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Long exposure capture of these falls taken the summer of 2019. A lot of water flowing in this creek then and a lot of flooding occurred this summer.
It was built by the Bissett family in the 13th century. The Bissett family were forfeited their lands in Scotland in 1242. In 1565, the castle was burned to the ground by Shane O'Neill, chief of the O'Neills of Tyrone; it was rebuilt but later fell into disrepair.
In 1604 the castle was restored and was later destroyed by Oliver Cromwell in 1652 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Annandale, VA. NVCC Administration Building, a.k.a. Brault Building.
Architect Renovation & Expansion: Cole & Denny (2015)
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The building was originally designed by Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle & Wolff (1974). The two (of the three) remaining brick walls provide a glimpse into the building’s former look. The windows are new, of course.
The Cleits on St Kields were used to store the dried meats for long periods as there were no fridges or freezers back in the day. The Soay sheep were left behind when the inhabitants of St kilda evacuated the islands in 1930.
After an arduous winter with horrendous continuous storms which prevented any visiting vessels from docking for around six months.
The Soay sheep have long since reverted to a wild state, they are not maintained or tended in any way, though they are tagged and numbers studied.
This from the Web:
A cleit is a stone storage hut or bothy, uniquely found on the isles and stacs of St Kilda; whilst many are still to be found, they are slowly falling into disrepair. There are known to be 1,260 cleitean on Hirta and a further 170 on the other St Kilda-group islands.
The outlying island of Boreray has the Cleitean MacPhàidein, a "cleit village" of three small bothies, which were used on a regular basis during fowling expeditions from Hirta. As a result of a smallpox outbreak on Hirta in 1727, three men and eight boys were marooned on Stac an Armin, near to Boreray, until the following May.
On St Kilda, which is treeless, the islanders used the wind passing through the cleits to preserve some of their food instead of using salt or smoking. The Cleitean were used to dry and to store a wide variety of foodstuffs.These included:
cured fish
bird eggs (The eggs were collected from the spring-time nests of Guillemot, Razorbill, and Fulmar birds by St Kilda men scaling the cliffs. The eggs were buried in St Kilda peat ash.)
feathers fishing gear grains such as wheat, barley and oats,
hay lamb manure peat potatoes ropes seabird carcasses
"The wind beats down upon the walls, lifting the thatch, prefiguring a storm. Crabs, fieldmice, Horniegolachs, creeping and crawling things seek shelter in the cleits, abandoned cottages and kirk."
Norman Bissett, Leaving St Kilda, 1999
Construction
Cleit on Hirta
Typically the cleitean are found on hilly ground and therefore are typically laid out along the direction of the slope, with their front ends looking uphill and their rounded rear ends looking downhill. On St Kilda, the drystone walls are distinctive for their lack of coursing and seemingly random stone placement - this was deliberate, to ensure that the wind could pass through and thus help to preserve food stores kept there. Occasionally the entrance is found in a side wall. Examples also exist of cleitean built perpendicularly to the direction of the slope, with the entrance in one of the narrower ends.
In order to be able to withstand any downward thrust, the end facing downhill is normally built in the shape of an apse with a strong support. Entrances are very rarely placed in the apsidal end, in order not to compromise its strength.
In his book on St Kilda, David Quine says of the cleitean, "They come in many shapes and sizes, but all have dry stone walls to allow the wind to whistle through, and great stone slabs for roofs, capped with turf to absorb the water."
A beautiful falls located 30 minutes north west of Deep River, Ontario. Taken at the beginning of the fall.
The oldest part of St Michael's, the south aisle, is from the 12th century. The chancel was built in the 13th and the tower (with stair-turret) added in the 14th; the nave and north transept are 15th-century.
Restoration in 1845 by T.H. Wyatt included the rebuilding of the west front, reducing the length of the building. The church is a Grade I listed building
Field of rape flowers (brassica napus) with barn in the valley of the river Ebble close to Coombe Bissett in Wiltshire.
The oldest part of St Michael's, the south aisle, is from the 12th century. The chancel was built in the 13th and the tower (with stair-turret) added in the 14th; the nave and north transept are 15th-century. Restoration in 1845 by T.H. Wyatt included the rebuilding of the west front, reducing the length of the building. The church is a Grade I listed building.
Annandale, VA. NVCC Administration Building, a.k.a. Brault Building.
Architect Renovation & Expansion: Cole & Denny (2015)
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The building was originally designed by Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle & Wolff (1974). The two (of the three) remaining brick walls provide a glimpse into the building’s former look. The windows are new, of course.
One of King Charles the 3rd's hunting lodges across the water, an idyllic location.
