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A sample, with no purpose as yet. The pattern comes from a sample by Sylvie Tonnelier, published in 'Mains et Merveilles - Broderie Créative - Le Blackwork aujourd'hui' #1 (2005). It's worked with cotton single thread on Aïda canvas.
As the Grand Union Canal goes under the M4, some graffiti which expresses dismay at Donald Trump but then also has "God bless the hippies" as well.
Devanture de la "R. Sultan grocery", où l’épicier Max Barsher a été abattu par des cambrioleurs le 9 juin 1946, alors qu’une somme de 10$ a été dérobée.
NEAL ADAMS
Justice League Of America 66
Neal Adams (American, b.1941): was one of the first new Silver Age artists to break into a stable of DC artists that had remained virtually a closed shop for a decade or more prior to his arrival. Adams revamped the look of superhero icons Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow, at DC, and later, the X-Men and Avengers at Marvel. He ushered in a dynamic photorealistic style of illustration that revolutionized comic book art for the modern era. He is also the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates, and took an important stand alongside Jerry Robinson as a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Biography
Early life and career
Strange Adventures #207 (Dec. 1967): One of Adams's earliest DC Comics covers, and his first for his signature character Deadman, already shows a mature style and a boundary-pushing innovation for the time.
Adams attended the High School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, and shortly after graduation began working in the advertising industry. Interested in comic books, he unsuccessfully submitted art samples to DC Comics, but did find uncredited freelance work drawing Bat Masterson and Archie Comics.In 1962, Adams began his comics career in earnest at the NEA newspaper syndicated, working as an anonymous assistant on such comic strips as Peter Scratch, Rip Kirby, and The Heart of Juliet Jones before being given his own strip, Ben Casey, based on the medical drama TV series. This comic strip ran from 1962 through 1965.
After Archie Goodwin, editor of Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazines began running his work, Adams reapproached DC in 1967. In 1968, nearing the end of what historians call the Silver Age of comic books, but an exciting time for the industry, Adams made an immediate splash with the feature "Deadman" in Strange Adventures, and quickly became the company's premiere cover artist.
This led to a stint at Marvel Comics, where Adams teamed with writer Roy Thomas on X-Men, then on the verge of cancellation. Though the duo failed to save the title (which ended its initial run with #66), their collaboration on issues #56-63 (May-Dec. 1969) — and on the "Kree-Skrull War" arc of The Avengers #93-97 (Nov. 1971 - May 1972) — produced what comics historians regard as some of Marvel's creative highlights of the era.[citation needed] He also collaborated with Stan Lee on two issues of The Mighty Thor.
Continuity and creators' rights
In the early 1970s, Adams and frequent writing collaborator Dennis O'Neil did a celebrated and, for the time, controversial revamping of the longstanding DC characters Green Lantern and Green Arrow, teaming them in a long story arc in the former's title in which the two undertook a social-commentary journey across America. Adams and O'Neil revitalized Batman with a series of noteworthy stories reestablishing the character's dark, brooding nature and taking the books away from the campy look and feel of the 1966-68 TV series. Adams' pencil drawings were frequently inked by artist Dick Giordano, with whom Adams formed Continuity Associates, a company that primarily supplied storyboards for motion pictures. In the early 1970s, Adams was the art director, costume designer, as well as the poster/Playbill illustrator for Warp, a science fiction stage play by Bury St. Edmund and Stuart Gordon that had had some cult success in Chicago, and which played on Broadway from Feb. 14-18, 1973, at the original Ambassador Theatre.
During the 1970s, Adams was politically active in the industry, and attempted to unionize its creative community. His efforts, along with precedents set by Atlas/Seaboard Comics' creator-friendly policies and other factors, helped lead to the modern industry's standard practice of returning original artwork to the artist, who can earn additional income from art sales to collectors. Adams notably and vocally helped lead the lobbying efforts that resulted in Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster receiving decades-overdue credit and some financial remuneration from DC.
Also during the 1970s, Adams illustrated paperback novels in the Tarzan series and did some film work. With the independent-comic publishing boom of the early 1980s, he began working for Pacific Comics (where he produced the poorly-received Skateman) and other publishers, and founded his own Continuity Comics as an off-shoot of Continuity Associates. His comic-book company's characters include Megalith, Bucky O'Hare, Skeleton Warriors, CyberRad, and Ms. Mystic.
