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A visit to the National Trust run Stowe in Buckinghamshire.
Stowe is the creation of many 18th- century landscape designers, architects and craftsmen, and showcases some of Capability Brown's finest work. It's a towering achievement that still influences garden design today.
After early contributions from Sir John Vanbrugh and William Kent, Stowe's first garden designer, Charles Bridgeman, kickstarted the radical transformation away from formality. Lord Cobham funded huge development to create a grand canvas of idealised nature. Grassland, trees, lakes, temples and monuments: all are meticulously constructed to shape perfect views. By the mid-19th century, Richard Temple, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, ultimately aimed to impress Queen Victoria and outdo the neighbouring Claydon estate. This showmanship and rivalry ultimately contributed to bankruptcy.
Eleven Acre Lake at Stowe.
All the butterflies at the Butterfly Farm are so tame! This little beauty stayed on my hand for a good 3 mins whilst I slowly walked around the huge green house.
Location: Butterfly Farm, Stratford Upon Avon.
Taken with: Lumix- DMC-G2
Edited with: Photoshop CS2
John Laing is a shipwright class bm ketch, custom built to be sailed by young people.
Port: Southampton
John Laing’s current programme will continue to the end of the 2015 season as planned, and there are still a few berths available; but then we will sadly be looking to sell her.
I've never got this near to mistletoe - unless its been cut and in bunches for sale - so it was good to see it's structure as a parasitic plant up close.
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Erddig, near Wrexham. A National Trust property.
I am not sure but there is something re-assuring in the way this man looks. Or in the way he is. Something tender and wise.
Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk.
The National Trust.
Grade l listed.
The Great Hall - South Bay Window - detail.
Glass amassed in the mid 19th century by William Howe Windham (1802-1854).
William Howe Windham had the four windows of the Great Hall of the south wing fitted out in 1840 with a collection of medieval, Renaissance and nineteenth-century glass which was installed by John Dixon of Norwich.
One of the finest 17th-century houses in Norfolk, Felbrigg Hall was the home of the Windham family and its successors for 300 years. The house itself has a distinguished and varied pedigree. The Jacobean entrance front, built mainly in 1620, is attributed to Robert Lyminge (d1628). A west wing was added in 1674-86 to the designs of William Samwell (1628-1676), with interior plasterwork by Edward Goudge. In 1751-56 the Palladian architect James Paine (1717-1789) designed a service wing, Gothic library, staircase and several rooms, with interior decoration by Joseph Rose (1745-1799). In 1840, the great hall was remodelled in a neo-Jacobean style by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1884) and George Buckler (1811-1886).
This nice lady in the middle helped us out to find our way to the black cat delivery service. She was a legend - but couldn't say 'loch'.
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.
The National Trust.
Grade l listed.
Butler's Pantry.
Fireplace by Longden & Co, Sheffield.
Detail.
With peeling paintwork and overgrown courtyards, Calke Abbey tells the story of the dramatic decline of a country house estate. The house and stables are little restored, with many abandoned areas vividly portraying a period in the 20th century when numerous country houses did not survive to tell their story.
The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.
The house was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the National Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was handed to the Trust.