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This from the web:
Glas-allt-Shiel is a lodge on the Balmoral Estate by the shore of Loch Muick in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In its present form it was built in 1868 by Queen Victoria, who called it Glassalt, to be what she called her "widow's house" where she could escape from the world following the death of her husband Albert.
It is now a category B listed building owned personally by Charles III. Adam Watson considers that "Glas-allt-Shiel has undoubtedly one of the most spectacular situations of any lodge in the Highlands."
Estate history
Map of Loch Muick, 1870, Glas-allt-Shiel marked "shooting lodge", bottom centre, Allt-na-giubhsaich (Alltnagiubhsaich)
From time immemorial, the land around Loch Muick had been owned by the Mormaer of Mar who later became the Earls of Mar.
As vassals of the Crown the Bissetts became landlords in the 13th century, followed by the Fraser family. In 1351 Sir William Keith, Great Marischal of Scotland, took ownership, followed by the Earls of Huntly, and then Clan Farquharson of Invercauld.
The silk mercer Sir James McKenzie purchased it as a sporting estate in 1863. This estate was formally incorporated into the Balmoral estate by George VI between 1947 and 1951. With the Scottish Wildlife Trust the area was established as a nature reserve in 1974, but remaining also as a sporting estate.
Although there is a mention of a church at Coombe Bissett in the Domesday Book of 1086, and it is likely that there was a wooden Saxon church on this site, no trace of it remains. The oldest part of the present St Michael and All Angels the aisle on the opposite side of the church to this photograph, which is 12th Century. In terms of what we can see here, the chancel was built in the 13th Century, tower in the 14th Century, and the nave and north transept in the 15th Century.
The contrast between the simpler Early English windows in the chancel (left of shot) and more ornate 15th Century windows in the transept and nave is quite clear in this shot.
The church was extensively “restored” by our Victorian friends in the person of TH Wyatt in 1845.
The family of Byset or Biset gave Cumbe its present name in the 13th Century. The village did not escape the Black Death and work on the church in the 14th Century was almost halted as the population was ravaged. For several centuries the village was a farming community. Until 1847 Coombe Bissett and West Harnham was one of the parishes which were under the ‘Peculiar Jurisdiction’ of the Dean of Salisbury and not subject to the Bishop or Archdeacon. In 1881 West Harnham became a separate parish. Today St Michael and All Angels Church is, with St Mary's Homington, within the Chalke Valley Benefice.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia and the church’s listing on the achurchnearyou.com website.
Loch Muick with fish rising to the surface on this wonderful still Autumn morning. A perfect day for a walk.
This from Wikapedia:
Glas-allt-Shiel is a lodge on the Balmoral Estate by the shore of Loch Muick in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In its present form it was built in 1868 by Queen Victoria, who called it Glassalt, to be what she called her "widow's house" where she could escape from the world following the death of her husband Albert. It is now a category B listed building owned personally by Charles III. Adam Watson considers that "Glas-allt-Shiel has undoubtedly one of the most spectacular situations of any lodge in the Highlands."
Estate history
Map of Loch Muick, 1870, Glas-allt-Shiel marked "shooting lodge", bottom centre, Allt-na-giubhsaich (Alltnagiubhsaich) top right
From time immemorial, the land around Loch Muick had been owned by the Mormaer of Mar who later became the Celtic Earls of Mar. As vassals of the Crown the Bissetts became landlords in the 13th century, followed by the Fraser family. In 1351 Sir William Keith, Great Marischal of Scotland, took ownership, followed by the Earls of Huntly, and then Clan Farquharson of Invercauld. The silk mercer Sir James McKenzie purchased it as a sporting estate in 1863. This estate was formally incorporated into the Balmoral estate by George VI between 1947 and 1951. With the Scottish Wildlife Trust the area was established as a nature reserve in 1974, but remaining also as a sporting estate.
The original and rebuilt dwellings and their setting
Glas Allt and Glas-allt-Shiel from across the loch
Now within the Balmoral estate, Glas Allt is a stream running down from the 1,000-metre (3,300 ft) plateau of the White Mounth, near Lochnagar. Passing over the considerable Falls of Glas Allt, the burn runs into a point near the head of Loch Muick through a relatively flat delta amidst otherwise hilly and rocky land. Here a single-storey stalker's cottage was built in 1851 for Charles Duncan, employed as an estate gillie, and his wife. This cottage seems to have had a room for royal parties and it predates the lodge of 1868.
