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The wife outside Lord Of The Isles in Renfrew. "Pubs" (also referred to as inns/taverns/boozers) were a place that served a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages as well as snacks and, in some cases, cooked food. As I recall, it was quite enjoyable just watching the world go by and enjoying a range of drinks that you wouldn't ordinarily have in your own home. It was also the time before we were microchipped so they were a great place to escape. On nice days, such as this one in 2010, you could also sit outside. Getting to and from these so-called "pubs" was easy too as there used to be buses and trains that ran and for a nominal fee you could buy a "ticket" and a person drove the vehicle to a range of towns and places nearby or even farther afield. If you went a long distance away you didn't have to come back the same day because we had things called "hotels" which charged you a fee in return for lodgings, including sleeping quarters and a morning meal.
3 Blendid images , also i used a Poleriser which always gives HDR work the edge if the clouds are right! This is the Skydome at Milton Keynes.
In the past two years I've shot the Campbell Park Fireworks over Xscape and from the park itself. This year I went to the bottom of the park and to the eastern end of Willen Lake. There may be an element of photoshopping to this as the fireworks all overlapped a bit more than expected but the result wasn't bad - specially with the Theatre and the Fair visible as well. Fortunately the rain didn't spoil the shot either!
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I thought making food faces was my speciality, until this was placed in front of me. Cheeky chef devils!
Ask Italian - the name can be construed either as the founders' initials or as an abbreviation of "Authentic Sicilian Kitchen". Ask was the chain's original name, it was rebranded as Ask Italian in 2010.
The only way we can afford to eat out at a place like this with a family of 5 is by redeeming our Tesco Clubcard points. It is one of the most efficient ways of using them.
This rural retreat is a fisherman's delight, set on the banks of a coarse fishing lake in 15 acres of landscaped heaven! It's a beautiful setting and York with its many attractions, pubs and restaurants is easily accessible by car.
As well as fishing for all ages and abilities, there's lots to do in the Vale of York. Just a few miles away, Allerthorpe Park Watersports offers sailing, kayaking, windsurfing and canoeing - or you could swing from the high wires 40 feet up at Go Ape in Thornton le Dale.
If you're looking for a luxurious lodge with an outdoor hot tub, try Paradise Wood View VIP. It sleeps six people and is tastefully furnished with a verandah and garden furniture. Or if there's a party of you, Kingfisher House sleeps up to ten and has a balcony overlooking the lake plus its own cinema and games room; it's perfect for a big family celebration or special event!
York has much to offer visitors, from the Minster and the racecourse to the dungeons, but a little further afield, you can go rock climbing and bowling at Xscape in Castleford or head to Scunthorpe for some retail therapy.
Storwood is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cottingwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) south-west of Pocklington and lies to the south of the B1228 road on the south bank of the Pocklington Canal. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 63. Storwood was formerly a township in the parish of Thornton, in 1866 Storwood became a civil parish, on 1 April 1935 the civil parish was merged with East Cottingwith to create Cottingwith.[
The East Riding of Yorkshire, often abbreviated to the East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to the south-west, and Lincolnshire to the south across the Humber Estuary. The city of Kingston upon Hull is the largest settlement.
The county has an area of 2,479 km2 (957 sq mi) and a population of 600,259. Kingston upon Hull is by far the largest settlement, with population of 267,014, and is a major port and the county's economic and transport centre. The rest of the county is largely rural, and the next largest towns are the seaside resort of Bridlington (35,369) and the historic town of Beverley (30,351). The county is governed by two unitary authorities, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Hull City Council. It takes its name from the East Riding, a historic subdivision of Yorkshire.
In the east of the county the low-lying plain of Holderness is enclosed by a crescent of low chalk hills, the Yorkshire Wolds. The Wolds meet the sea at Flamborough Head, a chalk headland, while the Holderness coast to the south is characterised by clay cliffs. The west of the county is part of the Vale of York, the wide plain of the River Ure/Ouse; the south-west is part of the Humberhead Levels.
The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district with unitary authority status, and is a ceremonial county of England. It is named after the historic East Riding of Yorkshire which was one of three ridings alongside the North Riding and West Riding, which were constituent parts a Yorkshire ceremonial and administrative county until 1974. From 1974 to 1996 the area of the modern East Riding of Yorkshire constituted the northern part of Humberside.