In collaboration with Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, Adams has championed an effort to get the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, which is operated by the government of Poland, to return the original artwork of Dina Babbitt. In exchange for his sparing her mother and herself from the gas chambers, Babbitt worked as an illustrator for Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele who wanted detailed paintings to demonstrate his pseudoscientific theories about Gypsy racial inferiority.Using text from Medoff, Adams illustrated a six-page graphic documentary about Babbitt that was inked by Joe Kubert and contains an introduction by Stan Lee.[3] However, Adams deemphasizes any comparison between the Babbitt case and his struggle for creator rights, saying that her situation was "tragic" and "an atrocity."
Awards
Adams won Alley Awards in 1967 for Best Cover (Strange Adventures #207); in 1968 for Best Full-Length Story ("Track of the Hook" in The Brave and the Bold #79, with writer Bob Haney); and in 1969 for Best Pencil Artist. He was inducted into the Alley Award Hall of Fame in 1969.
He also won Shazam Awards in 1970 for Best Individual Story ("No Evil Shall Escape My Sight" in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #76, with writer Dennis O'Neil), and Best Pencil Artist (Dramatic Division); and in 1971 for Best Individual Story ("Snowbirds Don't Fly" in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85, with O'Neil).
He won an Inkpot Award in 1976, and was voted the "Favourite Comicbook Artist" at the 1977 and the 1978 Eagle Awards.
Adams was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999.
Quotes
Harlan Ellison:
There are artists who come along who do wonderful work, innovative work, even stylistically seminal or germinal work, but they don't change the face of the craft or the social conscience of the industry. Neal did that.
Bob McLeod on breaking into comics in 1973:
Pat [Broderick] told me I really ought to meet Neal Adams, whom he had met at DC. . . . At that time, Neal held a position of respect in the industry that no one in comics since then has achieved. He was the single most respected artist in the business. . . . Neal looked at one of my samples and asked me what kind of work I was looking for. I said 'Anything that pays.' (By that time, I was down to my last $10. . . .) He just picked up the phone and called the production manager at Marvel and said, 'I've got a guy here who has some potential as, well, some potential as an artist, but I think he has a lot of potential as a letterer.' I was immediately hired at Marvel in the production department on Neal's recommendation, and they still didn't even want to see my portfolio. If I was good enough for Neal, I was good enough for them.
Jim Shooter:
Frank Miller was a kid from Vermont who wanted to be a comics artist. He came to New York in 1977, I think, showed samples to his idol, Neal Adams, and got a world-record savage critique. He quit drawing for a while, sucked it up and tried again. Neal savaged him again, but this time he sought a second opinion and actually ended up getting a small job from Western Publishing, I think. Thus emboldened, he went to DC, and after getting savaged by Joe Orlando, got in to see art director Vinnie Colletta, who recognized talent and arranged for him to get a one-page war comic job
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Happy Valentine's everyone :-)
I got this card today from my boy, he's only in year R (will be 5 at the end of this month) but he is coming on SO quickly at the moment. I love the card, and the picture of me (he checked with me if I owned a red top before he coloured it in!)
Hereios - Signs of Love
JFDI - Valentine's Day (challenge 74)
This could be a headline today!
Inside the Boone Store, Bodie State Historic Park, California.
Taken during one of our 10 Bodie workshops in 2012 and 2013. We have 8 more scheduled so far in 2014. Some are for sunset and night photography, others are for sunrise and interior access.
I'll be leading a photowalk in Bodie on May 3.
1 may 2o11, 2 PM
The Mayfair Theatre
1o74 Bank Street
as part of the
Ottawa International Writers Festival
curated, puzzled over & arranged by jwcurry & featuring the vocal agilities of
jwcurry
Alastair Larwill
Christine McNair
Grant Wilkins
& special guest Sandra Ridley
MESSAGIO GALORE is an organically thetic examination of the possibilities inherent in the wide range of activities that occur between literature & music (with interpenetrations to each) commonly called "sound poetry". it approaches the genre as "inclusive" & investigates issues of writing/composing/scoring, transcription, arrangement, reading, rehearsal, group dynamics, intermultiphrenia & &.
thake VIII follows relatively directly after take VII (at City Hall Art Gallery, january 23), utilizing the same core quartet that has been working together for a year now. it continues to develop repertoire material while adding new works to the available pool. works in this take are repeated for one or more of 3 reasons: further development of a piece, amplification's offer of different levels of play, or we fucked it up the last time. if take VII's primary contrasts were of durations, take VIII can be said to be a tentative toying with varying kinds of amplitudes.
