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Medieval Pets – An Online Talk by Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle
   6:30 pm – 7:30 pm £1This is an online video event, please check the organiser for details about how to watch.
Join us for an online presentation of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature
Join Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle in this whirlwind tour of the wild and wonderful of medieval pets. We’ll examine popular medieval pets including dogs, cats, squirrels, monkeys, parrots and caged birds, along slightly more unusual pets, including badgers and marmots. |
Meet the world’s most bizarre subway, Israel’s funicular “Carmelit”
Driving around the Longwood Historic District in 4k | Longwood, Florida
the small town of Longwood sets north of Orlando is enclosed for a large part–sets along 434/I4 and 17-92 . Most of you never see the original town which is off 434 on Ronald Regan (north of 434. Less than a block we see the history on both sides–the Bradlee McIntyre House—a lovely old mansion that was saves by the city when Altamonte Springs decided they had no use for it and legends says had scheduled to set it on fire and let the Fire Department get some practice time putting the fire out—word says that Longwood paid a dollar and agreed to move the structure—-it sets today across the Street from the lovely and rare in Florida today—-but very common in the 1800s—-wooden hotel and though it is now a office complex–it still maintains the lobby and outside appearance of the hotel it was born as.
There’s a block of older buildings—I was told that the pub on the right at the next corner still bears the old vault that was once part of a bank long gone from the site—I’m also told that the current owner is a member of the City’s Historical society. Interesting.
But we are not looking for banks—we are however going to look at another house that was rescued from the city of Altamonte Springs;
A Brief History of Longwood
RAINBOW RANCH
Seemes that Longwood was a stop on the South Florida Railroad back in the day. and in the early 1880s was said to be pushing a thousand residents who lived here many making their live’s work around citrus and lumbar industries. The hotel that still stands here today was completed about 1885–joining the small cottages of the permaent (some spent just the winter here and returned to northern homes in the summer) and of course a few stores and the like.
The Universal Studios film was shot in Central Florida in 1965, with the city of Longwood, Florida substituting for a fictional town in southern Florida adjacent to a Seminole Indian reservation Just click above and you can watch it on YouTube Free –just click on link below
JOHNNY TIGER with ROBERT TAYLOR & Chad Everett (1966, ENG)
Longwood Hotel / Bradlee-McIntyre House Marker (Reverse), Longwood, FL
This house is much better traveled then several people I know.
This is one of the early pre-fab houses made in the late 80′, probably in the area of Boston. And it was made for Captain W. Pierce–a sea captain.
But on top of being well traveled it was also a rather individualist pre-fab for you see unlike the “normal” house of this type which has the framing structure inside the external siding—this one has that structure on the outside. And this was then bolted together in a shipstyle which makes sense given the owner. In 1873 it was taken back apart and shipped to Jacksonville—then by a large barge down the St. Johns River—where it came aground again at Sanford, which was the major city of Mosquito County/Orange—then how Seminole became a county is a whole other story. Finally it was loaded on a mule cart and completed it’s journey on dry land and it final destination Altamonte Springs.
It was set up in that town—but not resided in by the captain, but was used as a Federal way station for Union troops—and finally given back to the captain when he retired. He lived upstairs with the downstair ued for a woodworking shop. The stairs where orginally were outsde were eventually replaced by the captain….they are still in use today, but are steep and turn at a sharp angle and are the only way to get to the top part of the store that inhabits the shop now. He also had a black cat named Brutus
When Brutus passed the captain buried him in a teakwood casket which he built himself.
Pierce spent the remainder of his life residing in the house and eventually the houe was left empty and desserted and wating away, And just like the hotel the house was rescued and moved to Longwood—-just a block or so from the hotel.
Museum Of Jewish Military History Inc in Longwood, Florida (FL)
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Henck-Tinker Building
Today the Inside-Outside house is the home to:
Which has been in this building for 39 years and houses all manner of items from jewelry to personal care items.
who leasses the buildng from the Longwood Historical Society
LONGWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER
Florida on a Tankful: Magician brings all the chills to Bradlee-McIntyre House
Oh but wait there’s one more thing: Captain Pierce and Brutus haven’t actually left—-infact for years there have been reports of Brutus setting in the upstair window on the side of the house and school kids going home seeing him on a regular basis.