As a ceremonial county, the East Riding of Yorkshire borders North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority. As a district it borders North East Lincolnshire (over the Humber estuary), North Lincolnshire (over the Humber and on land), Hull, Doncaster, Selby, York, Ryedale and Scarborough.
The East Riding originated in antiquity. Unlike most counties in Great Britain, which were divided anciently into hundreds, Yorkshire was divided first into three ridings and then into numerous wapentakes within each riding. The ancient wapentake system is not used in the modern day, though it is an important part of Yorkshire's cultural heritage. Within the East Riding of Yorkshire there were seven wapentakes (including Hull), two of these were further sub-divided into divisions, thus;
1. Ouse and Derwent
2. Buckrose
3. Harthill – Wilton Beacon Division
4. Harthill – Holme Beacon Division
5. Howdenshire
6. Harthill – Hunsley Beacon Division
7. Harthill – Bainton Beacon Division
8. Dickering
9. Holderness – North Division
10. Kingston upon Hull (county corporate)
11. Holderness – Middle Division
12. Holderness – South Division
The separate Lieutenancy for the riding was established after the Restoration, and the ridings each had separate Quarter Sessions.
For statistical purposes in the 19th century an East Riding of Yorkshire registration county was designated, consisting of the entirety of the poor law unions of Beverley, Bridlington, Driffield, Howden, Hull, Patrington, Pocklington, Sculcoates, Skirlaugh and York, thus excluding parts of the historic riding around Norton and Sherburn (which are also excluded from the modern district), but also including the city of York and environs (more usually associated with the West Riding). These poor law unions formed the basis of rural sanitary districts in 1875.
A county council for the East Riding of Yorkshire was set up in 1889, covering an administrative county which did not cover the county borough of Hull, but otherwise had the same boundaries as the historic riding. Apart from Hull the East Riding contained two municipal boroughs, Beverley and Hedon.
Under the Local Government Act 1894 the rest of the administrative county was divided into rural districts and urban districts. The rural districts were based on the rural sanitary districts, with Beverley Rural District, Bridlington Rural District, Driffield Rural District, Howden Rural District, Patrington Rural District, Pocklington Rural District, Riccal Rural District, Sculcoates Rural District and Skirlaugh Rural District being formed as-is.
Several other rural districts were formed by divisions of rural sanitary districts to conform to the administrative county borders : Sherburn Rural District and Norton Rural District came from Scarborough and Malton RSDs respectively (otherwise in North Riding); Riccal Rural District from Selby RSD (otherwise in the West Riding); and Escrick Rural District which was previously part of York RSD (which covered all three ridings). Urban districts were Cottingham, Great Driffield, Filey, Hessle (from 1899), Hornsea, Norton, Pocklington and Withernsea (from 1898).
The East Riding's only large town is Hull, a major port. Hull's population of which rose rapidly in the late 19th century : quadrupling from about 60,000 in 1851 to 240,000 in 1901. Other towns in the riding did not have similar growth and remain small: Bridlington's permanent population remained largely static in the same period, increasing from 6,000 to around 7,000. By 1971 the riding had a population of slightly over 500,000. In comparison, the West Riding (including county boroughs) saw extensive urbanisation and the formation of several conurbations, and had a population of nearly 4,000,000 in 1971, and the North Riding a population of about 700,000. Beverley was once a town of some importance, with St. John's College and Beverley Minster. The college was suppressed along with the monastery in the 16th century (see Dissolution of the Monasteries) and the town entered a decline in relative importance, although gaining a charter of incorporation in 1573, having previously been under the Archbishop of York. Beverley benefited somewhat from the proximity of Hull during the Industrial Revolution, and became the county town for the East Riding administrative county in 1892.
Bridlington obtained municipal borough status in 1899, having become a resort town (as had Hornsea and Withernsea), although not matching the population growth of Scarborough further up the coast in the North Riding.
The county districts underwent a major reorganisation in 1935 :Derwent Rural District formed from most of Escrick RD, Riccal RD and part of Howden RD (which continued in existence)
Holderness Rural District formed from Patrington RD and Skirlaugh RD
Sherburn RD abolished, split between Bridlington RD, Norton RD and part to Filey UD
Sculcoates RD abolished, mostly to Beverley RD
Great Driffield urban district made smaller and renamed Driffield, the rural part going to Nafferton parish in Driffield
Rural District
an urban district of Haltemprice formed to cover the urbanised area west of Hull, from Cottingham and Hessle urban districts, and parts of Sculcoates Rural District (including Haltemprice, West Ella and parts of other parishes)
Pocklington urban district abolished and added to Pocklington RD
Both the administrative county and the historic Lieutenancy were abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974, with most of the riding going to form the northern part of Humberside. Some parts became part of North Yorkshire, with the borough of Scarborough taking in Filey UD and part of the Bridlington Rural District, the district of Ryedale taking in Norton and the former Norton Rural District, and the district of Selby taking in the former Derwent Rural District. Humberside also included northern Lincolnshire, and Goole and the former Goole Rural District, which are in the historic West Riding.
