14 feet high. Even though the stage doors were located on the 41st Street side, it was anticipated that the general public would not normally see that facade, so it, too, was faced with plain brick. The main focus of attention was the 42nd Street facade, and on it the architects lavished their artistic efforts.
Ten stories high and three bays wide, the facade is of gray limestone and is topped by a sloping red tile roof. Projecting from the roof is a central dormer with stylized pediment incorporating a garlanded, carved mask at the peak; this is flanked by two smaller dormers. Originally freestanding figures representing Music and Drama surmounted the center dormer.
The roof level is separated from the floors below by a projecting carved cornice with carved heads and floral ornament. An elaborate carved frieze with the date "1903" surmounts the ninth story windows which are flanked by stylized pilasters. At the seventh floor the windows, which are taller than those on the other office floors, are set off above a frieze incorporating winged heads, and the center window is flanked by stylized pilasters with floral capitals.
Arches above the windows are filled with terra-cotta panels executed by the architectural sculptors Grendellis and Ricci. The panels with their trios of cupids represent Dance, Declamation, and Song. This ornamental detail and sculpture on the upper stories is inspired by Art Nouveau principles, especially the abstraction of classical motifs and the lush and realistic depiction of floral and foliate forms. The various carved heads and figures personify aspects of the theater.
However, the architects lavished the most ornament and sculpture on the lower three floors, which encompassed the theater entrance and were visually handled as a unit. The segmental-arched entrance was flanked by rusticated piers which supported paired columns of Monreale Sicilian marble at the second floor. Bronze capitals, designed by sculptor Enid Yandell. , displayed heads representing the four ages of drama.
These columns in turn supported a massive arch encompassing the third floor windows: The arch was outlined by a modillioned cornice with a keystone displaying the escutcheon of the New Amsterdam Theater executed by Grendellis and Ricci. Resting on the cornice were a group of freestanding sculptured figures by the noted sculptor George Gray Barnard .
The central figure was a woman personifying Drama, holding a mirror in one hand and a mask in the other. The draped baldachino above her head represented the stage. Four other figures represented various aspects of drama and theater. All were linked by garlands of fruit and flowers. Although not specifically credited in any of the sources examined, Barnard probably also designed the figures at the roof level. Stylistically they appeared very similar to those which surmounted the arch. The second and third story windows were framed in bronze modelled in curvilinear flower and vine forms. This type of motif is one of the hallmarks of the Art Nouveau style.
Various changes had been made to the marquee and signs of the theater through the years, but when Anco Enterprises, Inc., acquired the New Amsterdam in 1937, the entrance was drastically altered to accommodate the theater to its new purpose of showing movies.
Virtually all sculptured detail at the first three stories was removed to be replaced by a new marquee and vertical electric sign. Both displayed the streamlined motifs associated with Art Deco architecture of the 1920s and '30s. The marquee and vertical were again modified in 1955.Fortunately the basic form of the arch encompassing the second and third story windows survives as does the intricate bronzework framing those windows.
Also in 1937 the original entrance doors were removed, and the original enclosed vestibule is now open to the sidewalk. The walls have been faced with polished marble, and an inlaid terrazzo floor with Art Deco motifs was installed. A "streamlined" box office is at one side.
Despite changes to the building through the years, significant Art Nouveau elements survive to remind us of the major artistic statement made by Herts & Tallant.
The form of the building still embodies the dual function of office tower and theater. Most importantly, the illustrious history of the New Amsterdam, which was facilitated and enhanced by its design, cannot be erased. Its survival evokes the spirit and the history of the theater.
- From the 1979 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
You probably haven't heard of Bitter, but they do make some truly excellent machines. Comparable with the likes of Bristol here in the UK, Bitter is a German/Austrian premium car manufacturer that creates luxury sports-cars on request. Founded in 1971 by Erich Bitter, the company specializes in rebodying other manufacturer's vehicles and its initial production was between 1973 and 1989, selling vehicles in Europe and the United States. Thereafter, several prototypes followed with an eye on resuming low-volume production, but none of those plans came to fruition until the launch of the Bitter Vero in 2007.
The Bitter CD, a three-door hatchback coupe featuring a 227hp Chevrolet V8 with a 327ci displacement, was built between 1973-1979.
The CD was first shown in prototype form on 9th September, 1969, at the Frankfurt Auto Show, as the Opel Coupé Diplomat ("CD") derived from the sedan version. It was designed by Charles M. "Chuck" Jordan (Opel's Design boss between 1967-1971 and later vice-president of General Motors (GM)) with the assistance of George A. Gallion, David Holls, Herbert Killmer and Hideo Kodama, as well as Erhard Fast (Director of the Opel Designstudios 3 for Advanced Design from 1964). The tail was inspired on a proposal by Erhard Fast's for the 1969 Opel Aero GT.
Thanks to the positive reaction to the CD prototype, Opel considered developing a production models. The doors would adopt a conventional opening system and the bumper bar, windshield wipers and other parts would be derived from the Opel Diplomat in order to facilitate production and maintain costs. Robert "Bob" Lutz, who was the Head of Opel at the time and was keen to produce the car, commissioned Pietro Frua to advance the concept and produce two road-going prototypes.
In 1971, it was David R. "Dave" Holls (Opel design boss since 1971; previously assistant to Charles M. "Chuck" Jordan) who encouraged Erich Bitter to build the Bitter CD. As a result, Bitter GMBH was formed in 1971 to market the CD. He based his company on a 1-acre (4,000 m2) site in his home town of Schwelm, Germany.
However, because he did not have the necessary capital and other resources to set up his own production facilities, Bitter turned to Baur GMBH in Stuttgart, as a proven independent small-scale manufacturer. He selected them given their ability to produce high-quality prototypes and limited production cars for other German manufacturers.
Bitter based his original CD designs on those of Frua, before making alterations closer to production. The basic design changes to Frua's CD design vis-à-vis the 1969 Opel CD consisted of a truncated read end, modified windshield and less chrome application. Dave Holls and Opel's design team supplemented the design with a small front spoiler, larger grille, higher bumper bars and by prolonging upwards the lower edge of the rear side windows across the C pillar to the rear hatch. Final prototype testing was conducted at the Opel Test Facility in Duden, in addition to load duration tests by Bitter at the Hydropulseur facility of Baur.
The Baur team also engaged in significant constructive and production development work, which included manufacturing a hard foam mockup. Their role then extended to manufacturing the CD's body panels, assembling the shell, interior fitting and trimming as well as installing the Opel Diplomat's mechanicals.
The Bitter CD was displayed, with great success, at the 1973 Frankfurt Motor Show, where Erich Bitter took 176 orders for his stylish new coupe. However, the oil crisis at the time led to the cancellation of most orders. Despite this, production commenced late the same year at Baur GMBH. The target of 200 units/year was never realised and, in total, Bitter sold 395 units. Purchase price in 1974 was 58,400DM.
Police say a 15-year-old driver allegedly hit Const. Garrett Styles during a traffic stop east of Newmarket Tuesday morning.
Styles later died in hospital. The teen, whose identity hasn’t been disclosed, sustained serious injuries in the crash and was taken to Sick Kids hospital where he remains in police custody.
Styles, 32, left behind his wife Melissa and their two small children — a two-and-a-half year old daughter, and a nine-week-old son.
“When I got the call saying it was him and all I could think about was just his wife and his kids. I know he was devoted to them,” Rob Dobbin, Styles’ cousin, told CityNews.
At a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, York Regional Police Chief Eric Jolliffe said Styles had tried to pull over a Dodge Caravan around 5 a.m. on Highway 48 near Herald Road.
“While Styles was at the driver’s door, the van accelerated. He was dragged 300 metres before the vehicle rolled, pinning Styles,” Jolliffe said.
Styles was able to issue a distress call as he was pinned under the vehicle. In a recording, Styles can be heard saying, “I gotta car on top of me, help!” A dispatch later tried to reassure him that police and paramedics were on the way.
“We might have some other people injured here, too, I dunno,” Styles told the operator.
Styles was rushed to Southlake Hospital in Newmarket with critical injuries where he passed away about an hour later. The York homicide unit is investigating. No charges have been laid.
Styles was a seven-year veteran of the force, and comes from a policing family. His father, retired Staff Sgt. Garry Styles, is a 33-year member of the force who just retired in January. Garrett Styles had recently written his sergeant exam, and passed with 82 per cent.
A Facebook memorial page was set up within minutes of the officer’s name being released and has since received hundreds of messages of condolence
Funeral arrangements have not yet been released.
Styles is the tenth York Regional Police officer to fall in the line of duty.
