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Standing high on the Blackdown Hills, the Wellington Monument, at 175ft, is the tallest three-sided obelisk in the world.
The idea to erect a monument to the Duke of Wellington was first proposed in 1815 following the Duke's victory at the Battle of Waterloo. Following an architectural competition, Thomas Lee Jnr was appointed to design the monument. He proposed a triangular pillar supported on a plinth and surmounted by a massive cast iron statue of the Duke himself. The whole structure was intended to be 140 feet (43m) high.
Funds ran out in a matter of months and building work ceased, by which time the pillar was only 45 feet (14m). When construction eventually resumed it continued in fits and starts for a number of years. By this time public interest in the project had waned and as a result the original design was pared down considerably. It was finished in the 1820s with the pillar the proposed height. The cast iron statue was never commissioned however and so in effect the monument became an obelisk rather than a plinth and statue as originally intended.
Lightning strikes in 1846 and possibly again in the early 1850s caused serious structural damage. Charles Giles, a local architect, declared it a public danger. Giles was instructed to prepare a scheme for the repair and completion of the monument. These events coincided with the death of the Duke of Wellington.
Giles came up with something very different from the original plan. He set out to transform the monument from a statue bearing pillar into the tallest obelisk in Britain.
However by 1892 the monument had again fallen into disrepair. The top of the plinth was rebuilt and the shaft extended to the height we see today. Thereafter it has been subjected to repeated restoration work of a major nature but its character has remained unchanged.
The National Trust took over management responsibility for the monument in 1934.
Work continues on making it fit for the future.
The fortunes of the Heathcoat-Amory family were founded in the early nineteenth century. John Heathcoat was born into a Derbyshire farming family in 1783. An inventor of genius, he designed and patented a machine that revolutionised the production of lace. His manufactury near Loughbourough was destroyed by former Luddites paid by unknown persons in 1816, he then moved his basis of manufacture, and a large number of his workers, to Tiverton, Devon and there established a lace-works which, by the later part of the nineteenth century, was the largest lace-producing manufactory in the world.
By the late 19th century, the Heathcoat-Amory family owned much of the manufacturing and land around Tiverton, Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Baronet chose the site of Knightshayes, because from the site Sir John could see his factory in the distance, nestled in the Exe valley below.
The gardens were designed by Edward Kemp but were much simplified in the 1950s and '60s. Sir John and Lady Heathcoat-Amory undertook much work in the gardens for which they were both awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour. The estate includes a rare stické court dating from 1907. Other features include the extensive topiary, specimen trees, rare shrubs and the stables and walled kitchen garden, also by Burges.
It had long been our ambition to convert the basement of the Rotunda back to its condition in 1910. Ickworth Lives, a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and your donations, is doing just that. Opened on 2nd March 2012, we invite you to discover the real lives of those who lived and worked in this party house in the 1930s.
The exterior of the Earl-Bishop’s Rotunda was virtually finished when he died in 1803, but the interior was still an empty shell, and the curving corridors and wings only a few feet above ground. It was left to the Earl-Bishop’s son, the future 1st Marquess of Bristol, to make what use he could of his father’s extraordinary plan. Having no need for massive galleries, in 1821 he instructed his architect, John Field, to redesign the East Wing as family living-quarters.
Field fitted out the ground floor of the Rotunda as state rooms in an austere Regency style. The West Wing was added purely for symmetry and so was left empty. The Trust is pleased to announce the go-ahead of a package for a project to develop the West Wing to provide new facilities for visitor reception, information, education, shop, restaurant, functions, conferences and events.
As the family lived mostly in the East Wing, the rooms that visitors see in the Rotunda spent much of the year under dust sheets, coming into their own mainly for parties and other special occasions. But as a result, their superb furnishings and decoration have survived in excellent condition and little changed since the heyday of the house in the Edwardian era.
The house, with much of its collections of family portraits, Huguenot silver, Regency furniture and china, and part of the ancient deer-park, passed to the National Trust in 1956.
The East Wing has been transformed into a four star hotel by the hotel company Luxury Family Hotels who lease the East Wing. Until 1997 the East Wing was home to the late 7th Marquis of Bristol who had leased the property from the National Trust.
