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“John Martin’s Book for Little Children,” August 1913, Vol. II, No. 1
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Later note: I have seen an excellent blog by Dawn (appropriately at 5 AM in Sept, 2008) about the Happifat line of dolls, dishes, and illustrations. Hopefully, this address will work:
candgdesign.blogspot.com/2008/09/happifats-for-happiness....
According to her information, "These are Happifats, they entered the market the same time as the Kewpie,and are created by Kate Jordan. Patented in 1914."
John Morphett and ancestors.
John Morphett was born in London in 1809 as the son of Nathaniel and Mary Morphett. His parents had married in 1806 in London. Nathaniel had his own law firm but came from a long line of land owners in Kent and Mary came from Cummins in Devon. John was educated in Plymouth and then a prestigious school in London. After his schooling he began work with a ship broker in 1825 at 16 years of age. At 21 years of age (1831) he left the shipping world of London to join his cousin in Alexandria Egypt. He worked for a maritime firm in Alexandria. Here he met Colonel William Light when he was in Egypt. Between 1831 and 1834 he learnt about Mediterranean climates and suitable agriculture for those climatic zones, such as olives, figs, tobacco, and rice. Crops he thought
would thrive in SA. John Morphett arrived in September 1836. In 1838 he married the daughter of the Resident Commissioner James Hurtle Fisher. John and Elizabeth had eleven children: 1840 boy who died; 1840 Mary; 1841 Amy; 1843 Ada; 1844 John Cummins; 1846 Adelaide; 1849 George Cooper; 1850 Violet; 1852 Charles Edward; 1854 James Hurtle; 1855 Hurtle Willoughby and 1859 Marian. Of the Morphett boys James Hurtle, Charles Edward and Hurtle Willoughby never married. George died young and only John Cummins Morphett married. When John Morphett died in 1892 he was buried in West Terrace cemetery in a family vault.
John Cummins Morphett 1844 to 1936 was a public servant from 1873 to 1918 rising to the position of the Clerk
of State Parliament for many years. On his death in 1936 he was survived by one son and three daughters. His son George Cummins Morphett 1876 to 1963 established a property near Corowa on the Murray River but returned to SA and Woods Point in 1917 when his brother Arthur Morphett was killed on active service in France during World War One. On the death of George Cummins Morphett in 1963 he left one son to carry on the family name - Hurtle Cummins Morphett born in 1906 and died in 1992. John’s other son born in 1940 at Burra died as a baby. George Cummins Morphett( 1876 to 1963)’s daughters were Audrey Cummins Morphett 1902 to 1983 and Mary Cummins Morphett 1908 to 1970 and neither of these sisters married. Audrey Morphett was famous for her work with the Girl Guides Association. George Cummins Morphett’s son Hurtle Cummins Morphett received the Military Cross for his bravery during his World War Two service in New Guinea and North Africa. Hurtle Cummins Morphett had two sons and two daughters. Hurtle Cummins Morphett decided to sell Cummins House in 1976. Premier Don Dunstan bought the property for the government to ensure its preservation thus ending the occupation of it by generations of the Morphett family from 1842. Hurtle Cummins Morphett’s sons were John Cummins Morphett born in 1942 and George Cummins Morphett born in 1951. John Cummins Morphett never married but George Cummins Morphett born in 1951 had four young sons. The fine marble memorial to Sir John and Lady Morphett is in the St Peters Anglican Church in Torrens Square Glenelg.
John Morphett’s brother George Morphett (1811-1893) also came to settle in South Australia. George Morphett arrived at Holdfast Bay in December 1840. He had a Land Grant order of one town acre located on South Terrace. By 1841 he had set up his legal practice and was sworn into the Bar of the Adelaide Supreme Court. He returned briefly to England and returned with his wife and three children in 1846 with one of the three being born on the voyage. Upon his return he also worked as a land seller and speculator especially for town blocks in the city square mile. He was a director of several companies and banks. He was a member of parliament 1860 to 1861. He returned permanently to England in 1860 resigning from parliament in 1861.
Morphett Street and Whitmore Square.
There is no better introduction to the role of John Morphett in our state and city than Morphett Street. Surveyor General William Light had total authority to select the site of the capital for the new province but his authority to name the streets was less clear. Governor Hindmarsh wanted to assume that power and said so publically but citizens and others were going to thwart the unpopular Governor in this matter. To defuse the situation Robert Gouger the Colonial Secretary called a special meeting for the purpose of naming the streets. The Street Naming Committee formed in mid 1837 included four non official members - John Morphett, John Barton Hack, Edward Stephens and Thomas Strangways to ensue Governor Hindmarsh did not control the decisions. Morphett had one of only three main north south streets named after him. (Frome Street, now the current third north south street did not go from North Terrace to South Terrace in Light’s original town plan.) This street had significance to Morphett as at the other end on the corner of North Terrace in Holy Trinity Anglican Church he married Elizabeth Fisher, the eldest daughter of the Resident Commissioner James Hurtle Fisher on 15th August 1838. Morphett Street dissects Whitmore Square but who was Whitmore?
William Wolryche Whitmore was an aristocrat from Shropshire who favoured the interests of the poor and middle classes rather than the upper classes. He opposed the British Corn Laws which set high prices on corn and grain which advantaged the owners of large estates but disadvantaged the general populous. He was a reformer. He replaced Wilberforce in the Abolition of Slavery movement when Wilberforce retired; he was a politician elected to the House of Commons not just sitting by right in the House of Lords. He spoke out against injustice and he supported the ending of discrimination against Catholics. Although he never visited South Australia he supported the colony and as a friend of Robert Gouger he was made the Chairman of the South Australian Land Company when it was established in 1831. Its attempt to get the Colonial Office to establish a colony failed. It was followed by The South Australian Association in 1833 which also unsuccessfully lobbied for a new colony. Next William Whitmore addressed a public meeting in London in June 1834 to propose the idea of a colony in South Australia. John Morphett also addressed that meeting and declared “In my heart I am now a South Australian.” The meeting was a great success. The press supported it and a bill was introduced, by Whitmore to the House of Commons soon afterwards and it passed both houses and obtained Royal Assent on 15th August 1834. This Act included a dual system of government- a land company and a Colonial Office government through a Crown Governor. As a result of the 1834 Act the South Australian Company was founded in 1835 to raise loans to finance the new colony and to pre sell land - the Westminster SA Act required £80,000 to be raised in loans and £35,000 to be raised from land sales before the province could be proclaimed. George Fife Angas played a major role in selling land orders and encouraging colonisation to South Australia but so did young John Morphett too. He arranged 100 land orders. Morphett also has a major city road, suburb and country town named after him.
John Morphett and Early South Australia.
Morphett returned to England from Egypt in 1834 and worked as a land broker. He was soon involved in pre selling land or land orders for the proposed colony of South Australia. As a land agent he got a 5% commission through his father’s legal firm. The South Australian Company was formed on 15 October 1835. Morphett then began promoting land sales for the SA Company. To comply with the SA Act passed by the British Parliament in 1834 the SA Company had to raise £80,000 in loans and a further £35,000 in preliminary land sales to meet conditions set down in this legislation. Preliminary land sales soon reached £35,000. Those buying land through the preliminary sales generally got 134 acres for their £80 not 80 acres.