Det. Const. Robert Plunkett was killed Aug. 2, 2007. He was hit by a vehicle and pinned to a tree while trying to apprehend a suspect in an airbag theft ring.
Jolliffe made a brief statement outside the Newmarket hospital Tuesday morning, forwarding the family’s request for privacy. Jolliffe took over for former chief Armand La Barge late last year and this is the first officer that has died since he took the helm.
The fallen officer is the second in as many weeks to be injured on the job. Peterborough Lakefield Police Const. Keith Calderwood was shot twice last Wednesday while executing a search warrant at a suspected crack house in Lindsay, Ont., about 130 kilometres northeast of Toronto. He was released from hospital this weekend.
Here’s a look at officers killed in the line of duty in York Region:
Const. John Fisk, King Township, 1804;
Const. William Boyd, York County, 1901;
Const. Thomas Kirk, York County, 1930;
Const. Lewis R. Durant, Markham Township, 1956;
Const. Edward G. Holdsworth, Whitchurch Township, 1966;
Const. Gerald F. Mills, Whitchurch Township, 1968;
Const. Douglas F. Tribbling, York Regional Police, 1984;
Const. William J. Grant, York Regional Police, 1984;
Det.- Const. Robert Plunkett, York Regional Police, 2007 and;
Const. Garrett Styles, York Regional Police, 2011
First of all, I see from the Church of England website, the dedication is Laurence rather than Lawrence, so will correct my previous shots.
And with St Laurence, I have completed the listed churches in the Dover Deanery, a task that has taken some seven and a half years, and in which I have been frustrated by three churches that remained locked to me. But thanks to the internet and requesting access, I did finally get inside Whitfield, Preston and Betteshanger and cross them off the list.
I did see inside Hougham too, about 15 months ago during the Heritage Weekend, but found that the parish had arranged a festival to take place art the same time, and the inside was covered in quilts and carpets.
Of course.
St Laurence is situated on a down between Dover and Capel, and the village is dominated by the TV mast which beams us all TV and radio in the area. You approach the village up steep and narrow lanes from the Old Folkestone Road, or from River in Dover, and the church itself is in the middle of Church Hougham, down a dead end lane.
Unlike on previous visits, the door was unlocked so I dd not have to find a keyholder. The lightswitch beside the door lit just a single bulb above the doorway to the porch, but on a bright winter day, the church was full enough with light.
It was clear that the south wall of the chancel is leaning out at an alarming angle, but in fairly recent times, a buttress has been built to save it from falling.
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In its day this must have been a magnificent church. Its day would have been during the period 1100 to 1150, for a large building was constructed at this time. Even today the remains are impressive. As in many east Kent churches there is no chancel arch. There is a tremendous lean to the south chancel wall. It also shows the blocked arcade to a former south chapel. The north chapel has an impressive east window in Early English style which was copied by the Victorians when they replaced the chancel east window, and for once it is possible to compare the Victorian and medieval work almost side by side. While nineteenth-century windows are fine elsewhere in the church this juxta-position at Hougham clearly demonstrates the superiority of the medieval work. By far the most interesting feature at Hougham is the tower. The arch from the nave is particularly lofty and leads into an extremely tall and spacious chamber which can best be described as cavern-like.
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OR Huffam, as it is called, and frequently written in Domesday, Hicham, being so denominated from its high situation, lies the next parish eastward from Polton. Part of it only is within this hundred of Bewsborough; another part is within the hundred of Folkestone; and the residue is within the jurisdiction of the cinque ports, and of the corporation of the town and port of Dover. A borsholder, for that part of this parish which is within the hundred of Bewsborough, is chosen at the court leet of the hundred.
THE PARISH of Hougham lies among the high eastern hills of Kent, in a healthy though a very rude and wild country. In the midst of it are two streets, called Church Hougham, and East Hougham; in the former of which the church stands, and at the south-west part of it, a hamlet called West Hougham. Great part of this parish is full of small inclosures, interspersed with frequent coppice wood, and much rough ground. The soil is but poor and barren, consisting of either chalk or a red earth, covered with a rotten slint stone, with which the narrow roads here abound. Towards the eastern part of it the ground lies high, being an open uninclosed down, across which the high road leads from Folkestone to Dover, quite to the sea-shore, over which the chalk cliffs here rise to a great height; from hence there is a most beautiful prospect over the channel, and the Bologne hills on the coast of France. Near the bottom of these cliffs are three holes, called Lydden Spouts, through which the subterraneous waters empty themselves continually on the beach of the shore; and the belief of the country is, that the waters of the Nailborne, at Drelingore, in Alkham, at least four miles distant, communicate subterraneously with these spouts, which increase as the springs heighten by wind and weather. Over these spouts, in the middle of the cliff, are two large square rooms cut out of the chalk, one within the other; they are called the Coining-house, and have a very difficult way to come at them, the cliff here being upwards of four hundred feet high.
When the plague raged in London in the year 1665, it was brought to Dover, and great numbers died there of the pestilence in that and the following years, for the burial of whom a piece of ground was bought in this parish, on the side of the hill fronting the pier fort, and consecrated for that purpose. It is computed that upwards of nine hundred of those who died of this pestilence were buried in it, since which it has been constantly known by the name of the Graves.
Henry Benger, gent. was of Hougham, and resided here anno 1619, and descended from John Benger, of Maningford, in Wiltshire. They bore for their arms, Or, a cross vert, surmounted by a bendlet, gules. (fn. 1)
THE PARISH OF HOUGHAM was part of those lands which were given to Fulbert de Dover, for the desence of Dover castle, (fn. 2) which made up together the barony of Fulbert, or Fobert, as it was usually called, being held in capite by barony, of which Chilham became the chief seat, or caput baroniæof which this place, as appears by the book of Dover castle, was afterwards held by knight's service. Among these lands was included THE MANOR OF HOUGHAM, otherwise called THE ELMES, at times called by the names of Great Hougham, alias Chilverton; and likewise Southcourt, from its situation in regard to the manor of Northcourt, alias Little Hougham, in this parish.
This manor was held in manner as above-mentioned by a family who took their surname of Hougham from it. This family bore for their arms, Argent, five chevronels, sable; which Philipott (fn. 3) says they bore in allusion to those of their superior lords, of whom they held lands, the Averenches, or Albrincis, lords of the barony of Folkestone, whose arms were, Or, five chevronels, gulesFrom this family of Hougham descended those of Weddington, in Ash, near Sandwich, now extinct; and from the latter collaterally, those now of St. Paul's near Canterbury. One of the above mentioned family, Robert de Hougham, held it in king Richard I.'s reign, and was present with that king at the siege of Acon, in Palestine. At length his descendant Robert de Hougham, leaving two daughters his coheirs, of whom Benedicta was married to John de Shelving, and the other to Waretius de Valoignes, the latter became entitled to this manor, on the share of his wife's inheritance; and in the 14th year of king Edward III. obtained a charter of free-warren for this manor of Hougham. He left two daughters his coheirs, one of whom married Sir Francis Fogge; the other Maud, married Thomas de Aldelyn, or Aldon, who in her right became possessed of this manor.
Thomas de Aldelyn, or Aldon, as the name was afterwards written, died possessed of this manor in the 35th year of the above reign; but it should seem that he had no further interest in it but for his life, for Maud his wife before her death had infeoffed William Tapaline and others in this manor, and they passed it away to Stephen, Richard, and John de Combe, the latter of whom was of Hastingligh, and afterwards became sole possessor of it. He conveyed this manor in the 10th year of king Richard II. in trust to sell it; after which it came into the name of Heron, in which it remained at the end of king Henry IV.'s reign, and from which it was after some interval alienated to William Fineux, gent. of Swingfield, who had three sons; Sir John Fineux, chief justice of the king's bench, who purchased Haw-house, in Herne, under which, an account of him and his descendants may be seen; William, to whom his father gave this manor of Southcourt; and Richard, who was of Dover. (fn. 4)
William Fineux, who had this manor of Southcourt by gift of his father, resided at Hougham, and dying possessed of it in 1534, s.p. he by his will gave it to William, the eldest son of his brother Richard deceased, who afterwards resided here, and in his direct descendants it continued down to Thomas Fineux, gent. of Dover, who in king Charles II.'s reign passed away this manor to Robert Breton, gent. who resided at the mansion, called the Elmes, in this parish, formerly the residence of the Nepueus, several of whom lie buried in this church, which seat he had purchased of William Nepueu, esq. of Twickenham, the grandson of Peter, the first builder of it, who was a native of France, and came over to England upon the edict of Nantes, and brought with him a considerable property. He died in 1658, and lies buried in Hougham church. They bore for their arms, Azure, a fleece, or. Robert Breton above-mentioned was descended from the Bretons, of Barwell, and on the mother's side from the Bassingtons, of Temple Rothley, in Leicestershire, being the son > of Nich. Breton, of Norton, near Daventry. He died possessed of this estate, and was buried in this church. His great-grandson M. Breton, esq. afterwards of Kennington-house, (fn. 5) alienated both manor and seat to Robert Lacy, esq. who resided at Elmes, where he served the office of sheriff in the year 1739, and he died possessed of them about the year 1746; upon which they came to his son-in-law Granado Piggott, esq. who in 1749 passed them away to Mr. Phineas Stringer, of Dover, who died in 1757, leaving two sons, Phineas, of whom hereafter; and George, of Canterbury. Phineas, the eldest son, is of Dover, and married the daughter of Mr. Richard Rouse, of Dover, by whom he has an only daughter and heir, married to Mr. Edward Broadrip, gent. of Dover. He bears for his arms, Per chevron, or, and sable, in chief, two eagles displayed of the second; in base, a fleur de lis of the first. He succeeded his father in this manor and seat, and is the present owner of them.