The creation of a cross-Humber authority was unpopular, despite the promise of the Humber Bridge (which ultimately opened in 1981), and identification with Yorkshire and the East Riding remained strong (for example, North Wolds District Council change its name to East Yorkshire Borough Council in the early 1980s, with Beverley also taking the name 'East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley'). This culminated with the local government review in the 1990s, which saw Humberside abolished and the northern part form two unitary authorities.
The East Riding district was formed on 1 April 1996 from the former districts of East Yorkshire, Beverley and Holderness, along with the northern part of the Boothferry district, including the Goole area which forms part of the historic West Riding (attaching it to the districts of Selby or Doncaster were proposed but rejected). The ceremonial county, the area in which the Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire represents the Crown, was re-established the same day, covering Hull as well as the district.
The East Riding has two quite distinctive and contrasting archaeological areas, the Yorkshire Wolds and the Humber Wetlands. The Yorkshire Wolds form an upland arc of chalk hills stretching from Flamborough head on the coast to the Humber Estuary at its southern end. The Humber Wetlands consist of all the land in the Humber basin that lies below 10 metres above sea level which encompasses a large part of Holderness and the valleys of the Rivers Hull and Derwent and the lower part of the River Ouse valley.
The Arctic conditions associated with the last ice age started to improve and the climate gradually became warmer about 10,000 BC. This warming-up process suffered several temporary setbacks as short, cool spells occurred which disrupted the overall momentum. By about 9,000 BC the vegetation had changed from tundra to a closed woodland, of pine and birch.
Evidence from Gransmoor, to the east of Driffield, in Holderness indicates that Late Palaeolithic people were present in East Yorkshire during the climatic transition. In 1992, a small barbed antler harpoon point was found lodged in a preserved log, thought to be either birch or rowan. This find has been dated to around 9,500 BC.
Between 8,300 and 4,000 BC, Mesolithic communities occupied the area. In the GreatWold Valley, at Willow Garth, to the west of Boynton, pollen samples of Mesolithic date, indicate that the forest cover in this area was being altered by man, and that open grasslands were being made to create grazing areas to which animals would be attracted thus making hunting easier.
In the Yorkshire Wolds there are thousands of Iron Age square barrows and hundreds of farmsteads and settlements, droveways, tracks and field systems. There is a profusion of Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Romano-British sites extending across the entire Wolds area. Some Mesolithic sites are known on the chalklands of the Yorkshire Wolds, at Craike Hill (Eastburn Warren), Garton Slack, Huggate Dykes, Huggate Wold, and Octon Wold. The Yorkshire Wolds has a wide range of favourable natural resources and so became a major focus for human settlement during the Neolithic period. Two of the most recently excavated earthen long barrows in the region are to be found at Fordon, on Willerby Wold, and at Kilham, both of which have provided radiocarbon dates of around 3,700 BC. An extensive Neolithic ritual complex, the principal elements of which are four large cursus monuments and a henge, is situated near the eastern end of the Great Wold Valley. More than 1,400 Bronze Age round barrows, are known to exist on the Yorkshire Wolds, occurring either in isolation or, more usually, grouped together to form cemeteries. In the Iron Age the distinctive local tradition known as the Arras Culture emerged and was named after the type-site, found near Market Weighton, and excavated in 1815–17. Romano British villa sites are known on the Wolds at Rudston, Harpham, Brantingham, Welton, and Wharram-le-Street. Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known from East Yorkshire.