John Morphett was a founding member of the Statistical Committee set up in November 1835 by a group of prospective settlers and investors who were alarmed at remarks made by Governor Hindmarsh that he would do as he pleased when he was Governor of the colony. They wanted to record all expenditure and activity in case it was needed to discipline Governor Hindmarsh. John Morphett was a passenger on the Cygnet which arrived at Nepean bay on Kangaroo Island on 11 Sept 1836 with the surveying party. Morphett immediately set about exploring Kangaroo Island. Colonel William Light and his surveyors left London after the Cygnet, a speedier boat which arrived earlier on 20 August 1836. Light did his first surveys around Nepean Bay. Morphett explored to Kingscote and found a group of American sealers growing vegetables at American River. The five SA Company vessels with settlers had arrived on Kangaroo Island earlier in July and August 1836. They were camped at Kingscote. On 11 October 1836 Morphett travelled with Colonel Light to Rapid Bay. Morphett wrote back to London urging land investors to buy up land or migrate to live in the almost English park like landscapes. In November 1836 Morphett and the official surveyors’ party explored the plains from Holdfast Bay when the Torrens River was discovered and when a suitable harbour at Port Adelaide was discovered. Morphett was the first to see the land he was soon going to sell to colonists.
When disquiet erupted among the colonists in early 1837 over the site of the city of Adelaide, Governor Hindmarsh supported a site near the port; Colonel William Light who had the final responsibility for selecting the site remained committed to the eventual site of Adelaide. A public meeting was held for land purchasers to vote on the matter and John Morphett represented 115 of the 218 voters who favoured Light’s choice. So John Morphett had considerable influence on the siting of Adelaide by amassing support for Light’s location and not the favoured location of governor Hindmarsh. If the public vote had not supported Light’s choice he could have ignored the decision of the public meeting anyway. John Morphett was quick to purchase land for himself at Holdfast Bay in 1838 hence the naming of Morphettville and the Morphettville Race Course.
In 1839 John Morphett supported the Special Surveys of 4,000 acres for £4,000 in an area selected by the buyers. Morphett took advantage of the them; firstly he took out 4,000 acres at Wellington on the Murray River which was largely untouched until his two sons developed Woods Point in 1880; he then enlarged this Special Survey with another of 2,000 acres along the Murray River to Murray Bridge; then he took out 1,000 acres of the Hutt River Special Survey with John Horrocks; he took out another full Special Survey of 4,000 acres called the Green Hills survey around the Ashbourne to Macclesfield districts; then he took out two adjoining Special Surveys totalling 9,000 acres on the Light River from Kapunda north to Waterloo on behalf of the Secondary Towns Association and its investors; and finally he bought the Upper Wakefield Special Survey of 4,000 acres from Auburn, Mintaro to Clare with Arthur Young. Morphett was buying land primarily to re sell it. The only land he appears to have held for a long time and developed was the land along the Murray River at Woods Point and Jervois.
With the loss of the American colonies still in their minds the British parliament passed an Act in 1842 for Better Government in South Australia. To appease public dissatisfaction with the progress of the colony four non official members were nominated to the Legislative Council – they included John Morphett described as land salesman. Once copper was found at Kapunda in 1842 Morphett then took a great interest in investing in mining wherever minerals were found in South Australia. He became a director of the Adelaide Mining Company and other companies as they emerged. The British government then wanted to change the laws to extract royalties from any minerals found on Crown land. Morphett and 1,500 others objected to this proposal. Governor Robe acquiesced when Morphett walked out of a Legislative Council meeting thus leaving it with no quorum. Not long after Governor Robe left the colony. As a non-official member of the Legislative Council Morphett had shown he would support the interests of the general population (and his own) and not budge from opposing the Governor. From 1850 there was a new Legislative Council with two thirds of the members elected and with a speaker to preside over meetings not the Governor. John Morphett became the Speaker. Full self-government came in 1857 with a Constitution and full male franchise. John Morphett was one of the first elected members and Boyle Finniss the First Minister. In recognition of his service to the legislative processes John Morphett was knighted in 1870.
John Morphett was not only a state politician until 1873 but also a member of many community organisations and committees. Among the committees he was a leader or member of were: the Protection of Aborigines; the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association, the Mechanics Institute, the Botanic Gardens Board, the Chamber of Commerce, the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the South Australian Subscription Library, the South Australian Club, the South Australian Cricket Club etc. He was also a director of insurance and bank companies. He also had a strong interest in the scientific breeding of both cattle and sheep. Although he never saw himself as a pastoralist and he always lived at Cummins House he had investments in several large northern pastoral runs including Telowie, Baroota, and Mount Brown near Quorn. His main land holdings were those along the Murray River at Woods Point and Jervois.
Morphett’s property at Holdfast Bay.
Morphett’s Holdfast Bay property was acquired by a Land Order in May 1838 comprising section 152 of the Hundred of Adelaide. For his prepaid £81 he received 134 acres instead of the usual 80 acres. He had walked around the area so he chose his land carefully once the survey was done as the Sturt River flowed through it and nearby was the estuary of the River Torrens at the Patawalonga and the land was basically good alluvial soil from annual flooding. On the south his property was bounded by the Bay Road (Anzac Highway) which had the driveway to Cummins House and later a gate house (now demolished) on the corner of Bay Road and Morphett Road. As there was no bridge across the Sturt River John Morphett and several other Glenelg landowners in 1842 spent £45 on the first wooden bridge across the Sturt River on Bay Road. Gradually the Cummins estate of 134 acres was reduced in size. In 1873 the Glenelg Railway began a train service but that did not encroach upon Morphett’s land. Then in 1878 Sir John Morphett gave permission for the new Holdfast Bay Railway to cross his property when he sold some land to it and the Holdfast Bay Railway began operations in 1880. This was a private company railway not a government one. In 1882 both railways – Holdfast Bay and Glenelg amalgamated and in 1929 they ceased using the line near Cummins. Earlier in 1914 South Australia Railways had taken over the Glenelg Railway and in 1929 they gave the railway, by then electrified, to the Municipal Tramways Trust which operated the track as the Glenelg tramline. In 1919 John Cummins Morphett sold a further 25 acres near Bay Road for soldier settler housing and a reserve. A further 42 acres were sold to the Lutheran Church for Immanuel College in 1954 and in 1964 31 acres was subdivided for housing. So around 30 acres remained in 1976 when the property was sold to the SA government.
Cummins House.
