Sunday, 17 February 2019

St MARY and St PETER WADDINGHAM-LINCOLNSHIRE UK.



The original Anglican parish church has long ago perished. It was replaced by the church of St Mary and St Peter. The original church was dedicated to saint Peter only. The current Anglican parish church is dedicated to saint Mary and saint Peter. This church has a 13th century chancel arch and a tower that was added in the 15th century. This church was largely rebuilt in 1858 - 1862. The church seats 220.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sanctus Bell.
 
Tradition suggests that the bell dates from the 15th century and was originally in St Peters ( demolished in 1687 ). The book ` A Lincolnshire life ` states in chapter 6, at the reformation when ornaments of the church were destroyed there was at Waddingham St Peter ` one sacringe bell wch honge at a maypole toppe `. This infers that the maypole was very close to the church, if not actually in the churchyard. However, it may have hung over the west gable of St Peters or the chancel roof of St Marys. Its founder is unknown.
 
 
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Saturday, 9 February 2019

SHIPWRECK and HERITAGE CENTRE.


The Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage centre is a historical museum relating to the local port of Charlestown, Cornwall, England. It houses a gallery of shipwrecks including information about the famous RMS Titanic and HMS Victory. The shipwreck and historical artefacts on display in the centre are the largest private collection of this type on public display in Europe. Brought together over the last 45 to 50 years, it forms the basis of one of the most unusual and interesting collections open to the public. There are countless items from a bygone age as well as 8,000 artefacts from over 150 shipwrecks. These rare artefacts bring stories of the sea to life with rich tales of triumph, treasure and tragedy alike. The exhibition shows a tremendous range of maritime history from a locally recovered roman amphora base to artefacts from the wrecks of the Cita which occurred in 1997 off the coast of the Isles of Scilly.

 
Ships Cat.
 
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Handcart and Weighing Machine.
 
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This tunnel and others within the heritage centre building were dug out in 1900, when the volume of china clay being shipped from the port demanded it to be processed at the port instead of inland. The clay was moved from the drying kilns to the waiting ships by a hand cart along a track then tipped into the ships.
 
 
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Ships wheel from the wreck of the MV Robert, which was a single crew coaster that capsized and sunk off the eastern side of Lundy Island in 1975.
 
 
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The Charlestown Estate Bell. Which was situated at the weighbridge and was used to call the estate workers to work and inform them when it was time to finish work. The bell also rang when ships were coming in and going out of the harbour to alert the estate workers to open the gates, which were manual at the time. The bell last rang in approximately 1938, at the beginning of the second world war.
 
 
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Three swords used in the 1993 movie The Three Musketeers, filmed on location in Charlestown starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sunderland, Chris O'Donnell and Oliver Platt.
 
 
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Engine room repeater telegraph from a steamship.
 
 
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This gun came from S.S. Eastfield an armed merchant ship carrying coal to Dieppe, sunk without warning in 1917 by a deadly German UB boat off Mevagissey. UB-57 sank 47 ships in her 13 months of service.
 
 
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The only intact barrel of coins recovered from a wreck, which was opened under the supervision of a marine archaeologist and a conservation specialist in the laboratory funded by the HMS Invincible Project in Portsmouth. This may well be the only surviving intact treasure barrel in the world of any period and is quite unique.
 
 
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Coins and pieces of eight.
 
 
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A ships wheel.
 
 
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The large blazer buttons in this collection have been made from a mould taken directly from the lower, outside button of the tunic which the great admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson was wearing when he was mortally wounded during the battle of Trafalgar, October 21st 1805. His uniform is on permanent display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
 
 
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The bell from H.M Dockyard Tug Fresco, 365 tons, built by Hall and Co in 1940, sunk in an air raid, she was raised and renamed in 1941 the Handmaid.
 
 
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Diagram showing how the china clay was taken from the drying kiln through the tunnels to the waiting ships.
 
 
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Saturday, 2 February 2019

TAVISTOCK.



Tavistock -- gateway to Cornwall and west Devon mining world heritage site. Tavistock straddles the fast flowing river Tavy, below the western edge of Dartmoor. Tavistock stands in the heart of an area of tremendous natural beauty. It is a classic west country market town, with a population of approximately 12,280 ( as of 2011 ). The old streets radiate from Bedford Square and contain shops of every taste and need. You can trace its recorded history back to at least 961 when Tavistock Abbey, whose ruins lie in the centre of the town was founded. Tavistock`s most famous son is Sir Francis Drake.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Abbey cloisters -- the cloisters of the Benedictine abbey adjoined the abbey church. This is the only arch that survived.
 
 
 
Tavistock Parish Church.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Monument of Francis 7th Duke of Bedford.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Guildhall -- built in 1848 by the Duke of Bedford, on a site once occupied by the Mill of Tavistock Abbey. This building replaced an earlier guildhall that stood in Bedford square. It`s duties as a courthouse ended in 2001.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Abbey Still House -- marking one of the corners of the abbey precinct, the still house was where the monks distilled, for medicinal purposes, herbs from their nearby garden. It was restored in 1884.
 
 
 
River Tavy.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Iron Bandstand in the park.
 
 
 
 
Community Mosaic.
 
 
 
My granddaughter using one of the many exercise apparatus in the park.
 
 
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