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I discovered this statement to the world on Perrie's foot.
From Psalm 139 verse 14. "I am a unique creation filled with wonder and awe".
67, LONSDALE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM:
This model was commissioned by Tony Loizou, Architect, RAN projects, London N16 7RA
The existing parts of the buildings are show in red. The project is show in colors.
This was a demonstration of those in the poorer district of the old-town area of Panama City seeking government improvement of financial distribution of public funds to improve thier status.
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I love aesthetics. Creativity is my therapy. I live by these statements and photography is one of the means through which I try to capture the essence, the beauty, and the pulse of life.
I seek and find inspiration in everything. When nothing suits my fancy, I search for something – either on the web, in books, through travel… If you really look for it, you’re always bound to find something that makes the blood rush through your veins. It can be as simple as a genuine smile, a song, or a breathtaking seascape.
My greatest inspiration is Love. I have had my heart broken, and I’ve shed my fair share of tears, but this little wasted heart still beats strongly. Someone once told me that a broken heart, fixed or not, will always be broken. I told her that that’s true, but sometimes, if fixed in the right way, it can actually turn out to be more beautiful than it was when it was untouched – take stained glass and mosaic as an example.
One of my greatest sources of inspiration, Vincent Van Gogh, once wrote:
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well”.
I live by this.
Unfortunately I’m really living on the fast lane. It does not kill my creativity, but it does drain out time and energy. Starting this PhotoLog was a good idea – I have to stop the spinning for a while and share something.
I will never stop at existing; I shall always live.
In picture: Photography books; photography magazines; postcards from Paris, London and Rome.
Carthay Circle Restaurant
Disney California Adventure
The Carthay Circle Restaurant occupies the Carthay Circle Theater, the new centerpiece of DCA. Nobody denies the place is beautiful both inside and out, but some questioned whether the centerpiece of the park should be a restaurant rather than an attraction of some sort. While an attraction is always nice, I think the Carthay makes a statement. The place is unprecedented within a theme park on the West Coast of the US. Walt Disney World in Florida's big secret is that it's a culinary powerhouse, but even there most of the good stuff is hiding in hotels or to the wonderful selection in Epcot's World Showcase, which itself has unprecedented refined theming and dining. Yet still, the Disney theme parks suffer from stereotypes of their own past and lesser amusement parks that crowd the country. Burgers, fries, and junk food are what most people expect, and anything beyond that is greeted with low expectations. Sure Disney has multiple award-winning chefs working the background of many of these restaurants, but you can't blame the general public for not knowing about this or expecting it: the parks themselves don't really advertise themselves as places to have fantastic, unique dining experiences.
But here we have the Carthay Circle Restaurant, a place that has ended up one of the classiest restaurants in Southern California let alone a theme park. The first floor houses a full lounge and bar serving 1930s era cocktails put together with a masterful flavor and attention to detail. These aren't drinks you can just go pick up anywhere in the country, finding anything like them typically requires finding one of a few top tier bars scattered about, even then usually buried in a few populous cities like LA or NY. The 2nd floor is a dramatic, opulent dining area, full of various rooms and enclaves evoking a restaurant design they really don't do that often anymore. The food is exceptional, with a menu that isn't afraid to be adventurous even though it still needs to appeal to a majority of the tens of thousands of people walking through the gates. Quail, Rack of lamb, Fresh fish, Short Rib, Udon… it's a feat that it all pulls together.
The dining experience is really an extension of Disney's approach to most experiences: a great blend of nostalgic theming, constructing an idealized past along with modern flourish. You can't really go anywhere else in California and have the dining experience you can have at the Carthay. That Disney has put this front and center in the park is a notice to all guests that theme parks may not be about what they assume they are. It's not just rides and burgers (although there's nothing wrong with that): it can be about refinement and relaxation, it can be about idealized culinary experiences as much as lands of fairy tales and talking cars.
I think the Carthay is one of those placemaking institutions, a place DCA sorely needed. The Carthay is something I can keep coming back to. There's always one more drink to have, always an item on the menu calling my name. Sometimes it's not about a ride or attraction, sometimes I want to be transported to an idealized fantasy and just exist in it, sipping a cocktail, looking over the menu, enjoying my surroundings and my company. Putting a place like this within an icon of a theme park tells people "this is the kind of thing you should be expecting to do here." If it defies expectations for not being "a ride" then I think the plan is working perfectly.
(That's a Pimm's Punch up there by the way: a perfect drink for the summer.)
