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The title is taken from the wonderful Thomas Hardy [1840-1928] novel which was set in Dorset, where Hardy came from. It was made into a very successful film but my favourite was the 1967 version with Julie Christie and Alan Bates. Is it any wonder that Hardy was inspired to write such amazing classics, being surrounded by the stunning Dorset countryside.
Here is a link to some information about him which is very interesting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Christie
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs" [Thomas Hardy.]
[Obviously written long before "Mills and Boon!"]
Heres a version of the complete film which is fairly good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dEOtotMB-M#t=28.99517
I do hope you like the photo which was taken from the slopes of Golden Cap..
P@t.
Fawley is the model for the fictional village of Marygreen in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure.
Had a lovely walk this week that included walking through the woods & past the cottage where Thomas Hardy was born in 1840. He wrote his early novels here, including Far From the Madding Crowd.
Sturminster Newton is known as the capital of the Blackmore Vale, a sleepy town in Dorset that used to be home to one of the largest cattle markets in the UK (but it closed in 1998).
The mill, one of several flour mills built on the River Stour is an L-shaped building, partly 17th century stone and partly 18th century brick.
A few hundred metres upstream is Riverside Villas where the famous Dorset novelist Thomas Hardy wrote one of his classic texts – “The Return of the Native”
Had a lovely walk this week that included walking through the woods & past the cottage where Thomas Hardy was born in 1840. He wrote his early novels here, including Far From the Madding Crowd.
The 17th century manor was formerly in possession of the Turberville family of Dorset (descendants of George Turberville) until sold in the eighteenth century. It is the inspiration for Wellbridge House, Tess's ancestral home where she and Angel Clare spent their unfortunate honeymoon—in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Located in Wool Dorset where I live.
This is the Thomas Hardy memorial window. It was installed in 1930. The stained glass illustrates one of Hardy's favourite Biblical passages (1 Kings 19).
HAPPY CATURDAY!♥️❤️🐾🐾❤️♥️
Lunar Cat for Happy Caturday Theme for November20th/21 ~ Curves
At a Lunar Eclipse
Thomas Hardy - 1840-1928
Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon’s meek shine
In even monochrome and curving line
Of imperturbable serenity.
How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry
With the torn troubled form I know as thine,
That profile, placid as a brow divine,
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Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)—when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford.
The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction. The property has a typical cottage garden, and the interior displays furniture which, although not from the Hardy family, is original to the period. The property is situated on the northern boundary of Thorncombe Wood. It is only three miles from Max Gate, the house that Hardy designed and lived in with Emma Gifford from 1885 until his death in 1928.
The cottage was given listed building status in 1956 and is listed Grade II the National Heritage List for England.
Text Ref: Wikipedia
Had a lovely walk this week that included walking through the woods & past the cottage where Thomas Hardy was born in 1840. He wrote his early novels here, including Far From the Madding Crowd.
"I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires."
By Thomas Hardy
My first thought for this title was 'Quintessential'. But then there's something about cottages like this that make me think of, well, tins of shortbread or jigsaws.
However, as well as it's aesthetic character, this cottage has a greater claim to being quintessentially English, since it's the childhood home of Thomas Hardy, in Higher Bockhampton (now owned by The National Trust).
This was one destination on a recent short stay exploring some historic Hardy locations in Dorset. Fun :-)
This serene panoramic view was taken at Lake Pukaki, with Mount Cook in the remote background, during a visit to the beautiful South Island, New Zealand
It's a miserable and rainy day and we've got Typhoon Signal No. 3 with us today. Hope you all have a happy week ahead!
This idyllic cottage built of cob, brick and thatch dates from 1800 and is located in the hamlet of Higher Bockhampton in Dorset. It was in this cottage that Thomas Hardy, the famous English novelist, was born in 1840. Thomas spent the early part of his life here and today it is a museum dedicated to him and run by the National Trust.
"What we did as we climbed, and what we talked of
Matters not much, nor to what it led, -
Something that life will not be balked of
Without rude reason till hope is dead,
And feeling fled".
Thomas Hardy, At Castle Boterel. Poem, 1913.
SWCP Clovelly to Rock, Cornwall.
This is the cottage where Thomas Hardy, the author, was born in 1840. It was built by his grandfather in 1800 & although slightly extended has not had many changes since that date. The cottage is built of cob & thatched. Cob is a natural building material usually a mixture of water, straw (or similar) & sometimes lime. There are still many properties in the UK, especially in the south-west, that were built in this manner. My village has several cob cottages.