A court baron is held for this manor, the boundaries of which, as I am informed, begin at High-cliff, from whence they extend along the coast, to a place called Jews-gut, and there leaving the cliff, on towards Capel, whence including West Hougham, they go down to the Elmes, and the land of Dover priory.
THE MANOR OF HOUGHAM-COURT, alias NORTHCOURT, which latter name it took from its situation in regard to the former described manor of South court, was comprehended as part of those lands which, as has been mentioned before, were given to Fulbert de Dover, and with other lands made up the barony of Fobert, of which it was held afterwards by knight's service, by the family of Basing, of eminent account in the city of London during the reigns of king John and king Henry III. for the high offices of trust which they bore in it. At length Sir Thomas de Basing succeeding to this manor, he alienated it to Adam Sare, whose heirs were in the possession of it in the 20th year of king Edward III. How it passed afterwards, I have not found, till the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, when it was alienated to Clive, commonly called Cliffe, a family of good account in the counties of Salop and and Essex; from whence, at the latter end of that reign, it passed by sale to William Hextal, esq. of East Peckham. One of his daughters and coheirs Margaret, entitled her husband Wm. Whetenhall, esq. commonly called Whetnall, citizen and alderman of London, to it. (fn. 6) His descendant William Whetenhall about the middle of king Henry VIII.'s reign sold it to John Boys, esq. of Fredville, in whose descendants it continued down to Major John Boys, of Fredville, who possessed it in 1656.
Before his death he alienated this manor; but now it passed afterwards I have not learned, only that it became vested in the name of Woodroofe; and in the year 1720, William Woodroofe, clerk, of Cambridgeshire, sold one moiety of it to John Walker, citizen and draper, of London, who passed it away to Francis Cabot, and he, at his death in 1753, devised it to his widow Barbara, as she did to her father Mr. Robert Cooper, of Salisbury, and her brother in law William Barnes. In 1786, this moiety was in possession of Robert, son of the above-mentioned Robert Cooper, and of Anne Barnes, and they joined in the sale of it to Mr. Michael Becker, of Dover, who in 1792 sold it to Mr. Philip Leman, of Dover castle, the present owner of it.
The other moiety continued afterwards in the descendants of William Woodroofe above-mentioned down to the Rev. Mr. Woodroofe, of Shoreham, in this county, the present possessor of it; so that this manor remains in undivided moieties at this time.
There is no court held for this manor; to it is annexed the right to wreck of the sea along the coast, from High cliff to Archcliff fort.
SIBERTON, alias SIBERSTON, is a manor in the north-east part of this parish, which made likewise part of the barony of Fobert before-mentioned, of which it was held by knight's service. John de Herste held this manor in the 2d year of king John, and in the 20th year of king Edward III. the heirs of another John de Herst held it by the description of lands in Siberston, of the barony of Chilham, by the like service, and the payment of ward to Dover castle; not long after which it appears to have been in the possession of a family who took their surname from it, one of whom, Richard de Siberston, as appeared by an old dateless deed of that time, demised it to John Monins, in whose descendants it continued down to Edward Monins, esq. of Waldershare, whose lands were disgavelled by the act of the 2d and 3d Edward VI. He died possessed of it in the 6th year of that reign, and by his will gave this manor of Seberston, to his second son George Monins, and he sold it to Thomas Pepper, jurat of Dover, who dying in the 17th year of queen Elizabeth, gave it to Thomas, son of Richard Pepper, and he in king James I.'s reign alienated it to Moulton, of Redriff, in whose descendants it remained at the time of the restoration of king Charles II. 1660, after which it was alienated, after some intermediate owners, to Mr. Phineas Stringer, of Dover, whose son, of the same name, is the present possessor of it.
But this manor, by unity of possessionhas for some year since been so blended with that of Hougham, otherwise called the Elmes, above described, that it is now accounted one and the same manor.
THE TITHES of the manor of Siberston, lying in Elms bottom, in this parish, were part of the possessions of the priory of St. Martin, in Dover, and continued so till the dissolution of it in the 27th year of Henry VIII. when this portion of tithes, among the rest of the possessions of the priory, came into the king's hands, who granted it with the scite and other possessions of the priory, in his 29th year, to the archbishop in exchange, in manner as has been already frequently mentioned before, in which state it has continued ever since, his grace the archbishop being at this time entitled to the inheritance of it. John Monins, esq. of Canterbury, is the present lessee of it.
FARTHINGLOE, alias VENSON DANE, is another manor in this parish, which was antiently part of the possessions of the canons of St. Martin, under the general title of whose possessions it is thus entered in the survey of Domesday:
In Beusberg hundred. In Ferlingelai, William the son of Ganfrid holds one suling, and there he has in demesne one carucate, and four villeins, with one carucate. It is worth four pounds. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, six pounds. Sired held it as a prebend.
And immediately following, under the title of the same possessions:
In Hicham, Balduin holds one suling, and there he has four villeins, and five borderers, with two carucates. It is worth four pounds. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, one hundred shillings. Eduuin holds it.
As the canons of St. Martin's priory had other possessions in this parish, besides the manor of Farthingloe, the latter entry no doubt contains the description of them, and includes their estate here, called Venson Dane, alias Wellclose, mentioned below, which together with the manor of Farthingloe, remained parcel of the possessions of the above priory, till the final suppression of it in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. when they both came into the king's hands, who granted them in his 29th year to the archbishop in exchange, as has been already more particularly mentioned before; since which this manor of Farthingloe, with the estate of Venson Dane, alias Wellclose, has remained parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, his grace the archbishop being at this time entitled to the inheritance of them. The interest of the present lease is vested in the widow of Mr. Nath. Walker, deceased, and Mr. John Marsh (the present occupier); the former possessing the lands, and the latter the great tithes, for their respective shares.
This estate is exempted from the payment of the great or corn tithes. There is not any court held for this manor.
The manor of Farthingloe was held of the prior and canons in king Henry III.'s time, by a family, who from their residence at it, took their surname from it. One of them, Matilda de Farthingloe, is mentioned by Prynne, anno 44 Henry III.
MAXTON, or Maxton court, is another manor situated in this parish, at no great distance from Farthingloe, which in king Henry III.'s reign, as appears by the book of knights fees kept in the king's remembrancer's office, was in the possession of Stephen Manekyn, who held it by knight's service of the barony of Fobert, and together with other lands elsewhere made up that barony, and were given for the desence of Dover castle. After this it seems to have been divided into moieties, and to have been held by Richard Walsham, and Alice, daughter of Stephen Manekin, who alienated the whole of it to William, son of Nicholas Archer, of Dover, whose seal was, A stag's head, caboshed, as appears by a deed in the Surrenden library, dated anno 17 Edward III. His son William Archer, in the 21st year of the next reign of king Richard II. passed it away by sale to John Alkham, of Alkham, a family of good estate in this neighbourhood, in the descendants of which this manor remained for some time; but at the latter end of king Edward IV. it was become the property of Roger Appleton, from whom it passed to Hobday, and thence to Harman, of Crayford, from which name it was sold by Thomas Harman to Sir James Hales, who at or about the middle of queen Elizabeth's reign alienated it to Andrews, of Dover, who some few years afterwards sold it to Pepper, and he in king James I.'s reign conveyed it to Sir Thomas Wilford, of IIden, who in king Charles I.'s reign passed it away to Mr. William Richards, of Dover, whose descendant of the same name, devised it to his nephew John Sladden, of Dover, merchant, as he did to his sister Mary, who carried it in marriage to Mr. Thomas Fagge, of Dover, whose trustees, after his death, to perform the uses of her will, sold it in 1783 to Tho. Biggs, esq. of Dover, the present owner of it, who has much improved the mansion of this manor, by making several additional buildings to it. A court baron is held for this manor.