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1. It Can't Happen Here, Frank Zappa (USA, 1964; transcribed & arranged for quartet by jwcurry, 2oo7); source: Mothers Of Invention, FREAK OUT! (USA, Verve Records, 1965). a somewhat remented barbershop routine that only seems to leave metre & tonality behind. part 2 of Help, I'm A Rock, featuring Christine McNair as Suzy Creamcheese. readers: full quartet
2. anacyclic poem with two shouts DHARMATHOUGHTS STUPAWARDS, dom sylvester houédard (England, 1966); source: KROKLOK ⌗1 (edited by dom sylvester houédard, London, Writers Forum, 1971). "for the artists protest committee for their call from los angeles for a tower against the war" (dsh in KROKLOK), an anagrammatical poem in 3 vowels & 4 consonants. duo arrangement by curry (2o1o) fusing a pair of arrangements by Nicholas Power/Rob Read & Carmel Purkis/Sandra Ridley (both 2oo8). readers: curry, McNair
3. roses that, d.a.levy (USA, 1966); source: UKANHAVYRFUCKINCITI BAK, edited by Robert J.Sigmund (Cleveland, Ghost Press, 1968). "for gene" (presumably Fowler), a more linear – but no less sonic – response to the same war (& perhaps project) as houédard's above. reader: curry
4. please, bill bissett (Canada, 196-?); source: bill bissett, fires in th tempul OR TH JINX SHIP ND OTHR TRIPS (Vancouver, Very Stone House, 1966). arranged as a rondelay by curry (2oo9), in part to help dispel a formed notion that bissett's sound work defies rendition by others, despite their rhythmic relentlessness. readers: full quartet
5. SIZERZ, Steve McCaffery (Canada, 1976); source: THE CAPILANO REVIEW ⌗31 (edited by Steven Smith & Richard Truhlar, North Vancouver, 1984), with reference to Steve McCaffery, research on the nouth (Toronto, Underwhich Editions, 1979). severe elemental hocketing coupled with ordered layerings subjected to consistent randomizations. readers: full quartet
6. SIX-FOUR, Alastair Larwill (Canada, 2o1o); source: unpublished. accumulative disintegrational polysyllabicism formulated as audio illustration in a discussion of articulational deliberateness with its dedicatee, Rob Read. readers: full quartet
7. KNOTS, jwcurry (Canada, 1982?); source: The (Almost) Instant Anthology '88, edited by Beverley Daurio, Daniel Jones & bpNichol (Toronto, Meet The Presses, 1988). a "translation into concrete" of R.D.Laing's lineated neuroses trackings, subsequently unreknotted & restrungout as duologue. readers: curry, McNair
8. Pike-Fishing North Milne Lake, Gerry Shikatani (Canada, 1977?); source: INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY VOL.1, edited by John Jessop (Toronto, Missing Link Press & Poetry Toronto Books, 1978). textured gridtext as aquatic (semi)pastorale. readers: full quartet
9. Monograms – Genealogy – Grammarology, bpNichol (Canada, 1988); source: bpNichol, gIFTS The Martyrology Book(s) 7 (&) (2nd edition, Toronto, Coach House Books, 2oo3). the columnar lineation of the simultaneous strands of this optophonetic text suggested this arrangement as quartet, some of the gifts comprising "book &". readers: full quartet
1o. breath is, bill bissett (Canada, 196-?); source: (as 4 above). concrete scattertext arranged by curry (2oo9, revised a coupla nights ago) as duo demonstration of the logic inherent in bissett's more radical field compositions. readers: curry, McNair
11. EAST WIND, bpNichol (Canada, 1979?); source: Four Horsemen, The Prose Tattoo (Milwaukee, Membrane Press, 1983). a gridtext of overlaid extended breathlines, our version continues to toy with a more literal approach to the score than did the Four Horsemen's freewheeling phonetic romp. readers: full quartet
12. Pieces Of Stop, bpNichol (Canada, 1978); source: (as 11 above). dedicated to Greta Monach. again, a more literal approach to the score that casts the reversedexpectations of its sound envelopes into starker relief. readers: full quartet
13. Hour 3 1:35 p.m. to 2:35 p.m., bpNichol (Canada, 1985); source: bpNichol, the martyrology book 6 books (Toronto, Coach House Press, 1987). a straightforward narrative poem built on homophonic hinges, this had been included in MESSAGIO GALORE take VI (Ottawa, City Hall Art Gallery, 2oo9) but suffered abandonment due to the loss of its final page. rectified for the record. reader: curry
14. TWO: Less Time, bpNichol (Canada, 1982?); source: (as 5 above). vowelless gridtext with varying degrees of reading path choice determined by the readers. tonight's version utilizes this device in addition to random parts assignation & but one previous rehearsal. readers: full quartet