Morphett’s Cummins House is one of the oldest residences in South Australia as it was built and occupied in 1840. It was named after John Morphett’s mother’s family farm in England. The original 12 rooms of Government House were occupied by Governor Gawler in 1840; Charles Sturt’s The Grange was also occupied in 1840; and George Strickland Kingston’s House at Marino was also built in 1840. The first part of Cummins House consisted of the dining room, the entrance hall, the master bedroom, the morning room and a guest room. It was built in red brick at a time when bricks were very expensive and difficult to obtain so Morphett had them made in a small kiln on his property with clay from the banks of the Sturt River. It was designed with a Mediterranean feel with the loggia off the dining room and the arched entrance porch (1854) and wooden louvres or shutters on windows etc. As was usual for those times servants would have been accommodated nearby and the kitchen would have been in a detached building. In 1854 substantial additions were made designed by George Kingston the SA surveyor and architect. The loggia was enclosed and converted to a grand sitting room with a fine rounded seating area and the extensive scullery, kitchens and servants quarters were built around the courtyard. Some of these 9 or 10 rooms would have been bedrooms for the Morphett children. Finally in 1906 an attached caretaker’s flat of three main room was added. The house had a cellar and bathrooms too. As with most grand houses there was a gate keeper’s Lodge (now demolished) at the gateway to the property on the corner of Morphett and Bay Road. Cummins always had a fine garden which included peaches, nectarines, grapes and extensive vegetable beds. The Morphett’s dammed part Sturt River to ensure a constant water supply to the house and garden. The last additions of 1906 were commissioned by John Cummins Morphett who was living in Cummins with his family by then as Lady Cummins died in 1905. John Cummins Morphett died in 1936 and Cummins House was then occupied by George Cummins Morphett until he died in 1963. Cummins then passed to George’s only son Hurtle Cummins Morphett who sold the property in 1977.
Because of its location the Morphett family worshipped at St Peters Anglican Church Glenelg once it was founded in 1852. The architect was a local Glenelg resident Edward Wright. In 1881 the church was demolished and a new bigger grander church was built where the Morphett family continued to worship. Inside the 1881 church is a fine marble memorial to Sir John and Lady Morphett, installed by the family after the death of Lady Morphett in 1905. The Morphetts were well known in Glenelg and Sir John was partial to a daily morning swim in the ocean throughout the year. Cummins was bought the state government in 1977 and it is leased to the City of West Torrens and managed by the Cummins Society Incorporated.
Morphettville Race Course.
John Morphett was a devoted horseman and loved the sport of horse racing. He is reputed to have had the first two horses in the colony. They were essential at that time as the only other mode of transport was by foot. Morphett hosted the first horse race in South Australia in 1838 in conjunction with Colonel William Light, James Hurtle Fisher (his father-in-law) and Fisher’s son Charles ( C.B.) Fisher near Fisher’s Thebarton property. Eight hundred people attended the first race meeting on New Year’s Day 1838. The event was successful and was a catalyst for the formation of the South Australian Jockey Club. A second race meeting was held in August 1838 and following that a public meeting was held to establish the Turf Club of South Australia the forerunner of the SA Jockey Club. This Jockey Club was formed in 1856 and John Morphett served as a Steward for it in 1857 and became its Chairman in 1858. His horse named The President was the winner of a race in 1859 which rewarded Morphett with a six inch high gold cup. Morphett served as a Steward of the SA Jockey Club at various times up until 1881. In 1864 the first Adelaide Cup race meeting was held and in 1875 the Morphettville race course opened on section 135 although race meetings continued at Victoria Park race track. John Morphett had never owned this land of 160 acres as that land had been bought by Sir Thomas Elder in 1874. Elder leased it to the Jockey Club. Morphettville opened with a grand stand to seat 500 people. In later years when the Holdfast Bay Railway operated they ran trains of ten carriages every half hour on race days. Morphett bred thoroughbreds for racing and followed competitive racing for decades. He was known to ship his bloodstock to Victoria at times.
When a neighbour at Glenelg offered Morphett the land on which the Old Gum tree stood Morphett suggested it be given to the Corporation of Glenelg which occurred. The land owner John hector donated the land in 1857 to the Glenelg Council. In 1887 a ceremony was held at the Old Gum Tree where the proclamation ceremony had been held 50 years previously. Attending were four people who had witnessed the 1836 Proclamation and they included Lady Morphett and Sir John Morphett.
Morphett Property along the Murray River at Woods Point.
This township is rather unique in SA as it was basically a private Morphett town. Sir John Morphett had taken out the Special Survey in 1839; he later bequeathed the Woods Point area to one of his sons who developed the town, and the property and became the “squire” of the district. He was Hurtle Morphett who died in 1938. (His name came from the marriage between a daughter of Hurtle Fisher and John Morphett.) The township was
named after the first white resident of the district who ran a private ferry service across the Murray at this location. In the early 1840s the ferry crossings, by local boat operators, were at Edward’s crossing (now Murray Bridge), Thompson’s crossing (Swanport), Wood’s crossing (Woods Point) and Morphett’s crossing at Wellington. Jimmy Woods was an eccentric man who lived alone at this spot and ran the ferry for John Morphett who owned the land. John Morphett appears to have laid out the town with the names of members of his family in the early 1880s with streets names of Jean, Hurtle, Morphett, Arthur etc. Sixteen workers’ houses, a superintendent’s house and a manager’s house (Mr Baily) were all erected almost simultaneously at Woods Point plus another house nearer the river, perhaps for the pump house worker around 1890. They all still remain, except for one. The Woods Point property employed all these workers as John Morphett and his sons were early river flat irrigators, the second in South Australia after former Governor Sir William Jervois. Governor Jervois in 1880, a former British army engineer introduced the concept of irrigated river flats for lush pasture and dairy cattle at
Jervois. Sir John Morphett began building levees at his Woods Point property in 1881 also enclosing his river flats for irrigation. During construction workers were paid 7 or 8 shillings a day. Once this happened the Woods Point station employed over 60 men and their families. Irrigated lucerne was grown on the flats for the dairy cattle and the acquired freehold land in the Hundred of Brinkley (declared in 1860) was used for sheep and wheat. By 1904 when an audit of all large freehold properties over 5,000 acres was undertaken by the government Hurtle Morphett had 13,750 acres at Woods Point.
The Woods Point property was initially run as a grazing property until 1881. As Sir John Morphett’s sons reached adulthood, Charles Edward Morphett, John Cummins Morphett, James Hurtle Morphett and Hurtle Willoughby Morphett all had some involvement with Woods Point pastoral property. For most of his life John Morphett’s eldest son Hurtle Willoughby Morphett (1855 to 1938) ran the Woods Point property. He visited it in 1864 when he was 9 years of age. He lived there until he retired in 1928 when he moved to Murray Bridge. He never married and died in Murray Bridge in 1938 and was buried from his sister’s residence in East Terrace Adelaide. Upon his death the property was managed by another member of the Morphett family until they sold all properties at Woods Point. When old enough a nephew, Arthur Hurtle Morphett (1877 to 1916) whose father was John Cummins Morphett also worked on at Woods Point. Arthur Hurtle enlisted in the armed forces for World War One and he was killed on active service in France in late 1916. He was married and had a daughter Bessie born 1880, an infant daughter who died at 6 months in 1882 and another daughter Lucy born in 1883. In 1917 George Cummins Morphett (1876 to 1963) returned from his 3,500 acres property at Corowa in the Riverina to help manage Woods Point after the death of his brother Arthur Hurtle. By this time Woods Point was owned and run by H. W. Morphett and Co belonging to Hurtle Willoughby Morphett. He was the one, who in 1912 built at his cost a school at Woods Point which was financed by him until 1923 when it became an Education Department school. In the 1920s and 1930s Methodist Church services were held in the school. The school at Woods Point closed in 1972. From 1906 Hurtle Morphett employed Mr Percy Baily as his manager. In the early 1920s Percy Bailey was in charge of eight Barwell Boys serving a three year indenture as farm labourers from England. They boys had to be between 15 and 18 years when they left England. The school at Woods Point closed in 1972.
