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This anchor is a wonderful old thing, made from wrought iron and I should think, quite a few years old – if only it could speak! / It now rests as a piece of street sculpture on Poole quayside in Dorset. / It was the combination of some nice lines on the ground and in the stones in the building that appealed to me as much as the anchor itself.
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White Horse, Westbury Arguably the best known of Wiltshire’s white horses, this fine figure was cut into the hillside in 1778. Some sources say that it replaced an older hill carving, possibly commemorating King Alfred’s nearby victory over the Vikings. Click here for more information Location: Westbury Hill, Westbury, Wiltshire, England Date: 31st March 2008 Greeting Card: / Framed Print: /
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A timeless, shady stretch of the River Nadder as it crosses the water meadows on the edge of Salisbury, Wiltshire. / /
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Crane Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire / / Bridges were crucial to Salisbury’s success as a medieval trading centre. It was important to have safe, dry river crossings for people coming in to the market from places round about. Crane Bridge was built in the 15th Century. Although it has been widened twice since then, the arches were reused, so it has kept its character. Crane Bridge and Crane Street were named after a house called the Crane.
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Now in the keeping of the National Trust, Stourhead was formerly owned by the Hoare family. / In his youth, Henry Hoare II visited Italy. He became fascinated by the remains of classical and Renaissance Rome. Back at Stourhead, Hoare filled his garden with an extraordinary set of buildings and statues to remind him of his travels. / For early 18th-century men of taste like Henry Hoare II, the 16th-century Italian architect, Andrea Palladio, was the supreme designer. / The Palladian Bridge, built in 1762, was based on a bridge in Vicenza designed by Palladio and forms the centre point of many of the garden’s classic views. Although purely ornamental, the bridge also serves to create the illusion that the lake is a river, flowing from the village down into the valley. / July 2008. /
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These Punch and Judy theatres seem ever popular and say as much about the traditional British seaside as fish and chips or bucket and spades! Selective colouring.
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A public right of way crosses a corn field in Dorset! What a wonderful path to take across the fields through the rows of corn. /
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Milton Abbas was originally called Middleton, that is middle tun the middle farm or hamlet. In about 933 a Saxon king, Aethelstan founded a monastery there. In 964 King Edgar replaced the monks with Benedictines. In 1752 the manor was sold to Joseph Damer (1718-1798), who later became Earl of Dorchester. In 1771 he decided to build a new mansion and he employed Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) to build it but the two men fell out and Chambers resigned in 1774. The new house was completed by James Wyatt (1746-1813). Damer also employed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown (1716-1783). Damer decided to remove the existing houses in the town because they spoilt his view. He waited till leases ran out and in the 1780s he demolished the existing cottages and replaced them with new ones further away. He also moved the almshouses. The new settlement was renamed Milton Abbas.
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Featured in The Patchwork 5th Nov, 2008. / Featured in Live, Love, Dream 4th Nov, 2008. This road is opposite the entrance to Milton Abbey (school) in Milton Abbas. The autumn colours in the small group of trees caught my eye.
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Featured in Live, Love, Dream 5th Nov, 2008. / This is a beautiful thatched pub/restaurant, The Brace of Pheasants in Plush, Dorset. They have a wonderful menu and I was about to eat there, but, unfortunately, arrived at 15:05 and the kitchens closed at 15:00. Oh well, maybe next time. / The pub ‘sign’ is not a sign at all but an illuminated glass cabinet containing a brace of stuffed pheasants – a cock and a hen. I don’t know how long the glass box has been up there, but I know it wouldn’t be five minutes outside a London pub before some senseless yob would throw a brick at it.
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Featured in Streetscapes 7th December, 2008 The view of St Andrew’s Church from the roadway at Blagdon Lake. The Church has a 116-foot tower with pinnacles and a cusped lozenge pattern parapet, with a stair turret spirelet in the north-east corner. The tower was built between 1907 and 1909 by Lord Winterstoke (of the Wills tobacco family). The tower contains a bell dating from 1716 and made by Edward Bilbie of the Bilbie family. It is a Grade II listed building The lychgate to the east of the church is also a Grade II listed building in its own right. Above the door are four primitive Norman carvings which survived three rebuildings. The church is in Balgdon, Somerset, England.
