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Stoneywell, National Trust: Rear Elevation

Because of coastal erosion this lighthouse has now been removed

Alright, I guess I'm not really good at fixing things am I?

Male.

Species: Argynnis aglaja.

 

The dark green fritillary is actually an orange butterfly with black spots. It gets its name from the dark green hue to the undersides of its hindwings. A strong flier, it can be seen on open, grassy habitats. Info: The Wildlife Trust.

 

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Peter Pan inspired series!

Leighton as Wendy Darling.

    

Imagine Wendy a grown-up, she wants to go back to Neverland because she wants to see Peter again, so she uses Pixie Dust to try to fly.

    

A candid street portrait captured in hard afternoon light. The contrast between the man’s imposing figure and the tiny dog tucked under his arm creates a quiet moment of humour and companionship within the everyday flow of the street market scene. Shot in black and white to emphasise texture, expression, and light.

Air Malta Airbus A320 deploying the trust reversers as it's slowing down after landing at EBBR, Brussels airport.

Catching up on my photos from our Cornwall trip in March as Monday is always my gardening day @ Home & never go out. This is National Trusts Godolphin house. Most not open to public & used as holiday appartments. Gardens are kept in the format of when the house was the centre of a large mining estate

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Small viperine water snake.

 

Petite couleuvre vipérine. Natrix maura.

 

Zoo d'Amnéville, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.

 

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Chirk castle, National Trust. wales

This a corner of the Square ine the beautiful little town of Dunkeld. Many of the properties are owned by the National Trust

Youth Waste

This was a very special moment for us at Birnie loch this morning. We have hand fed robins before but always put our hand on the ground for them to feed off. On this occasion this little guy flew very close to us and sat on some branches looking at us. Wendy held her hand out and he flew right on to it. He sat quite happily eating seed. When someone passed by he flew off but returned again several times. A fantastic experience especially for Wendy for the trust this little guy showed in her. (made explore #1 on 26/11/08)

Sun trust Nations' park - Lisbon - Portugal via 500px ift.tt/21z8XPt

No words could describe the feeling that came over me the first time a chickadee delicately landed on my hand at the Mer Bleue Bog.

 

The Pin Mill at Bodnant. It was originally built at Woodchester, Gloucestershire, in 1730 and fell into dereliction over the years. It was reconstructed and added to the Canal Terrace at Bodnant in 1938 and is now, along with the laburnum tunnel, the garden's most famous feature.

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markham trusts his daddy.

this image is slightly underexposed - captured on a very bright sunny day - but i love it nevertheless. it speaks volumes to me.

This was an experience while on holiday in Scotland unlike any other when the wild birds trust you sufficiently to take food from you. Robins I know about but Coal Tits demonstrating such trust and boldness! :)

 

I particularly like this shot having managed to capture the activity of the other bird in the background, just a shame the wings were out of the frame (uncropped image).

 

Special moments!

 

[Explore 17/1/2012 reached #15]

 

before the voyage, hachijo-jima island

Just who was that figure reflected in this mirror – I'm was sure the corridor was empty when I took the photograph. A ghost from the past maybe?

holga/tri-X Moersch Lith/foma 123 (40x50cm) selenium toned

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Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in Belton near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. The mansion is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park. Belton has been described as a compilation of all that is finest of Carolean architecture, the only truly vernacular style of architecture that England had produced since the Tudor period. The house has also been described as the most complete example of a typical English country house; the claim has even been made that Belton's principal facade was the inspiration for the modern British motorway signs which give directions to stately homes. Only Brympton d'Evercy has been similarly lauded as the perfect English country house. For three hundred years, Belton House was the seat of the Brownlow and Cust family, who had first acquired land in the area in the late 16th century. Between 1685 and 1688 Sir John Brownlow and his wife had the present mansion built. Despite great wealth they chose to build a modest country house rather than a grand contemporary Baroque palace. The contemporary, if provincial, Carolean style was the selected choice of design. However, the new house was fitted with the latest innovations such as sash windows for the principal rooms, and more importantly completely separate areas for the staff. As the Brownlows rose from baronets to barons upward to earls and then once again became barons, successive generations made changes to the interior of the house which reflected their changing social position and tastes, yet the fabric and design of the house changed little. Following World War I (a period when the Machine Gun Corps was based in the park), the Brownlows, like many of their peers, were faced with mounting financial problems. In 1984 they gave the house away—complete with most of its contents. The recipients of their gift, the National Trust, today fully open Belton to the public. It is in a good state of repair and visited by many thousands of tourists each year The Brownlow family, a dynasty of lawyers, began accumulating land in the Belton area from approximately 1598. In 1609 they acquired the reversion of the manor of Belton itself from the Pakenham family, who finally sold the manor house to Sir John Brownlow I in 1619. The old house was situated near the church in the garden of the present house and remained largely unoccupied, since the family preferred their other houses elsewhere. John Brownlow had married an heiress but was childless. He became attached to two of his more distant blood relations: a great-nephew, also called John Brownlow, and a great-niece, Alice Sherard. The two cousins married each other in 1676 when both were aged 16; three years later, the couple inherited the Brownlow estates from their great-uncle together with an income of £9,000 per annum (about £ 1.17 million in present day terms) and £20,000 in cash (equivalent to about £ 2.59 million now). They immediately bought a town house in the newly fashionable Southampton Square in Bloomsbury, and decided to build a new country house at Belton. Work on the new house began in 1685. The architect thought to have been responsible for the initial design is William Winde, although the house has also been attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, while others believe the design to be so similar to Roger Pratt's Clarendon House, London, that it could have been the work of any talented draughtsman. The assumption popular today, that Winde was the architect, is based on the stylistic similarity between Belton and Coombe Abbey, which was remodelled by Winde between 1682 and 1685. Further evidence is a letter dated 1690, in which Winde recommends a plasterer who worked at Belton to another of his patrons. Whoever the architect, Belton follows closely the design of Clarendon House, completed in 1667. This great London town house (demolished circa 1683) has been one of the most admired buildings of its era due to "its elegant symmetry and confident and common-sensical design". Sir John Summerson described Clarendon House as "the most influential house of its time among those who aimed at the grand manner" and Belton as "much the finest surviving example of its class". John and Alice Brownlow assembled one of the finest teams of craftsmen available at the time to work on the project. This dream team was headed by the master mason William Stanton who oversaw the project. His second in command, John Thompson, had worked with Sir Christopher Wren on several of the latter's London churches, while the chief joiner John Sturges had worked at Chatsworth under William Talman. The wrought-ironworker John Warren worked under Stanton at Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, and the fine wrought iron gates and overthrow at Belton may be his. Thus so competent were the builders of Belton that Winde may have done little more than provide the original plans and drawings, leaving the interpretation to the on-site craftsmen. This theory is further demonstrated by the external appearance of the adjoining stable block. More provincial, and less masterful in proportion, it is known to have been entirely the work of Stanton.

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