Archive for the ‘Aberford’ Category
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
When travelling along the old Great North Road (A1) it is always worthwhile checking to see how the light is cast over the former Almshouses. I don’t suppose for one moment that the original inhabitants ever considered how the place looked in the face of the direction of the sunlight; but they must have been very pleased that the old place afforded them shelter in a less hospitable world than the one we live in today! Well the shot above benefits from the opportunity to catch the building almost carless, as well as the light creating sufficient detail across the main elevation without too many long shadows. The yellow car adds to the picture as it is a 1960-70’s Triumph Spitfire, with a bold black stripe over the centre of the car; very sporty!
Tags: A1, Almshouses, Ghostly staircases, Great North Road, photographs, Triumph Spitfire
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
I took some of my pictures to Wetherby Craft Fair yesterday, these range in size from postcard to A3+ [330mm x 483mm] and are views of local scenes and some other prominent features that have caught my eye whilst out and about. There was good deal of interest but the throughput of visitors was not as I had hoped, it was a lovely day, for a change, and most people were interested in outdoor activities, and no doubt awaiting the evening England v USA match.
Tags: Aberford, Almshouses, Coldhill, Lotherton Hall, Micklegate, photographs, Photography, Wharf Valley, York
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
A recent win on eBay of the photo-postcard, shown above, dated 1904 has been added to the Parlington history site, and contrasts this former Gascoigne property with the location today. It was sold in 1964 in the major auction in October that year; details of the auction were added in an earlier post: the-biggest-sell-off-of-aberford-that-ever-was.
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Tags: Aberford Mill, Cattle Lane
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
On the 2nd of October 1964, The Parlington Estate and much of Aberford, along with a few properties in Saxton were put under the auctioneers hammer! This is a list of the property on offer.
The Auction Properties
- Lot 1 Superb site for residence of character (Parlington Hall site)
- Lot 2 Gardens House (Principal source for fruit and vegetables from the walled gardens since the late 18th century)
- 7 Highly productive arable and stock farms (let and producing £5,746.00 [£87,250 at todays rates, 2009, based on the retail price index] per annum) lots 3-9.
Tags: Aberford Property Auction, Estate sale
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
This coming October, 4th-11th each day from 10:00am- 4:30pm, is an exhibition at Aberford Interiors featuring the paintings by the internationally acknowledged artist Anthony Christian. He and his wife Marian, enjoy a quiet and thoughtful existence in the grand old Gardens House, just up the hill from the site of the old hall. However, today’s produce is oil on canvas whereas in days gone by the Gardens house was renowned for the production of fresh produce for the Gascoigne table. Residing in such surroundings is a great nutrient to the creative juices and we are pleased to see his work on local landscapes being presented at an exhibition in the village. Of course Aberford has often been the subject of artistic endeavours the Almshouses once being used by local artist, Heather Walker. The windmill long since demolished on the hill above the road to Lotherton, was often the subject of artists, and the main street with the bridge over the Cock Beck has drawn the eye of amateur painters over the decades.
Tags: Aberford Interiors, Anthony Christian, local landscapes, Oil Painting
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
A recent business trip to Norwich took me past a number of Windmills, although not in use their presence in the landscape is an attractive addition, being as they are on a human scale, whereas their modern equivalents have no such attraction for me. Here is one of the mills I snapped as I went by, I did stop the car first I might add.
Tags: Aberford Windmill, Norfolk Windmill, W Pickles Headmaster
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
The picture shown here was discovered today [6th November], that is a device with an SD Memory card in it with the picture on the card. It was found poking out of the mud on Parlington Lane, at the rear of the Dark Arch, so if you know who these people are, I may be able to restore to them the device they lost, and yes despite lying in the mud it still works! Sadly my reason for wading through the mud to find Matilda [see earlier post] brought no results.
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Tags: gadget, Lost
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Update 9th November Remembrance Sunday, Matilda returned at just after 11:00am following a two minute silence! Thank you.
Sadly our cat disappeared yesterday, she is called Matilda and is tortoiseshell colour, with white on her tummy. She is pictured here a couple of summers back in the garden. Normally she is in and out of the house throughout the day, but yesterday [5th November 2008] she was not seen after about 10.00am. She is a very loving and easygoing animal and is greatly missed by my wife and I. I pray she returns and has not met with some awful fate. It is very sad to loose a family pet, Matilda is not our first pet to have gone missing, but here at least we felt she was in ideal surroundings, virtually no traffic, plenty of space and always a warm spot near the fire in the winter, unlike the previous home. So if any readers are local and do spot her please get in touch,
Thanks
Tags: cat, missing
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The sudden arrival of three or four inches of snow prompted many people to get out their cameras this Easter, here are a few taken locally and a couple by a friend, who sent them by email.
Additional photos are available here: my dotmac account
The Triumphal Arch on the Parlington Estate
The former Almshouses
The gatehouse to the Almshouses.
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Tags: easter, snow, Triumphal Arch
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
During the Second World War the inhabitants of Aberford, contributed towards the cost of a Supermarine Spitfire and in June of 1941 an aircraft, a Mark Vb serial number: P8640 was delivered to RAF Brize Norton. A recent enquirer, Johnny Lyttle of Aberford asked if I knew anything about the aircraft.
Being off topic I had not pursued the history of the plane, however I recalled a picture of the plane in a book produced some years ago, titled “Aberford in Times Past” by A.G.Bennett, T. Hayton, K.Hewitt. The entry gave a serial number for the aircraft, so I passed this to Johnny with the suggestion that the MOD might be able to provide more information on the life of the plane. He took up the baton and has been successful in discovering some of the history of the aircraft.
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