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This is a composed picture. The background was taken on digital of sun reflecting into water with polaroid lens in front of the camera. Then the picture of stonehenge, taken on film, was cut and pasted onto the background. I have left the slightly white outline around the edges of the film cut as it appears, at least to me, that the stones are backlit. Any constructive criticism welcomed
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A look at the houses down the hill in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. In the 11th century King Canute rewarded the services of Orca, his steward, with land in Abbotsbury, Portesham and Hilton. It’s believed there was already a religious community in Abbotsbury, and Orca and his wealthy wife Tola built an Abbey here. The Abbey dominated life in Abbotsbury for 500 years, but was destroyed in the dissolution. The barn survived and is the largest thatched building in the world. / Until the dissolution, Abbotsbury would have been one of the most important villages in the county, and the settlement is laid out around a wide market area. After the decline of its monastery, Abbotsbury became the quiet village it is today. / In 1664, during the English Civil War, Roundheads and Cavaliers clashed at Abbotsbury. Cavaliers besieged the Roundheads in the church tower of St. Nicholas’ church, which still bears the scars of musket fire. / During the Second World War, the coastal front was fortified and defended as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. Later, the Fleet was used as a machine gun training range, and Bouncing bombs were tested there, for the Dambuster sortie (Operation Chastise). More info /
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St Catherine’s Chapel is a small chapel situated above the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. It is thought to have been built in about 1400 as a Pilgrim chapel for Abbotsbury Abbey. Its position on the top of a hill about 80 m (260 ft) high, overlooking the coast means that it was a prominent feature for seafarers. / The medieval strip lynchets etched into the side of the hill are known locally as the Chapel Rings. I liked the effect almost duplicated in the clouds. / The chapel appears briefly in the Powell and Pressburger film, The Small Back Room. / St Catherine’s Chapel has a local tradition of ‘wishing’. This involves using the niches in the chapel walls to ‘post’ prayers to the saint asking for her help. This tradition still goes on today.
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A look at the houses up the hill in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. In the 11th century King Canute rewarded the services of Orca, his steward, with land in Abbotsbury, Portesham and Hilton. It’s believed there was already a religious community in Abbotsbury, and Orca and his wealthy wife Tola built an Abbey here. The Abbey dominated life in Abbotsbury for 500 years, but was destroyed in the dissolution. The barn survived and is the largest thatched building in the world. / Until the dissolution, Abbotsbury would have been one of the most important villages in the county, and the settlement is laid out around a wide market area. After the decline of its monastery, Abbotsbury became the quiet village it is today. / In 1664, during the English Civil War, Roundheads and Cavaliers clashed at Abbotsbury. Cavaliers besieged the Roundheads in the church tower of St. Nicholas’ church, which still bears the scars of musket fire. / During the Second World War, the coastal front was fortified and defended as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. Later, the Fleet was used as a machine gun training range, and Bouncing bombs were tested there, for the Dambuster sortie (Operation Chastise). More info /
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A road somewhere in Somerset (possibly Dorset). I was travelling from one to the other at the time and stopped the car (again) to take the shot. / We have much bad weather here in the UK. It’s often cloudy and overcast. It rains a lot. We have fog and mist. When the sun cracks through we don shorts and t-shirts, regardless of temperature, and head for any open space where we might just possibly get a bit of a tan. / The UK is a place where one area can be smitten with torrential rain and floods while twenty miles away the sun is splitting rocks and there’s a hosepipe ban. / Having said all that, the unpredictable weather has its upsides for photo-nuts like me.