In 1929 a newspaper report stated that Hurtle Willoughby Morphett had 1,000 acres of irrigated lucerne and other grasses at Woods Point, a dairy herd of 400 cows ( a lot for hand milking!) and around 100 employees. The well fed cows produced 800 gallons of a milk a year compared with the SA average of 400 gallons a year. He ran 15 sheep to the acre of the irrigated river flats for fattening them. The property had international and state visitors wanting to learn about irrigating the river flats. These visitors included the Department of Agriculture head, Agricultural Bureaus from around the district and high school boys learning about agriculture. The Governor of SA also visited the Woods Point property. It was seen as a model farm. Hurtle Morphett ran the property with his nephew George Cummins Morphett at that time. George was also the Chairman of the Adelaide Milk Supply Cooperative AMSCOL and he ran for the seat of Murray in state parliament in the 1930s. The irrigated river flats were also used by the Morphetts for growing onions and potatoes and for fattening lambs. When Hurtle Morphett retired in 1928 some surplus land totalling 6,200 acres was put up for sale. After Hurtle Willoughby Morphett died in 1938 the Woods Point estate was broken up into smaller farms and the town houses were sold. The end of the Morphett era at Woods Point was 1945 when 1,500 people attended the final sale of lands. Stock was cleared at a sale in September 1945. Photo above is Woods Point School.
Adjoining Woods Point was the small settlement of Jervois. John Morphett took out this Special Survey in 1839 for the Secondary Towns Association. Most of those investors were in London and never visited SA. Small parcels of land were sold off for freehold farmlets. It was a tiny agricultural settlement far from the capital city but close to the Wellington. But things changed in 1881 when the Governor of the day, Sir William Jervois (1877-1883) purchased 3,300 acres of land for himself there. As a former engineer he set about draining the river flats, creating levees and developing irrigated lucerne pastures for dairy cattle. This was a first for SA.
Apart from Woods Point Sir John Morphett was a pastoralist, often in partnership with Sir Samuel Davenport. The two of them took out leaseholds at Baroota near Port Pirie using Port Germein as the port to export their wool. They also took out leaseholds north of Port Augusta and around Wilmington at Mount Brown, Beautiful Valley and at Telowie near Baroota. Morphett and Davenport also held Caroona station in the 1870s at Iron Knob.
John Morphett and mining and the Morphett Engine House Burra.
Adjacent to Morphett’s engine house built in 1858 is Morphett’s pool and Morphett’s winding house all close to Morphett’s shaft. The engine house was built to contain a Cornish beam engine and the three storey engine house was built by Cornish stone masons. This mine was part of the South Australian Mining Association copper mine at Burra. The Association was formed in 1841 to search for minerals and John Morphett was its lawyer. In 1845 the Association shared a Mining Special Survey of 20,000 acres after copper was discovered at Burra. The Association picked the right section and had wealth giving mines; the Princes Royal Company had bad luck and never had successful finds. John Morphett was the original Chairman of the Association as mining sped ahead in Burra and he was the director of the Association from 1854 to 1861 when he had the Morphett engine house built. Dividends and extraction of copper declined after 1860 and the shafts, including Morphett’s closed in 1870. Morphett did not own the shaft but the copper from it was for the Association of which he was a director and presumably he received substantial profits from that shaft. Morphett’s winding house at left.
Post Script Morphett Vale.
Most of this district was surveyed in 1838 and land was then put up for auction in 1840 and by August of 1840 the first crops of potatoes and wheat were growing. One of the major purchasers was the South Australian Company. At this stage they were buying up land to rent or lease to farmers so this attracted farmers with little money to the district. They did not need £80 to buy a section of land. John Morphett was directly involved as an agent for the South Australian Company and as an early colonist with considerable wealth he bought up land all over South Australia. He bought land in this district for the SA Company and probably himself and hence it was named after him. A nearby district was named after the first General Manager of the South Australian Company David McLaren. The town of Cummins on Eyre Peninsula was named after a state politician William Cummins and has no links to the Morphett family.
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My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Scotland.
Day Seventeen .. We have two nights in Glasgow starting at a wonderful airbnb in a two bedroom flat. And we have a washing machine!
Located in Glasgow Green this drinking fountain originally stood outside Langside Halls. It was erected in 1893 by public subscription after James Martin’s death. It was dedicated to him on 26 May 1894. James Martin was a senior councilor, the Town’s Master of Works, a member of the Clyde Navigation Trust, a Justice of the Peace and a highly respected Police Judge. He is well remembered for his opposition to an affluent building development when housing in the East End was deteriorating.
The highly decorated cusped arches were trimmed with rope mouldings. Cartouches contained within each lunette offer shields for memorial portraying the Glasgow Arms, a swan, a crane and the dedicatory inscription: In Memoriam/James Martin/Born 1815, Died 1892/Councillor and Magistrate of Glasgow for twenty years/ Erected by his fellow citizens/ 1893. On each side arch faceplates provided a flat surface for an inscription using raised metal letters; often the useful monition, Keep the pavement dry. Civic virtues such as temperance were often extolled in inscriptions on drinking fountains.
Doves and flowers offer decorative relief on the circular, ribbed dome. The internal capitals contain flowers. The structure is surmounted with an eagle finial.
Under the canopy stands the font (design number 18.) A circular shaft, ornamented with water lilies, rests on a wide base with canted corners. Four lion jambs support four highly decorated quatrefoil basins. Rising from the centre is a pyramid shaped stanchion decorated with swan and bird decoration. A kylix-shaped lamp terminal with four consoles offer drinking cups suspended by chains.
Symbolism was popular in Victorian times. Griffins are symbolic of guardians of priceless possessions; owls are symbolic of guardians of the afterlife, cranes are recognized as a symbol of vigilance, lions are symbolic of guardianship, and eagles represent immortality.
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A detailed interview hit the Space News presses today.
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They needed to edit out a few paragraphs to get it fit one page. Here is the original submission:
1) You've discussed an interest in traveling in lunar orbit? Why do you want to take that trip?
For the photography! The question causes me pause because I would think most of your readers would dream of going, except for the cost and safety risk. But I believe both of those will plummet in the next decade, to make these dreams manifest. I am motivated by the photographic opportunities and widened perspective that distance can afford. I am therefore not personally interested in suborbital flight, but would expect to spend some time in LEO before heading to the moon. I have flown the Zero-G flights, and am not looking to space for the weightless experience. My dream is to orbit the moon in a low orbit, lower than Apollo X, soaring over the lunar landscape in an extended space walk — seeing so much detail with a good set of lenses, and Earthrises over the rugged horizon with a wing-suit perspective soaring low — rather than landing to be confined to a small region with limited views. I am reminded of Michael Collins’ zen-like trance during his EVA: “This is the best view of the universe that a human has ever had. We are gliding across the world in total silence, with absolute smoothness… I am in the cosmic arena, the place to gain a celestial perspective.” And unlike Apollo, there is no rush. These missions will not require the training or career dedication or luck of catching the right mission assignment before the program ends; rather, the longer we wait, the cheaper and safer it should be, hopefully falling into the comfort zone for many of us.
2) In a talk at NewSpace last year, you mentioned that the cost of access to low-Earth orbit was getting cheaper and might get "ten times cheaper still." What firms or technologies are paving the way for that type of dramatic decrease in the cost of space access?