The hotel has 35 luxury rooms - 11 in the Dower House a separate property situated on the north-west of the estate (opened in autumn 2002) - the hotel complex has three restaurants, a 50ft indoor pool, horse riding facilities and a tennis court.
Ickworth’s 18th-century parkland and gardens include some of the most stunning countryside to be found in East Anglia.
The Park
The extensive 1,800 acres of wooded parkland, created in part by 'Capability' Brown, is a living landscape rich in plant, animal, and bird life. Some parts cultivated and grazed yet much can be explored and enjoyed. Some waymarked field margins may also be walked. Access has been made possible through funding by the Forestry Commission’s Countryside Access scheme.
The Gardens
The gardens surrounding the house were created in the first half of the 19th century by the First Marquess of Bristol. Those in the formal Italian style to the south of the house feature the Gold and Silver Gardens, a Victorian Stumpery and the Temple Rose Garden. A raised terrace walk separates the south garden from the park.
Beyond the restorated church are the remnants of an 18th-century garden created by the First Earl. His summerhouse (circa.1703) and ornamental canal still survive.
I begin to think of trust is a lot like a flower. Beautiful, unique & delicate. Once the petals fall, its hard to recreate that same exact flower. Like when a trust is broken its often difficult to repair. It can happen, but it takes time.
Also like a flower, trust takes time to grow. To gain roots, stems and leaves before it is in full bloom. And I think its okay for us to take the time to trust others - especially people that are close. We water the flowers, like we water our trust. Reassuring the other person and giving them reasons why they can trust us.
It can be a delicate journey - building trust between people, but when done right, it turns into something beautiful.
Standen (National Trust), decided for a change to do some of the Estate Walks while visiting Standen, this is the view of the house across the field just before entering Hollybush Wood.
The high priests of academia hide behind a curtain of anonymity in the name of objectivity. Quit monkeying around.
21st - 23rd Nov 1949 at the Empress Hall, London - the Nijinsky Gala Benefit Performance for the Nijinsky Trust Fund.
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Petworth, West Sussex.
Petworth House (owned and managed by the National Trust) is a late 17th century Grade I listed country house, having been rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. It is famous for the extensive art collection of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), and contains many works by his friend, J.M.W Turner.
Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, Petworth Park is owned and managed by the National Trust, and the wall around the 700 acre deer park is 14 miles long. The grounds are managed sustainably for wildlife and are protected under a Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Natural England. Petworth Park and Pleasure Grounds were transformed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown throughout the 1750s, the formal gardens being replaced with the graceful curves and wide sweeping vistas of a perfect ‘natural’ looking landscape. The Park and Pleasure Grounds were one of Capability Brown’s earliest large-scale commissions and considered by many to be his masterpiece, taking 12 years and no less than five contracts to complete.
Early morning view over a field at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
It is my junior year, 1978, when disco and Rocky movies are the cultural rage. We are in an unusual sociology class at Brandeis, something Morrie calls "Group Process." Each week we study the ways in which the students in the group interact with one another, how they respond to anger, jealousy, attention. We are human lab rats. More often than not, someone ends up crying. I refer to it as the "touchy-feely" course. Morrie says I should be more open-minded.
On this day, Morrie says he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand, facing away from our classmates, and fall backward, relying on another student to catch us. Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we cannot let go for more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in embarrassment.
Finally, one student, a thin, quiet, dark-haired girl whom I notice almost always wears bulky white fisherman sweaters, crosses her arms over her chest, closes her eyes, leans back, and does not flinch, like one of those Lipton tea commercials where the model splashes into the pool.
For a moment, I am sure she is going to thump on the floor. At the last instant, her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulders and yanks her up harshly.
"Whoa!" several students yell. Some clap. Morrie finally smiles.
"You see," he says to the girl, "you closed your eyes. That was the difference.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
[ Tuesdays With Morrie ]
I Trust You
I trust you, on all the things, I trust you…
My trust is like child that in his or her mother’s breast lay down to sleep.
I trust you, I trust on the diamond in your loyalty.
I trust in the support that my restlessness offers the tree of your serenity…
I trust you, when you’re close to me, the same is you aren’t..