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A view across the front at Lyme Regis from beneath the Millennium Clock. Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, England and forms part of the Jurassic Coast. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border. It is nicknamed “The Pearl of Dorset”. In the 13th century it developed into one of the major British ports. The town was home to Admiral Sir George Somers, its one time mayor and parliamentarian, who founded the Somers Isles, better known as Bermuda. Lyme Regis is twinned with St. George’s, in that Atlantic archipelago. Lyme is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The Royal Charter was granted by King Edward I in 1284, with the addition of ‘Regis’ to the town’s name. This charter was confirmed by Elizabeth I in 1591.
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Located about 10km north-east of Dorchester, Athelhampton House is a Tudor manor reputedly haunted by an ape (!), a cooper and the Grey Lady. It was built by Sir William Martyn in 1485 and surrounded by a 160 acres deer park. The most impressive features are the original 15th-century Great Hall and State Bedroom, and especially the formal, walled gardens. The house stayed in the Martyn family until 1595, then successively changed hands until 1957, when it was acquired by Robert Victor Cooke. His grand-son, Patrick Cooke, and his wife have been overseeing the operation at Athelhampton since 1995. Athelhampton’s most famous ghost is that of the Martyn family’s pet ape. When Nicholas Martyn died in 1595, the ape roamed the house searching for its new master only to find four surviving daughters. It is said that the animal can be heard scratching behind the panelling in the Great Chamber where it is trapped in a secret staircase. The two other ghosts are that of a Civil War cooper tapping on barrels in the Wine Cellar, and that of the Grey Lady, which passes through the walls of the East Wing to the State and Yellow Bedrooms. :) more info HDR – Photoshopped Featured In: My Child’s Art / Experimental Photography & Editing / Dorset, England
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Features in January 2009: / -Mood and Ambiance / -Core / -In the Beginning / -The World. View of Stonehenge taken in January 2009. Please also see:
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The view on a miserable, cold, frosty, misty day across the River Stour from the bridge on Mill Lane by White Mill between Shapwick and Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, England. This narrow (about 9’ [3m]) bridge covers a rather wide span of the river. The span is increased at this point by an extra loop of river cut out to flow under the mill, which stands behind me. The build allowed for small recesses (see shot) in the road between each arch to let pedestrians stand aside from traffic. White Mill bridge is described as ‘the oldest and most beautiful in the county’. There are references to the building of a ‘Bridge on the River Stour adjacent to the White Mill’ in the year 1175. An investigation into the foundations showed that the bridge stands on timber pilings. These have been carbon dated to the 12th C. The original arches were rebuilt in the 16thC. The bridge, built principally of heathstone and Purbeck stone, possesses eight arches, and has undergone extensive repairs in the 20thC, although the original oak piles still remain in place. It has never been widened, this may well be the result of its being of a generous width for a medieval bridge in the first place.
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A look across to Worbarrow Bay, Dorset.
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/ A couple of cottages in front of St. Mary’s Church in Frampton, Dorset, England. The south arcade to the nave and the chancel arch are 15th Century. The unusual tower with Tuscan columns, seen behind the cottages, was built in 1695 by Robert Browne, who also added the North Aisle and the Vestry between 1725 and 1734. The present structure is mostly of 19th Century restoration by Marcia Maria and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. / There are some wonderful Alms House further along the road, but by the time I got there the light was fading. / Another trip is on the cards for shots of the Alms Houses and the church exterior (and interior if I’m lucky).
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/ In the UK we have had the heaviest snows across the country for twenty years. It has created some problems with roads becoming impassable, road accidents and people getting stranded. It has also created a lot of fun with schools being closed, people unable to get to work for a couple of days, kids making snowmen and many generally enjoying the scenery. / Today the sun shone brightly, the temperature rose a little and we had a little rain, all of which caused the snows to melt a little revealing the colours beneath. These trees in a field near Muston in the Piddle Valley, Dorset caught my eye with the grass and bushes showing out beneath.
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Hamo Thornycroft’s statue of King Alfred the Great, which looks West up the High Street in Winchester, the ancient capital of Alfred’s Wessex.
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