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In 1975 the new West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council and its Passenger Transport Executive, known as West Yorkshire Metro, issued a small brochure outlining the current situation soon after the formation of the PTE's direct operations and their intentions for the future. It covered topics such as aims and objectives, relationships with local authorities (the five new Metropolitan Districts) as well as the operational policies and future developments.
The brochure has some interesting period graphics showing the various modes of transport, the PTE and County's new logos as well as some of the uses of the new corporate identity and "Yorkshire Rose" logo. This page shows the new interlocking "WY" symbol, known as the Yorkshire Rose, and how it appeared on the new DoE standard bus stop flag that was being rolled out to replace the old individual operators versions that had existed prior to the amalgamation into the PTE's fleet.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Deputy Chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Volodymyr Mikheiev, sign a joint statement on civil space cooperation between NASA and the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Friday April 21, 2023 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington DC. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
An interesting statement emerging from yesterday’s HM Government pandemic press conference is that funding will continue to be allocated to reversing some of the 1960s Beeching railway closures. Mention of two routes provoked my immediate attention, both being on the Isle of Wight. At the time of Beeching, the once 55 mile route network had been reduced to just Ryde to Ventnor; and Ryde – Newport – Cowes. Beeching proposed withdrawing this remainder, but in the event, the Ryde – Ventnor route was retained as far south as Shanklin. In 1967, this truncated line was electrified, incredibly utilising redundant London Underground Northern Line tube stock, dating from 1923, replaced in 1992 by further redundant tube stock dating from 1938! During 2020, it is proposed to replace these with London Underground “D” stock sub-surface trains, built around 1980, thus maintaining the tradition that only trains tried and tested for over 40 years are eligible for service on the Isle of Wight! Yesterday's announcement seemed to promote the notion of restoring the Shanklin – Ventnor section, plus running Network Rail services between Ryde and Newport, apparently in conjunction with the Isle of Wight Steam Railway heritage service between Smallbrook Junction and Wooton Bridge!
In the hope that public transport will regain its role as mass passenger carriers once the Covid-19 virus is put in its place, and we can all enjoy seaside holidays again, here are some photos of happy times enjoying travel on that glorious island, where ancient trains trundle, buses tackle incredible gradients, and ice cream and cream teas abound. Starting this sequence is a “happy family” shot on the upper deck of open-topper Bristol VRT /ECW Southern Vectis fleet no. 506, on route 44 Sandown Zoo – Shanklin Esplanade, climbing Sandown High Street in August 1991.
This is a film detail shot of the room full of computers at abandoned Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in New Orleans. When I look at it, I imagine how the mission statement posted on the wall must have taken on a strange meaning with the high water mark sitting just below it. Floating above Lake Six Flags. Some people boated through the ruins. I imagine them reading "To deliver Family Fun and Fond Memories for all of Our Guests" just hovering on the water. A surreal hope, but their mission was successful with me. I will never forget the intensity I felt wandering the ruins.
My credit card statement consists of two sheets of paper, one I keep with the amount spent each month, this sheet is surplus to my requirements so I shred it.
As you see I used it for a few sums :)
A quick candid at a recent visit to a coffee shop...........loved the look of these Dolce & Gabbana glasses and the elegant look, just waited for the far lady to lean into the picture for a defocused image to highlight the glasses more!
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Now that it's officially Spring, we can at least start thinking about umbrellas instead of parkas - despite a "special weather statement," which suggests very wintry weather for the next couple of days.
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Voor de ingang van Algemene Zaken, stond een jonge vrouw op een kruk met ontbloot bovenlijf terwijl ze haar borsten met viltstiften aan het roodkleuren was. Niemand wist wat hier gebeurde, na enig rondvragen zei iemand: "vraag het haar zelf maar". Dus dat deed ik. "Ik maak een statement" zei ze. Waarover, waartegen, waarom? "Een radicaal statement" zei ze. Maar ondertussen kwamen 2 politieagenten die haar sommeerden de borsten te bedekken en mee te komen naar.... nog onbekend.
Iemand vroeg mijn kaartje (heb ik altijd bij me) want ze wilden deze foto's wel hebben. Ik hoor later wel waarover dit radicale statement ging.
