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The week running up to Armistice Day is an important one for Wales’ First World War Centenary Wood, and the Woodland Trust (Coed Cadw) invited members of the public to come along and witness a one-off event at the Senedd.
The Trust is creating a Wales First World War Centenary Wood at Coed Ffos Las in Carmarthenshire, as a lasting tribute to all those involved in that terrible conflict. The project has been made possible by support from the National Lottery, through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). In particular, HLF has allocated £30,500 to support a number of elements of the project, including interpretation of the importance of woods and trees in the First World War, the creation of an orchard and wild flower meadow, skills training for volunteers in hedge-laying and dry stone walling and much else besides. The wider project has also been supported by Sainsbury’s, the lead partner in the UK Centenary Woods Project, and also the Welsh Government’s Plant! Project and the Trust’s own members and supporters.
The centre-point of the wood will be a life-sized war horse sculpture, created out of Corten steel by the designer Steve Tomlinson. The work is nearly ready for delivery, but on its way to Coed Coed Ffos it will spend day outside the Senedd, the home of the Welsh Assembly on Cardiff Bay, to give Assembly Members and members of the public the change to see and admire it. There will also be an exhibition inside the Assembly.
The surface of the sculpture will be made up of leaves made of Corten steel that rusts and seals as it ages. The leaves chosen, oak, field maple, alder, beech, willow and holly, represent some of the different ways in which wood and timber were used in the war. And the heart of the sculpture will be a Horseshoe found on the site, probably from the former farm holding which once stood there.
Over the summer the Trust organised a competition asking members of the public to suggest a name for the horse. Nearly a hundred different suggestions were made. At a special ceremony outside the Senedd on 6 November, the winning entry was announced. The horse will be known as ‘Yr Arwr / Hero’, named after poet which won Hedd Wyn the Chair, posthumously, at the National Eisteddfod of 1917. The name had been suggested by Nicola Hancock, among others. The successful name had been chosen from a shortlist of three, which also included ‘Tommy’ and ‘Poppy’.
The Trust’s aim at Ffos Las it to create a special woodland, one that will stand tall in honour of the generation of 100 years ago, providing a lasting tribute to all those involved in the First World War. By the end of the project, volunteers will have planted over 90,000 trees at the site. The centrepiece, the commemorative feature, will be this horse sculpture. Featuring different leaf shapes, the sculpture highlights the key role played by woods and trees in the First World War. It will also commemorate the more than a million war horses and mules who served in the British Army in that terrible conflict.
Fe ddaith Ceffyl y Canmlwyddiant i’r Senedd
Roedd yr wythnos cyn Sul y Cofio yn un bwysig i Goedwig Canmlwyddiant Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yng Nghymru, ac fe wahoddodd Coed Cadw (Woodland Trust) bawb sydd â diddordeb i ddod draw i weld digwyddiad unigryw yn y Senedd yng Nghaerdydd.
Mae Coed Cadw’n creu Coedwig Ganmlwyddiant y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yng Nghoed Ffos Las yn Sir Gaerfyrddin fel teyrnged i bawb a gymerodd ran yn y gyflafan erchyll honno. Mae’r prosiect yn bosibl oherwydd cefnogaeth o chwaraewyr y Loteri Genedlaethol trwy Gronfa Dreftadaeth y Loteri (HLF). Yn enwedig, mae HLF wedi dyrannu £30,500 i gefnogi nifer o elfennau o’r prosiect gan gynnwys dehongli pwysigrwydd coedwigoedd a choed yn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf, creu perllan a dôl blodau gwyllt, hyfforddiant ar gyfer gwirfoddolwyr i blygu perthi a chodi waliau cerrig sych a llawer mwy. Cefnogir y prosiect ehangach gan gwmni Sainsbury’s, prif bartner Prosiect Coedydd y Canmlwyddiant a hefyd Llywodraeth Cymru trwy brosiect Plant! yn ogystal ag aelodau a chefnogwyr Coed Cadw ei hun.