And continuing your hours, step by step, my thoughts go…
And I trust in the beauty trust from yourself, that teaches me to trust me…
In all of the moments, in all the moments….I Trust You!
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I agree this looked to me like a fairly sturdy structure. But it has stood vacant for quite a few years. The reason I believe is that it stands at the near-edge of a cliff that has been eroding for quite some time as the Souris River meanders through down below! That river as everybody in the vicinity knows did a nasty job of flooding it's banks this spring. The house in question is in the photo. If you click on the link you will see the house in background pointed out. And that mighty river is not so mighty in the photo. But if you browse through my pic's you will see the damage this river created when it was mighty!
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The old house stands empty and the people who once lived there made a choice to leave it as they could not trust it's stability any longer.
The apostle Paul reminds us that our heavenly Father grafted us into His family through our faith in Jesus Christ, and that Jesus Himself pursued a relationship with us so we could come to know and trust Him. (see Galatians 4:5-6 and see 1 Peter 3:18).
But lets face it, trust is a choice, a risk we take and it is not always an easy choice to trust someone we don't know. And if our relationship with Christ is new we will never learn to trust Him unless we risk walking with Him! Much like the people who lived in the old house, they did not know that when they built the house it would become unstable. That's why trust is a risk and we will never learn whether someone or something is worthy of our trust unless we take that risk. And that's exactly what God invites us to do. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good, David says, blessed is the man who trusts in Him! (Psalm 34:8 KJV). God wants us to take that risk with Him!
When you take that risk to walk with the Lord, you will find out for yourself that He is a trustworthy guide with your best interests and safety at heart and you will learn to trust Him. The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him (Nahum 1:7). With all the turmoil going on in this big old world, God still remains focused on us. Everything He has done through the ages reflects that!
In the Garden, He pursued us.
In the ark, He protected us.
In the wilderness, He provided for us.
And on the cross, He proved to us that He alone is worthy of ultimate trust.
Because God is trustworthy, what He says is also trustworthy. In the beginning was the Word says John, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1). It is impossible to separate who God is from what He says.
The psalmist says that God's Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path (Psalm 119:105). There will be times when your path through this old world will be dark, times when you will desperately need His light to guide you. And when the shadows of life hide Him from your view, you will need the light of His promise that He will never leave you nor forsake you (Joshua 1:5). When life's circumstances rob you of your security, you;ll need the beacon of His assurance that He knows what you need before you ask him (Matthew 6:8). We can trust His Word to guide us when life is dark because He can see better than we can. A man's ways are in full view of the Lord, and because he examines all his paths (Proverbs 5:21). Why don't we trust the Lord? Why don't we trust the words in the bible? Why do we trust our feelings more than we trust what God tells us?
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The Minibus a group of us used for a day trip to Southend-on-Sea , Essex .
Friday morning 30th-August-2019 .
36:366 - Trusting Yourself
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. --Rita Mae Brown
Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want to know how to test how well you trust yourself? Do an arts and crafts project. Paint. Draw. Write. It is amazing what you learn about yourself as you move forward. Do you allow yourself to move forward or do you keep changing things? Do you trust yourself enough to not ask anyone for help? Do you finish what you started?
I have realized with writing that I have lost faith in myself. I used to be able to write from my heart and be satisfied with what I had written. I turned away from writing for a while and focused on other things. Now that I am writing again, I realized that I over edit. I found myself analyzing my writing almost to death, adding in paragraphs, even changing the subject of my entire piece. Looking back, I realized that I just didn't trust myself. I knew I was out of practice and decided that what I was writing could not be good enough on the first draft. Of course it couldn't. After all, it was a first draft!! Then my best friend kindly pointed out that often I was revising something that was great and changing it to something that was just acceptable.
How terrible. By not trusting myself, I was devaluing not only what I had written, but also lowering the reality of who I am.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder
I should never allow myself to fail to achieve what I am capable of creating because I have lost faith in who I am. I need to love myself enough to not abuse myself in that matter.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. --Scott Adams
As I saw this piece of artwork at the children's science museum, I realized that this artist had faith in his/herself. What a lovely reminder that we must take lessons from our kids sometimes because they often treat themselves better than we do.
Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire. --Shakti Gawain
Trust yourself. You will be amazed by how much more life has to give.