tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89703683706539276212024-03-13T22:05:28.293-07:00Miss B Takes A WalkMiss B Takes A WalkMissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-74214040979793044642021-04-25T04:01:00.005-07:002021-04-25T04:22:48.577-07:00The Waste Land in the City - VIRTUAL TOUR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8QvYr08XHLg1IkowJjZNM4_nb0r7_g-Iqr3qfdLXVuyoClpyAzG96uGwvgf57SE-LduYynoHeCgd1SR2e9_bqHvOKCkcTIZqdDgNBaHkNAbalL0UFr38Qnml3f80DOVFFd2DccfsrDHo/s981/T.S._Eliot%252C_1923+wiki+commons.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="800" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8QvYr08XHLg1IkowJjZNM4_nb0r7_g-Iqr3qfdLXVuyoClpyAzG96uGwvgf57SE-LduYynoHeCgd1SR2e9_bqHvOKCkcTIZqdDgNBaHkNAbalL0UFr38Qnml3f80DOVFFd2DccfsrDHo/w199-h244/T.S._Eliot%252C_1923+wiki+commons.JPG" width="199" /></a></div><p> 'April is the cruellest month ....'</p><p>Although we can now take small groups out on walking tours, the virtual talks have proved popular and well attended throughout the last year or so, so why stop! </p><p>Also it is wonderful to have such an international audience.</p><p>The next round of virtual tours are here:</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-tour-the-waste-land-in-the-city-t-s-eliot-tickets-151622355547">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-tour-the-waste-land-in-the-city-t-s-eliot-tickets-151622355547</a></p><p>Do join me in exploring this magnificent poem taking to the streets 'virtually' and taking a look at the at many of the places and buildings that T S Eliot would have known and still recognise today.</p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Walking tours </span></b>available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour-the-waste-land-in-the-city-t-s-eliot-tickets-152249192433">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour-the-waste-land-in-the-city-t-s-eliot-tickets-152249192433</a><br /></p><p>Currently small groups but more tickets will come available as the regulations are updated.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVUMXcbkcDaoRos3EPY0pWagO8P1-NyecYU9f4PeX0R5ixyt0E0-tRzY2zxT9CvsWrQ3PU4bYDQowXtEDe-p5ValJg-fCf61VrlGdMlnqKxkx9_ndmJhfq1I33mQYdGW645AgAlKmT1Jpp/s1136/61DC8C70-2B21-457F-B187-9E39FC75733D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="640" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVUMXcbkcDaoRos3EPY0pWagO8P1-NyecYU9f4PeX0R5ixyt0E0-tRzY2zxT9CvsWrQ3PU4bYDQowXtEDe-p5ValJg-fCf61VrlGdMlnqKxkx9_ndmJhfq1I33mQYdGW645AgAlKmT1Jpp/w286-h508/61DC8C70-2B21-457F-B187-9E39FC75733D.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-16598676455715157222020-10-13T08:25:00.000-07:002020-10-13T08:25:37.196-07:00Commemorating Geoffrey Chaucer - died 25th October 1400<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8oWoyiZZmQddCpR2UmtPZ4zBH31T99Onl41ch5LUAKiJD6kyPT6MiLrY4EeCXrlj9UZfghnhpfBLZUOxdFn75QSLm7A8gJRujTHpnNIMRsyhOipnZi4sq4U-Mes6GTrHJ2dnlRiFNV2D/s2910/Blake_Canterbury_Pilgrims_engraving+-+wiki+commons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="2910" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8oWoyiZZmQddCpR2UmtPZ4zBH31T99Onl41ch5LUAKiJD6kyPT6MiLrY4EeCXrlj9UZfghnhpfBLZUOxdFn75QSLm7A8gJRujTHpnNIMRsyhOipnZi4sq4U-Mes6GTrHJ2dnlRiFNV2D/w398-h148/Blake_Canterbury_Pilgrims_engraving+-+wiki+commons.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(c) Wiki Commons - Blake - The Canterbury Pilgrims</span></div><p><br /></p><p>I have always enjoyed The Canterbury Tales. I must confess I have not read them from cover to cover but read the tales by dipping in and out over many years and during my research of Chaucer. </p><p>Chaucer is a fascinating character, born in to the merchant class, a page at Court, his patron was John of Gaunt and became related through marriage to two Kings! Also worked as a Civil Servant when he became Controller of Customs in the City of London. Plus a full life of travel and intrigue. He was well able to describe all the quirks and code of of behaviour from the high echelons to the low.</p><p>His poem was unusual for the time for several reasons the main ones being it was in English and the other he gave the characters a voice which was not the usual practice of the time. An element usual for the period was the moralising stories of the then known world and Chaucer used them to great effect.</p><p>Once upon a time I took people on a tour of the City of London following in Chaucer's footsteps. He was born in Vintry a Ward of the City and lived in Aldgate as Comptoller of Customs. He knew the locals and the streets very well and should, if he returned today find his way around, as the footprint has not changed that much and the Guildhall and Leadenhall are exactly where he left them! </p><p>Now I cannot do the walk so I am offering a Virtual Tour on 25th October at 6pm. We can actually cover more ground so to speak, and I do hope you can join me to explore this great poet, father of the English language and his home City.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-tour-geoffrey-chaucer-life-times-tickets-125122236979?fbclid=IwAR3yEUd7R3Zz84n3ZUwDzLdKOUvtiRULYW_4aAMiuaxzX__xyBnt1vYXpqY">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-tour-geoffrey-chaucer-life-times-tickets-125122236979?fbclid=IwAR3yEUd7R3Zz84n3ZUwDzLdKOUvtiRULYW_4aAMiuaxzX__xyBnt1vYXpqY</a><br /></p><p>The virtual tour will take place on Zoom so you will need to have the app to book in, Full details included in the Confirmation once booked.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_OyChQ02QbGsYhIVp0Q8R6kO9OkCFwSFhPdTi73Ur_84lqVwb1i0rDiJLCnhTDR7ONqL1H3bKxz0qTyDNW2go5Mp5qmGZugJlf4E83P4Yzs0N0aKjsmDZcVSjvU03rWCGGqh1r49BrnP/s500/Geoffrey+Chaucer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_OyChQ02QbGsYhIVp0Q8R6kO9OkCFwSFhPdTi73Ur_84lqVwb1i0rDiJLCnhTDR7ONqL1H3bKxz0qTyDNW2go5Mp5qmGZugJlf4E83P4Yzs0N0aKjsmDZcVSjvU03rWCGGqh1r49BrnP/s320/Geoffrey+Chaucer.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-10010122084580390242020-09-29T06:03:00.004-07:002020-09-29T06:06:03.220-07:00'Faith in the City' by British Fine Art Photographer Niki Gorick - Virtual Talk & Exhibition<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> I am blogging today as my dear friend Niki Gorick is giving her Virtual Talk tomorrow all about her beautiful photo book 'Faith in the City', published during Covid19 in April of this year! So I am keen to support in her every way. I am currently her 'Tweet' master and completely overlooked my blog as a means to promote! Late to the party but still worth doing. <br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpGIQNI0C_oTBRCJ1xLaJ8N_YtDqNM1j5QpWHQK2Wj_f0N_I7hNZYPCHNA7pNepxIfAIiC1PpaiQuPwktXJUHJPearE4VVNnqHiVdig27sKKzL2hRLdtT5Qtc-LWmKBpkQ9ifxHvES2s4o/s1408/Screenshot+Book+cover+with+sharpening.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpGIQNI0C_oTBRCJ1xLaJ8N_YtDqNM1j5QpWHQK2Wj_f0N_I7hNZYPCHNA7pNepxIfAIiC1PpaiQuPwktXJUHJPearE4VVNnqHiVdig27sKKzL2hRLdtT5Qtc-LWmKBpkQ9ifxHvES2s4o/s320/Screenshot+Book+cover+with+sharpening.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can still book the talk for 30th September but you can still book here <a href="https://bit.ly/3bAVQJxfaith">https://bit.ly/3bAVQJxfaith</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A review <span style="background-color: white; color: #38444d; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><i>"Your talk was as full of good humour and as keenly perceptive as your photos."</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38444d; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38444d; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtrL6VbUepZ_aMCb4TsAA7OOpboPK0irpn0O2j1ClEVGiV2ujDm79GxS4lGiKh5JL1zbWMQTSiXo26Hiv9iC_QNWO4LzVmihwy0gcSUpHsNM_c3OY5ChC2uPaoAvoRvZo072VhVcC4HLQ/s1920/Bertrand+with+knife.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtrL6VbUepZ_aMCb4TsAA7OOpboPK0irpn0O2j1ClEVGiV2ujDm79GxS4lGiKh5JL1zbWMQTSiXo26Hiv9iC_QNWO4LzVmihwy0gcSUpHsNM_c3OY5ChC2uPaoAvoRvZo072VhVcC4HLQ/s320/Bertrand+with+knife.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The photographs will also appear as an outdoor exhibition staring 3rd October 2020 in the City of London at Paternoster Square (recent change of venue) and Aldgate Square in November. Details below. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/faith-in-the-city-of-london">https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/faith-in-the-city-of-london</a><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38444d;"><span><h3 style="max-width: 100%;"><div class="SG" style="min-height: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="nH SI" style="width: 804px;" tabindex="-1"><div class="nH" style="position: relative;"><div class="nH"><div class="aeI"><div class="AO" style="position: relative;"><div class="Tm aeJ Qqr4Bd" id=":1n6" style="background: transparent; height: 586px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;"><div class="aeF" id=":1n8" style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1200px; min-width: 450px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"><div class="nH aBz" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-shadow: rgb(207, 207, 207) 0px 0px 5px 2px; display: inline-block; min-height: 100%; overflow-x: scroll; width: 788px;"><div class="nH aBy" role="main" style="padding: 0px 15px;"><div class="nH g iC bAn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; padding: 0px 0px 1ex;"><div class="nH"><div class="nH aHU" style="position: relative;"><div class="nH hx" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; min-width: 502px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nH" jslog="20686; u014N:xr6bB" role="list"><div class="h7 ie nH oy8Mbf" role="listitem" style="clear: both; max-width: 100000px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px;" tabindex="-1"><div class="Bk" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; position: relative; width: 758px;"><div class="G3 G2" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px rgba(100, 121, 143, 0.12); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id=":1mk"><div class="adn ads" data-legacy-message-id="172c1d3255366e51" data-message-id="#msg-f:1669741663862812241" style="border-left: none; display: flex; padding: 0px;"><div class="gs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: 686px;"><div class=""><div class="ii gt" id=":1mh" style="direction: ltr; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aXjCH " id=":1mi" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: auto hidden;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div id="m_-6994046860741817866m_-5604697630135797809m_-228875323126456894gmail-m_-1791260500196040580article" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i>"I found the photographs in <span class="il">Gorick</span>’s book especially illuminating because of the unexpected and surprising endeavours they present. They prove how religion in the Square Mile is very much interwoven with contemporary culture and social change. The well-articulated captions accompanying the images are refreshingly free from jargon and convoluted phrasing......