Charities.
THOMAS PEPPER, jurat of Dover, by his will in 1574, de vised to the poor within the parishes of our Lady of Dover and Hougham, one annuity of 40s to be distributed equally between them, issuing out of his manor of Syberstone, and the lands belonging to it, with power to distrain, &c. now vested in Phineas Stringer, esq. and the money is distributed to such as do not receive weekly allowance of the parish.
There is a house divided into two small dwellings, inhabited by two persons placed there by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor; but how it came to the parish is not known.
The poor constantly maintained are about twenty-five, casually fifteen.
HOUGHAM is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Dover.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Laurence, is an ancient building, but small, consisting of two small isles and a chancel, having neither tower nor steeple, but it has a place for three small bells. In the chancel lie buried several of the families of Hougham and Malmaines; the brasses of whose stones have been long since torn off, though the lines of their portraitures still remain. In the chancel is a monument for Wm. Fyneux, esq. son of Robert. He died in 1587; arms, Vert, a chevron, between three eagles displayed, or, crowned, gules, impaling Warren, azure, a cross, or; in the first and fourth quarters, a martlet; in the second and third, a chaplet of the second. Another for Peter Nepeau, gent. who lies buried in a vault underneath; he built and resided at the Elmes, in this parish, still continuing the trade of a merchant; he died in 1658. William, his only surviving son, married Sarah, daughter of Mr. Bulteel, of Tournay, in Flanders, who was also buried in this chancel. His youngest son William succeeded to the Elmes, which he sold, and settled at Twickenham; he died in 1710; arms, Azure, a fleece, or. Another for Robert Breton, esq he died in 1707; arms, Azure, a bend between six mullets, pierced, or. And for William Hannington, esq. who married a daughter of William Monings, lieutenant-governor of Dover-castle; he died in 1607.
¶This church was part of the possessions of the priory of St. Martin, to which it was appropriated by archbishop Stratford, in 1345, and a vicarage endowed in it, (fn. 7) both which were at the suppression, in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. granted with the scite of the priory and other possessions of it in the exchange to the archbishop, with a reservation of the antient pension from the prior of forty shillings to the vicar, in manner as has been frequently more particularly mentioned before. In which state they now continue, his grace the archbishop being possessed of the appropriation of this church, with the advowson of the vicarage of it. The parsonage is called Little Hougham court, which with the tithes are held under the archbishop by Mr. Thomas Walker, of Dover. The glebe land is ninety acres.
In 1588 here were one hundred and twenty communicants, and it was valued at forty pounds per annum. This vicarage is valued in the king's books at 6l. 13s. 4d. Archbishop Juxon, anno 14 Charles II. augmented this vicarage with twenty-five pounds, to be paid by the lessee of the great tithes, which was again confirmed anno 22 of that reign. The vicar still receives the antient pension of forty shillings from the archbishop. It is now a discharged living of about the clear yearly value of forty-six pounds.
As requested, this is the video clip of the opera singer we bumped into at De Young Museum earlier this year. Turns out my wife has a footage of the singing. I was behind her taking a couple of shots with my film camera.
Camera: Apple Iphone 13 Pro Max
Met 3FM Serious Request 2015 zetten we ons dit jaar in voor kinderen en jongeren in oorlogs- en conflictgebieden: deze generatie leeft onder de meest extreme omstandigheden en heeft daardoor weinig kans op scholing en ontwikkeling. Zij zijn de stille slachtoffers van de oorlog. Voor meer info, check: www.3fm.nl/seriousrequest
Ras requested I take a new photo from a more "head on" angle, and remove the fishnets. He also wasn't a big fan of the pink reflection on the background that Holly's hair created, so I tried my best to fix everything with this 2nd, more "fadeout friendly" option ;)
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This is the older syle plain "BUS STOP" used for request stops by Walsall Corporation until arounmd the mid 1960's. There was no operator name on these signs. For fare stages a white on red design was used with smaller "FARE STAGE" lettering appearing below tyhe word "STOP".
At bus terminii and important points en route there would be specially signwritten (red on white) signs giving route information.
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First of all, I see from the Church of England website, the dedication is Laurence rather than Lawrence, so will correct my previous shots.
And with St Laurence, I have completed the listed churches in the Dover Deanery, a task that has taken some seven and a half years, and in which I have been frustrated by three churches that remained locked to me. But thanks to the internet and requesting access, I did finally get inside Whitfield, Preston and Betteshanger and cross them off the list.
I did see inside Hougham too, about 15 months ago during the Heritage Weekend, but found that the parish had arranged a festival to take place art the same time, and the inside was covered in quilts and carpets.
Of course.
St Laurence is situated on a down between Dover and Capel, and the village is dominated by the TV mast which beams us all TV and radio in the area. You approach the village up steep and narrow lanes from the Old Folkestone Road, or from River in Dover, and the church itself is in the middle of Church Hougham, down a dead end lane.
Unlike on previous visits, the door was unlocked so I dd not have to find a keyholder. The lightswitch beside the door lit just a single bulb above the doorway to the porch, but on a bright winter day, the church was full enough with light.
It was clear that the south wall of the chancel is leaning out at an alarming angle, but in fairly recent times, a buttress has been built to save it from falling.
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In its day this must have been a magnificent church. Its day would have been during the period 1100 to 1150, for a large building was constructed at this time. Even today the remains are impressive. As in many east Kent churches there is no chancel arch. There is a tremendous lean to the south chancel wall. It also shows the blocked arcade to a former south chapel. The north chapel has an impressive east window in Early English style which was copied by the Victorians when they replaced the chancel east window, and for once it is possible to compare the Victorian and medieval work almost side by side. While nineteenth-century windows are fine elsewhere in the church this juxta-position at Hougham clearly demonstrates the superiority of the medieval work. By far the most interesting feature at Hougham is the tower. The arch from the nave is particularly lofty and leads into an extremely tall and spacious chamber which can best be described as cavern-like.
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OR Huffam, as it is called, and frequently written in Domesday, Hicham, being so denominated from its high situation, lies the next parish eastward from Polton. Part of it only is within this hundred of Bewsborough; another part is within the hundred of Folkestone; and the residue is within the jurisdiction of the cinque ports, and of the corporation of the town and port of Dover. A borsholder, for that part of this parish which is within the hundred of Bewsborough, is chosen at the court leet of the hundred.
THE PARISH of Hougham lies among the high eastern hills of Kent, in a healthy though a very rude and wild country. In the midst of it are two streets, called Church Hougham, and East Hougham; in the former of which the church stands, and at the south-west part of it, a hamlet called West Hougham. Great part of this parish is full of small inclosures, interspersed with frequent coppice wood, and much rough ground. The soil is but poor and barren, consisting of either chalk or a red earth, covered with a rotten slint stone, with which the narrow roads here abound. Towards the eastern part of it the ground lies high, being an open uninclosed down, across which the high road leads from Folkestone to Dover, quite to the sea-shore, over which the chalk cliffs here rise to a great height; from hence there is a most beautiful prospect over the channel, and the Bologne hills on the coast of France. Near the bottom of these cliffs are three holes, called Lydden Spouts, through which the subterraneous waters empty themselves continually on the beach of the shore; and the belief of the country is, that the waters of the Nailborne, at Drelingore, in Alkham, at least four miles distant, communicate subterraneously with these spouts, which increase as the springs heighten by wind and weather. Over these spouts, in the middle of the cliff, are two large square rooms cut out of the chalk, one within the other; they are called the Coining-house, and have a very difficult way to come at them, the cliff here being upwards of four hundred feet high.
When the plague raged in London in the year 1665, it was brought to Dover, and great numbers died there of the pestilence in that and the following years, for the burial of whom a piece of ground was bought in this parish, on the side of the hill fronting the pier fort, and consecrated for that purpose. It is computed that upwards of nine hundred of those who died of this pestilence were buried in it, since which it has been constantly known by the name of the Graves.
Henry Benger, gent. was of Hougham, and resided here anno 1619, and descended from John Benger, of Maningford, in Wiltshire. They bore for their arms, Or, a cross vert, surmounted by a bendlet, gules. (fn. 1)
THE PARISH OF HOUGHAM was part of those lands which were given to Fulbert de Dover, for the desence of Dover castle, (fn. 2) which made up together the barony of Fulbert, or Fobert, as it was usually called, being held in capite by barony, of which Chilham became the chief seat, or caput baroniæof which this place, as appears by the book of Dover castle, was afterwards held by knight's service. Among these lands was included THE MANOR OF HOUGHAM, otherwise called THE ELMES, at times called by the names of Great Hougham, alias Chilverton; and likewise Southcourt, from its situation in regard to the manor of Northcourt, alias Little Hougham, in this parish.