It’s primarily SpaceX’s effort to make the booster fully and rapidly reusable, with propulsive landing, as seen with their Grasshopper test vehicle. Since the Dragon spacecraft is already reusable, the vast majority of the cost of the rocket could be amortized over many launches. Sir Arthur Clarke identified the critical path when he wrote: “Escaping from Earth will not always be astronomically expensive… This will come… most important of all, through the development of reusable boosters, which can be flown for hundreds of missions, like normal aircraft.” He wrote that in July 1969, as Apollo 11 was on its way to the moon, yet nobody has taken on the challenge with liquid boosters, until now.
For small sats, there are many different efforts underway to provide launch services optimized for that scale, and given the sheer number and diversity of approaches, I assume some of them will succeed. More immediately, the standardization of secondary payload opportunities is a boon to small sats, and we have seen some launches use what I affectionately call “stowaway” pricing, where the marginal cost to add some cubesats is negligible.
3) What business opportunities would be created by that dramatic reduction in the cost of space access?
While all existing markets benefit from lower cost of access, we have been thinking about what new opportunities emerge that would not have been reasonable before, and how might one rethink the entire process flow and product framework for a given capability like Earth observation.
If we start with the assumption that launches will cost well over $100M because the satellites are large and need a whole launch vehicle, then satellite designers need to recoup that minimum cost of entry over many years, and the design exercise inevitably migrates to an expensive satellite with station keeping and space-proven technology choices. The technology age compounds with long design and build cycles and 7 to 10 year operational lives. Without low cost access, concepts like disposable satellites, for testing and then service deployment, would seem absurd.
Compare the Curiosity Rover — which sports a 2 megapixel camera from its 2004 design roots — with NASA’s recent trio of PhoneSats carrying Android smartphones; the symbolic exercise reminds us that the modern smartphone has more computational power and memory than the satellites flying with the traditional development model. These inexpensive low-power electronics and 6-axis accelerometers are the peace dividend of the cell phone wars. If we think of flying this year’s electronics versus the average in service, it’s easy to find a 1000x advantage from Moore’s Law alone. And then there are the benefits of flying low for Earth observation (with less telephoto zoom required) or lower latency communication that one might not exploit when trying to maintain long service lives. Add the benefits of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Satellites — the “RAIS” analogy to RAID in storage if you will — with advantages in development cycle time and robustness to point failures, and so on.
When you lower the cost of access — directly through reusability or indirectly by shifting to small sats — a boom in application innovation ensues, just like it did with optical fiber paving the way for the Internet and cloud services that followed.
As you might imagine from my rocketry hobby and Apollo space artifact collection, I am predisposed to space investment. For 10 years prior to SpaceX, I did not find a single proposal that warranted a meeting with the DFJ partnership; the business case just did not pencil out for venture capital as far as I could tell. Post SpaceX, the entrepreneurial activity is in florid bloom, we are negotiating a third space company investment, and we are seeing interesting opportunities across multiple continents. Every one of the proposals references what I call the “everyday low prices” on the SpaceX website. Imagine how helpful it is for a new entrant when brainstorming a new space business to simply know what their launch costs will be!
4) You mentioned that you've seen many proposals to put up constellations of small satellites for communications or Earth observation, what made Planet Labs stand out?
We look for passionate entrepreneurs with unique ideas to change the world. So it starts with the people. I first met them while launching rockets in the Black Rock Desert with my son, and these NASA scientists came to test fly a Google Android phone as a proto-satellite. We kept in touch as they left NASA and started development in a Silicon Valley garage. Their passion creates an infectious enthusiasm for the future, and their commitment to humanitarian causes and open data distances them from a typical “spy sat” orientation.
Without getting into too much detail about their product roadmap, let me say that they started the design exercise from the radical extreme of the PhoneSat project, and their approach stood out as a unique departure from all that we have seen. While their design is radically different than PhoneSat, their philosophy of using commercial components in agile space development is similar.
This has allowed Planet Labs to design and test five generations of satellites, including two orbital launch successes, before they even decided on a company name. We have never seen a company go so far with just our seed financing. And later this year, they will have at least 28 satellites in orbit, the largest remote sensing constellation ever launched.
What this enables is unprecedented frequency of Earth observation. Existing imaging markets want better frequency and coverage, and if you push it far enough, entirely new markets will arise. Every farmer could have access to the imaging data that rich farmers exploit today; commodity traders might pay more for timely rollups of global crop health; illegal fishing or deforestation could be caught in the act; natural disaster responders would have before and after imagery. With open data, apps developers can come up with all kinds of analytic cloud services from this blanket of big data from above the clouds. The list of use cases goes on, but in the broadest sense, as the founders of Planet Labs like to say, rapid cadence imagery will help us become a sustainable steward of spaceship Earth.
5) What other types of space-related businesses are attracting or are likely to attract VC funding? Asteroid Mining? Space Tourism?
So far, we have seen VC funding of Earth Observation at various scales and we would expect it to extend to the data integrator and apps layer. We have seen angel funding of novel launch vehicles, asteroid mining and space tourism/transport. Some have even found Kickstarter support for small sats.
I am interested in a rethinking of broadband constellations with a similar line of reasoning as we used with remote sensing, but with more complexity in the ground station and market development. Since we prefer businesses that can iterate early with customers on the path to a grand vision, I am also interested in space projects that begin with terrestrial applications, such as synthetic biology (for a Mars sample return with in situ gene sequencing, beaming back the code to instantiate living versions on Earth), microwave energy beaming for UAVs before rockets, even compact fusion.
Some of the projects have attracted a different kind of VC funding – donations! For example, I support the B612 Foundation, which is building a heliocentric satellite to map the NEOs that could pose a threat to the Earth for the next 100 years, and the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project at NASA Ames.
6) Are you seeing growing interest among venture capital firms in investing in commercial space startups? Why or why not?
Yes, we have found surprisingly broad interest in Planet Labs and SpaceX, but unfortunately there are many more investors addicted to the sugar buzz of consumer pop tech than the sea change of hard tech. And we find fewer still exploring sectors that have not yet demonstrated success, to boldly go…
7) How is your firm's investment in SpaceX working out compared to the way you initially imagined it would?
Oh my. SpaceX vastly exceeds expectations – financially and inspirationally; it’s truly breathtaking. Cash-flow positive for six years; $4B of contracted revenue; inspiring the nation; and building the technology to make life multi-planetary.
Let me invert the question – who besides Elon Musk could have expected the success that we have seen to date? Who could have had a vision that bold? If I wrote out the short script of the SpaceX story to date, who would have believed it in advance?
Every entrepreneur seeks to change the world. Elon doesn’t stop there. There are other worlds out there, beyond the frontiers of the imagination.
Stained glass window, presumably 1950s, in the ground floor of the bell tower of All Saints', Somerset West.
The classically modernist simplicity of line and sparse internal decoration of All Saints’, Somerset West, focuses attention on the High Altar.
A cathedral only since 2022, All Saints’ in Somerset West was opened in 1953 but the congregation is more than a century older.