The Humber Wetlands Project which took place between 1992 and 2001 identified numerous prehistoric wetland sites in Holderness, the Hull Valley, the Humberhead Levels and the Vale of York. A boat found at North Ferriby, near Kingston upon Hull, has been dated as 2030 BC, which makes it the oldest of its kind in western Europe. New scientific research carried out on the remains shows it is at least 4,000 years old. The boat was one of three discovered by amateur archaeologist Ted Wright on the banks of the Humber. Historians knew that the boats were old, but only now do they know how old. New scientific techniques suggest the boat Mr Wright found in 1963 is 500 years older than everyone thought. That means it date backs more than 4,000 years to the early Bronze Age. The Ferriby site was an ideal point of departure for east/west travel along the Humber or as a crossing-point to the south bank. The Ferriby Boats were a means by which ideas, such as the decorative design of pottery, and goods such as Baltic amber and metals could arrive on the Humber shore. It has also been suggested that it may have been used to carry stones to Stonehenge.
The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire on 25 September 1066. In the battle the majority of the invading Norwegian forces were killed by the forces of King Harold Godwinson of England. It was the final fall of the Vikings in England. A fortnight after the battle, on 14 October 1066, after having marched his forces to the south coast of England, Harold was defeated and killed by Norman forces under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. This began the Norman Conquest of England.
In Holderness the extensive Lordship was granted by King William I of England to Drogo de la Beuvirere, a Flemish follower. Drogo built a castle at Skipsea before 1087 but he was disgraced and his estates were confiscated by the king. The area was then given to Odo, Count of Champagne, but was taken from him when he rebelled against King William II of England in 1095. It was returned to Odo's son Stephen of Aumale in 1102. Large estates in Holderness were held by the Bishop of Durham and the Archbishop of York. Other large landowners in the area included the abbeys of Meaux and Thornton and the priories of Swine, Nunkeeling and Bridlington. These ecclesiastical estates were confiscated and became crown property when King Henry VIII of England dissolved the monasteries in the 16th century. The Yorkshire Wolds is rich in medieval sites, and is particularly well known for its deserted villages, like those at Wharram Percy and Cottam. Settlement on the Wolds during the medieval period was concentrated on the most suitable agricultural soils. The two major settlement zones are, the Great Wold Valley villages, such as Helperthorpe, Weaverthorpe, Butterwick, Foxholes, Burton Flemming and Rudston, and the east-facing slope of the Wolds including villages such as Carnaby, Haisthorpe, Thornholme, Burton Agnes, and Nafferton, all of which are sited so as to take advantage of a ration of both heavier and lighter agricultural soils.
Dutch postcard, no. 162.
Paul Anka (1941) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. Anka became famous in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with hit songs like Diana (1957), Lonely Boy (1959), Put Your Head on My Shoulder (1959), and (You're) Having My Baby (1974). He wrote the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song, My Way (1969).
Paul Albert Anka was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1941. His parents, Camelia and Andy Anka owned a restaurant called the Locanda, that was popular with local entertainers. He taught himself to play guitar and piano as a teen and formed a vocal group called the Bobbysoxers with friends that performed locally in Ottawa. Paul Anka recorded his first single, I Confess, when he was 14. In 1957 he went to New York City where he auditioned for Don Costa at ABC. He sang the original song Diana (1957). He was quickly offered a recording contract, and Diana rocketed to #1 on the Canadian and U.S. music charts. With dales of more than 20 million copies, Diana is one of the best-selling singles ever by a Canadian recording artist. He followed up with four songs that made it into the Top 20 in 1958, including It's Time to Cry, which hit #4. Only 17, he was one of the biggest teen idols of the time. He toured Britain, then Australia with Buddy Holly. Anka wrote for him It Doesn't Matter Anymore, which Holly recorded just before he died in 1959. Anka's next hit Puppy Love (1960) was inspired by his girlfriend Annette Funicello.
Paul Anka hit the Italian market with Summer's Gone in 1960. It was released as Dove Sei. The record got immediate success, reaching #4 on Italian hit lists. His top hit was Ogni giorno which scored #1 in 1962, followed by Piangerò per te and Ogni volta, which reached both #2, in 1963 and 1964. Ogni volta (Every Time) was sung by Anka during the Festival di Sanremo of 1964 and then sold more than one million copies in Italy alone. Anka's talent also included the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, which was reworked in 1962 from a song Anka wrote earlier. Anka composed Tom Jones's biggest hit record, She's a Lady (1971), and wrote the English lyrics to Frank Sinatra's signature song My Way (1969). It was originally the French song Comme d'habitude, and My Way has been covered by many including Elvis Presley. In the 1960s Anka began acting in motion pictures as well as writing songs for them, most notably the theme for the hit film The Longest Day (Ken Annakin a.o., 1962). For his film work, he wrote and recorded one of his greatest hits, Lonely Boy (1959). Like most North American recording artists, he saw his career stalled by the British Invasion. By the late 1960s, his career focused on adult contemporary and big-band standards, played regularly in Las Vegas.