</i><br /></span></p></div></div><blockquote style="border-left-style: none; margin: inherit; padding: inherit; white-space: normal;" type="cite"><div id="m_-6994046860741817866m_-5604697630135797809m_-228875323126456894gmail-m_-1791260500196040580article" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i>......making one understand what an enlightening force religion can be in the context of a seemingly cold environment infused with wealth." </i>Jenny Kingsley - St Brides</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx4sW59Rm11xs0gUHdz6UDEG75sX3wmbmC8C3j9VVVLWhW_0tvQ800FRTY_XAn2_tPLLPeJV1AU4lTe4bH-cIVWA4d0A3FGGtyAWWhpuaKnlmLP8xzTB2lt2PmbzcNpgUqmf_NaWX2lz-e/s2048/St+Brides+Easter+service+%2526+egg+rolling-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx4sW59Rm11xs0gUHdz6UDEG75sX3wmbmC8C3j9VVVLWhW_0tvQ800FRTY_XAn2_tPLLPeJV1AU4lTe4bH-cIVWA4d0A3FGGtyAWWhpuaKnlmLP8xzTB2lt2PmbzcNpgUqmf_NaWX2lz-e/s320/St+Brides+Easter+service+%2526+egg+rolling-2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Hope you will be able to join us tomorrow evening and if not, find time to visit the exhibition. Outdoors and socially distanced. If you wish to buy a copy of the book they will be available at the Guildhall Art Galley as well as at Waterstones and Unicorn Publishing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Good to be back blogging again! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">MissB</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></h3></span></span></div></div><h3 style="font-family: georgia; 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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: yes;">© 2020 Alighieri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">One would not necessarily
connect The Waste Land to a jewellery collection. However T S Eliot was always buying jewellery for his second wife, Valerie. He showered her with
beautiful jewels of great taste and originality. Mostly sold after her death at
a </span><a href="https://www.christies.com/a-lifes-devotion-the-24522.aspx?saletitle=&intsaleid=24522&pg=all&action=paging&sid=7a5c3b08-f866-4ff4-8fd7-c290fbe00ae3"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Christies</span></a><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> Auction,
one famous piece stood out was designed by T S Eliot - the canon of works charm
bracelet<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>’ Valerie Eliot was wearing a
charm bracelet her husband had had made for her at Garrard. From it dangled a
practical cat, a hidden portrait, and tiny book covers, representing each of
his works.’ </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[Extract: </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;">SANDRA BARWICK -
INDEPENDENT - Saturday 22 January 1994]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">© T S Eliot Society of the United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">The catalyst for my writing
about jewellery and The Waste Land is inspired by an item in the Evening
Standard about jewellery designer Rosh Mahtani of </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/alighieri/paris-were-coming-for-you?e=c9f40b86a7"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Alighieri</span></a><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">
winning the Queen Elizabeth II Design Award presented at the Silver Vaults by
Princess Anne last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rosh took her
inspiration for her previous collections from Dante (hence the label) and for Autumn
Winter 2020 the ‘wasteland’ of T S Eliot is her focus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her desire to create jewellery relating to a
modernist poem is fascinating and I feel she makes it work beautifully (for her
‘wasteland’ collection). Her imagination was captured by the reading of the Tarot
Cards with the clairvoyant Madame Sosostris (Part I). One piece is named after
the medium, and a necklace is called ‘Bella Donna’ referring to the “Lady of
the Rocks, the lady of situations” (line 49) or as in the Rider-Waite tarot
deck ‘Lady of the Cups’. Those even with basic Italian can translate this as ‘beaufiful
woman’ or possibly the seductive but deadly nightshade. The card indicates
renewal, but is fraught with peril. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">The Hyacinth Girl is another
inspiration for <a name="_Hlk33640798">Alighieri </a>– also appearing in Part I
The Burial of the Dead :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">‘They called me the hyacinth girl’.</span></i><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> (line 36)</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">After
the dismal beginning, It is a fleeting burst of joy, of spring, a girl,
flowers, but is it? Of course you the reader can make of it what you will and
Alighieri did just that. In fact it is the story of Hyacinthus greatly loved by
Apollo and Zephyrus, who returned the former’s love. Apollo in his jealousy
killed Hyacinthus! Apollo so regretted this that he changed the young man’s
blood into a flower which bore his name and placed his body among the
constellations. Of course the annotated text of The Waste Land can identify
other potential meanings, but this will do in this case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">There
are <i>‘fishmen’</i> aplenty, and a fisher king in the poem, but no fisher
woman. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also Luna, I will assume, represents
‘The Moon’ Tarot card <i>‘which I am forbidden to see, I do not find …’</i> in
the poem is definitely part of the Ryder Waite set. I have joined the Alighieri
Lion Club and will one day own a piece.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">My
interest was piqued about the connections between poetry and jewellery and of
course the internet led me to some wonderful pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.victoriacontreras.com/VICBIJOUX/uk/cw_tselio.html"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Victoria Contreras</span></a><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> uses texts from several literary greats, and this piece with the first
four lines of The Waste Land is so bold, almost like a breastplate! It is on my
list of ‘must haves’!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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jewellery out there inspired b</span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">y authors, poets and famous quotes, but for me
The Waste Land is truly honoured by these works. The final piece celebrates J
Alfred Prufrock, and there is no need to explain it. See you on World Poetry
Day to hear parts of The Waste Land around and about the jewel that is the City
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I have not been to the Guildhall Art Gallery for a long time, on entering it was like meeting an old friend, who gave me a warm welcome. The new exhibition, which opened March, so was somewhat tardy in getting there, is a sight to behold. A subject which generates much emotion, it has been beautifully conceived, and at every turn you are enveloped in the pathos of the subject, but also delighted by the attention to minute detail. </div>
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A cabinet of curiosities all with emotional relevance to the loss of those brave young men. The detail and creativity of those involved is to be lauded, the time and patience to create individual pieces which come together as a cohesive, delightful, exciting and yet, a sympathetic and respectful whole. You will discover it becomes a personal journey, through the private letters and belongings of those who did not come home. Do not forget to leave your message on the tree.</div>
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free exhibition at City of London Corporation’s Guildhall Art Gallery
commemorating the 100<sup>th</sup></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">anniversary
of WW1 (1914-18 to 2014-18), funded by the National Lottery.</span></strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Created by professional artist and set designer Jane Churchill, this
exhibition - her London debut- sensitively<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>brings to life the human impact of the
First World War through heartfelt personal stories</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and highly emotive, beautiful pieces
of artwork. Churchill has created an immersive ‘behind the scenes’ experience
that provides a fascinating glimpse into what was a very difficult and harsh
reality for many. Interwoven throughout the exhibition is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>the
artwork of over 200 students aged between six and seventeen</strong>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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Across The Century</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is a
collaboration between Livery Companies and schools delivered for Livery Schools
Link, with Guildhall Art Gallery and supported by National Lottery players
through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Housed inside Churchill’s set design that transports us to a First World
War trench, the walk-through exhibition explores the stories of soldiers,
ordinary people supporting the war effort ‘behind the scenes’ and the grief-stricken
families, friends and lovers that were left behind. Churchill was<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong>inspired by the touching story of her great great uncle,
Second Lieutenant William Goss Hicks</strong>, and the fiancée he left
behind in Kent after his death in France nearly<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong>100 years ago on 3<sup>rd</sup></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong>July 1917.</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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Churchill’s great great uncle <b>William Goss Hicks and his fiancée Jessie Ellman</b>.
Highlights include Hicks’ personal effects as well as stunning moth
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from <b>14 London schools worked with the