This cottage is now owned by the National Trust.
This wonder-fall waterfall really surprised me. From google searches and research, it seemed very symmetrical and cascading like. Then, to add the fact that it was minutes by the road and easily accessible, could there be romance with this waterfall? Please do not get me wrong, waterfalls are for everyone and every living creature on this (and other planets) planet.
Cotter force is simply amazing. I got too excited at first but I remember my “calm me down” technique. I think “Nikos, the waterfall will still be here later so calm down”.
There are so many compositions you can do here. Just let your imagination go for it. What may work will work. Just focus on the framing and aperture and you’re there. A delight-full place.
I love this view as it reminds me of France. In the 19th century the medieval church was taken down and replaced by one in the French Gothic style. It looks quite exotic sitting there in the English countryside.
For those of you who like books, Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure takes place in Berkshire and Oxford. Hardy always set his novels in real places and Fawley is the fictional village of Marygreen where Jude grew up. Hardy is generally very precise about his locations so you know exactly what road or footpath the characters are walking on.
Jude is a country boy who teaches himself Latin and Greek. Near the begining of the story he walks along the top of the hill on the right in this photo as far as the escarpment on the edge of the Berkshire Downs where there is a wonderful view over the Vale of the White Horse. He thinks he can glimpse Oxford in the distance and dreams of going to study there...
Before Hardy became a writer he was a church architect. He refers to the church at Fawley in this way, "a tall new building of modern Gothic design, unfamiliar to English eyes, had been erected on a new piece of ground by a certain obliterator of historic records who had run down from London and back in a day".
Situated on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset, Max Gate is the former home of Thomas Hardy. He designed and lived in Max Gate from 1818 until his death in 1928
This is a second bite of the cherry so to speak having tried the shot a week earlier with 92 003 I wanted to try a wider angle this time and this is the result.
92 012 named 'Thomas Hardy' sits on the up main (platform 1) at Oxenholme with 6O15 17.30 Mossend Yard to Eastleigh East Yard freight. This train often gets stopped here if running early to follow the 22.45 Windermere to Blackpool North passenger train. The passenger train is due away from platform 3 at 23.06 but by this time of night it's the last train to anywhere so there are few passengers at Oxenholme the Lake District hence my cryptic title.... (Over to you JGT).
Thank you everyone for all the favs, views, messages & comments. The communication at this time even via the internet is a real bonus.
This photo was taken on the 14 April near my home on my permitted daily lockdown walk.
Woolbridge Manor Wool Dorset is just minutes from where I live.
Originally built in the 12th century and owned by the Turberville family. Under the pen of Thomas Hardy it becomes Wellbridge, where Tess Clare (née Durbeyfield) spends her disastrous wedding night. In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Hardy refers to a tradition that a phantom coach drives up to Woolbridge Manor by night, but can only be seen by members of the Turberville family.
English Heritage have designated it a grade II listed building. It is not open to the public.
Afterwards
by Thomas Hardy
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay,
And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings,
Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say,
'He was a man who used to notice such things'?
If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,
The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight
Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,
'To him this must have been a familiar sight.'
If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm,
When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,
One may say, 'He strove that such innocent creatures should come to no harm,
But he could do little for them; and now he is gone.'
If, when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at the door,
Watching the full-starred heavens that winter sees,
Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
'He was one who had an eye for such mysteries'?
And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom,
And a crossing breeze cuts a pause in its outrollings,
Till they rise again, as they were a new bell's boom,
'He hears it not now, but used to notice such things'?
Pose: 5ifth Order
Location: Immersiva
Thank you again Nai for helping me with his picture. Always glad to have your help.
This is the cottage where Thomas Hardy, the author, was born in 1840. It was built by his grandfather in 1800 & although slightly extended has not had many changes since that date. The cottage is built of cob & thatched. Cob is a natural building material usually a mixture of water, straw (or similar) & sometimes lime. There are still many properties in the UK, especially in the south-west, that were built in this manner. My village has several cob cottages.
This cottage is now owned by the National Trust.
These rolling hills, these fields, these woods and copses ... these things always pluck at my sentimental heart strings, and I imagine myself to be walking through the pages of a Thomas Hardy novel ...