After more than ten years without a top 25 hit record, Paul Anka teamed up in 1974 with Odia Coates to record the #1 hit, (You're) Having My Baby. The two would record two more duets that made it into the Top 10, One Man Woman/One Woman Man (#7) and I Don't Like to Sleep Alone (#8). In 1983, he co-wrote the song I Never Heard with Michael Jackson. It was retitled and released in 2009 under the name This Is It. An additional song that Jackson co-wrote with Anka from this 1983 session, Love Never Felt So Good, was since discovered and was released on Jackson's posthumous album Xscape in 2014. The song was also released by Johnny Mathis in 1984. Paul Anka became a naturalized US citizen in 1990. Anka was married to Anne de Zogheb, the daughter of a Lebanese diplomat, Charles de Zogheb, from 1963, until 2001. They have five daughters. In 2008, Anka married his personal trainer, Anna Åberg, in Sardinia. They divorced in 2010 and share custody of their son, Ethan. An autobiography, My Way (cowritten with David Dalton), was published in 2013.
Source: Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Style # 25080/XS3026
Be “That Girl” that everyone envy’s when you wear this one shoulder jersey party dress by Xscape! This short drape dress is ultra flattering and effortlessly chic. The sparkling rhinestone buckle adds a subtle hint of glamour that is just oh so stunning. This short cocktail dress is ideal for homecoming, as a guest of wedding dress, or for any fun party you want to look your best! Finish off this stylish look with multi rhinestone drop earrings, high heel platform sandals and a fully rhinestone handbag.
Nice BMW 3-series from Poland, which was parked up at Xscape near Castleford. This was registered to the county of Świdwin, located in north-western Poland. The rear plate frame comes from a Nisssan dealer in the town of Ruhpolding in south-eastern Bavaria, mere kilometres from the Austrian border and the Alps. The front plate holder comes from a garage in Essen, in western Germany. It's obvious that this car isn't originally from Poland.
Castleford, United Kingdom
The Food Centre and Xscape on the right. After experiencing the refined architecture of the listed Shopping building (out of view on the left) you turn right to walk towards Xscape, and you have to walk around or through the Food Centre to reach it.
The Food Centre is not a distinguished piece of work and has already suffered from a chequered history of changing shops and frequently empty 'Food' shops and always gives a distinct feeling of desolation. Immediately to the left is thriving Open Air Market, partially covered by the roads and a life saver for shoppers on limited incomes.
Does't make a bad foreground for a cloudy sky.
I met Anthony tonight after a workout in the gym. As I was getting dressed in the changing room him and his mate were checking their definition in the mirrors. His body fat % must be so low it's untrue.
Obviously I wasn't about to pull out my SLR in the changing room and ask for a shot but I thought both him and his friend would make great portraits.
I caught up with Anthony in the car park, he'd actually sat down in his car when I asked if I could take his picture! I wasn't sure how he'd react but I figured if it all went wrong and he hit me I wouldn't feel it until I woke up with concussion ;-)
As you can see from the smile however Anthony was a really nice guy, I think he was both flattered and embaressed by the request but was happy to pose.
This is #6 in my 100 strangers assignment. More strangers around the world in the Photo challenge: 100 strangers web site!
On Saturday, i was in Castleford, near Leeds/Wakefield, as there was one event of which i attended at the Xscape Village. Knightcon, a gathering of Movie Cars such as DeLoreans, General Lees, 15 K.I.T.T replicas, James Bond's DB5, the Green Hornet's car, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, the Batmobile and the Ghostbusters Ambulance. There was American Muscle too, such as Impalas, Trans Am's, PT Cruisers, Corvettes, Hummers and Tuned Mustangs from ASC Dominator, Saleen and this, a 2010 Shelby GT.500, my first new shape GT.500.
It was quite an amazing event, if not a little busy, but what do you expect, when there was kids all wanting to see the amazing cars, and characters. I event got a picture with the Stig with my friend...Amazing, simply amazing!
