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Gladstone Land
https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/gladstones-land
Preserved merchant house
Window on life in a typical Old Town house before overcrowding drove the rich to Georgian “New Town”.
Lands were tall, narrow, buildings erected over Royal Mile tenants or on small plots of land.
6 stories named after Thomas Gladstone, the merchant who built it in 1617. Still has original arcade booths on the street front and a painted and a painted ceiling with fine Scandinavian floral designs extravagantly furnished but with wooden overshoes that had to be worn in the dirty streets.
Some good photos
https://www.britainexpress.com/scotland/Lothian/properties/gladstones-land.htm
A chest in the beautiful painted chamber is said to have been given by a Dutch sea captain to a Scottish merchant who save him from a shipwreck.
more pictures
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/gladstonesland/index.html
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Longwood
https://www.historiclongwood.com/visit
is a small bedroom community in central Florida–It’s downtown is just a block or so North of of Hwy 434. And though its small it does have some interesting historical places….we’ll look at a couple today.
Christ Episcopal Church
151 Church St.
It was built in in 1881 with a square bell tower, a symmetrical plan and board and batten siding . The design is common in these early church of the area. Inside it maintains traditional patterns with original dark wood, old fashioned pews and stained glass windows.
The Church was moved from its original
site but was relocated only about 100 feet west of where it
originally stood so that its general ambiance has
been preserved.
More: https://www.christchurchlongwood.com/history
Walk to the corner of Church Street and CR 427 Ronald Regan
the building on the right corner across 427 is the Tinker Building which I’ll tell you more about later
https://www.historiclongwood.com/research/articles/historic-district/henck-tinker-building
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Turn Left on 427 north At the next corner turn left on Jessup Ave
Bungalow
138 W. Jessup Ave
This gray building now hold a business, but the gray bungalow-style house which dates to the 1920’s was built for an L.R. Tucker, whose historical significance I have not been able to established. The house is typical of the genre and would appear to be much as it was when it was built , flanked on both side of the center by a wing and there is an original garage to the rear of the house.
https://www.longwoodfl.org/321/History
Return to CR 427 and turn left keep walking until the road seems to fork— bear left onto Freeman Street.
https://www.historiclongwood.com/research/articles/historic-district/entzminger-jackson-house
Legend says that Charles Entzminger (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27578756/charles-w-entzminger) Built this house for his only daughter probably in the late 1920s.
It was later bought by C.C. Jackson, grocer who operated a grocery store. The grocery store he bought when he moved here was in that Tinker building I pointed out on 427.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16552238/c-c-jackson-is-grocery-buys/
The house is another bungalow that were common in central Florida in the 1920s.
https://www.oldhouseonline.com/house-tours/bungalow-1890-1930
As I have mentioned before I have, along with two friends, been planning a trip to England—it is now 10 days until our scheduled departure time, the tickets were purchased the rooms reserved as were day tours set up and we had planned the journeys ( rarely take tours, I set up day trips by train to see cities–one of mine this year was from London to Bath or I do day tours as it is easier to go to multiple locations that way—our most ambitious day tour was one from London to Stonehenge, Glastonbury and Avebury—an expected long day) but now I am sure all of you are aware that it is just not an option now. I’ve actually already gotten back two refunds which with the mess they are dealing with over there couldn’t have been easy.. Well in these days of distancing you gotta take your high point were you can find them.
After months of finding and presenting to the rest of the rest of the group—then setting them up getting payments in setting up the schedules—We planned London then up to Leicester for a night—just stopping to see a king who until recently was in a parking lot. Then on to York for 3 nights and finally Chester for 3 more back to London for a little while and one more trip out to Tintagel in Cornwall for 4 days—then back to London–total days in London 22.
I was on schedule when C-19 came into the picture and worked on until it became obvious that it MIGHT impact the trip and finally despite my trying to ignore the fat that it was a NO GO…….we looked to September for an alternative, but even that has become only a distant dream and we think we will probably have to go next year instead. But we still are holding onto September just because…..so stay tuned and I’ll keep you posted and update….etc. Keep your fingers crossed.
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For generations the uniformed an leather-booted cadets have been an icon of Texas A&M. Photographs and memorabilia on display at the Corps of Cadets Center offers a sometimes moving, sometimes humorous look at the rituals of cadet life. Shock is on the face of the fish (freshmen) as they are taught to leave self -interest behind—along with the luxuries as telephone and TV privileges behind—to embrace the new values of self-discipline and unity. The museum also features a vast antique firearms collection that include 19th c Colt pistols and early flintlock revolvers.
booted cadets of Texas A&M http://www.thebatt.com/news/the-abcs-of-cadet-uniforms/article_25ea502a-4004-11e9-acea-97a4837f37d7.html
Corps of Cadets Center https://corps.tamu.edu/corpscenter/
rituals of cadet life https://www.tamu.edu/traditions/the-corps/special-units/
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Have you heard of the London Stone,
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/london-stone-seven-strange-myths
probably not and there aren’t even a huge amount of people–even Londoners who have actually seen it—and even if they passed it , it’s unlikely they even noted it on their way to places and thing of real interest to them.
I on the other hand like to say I’ve been some place and have locals say where and what is that etc—I love the lesser known and weirder destinations—its just part of my nature.
The London Stone legend says was a talisman that kept London prosperous —in fact without it it was reported the city would fail. Possible dates for it’s origins go back to the 1st C AD when it was a gold painted Roman milestone.
The secret history of the milestone, from Roman Britain to Industrial Revolution and beyond
There’s also also lesser believable legends that says it is related to Troy and an exiled king of there, who brought it with him when he came to settle at the direction of the goddess Diana where “there were giants to fight and a city to be found—-London of course and thus became the London–rather than Troy stone..
I first saw it on a visit to London in either 2008 or 2012—–where “It had sat for years behind an iron grille in the wall of 111 Cannon Street, a dilapidated 1960’s office building” just down the street from the London Stone Pub….the Stone was moved some time in 2016. I took my friend and her two sons there on one of my tours—I made (and still do) up the walking agenda and it was one of the highlights.
But it was significant in London for over 1,000 years until a few hundred years ago (no time at all in London) and now you know too….
One thing we do now know about it is that it is: “a block of limestone, currently resting in a glass case in the Museum of London”
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london
Their museums may currently be closed but there’s still plenty to discover on their website about London through the ages just click at site above
Nine charming small towns you need to visit in the South of France
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Swan House
(below)
Built in 1828 sits upon a hill of smoothest green. Furnished for the most part in 18th century pieces, the mansion serves as home to the Atlanta Historical Society—1981 Post Card— the post card is apparently wrong as all current info says it was built in 1928 (interesting)
https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/explore/destinations/swan-house
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Aurthur the King
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3679453209?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1
The fascination of Arthur the King is perennial.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13696160
from his very firrst appearance in the twelfth-century romances
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Arthurian-legend
all subsequent ages have cast him in their own mould.
In the mid-15th c, when the Wars of the Roses
strangulated England, Malory
https://www.ancient.eu/Thomas_Malory/
harked back to Arthur’s golden time when the island basked in a glorious peace.
The Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser cast his praises of
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edmund-spenser
cast his praise of England’s Faerie Queene,
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/faerie-queene
her with “the stomach of a king and a King of England too”,
In Arthur’s world of derring-do.
A hundred years on, in 1691, Purcell and Dryden marked their own nostalgia
http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=33688
for the old monarchy lost, with an operatic piece King Arthur or the British Worthy
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