Jacolinde Geerte, kunstwerk
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performance, ± 6 min. (with performativity(?) prolonged to 3 hrs)
For the pahmphlet i was stuck by this sentence within the assignment "a radical message in a radical way." So i first thought about what a radical way was. I believe this is when it's unerasable. So i was thinking about writing with lipstick on some white walls in the school and what not. Then it developped in being an unerasable image in peoples minds. Or maybe what wpuld.ignite the most reaction.
As i did a naked performance once in school, and some were kind of crossed by that. And i knew that my breasts evoked this same kind of reaction on people, both on social media, in public and even under a shirt without bra, i wanted to do something with the ridicoulousness of this given. Especially nipples being censured as breasts are over sexualized and the increasing prudishness of society, which is especially taken out on female bodies, i wanted to question the radicality of my flesh. Is this radical enough for you? Is it radical at all? Police sure did thought so.
With writing variations of this question on my breats until covered, I state that breasts shouldn't be so radical - which apparently was quite a radical message an sich.
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Postally unused (c.1960s).
See the article by Douglas G Hope, Researcher, here: www.yorkrambling.btck.co.uk/AboutthefounderofCHAHF
In case it vanishes, here is Douglas G Hope's text:
The legacy of Thomas Arthur Leonard, founder of co-operative and communal holidays and Father of the open-air holiday movement.
Thomas Arthur Leonard, who founded the Co-operative Holidays Association (CHA) in 1893 and the Holiday Fellowship (HF) in 1913, was described on his death in 1948 as the Father of the open-air holiday movement. This article seeks to show that this epitaph is no under-statement.
By common consent, the CHA originated in 1891 when Leonard, Minister of the Dockray Square Congregational Church in Colne, Lancashire, took 32 members of the church’s social guild on a four day’s holiday to Ambleside in the Lake District. Leonard sought to dissuade the young workers of Colne from going in droves during ‘Wakes Week’ to Blackpool, Morecambe or the Isle of Man and introduce them instead to the pleasures of the wilds of Pendle Hill, Ribblesdale and the Lake District. The following photograph of that first holiday group is taken from ‘A Hundred Years of Holidays’ edited by Robert Speake, a long serving CHA Member, and published to celebrate the centenary of the CHA in 1993.
In most references to the origins of the CHA and HF, Leonard is described as the Reverend T A Leonard, a congregational minister from Colne, Lancashire, and the image presented is of an elderly Victorian gentleman. The following photograph is taken from David Hardman’s History of the Holiday Fellowship: 1913-1940, published in 1981, which also appears in Harry Wroe’s more recent Story of HFholidays, published in 2007.
What else do we know about Thomas Arthur Leonard, the man, and of his many achievements?
According to his birth certificate, Leonard was born in Finsbury, London on 12 March 1864, at 50 Tabernacle Walk near John Wesley’s first chapel on City Road, Finsbury. His father was a clock and watchmaker; Finsbury and neighbouring Clerkenwell being centres of clock and watchmaking in the 19th century. His mother was the daughter of the eminent congregational minister, John Campbell, minister at the Whitefields Tabernacle on Tabernacle Row just round the corner. Leonard, therefore, inherited a Congregationalist tradition.
Leonard’s father unfortunately died when he was five years old and the family moved to Hackney, where Leonard’s education included trips to Heidelburg in Germany, an experience which sowed the seed for his interest in International relations. Little is known about this phase of his life but Census Records show that by 1881, the family had moved to Eastbourne, where Leonard’s mother ran a lodging house. Leonard worked as a builder’s clerk and it was at Eastbourne that he met his future wife, Mary Arletta Coupe, a Sunday-school teacher. His leaning towards the congregational church led him to enrol in 1884 at the Congregational Institute in Nottingham, newly established by Dr. John Brown Paton, a pioneer of educational and social reform. Subsequent events confirm that J B Paton’s undoubted influence on Leonard shaped the character of the future CHA and HF.
After 3 years at the Nottingham Institute, Leonard took up his first pastorate at the Abbey Road Congregational Church in Barrow-in-Furness in 1887. At this time, Barrow was expanding fast with widespread squalor, sickness and conflict between migrant communities. Leonard sought to improve the social as well as spiritual conditions of his congregation but struggled to reconcile his faith and ideals with the reality of life in this Victorian boomtown. Church records reveal that he had a few differences of opinion with his deacons, who felt that he was rather too radical. It was at Barrow that he first took his congregation on rambles in the Lake District.