15. OPIUM MARBLE, jwcurry (Canada, 198o); source: monograph (Ottawa, Above/ground Press, 1999). an optophonetic onomatophony derived from a Vancouver alley soundscape (between Main & Gore). readers: curry, Larwill, Wilkins as stunt double on the "ktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktktk"s
16. Artikulationen, Franz Mon (Germany, 198-?); source: riverrun voicings soundscapes, edited by Klaus Schöning (Mainz, Wergo, 1999), transcribed, scored & arranged by jwcurry (2oo8) from a quartet recording made at the Studio Akustiche Kunst in 199o. Mon's "environment of syllables and sounds searching for words" (Schöning/translated by Steven Lindberg, CD note) began in the 196os & includes a series of homages, this one for Velemir Khlebnikov. readers: curry, Larwill, McNair, Ridley
17. BALLADS OF THE RESTLESS ARE, bpNichol (Canada, 1967?); source: monograph (2nd edition, Ottawa, Curvd H&z, 2oo6). "two versions/common source" of elemental theme & variations, the 2 chants arranged here as comparative simultaneity. readers: curry, Larwill
18. auf dem land, ernst jandl (Austria, 1968?); source: konkrete poesie deutschsprechige autoren, edited by Eugen Gomringer (Stuttgart, Philipp Reclam, reprint?, 198o). an "utter zoo" octupletted & here arranged as simultaneous identifications & emissions. readers: curry, Wilkins
19. GLASS ON THE BEACH, Richard Truhlar (Canada, 1978?); source: Owen Sound, Beyond The Range (Toronto, Underwhich Editions, 198o). transcribed by jwcurry from a trio (Michael Dean, Steven Smith, Richard Truhlar) recording at the Music Gallery in Toronto, 18 august 1979, with additional parts adapted from 2 manuscript scores courtesy of Truhlar. extended vocal waveforms with buried shards. readers: full quintet
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cover: Steve McCaffery (5 above)
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filmed by Ben Walker
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see also:
preview:
cartywheel.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/practice-when-theres-...
photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/pearlpirie/5680264282/
www.flickr.com/photos/pearlpirie/5679703087/
www.flickr.com/photos/pearlpirie/5680264876/
www.flickr.com/photos/johnwmacdonald/5678112786/
www.flickr.com/photos/johnwmacdonald/6150197146/
www.flickr.com/photos/jowangauthier/5687823980/
review:
robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2011/05/messagio-galore-take-viii...
This photo has writing on the back with the date 22 Sep 1941.
Also a shop or bank in the background with some interesting wording anyone translate?
Source: Scan of the original Edwardian booklet.
Ref: SWI.921.
Date: 1908.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
Hard to believe it's been one year already! Please come out so we can thank you all for making our dream come true.
Bom dia, bom dia, bom dia!!
Primeiro, muitooo obrigada zenti por sempre me visitarem e deixarem recadinhos fofos!! tou andando meio relapsa sem tempo! e por isso, não estou respondendo os comentários de vcs, mas adóro todos! e qdo venho aki, prefiro admirar azarte docêis!!
é isso aí, zentiiis, resolvi fazer esse desafio gostosinho tbm!
Acho q muitas já sabem o esquema, mas com os devidos créditos e explicação da mentora do desafio, se quiserem conhecer tbm o bloguinho fofinhuu é só ver aki!! !
Demorei, mas comecei viu só amada parafraseando a própria! haha! ??!! rsrsrs..quem sabe um dia ainda me encorajo pro desafio das princesas de make?! O.O
amanhã já tem unha! haha!
bjooocas
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104 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea SW10. Along with GK Chesterton, he was one of the great Roman Catholic philosophers of his day.
Taken from www.catholicauthors.com/belloc.html
JOSEPH HILAIRE PIERRE BELLOC, ONE OF THE TRUE LORDS of the English language, was not an Englishman by birth. His father was French, his mother was Irish; and when he married, his bride was an American. But he looked more like the traditional figure of John Bull than any Englishman could. He wore a stand-up collar several sizes too large for him. His rotund head was crowned with a black hat-sometimes tall, sometimes of the pancake variety. He was big and stocky and red of face, and a typically British great-coat draped his beefy form except in the warmest weather.