There are reports of a feeling of presences and back when the upstairs rooms were not air conditioned, but visitors in the middle of summer would complain of their coldness. A man’s silhouette has been seen and doors open and close on their own not to mention the feel of a cat bruhing againt their legs and when he’s not doing that he likes to scratch on the walls.
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So next time you’re in Longwood drop by and do some shopping at the Cottage Shop and pay close attention to room temperature and a feeling of feline about your ankles. And don’t forget to check out all the neat stuff they have for sale there too.
DOWNTOWN LONGWOOD CRUISE
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SHERLOCK HOLMES movies | THE PEARL OF DEATH (1944) full movie | Basil Rathbone, Sherlock film series
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BASIL RATHBONE AS SHERLOCK HOLMES in Sherlock Holmes and THE PEARL OF DEATH (1944) | When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.
THE LONDON SIGHTS EVERY SHERLOCK FAN MUST SEE
Top French Revolution Sites in Paris
Paris was certianly the spectre of the most radial part of the French Revolution and it was also the place where, from 1793 onward the
guillotine situated to punish. So those living outside the capital didn’t always understand the revolution in the same way that the Parisians did.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the French Revolution
Marie Antoinette: Queen of Versailles (FULL MOVIE)
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The Heritage Trail – A guide to African American cultural and historical sites in Volusia
A return to Deland and Volusia County
I know I told you we were done with my review of Volusia County—but I found out while I had given you several Black history sites to see and learn about I didn’t get them all—so I thought I would correct that now with a couple in Deland and then a move to the coast to provide you even more sites.
Deland
The picture above is:
J.W. Wright Bldg.
258-264 W. Voorhis Ave.
Built 1920
Designer: Francis Miller
This two story building is a masonry vernacular structure. Until the 1960s it was a promient (some call it a cornerstone) of an active African American business and entertainment district.
Greater Union First Baptist Church
- 240 South Clara Avenue, DeLand, FL 32720
- Built in 1880 (Gothic Revival Style) and at that time the only Christian Church in Deland for Black Amerian—Was once associated with:
Yemassee Settlement
Centered around Voorthis, Euclid, Garfield and Boston Aves.
This are still contains some o the oldest buildings associated with Deland’s Black community (1890s – 1920s).
New Smyrna Beach
Mary McLeod Bethune and the Story of Bethune-Volusia Beach | ChadGallivanter
Bethune-Volusia Beach
Hwy A1A
6 miles south of New Smyrna Beach
Educator Mary McLeod Bethune
Insurance Executive G.D. Rodgers of Tampa
Rancher Lawrence Silas of Kissimmee
as well as other black investors
purchased the ocean front property in
the 1940s and it became a Black
residential resort community and
recreation area.
BLACK DAYTONA BEACH IN THE 1940s
St. Rita’s Colored Catholic Mission
MARY S. HARRELL BLACK HERITAGE MUSEUM – BLACK HERITAGE MUSEUM OF NEW SMYRNA BEACH
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Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum
314 N. Duss St
This museum is containd in the Old Sacred Heart/St. Rita (Colored) Mission Church Building (1899), one of the few places of worship for Black Roman Catholics in this area as well as even fewer of them still standing. It was moved to its present site.
The facility contains more than 100 replicas of African American inventions. Florida East Coast RailRoad artifacts. ALso photographs from Chisholm High School, the first Black school in Volusia County.
The History of Black Catholics in America
Port Orange
Abandoned Community of Freemanville – First African-American Settlement in Volusia County
Fremanville Historic Site
3421 Ridgewood Ave
There’s a state historic marker here that recognizes this setlement (1867) of freed slaves.
Mount Moriah Baptist Church (1911)
941 North Orange Ave
This is the last building remaining from the previous listed Freemanville community of freed slaves. It still hosts the descendants of those original settlers as a place of worship.
and in Deland again:
HERBAL TRIPS
Herbal Masks and Pillows: They make aromatherapy masks and pillows with ssences like lavender, chamomile and clov that can lull you into sleep.
The Sleeper with Night Moves
Mark Johnson
17 Best Herb and Herbalism Courses and Books for Beginners
Radar finds 145 graves buried beneath King High School in Tamp
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Unexpected Twists on Mac & Cheese
The Main picture is my first trip to England and a climb up the tor to visit what remains of a Christian Church atop a much older worship site….the other pictures aren’t define other than some of the area of England I Found attractive—–14 Reasons Everyone Should Visit England at Least Once