He resigned his post at Barrow-in-Furness at the beginning of 1890 and it was in September of that year that he arrived at Colne. The following June, he took his first holiday party to the Smallwood House Hotel on Compston Road, Ambleside. “It were champion” was the verdict of the thirty-two men who had walked the fells, heard talks on flowers and trees and the contours of the mountain scene, listened to the poetry of Wordsworth, and learned the pleasures of fellowship. The details are described in Leonard’s book Adventures in Holiday Making.
After an equally successful trip to Caernarvon in North Wales in 1892, J B Paton encouraged Leonard to expand his holiday programme under the auspices of the National Home Reading Union (NHRU), which Paton had founded in 1889. “Do it for thousands” he is reported to have said. From 1893, holidays followed to an increasing number of destinations with a voluntary committee with Paton as Chairman and Leonard as Secretary. Holidays under the auspices of the NHRU continued until 1897 when the Co-operative Holidays Association was formally constituted with Paton as President and Leonard as General Secretary.
The objects of the CHA, as set out by T A Leonard were:
To provide simple and strenuous recreative and educational holidays and to promote friendship and fellowship amid the beauty of the natural world.
Leonard has been described as a Christian Socialist and disciple of Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. There is no doubt that he was influenced by contemporary social and political thought. He gained inspiration from William Morris, Edward Carpenter and Charles Kingsley. The term guest-house for the CHA accommodation, first used when Ardenconnel House near Rhu on the Clyde was purchased in 1898, came from Morris’s News from Nowhere, although the term Gasthaus was in common usage in Germany. Lecturers and guides at CHA centres included leading academics and distinguished professionals such as Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley of Crosthwaite, near Keswick, later founder of the National Trust, who introduced the first parties to the Lake District to the poetry of Wordsworth and the teachings of John Ruskin.
Reflecting Leonard’s philosophy, the CHA’s first purpose-built centre, Moor Gate Guest House, at Hope in the Derbyshire Peak District, opened in 1916, was designed in the Arts and Crafts Style. The house was extensively refurbished in 1991 with the introduction of en-suite facilities and continued to provide all the year round CHA holidays until 1999 when it was sold to Shearings. Now privately owned, and re-named the Losehill House Hotel, it is a luxury hotel and conference centre.
Leonard was also an enthusiastic member of the fledgling Independent Labour Party in the 1890s and knew many of its leading figures. He shared a platform with Keir Hardy at a meeting in Colne in 1894 and advertised holidays in Labour Prophet, a socialist journal established by John Trevor, a Unitarian Minister who founded the Labour Church. Leonard was outspoken at meetings on socialism, betting and liquor reform and the local paper, the Colne and Nelson Times, reported many of his speeches and activities during his time at Colne. In fact, his socialist views once again caused friction with the deacons of his church, although the majority of his congregation strongly supported him.
Leonard resigned his Ministerial post at Colne Congregational Church in 1894 in order to pursue his wider social aspirations. Letters and other contributions to the Colne and Nelson Times illustrate the heart-felt sorrow of many of his congregation at his decision to leave his work at Colne.
Leonard and his wife left Colne on 24 December 1894 “accompanied by the well wishes of a large crowd of townspeople who met them at Colne Station”. Leonard spent 1895 running J B Paton’s first Social Institute in Islington, London, although he did return to Colne on a number of occasions to preach and give speeches in local halls. During 1895, the holiday scheme operated from an office in South Tottenham and in 1896 from the CHA’s first centre at Abbey House, Whitby. However, by 1897, the continued expansion of the holiday programme required a permanent office and so the Co-operative Holidays Association was established as a legal entity.
By 1913, the CHA had thirteen British centres catering for 20,000 guests. Although foreign travel was not one of its original objectives, the CHA experimented with trips to Switzerland, France, Germany and Norway. During this time, Leonard became great friends with J B Paton’s son, John Lewis Paton, who as High Master of Manchester Grammar School was an outstanding educationalist of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. With J L Paton, Leonard organised exchange school trips between Britain and Germany, students and young workers staying at CHA centres.
It came as a great shock to many members of the CHA, when in November 1912, Leonard announced his intention to resign from his post as General Secretary of the CHA and form a new organisation. The reason given by Leonard in his book was his desire to extend the work begun 20 years ago and bring holidays within the reach of poorer folk. Records reveal a growing dis-satisfaction with the General committee’s desire to improve the quality of centres. In his letter of resignation he makes his views clear:
I have been conscious for some time that an important section of the Committee have lacked confidence in my judgement upon certain matters…..The questions upon which my advice has been passed over has reference to the appointment or otherwise of Manageresses, the selection of furnishings, provisioning and other arrangements at the centres.