This manor was held in manner as above-mentioned by a family who took their surname of Hougham from it. This family bore for their arms, Argent, five chevronels, sable; which Philipott (fn. 3) says they bore in allusion to those of their superior lords, of whom they held lands, the Averenches, or Albrincis, lords of the barony of Folkestone, whose arms were, Or, five chevronels, gulesFrom this family of Hougham descended those of Weddington, in Ash, near Sandwich, now extinct; and from the latter collaterally, those now of St. Paul's near Canterbury. One of the above mentioned family, Robert de Hougham, held it in king Richard I.'s reign, and was present with that king at the siege of Acon, in Palestine. At length his descendant Robert de Hougham, leaving two daughters his coheirs, of whom Benedicta was married to John de Shelving, and the other to Waretius de Valoignes, the latter became entitled to this manor, on the share of his wife's inheritance; and in the 14th year of king Edward III. obtained a charter of free-warren for this manor of Hougham. He left two daughters his coheirs, one of whom married Sir Francis Fogge; the other Maud, married Thomas de Aldelyn, or Aldon, who in her right became possessed of this manor.
Thomas de Aldelyn, or Aldon, as the name was afterwards written, died possessed of this manor in the 35th year of the above reign; but it should seem that he had no further interest in it but for his life, for Maud his wife before her death had infeoffed William Tapaline and others in this manor, and they passed it away to Stephen, Richard, and John de Combe, the latter of whom was of Hastingligh, and afterwards became sole possessor of it. He conveyed this manor in the 10th year of king Richard II. in trust to sell it; after which it came into the name of Heron, in which it remained at the end of king Henry IV.'s reign, and from which it was after some interval alienated to William Fineux, gent. of Swingfield, who had three sons; Sir John Fineux, chief justice of the king's bench, who purchased Haw-house, in Herne, under which, an account of him and his descendants may be seen; William, to whom his father gave this manor of Southcourt; and Richard, who was of Dover. (fn. 4)
William Fineux, who had this manor of Southcourt by gift of his father, resided at Hougham, and dying possessed of it in 1534, s.p. he by his will gave it to William, the eldest son of his brother Richard deceased, who afterwards resided here, and in his direct descendants it continued down to Thomas Fineux, gent. of Dover, who in king Charles II.'s reign passed away this manor to Robert Breton, gent. who resided at the mansion, called the Elmes, in this parish, formerly the residence of the Nepueus, several of whom lie buried in this church, which seat he had purchased of William Nepueu, esq. of Twickenham, the grandson of Peter, the first builder of it, who was a native of France, and came over to England upon the edict of Nantes, and brought with him a considerable property. He died in 1658, and lies buried in Hougham church. They bore for their arms, Azure, a fleece, or. Robert Breton above-mentioned was descended from the Bretons, of Barwell, and on the mother's side from the Bassingtons, of Temple Rothley, in Leicestershire, being the son > of Nich. Breton, of Norton, near Daventry. He died possessed of this estate, and was buried in this church. His great-grandson M. Breton, esq. afterwards of Kennington-house, (fn. 5) alienated both manor and seat to Robert Lacy, esq. who resided at Elmes, where he served the office of sheriff in the year 1739, and he died possessed of them about the year 1746; upon which they came to his son-in-law Granado Piggott, esq. who in 1749 passed them away to Mr. Phineas Stringer, of Dover, who died in 1757, leaving two sons, Phineas, of whom hereafter; and George, of Canterbury. Phineas, the eldest son, is of Dover, and married the daughter of Mr. Richard Rouse, of Dover, by whom he has an only daughter and heir, married to Mr. Edward Broadrip, gent. of Dover. He bears for his arms, Per chevron, or, and sable, in chief, two eagles displayed of the second; in base, a fleur de lis of the first. He succeeded his father in this manor and seat, and is the present owner of them.
A court baron is held for this manor, the boundaries of which, as I am informed, begin at High-cliff, from whence they extend along the coast, to a place called Jews-gut, and there leaving the cliff, on towards Capel, whence including West Hougham, they go down to the Elmes, and the land of Dover priory.
THE MANOR OF HOUGHAM-COURT, alias NORTHCOURT, which latter name it took from its situation in regard to the former described manor of South court, was comprehended as part of those lands which, as has been mentioned before, were given to Fulbert de Dover, and with other lands made up the barony of Fobert, of which it was held afterwards by knight's service, by the family of Basing, of eminent account in the city of London during the reigns of king John and king Henry III. for the high offices of trust which they bore in it. At length Sir Thomas de Basing succeeding to this manor, he alienated it to Adam Sare, whose heirs were in the possession of it in the 20th year of king Edward III. How it passed afterwards, I have not found, till the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, when it was alienated to Clive, commonly called Cliffe, a family of good account in the counties of Salop and and Essex; from whence, at the latter end of that reign, it passed by sale to William Hextal, esq. of East Peckham. One of his daughters and coheirs Margaret, entitled her husband Wm. Whetenhall, esq. commonly called Whetnall, citizen and alderman of London, to it. (fn. 6) His descendant William Whetenhall about the middle of king Henry VIII.'s reign sold it to John Boys, esq. of Fredville, in whose descendants it continued down to Major John Boys, of Fredville, who possessed it in 1656.
Before his death he alienated this manor; but now it passed afterwards I have not learned, only that it became vested in the name of Woodroofe; and in the year 1720, William Woodroofe, clerk, of Cambridgeshire, sold one moiety of it to John Walker, citizen and draper, of London, who passed it away to Francis Cabot, and he, at his death in 1753, devised it to his widow Barbara, as she did to her father Mr. Robert Cooper, of Salisbury, and her brother in law William Barnes. In 1786, this moiety was in possession of Robert, son of the above-mentioned Robert Cooper, and of Anne Barnes, and they joined in the sale of it to Mr. Michael Becker, of Dover, who in 1792 sold it to Mr. Philip Leman, of Dover castle, the present owner of it.
The other moiety continued afterwards in the descendants of William Woodroofe above-mentioned down to the Rev. Mr. Woodroofe, of Shoreham, in this county, the present possessor of it; so that this manor remains in undivided moieties at this time.
There is no court held for this manor; to it is annexed the right to wreck of the sea along the coast, from High cliff to Archcliff fort.
SIBERTON, alias SIBERSTON, is a manor in the north-east part of this parish, which made likewise part of the barony of Fobert before-mentioned, of which it was held by knight's service. John de Herste held this manor in the 2d year of king John, and in the 20th year of king Edward III. the heirs of another John de Herst held it by the description of lands in Siberston, of the barony of Chilham, by the like service, and the payment of ward to Dover castle; not long after which it appears to have been in the possession of a family who took their surname from it, one of whom, Richard de Siberston, as appeared by an old dateless deed of that time, demised it to John Monins, in whose descendants it continued down to Edward Monins, esq. of Waldershare, whose lands were disgavelled by the act of the 2d and 3d Edward VI. He died possessed of it in the 6th year of that reign, and by his will gave this manor of Seberston, to his second son George Monins, and he sold it to Thomas Pepper, jurat of Dover, who dying in the 17th year of queen Elizabeth, gave it to Thomas, son of Richard Pepper, and he in king James I.'s reign alienated it to Moulton, of Redriff, in whose descendants it remained at the time of the restoration of king Charles II. 1660, after which it was alienated, after some intermediate owners, to Mr. Phineas Stringer, of Dover, whose son, of the same name, is the present possessor of it.
But this manor, by unity of possessionhas for some year since been so blended with that of Hougham, otherwise called the Elmes, above described, that it is now accounted one and the same manor.
THE TITHES of the manor of Siberston, lying in Elms bottom, in this parish, were part of the possessions of the priory of St. Martin, in Dover, and continued so till the dissolution of it in the 27th year of Henry VIII. when this portion of tithes, among the rest of the possessions of the priory, came into the king's hands, who granted it with the scite and other possessions of the priory, in his 29th year, to the archbishop in exchange, in manner as has been already frequently mentioned before, in which state it has continued ever since, his grace the archbishop being at this time entitled to the inheritance of it. John Monins, esq. of Canterbury, is the present lessee of it.
FARTHINGLOE, alias VENSON DANE, is another manor in this parish, which was antiently part of the possessions of the canons of St. Martin, under the general title of whose possessions it is thus entered in the survey of Domesday:
In Beusberg hundred. In Ferlingelai, William the son of Ganfrid holds one suling, and there he has in demesne one carucate, and four villeins, with one carucate. It is worth four pounds. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, six pounds. Sired held it as a prebend.
