Comments for Comments from Parlington

Comment on Sunrise at Parlington and everyday country life. by brianh

brianh — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:16:07 +0000

Update, Sunday 10th January

The snipe is one of a pair, their visit to the garden today was the first time I’ve seen two together!

Brian

Comment on Parlington Talk at Lotherton Hall by brianh

brianh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:32:53 +0000

Even though I say it myself, the talk was a resounding success; in fact the visitors were so engaged with the stories associated with Parlington as we toured Lotherton Hall after the discussion, that it was gone 4:00pm before I got back to the room to dismantle my computer and projector. What made the talk infinitely better was to have real objects, like the fireplaces, paintings and furniture, now residing at Lotherton, in their ’second’ home, to discuss in respect of their original location.

One particularly pleasing piece of furniture is a half round table, with integral fire-guard and a moveable tray that slides around the inner circle of the table, to enable those seated to be offered the wine decanter, without having to stir from the warming radiant heat of the fire, as the table was designed to be located right in front of the open fireplace. No doubt in the very cold winters of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century the table would have been well used. It makes me smile to imagine the men after dinner toasting their nuts, so to speak, whilst quaffing another glass of fine burgundy or port!

This piece is in the Dining Room at Lotherton and along with various paintings, especially the Irish House of Commons, Dublin; the magnificent mahogany table and chairs and fireplace, are almost as if the room had simply been transplanted from Parlington!

Thanks to everyone who turned up and made the whole event so pleasureable, a special thanks to Adam White and the staff at Lotherton.

Comment on Reflecting on the Past by brianh

brianh — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:32:37 +0000

Thanks Jack, I looked at the site you mentioned, the pictures certainly reflect the horrors of mining in the nineteenth century. I notice that there are some pictures of “corves”, these are mentioned in the articles from the Leeds Mercury, so perhaps they were dragging coal around in that fashion in 1883, Horrendous!

Cheers

Brian

Comment on Reflecting on the Past by JackMiller

JackMiller — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:18:00 +0000

Very interesting, have at look at http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/factmine/minecond.htm

Comment on Greg Pytel’s Blog by brianh

brianh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:49:05 +0000

Thanks for the emails offering support to the argument that Greg has set out in his blog. But don’t forget you can leave an answer here and let others know your views.

Regards

Brian

Comment on Country Life Magazine by brianh

brianh — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:53 +0000

UPDATE 11th September.

Dr Adam White the curator at Lotherton was able to obtain a back copy of the Country Life magazine for August the 12th, that carried the original article, which he kindly copied for me. It seems that the painting was found in a skip in Cornwall, by a Ms. Walker; in her words: ‘I recently found this elegant watercolour - in a skip! - and would very much like to identify the house. It is signed and dated by Philip Norman, 1911.’

How it came to be in a skip is a puzzle, although I have a couple of leads, which I will reveal in a future update, however they turn out!

The artist is interesting as he was noted for recording the history of buildings, this is a quote from Wikipedia:

He was trained as a draughtsman and painter in watercolours at the Slade School, often exhibiting at the Royal Academy. A large part of his work consisted of depicting parts of London that he knew, particularly buildings or areas which stood as a survivor of a bygone past or which were about to be demolished. Norman also recorded the history of the buildings which he painted or photographed, and works such as “London Vanished and Vanishing”, written in 1905, provide a fascinating record of bygone London. The historian Hermione Hobhouse has described Norman as one-third of the “triumvirate” of key figures whose works record the topography of London between 1890 and 1950, the others being Walter Hindes Godfrey and Percy Wells Lovell.

Comment on Digitizing Old LP’s by brianh

brianh — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:00:20 +0000

Thanks for the info Jean, I’ll reply by email to you.

Comment on Digitizing Old LP’s by Jean

Jean — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:36:43 +0000

I also have copies of the obituary notices and some of the press reports of the accident if they would be of any use to you.

Jean

Comment on Digitizing Old LP’s by Jean

Jean — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:29:56 +0000

Hi, I saw your posts on the Jon Rennard thread on mudcat. I knew both John and Marsh and I have both LPs, The Parting Glass and Brimbledon Fair. If you have read the whole thread you will see that a copy of Brimbledon Fair was sold on ebay for £31 plus postage in 2007. At about that time someone was also asking on ebay for a copy of that LP.

Jean

Comment on Historian visits the Triumphal Arch by sithenah

sithenah — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:39:01 +0000

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