It may also be that his opinions on British-German relations jarred with the views of some members of the Association. Leonard was a convinced pacifist and supported efforts to prevent the outbreak of the First World War. He became great friends with a number of like-minded labour politicians. Hubert Beaumont, a future Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in the 1945 Labour Government, was a family friend before the First World War and both Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden (Prime Minister and Chancellor respectively of the Labour Government in the 1920s) were visitors to Leonard’s home at ‘Bryn Corach’ at Conwy in North Wales during World War One. In his book he describes ‘Bryn Corach’ as ‘A haven of peace to many nerve-strained folk from the raided areas and for the soldiers in training and their friends, and not least to those peace-lovers who suffered for their principles in those days’.
Nevertheless, the split with the CHA was reasonably amicable, with the HF taking over the CHA’s centre at Newlands in the Lake District and a centre at Kelkheim in Germany. The objects of the new organisation were similar to those of the CHA but with a greater emphasis on International Relations. There was no thought of competition between the two organisations.
Prior to 1913, Leonard had moved from CHA centre to CHA centre. Leaving Colne in December 1894, he lived in Tottenham, London for a year and then took up residence at Abbey House, Whitby in 1896. The CHA’s office and Leonard moved to Ardenconnel, Rhu in 1899 and then to Park Hall, Hayfield in 1902. When the CHA established its office in Brunswick Street, Manchester in 1908, the Leonard’s took up residence in Marple Bridge, near Stockport. In 1914 he moved to ‘Bryn Corach’, Conwy, the HF’s first headquarters.
Leonard was General Secretary of HF from 1914 until 1925 when HF decided to establish its headquarters in London. He resigned as General Secretary and the post of International Secretary was created for him, a post he occupied from 1925-1930. He then took a back seat, moving from ‘Bryn Corach’ into a nearby cottage, ‘Wayside’ in 1935, but remained on the General Committee. He was elected President of the HF in 1938/39 and was then Vice-President until his death in 1948.
By the time of his death, HF operated some 30 centres with over 45,000 guests. CHA meanwhile had also expanded and operated some 25 guest houses with 30,000 guests. Notwithstanding Leonard’s aim of returning to more Spartan accommodation, the CHA and HF developed in a very similar way with country house accommodation. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, the HF operated some 40 British Centres catering for over 60,000 guests. The CHA, renamed Countrywide Holidays in 1964, operated 25-30 guest houses catering for some 30,000 guests. The following graph shows how the two organisations were seriously affected by changing economic circumstances in the latter part of the twentieth century. Recession and inflation in the 1980s led to a considerable down-sizing of both organisations with the CHA eventually going out of business in 2004 with the sale of its last property, Stanley Ghyll House in Eskdale in the Lake District.
Although Leonard’s involvement with HF declined after 1930, he never rested on his laurels. It’s probably true to say that through the 1920s and 30s, Leonard also became dis-satisfied with the progress of the HF. Minutes reveal him constantly trying to reign-in those who wanted to continually expand and improve the standard of accommodation provided. He pushed for youth centres and Spartan accommodation such as that provided at Wall End Farm in Great Langdale in the Lake District, rather than the country house type of accommodation favoured by the General Committee of HF.
His desire to keep accommodation as simple as possible led him to play a prominent part in the establishment of the Youth Hostels Association. It was at the headquarters of the Liverpool HF Club that the Liverpool & District Branch of the British YHA was set up in December 1929 by Leonard, Harry H Symonds, Tom Fairclough and others. When the YHA was formally founded in April 1930, Leonard became one of its four Vice-Presidents. When he was gifted Goldrill House in Patterdale by HF on his retirement in 1932, he promptly let it to the YHA as one of its first youth hostels.
He was President of the Merseyside Ramblers’ Federation before the establishment of the Ramblers’ Association and chaired the first meeting of the ten Area Ramblers’ Federations held in 1931 to form the National Council of Ramblers’ Federations. He became the National Council’s first Chairman and continued in this role until 1938 when the Ramblers’ Association was formed. He then became the Ramblers’ Association’s first President, a role he held until 1946 when it was taken over by John Dower, the architect of the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act.