City of London’s livery companies</b> to create touching emotional responses
associated with not only the trench life of soldiers, but all those supporting
the war and who were affected by it. Key pieces include recruitment posters,
paintings of ambulances and spectacles, playing cards, profound diary extracts,
a sky full of war-time planes and a stunning peace memorial. Illustrative
artworks by Churchill are interwoven amongst the students’ work, telling
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</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“This has been a very personal experience for me as I have always had a
connection to WW1 and my inspiration for the project came from the terribly sad
story of my own great great uncle and the affect his death had on those he left
behind. Working with such wonderful and talented students has been deeply
rewarding as they all embraced the project and understood how art could be used
to express both history and emotion. They developed independent thinking and
confidence as they worked with me to explore different skills and techniques to
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writing on cards provided and hanging them by the entrance.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong> Free workshops will</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>allow
visitors to create their own artworks</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in response to the exhibition on 14<sup>th</sup>June.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Free
artist talk</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>led by Jane Churchill</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will also take place at the gallery on
7<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>July between<span class="apple-converted-space"> <span data-term="goog_538302526" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;">1pm and 2pm</span></span></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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Gallery, invests £80m every year in heritage and cultural activities of all
kinds. It is the UK’s largest funder of culture after the government, the BBC,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She is a maker of imaginary worlds and often accesses the
creativity of others. An intuitive seer of what is needed in the creative
process within her own work and those she works with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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organisations, community groups and schools for over ten years and curated a
gallery in Kent for six years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leading a languages department in a secondary school to becoming an educational
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she increased membership, raised its profile and developed a programme of
annual events for students and teachers including an annual education
conference and careers events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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community engagement, careers awareness, design and history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is good to be drawn out of your comfort zone. I was invited to be part of the Footprints of London team to walk students
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<span lang="EN-US">I had connections with this massive development
site since 1980's when the property developers I worked for created the London
Regeneration Consortium and architect Norman Foster created the first of many master
plans for the site. The big bang came and went and the project bit the dust. Had it been
built, it would of course already be out of date! So every cloud has a silver
lining and with new building techniques and innovations the site is said to be 'future proof', it can adapt to growth and easily add future service requirements without much disruption to the existing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Where do we start? Kings cross has a 'big' history if a rather shady recent past. The coming of the railways, an
intrinsic part of the industrial Revolution, made this area north of London
ideal for private companies to build termini and depots for the goods arriving
to feed and power London and onward to supply the Empire. The pastures and
small villages on what was the outskirts of London, were soon gobbled up by iron and steam.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first station completed was Lewis Cubitt's
Kings Cross in 1852 for the Great Northern Railway Company. A temporary station was
built at the top end of the site to assist with crowds arriving for the Great
Exhibition of 1851, this is now part of Waitrose and an Ice Cream Parlour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The clearing of the site of much of the industrial infrastructure was paramount to provide sufficient tracts of land to build new offices and accommodation. However much of the site required decontamination after years of coal fired fuel and gas being manufactured in the area. Therefore only suitable for business rather than residence in the heart of the development. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Beautifully preserved, although truncated to the west, to allow for Eurostar, that end it has been recreated exactly as it was before and now houses a D&D Group restaurant serving, schnitzel, bratwurst and sauerkraut and other central European dishes. A perfect place for a meal at departure or upon arrival. Essential to have support businesses to the station and the offices. The gymnasium had closed down by 1908 and the society moved out of London. The fine oak tree in the piazza was given by Germany as a message of goodwill and celebration.</span></div>
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Beautifully landscaped square covers the site where the gas holders of the Pancras Gas Company. The current HQ of Google was a great favourite with the student and confirms the intention to create an area of knowledge, who better as an 'anchor' tenant than Google! They are planning a bigger HQ, supposedly as long as the Shard is high, with only 10 floors, (height limitations, to protect the views of St Paul's). This new building will face King's Boulevard. Do notice the new post code above.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Another Grade II listed building on the site which proclaims the integrity and engineering skill of the Victorians, it is still standing strong. A Lewis Cubitt building and completed at the same time as the King Cross Station. An imaginative re-purposing of a major existing structure by architects Stanton Williams. It houses the University of Arts London, and is attached to the new Central St Martins. The architects have kept the grain shute and created an atrium, allowing light into what was the transit area. Ceiling heights are too low for offices so the upper levels have become the library for the University. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kings Place, the Knowledge Quarter has many business serviced by excellent restaurants and outlets, and it is not surprising there is also culture to hand. However Kings Place (Architect: Dixon Jones) was there before all the rest. A music charity had the foresight to build a concert hall (the first in London for 30 years) and create culture hub in 2008. It is also the HQ of The Guardian and includes an art gallery in part of a gas holder. So media, art, music and entertainment are also well covered at Kings Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I would like to acknowledge and thank the original author of this walk Rob Smith for sharing this with us. Please check out <a href="http://footprintsoflondon.com/">Footprints of London</a> for Rob's regular walks. Miss B will only be doing this walk on special request.</div>
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With the best intentions it has been hard to keep up with the blog so I am going to bring you right up to date with a monthly review of what I have been up to starting from February.<br />
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<b>February - </b>bleak and cold after my sojourn in the Caribbean. But plenty to do.<br />
Firstly an mini exhibition at the Museum of London about the finds linked to the Walbrook, one of the lost rivers of the City. Each discovery adds to the knowledge of the archaeology and the course of the river, which is technically not a river but a stream, but we will leave it at that for now!<br />
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From this exhibition I decided revive my 'Walbrook Where Art Thou' tour which took place on 25th March with a great group of inquisitive and engaged folk. Weather was good and the City at the weekend is quiet. We started from the Museum of London so everyone could view the exhibits. The walk to the start point was interesting because there is a huge development at London Wall, a road that follows, yes, you guessed it, the line of the Roman Wall. I pointed out the ancient ruined church of Elsing 'spital and the reinstatement of the 'streets in the sky' aka pedways, but this time in cor-ten steel, to be festooned with green walls and new gardens below. Soon we will be able to walk from the MoL to Moorgate again above street level.<br />
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Also in March I was engaged to create a special birthday treat for a lady from her husband, the brief, history and architecture. So we began at St Paul's Underground and took in Christchurch Greyfriars, Postman's Park, West Smithfield and Charter House for the first segment. It was very cold and Storm Doris was gusting and blowing us about. We took refuge in the new Charter House museum just opened, small and well presented, we also went to the chapel, just long enough to get warmed up before venturing out again. <a href="http://www.thecharterhouse.org/visit-us/">http://www.thecharterhouse.org/visit-us/</a> <br />
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We walked through the City covering the financial heart, Bank of England, Royal Exchange, Mansion House, through alleyways to Leadenhall and finally to the 'Walkie Talkie at Fenchurch Street, where the couple had made a reservation for lunch in the Sky Garden. 'Doris' had become much stronger by then we had to hold on to bollards not to be blown into the on-coming traffic! All in a days work ...<br />