Hilaire Belloc-he dropped the other appendages at an early age-was born at La Celle, near Paris, on July 20, 1870. His father, Louis Swanton Belloc, was well known as a barrister throughout France. Bessie Rayner Belloc, his mother, was of Irish extraction. Somewhere in his immediate background was an infusion of Pennsylvania Dutch blood. His mother, who lived into her nineties and died in 1914, was a remarkably intellectual woman, noted as one of the signers of the first petition ever presented for women's suffrage.
Her son studied at the Oratory School at Edgebaston, England, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1893. In his third year he was Blackenbury History Scholar and an honor student in the history schools.
Between Oratory School and his matriculation at Oxford, Belloc served in the French Army, where as a driver in the Eighth Regiment of Artillery, he was stationed at Toul. It was from this spot that, years later, he was to set forth on the pilgrimage afoot to St. Peter's that furnished material for the book that many critics consider his best,- The Path to Rome.
In 1903 Belloc became a British subject and in 1906 was returned to Parliament by the South Salford constituency. He was a member of the Liberal party in the brilliant House of Commons created by the Tory debacle of the preceding year. He made his maiden speech in the House early in 1906 and it won him an immediate reputation as a brilliant orator. He had already attracted considerable attention during his campaign. In the year of his return to Parliament he was also the nominee of the British Bishops to the Catholic Education Council.
Belloc's literary career began immediately after Balliol. He rapidly achieved success as a newspaper and magazine writer and as a light versifier. His first book, published in the year of his graduation, was Verses and Sonnets, and this was followed within a year by The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, in which his reputation as a master of whimsy was fully established. One of the most famous in this category starts out thus:
The nicest child I ever knew
Was Charles Augustus Fortesque;
He never lost his cap or tore
His stockings or his pinafore;
In eating bread he made no crumbs.
He was extremely fond of sums.
Another, more dire, ballad about an untruthful maiden named Mathilde was a famous forerunner to the Ogden Nash style of rhyming:
It happened that a few weeks later
Her aunt was off to the theatre
To see that entertaining play
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.
Belloc sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910, but refused to serve a second term because, in his own words, he was "weary of the party system," and thought he could attack politics better from without Parliament than from within. From that time on he devoted his entire efforts to writing and lecturing.
Belloc's wife, the former Elodie Agnes Hogan of Napa, California, whom he married in 1896, died in 1914. He never remarried. His eldest son, Louis, was killed while serving as a flier in World War I, and his youngest, Peter, a captain of the Royal Marines, died during World War-II. Belloc made his home with his elder daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Jebb, wife of a member of Parliament, in Horsham, Sussex. Besides Eleanor, he had another daughter, Elizabeth, a poet, as-well as another son, Hilary, who lives in Canada. Belloc's sister, Mrs. Marie Belloc Lowndes, also a noted British writer, died in 1947.
By Pope Pius XI, Belloc was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in 1934 for his services to Catholicism as a writer. In the same year, his alma- mater, Oxford, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He shared with the then British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, the distinction of being the only persons to have their portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery while they were alive.
Mr. Belloc visited the United States on many occasions. In 1937 he served as a visiting Professor of History at the Graduate School of Fordham University in New York. From the matter of these lectures came his book, The Crisis of Civilization.
A prolific writer, he was the author of 153 books of essays, fiction, history, biography, poetry and light verse as well as a vast amount of periodical literature. He was largely responsible for G. K. Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism, and the two of them became ranked as not only among England's greatest writers but as the most brilliant lay expounders of Catholic doctrine. The two were also close friends and frequent collaborators, especially on the magazine which came to be known as G. K's. Weekly, and in which they came to wage many a valiant crusade together. As a critic noted: "To Hilaire Belloc this generation owes big glimpses of the Homeric spirit. His mission is to flay alive the humbugs and hypocrites and the pedants and to chant robust folk-songs to the naked stars of the English world to a rousing obligato of clinking flagons."
Because of his antagonism to many British sacred cows and his free and caustic criticism of them, he was not a wholly popular man in England. Nor did his espousal of the Franco cause against the Communists during the Spanish civil war add to his popularity there. But Belloc had never been a man to purchase popularity at the price of integrity.
Just four days before his eighty-third birthday, while dozing before the fireplace in his daughter's home, he fell into the flames and was so badly burned that he died in hospital at Guildford, Surrey, soon afterward on July 16, 1953.
Despite his own prediction to the contrary, his place in English letters is forever secure, primarily as a poet and as the author of The Path to Rome.