And immediately following, under the title of the same possessions:
In Hicham, Balduin holds one suling, and there he has four villeins, and five borderers, with two carucates. It is worth four pounds. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, one hundred shillings. Eduuin holds it.
As the canons of St. Martin's priory had other possessions in this parish, besides the manor of Farthingloe, the latter entry no doubt contains the description of them, and includes their estate here, called Venson Dane, alias Wellclose, mentioned below, which together with the manor of Farthingloe, remained parcel of the possessions of the above priory, till the final suppression of it in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. when they both came into the king's hands, who granted them in his 29th year to the archbishop in exchange, as has been already more particularly mentioned before; since which this manor of Farthingloe, with the estate of Venson Dane, alias Wellclose, has remained parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, his grace the archbishop being at this time entitled to the inheritance of them. The interest of the present lease is vested in the widow of Mr. Nath. Walker, deceased, and Mr. John Marsh (the present occupier); the former possessing the lands, and the latter the great tithes, for their respective shares.
This estate is exempted from the payment of the great or corn tithes. There is not any court held for this manor.
The manor of Farthingloe was held of the prior and canons in king Henry III.'s time, by a family, who from their residence at it, took their surname from it. One of them, Matilda de Farthingloe, is mentioned by Prynne, anno 44 Henry III.
MAXTON, or Maxton court, is another manor situated in this parish, at no great distance from Farthingloe, which in king Henry III.'s reign, as appears by the book of knights fees kept in the king's remembrancer's office, was in the possession of Stephen Manekyn, who held it by knight's service of the barony of Fobert, and together with other lands elsewhere made up that barony, and were given for the desence of Dover castle. After this it seems to have been divided into moieties, and to have been held by Richard Walsham, and Alice, daughter of Stephen Manekin, who alienated the whole of it to William, son of Nicholas Archer, of Dover, whose seal was, A stag's head, caboshed, as appears by a deed in the Surrenden library, dated anno 17 Edward III. His son William Archer, in the 21st year of the next reign of king Richard II. passed it away by sale to John Alkham, of Alkham, a family of good estate in this neighbourhood, in the descendants of which this manor remained for some time; but at the latter end of king Edward IV. it was become the property of Roger Appleton, from whom it passed to Hobday, and thence to Harman, of Crayford, from which name it was sold by Thomas Harman to Sir James Hales, who at or about the middle of queen Elizabeth's reign alienated it to Andrews, of Dover, who some few years afterwards sold it to Pepper, and he in king James I.'s reign conveyed it to Sir Thomas Wilford, of IIden, who in king Charles I.'s reign passed it away to Mr. William Richards, of Dover, whose descendant of the same name, devised it to his nephew John Sladden, of Dover, merchant, as he did to his sister Mary, who carried it in marriage to Mr. Thomas Fagge, of Dover, whose trustees, after his death, to perform the uses of her will, sold it in 1783 to Tho. Biggs, esq. of Dover, the present owner of it, who has much improved the mansion of this manor, by making several additional buildings to it. A court baron is held for this manor.
Charities.
THOMAS PEPPER, jurat of Dover, by his will in 1574, de vised to the poor within the parishes of our Lady of Dover and Hougham, one annuity of 40s to be distributed equally between them, issuing out of his manor of Syberstone, and the lands belonging to it, with power to distrain, &c. now vested in Phineas Stringer, esq. and the money is distributed to such as do not receive weekly allowance of the parish.
There is a house divided into two small dwellings, inhabited by two persons placed there by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor; but how it came to the parish is not known.
The poor constantly maintained are about twenty-five, casually fifteen.
HOUGHAM is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Dover.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Laurence, is an ancient building, but small, consisting of two small isles and a chancel, having neither tower nor steeple, but it has a place for three small bells. In the chancel lie buried several of the families of Hougham and Malmaines; the brasses of whose stones have been long since torn off, though the lines of their portraitures still remain. In the chancel is a monument for Wm. Fyneux, esq. son of Robert. He died in 1587; arms, Vert, a chevron, between three eagles displayed, or, crowned, gules, impaling Warren, azure, a cross, or; in the first and fourth quarters, a martlet; in the second and third, a chaplet of the second. Another for Peter Nepeau, gent. who lies buried in a vault underneath; he built and resided at the Elmes, in this parish, still continuing the trade of a merchant; he died in 1658. William, his only surviving son, married Sarah, daughter of Mr. Bulteel, of Tournay, in Flanders, who was also buried in this chancel. His youngest son William succeeded to the Elmes, which he sold, and settled at Twickenham; he died in 1710; arms, Azure, a fleece, or. Another for Robert Breton, esq he died in 1707; arms, Azure, a bend between six mullets, pierced, or. And for William Hannington, esq. who married a daughter of William Monings, lieutenant-governor of Dover-castle; he died in 1607.
¶This church was part of the possessions of the priory of St. Martin, to which it was appropriated by archbishop Stratford, in 1345, and a vicarage endowed in it, (fn. 7) both which were at the suppression, in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. granted with the scite of the priory and other possessions of it in the exchange to the archbishop, with a reservation of the antient pension from the prior of forty shillings to the vicar, in manner as has been frequently more particularly mentioned before. In which state they now continue, his grace the archbishop being possessed of the appropriation of this church, with the advowson of the vicarage of it. The parsonage is called Little Hougham court, which with the tithes are held under the archbishop by Mr. Thomas Walker, of Dover. The glebe land is ninety acres.
In 1588 here were one hundred and twenty communicants, and it was valued at forty pounds per annum. This vicarage is valued in the king's books at 6l. 13s. 4d. Archbishop Juxon, anno 14 Charles II. augmented this vicarage with twenty-five pounds, to be paid by the lessee of the great tithes, which was again confirmed anno 22 of that reign. The vicar still receives the antient pension of forty shillings from the archbishop. It is now a discharged living of about the clear yearly value of forty-six pounds.
The Small Diamond Crown of Queen Victoria is a miniature imperial and state crown made at the request of Queen Victoria in 1870 to wear over her widow's cap following the death of her husband, Prince Albert. It was perhaps the crown most associated with the queen and is one of the Crown Jewels on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London
Background
Following the death of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Victoria's husband, in 1861, Queen Victoria withdrew from public life and wore a black and white ensemble colloquially known as widow's weeds, which she continued to wear until her death in 1901. Under government pressure she came back into public view in 1870. However, she declined to wear her Imperial State Crown again, partly because she found it heavy and uncomfortable to wear, and partly because it would have been impossible to wear on top of her widow's cap. The new small crown was created as a substitute, meeting both the ceremonial duties of a monarch and her own desired form of dress as a widow. It was manufactured in March 1870 by the Crown Jewellers, Garrard & Co.
Design
Although diminutive, the silver crown follows the standard design for British crowns. It is made up of two arches joining at a monde surmounted by a cross. Each of the arches runs from a cross pattée along the rim of the base. Between each cross pattée is a fleur-de-lis. Because of its small size – 9 cm (4 in) across and 10 cm (4 in) high – the crown possesses no internal cap. It contains 1,162 brilliant and 138 rose-cut diamonds weighing 132 carats (26 g) that were taken from a large necklace belonging to the queen. However the Royal Collections pages state that the crown contains 1,187 stones. Unlike coloured gemstones, diamonds were seen as acceptable to wear in mourning. The crown weighs 160 g (6 oz) in total.
Usage
Queen Victoria first used her new crown at the State Opening of Parliament on 9 February 1871. She often wore it minus the arches as a circlet or open crown.
After Victoria
The crown had belonged to Queen Victoria personally rather than to the Crown and thus was not a part of the Crown Jewels. Victoria left it to the Crown in her will. It was subsequently worn on occasions by the queen consort, Alexandra of Denmark (1901–10) and after her by the next queen consort, Mary of Teck (1910–36). After the death of Mary's husband, George V, she stopped wearing the crown. When the new queen consort, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, decided not to wear the small diamond crown, it was deposited by the Queen Victoria's great-grandson, George VI, in the Jewel House at the Tower of London, where it remains on public display.
This Copy
The replica comes from China and an almost exactly copy in both size and stones. We are grateful to Wikipedia for the information supplied. The original can be seen on the link below to The Royal Collection.
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Loreto College Ballarat, a Catholic school for girls was established in 1875 by Mother Gonzaga Barry (1834 – 1915) a member of the order of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary whose members are commonly known as the Sisters of Loreto; a courageous woman with a truly visionary approach that saw her create educational opportunities for girls never before considered in the society of that day. The Loreto Sisters arrived in Australia in response to a request by the Bishop of Ballarat, Bishop O'Connell. The group of ten sisters from Ireland, led by Mother Gonzaga Barry, set up a convent in Ballarat, Victoria and their first girls school, known as Mary's Mount, which today is known as Loreto College.