The town of Somerset West, 46 km or 29 miles east of Cape Town, was established during the governorship of Sir Charles Somerset (1814-26), but the first Anglican services were only held several years later, in 1838. The Rev’d J W Sanders was sent, by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to Stellenbosch to minister to children who had been sent out to the Cape by the Children's Friend Society. On Sunday afternoons, Sanders would ride from Stellenbosch, 12 miles away, to various outlying places and hold services, but when he returned to England in 1840 these services came to an end.
A more permanent foothold for Anglicanism in the Hottentots-Holland area was established after the arrival of Bishop Grey in 1848, and then in 1855 a piece of ground between Victoria and Oak Streets was transferred to the See of Cape Town for ecclesiastical purposes. This land was consecrated and used as a burial ground, but it was not until 1860 that the building of a combined chapel and school commenced, 100 metres south of the current location.
In 1861 the Rev’d James Robert Godfrey was ordained Deacon by Bishop Gray and appointed Curate-in-Charge and schoolmaster at Somerset West. The chapel was not named and it is believed that Godfrey requested the name All Saints mainly because his birthday was on 1 November!
By the turn of the century, the old church had fallen into disrepair. Somerset West had also grown considerably, mainly because of the extension of the railway and the establishing of the De Beers Dynamite Factory. A new church was built on the Oak Street side of the Diocesan property and in 1905 Somerset West finally became a parish.
By the 1940s this second church was also in a very dilapidated state, needing constant repairs. It was proposed to build a new church and rectory on vacant land opposite the existing church.
By mid–1951 the church property between Oak and Victoria streets had been sold to the municipality for £12,500 and the Diocesan Trustees had agreed to authorise a loan of £10,000. This money, together with funds raised by donations and subscriptions, provided the sum necessary for the building of the new All Saints complex.
The new church was dedicated by Archbishop Geoffrey Clayton in 1953, but it was only in 1961 (when the bond had been repaid) that Archbishop Joost de Blank consecrated All Saints' Church.
On Pentecost Sunday 2022, All Saints was inaugurated as the Cathedral of the Diocese of False Bay and the first Dean was installed.
I am indebted to the Cathedral website, www.anglicansomersetwest.com, for this information.
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Dear MAG members and friends,
We are pleased to provide you with the details for the upcoming badminton
event. Please come and join us to have fun at all levels.
*Timing*
Sunday, *1st May, 2016* from *10.00am to 2.30pm (**10.30am start playing **so
please come 30 mins earlier for registration & briefing)*
Where : *Cen**tre de La Veyre*
*, St-Légier*
*How to get **ther**e*
*Cen**tre de La Veyre*
*Chemin La Veyre 6, 1806 St-Légier *
Tél. 021 921 49 79
By car:
Autoroute A1 (1 hour), exit:
– *Vevey* from Geneva,
For map and directions to get there, click here
*How to find us*
MAG has reserved FOUR badminton courts. At the entrance to the badminton
courts, you will need to register and make payment depending on the
category you choose.
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*Where to park*
Parking is available near the building
*Categories*
a) For “Fun” – *CHF5/person*
b) For “Tournament” – *CHF10/person*
*What to bring*
For “Fun” and “Tournament” - Your badminton racket
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For those who is coming to watch and support, you can dress up like a Pom
Pom girl/boy to support your favorite player(s). Of course you can use your
voice and applause too.
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*What will MAG provide*
Drinks and shuttlecocks
1) Nylon Shuttlecock - for “Fun”
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2) Feather Shuttlecock - for “tournament”
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*Rules (only for tournament)*
1) This category would be mixing Malaysians and Non-Malaysians (males and
females) for doubles matches. Different couples will be formed via a draw
before each game. The *winners* of the game will be mixed with the * losers*
via another draw to form new couples for the next doubles match. The
players who accumulate more victories will go to semifinals and then final.
2) Please note that in order to ensure all players play the matches
*equally* following the rule, it has been decided to have only *MAX
36* subscriptions;
so please enroll yourself as soon as possible *to guarantee a place*!
*Prize*
Only for winners (Tournament)
Please *RSVP by Mon 25th Apr *using the doodle link below. Please use the
same link for voting for the food.
doodle.com/poll/mvr4z26mf7x2s3dk
An example :
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*Food After match*
For those who would like to enjoy sushi after the match are welcomed to
join us for the price of *CHF35/person (menu is fixed)*. Sakura Sushi
restaurant is situated right in front of Vevey train station (beside Hotel
Astra). Please use the above doodle link for subscribing it.
*Take Note : Restaurant’s capacity is limited !!! Only MAX 25 places on a
first come first serve basis!*
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If you encounter any issues filling up doodle, please let us know at
mag.komunikasi@gmail.com and we will see to it.
We are looking forward to seeing you on the badminton courts for another
great get together of the Malaysian community and friends.
What are you waiting for ? Come and show us your talent…..
Yours truly,
MAG
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I got my Brixinit Box in the mail today. I started a monthly subscription with them back in July. I am impressed by their service, as it is a fun way to get rare and odd elements in the mail on a monthly basis. I currently belong to the lowest tier of their three tier subscription service, which costs me $30 a month.
If you visit the site, they are very open about their mission to spread creativity and they are supporters of "brick therapy" which is being used to help veterans with PTSD and children with autism. So, I feel like my monthly subscription goes toward a wonderful cause as well as getting me some new bricks.
The lowest tier comes with ONE mystery minifigure, TWO bags of assorted elements (one large and one small), a challenge bag that comes with bulk amounts of the featured monthly element, a builder's pro-tip pamphlet, and usually ONE surprise bag of... well... whatever. This month the surprise bag was minifigure "junk" like a smiley head, a crate, a mug, a chair, etc.
If you are interested in a monthly subscription, I've provided the link: www.brixinit.com/
Sleeping Beauty at the Subscription Rooms in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. Dress Rehearsal image. Show run: December 2025 to January 2026. © Acabashi 2026, all rights reserved. Republishing in whole, part, form, variation or adaptation in any media or on the web is not allowed. This image could be released through application. There are 40,000+ files on Wikimedia Commons that can be used under Creative Commons licence; see Acabashi at Wikimedia.
Drawing I made of an old Blonder-Tongue Wometco Home Theater subscription television decoder box. These were connected between an antenna and TV set and descrambled over-the-air pay TV programs. This was popular before cable premium movie channels or in areas with no cable television service. In New Jersey Wometco owned WWHT Channel 68 in Newark and aired WHT on WRBV Channel 65 in Vineland during the nighttime during that station's early years (Blonder-Tongue previously operated a subscription TV service Channel 68 but it was not successful).
WHT opening music, after this the picture would go haywire and sound would go off if you weren't a subscriber with a decoder...
Vore faldne (English: Our fallen) is a six-metre bronze monument, by Sven Linhart; which was paid for by nationwide public subscription and erected in memory of those Danes who gave their lives as volunteers in the service of the Allies of World War II. The monument depicts an ordinary soldier, in British Army battle dress and the characteristic British Tommy helmet .. with his head bowed, in silent remembrance of his fallen comrades, as his faces the nearby St. Alban's English church. Location: In Copenhagen's Churchill Park, just outside the Citadel's Royal Gate.
Round Up of Greeting Card Subscriptions: www.allthingspaper.net/2015/04/round-up-of-greeting-card-...
Merewether Clock Tower or Merewether Tower is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was raised by public subscription as a memorial for Sir William L. Merewether.