Canolbwynt y goedwig fydd cerflun o geffyl rhyfel, maint llawn, a grëwyd allan o ddur Corten gan y dylunydd Steve Tomlinson. Mae'r gwaith bron yn barod i'w osod, ond ar y ffordd i Goed Coed Ffos fe fydd yn treulio diwrnod y tu allan i'r Senedd, cartref y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol ym Mae Caerdydd. Y syniad i rhoi cyfle i Aelodau'r Cynulliad ac aelodau'r cyhoedd i’w weld a’i edmygu . Fe fydd yna arddangosfa hefyd y tu mewn i'r Cynulliad.
Mae croen y ceffyl wedi’i wneud o ddail o ddur Corten sy'n rhydu wrth iddi heneiddio. Mae'r dail a ddewiswyd, derw, masarn, gwern, ffawydd, helyg a chelyn, yn cynrychioli rhai o'r gwahanol ffyrdd y defnyddiwyd coed a phren yn y rhyfel. A chalon y cerflun fydd pedol y cafwyd hyd iddi ar y safle, yn ôl pob tebyg o'r hen ffermdy a oedd unwaith yn sefyll yno.
Dros yr haf fe drefnodd Coed Cadw gystadleuaeth yn gofyn i bawb awgrymu enwau i’r ceffyl. Fe gafodd yr enw buddugol ei gyhoeddi ar y 6 Tachwedd: ‘Yr Arwr / Hero’, ar ôl y cerdd a enillodd y Gadair i Hedd Wyn, yn fuan ar ôl ei farwolaeth, yn 1917. Awgrymwyd yr enw hwnnw gan Nicola Hancock, ymysg eraill. Y ddau enw arall ar y rhestr fel oedd ‘Tommy’ and ‘Poppy’.
Nod Coed Cadw yn Ffos Las yw creu coeweig arbennig, un a fydd yn sefyll yn uchel i gofio'r genhedlaeth o 100 mlynedd yn ôl, gan ddarparu teyrnged parhaol i bawb oedd yn ymwneud â'r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf. Erbyn diwedd y prosiect, fe fydd gwirfoddolwyr wedi plannu dros 90,000 o goed ar y safle. Y canolbwynt, y nodwedd goffa, fydd y cerflun ceffyl hwn. Mae’r cerflun yn cynnwys siapiau gwahanol ddail, gan amlygu'r rôl allweddol a chwaraeodd coedwigoedd a choed yn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf. Fe fydd hefyd yn coffáu’r mwy na miliwn o geffylau a mulod rhyfel a wasanaethodd yn y Fyddin Brydeinig yn y gyflafan ofnadwy honno.
Through broken hearts and tortured minds,
we shall live through the divine.
Remembering that terrible then,
past yesterdays sorrow, we shall see again.
A shared hope and trust ,
can give tomorrow a oneness of us.
Lyme Park is a large estate located south of Disley, Cheshire. The estate is managed by the National Trust and consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens, in a deer park in the Peak District National Park.[1] The house is the largest in Cheshire,[2] and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[3]
The estate was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 and passed to the Leghs of Lyme by marriage in 1388. It remained in the possession of the Legh family until 1946 when it was given to the National Trust. The house dates from the latter part of the 16th century. Modifications were made to it in the 1720s by Giacomo Leoni, who retained some of the Elizabethan features and added others, particularly the courtyard and the south range. It is difficult to classify Leoni's work at Lyme, as it contains elements of both Palladian and Baroque styles.[a] Further modifications were made by Lewis Wyatt in the 19th century, especially to the interior. Formal gardens were created and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The house, gardens and park have been used as locations for filming and they are open to the public. The Lyme Caxton Missal is on display in the Library.