When they arrived in Ballarat, the Mother Superior set about acquiring a property at 1600 Sturt Street. Under the sandstone facade of the main front building that exists today, you will find the original house purchased by the Loreto Sisters. The Regency style house was built for Edward Agar Wynne around 1868 as a family home. Today’s entrance was originally the back entrance as the house fronted Lake Wendouree. The upper floor and the Gothic facade were added in 1914. To the right, attached to the original building is the residential wing which was built in 1882. This contained a schoolroom on the ground floor and boarders’ dormitories above.
The Sisters of Loreto were anxious to build a wall around the convent for privacy. Indeed, in earlier times the order was kept semi-enclosed, which enabled limited contact with the world outside the convent walls. The convent was built in 1881 largely through donations. The grand gateway was designed by architect William Tappin.
The Loreto Chapel, or Children’s Chapel as it is known, was built between 1898 and 1902. The architect was William Tappin and the builder George Lorimer. It is built in an English Gothic style with French influences. The stone from which it is constructed is Barrabool Hills sandstone taken from a quarry near Geelong. It also features white stone detailing from Oamaru in New Zealand. Building was interrupted through lack of funds, but the project was finally completed with a large bequest from the German Countess Elizabeth Wolff-Metternich, who had arrived at Ballarat unannounced in 1898, was captivated by the post Gold Rush city and decided to teach German to the Loreto students. A direct descendent of St Elizabeth of Hungary, Countess Elizabeth later found that she loved the peace and simplicity of the Mary's Mount cloister, and informed Mother Gonzaga that she wished to be accepted as a novice. The Mother Superior urged the young woman to return to Germany to discuss her future with her family prior to making a decision. Sadly, Countess Elizabeth was never to return to Ballarat: tragedy struck the RMS India, in the Straits of Messina en route Europe, when Countess Elizabeth died suddenly in April 1899, possibly from cholera, as she was nursing sick passengers on board the ship during its journey. When her will was read, it was found that Countess Elizabeth had left a generous 16,000 pounds to the astonished Mother Gonzaga to `be used as she thought fit'. Funds were once again available to finish the Children's Chapel, but there was to be another, seemingly impenetrable, obstacle: Germany had instituted a law forbidding money to be sent out of the country, so the funds remained frozen in Germany indefinitely. However, Countess Elizabeth's relatives contacted their distant relative, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany (eldest grandson of England's Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) to petition that the funds be released for the Australian convent. It was only through the direct intervention of the Kaiser that the law was waived in this particular case. The Children’s Chapel was officially opened in December 1902.
The inside of the Children’s Chapel is decorated in soft pastel colours with artwork and statuary donated to the Sisters of Loreto by families in Ballarat and back in Ireland. The Rose Window over the Organ Gallery depicts Saint Cecilia the patron saint of music, surrounded by symbols of the four Evangelists, Matthew Mark Luke and John. The windows over the alter depict the instruments of the Passion of Christ. The marble alter features the Nativity scene as was requested by the girls attending Loreto at the time.
To the right of the driveway as you enter Loreto College stands a small building, which is the former St. Anne’s Primary School. It was the original parish school built in 1908. St. Anne’s was closed in the early 1920s, and became a finishing school for the daughters of the well-to-do of Ballarat and its surrounding districts. With the advent of the Great Depression, the need for a finishing school dwindled, and by the mid 1930s, St. Anne’s had become a Priest’s Chalet which it remained until 1941 when it became a kindergarten. The kindergarten finally closed in 1978, but not before the old school was completely swallowed by additions and modifications in the 1960s. A mine shaft was discovered when the 1960s extension was built. Today, St. Anne’s sits peacefully amid the grounds of Loreto College and at the time of photographing was being restored to its former Edwardian glory.
To the left of the entrance gates is the Rosary Way. This is a walk to be taken whilst saying the prayers of the Rosary. The Loreto College Rosary way is modelled on the Rosary Way in the Aylesford Priory Gardens in Kent. At the end of the Rosary Way is the Lourdes Grotto, built in commemoration of the grotto in Lourdes where Our lady of Lourdes appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. This is the second Lourdes Grotto, the first more elaborate two storey structure having been moved to make way for the Children’s Chapel. The Lourdes Grotto contains a small stone from Lourdes brought back by Mother Gorzaga Barry from her journey to Europe in 1894.
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Na zes dagen mochten Giel Beelen, Michiel Veenstra en Gerard Ekdom maandagavon om negen uur het glazen huis weer uit op de Oude Markt in Enschede. Tijdens het eindfeest op het Van Heekplein werd bekend gemaakt dat de deejays dit jaar meer dan twaalf miljoen euro hebben opgehaald met 3FM Serious Request.
Foto: Heidie Duteweert
Greetings from himeros
God of sexual desire, son of aphrodite
Lay back, and feast as this audio guides you through new and exciting positions
I wanna be the girl under you (oh yeah)
I wanna be your g. U.y (yeah)
I wanna be the grave and earth you (oh yeah)
Our sexes tell us no lies
I'm gonna wear the towel, the power to leave you
I'm aiming for full control of this love (of this love)
Touch me, touch me, don't be sweet
Love me, love me, please retreat
Let me be the girl under you that makes you cry
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
The girl under you (guy)
I'm gonna say the word
And own you (oh yeah)
You'll be my (g. I.r.l)
Guy, I'm romance and love's to hold you (oh yeah)
Know, you wear my make-up well
I'm gonna wear the towel, the power to leave you
I'm aiming for full control of this love (of this love)
Touch me, touch me, don't be sweet
Love me, love me, please retreat
Let me be the girl under you that makes you cry
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
The girl under you (guy)
I don’t need to be on top
To know what it does, I'm strong enough to know the truth
I just want it to be hot
Because I’m best when I’m In love, and i’m in love with you
(Guy) touch me touch me
Natural goddess (guy) touch me touch me
A soul comes into full phase (guy) get on top of me
And mars were in spirit rams into the atmosphere (guy I want to be that guy)
Touch me touch me, don’t be shy
I’m in charge like a G. U.Y.
I'll lay down face up this time, under you like a G. U.Y.
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
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The girl under you guy
I wanna be that guy (G. U.Y.)
I'll wreck you right up guy (G. U.Y.)
I'll lie down face up guy (G. U.Y.) (achtzehn)
The girl under you guy! (sechzehn)
Fourteen
Vierzehn
Drei, eins
Nein zedd
Nein zedd
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Italian Temporary Permit for Immigrants requesting Refugee Status. This picture is part of my reportage about the Former Somali Embassy in Rome:
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In Memory of all Innocents, who died the 3rd of October, after a boat carrying at least 500 Africans to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Lampedusa (Sicily), October 2013
A total of 111 bodies have been recovered till now (5th of October) and more have been found inside the wreck, coast guards say.
Passengers reportedly threw themselves into the sea when a fire broke out on board. More than 150 of the migrants have been rescued.
Most of those on board were from Eritrea and Somalia, said the UN.
The boat was believed to have been carrying up to 500 people at the time and some 200 of them are unaccounted for.
This marked a tragic end to a long journey from countries as far as Eritrea and Somalia.
Over the years there have been numerous disasters involving migrants off Lampedusa, but seldom on anything like this scale. The island's mayor wept as she took in the scene on the harbour wall.
Furious demands are being made for an end to the dangerous trafficking of people across the Mediterranean. But it is hard to see how the flow could be curbed, with so many people so desperate for a chance to make a new life in Europe, and traffickers in so many ports ready to take their money.
Read more on:
edition.cnn.com/2013/10/04/opinion/lampedusa-opinion-wren/
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This is a stereo card that includes a poem requesting photographs for an album. It reads:
WHOEVER OPENS THIS TO SEE
ANOTHERS FACE WITHIN
MUST NOT FORGET HIS OWN
TO PLACE
FOR HAVING QUIZZD
AT HIM.
ALL THAT'S ASK'D
OF THOSE WHO LOOK
AT THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK
BY ITS RIGHT & LAWFULL OWNER
IS THAT EACH BECOME A DONER.
Since the stereo card would not be placed in an album I can only assume that this type of card so so common that the message would be understood even though it is not in an album.
I have posted a detail of one side where the poem is easier to read.
southern ethiopia
1976
street market, unidentified village
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
@grickle A washed up, old wizard with a pointy hat (of course)!