This autograph album belonged to Ollie Hubbard. I uploaded 50 of the 100 autographs that I liked the best. I am not sure if Ollie was a boy or a girl. (Ollie short for Oliver or Ollie short for Olivia, Olive, Olwen). The dates range from 1879 to 1889. Most of the names are from Trenton or Princeton, New Jersey. This may be Princeton University. There are references to the following names:
Model School
State Normal School
Trenton College
Princeton College
C. C. C. C.
A complete list of all the names is in the "set" description here.
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Sherborne School Archives, Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset, UK, DT9 3AP.
The Sherborne Pageant Participants Project, run by the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, is keen to find out more about those who took part in the Sherborne Pageant. For further information visit: www.sdfhs.org/sdfhs-projects/introduction-to-sdfhs-projec...
Further information about the Sherborne Pageant can be found on the Sherborne School Archives website: oldshirburnian.org.uk/sherborne-pageant-1905/
Illuminated address, bound in white vellum, presented to L.N. Parker in the Digby Assembly Rooms, Sherborne on 24 October 1905. Includes 863 signatures of performers and assistants who were involved with the staging of the Sherborne Pageant on 12-16 June 1905, arranged by episode (the narrative chorus, the orchestra, episodes 1-11, the maypole, the pedestal group, shield children, assistants at the gates, assistants at the stands, workers) [Sherborne School Archives, ref. SS/PAG/11/5].
L.N. Parker in 'Several of My Lives' states that the narrative chorus 'is a male-voice chorus in dignified robes, whose function remotely resembles that of the chorus in Greek drama. In majestic verse and stately music it introduces, links, and explains the episodes. It fills the gaps between them, and so ensures the continuity of the performance.'
Photograph of the Narrative Chorus: www.flickr.com/photos/sherborneschoolarchives/17572074523...
The signatures of members of the narrative chorus who performed in the Sherborne Pageant, 12-15 June 1905:
Edgar Allen (1895- ) (treble), twin sons of John and Sarah Allen, then of Sydling St Nicholas, later of Southampton.
Percy Allen (1895- ) (treble), twin sons of John and Sarah Allen, then of Sydling St Nicholas, later of Southampton.
Charles William Bishop (1893-) (treble), carpenter (journeyman) (1911), son of John Larcombe Bishop of Long Street, Sherborne.
John James Bishop (1890-) (treble), builder’s clerk (1911), son of John Larcombe Bishop of Long Street, Sherborne.
George Frederick Bull (tenor), brewers’ agent (Traveller), Coldharbour, Sherborne.
Fred Churchill (treble).
Maurice Collins (treble).
Cecil John Cooper (1885-1944) (alto), solicitor's clerk, son of Henry Cooper.
Henry Cox (bass), grocer, Long Street, Sherborne.
John Henry Leopold Dalwood (1893-) (treble), son of John James and Emma Dalwood.
Ernest Charles Davey (c.1889-) (treble), son of Reuben William Davey, Cheap Street, Sherborne.
Harold Dodge (1879-1959) (bass), ironmonger, Cheap Street, Sherborne.
George W. Down (alto).
Henry Durrant (1864-) (bass), grocer & provision merchant, Cheap Street, Sherborne.
Charles Fincken (bass), Corn Merchant’s Traveller, Westbury, Sherborne.
Leonard St Aubyn Gent (1892-1974) (treble), son of Henry William Gent and Alice Mary Gent. Pupil at Fosters School c.1903.
Edward Gillard (treble).
John Hazzard (1876-) (bass), son of George Hazzard, Horsecastles, Sherborne.
Tom Hitchcock (c.1871-) (tenor), gardener, Greenhill, Sherborne.
Henry Charles Hoff (1873-1921) (bass), Town postman, later a tailor. Lived at 5 Raleigh Place, Westbury, Sherborne, and later at Cabel’s Drain, Newland, Sherborne. Son of Charles Hoff and Augusta Caroline (nee Baker). Married to Anna Almatina Churchill Green (1872-1925).
Charles H. Hyde (1884-) (alto), County Council clerk. Son of Henry Hyde, Raleigh View, Sherborne.
Percy A. Hyde (1889-) (treble), son of Henry Hyde, Raleigh View, Sherborne.
Wilfred J. Hyde (1891-) (treble), son of Henry Hyde, Raleigh View, Sherborne.
Edward Bradford Ingram (1886-) (bass), son of William John Ingram, Schoolmaster, National School, Westbury, Sherborne.
George W. James (1892-) (treble), son of John James, confectioner, Horsecastles, Sherborne.
Arthur Lambert (c.1892-) (treble), son of Albert Lambert, groom, Long Street, Sherborne.
