Work started on Eastney on the construction of a barracks to house the Royal Marine Artillery Division in 1862. Before then the Artillery companies attached to Portsmouth Division had been stationed at Gun Wharf and Clarence Barracks in Old Portsmouth, but most of their training and equipment was at Fort Cumberland. In the move to [...]
Archive for January, 2015
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
The Founding of Australia and the Raising of the Union Flag
This tapestry interprets the painting by Algernon Talmarge (1871-1939) which depicts the founding of Australia and the raising of the Union flag by Captain Arthur Philip RN at Sydney Cove, 26 January 1788.
On 13 May 1787 a convoy of six convict transports, three storeships and two warships, the “First Fleet“, sailed from Portsmouth to found [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 8th 2015
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A Promise Honoured
To mark the start of the annual Armed Forces Week there was a flag raising ceremony outside the Great Hall in Winchester and the unveiling of a memorial to those that passed through Morn Hill camps during the First World War.
On Monday, June 23, proceedings began with a selection of military music at the Buttercross, High [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 7th 2015
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The Tenderness of Patient Minds
One of the things that caught my eye when I visited Winchester Cathedral was an art and poetry exhibition (The Tenderness of Patient Minds) commemorating the First World War.
The glass poppies in the first photograph were made by Year 7 pupils at Lakeside BESD school in Chandlers Ford.
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2015
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Hinton Ampner – All Saints Church
The church of ALL SAINTS has suffered from ‘restoration’ more severely than many of its neighbours, (fn. 14) but is still of great interest as preserving its pre-Conquest plan and a few details of that date. It has a chancel 15 ft. 8 in. wide by 21 ft. long, and a nave 21 ft. 10 in. wide [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
If you cannot read all your books…fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2015
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Hinton Ampner
When we visited Hinton Ampner the first floor of the property was closed due to storm damage to the roof on February 2014. This was more than made up for by the gardens, the orchard and the parish church of All Saints.
A restored eighteenth century house with a twentieth century garden. The garden was made [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2015