Allt-na-giubhsaich
Victoria and Albert's first visit to Balmoral was when they stayed there for the autumn of 1848. They visited the nearby hunting lodge called Allt-na-giubhsaich[note near the foot of Loch Muick and in August next year they stayed overnight at this lodge – in the meantime it had been extended and improved although Victoria still regarded it as our "little bothie". By the time they stayed at the lodge the following year John Brown had become one of the queen's attendants – he was one of a team of four servants who rowed her party to the head of the loch. On 30 August 1849 she wrote about the location "The scenery is beautiful here, so wild and grand – real severe Highland scenery, with trees in the hollow. We had various scrambles in and out of the boat and along the shore, and saw three hawks, and caught seventy trout. I wish an artist could have been there to sketch the scene; it was picturesque – the boat, the net, and the people in their kilts in the water, and on the shore.
George Washington Wilson's photo of the new Glassalt, about 1870
As for the smaller and more primitive shiel, newly built for Duncan, Victoria had fallen in love with the cottage and its setting – at the time on the Abergeldie estate which was leased by Victoria and Albert. Around 1859 Victoria arranged for the Duncans to move to the foot of Glen Muick to live at Rhebreck leaving the shiel unoccupied. By 1868 the old two-room building had been demolished, to be replaced by the present fifteen-room dressed granite residence of twin gables and bow windows looking over Loch Muick. Between 1866 and 1869 stables and a keeper's cottage and offices were added to the rear and cellars were constructed. A slipway for boats was built about 1870, between twin jetties.
It is now a category B listed building owned personally by Charles III.
A few more odds and ends from my archives - just three today. I am adding the description that I wrote under a different image taken on the same outing. Tomorrow, 14 November, marks two weeks without my car. Still more weeks to follow.
"On 9 July 2015, an extremely hot day, five of us had the chance to botanize the beautiful 320 acres belonging to philanthropist, David Bissett and his wife. This land, roughly half wooded, with several small ponds in the open area, lies SW of Calgary. For anyone not sure what "botanizing" involves, we visit someone's property for the day, listing every single species of plant and tree, bird, insect, fungus, lichen, moss, liverwort, etc. that we find. It is always a win/win situation, as we are lucky enough to have the chance to explore a new area and the landowner receives a highly detailed list of everything found on his land.
David Bissett's giving to community causes, especially education, has been a hallmark of his philanthropy. He has donated to a wide range of community cultural organizations, and he has a passion for wildlife conservation. Just one of his endless donations resulted in the creation of the Bissett Wetlands at Heritage Park here in the city, a popular educational destination."
calgary.ctvnews.ca/inspired-to-give-1.676279
mtroyal.ca/ProgramsCourses/FacultiesSchoolsCentres/Busine...
Winner at the Oscars 2017 for "Best Animated Short Film", was "Piper", a short (3.20 minutes) animated film about a baby Sandpiper. So cute!
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On 9 July 2015, an extremely hot day, five of us had the chance to botanize the beautiful 320 acres belonging to philanthropist, David Bissett and his wife. This land, roughly half wooded, with several small ponds in the open area, lies SW of Calgary. For anyone not sure what "botanizing" involves, we visit someone's property for the day, listing every single species of plant and tree, bird, insect, fungus, lichen, moss, liverwort, etc. that we find. It is always a win/win situation, as we are lucky enough to have the chance to explore a new area and the landowner receives a highly detailed list of everything found on his land.
"Wild bergamot or bee balm (Monarda fistulosa) is a wildflower in the mint family (Lamiaceae) widespread and abundant as a native plant in much of North America. This plant, with showy summer-blooming pink to lavender flowers, is often used as a honey plant, medicinal plant, and garden ornamental. The species is quite variable, and several subspecies or varieties have been recognized within it." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarda_fistulosa
www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=MOFI
David Bissett's giving to community causes, especially education, has been a hallmark of his philanthropy. He has donated to a wide range of community cultural organizations, and he has a passion for wildlife conservation. Just one of his endless donations resulted in the creation of the Bissett Wetlands at Heritage Park here in the city, a popular educational destination.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/inspired-to-give-1.676279
mtroyal.ca/ProgramsCourses/FacultiesSchoolsCentres/Busine...
This scene reminds me of the single image captured of John Kenney, Jr. and Carolyn Bissett Kennedy on their wedding day. The Kennedys married in a chapel on grounds of former slave quarters on a Georgia plantation. The image captured of them was from a distance in front of the old chapel with the doors open with slight recognition to small ceremony out of focus. Also, that image lingers to consider what if I only captured one photo from a wedding. What single image might tell the story of the day?