Charles Alfred Loman (c.1876-) (tenor), tailor, Bristol Road, Sherborne.
Cecil Patten March (1892-) (treble), son of John Thomas and Alice Mary March, Long Street, Sherborne (Cecil was a carpenter in 1911).
Arthur Martin (1894-1917) (treble), Rink boy (skating rink) in 1911; son of Charles and Edith Martin; Charles was a groom, living in Lower Acreman Street, Sherborne (1901 and 1911). Leading Stoker on HMS ‘Vanguard’, Royal Navy, killed by an internal explosion at Scapa Flow on 9 July 1917, aged 24.
Frederick Martin (1897-) (treble), confectioner’s errand boy in 1911; son of Charles and Edith Martin. Charles was a groom, living in Lower Acreman Street, Sherborne (1901 and 1911).
Henry George Nash (1849-) (bass), draper, with a house and shop in Cheap Street, Sherborne.
Thomas Roberts (treble).
James Henry Charles Sawtell (1857-) (tenor), printer, Yeovil Road, Sherborne. Son of Anne Templeman Sawtell (1826-).
William T. Sheldrick (c.1897-) (treble), son of William Sheldrick, Wingfield Road, Sherborne.
Joshua Skinner (c.1893-) (treble), son of William John Skinner, tailor, and Florence Elizabeth Skinner, Newland, Sherborne. Pupil at Fosters School c.1903.
Arthur Burton Stabler (1868-) (tenor), Postmaster.
John Stiling (c.1895-) (treble), son of John Stiling, coachman and groom, Castleton.
John Newman Taylor (1864-1942) (bass), Sergeant-Major. Gymnastic instructor at Sherborne School 1886-1912, retired 1933. Chief Officer Sherborne Fire Brigade. Married to Marian Stace. Lived at Greenhill, Sherborne.
Percy Thomas (c.1894-) (treble), son of Annie E. Thomas, widow, Coldharbour, Sherborne.
William Voake (treble).
Leonard Warr (c.1892-) (treble), son of Walter Warr, hairdresser, Half Moon Street, Sherborne.
John Archer Witherington (1851-1935) (bass), gardener (domestic), Back Lane, Sherborne. Married to Emma Alma West.
Edgar Wood (treble).
Last month's highlight: Macquarie's instructions to James Meehan for the laying out of the Five Townships of Windsor, Richmond, Pitt town, Wilberforce and Castlereagh dated 26 December 1810. Notice Macquarie's attention to detail in the instructions: he sets a regular width for the streets and the assignment of land to be used for the Church, School, Gaol and Guard house. He even gives directions as to the type of
dwelling houses which may be built.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Instructions given to James Meehan for the laying out of the Five Townships
Secretary’s Office Sydney
26th December 1810
Sir
His Excellency the Governor deeming it expedient/in
order to guard against any misunderstanding on your part/to commit
the Instructions which He has already given you verbally on the
subjects of the New Townships now about to be finally, laid out and
for the further purpose of your explaining the same to all persons
concerned, so that at any future period, no doubt as to His
Excellency’s intentions may be started, has instructed me to convey
His directions to you to proceed immediately, to Windsor, where you
are to apply for, and receive from Mr Cox the Chief Magistrate, the
Several Returns of the Settlers Names who are desirous of forming
their future Residences within the said New Townships
So soon as you have received those Returns, you
are with the least possible delay, to commence the business of
laying out in a clear and distinct manner the Several Town-
Ships of Windsor, Richmond, Pitt town, Wilberforce and Castlereagh
in which duty you are to require the assistance of Mr Evans, the
Deputy Surveyor. These Townships are to be established on the
High Grounds already surveyed and allotted for those purposes by His
Excellency, the Governor on the several Commons within the respective
Districts to which these Townships are to be attached As a
General guide to you in the execution of this very important business
you
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You are principally, to observe and follow the subsequent Rules
and Orders in the marking out the several Townships and
allotments for the Settlers who mean to reside therein
1st You are mark out the several Townships by
regular lines accurately defined, and the streets
to be laid out are to be 66 feet wide – those streets
running lengthways thro’ the Town are to be parallel
to, and 8 chains distant from each other – these streets
are also to be intersected by others crossing them at
right angles, which streets are to be the same
width with the others, but are to be laid out 12
chains apart from each other, and are also to be in
parallel directions
2 In the Center of each Town or Township you
are to assign a Square Space of Ground containing
396 feet on each side for the purpose of erecting a
Church, a School House, a Gaol and Guard House in
and you are to set apart 2 acres of Ground on the
rear of the central square for a Burial ground, with
an expection in this particular with regard to Windsor
and Richmond, instructions for which will be
noticed herein.