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P500 EMR 'Julia'
Volvo FH12
Stanley Reeves (S&D Leisure), Reverse Bungee
Central Milton Keynes, 24 October 2010
Ex E.M. Rogers Transport
A year on from the previous photo and the former Gilbert Chadwick Volvo is now repainted in Stanley Reeves's livery to match the FH16 that pulls the bungee. The lorry contains sleeping accommodation for the gaff lads and the ride's backflash folds out from the nearside of the box body, although it wasn't in use at the Xscape. While the new livery is equally smart it does seem a shame to have wiped out the superb Maze of Terror artwork to make way for it.
Style # 25080/XS3010
Sophistication never looked so good! Sleek and alluring are the only words to describe this amazing Xscape ruched satin dress. Perfect for any formal event, this little black dress is gorgeous and can be worn to prom, homecoming, as a guest of wedding dress, or to any swanky cocktail event. Posh elegance will be emanated off as you saunter around in this dress with exquisite lace details along the next and back. Any classy event would be lucky to have you as their guest in this marvelously stunning dress. Complement this look with peep toe platform lace pumps, crystal teardrop earrings and a fully rhinestone flap handbag.
Lucky you who opened this photo take another moment to help me choose a more specific title for it. Just write the number. When I make up my mind, if I agree with your choice, you lucky you win a digital gingerbread baked by my friend Lambrini!
01) What if I became a hermit?
02) Useless shit noway to build
03) Possible site for waste dump
04) Possible site for stone quarry
05) Where the buzzards nest
06) I like it standing upright and as hard as can be
07) Xeropotamo
08) The bones of the Greek earth
09) What was behind you while you were looking at the sea
10) Limestone cliffs topped with oaks
11) I have climbed it!
12) I can't see you naked so what do I care?
13) It's ok, now go for beachshots
14) A "w" on the left, a "w" on the right, an "o" in the middle
15) Nice colors
Photo added later in my Greek blog article:
I love the skies that this warm weather is giving us - I just had to find some red and white to go with the blue! Shot using my trusty 50mm macro lens (to restrict the framing) and a circular polarising filter.
Not quite the same picture that I used as the basis for my love knows no bounds kaleidoscope but from the same shoot.
SOOC apart from border and signature.
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Here is the "xscape" complex in Milton Keynes. We (work) went snowboarding there - it was fun :)
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report hosts Tamara Krinsky, Ashley Bornancin, Brogyn Gage, Cathy Kelley, Jenifer Golden, and Jackie Powell were busy this Awards Season covering red carpet events from award shows to gifting suites to pre-Oscar parties to viewing parties leading up to the 86th Academy Awards. Below is a recap and links to the coverage where we spoke with Oscar nominees and those who came out to celebrate the Oscars in 2014.
We’d like to thank The Academy and the various PR firms which credentialed our outlet to cover their events. We’d also like to thank the designers who were gracious in providing haute couture for our hosts to wear on Oscars Red Carpet. They are as follows:
Ashley Bornancin - Twitter.com/AshleyBinspired
Ashley's Dress by Simone Rodrigues - www.SisaDesigns.com
Brogyn Gage - Twitter.com/BrogynMarie
Brogyn's Dress by Rubber Ducky Productions - www.rubberducky.us
Brogyn's Jewelry - Vintage
Cathy Kelley - Twitter.com/CatherineKelley
Cathy's Dress by Gordana Gehlhausen - www.shopgoga.com
Cathy's Ring & Necklace by Fiamma - www.FiammaJewelry.com
Cathy's Silver Cuff by lleana Rojas-Bennett - www.malekujewelry.com
Tamara Krinsky - Twitter.com/TamaraKrinsky
Tamara's Dress - Xscape
Tamara's Jewelry - Vintage
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the former mining town of castleford in yorkshire has something to boast about. a new pedestrian
bridge has been built connecting residents of the north and south part of town. the bridge design
was collaborated by mcdowell + bendetti, alan baxter associates, arup and constructed by costain.
public space was incorporated into the design, from the bridge residents can view local landmarks
and take a seat on one of the benches. the deck is made from timber and lighting has been installed
under the rails. the bridge has been designed in an 's' shape and stretches 0.8km.From The Times
August 2, 2008
Kevin McCloud’s big town plan for Castleford
Kevin McCloud’s latest grand design is to inject new life into the town of Castleford. Our correspondents assesses the results
Tom Dyckhoff
We thought ’old on, they’ll come with their TV cameras and MDF messing the place up. Well no, you’re not, and that’s that.” Rheta Davison wasn’t, at first, looking forward to the arrival of Kevin McCloud. Reality TV hasn’t had the best press, so when Channel 4 and Talkback, the makers of McCloud’s hit TV series Grand Designs, turned up in 2003 to film the regeneration of Davison’s home town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, a run-down former coal-mining town, you could forgive locals for being a tad sceptical.
