Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
On my recent visit to Attingham Park I enjoyed the walk along the Bluebell Trail. This took in both the native bluebell and the Spanish invader, a signboard along the trail explained in detail:
Our native bluebell is a typical ‘Atlantic’ species growing only in the moist conditions of Western Europe and reaching its peak of [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
The glasshouses are Victorian, one contains two surviving Black Hamburg vines and the others are used to store house-plants and more tender bedding plants.
4 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2011
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The guidebook provides the following information:
the old stable block, which is listed in Edward Ferrers’s ‘Account of what I have built and altered in and about Baddesley house’ as costing £76 17s 7d in 1714. Some of the arched entrances were bricked up to allow the interior to be fitted out with Victorian loose-boxes.
The [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 9th 2011
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Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
Robert A. Heinlein
18 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2011
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
During the nineteenth century a priest would have used the space in front of this icon to robe and prepare before saying mass in the chapel which is situated next door to the sacristy.
This part of the room also housed a garde-robe (in the place of the current trap-door). This became the escape route [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 7th 2011