Designed by James Strachan, the Municipal Engineer, the foundation stone was laid by the Governor of Bombay, Sir James Fergusson in 1884. It was formally opened to the public in 1892 by the Commissioner in Sind, Sir Evan James.
The Tower stands on a base of 44 feet square and rises to a height of 102 feet.[1] Strachan designed the tower in the Gothic Revival style popular in Victorian England, to evoke the architecture of Medieval England (11th to 15th century A.D.). The structure is built in buff colored Gizri stone and shows a heightened sensitivity to detailing and emphasis on carving and decoration. The architecture takes the form of an Eleanor cross. Eleanor crosses were a series of 12 monuments erected in England by King Edward I between 1291 and 1294, in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile. Three of the original Eleanor Crosses still exist in England. Many similar neo-Gothic style structures were built in Victorian England, and impressive clock towers are found all over Pakistan.
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Hoorah, thanks to Flickr having changed its login process, and following an incident at work a few years back that resulted in yahoo logins being blocked, I can now finally log back in at the office and take advantage of my lunch break and pictures, as well as perhaps being able to restart a project of some sort.
So, taken but a few weeks back when I was lamenting having not really been taking any pictures for quite some time, in conjunction with having to make the choice of succumbing to the evil corporate decision to double my subscription fee or lose everything, I took my camera to work for a bit of a pre-working day shoot.
I'd like to get back into shooting more, not least because having looked through printed books of my Project 365s last night the whole blurb thing was also a helpful outlet. So, perhaps there will be more to come in the future, perhaps not, we shall see.
Testing DxO PureRAW 6. I had not upgraded to Version 5 and occasionally used Version 4 - but most of the time I relied on Adobe ACR and the various Topaz plugins (and lately Topaz Photo).
DxO PureRAW requires a totally different workflow as it is used prior to processing the image in ACR. It's main benefits are the much better lens corrections that are applied and it also appears that it performs better noise reduction than ACR does (and also Topaz).
DxO PureRAW 6 offers the option to write a compressed DNG files (allegedly lossless) that usually is smaller than even the original RAW file (and not the usual 3-5x file size of a regular DNG).
One problem I have is that I cannot get the compressed DNG to preview in the file explorer in windows. Makes it rather useless to keep. So my current solution is to write those DNG files into a temporary folder and delete after I finished processing. There is no option to export into ACR without writing a file; there is an option to open as a smart object directly into photoshop but that doesn't suit me at all as I am used to do most of my processing in ACR.
I may keep DxO PureRAW updated but will no longer update DxO PhotoLab as I rarely ever use it and DxO PureRAW gives me the two items I value most - lens correction and denoise.
I also just cancelled my Capture one subscription. I intended to use the program for my Sony images (general photography) but I simply can't get used to the program and it therefore is not worth the $200/year for me anymore.
D. Marcus Elieser Bloch's, ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin ... Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands ...
Berlin :Auf Kosten des Verfassers und in Commission bei dem Buchhändler Hr. Hesse,1782-1795.
SISU M-Series (6x4)
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Before skateboarding, before hip hop, before punk rock, before geeks and fandom...just a bit past Star Wars and Classic Space, there was Krass & Bernie.
It was a long walk in winter, or a good bike ride in summer, to the center of my hometown back in the day. I would go there to the only magazine shop to pick up G.I. Joe comics. One day, back in 1982, something different caught my eye. It was what became my first issue of CARtoons magazine! It was hard to believe that someone published an entire magazine of drawn automobile humor, but that's what it was. I read that mag so much that the whole thing fell apart, tattered and torn up. From then on I obsessed about finding issues, which was no easy thing. They came out sporadically every two months or so, there was no subscriptions, and the store didn't always receive them. I managed to find about twenty or so before they called it quits in 1992. To this day I still have actual dreams every once in a while about finding an issue in a store!
Within the pages I discovered many artists. My favorites being Shawn Kerri(RIP) (who would reappear later in my life when I discovered punk / Circle Jerks / Black Flag),Tom Harding, and George Trosley (who would later reappear as a joke illustrator in mens magazines!).
George's "How To Draw cars" section played a huge role in my artistic life, but it was the magazines' staple go to duo Krass & Bernie that was always the high light. This low-brow team would always get caught up in hot-rod building adventures that resulted in a multitude of freaky cars. It is from their title header, the first page that I would turn to every issue, that I got the inspiration for this MOC.
I've never read the origin story about this mash up of dragster & Beetle (if there is one), but I can say this: for some reason they are powering this dragster with the VW's motor, but the geometry is very wrong. Just look at the squished hood and the angle of the chain! I had to be a bit more realistic for the MOC, but I think it's still very Trosley. I like this MOC very much, sticker cheat and all.
As a foot note I know someone began a new run of CARtoons a couple of years ago (cartoonsmag.com/) and there are often back issues of the original CARtoons on EBay and some are on download sites. Also, as I was researching this project, I found out that George Trosley has published a couple of books collecting his Krass & Bernie stories. www.georgetrosley.com/
Microchip announced a flexible, low-cost, renewable monthly subscription license for the PRO editions of its award-winning MPLAB® XC line of C compilers. The MPLAB XC8, XC16 and XC32 compilers offer reduced complexity, and provide the best execution speed and code size for all ~1,400 PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), and are available with three optimization levels—Free, Standard and PRO. By offering a monthly-subscription PRO license, Microchip is providing 8, 16 and 32-bit MCU designers the ability to make use of the most features and best code optimization only when needed in the design cycle. Subscribers will also have the ability to receive updated versions of the MPLAB XC compiler type they are subscribed to, without the need for an active Microchip MPLAB XC High Priority Access (HPA) maintenance subscription. Unlike most software subscriptions, this license is not cloud-based, providing designers the additional flexibility of using the compilers offline.
To learn more about the features and different optimization levels of the MPLAB XC compilers, visit: www.microchip.com/Compilers-120115a
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Flickr is doubling their subscription fee?!? I've always paid around 25 USD for my annual Flickr Pro subscription. This is crazy!!
I'm so disappointed now. I've been a faithful customer of Flickr for more than a decade. I stuck by them through all the changes and now, they do this?
If you don't go Flickr Pro, you're limited to 1000 photos or videos. Anything over that limit is deleted. We all know that's not enough for me.
25 USD always seemed like a fair price to me. It was like 2 USD a month but 4 USD a month is a tiny pricey. I don't know what to do. My subscription gets renewed on the 10th of Nov.
I don't wanna leave. I love this place.
The Letterform Archive's "Subscription to Mischief" exhibition features a beautifully curated collection of ephemera from the dawn of graffiti zines in the 1990's.
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You have to love subscription boxes, especially when they involve film! In a recent box, came a plain foil wrapped roll in re-used backing paper. The information sheet only provided Rodinal times, but I matched them up to Ilford FP4+ and picked out Adox FX-39II and went to town. The results speak for themselves. Good contrast, super sharp, fine-grain, I say this is a winner.
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Church of All Saints, Lower Brixham Devon in a busy fishing village, was built by subscription, as a chapel of ease c 1819 - 20 and later constituted a perpetual curacy.
It was enlarged in 1824 after the arrival of Rev Henry Francis Lyte +++ later to be the author of the hymn "Abide with me", who attracted large crowds. The result described by his grandson was "a hideous barn-like building."
