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We visited my son Anthony at Camp Borden in lovely Borden, Ontario. I liked my purple shirt, it got shrunk in the wash.....it was a good shirt.
IAF officer visiting Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.
Photo by: Carmel Horowitz.
קצין חיל האוויר מבקר במוזיאון השואה יד ושם.
צילום: כרמל הורוביץ.
No. 6 - 6:- Behind the High Street, Redbourn, Hertfordshire visiting the Common.
Cumberland House
1643 or 1645 is said to have been found on a chimney brick. It was a hunting lodge for the Duke of Cumberland with the pack of hounds kept on Dunstable Downs.
This particular Duke of Cumberland was probably:-
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682), soldier and inventor, was a younger son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine. He was born in Prague. His mother, Elizabeth of Bohemia, sometimes known as the "Winter Queen", was a sister of King Charles I of England, and consequently Rupert gave his allegiance to Charles when the English Civil War broke out, as did his sister, Prince Maurice.
Rupert was a brilliant cavalry officer, having gained some experience in the Thirty Years War. In 1642, King Charles appointed him to lead the Royalist cavalry, and their early successes are largely attributable to Rupert. His dashing reputation earned him the nickname of the "Mad Cavalier". He is reputed to have taken a large dog, "Boy", into battle with him on several occasions.
As Parliament's army gained the ascendant, Rupert's skills were not enough to save the Royalists, and when, in 1645, he surrendered Bristol, his uncle rejected him, forgetful of his earlier sterling service. Rupert was court-martialled at his own request and cleared of any blame, but he never enjoyed the king's favour as he had previously done, and in 1646 he left England.
By 1648 Rupert was fighting with the French against Oliver Cromwell's England. However, following a naval defeat by Admiral Robert Blake, he took refuge in the West Indies, where he followed the life of a buccaneer, preying on English shipping. Following the Restoration of the monarchy, he returned to the service of England. After his retirement from the military in around 1670, he engaged in scientific research, and has sometimes been credited with the invention of the mezzotint, as well as a form of gunpowder and an alloy named "Prince's metal" in his honour.
He directed the Hudson's Bay Company, which traded furs in Canada, and its immense trading monopoly was named Rupert's Land for him. Prince Rupert, British Columbia is likewise named for him.
Knowledgerush
Cumberland House passed through a number of owners being bought by Mr R Cecil Peake in 1890, he installed a generator making Cumberland House the first in the village with electric lighting. He was a JP at St Albans for 37 Years and died in 1933. Gertrude Peake Place on the High Street is named after one of his daughters.
From Dodie Allman ( nee Trask, granddaughter of Robert Cecil Peake)
I wonder if you know, that when my grandfather bought Cumberland House in 1890, he also bought "the Heath", up on the corner of the Common, for his three unmarried sisters to live in. Also a lot of acreage on Crouch Hall Lane,. When Cumberland was sold to Lady Wise, in the thirties, my Aunts, Gertrude and Anna Peake moved into the Heath. After WW11, they sold the Heath ,keeping enough property to build "Heybrigge"-beside it. My nephew Cecil. V. Peake bought that house,then sold it and it was razed to build four town houses. My mother Mabel Peake was born in Cumberland House in 1894. I have such fond memories of the most wonderful Christmas's, with twenty people staying in the house. I could go on and on, I know every nook and cranny of that house. One time while visitng England, my husband and I knocked on the door of the Electricity Board, and I asked if I could show my husband. they were very reluctant, I think they thought we were Russian spys, this was probably 19 87ish, anyway, we finally were allowed all around the old part.
My father Basil F Trask built " Longcroft' on Crouch Hall Lane.
Now at age 82, (I have lived here 59 years in April) I was so interested to read about Redbourn. I have a family picture taken in Cumberland house garden on my bedroom wall.
Asheville, North Carolina.
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A more recent owner was the Central Electricity Generating Board and later National Grid. It was used as an electricity supply control centre until its recent closure. The old car park is now used for housing (Cumberland Mews - now named Miller Close) and the surgery for the Health Centre Practice (Hawke's Drive). The back part of the Cumberland House Garden has become the Village Garden - now named Cumberland Garden, which provides a link from Hawke's Drive to the High Street.