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February was also special for <a href="http://www.georgiandiningacademy.com/">Georgian Dining Academy</a> a Georgian events group I set up. We staged a glorious Valentine's Day late at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, it was many months in the planning and created to support the Emma Hamilton Exhibition (now ended). Everyone had a fabulous time and we were thrilled at how well it all came together. You can see photographs and glean further information from the GDA web site.<br />
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Then into March, which is also my birthday month and I was lucky enough to be invited to the <a href="http://www.cityoflondondistillery.com/experiences/">City of London Distillery</a>, where we had a delicious gin tasting and I treated myself to a bottle of Christopher Wren Gin, the bottle taking the shape of the dome of St Paul's.<br />
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March was also the first of Georgian Dining Academy's Suppers at Simpson's Tavern off Cornhill, where we were liberally entertained with samples of, yes, more gin, this time Sacred Gin, distilled in a still in their home! Delicious and went down very well.<br />
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As a member of the T S Eliot Society I went to an evening of readings and music titled 'Decadence', actor Simon Callow was one of the readers at King's Place in Kings Cross. My first visit, but was not to be my last, as I soon discovered! A lovely evening and an excellent venue. The Waste Land Walk in the City goes from strength to strength and have planned several over the coming months. They are booked through Footprints of London. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/t-s-eliot-the-waste-land-in-the-city-tickets-31925586288">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/t-s-eliot-the-waste-land-in-the-city-tickets-31925586288</a></div>
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King's Place featured again this month when I was invited to join the team of Footprints of London Guides to create a walk around the 'Knowledge Quarter' the creative hub that King's Cross has become. Our team of four being trained to take many groups of students from Central America around the site over several days. It was an interesting few weeks of research looking at the site not so much from a historic viewpoint but as a regenerated hub and how the old and the new had been organised to make the most of this 67 acre site. As the walk was one already featured on Footprintscreated by Rob Smith, I will only repeat this walk for private groups. I will post separately to show the route with lots of pictures.</div>
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King's Place was one of our stops. This build was one of the earliest projects on the site, it was built in 2008 by Dixon Jones, for a music charity and also houses The Guardian newspaper and includes an art gallery. The first new build concert halls for many years in London and the enhances the site as an access to the arts. </div>
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My volunteering also kicks off in March when 2 Willow Road opens after its winter rest. You may have read my post on the <a href="http://missbtakesawalk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/2-willow-road-winter-clean-december-2016.html">Winter Clean 2016</a>. always love going back to Erno Goldfinger's house and guiding people around. We will be open now until end of October this year. </div>
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So we are in April, which included a visit to the Handel & Hendrix Museum, two musical greats, worlds apart, but ended up choosing to live in the same street, and in adjoining houses! Handel also features big in my life this year. Working on a couple of cultural cruises on the river with Georgian Dining Academy 2016, one of my talks was about Handel's Water Music so with <a href="http://www.londonhistorians.org/">London Historians</a> we have got together to create an event. </div>
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On 17th July 2017 it will 300 years since Handel composed and performed the Water Music for George I on the River Thames. Our group including support from Handel House and Amade Players are all aboard on that day to play this great piece of music live on a boat up and down the river. You can find details <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/handel-water-music-300-tickets-30951708393">here</a> on how to book.</div>
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end of February for essential maintenance and conservation work. It also allows
the rooms to be minutely inspected for damage for damp, dust and infestations!</span></span></div>
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curtained and cloaked, quiet and eerie, furniture carefully stored all the
familiar ephemera cleared away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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first clean the house smelt of paint, the stairwell had been painted, it was a
dull day but it did look refreshed. The house is always kept cool as possible
to protect the furnishings and paintings, we all know to wrap up warm on the
cleaning days! Made a coffee and found the biscuit barrel, essential to this type
of work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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be decanted and thoroughly cleaned out. I tackled the coat hangers! They are
skittish things, like to hook on to each other and lay awkwardly once cleaned
with the hog’s hair brush and soft duster. Also, checked the felt linings for
any potential moth casings. If coat hangers could speak all these fine
specimens would have a story to tell. Some look home-made but the majority are
of quality manufacture, from a time when everything was made to last! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perhaps Mr Goldfinger had carried some of them
with him from Hungary to Paris and back to England, or perhaps purchased in
Paris in the 1920s. The mechanisms to close in your skirt or trousers are
complex constructs, none of the skimpy lightweight things we use today. One or
two had names on, we think this might be a boarding school item, perhaps passed
from person to person as you went up a year to finally come to the Goldfinger's
children and laid rest in Mum and Dad's wardrobe unnoticed until 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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shoehorns! A couple of pairs manufactured and some handmade albeit showing wear
and tear, as in parts looking like a puzzle. The exciting inspection was of the
boot horns in what we assumed were Ursula Goldfinger's riding boots, slim of
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for her in her twenties. The workmanship is something you will not find today
except of course at the highest end of bespoke bookmakers who still exist in
small numbers. We decided to take the horns out to inspect that nothing
untoward was going on inside. We managed the two halves but decided against
taking out the hinged central piece that went inside the foot of the boot. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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knots of wood plus a sliver or wood inserted to improve the shape and fit. On
closer inspection words and numbers, the letters denoted left and right horn in
Hungarian, the number probably a reference to Ursula Goldfinger’s template with
bookmaker. All items softly polished inside and out and returned to their place
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an emotional piece. Excellent quality material, well-worn to the extent the
lining was ripped and strained. The cuffs had leather stitched trim over the
frayed ends and leather elbow patches, obviously a favourite. No labels, again
a bespoke item we guessed made by a family tailor in Hungary and worn to the
end of Erno’s life. I was half hoping it still had the whiff of the cigar,
traces of the great man in his suit, sadly not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Goldfinger, one herringbone right up there in the fashion stakes presently, so
you see, throw nothing away, or better still buy quality rather than
quantity. All items of clothing gently
inspected and then lightly hoovered to remove dust and hang back in the
wardrobe to be close to one another once more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this be navy issue, with a name tag? Pockets full of garden debris, a gardening
coat, possible worn by Ursula? We also found a lovely tartan poncho, tartan has
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wrapped in acid free tissue, a shame as not much will be on view the next time
we open the wardrobe door. But we can admire Goldfinger’s attention to detail,
everything has its designated place. As time goes by the house may seem to
stand still in time but unfortunately the vagaries of exposure to visitors, dust,
sunlight hot and cold all have an impact on this protected property so we must
do everything we can to ensure all the items at 2 Willow Road remain in good
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Willow Road, but when it does appear it delights everyone who sees it. A
modernist’s creation for his daughter, who, it is said, was not entirely
pleased with it! We feel she may have hankered after the 'Tudorbethan' versions
some of us enjoyed, black and white detail, red tile roof and flowers growing
over the front door! We are left with this lovely toy to take care of. We start by using the soft brushes to get
dust out of the tiny corners, being careful with the doors and their tiny
hinges. Windows are Perspex but still
wiped over gently. The roof has a spiral staircase leading up to it. We then must carefully put it all together
and lift it up to the top shelf of the built-in wardrobes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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there were two of us. It looks handmade
and very simple in design, solid but relatively easy to move out as we needed
to check the carpet plus it had been used to store large pictures and posters
keeping them flat in the space underneath. Mattress and bedding had to be carefully vacuumed. For
the bed-cover, we used a muslin piece over the nozzle before carefully hoovering
it all over. The result was a horrid
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from the uplighter. Far more complex in design than I had first realized and
not sure the photographs do it justice. The results after cleaning it with damp
cotton wool and cotton buds were worth the effort. We found a maker’s mark and a patent number.