(Lyte joined the schools committee, and two months later he became its chairman. Also in 1824, Lyte established the first Sunday school in the Torbay area and created a Sailors' Sunday School. Although religious instruction was given there, the primary object of both was educating children and seamen for whom other schooling was virtually impossible. Each year Lyte organised an Annual Treat for the 800–1000 Sunday school children, which included a short religious service followed by tea and sports in the field.
He visited the fishermen in their homes and on board their ships in harbour, supplying every vessel with a Bible, and compiling songs and a manual of devotions for use at sea.
He added to his clerical income by taking resident pupils into his home, including the blind brother of Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, later British prime minister.
This original church was later rebuilt between 1884-1906, possibly incorporating parts of the former structure.
Nave orientated NW-SE with 1885 east and 1892 west aisles by G Somers Clarke. Chancel with east and west chapels; additional west aisle, probably the former Lady Chapel 1900 - 06 with three stage tower at south end by J T Micklethwaite.
The nave was re-roofed in 1898.
The small entrance-porch is reached from Church Street by a long flight of stone steps. The main entrance is by a pointed-arched doorway in the tower, below 3 empty niches ;
The nave has arcade of 5 pointed arches each side; 4 similar arches opening into Lady Chapel. Chancel has 3-sided north end; chancel arch with coloured marble shafts. Cranked arched from east aisle to chancel-chapel and from chancel to both chapels; these are supported by elaborately carved corbels, those to the west chapel (which contains the organ) taking the form of angels with musical instruments. Boarded waggon-roof, with bosses, to nave. Pitched beamed roofs to aisles, that to the Lady Chapel with bosses. Open roofs with arch-braced trusses to chancel and east chancel chapel.
There are 2 fonts, one, probably early 19c from the original church, of black marble in east aisle; & a pink marble font at south end of nave, with inscription recording baptism in 1884.
The beautiful painted reredos in chancel of 1938 is by Stanley N Babb. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K3x1z61sh4
( +++ In 1817 Lyte became a curate in Marazion, Cornwall, and there met and married Anne Maxwell, daughter of a well-known Scottish-Irish family. She was 31, seven years older than her husband and a "keen Methodist." Furthermore, she "could not match her husband's good looks and personal charm." Nevertheless, the marriage was happy and successful. Anne eventually made Lyte's situation more comfortable by contributing her family fortune, and she was an excellent manager of the house and finances. They had two daughters and three sons, one of whom was the chemist and photographer Farnham Maxwell-Lyte. A grandson was the well known historian Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte.
From 1820 to 1822 the Lytes lived in Sway, Hampshire. Itself only five miles (8 km) from the sea, the house in Sway was the only one the couple shared during their marriage that was neither on a river or by the sea. At Sway Lyte lost a month-old daughter and wrote his first book, later published as Tales In Verse Illustrative of the Several Petitions of the Lord's Prayer (1826). In 1822 the Lytes moved to Dittisham, Devon, on the River Dart and then, after Lyte had regained some measure of health, to the small parish of Charleton
In poor health throughout his life, Lyte suffered various respiratory illnesses and often visited continental Europe in attempts to check their progress. In 1835 Lyte sought appointment as the vicar of Crediton but was rejected because of his increasingly debilitating asthma and bronchitis. In 1839, when only 46, Lyte wrote a poem entitled "Declining Days." Lyte also grew discouraged when numbers of his congregation (including in 1846, nearly his entire choir) left him for Dissenter congregations, especially the Plymouth Brethren, after Lyte expressed High Church sympathies and leaned towards the Oxford Movement.
By the 1840s, Lyte was spending much of his time in the warmer climates of France and Italy, making written suggestions about the conduct of his family's financial affairs after his death. When his daughter was married to his senior curate, Lyte did not perform the ceremony. Lyte complained of weakness and incessant coughing spasms, and he mentions medical treatments of blistering, bleeding, calomel, tartar emetic, and "large doses" of Prussic acid.[ ! ! )
Lyte spent the summer of 1847 at Berry Head then, after one final sermon to his congregation on the subject of the Holy Communion, he left again for Italy. He died on 20 November 1847 at the age of 54, in the city of Nice, at that time in the Kingdom of Sardinia, where he was buried. His last words were "Peace! Joy! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Francis_Lyte )
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47 500 'Great Western' works a Down express through Dawlish Warren, on August 3rd 1979.
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The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne (or the Lit & Phil as it is popularly known) is a historical library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and the largest independent library outside London. The library is still available for both lending (to members) and as a free reference library.
Founding
Founded in 1793 as a "conversation club" by the Reverend William Turner and others – more than fifty years before the London Library – the annual subscription was originally one guinea. The Lit and Phil library contained works in French, Spanish, German and Latin; its contacts were international, and its members debated a wide range of issues, but religion and politics were prohibited.[3] Women were first admitted to the library in 1804. In February 2011, actor and comedian Alexander Armstrong became President of the Lit & Phil. He launched their funding appeal at a special gala event. At the start of 2012, membership of the Library reached 2,000, the highest number since 1952.
History
During the 19th and 20th centuries, the Lit & Phil was host to a long list of the intelligentsia of the era. Engineer and inventor George Stephenson showed his miner's lamp there, and in 1879, when Joseph Swan demonstrated his electric light bulbs, the Lit and Phil building became the first public building to be so illuminated.
The Society received in 1800 the country's first specimens of the wombat and the duck-billed platypus from John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales and honorary member of the Lit and Phil.
Between 1822 and 1825, a new building was created for the Society on Westgate Road, designed by John Green. The building is still in use today, with many original features including iron-work second-floor galleries. [Wikipedia]
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1910 postmarked postcard view of a boy on his bicycle posing in Etna Green, Indiana. A newspaper bag from THE JOURNAL-GAZETTE newspaper in Fort Wayne hung from the bicycle handlebar. Etna Green is about 50 miles from Fort Wayne. The backdrop for this photograph was the G. H. BURGH MEAT MARKET in Etna Green. George H. Burgh was the proprietor of that shop. One of the metal cans behind the right-hand display window was labeled LAR_. This was probably lard and the label included the G. H. Burgh name and his location in Etna Green.
The location of the shop wasn’t identified, but the reflection of a two-story brick building in the shop windows offers a clue. The second-story windows in that brick building are different from those in the two-story brick building that dominates the corner today at Walnut and Broadway streets. The windows are reflecting another brick building that is no longer standing.
The Journal-Gazette was the product of a merger of two Fort Wayne newspapers that began publishing in the 1860s. A 1910 newspaper directory¹ didn’t list any Etna Green newspapers, but did list six newspapers published in Fort Wayne. Two of the Fort Wayne newspapers were German language and another was a weekly. The Journal-Gazette had the largest circulation with 15,950; the News had 10,883; and the Sentinel had 8,437.
The 1910 directory identified The Journal-Gazette as a Democratic newspaper published every morning with 10-30 pages on 17” x 22” paper. The subscription rate was $4.80. A separate listing for a Thursday (evening?) edition with 12 pages had a subscription rate of $1.00, but had only 900 subscribers. A. J. Moynihan was listed as editor.
1. N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory (Philadelphia, PA: N. W. Ayer & Son, 1910), page 219. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=Oog7AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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