3 The Townships are to be laid out in regular
Allotments for the future Inhabitants in the
Following proportions. Viz.
Allotment
For settlers holding Farms less than 30 1½ Acres
For
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Allotment
For settlers holding Farms of 30 and less than 50 Acres 2 acres
Do [Ditto] Do [Ditto] of 50 and less than 100 Do [Ditto] 3 Do [Ditto]
Do [Ditto] Do [Ditto] of 100 acres and upwards 4 Do [Ditto]
4 But as there is not a sufficiency of unappropriated Land
in the Township of Windsor to make the allotments equally
great as the foregoing whilst that which is disposable
becomes of course the more valuable, you are to make
the distribution of it accordingly to the following scale
namely
Allotment
For Settlers holding Farms less than 30 acres ¾ acre
Do [Ditto] Do of 30 and less than 50 Acres 1 Do
Do [Ditto] Do of 50 and less than 100 do 1½ Do
Do [ Ditto] Do of 100 acres and Upwards 2 Do
The main streets or those which run lengthways in Windsor
are to be parallel and 5 Chains asunder, and the
Streets at right angles with them or running cross-
ways are to be 12 Chains apart and throughout paral-
lel to each other the Width of the Streets to be 66 feet as
in the other Townships Fifty acres of Ground are to
be reserved for small Town allotments for the accom-
modation of Tradesmen which Ground is to commence
from Rickaby’s, Mr Marsden’s and Thomas’s farms
and to extend thence to the Farms on the South Creek
The allotments to be reserved for the settlers who have
Farms on the Banks of the River are to commence
at the termination of the 50 Acres reserved for the
Tradespeople Every Person holding a Farm on the
Bank of the River which is liable to the Floods, is to
have an allotment assigned him, whether his Land
is
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is held by Grant or Lease from the Government or by Purchase
or Lease from the original Grantee It is however to be
clearly understood in this place that such allotments are
never to be sold or alienated independent of the Farms for
the security of which they are now first to be granted, nor is
any Person whatever who holds Land on the River to get
an allotment in a District Township but that wherein
his Farm is situated to which he is to be exclusively attached
and limited.
5 You are also to number the Farms on the banks of
the Hawkesbury and Nepean which are subject to the floods
in the same order they are placed on the Chart Viz
No 1, 2, 3 and so on for their entire number and
corresponding numbers for the Town allotment are to be
given to the settlers, paying due attention to the proportions
already prescribed When this duty is performed you are to
make out a complete register off all the allotments thus
assigned in order that it may be referred to in any Cases
of dispute which may in future arise respecting them.
6 The dwelling houses to be erected in the several Town-
ships by the settlers are to be either made of Brick or
weather boarded, to have Brick chimneys and to roofed
with shingles each house is to contain not less than two
apartments, with a glazed window in each room and
the side walls are not to less than 9 feet high A
Plan of such dwelling houses with suitable offices will be
left with each District Constable to which every Settler in
the erection of his house and office must conform as
already
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already prescribed in His Excellency’s address to the settlers under
the Head of General and Government Orders dated the 15th
instant and you are to take pains to making this
injunction perfectly understood
7 You are also to locate a Glebe of 400 acres of Land
for the present and future use Chaplains resident at
Windsor the situation to be a convenient and
eligible one within that Township or in the town-
ship of Richmond, but you are by all means to avoid
marking it out in any situation whereby it might
prove injurious or inconvenient for the Farms on
the Banks of the River, either by its shutting up or
excluding their free communication between their Farms
so sealed and the Town Common assigned for the
grazing of their cattle. Neither is the Glebe to extend
nearer than one mile to the Towns of Windsor or
Richmond.
8 The Burial Grounds for the Townships of Windsor and
Richmond, and the Grounds whereon it is intended to
erect the Churches and School houses are to be con-
sidered as exceptions to the rules laid down in the 2nd
Paragraph of these Instructions, and are to be marked
out for them as the Governor has already directed
9 In any cases not provided for in these present in-
structions, you are to be guided by the verbal directions
which you have already received from His Excellency,
the Governor, and you are by all means to impress
These His Excellency’s Instructions on every person
who
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who may feel an interest therein
I am Sir
Your Ob H ble Servt
[Obedient Humble Servant]
Signed Jno Thos Campbell
Secy
[John Thomas Campbell
Secretary]
James Meehan
Actg Pl Surveyor
[Acting Principal]
Sydney