I decided to find out if the company still exists, it does! We also found a
spare glass shade in one of the other cupboards so comfort in knowing we have a
spare!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Today we are generally being a little more circumspect about our exchange of gifts, especially if you have a large family or friendship circle. This idea can also work for an office or special groups as Team Building or a great day out. A walk can be the answer, especially with a well versed guide of the City of London, a place still a mystery to many, especially those who work there!</span></div>
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A walk is also a lovely idea for visitors to our shores, especially if they have been before and seen the 'sights'. The City of London is an excellent place to explore, and you will be surprised as to how many folk have not been beyond the magnificent St Pauls!</div>
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There are three walks on offer, but elements can be combined or a walk can be selected from my list of walks <a href="http://missbtakesawalk.blogspot.co.uk/p/walks-by-missb.html">here</a>.</div>
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At the cost of £100 for 10 people it is good value, and up to 20 people can join in at an extra charge of £8.50 per head. The offer is Monday to Sunday at a time to suit you, and MissB can also recommend somewhere to eat or have a drink afterwards. The offer runs from 1st February with bookings to be made within three months. This does allow you to make a confirmed booking for later in 2017. There is a limit of six bookings available on this offer.</div>
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The walks are detailed on the voucher and you can also request a special Invitation on parchment and boxed or sent in a envelope as a gift at no extra charge. </div>
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Helen L - March 2014<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "consolas"; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">It felt like a bit of a gamble to arrange a private walk with Miss B for some of my family as a Christmas present, but we've just had our City Sampler walk (a present that you join in on!) and everyone loved it. Tina has an amazing knowledge of the City of London and made sure there was something for everyone in our group -- some history, art, architecture -- with handy tips about pubs and cocktail bars along the way. Now everyone wants to do more of Tina's walks. You wouldn't believe the history of the pineapple..........</span><br />
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It was great to meet you and go on your tour last Thurs. Very inspiring. I would love to bring members of the group I’m working with to experience the <span class="il">walk</span>. As I mentioned I’m working with a group of volunteers from the Community to develop an exhibition here at Turner Contemporary, rooted in The Waste Land.</div>
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Have you heard of the ‘The Houndsditch Murders’? Claimed the
lives of three City of London Police officers and remains to this day the
largest loss of life in one incident on duty in the UK! Check out the model of
the building where the murders took place which was used at the trial. Plus a
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It is a small space, but like Dr Who's tardis, once entered it seems much bigger! Brilliantly designed and decorated with
excellent graphics, large bright show cases, 3D elements and all on a tight budget. The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of
£90,000 towards the development of the museum and associated community
engagement. Success of the project is not only down to the team of staff and volunteers at City of London Police
and the Guildhall Library, but working in partnership with Guildhall School of
Music & Drama, and the City of London Corporation (who owns the school).
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records and many macabre artefacts, this very modern and elegant little museum. I was like a kid in a sweet shop when I was
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unique force and everyone who works here is incredibly proud to serve the City.
This museum illustrates much of what makes us special, our partnerships, our
close links to our communities and most significantly, a long history that
entwines us with the Square Mile and London.” Sara Pink, Head of the City of
London Corporation’s Guildhall Library and City Business Library, said: “The
museum will certainly attract a wide range of visitors, including City workers,
residents, tourists and crime historians. From the horrors of Jack the Ripper’s
murders in Whitechapel to how all of us must be extra-vigilant about identity
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diverse organisation. It supports and promotes the City as a world leader in
international finance and business services and provides local services and
policing for those working in, living in, and visiting the Square Mile. It also
provides valued services to London and the nation. These include the Barbican
Centre, Barbican Music Library, Guildhall School of Music & Drama,
Guildhall Library, Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheatre, London
Metropolitan Archives, a range of education provision (including three City
Academies); five Thames bridges (including Tower Bridge and Millennium Bridge),
Central Criminal Court at Old Bailey, over 10,000 acres of open spaces (including
Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest), and three wholesale food markets. The City
of London Corporation is London’s Port Health Authority and also runs the
Animal Reception Centre at Heathrow. For more details, visit </span><a href="http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">www.cityoflondon.gov.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it holds national responsibility for Economic Crime and under this remit is
host to Action Fraud (the national fraud and cybercrime reporting service), the
National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department
and the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. The City of London
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of young musicians, actors and theatre technicians in the heart of the City of
London. Twice-rated No.1 specialist institution in the UK by the Guardian
University Guide, and recently selected as one of the top ten institutions for
performing arts in the world (QS World University Rankings 2016), the School is
a global leader of creative and professional practice which promotes
innovation, experiment and research, with over 900 students in higher
education, drawn from nearly 60 countries around the world. It is also the UK’s
leading provider of specialist music training at the under-18 level with nearly
2,500 students in Junior Guildhall and Centre for Young Musicians. The School
is widely recognised for the quality of its teaching and its graduates, and its
new building, Milton Court which opened in September 2013, offers
state-of-the-art facilities to match the talent within its walls, ensuring that
students enter their chosen profession at the highest level. Milton Court is
part of the unique Guildhall School/Barbican partnership delivering world-class
arts and learning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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about - from the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks and buildings
that we love, from precious memories and collections to rare wildlife. </span><a href="http://www.hlf.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">www.hlf.org.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">
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A chilly but sunny day brought me by MBNA Clipper to
Greenwich, how else would you travel except by boat to the famous naval college
and museum? However, my appointment was with the <a href="http://www.londonhistorians.org/?id=2">London Historians</a> team to
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The Inigo Jones designed house was the first great
classical building of its kind and the last part of what was the great Tudor
Palace of Greenwich as created by Henry VIII on a site of a Palace built by his father Henry VII. It was also the home of his son
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The manor of Greenwich was gifted by James I to his Danish
queen, Anne, apparently as an apology for losing his temper after she accidentally
shot one of his hunting dogs whilst on the hunt. It was Queen Anne who employed
Inigo Jones to design and build what was initially a house within garden retreat. The front is in fact the
back and the views from here look across the park up the hill, where the
Observatory is now. Interestingly, the Greenwich to Woolwich Road ran behind (the
front of the house) and in fact the later additions, the colonnades follow the
line of the then road. Queen Anne never
saw the house completed this was left to the wife of Charles I, Queen Henrietta
Marie. When it was finished in 1638, it became her building of choice for her Court.<br />
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There is much to be said about the history before James I's reign
and there is much to be said about the history after the house became part of
the Greenwich Naval College. Please note, the later specific siting of which, was to
ensure the view from the Queen’s House would be clear sight line to the Thames.<o:p></o:p><br />