-Got them deep, down, Wizardin' blues. @akbutcher
If you would like this doodle as a signed print for your very own, head on over to the Grickle store!
Friendship
It's a funny old thing, friendship. You can be best friends and sure you will never drift apart, then you leave school or move house and your lives change and you lose touch
I was thinking about this before I got up this morning. About how you make friends and wondering how you make new friends in a new area if you don't have 'the school gate' or 'walking the dog on the same route' in common to meet people.
Sometimes friendships end because they had run their course or one or other of you changes drastically. Sometimes it just happens.
By sheer co-incidence later in the day I re-connected with a much-missed old friend via Facebook.
But I haven't seen the people in this photo for years.
3. My daughter, Barbara, (1998) She wont talk to me. Wont answer emails or phone calls or respond to requests for contact sent via her brother. I don't know why. I haven't seen her since 1999. It makes me very sad.
4. My old school friend, Janet Ferguson (1974 aged 15). I haven't seen her since we left school in 1975. We did have a brief email exchange on FriendsReunited a few years back. After 34 years we probably have nothing in common.
6. Matt and Karen Samba were my neighbours in West Beckton and were witness at my wedding in 1984. I met Karen at a mums & toddlers group and we got on really well. She dropped me suddenly when I moved a few miles away. I worked out why (not my fault). Shame though, as I enjoyed her company.
7. Jenny Jones was my best friend at school (from the age of 7). She is the only school friend I saw after leaving school. This photograph was taken on my 20th birthday, at her place. The toddlers in the photo were born ten months apart and the babies one week apart, so we definitely had things in common after we'd left school. I have no recollection of why the friendship ended. I have the feeling that it was something important at the time.
8. Sue Carroll was my best friend when I was a young mum. She was fun, supportive, helpful and someone I could rely on. We drifted apart when I moved away and we each had new partners. We did make contact again in December 1998 but something happened early the next year that meant we didn't get to meet up. It seems our kids still see each other from time to time, which is nice. This photo was taken in August 1990.
9. Sylvie Thompson was another friend from my 'young mum' days. She lived just around the corner and our kids were friends with each other. Photo taken in 1980 or 1981. (Update
2016, I heard she died a few years ago).
11. Barbara Pearman and Julie (I don't remember her last name). Barbara (in the centre) was the first friend I made after I left school and my first experience of knowing a friend because her boyfriend was friends with my boyfriend. I haven't seen her since about 1979 or 80 and we'd probably have nothing in common now. Julie (the blond) was another 'girlfriend of my boyfriend's mate'. I think that was the only thing we had in common. Photo taken July 1977.
12. Maggie and I shared an office when we worked for the Mirror newspaper. She left to move 'home' to Scotland and I still lived in London - so a bit far to maintain a friendship. She was fun. I did get to visit her in Scotland for a couple of days.
This model is Request by Raphy, meeting the criteria for Challenge 38 - 'By Random Appointment'. This was one of may favourite challenges - one that meant that you never knew quite what you were going to end up building. The great thing was, it was always going to challenge you, and fortunately, you could ask for a request during any of the other build challenges too.
Raphy requested: 'any pre-'80s JDM car, but in 1:15!'.
Well, this had been on my 'to do' list for a while - a real unicorn. Only 197 cars were built, as the model appeared in the fuel-crisis era, and Nissan had pulled out of motorsport, and no export program existed (though there was consideration of sending the car to Australia) leaving the car without a direct purpose. Oddly enough, the corresponding C110 Skyline (non GT-R) was quite successful, even though this was a quite expensive export vehicle - known variously, including the 240K moniker.
This marked the end of the GT-R until Nissan released the R32 model in 1989 to dominate Group-A racing.
I have built the model in standard miniland 1:21, as I wanted the car to sit to scale with the other period JDM models I have designed over the past two years. Maybe one day I will get to some 1:15 scale models too.
This lego miniland-scale Nissan Skyline GT-R KPGC110 (1973) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 120th Build Challenge, - 'Happy 10th Anniversary, LUGNuts', - where all the previous challenge themes are open for use in creating builds for the Challenge.
The Challenge theme chosen is number 38 - 'By Random Appointment' - for any vehicle or brief provided by the admins or other LUGNuts member
041713: Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, Chief of Border Patrol Michael Fisher, and the Assistant Commissioner of Office of Air and Marine Randolph Alles testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. They were discussing a budget request for Fiscal Year 2014.
Photgrapher: Josh Denmark
As requested by some flickr members and some members of the MFLenses forum: here are some real life samples made with the Samyang produced Vivitar 17-28mm f/4-4.5 "wide angle zoom".
So, what about it? First of all let's bear in mind that this is a low-budget, old manual zoomlens. Manufactured for Vivitar in most used mounts at that time. Mine is a Minolta MD version and it looks near mint. A more thorough inspection revealed some minor haze inside, which has not been cleaned for these testshots. So eventually (if i get any time for cleaning it....) results could possible be a tad better.
It's not a bad lens. But it's nothing special either. For a city-walk it could be a very useful "one lens" solution, as 17 is nice and wide and 28mm makes a very normal wide angle. Even on APS-C one can say this is a useful range.
Take a look at the vignetting on the right side corners, they're worse than the left side. On crop this wouldn't be a problem.
Sharpness is OK i'd say, again: nothing special here, but for what it is it's good. I must add that you really need the focusing aid and the magnification button to get it right! I wouldn't want to focus this one without any digital aids!
SO: if you like old glass and love to experiment a bit with them and one of these crosses your path i'd say take it.
If you're looking for a cheap 17mm-ish wide angle solution: find one. Because i'm sure you'll get these cheaper than the more common Tokina 3.5/17! (which is a great lens)
These wallpapers are designed for MX Linux, If interested original backgrounds are with me and please request for your use.
Requested by ww2 lego dude
0.635 cm W x 0.635 cm H
** for personal use only, please do not steal my work and please give me credit if you use it **
Na zes dagen mochten Giel Beelen, Michiel Veenstra en Gerard Ekdom maandagavon om negen uur het glazen huis weer uit op de Oude Markt in Enschede. Tijdens het eindfeest op het Van Heekplein werd bekend gemaakt dat de deejays dit jaar meer dan twaalf miljoen euro hebben opgehaald met 3FM Serious Request.
Foto: Heidie Duteweert
Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Leytonstone, London here are the details of the project.
The Terrace House Garden in Leytonstone, London E11
BRIEF:
This plot was a long urban garden and was almost completely bare, but for two large, established trees. The client was attempting to construct a pond in the near right corner using green slate boulders as decoration, and requested that this should be included in the design.
The interior of the house had a modern, contemporary feel fused with Victorian architecture. As the patio doors lead directly from the kitchen/diner into the garden, the garden becomes very much an extension of the house – as such the style of the interiorwas of particular consideration in the design the exterior space.
SOLUTION:
The final design created a low maintenance garden with a simple and contemporary feel. The area directly behind the house was laid with decking, running half way down the left side of the space. New wooden fences, to replace the existing worn out wire fences, were erected down the right of the garden, onto which a selection of clematis and everlasting sweet peas were trained.
The main area of the garden consisted of a tapered, oval shaped lawn, encircled by a raised bed following the same shape as the lawn. A smaller, tapered oval raised bed in the middle of the lawn served to slightly mask the bottom of the garden, breaking up the space and helping to create a sense of intrigue.
The simplicity of the borders was echoed in the planting, which consisted of white flowers and green foliage. Cool, crisp and elegant, a white planting scheme provides an air of harmony and tranquillity, and is well suited to the style of the garden and the interior of the house. An area devoted to graceful architectural ferns helped to accentuate the simplicity
of the space and serves to provide a stunning and effective display throughout the year.
Re-designing the layout of the client’s existing pond, using state boulders together with a powerful pump to produce an effective waterfall, helped to create a striking water feature. The pond and surrounding area was given life with the addition of water lilies and other aquatic and semi-aquatic plants. A bowed Cedrus libani (ssp.atlantica) ‘Glauca’, trailing branches in the water, presented the final flourish to the space.
TESTIMONIAL:
“Katrina and her team worked extremely hard and long hours to complete the garden quickly and with minimum disruption to our home. Considering that we have no access other than through the entire house, there was almost no disruption to our lives.
Watching the garden grow from its original design and come to life was amazing. It exceeded our expectations completely, and the aftercare pack and service offered by Earth Designs was brilliant.
We have no hesitation in recommending Earth Designs to any of our friends, who have also been amazed with our fantastic new garden - of course we have been showing it off at every sunny opportunity. Thanks to Katrina and her team at Earth Designs for such a fantastic design, utilising the space brilliantly and creating an outside space that we are extremely proud of.”
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Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.
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