Leonard was connected with a range of other organisations. He strongly supported the National Trust (founded by his close friend, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and Octavia Hill), the Footpaths Preservation Society and the Campaign for National Parks. He was a founding member of the Friends of the Lake District in 1934. He was President of the Grey Court Fellowship, founded in 1935 to provide holidays for unemployed workers and their families from North-east Lancashire. They still run a holiday centre near Arnside on Morecambe Bay. He founded the Family Holidays Association after the Second World War, which was formed to convert derelict Government training camps into holiday homes for families. This organisation continued well into the 1960s.
Leonard joined the Society of Friends shortly after the First World War, the absence of a rigid creed and the freedom for intellectual thought which it afforded appeal strongly to him and he was a member of the Colwyn Bay Meeting for almost 30 years. In reaching this decision he might well have been influenced by friends and acquaintances such as Arnold Rowntree, Liberal MP, who championed the cause of conscientious objectors during the First World War. Arnold Rowntree was a prominent Quaker from the famous York confectionary family and was the first President of the Holiday Fellowship.
Leonard was awarded the OBE in the 1937 Coronation Honours for his work in outdoor activities. The extent of his influence on the development of countryside leisure is illustrated by the range of organisations represented at his 80th birthday celebrations held at the Friend’s House in London on 18 March 1944 attended by almost 100 guests.
The attendance book is signed by representatives of the CHA, HF, YHA, Ramblers’ Association, National Trust and the Councils for the Protection of Rural England and Rural Wales. All these organisations owed their existence to some degree to the example set by Leonard. Many of Leonard’s old friends such as Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and Ramsay MacDonald had died by 1944 but signatories include Lord Woolton, President of CHA, who as Fred Marquis was MD of Lewis’s in Liverpool before World War Two and was Minister for Food during the war (and famous for “Woolton Pie”); Hubert Beaumont, Derbyshire County Councillor between the wars and Labour MP in Ramsay MacDonald’s Government in the 1930s; C E M Joad, an eminent philosophy, ranking alongside Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw, who also visited Leonard at ‘Bryn Corach’; Tom Stephenson, celebrated access campaigner and originator of the Pennine Way; Harry Griffin, journalist and writer, who wrote the Guardian’s Country Diary for 53 years; and John Lewis Paton, son of J B Paton who had such a strong influence on the development of the CHA and HF. Arnold Rowntree, President of HF, was too ill at the time to attend the celebrations but York was represented by Walter Ingleby, President of the York CHA & HF Rambling Club.
In his book, The Englishman’s Holiday published in 1947, J A R Pimlott ranks Leonard alongside Thomas Cook and Billy Butlin as a pioneer of the holiday movement.
A series of photographs taken in 1947, probably for a newspaper article, glorify Leonard’s accomplishments.
When he died he was cremated at a simple Friends Service at Anfield Crematorium in Liverpool. Obituaries appeared in newspapers published all over England, Wales and Scotland. They describe him as at his best and happiest when originating some new venture; a crusader; also a rebel, never reluctant to ‘tilt at windmills’; but also generous and gracious. One obituary states “His fertile imagination, his great powers of persuasion, his friendship and warm heartedness were responsible for the initiation and success of many enterprises which brought joy, happiness, fellowship and comfort to tens of thousands. He sought no personal gain for himself.’
The memorial plaques erected after his death are inscribed with the words: Believing that “The best things any mortal hath are those which every mortal shares”, he endeavoured to promote “Joy in widest commonalty spread”. The first part is taken from a hymn, written by Quaker Lucy Larcom, which was a popular CHA and HF song before the Second World War. The second part is taken from Wordsworth’s poem, ‘The Prelude’. They epitomise Leonard’s approach to holiday making and are still relevant today.
This article has concentrated on Leonard and his many achievements in the field of outdoor recreation. He has been somewhat ignored in recent times, as his vision of simple, affordable and sober holiday-making combined with the quiet enjoyment of the countryside has suffered as a result of increasing consumerism, changing cultural attitudes and expectations, and the search for more adventurous and exciting forms of outdoor recreation. Nevertheless, his promotion of friendship and fellowship in the outdoors remains as relevant today as it was 100 years ago.
His achievements in the outdoor recreation movement are rather under-rated today and I hope, through my research, to put that right.
Douglas G Hope
Researcher
by the way
next backpacker
filthy dreads
on trains in summer
psitrancejeans, crumbs flying
four words:
stun-guns in the night
It's not going to be a good day/week.
As of Wednesday morning, there are 149 active wildfires burning in Quebec and 52 fires burning in northern Ontario. By this time last year, 202 fires had burned throughout Quebec. This year so far, the province has seen 435 wildfires.
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