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There is a book on sale at the National Maritime Museum (just next
door for those not in the know) at a reduced price called <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queens-House-Dr-Pieter-Merwe/dp/1857597532"><i>The Queen’s House Greenwich’ </i>by Pieter van der Merwe</a>, who was our
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the foundation vaults with no access to the piano mobile. A mound of soil
would have been banked up against it and grassed over. A plain set of steps up
one level brought us to the Tulip Stairs, apparently one of the most
photographed stairwells in the country if not the world! From the book - <i>‘This is the earliest centrally unsupported spiral
stair in England, on the Italian Renaissance model’. </i>It was designed as a
descending flight so one might make a grand entrance in to the Hall. A point of interest are the flowers in the
design are which are lilies, the royal flower of France and incorporated as a
compliment to Henrietta Maria. So why ‘tulips’? The wrought-iron rail design
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a 40-foot cube but not precisely’</i> due to construction adjustment, but
beautiful it is. A bright room with a floor of Italian marble, with a wooden gallery, which still
shows some of Jones’s original paint scheme of white and gold. What is also
golden is the detail on the walls and ceiling, one might think it is a
schematic from an earlier period but in fact it is a contemporary design, by
the Turner Prize winner, Richard Wright. I viewed the <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/see-do/we-recommend/attractions/great-hall-ceiling">gold-leaf fresco</a> for the first
time with the sun pouring in through the tall windows, on closer inspection on
the gallery and looking up you begin to see the patterns forming, a perspective
appearing and then reforming again. The gilt flowers, inspired by the tulips,
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The Queen’s House has more rooms than you would imagine,
extravagant ceiling painting, art by many a great master, including a Lowry,
many dead Admirals, not surprising really. A family-tree of Tudors all in a
row. As well as the Armada Portrait which has recently been saved for the
Nation by the Nation! <o:p></o:p><br />
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something new, and can revisit my favourite areas. There are also several
anterooms which showcase the wide-ranging objects and painting subjects in the
huge collection of the Royal Museums Greenwich.<br />
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The drawings of plants and
flowers from the brave botanists who sailed with Captain Cook, You will find Emma Hamilton
and Lord Nelsondisplayed with a bust of their daughter Horatia. The position shows how like her father she was.<br />
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Display of instruments
to guide the seafarers and landlubbers, such as the Astrolabe (a blog to follow). Last but not least, the room with the drawings
of Indigo Jones, particularly the sketch for a ceiling painting, the
perspective draws you in. There is some
fine photography too. Something for everyone I would venture to say.<br />
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You may also like to visit the fabulous <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/see-do/emma-hamilton-seduction-and-celebrity">SEDUCTION & CELEBRITY: Life and Times of Emma Hamilton</a> which is showing next door at the National Maritime Museum.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On one of the hottest days of the
year I took several members of<a href="http://wasteland.onsocialengine.com/"> “A Journey with The Waste Land Research Forum”</a>
for a walk in the City of London, introducing them to the ‘psycho-geography’ that
influenced T S Eliot when writing The Wasteland (pub. 1923 Hogarth Press).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Margate and were having a grand day out organised by the Curator and Research Curator of the Turner Contemporary for the project, which will see the Margate
community create an exhibition influenced by Eliot’s great poem, due to open 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In turn I was invited to join the
“Fallen Leaves Festival” on the 8<sup>th</sup> October in Margate to ‘talk my walk<i>’ <b>T S Eliot in the City</b></i>, as a walking
book. The outing included site readings of “Burnt Norton” we set out from the
Turner Contemporary to The Garden Gate, more of this later. The walk was to
make connections with rhythm, rhyme, memory and walking.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Contemporary, I will be writing about the gallery in more detail in a separate
blog, introductions were made and each walking book introduced themselves and
their subject, and we were:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101010; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Trish Scott is the Research Curator at Turner
Contemporary, and is working with 30 volunteers to co-curate the gallery's
first major exhibition of 2018, A Journey with The Waste Land, which explores
the connections between T.S Eliot's poem The Waste Land, partly written in Margate,
and the visual arts.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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project since 2014. I’m project manager, fund raiser, community liaison, and
day to day co-ordinator. <a href="http://www.broadstairstownshed.org.uk/">http://www.broadstairstownshed.org.uk/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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followed by studies in literature and medieval and early modern culture and
society, I work on the history of material culture – how the physical world
shaped and was shaped by people’s actions, interests and beliefs. There is more
about all of this here: <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/sta%20%20ff/richardson.html">www.kent.ac.uk/english/sta ff/richardson.html</a></span></span></div>
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contemporary artist operating across sculpture, film, writing, research,
walking, organisation and social/collaborative activity. She is interested in
the nature and pluralities of artistic production, exploring the complex
relationships between things, thoughts, knowledges and different modes of doing
as a consideration of identity and the negotiation of self within the
contemporary world. Experimental processes of drift and psycho-geography often
inform her work. <a href="http://www.louisa-love.com/">www.louisa-love.com</a> <a href="http://www.dadonline.eu/">www.dadonline.eu</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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poetry. She has a strong interest in psycho-geography and site-specific
writing, form, intertextuality and performance-based approaches to text. Sonia
has written and abridged work for street theatre and has published two novels,
A Likeness and The Realm of Shells (HarperPerennial) and a chapbook of poetry,
The Art of Walking (Shearsman). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Julia Riddiough - Margate based artist with an active interest in exploring and investigating the archive, looking at the space between fact and the fiction. <a href="http://www.abrooksart.com/">www.abrooksart.com</a> and <a href="http://juliariddiough.com/">juliariddiough.com</a></span></span><br />
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designated the first people to join a walking book, thereafter seek your walking book.I was able to talk to at least eight people in the group,
by changing my companion after one or more stops. We were also presented with a
‘spiral of rope’ an ancient Inca ritual of unknown origin, whereby you would
knot it enroute as your mood took you. I
used mine as a badge on my sleeve and put in one knot to acknowledge the whole
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umbrellas were at the ready, and remember these folk live on the Isle of Thanet
and know about the changing weather on the coast, so dressed appropriately! We set of in a westward direction, which was
great for me as I had explored most of the beach in front of the town. We headed for Fulsam Rock by the Fort Lower
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the rain and eventually it eased off. I enjoyed the readings and especially the
talks with my walking audience, several of which had not yet read the <i>The Waste Land</i>, which was an interesting
situation to overcome. I focussed initially on some of the City landmarks, London
Bridge, St Magnus the Martyr and St Mary Woolnoth. Why he might have been drawn
to them. The churches particularly were in the news at the time of his
composing the poem, due to be demolished, he wrote of their enhancing the
cityscape. Also London Bridge the conduit between home and work, life and death,
hope and despair, and Eliot often mentions the ‘Sweet Thames’, not only in
terms of ancient lore but this also connects him with the great river he grew
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oft used to describe the poem. I asked my
companions to perhaps look at the poem in another way, for instance to reflect
more on the construction of the poem, its staccato lines, followed by episodic,
illustrative stanzas, as well as the dialogue and monologues, rather than hang
on every word. Or view it in all its modernity, it was way ahead of its time,
enjoy its complex fabrication, a collage made of words. Also there is no need
to understand every word of it, that is not what Eliot would have wanted.