The land now occupied by Lyme Park was granted to Piers Legh and his wife Margaret D'anyers, by letters patent dated January 4, 1398, by Richard II, son of the Black Prince. Margaret D'anyers' grandfather, Sir Thomas D'anyers, had taken part in retrieving the standard of the Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy in 1346, and was rewarded with annuity of 40 marks a year by the Black Prince, drawn on his Cheshire estate, and which could be exchanged for land of that value belonging to the Black Prince. Sir Thomas died in 1354, and the annuity passed to his nearest surviving kin, his granddaughter Margaret, who in 1388 married the first Piers Legh (Piers Legh I). Richard II favoured Piers and granted his family a coat of arms in 1397, and the estate of Lyme Handley in 1398 redeeming the annuity. However, Piers was executed two years later by Richard's rival for the throne, Henry Bolingbroke.[6]
When in 1415 Sir Piers Legh II was wounded in the Battle of Agincourt, his mastiff stood over and protected him for many hours through the battle. The mastiff was later returned to Legh's home and was the foundation of the Lyme Hall Mastiffs. They were bred at the hall and kept separate from other strains, figuring prominently in founding the modern breed. The strain died out around the beginning of the 20th century.[7][8]
The first record of a house on the site is in a manuscript folio dated 1465, but that house was demolished when construction of the present building began during the life of Piers Legh VII, in the middle of the 16th century.[5] This house, by an unknown designer, was L-shaped in plan with east and north ranges; piecemeal additions were made to it during the 17th century. In the 1720s Giacomo Leoni, an architect from Venice, added a south range to the house creating a courtyard plan, and made other changes.[3] While he retained some of its Elizabethan features, many of his changes were in a mixture of Palladian and Baroque styles.[2] During the latter part of the 18th century Piers Legh XIII bought most of the furniture which is in the house today. However, the family fortunes declined and the house began to deteriorate. In the early 19th century the estate was owned by Thomas Legh, who commissioned Lewis Wyatt to restore the house between 1816 and 1822. Wyatt's alterations were mainly to the interior, where he remodelled every room.[9] Leoni had intended to add a cupola to the south range but this never materialised.[10] Instead, Wyatt added a tower-like structure (a hamper) to provide bedrooms for the servants. He also added a one-storey block to the east range, containing a dining-room.[2] Later in the century William Legh, 1st Baron Newton, added stables and other buildings to the estate, and created the Dutch Garden.[9] Further alterations were made to the gardens by Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton and his wife during the early 20th century.[11] In 1946 Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton, gave Lyme Park to the National Trust.wikipedia
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Built 1440 - 1570.
Drama above the circus ring from Acéléré by Circolombia.
You can book tickets here: www.underbellyedinburgh.co.uk/whats-on/acelere-by-circolo...
Childhood memories. As Fylde's oldest bus in the mid 1980s I followed this bus as it managed to survive until 1996 - twice as long as its two sisters. 77 was then preserved by FTT and regained its original livery in 1998. It was used for a few events but was parked up in 1999 awaiting more substantial repairs. After steady work over five years, a new front end has been fitted and the platform rebuilt. Today was its first day carrying passengers in over 22 years.
"Calke Abbey, Derbyshire" is a "National Trust" House that was owned by the Harpur-Crewe family until 1984. The temperature was several degrees warmer in "Walled Flower Garden" and you felt like you were in the Tropics. The buildings in the background was an "Aviary" (no longer in use" and a glass "Show House"
The plant splitting technique - great gardening course, learning about Herbaceous Borders at Woolbeding. Super interesting - more to come, check out their site www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolbeding-gardens/
OK ... Now lie on the ground, and I'm going to jump this bike between the platforms over the length of your body, alright?
7Stanes Trials Bike Performance at the East End Cycling Gala.
Coombe Hill. Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.
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Walking up from the Quay to the Mill at Cotehele, we crossed a river and found ourselves in a meadow, filled with wild flowers and spring blossom. We stopped for a chat with a friendly local who pointed out the first wild orchid of the season just coming into flower. This tree blossom caught my eye as we passed by.