"... the landscape, even to the leanest pasture, being all health and colour. Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with racing currents of juice." (Far From the Madding Crowd)
119 Pictures in 2019 ... #89. Sentimental
Sony α7 II
Tokina 20-35mm lens
December 2009 - at AM Radio's build..The Quiet: Further Away and Further Apart
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy unlimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
-excerpt from The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
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Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy; and his first major literary success. It was published on 23 November 1874
(fyi art inspired by the word madding rather than the story line of the books its self)
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including drawn, painted
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Before becoming a renown author, Thomas Hardy worked for a London architecture firm that was tasked with exhuming and reburying remains from cemeteries that were to be demolished to expand the rail system. As Hardy was essentially what we'd call an intern, he was the one made to due the grisly work. After the bodies had been relocated he had hundreds of tombstones to deal with, of which he decided to stack up and place in a circle around an ash tree.
This is that tree. It has since grown into and over some of the tombstones and become a bit of an oddity at St. Pancras Old Church (visible in the background).
Flickr Explore #73, September 17th, 2019
The tree fell in late December 2022.
Bloxworth Manor House - (Elizabethan E-Plan)
Grade I listed house built in 1608 and claims to be the first brick property in the county of Dorset.
Built in 1608 by George Savage Savage, part of the possessions of the Cerne Abbey, at the dissolution. Not a large estate, but the family seem to have been mildly prosperous at the beginning of the 17th century and the house was rebuilt.
Due to a poor financial position, George Savage (great-great grandson & MP for Wareham) was forced In 1689 to convey the house to Henry Trenchard – whose family also owned Poxwell Manor – and it remained in the Trenchard family until 1964.
Over the last 100 years the house fell into ruins, was vandalized and then restored.
The house was used as Bathsheba Everdene's house (Upper Weatherbury Farm) in the 1967 film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd. It was considerably and sympathetically restored in the 1970s.
The horticulturalist Martin Lane Fox, acquired the house in 1997 and remodelled the garden. The house was on the market in 2014 for £4 million
Thank you everyone for all the favs, views, messages & comments. The communication at this time even via the internet is a real bonus.
This photo was taken on the 14 April near my home on my permitted daily lockdown walk.
Woolbridge Manor Wool Dorset is just minutes from where I live.
Originally built in the 12th century and owned by the Turberville family. Under the pen of Thomas Hardy it becomes Wellbridge, where Tess Clare (née Durbeyfield) spends her disastrous wedding night. In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Hardy refers to a tradition that a phantom coach drives up to Woolbridge Manor by night, but can only be seen by members of the Turberville family.
English Heritage have designated it a grade II listed building. It is not open to the public.
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Another shot from last weekends London Flickr Group Photowalk. We explored the area around St Pancras and passed through the St Pancras Old Churchyard to see the famous Hardy Tree. It was disappointingly overgrown compared to photos you see on the internet but I suppose it gives the scene a suitably creepy, Halloween feel.
You can see other photos from the Photowalk here : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577198...
If you're interested in joining us for future Photowalks then I'd suggest joining the London Flickr Group and keeping an eye on the discussion threads.
From Wikipedia : "During the 18th and 19th centuries, St Pancras was famous for its cemeteries. In addition to the graveyard of Old St Pancras Church, it also contained the cemeteries of the neighbouring ecclesiastical parishes of St James's Church, Piccadilly, St Giles in the Fields, St Andrew, Holborn, St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, and St George the Martyr, Holborn. These were all closed under the Extramural Interment Act in 1854; the parish was required to purchase land some distance away, beyond its borders, and chose East Finchley for its new St Pancras Cemetery.
The disused graveyard at St Pancras Old Church was left alone for over thirty years until the building of the Midland Railway required the removal of many of the graves. Thomas Hardy, then a junior architect and later a novelist and poet, was involved in this work. He placed a number of gravestones around a tree, now known as "the Hardy Tree". The cemetery was disturbed again in 2002–03 by the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link but much more care was given to the removal of remains than in the 19th century. Old St Pancras Church and its graveyard have links to Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and the Wollstonecraft circle."
© D.Godliman
Thank you everyone for all the favs, views, messages & comments. The communication at this time even via the internet is a real bonus.
This photo was taken on the 14 April near my home on my permitted daily lockdown walk.
Woolbridge Manor Wool Dorset is just minutes from where I live.
Originally built in the 12th century and owned by the Turberville family. Under the pen of Thomas Hardy it becomes Wellbridge, where Tess Clare (née Durbeyfield) spends her disastrous wedding night. In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Hardy refers to a tradition that a phantom coach drives up to Woolbridge Manor by night, but can only be seen by members of the Turberville family.
English Heritage have designated it a grade II listed building. It is not open to the public.