Function over form, ‘feel’ the poetry rather than try to comprehend it. Let it
feed your own imagination and emotions.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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few hours just following the group, along the beach, up stairways, through
cliffs, along roads until we reached a library.
The grand finale was a delightful poem first conceived by the poet Keith
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the community to enjoy gardening at their own pace, Monday to Friday. At the weekends the site is open to events
and fundraisers. A beautiful place which includes a welcome cup of coffee and
on this occasion delicious pizza fresh from the outdoor oven. Highly recommend
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new friends and experienced new places, after a short bus ride we ended where
we started at the Turner Contemporary. By chance met up with more of the
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">O City city</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, - how I love thee! No this is not a line from The Waste Land, but I have taken liberties with a partial quote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The City of London, his inspiration, whilst Mr Eliot worked at Lloyd's of London in the Foreign and Colonial Department off Lombard Street. As much as his literary friends wanted to get him away for his job, he did in fact seem to enjoy it, Eliot found the science of money fascinating. He also includes his work-a-day experiences in the poem too.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mr Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">C.i.f. London: documents at sight</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Asked me in demotic French</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To Luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Followed by a week-end at the Metropole</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every line loaded of course with meaning, sex, trade off and business! However, as Eliot would have wanted, make of it what you will, as it conjures up an interesting picture in the imagination, whether you know anything about Smyrna, documents of lading or where these hotels may be located, let alone a Mr Eugenides!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As an American, having planned a short stay in Europe, arrives in London and never leaves (many of us are members of this particular club!) carried with him a <a href="http://www.bdkr.com/collect.php">Baedeker</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"> (travel </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_book" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Guide book">guide books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"> published by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Baedeker" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Karl Baedeker">Karl Baedeker</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"> firm of Germany beginning in the 1830s). Eliot made notes in various sections, including St Magnus the Martyr and St Mary Woolnoth. They are likely to have come to his attention through the document '<a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924015376233">Proposed Demoliton of Nineteen City Churches, 1920, Vol.8 : Report by the Clerk of the Council and the Architect of the Council'</a>. If you like horror stories this will terrify you!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">T S Eliot had spent many a quiet moment of contemplation in both churches, if not more on the list. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">He also wrote, in support of their survival in one of the quarterly literary magazines, the </span><i style="color: #252525;">Dial,</i><span style="color: #252525;"> </span><i style="color: #252525;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">of his contempt for such a proposal whereby these buildings gave the business centre a beauty - </span><i style="color: #252525;">redeems hideous banks and commercial houses which have not quite defaced ... the least precious redeems some vulgar street. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Both churches still have connections with The Waste Land today, one has a section of the poem displayed and the other possibly an inspiration for The Fire Sermon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you would like to know more about The Waste Land and its impact on T S Eliot join me on the walk during the Footprints of London Literary Festival which takes place anually in October.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For those of you who cannot make the walk you can listen to some of the highlights on the podcast at Londonist OutLoud, by interviewer N Quentin Woolf. </span><br />
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<a href="http://londonist.com/podcasts/londonist-out-loud-the-waste-of-land"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">http://londonist.com/podcasts/londonist-out-loud-the-waste-of-land</span></a><br />
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With The Waste Land, TS Eliot sets his stall as the poet laureate of London. The modernist poem wraps itself through the city, like a hitch knot round an anchor. Scenes of London life and London lore abound. It is, perhaps, the only great poem that lends itself to a guided walk round the capital. </div>
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Tina is the perfect guide. We dip in and out of churches, gardens and alleyways to discover the places and objects that inspired Eliot's masterpiece. The frequent readings, given on location, help us make sense of verse that can often seem challenging. It is a mesmerising two hours. Time well spent for anyone wanting to explore Eliot's greatest work, or simply to see the City through a new filter. On Thameside sands, our guide connects everything with everything.</div>
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<br />MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-11568806132130080592016-10-02T15:33:00.000-07:002016-10-03T01:37:41.171-07:00‘Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy’ Exhibition Celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the Transatlantic Cable Connecting Europe with America<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The magnificent paintings of the swells of the Atlantic
waves <i>‘The Isles of the Seas’ (1894) </i>Thomas
Hope McLachlan (never displayed previously) certainly give you an idea of what
these extraordinary, enterprising and determined Victorians were up against to
run the first communications cable across the Atlantic Ocean, connecting Europe
with America. It revolutionised connections between continents, messages took
minutes, rather than mail which took weeks! Rightly so, this segment comes under the
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Transmission and Coding and leads you through the story of laying the heavy
cables across the ocean floor from Valentia Island in Ireland to Newfoundland
in Canada. It took nine years and four attempts to change communications
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elements that this engineering feat was up against, just take a look at Edwin
Landseer’s <i>‘Man Proposes, God Disposes’ </i>(1864)
this visceral painting of polar bears, raw in tooth and claw, foraging among
the remains of a wreck in frozen wastes, an image of what might be your fate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Plus ‘transmission’ alluded to in the painting of a plague
victim, by making contact with a sick person one might meet a similar fate to
the great explorers, survival or death, to go or to stay? This was one of the
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huge ‘batteries’ and ticker tape machines, as well as code books. A particular
favourites item looks, and indeed feels like a Victorian invention, but is in fact
brand new, a creation of UCL PhD student Alexandra Bridarolli. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A fascinating box, inspired by ‘The Grand Automatic
Grammatizator’ a story by Roald Dahl (1953). An interactive messaging machine
that will produce personal ‘coded’ poems for the public to enjoy. Rotating
buttons offer you choices and a lever is cranked to produce a slip of paper
with a poem just for you. There is also
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The exhibition is unusual and enticing, with something for
all, especially ‘telegraphy’ boffins. As wells as the discerning engineer and
inventor, the art lover, history researcher and for anyone in communications this
is a must. Communications as we know it
today, from banks monitoring shares to mobile phones, it all began with the
telegraph and the laying of cable, and I am sure there was someone who said ‘This will never catch on!’ or they will not succeed! Succeed they did against adversity and this exhibition goes some way to explore and celebrate it! See my special message to you below, happy decoding!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The City of London Pedway Scheme</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> was a plan to transform traffic flows in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="City of London">City of London</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> by separating pedestrians from street level traffic using elevated walkways. First devised as part of the post World War II reconstruction plans for London, it was put into effect mainly from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s and eventually abandoned by the 1980s. See Vimeo link for film 'The Pedway - Elevating London' </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/80787092">https://vimeo.com/80787092</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">By the mid-1960s, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="City of London Corporation">City of London Corporation</a> had incorporated the scheme into its development plan. Although no coherent network was ever defined,</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">designers of new developments were required to incorporate first-floor access to the Pedway network as a condition of being granted planning consent. As most of the network had not been built, this meant that many developments incorporated wwith first-floor level and partial walkways that led to dead ends. In consequence, the scheme was unpopular with many architects.</span></div>
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By the mid-1980s, the scheme had effectively been discontinued. The Pedway scheme only succeeded in establishing itself in areas that required extensive post-war reconstruction. The most extensive part of the network to be completed was in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_Estate" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Barbican Estate">B</a>arbican Estate and surrounding streets; the main entrance to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Museum of London">Museum of London</a> is, to this day, at first-floor level.</div>