The old car park entrance has been used for filming, the most recent being for an exterior prison scene for Judge John Deed, on what is now the entrance to Miller Close.
From the Parish Council Minutes Nov 06: - A Company called “Somethin’ Else” is filming in Cumberland House and has sought permission to also film on the Common.
Redbourn Web Page
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Me, next door at Mrs. Peacocks.
Walthamstow, London,1955.
Looks like I'm holding photographs - how precocious. : )
Matthew Rawls-Allen with his small engine "La Quinta" visiting from the Altona Miniature Railway heads through Pine Creek with a small passenger train.
Diamond Valley Railway - 2009.
]uring a visit to the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) headquarters in Jeddah, where she explored channels of cooperation between Jordan and the bank mainly in development projects
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia / April 26, 2008
خلال زيارتها لمقر البنك الإسلامي للتنمية في جدة لبحث سبل تعزيز التعاون بين الأردن والبنك في مجالات التنمية وتمكين المجتمعات والحد من الفقر وتوفير فرص العمل
جدة، المملكه العربيه السعوديه / 26 نيسان 2008
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At the memorial at the site of the Battle of Hornshole, 1514. On the right is Elliot tartan. On the left Teviotdale tartan which weaves the distinctive blue and chocolate Elliot colours with the green and white of Hawick Rugby Club and the darker blue and yellow of the Hexham Standard which was captured by the lads of Hawick near this spot in 1514.
Thanks to New Invention Junior School in Willenhall for such a warm welcome. (5th December, 2019)
Labour will ‘poverty-proof’ schools, introducing free school meals for all primary school children, encouraging breakfast clubs, and tackling the cost of school uniforms.
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American Pipit
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Ridgefield NWR
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Pictures from driving through California in a convertible red Mustang: Firstly Sonoma to various vineyards - BR Cohn and Chateau St Jean. Then down Highway 1 to Big Sur and Julia Pfeiffer Burns National Park.
Alta River camping - Alta - Norway - Lapland
Bezoek aan 'Saami ' rendieren boerderij
Lapland ligt zo dicht bij de poolstreken, dat de winters er lang zijn en ijzig koud. In de wintermaanden komt de zon er niet op (zie poolnacht) en in de zomermaanden gaat de zon niet onder (zie middernachtzon).
De Saami hebben echter in de loop der eeuwen geleerd zich aan deze barre omstandigheden aan te passen. Ze leven traditioneel van hun rendierkudden, die rendiermos en andere korstmossoorten eten. Het gebied wordt ook wel de laatste wildernis van Europa genoemd. Het landschap wordt gekenmerkt door een bergachtig land, met uitgestrekte bossen, vlaktes en vele meren.
Traditionele leefomstandigheden
Rendieren leveren de Saami melk, vlees, bot en huiden en doen bovendien dienst als trekdier voor de slede, (tegenwoordig worden er sneeuwscooters gebruikt zodat ze de rendieren beter bij kunnen houden) het vervoermiddel bij uitstek in dit gebied.
Saami wonen in tenten (van rendierhuid) die gemakkelijk af te breken en te vervoeren zijn. Want om in leven te blijven kunnen de Laplandse herders niets anders doen dan hun rendierkudden volgen in hun jaarlijkse voedseltrek. Alleen in de winter blijven de Saami en rendieren op één plaats; in plaats van in tenten leeft dit volk in koepelvormige huizen, die wel wat van een grote tent weg hebben, genaamd 'jaqs'.
No. 1 - 5:- Exploring Churchend, Redbourn.
Church End - Considered to be the original site of the village.
So, one may assume that in Tudor times the village 'moved'; that is to the attraction of serving the travellers along Watling Street. As we have seen before there were numerous hostelries of all types serving a public with liquor and other refreshments and there was the best place to earn ones money! So, that was where you built your house, and you leave the elderly, and the children behind, to tend the fields in this agricultural area.
Looking down the street towards the Parish Church, whose tower can just be seen amidst the trees at the far end. To see the church look at my Photostream for the 17th August.
On the extreme left here is the Workhouse, as was, a row of cottages, as is, see Photostream of 16.08.09 no. 5 - 5.
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