Davison, a no-nonsense, call-a-spade-a-spade lady of the kind only Yorkshire produces, has lived here all her life. She now runs her estate’s community group. “You’ve got to remember Cas has been promised things time and again,” she explains. “We’ve all been through times. My husband was made redundant, which is why we ended up here [on the council estate] with four kids to bring up. The place is full of scars, bad scars an’ all. We all just thought they’d do some cheap makeover, make us northerners out to be idiots and disappear and that would be that.”
How wrong she was. This was no instant makeover. “The Castleford Project” became a joke in TV circles. Heard the one about the channel that thought it could film eight building projects from scratch in, er, two years? Have they never watched Grand Designs?
“I think I was the only one to say, you know it takes two years just to design and build a house,” says McCloud. “And you want to regenerate a town? Mad, just mad. TV people think that if they say two years real life will just fit in.”
Five years on, though, and the project is not only finished but ready for broadcast. The idea is simple, says McCloud: “Can design save a failing town?” Talkback “interviewed” many contenders left behind by Britain’s so-called urban renaissance, but selected Castleford for its community spirit. The town may have above-average stats for teenage pregnancy and below-average ones for educational attainment, but, says McCloud “the locals really had drive”.
“There is a version of events that nothing was happening here till Channel 4 turned up with their magic dust,” says Wakefield Council’s leader, Peter Box, “but that’s nonsense.” Two decades on, Glasshoughton colliery has been replaced by the giant Xscape indoor dry ski slope, employing more people than the pit – many of them new arrivals, mind you – and surrounded by retail sheds, a multiplex, a new Asda and rising new suburban homes. At the junction of the M62 and M1, Castleford is rebranding itself as a commuter ’burb for émigrés from Leeds. But its existing residents weren’t without ideas either.
All Davison and her community group wanted was a play area. “Children have a right to be heard in a community,” she says. “They’re no less clever here than anywhere else. It’s just that they’ve got no aspirations. They’re born into families with no jobs.” Talkback selected Cutsyke’s “playforest”, and seven other projects, large and small: a new underpass to the town centre replacing a grotty alley beneath the railway; a new “village green” in the former pit village of New Fryston; a newly landscaped market area; a new town centre gallery; a new pedestrian bridge across the Aire, and improvements such as new bollards and traffic calming around Wilson Street. These were partnered with eight teams of designers, with all decisions to be made by the locals and community champions, and let the cameras roll.
Five years later, the physical results are impressive. Talkback attracted serious talent. On the steering committees are leading lights such as Roger Zogolovitch, one of Britain’s most influential, design-led developers, and Peter Rogers, brother of Richard and the founding CEO of developers Stanhope. Architects included rising stars such as DSDHA and Hudson Architects, plus international luminaries including Martha Schwartz.
Schwartz’s new village green gleams – even if its avant-garde angles and artfully rusted bollards by Antony Gormley seem grandiose for the edge of town. Renato Benedetti’s £4.8 million footbridge is an astonishing tour de force, its steel, serpentine curves daintily tiptoeing across the torrent of the Aire. Locals swarm across day and night, says its community champion, Wendy Rayner. “When you get to the middle of the bridge, you’re not in Castleford, you are somewhere else. You meet your friends. They’ve started having picnics on it. Nobody ever had picnics here before. We’ve got kingfishers, cormorants, mallard ducks and water-hens. They’re pulling pike out the river. It’s a living museum. Kids his age,” she nods to her grandson, Thomas, “they don’t even know what a lump of coal is.”
The smaller projects are just as influential. The new underpass beneath Tickle Cott Bridge cost only a couple of hundred thousand pounds, but for that, DSDHA delivered a piece of sophisticated concrete geometry, which, says the architect Deborah Saunt, “is about cheering up those spots planning usually forgets about”. And the impact on all participants is palpable. But there are, of course, naysayers. As I gawp at Benedetti’s bridge, a man comes up and literally spits on it – “Bloody waste of money” – before hurtling off. “Ah, you always get ’em. Bloody moaners,” Davison says. “Don’t put the effort in. Where would you rather the money went? Wakefield?”