St Michael and All Angels, Coombe Bissett - Wiltshire. England
24 aprile 2017
Camera stenopeica Pinkiev
Fujifilm Velvia
We recently went to learn about the Bissett Wetlands, part of Calgary's Heritage Park.
You can see a video blog I did from the Bissett Wetlands on youtube
Leyland Tigers with Duple Dom III bodies were suprisingly rare - just 11 examples, of which Primrose of Ryton-on-Tyne had two. The first of these is seen here at Kirkby Stephen, the traditional point for the meal break on the company's well known express service from Newcastle to Blackpool.
H912 EFT is a Volvo B10M with Van Hool Alizee coachwork, new to Bissett (Primrose), Ryton in 1991. It subsequently saw service with Classic, Annfield Plain (where it was reregistered PIL 2163 and then 593 CCE) and Lee, Durham (as ALL 173Y and then 891 HUM).
The Primrose fleet name had for many years been shared by Bissett at Ryton and Graham at Winlaton, but the latter ceased trading in late 1979, and this Bedford YRQ Viceroy was then acquired by Watsons Tours. So it was a bit odd to find it still with Primrose livery and names nearly 6 years later, unless there was some sort of arrangement for it to continue like this.
A couple of years later, it would be sold for non-PSV use at Berwick Speedway stadium.
Fulton / Watson depot, Annfield Plain, 9/7/85
This woven polyster webbing harness was commissions especially for the project and made in Australia by Arnold Webbing. The webbing is heat set and undyued for maximum strength. Polyster thread
was used to provide maximum stretch and quick recover. The harness held the 1.5-tonne life support sphere to the syntactic foam core, which shrank roughly 65mm when at the greatest depth. The harness system acted like an elastic band holding the life support sphere tight into the core.
It took weeks to develop compatible threads and stitching patterns to get the greatest breaking strength out of the harness. Too much stitching could act like the perforations on a sheet of toilet paper, letting the fabric rip apart. The yellow exercise ball was used to represent the polit sphere to perfect the harness design.
Lent by Dianna Bissett.
This unusual looking coach was a rare Duple Dominant III bodied Leyland Tiger, new to Primrose Coaches(R.M. Bissett), Ryton-upon-Tyne, in 07/1981. It was one of only eleven of this combination built. Passing onto Hart Coaches, Hartlepool, it was fitted with a Plaxton Premiere lower front dash and it's trapezoid side passenger windows were straightened, thus giving a rather unusual look. Passing on to Delta Coaches, it is seen here at Wembley Stadium, London, on 25/05/1996, for the 1996 Football League Third Division Play-off Final between Plymouth Argyle, who finished third, and Darlington, who finished fifth, in the 1995-6 season. For the record, Plymouth were 1-0 victor's in front of an attendance of 43,431. I noted 277 coaches here.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being a Boots Colourslide.
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1996.
Another hot day today (getting up to 30C - to feel like 32C - this afternoon). Yesterday was the same, when five of us had the chance to botanize the beautiful 320 acres belonging to philanthropist, Davd Bissett and his wife. This land, roughly half wooded, with several small ponds in the open area, lies SW of Calgary. For anyone not sure what "botanizing" involves, we visit someone's property for the day, listing every single species of plant and tree, bird, insect, fungus, lichen, moss, liverwort, etc. that we find. It is always a win/win situation, as we are lucky enough to have the chance to explore a new area and the landowner receives a highly detailed list of everything found on his land.
David Bissett's giving to community causes, especially education, has been a hallmark of his philanthropy. He has donated to a wide range of community cultural organizations, and he has a passion for wildlife conservation. Just one of his endless donations resulted in the creation of the Bissett Wetlands at Heritage Park here in the city, a popular educational destination.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/inspired-to-give-1.676279
mtroyal.ca/ProgramsCourses/FacultiesSchoolsCentres/Busine...
The heat, and the fact that my camera isn't working properly, took away most of my energy yesterday, but I managed to get a few photos that will be OK to upload. I will try and throw in the occasional bird or animal photo taken on other days in other places, as I know many of you are not really interested in plants : ) Just not getting time to go through my photos these days.
Many thanks to Christie, the young woman who looks after this property, for inviting us out for the morning, and for walking the trails with us! Very much appreciated!
JLS3V was a MAN SR280 C53F purchased new by Park's of Hamilton in May 1980. It passed to Chalk of Coombe Bissett as 7646RU in July 1983, then moved to Taw and Torridge Coaches in June 1989. It was re-registered as KTA665V and sold to Stoneman and Brown of Nanpean in April 1993, then this was changed to TIB4947. Griffiths of Brinksworh acquired it in October 1999.