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The recently demolished pedways around Fore Street and St Alphage, although long-deserted in terms of commercial activity, were always useful and a pleasant alternative above the traffic of London Wall. We now know that the new development by <a href="phttp://www.londonwallplace.com/better_city_life/index.php A">Brookland</a> includes a modern version of the pedway in the new build as well as extensive landscaping. Including the enhancement of and redesign of St Alphage Gardens. The David Hicks designed Salterers Garden will also be refreshed. The Salterers Hall by Basil Spence is dazzling after a recent makeover. </div>
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A model is currently on display of London Wall Place (view by appointment) at the The City Centre, 80 Basinghall Street EC2V 5AR, and shows the new elevated walkways ('pedways')<span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> at London Wall with an interesting meander which will incorporate a 'green wall'. Although the new building will block views from various points, the plus side is the pedways will be making a comeback and we can walk from Wood Street also from Aldermanbury Square, above ground, and work our way towards Moorgate above the traffic again! There is also a link back to the Barbican at Alban Gate.</span></div>
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Here are some pictures of the model. I will leave you to have fun working out where they all lead to.</div>
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MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-80562077282976020152016-04-22T00:20:00.000-07:002016-04-22T00:24:28.411-07:00Six Degrees of Separation – well almost!<div class="MsoNormal">
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My walks develop over time as I am sure happens with the
majority of my guiding colleagues. Also as a City Guide the election of a new
Lord Mayor adds a new dimension when moving from Westminster into the City at
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On leaving my first stop at the Royal Courts of Justice and
moving toward the monument to Temple Bar that was (now located at Paternoster
Square) I talk of our two lady Lord Mayors. On the last occasion of my Women of
Fleet Street walk I also mentioned Alderman the Lord Mountevans (Jeffrey Evans)
our latest incumbent. Usually I would leave it at that, as it is a walk about
the women. However, when revising a walk it is easy to be distracted and I was,
and followed his family history back to his grandfather. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Whereupon I discovered an unusual connection with my next
stop, a talented sculptor, Kathleen, Lady Hilton Young (Baroness Kennet). This
lady prior to being a ‘Lady’ and a Baroness was no less the wife of the
intrepid explorer of Antarctica, Robert Falcon Scott. Kathleen travelled to New
Zealand in February 1913 to reunite with Scott, only to discover her husband
had died in March 1912!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Edward R G R Evans</a> (later Admiral Lord Mountevans) the grandfather of our
current Lord Mayor, joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Antarctic_Expedition" title="British National Antarctic Expedition"><span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri light" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none;">British
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within 150 miles of the Pole, he had to turn back due to severe scurvy and just
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On recovery Evans returned to Antarctica in charge of the <i>Terra Nova</i> to pick up the expedition
members, only to discover the Polar Party including Scott had perished. He was now in command of the expedition and
returned to Roath Dock in Cardiff on 14 June 1913. A mountain with a double summit is named
after Evans and he took his title <i>Mountevans
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Sadly no connection with the Lady Florence Dixie born of the
Queensberry family who married into the Douglas-Dixie line, who led an
impressive life of the rich and well-connected, and surprisingly, became a war
correspondent, as well as a writer and a feminist, and led an extraordinary
life. Lady Florence wrote for the Morning Post (acquired by the Daily
Telegraph) and was their South African war correspondent in Zululand. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The connections? On my last walk with this theme, I had a
lovely couple in the group, Mr & Mrs Hercules, who were fascinated with the
name Dixie. It turns out that Mrs Hercules’ sister in Market Bosworth,
Leicestershire, the family seat of the Douglas Family, works at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Grammar_School">Dixie Grammar School</a>,
which was re-founded in 1601 under the will of an Elizabethan merchant AND Lord
Mayor of London, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolstan_Dixie">Sir
Wolstan Dixie</a> (1585). So how do I
round this off neatly? Well, a
distinguished headmaster of the school was Rev. Arthur Benoni Evans, sadly so
far as I can tell no relation to the Mountevans above, but an Evans
nonetheless! However, another notable
Fleet Street dweller, Dr Samuel Johnson, would shudder at the name of another
Dixie, who he had the misfortune to work for, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Wolstan_Dixie,_4th_Baronet">4<sup>th</sup>
Baronet</a>!<o:p></o:p></div>
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MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-46393125112051498052016-02-29T07:30:00.003-08:002016-02-29T07:30:30.238-08:002 Willow Road - Winter Clean 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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I so enjoy guiding at the home of Erno Goldfinger that I
really miss the house when it closes in November not to open agin in March the following year. So where there is a will, there is a way, you can go between times by volunteering to come in and help with the
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The house, once closed is systematically checked over, every nook
and cranny, from top to bottom, from light switch to roof felt. The wear and tear of the floors,
walls and doors are checked and logged The house is allowed a max of 10,000 footfall, and
we often wonder about what we would do when we reached 10,001! <o:p></o:p></div>
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The conservation staff at 2 Willow Road are mainly part-time
so they have their work cut out. It is a
pleasure to help them. Last time I was
on cotton bud wielding, light switch duty. Painstaking and laborious, so hoped I
would be on lighter duties this time. No pun intended.<o:p></o:p></div>
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heirlooms from Erno’s mother’s side to clean up. My initial instincts were to grab
a bottle of silver cleaner, but of course this would not do for a museum piece.
The candelabra are fragile and the worry is that bits might break or fall off. The implements of choice are paint brushes.
Hogs hair is stiff and used for the first once over, to remove dust and dirt.
Then on to Pony Hair, softer and starts to clean and burnish the silver. Goats
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I was supervised by Jennifer who had been busy for many
weeks cleaning the items on the windowsills of the dining room and studio. So
many artefacts tenderly cleaned, the glassware with cotton buds. A labour of
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My next job was in the kitchen, I done the clean out here
last year. I put on my vacuum backpack, Ghostbuster
style and once the shelves were cleared sucked out any dust. I photographed the shelves before emptying,
but do sometimes end up with a tin wondering where on earth that went in the
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All dating back to 1991, some with the prices still on
them, yes everything has doubled in price since then! I also hasten to add, except for the bowl of ‘petrified’
Christmas pudding, all the tins are empty.
However, some of the sauces are still as they were, and Tomato Ketchup
becomes HP Sauce colour if you keep it long enough, I can assure you no taste
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with the task of logging all the books from the bookshelves. Not as onerous as it might first seem.|In fact most diverting for
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MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-75776711192445434842016-02-08T00:47:00.002-08:002016-02-08T00:47:29.960-08:00Guildhall Gallery - Exhibition - Visscher Redrawn by Artist Robin Reynolds OPENS SOON<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sonia Solicari, curator of Guildhall Art Gallery, said: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“<span class="il">Visscher</span>’s engraving is not only one of the most recognisable and historic images of London, it is also one of the most important, because few visual records exist of the City before much of it was destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666. I am delighted that Robin Reynolds, who set himself a huge challenge, has allowed us to display his work at Guildhall Art Gallery, and that it will be presented next to <span class="il">Visscher</span>’s original. Visitors to the art gallery will certainly enjoy comparing the 400-year old engraving to details in the new work, and trying to spot Robin’s references to the plays, poetry and sonnets.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist Robin Reynolds said: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“The project was prompted initially by what I felt was a similarity between my style and <span class="il">Visscher</span>'s and subsequently, by the coincidence of landmark anniversaries in 2016. After two years’ work, I'm thrilled and grateful to Guildhall Art Gallery for granting the finished piece such exposure in this prestigious venue. I hope that, as they explore the new panorama, visitors to the art gallery will be able to share some of the fun that I have had compiling it.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 25.6px;">9th June 2016</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 25.6px;">1st September 2016</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 25.6px;">1st December 2016</span></span></div>
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MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-17375069838543635042015-09-15T02:03:00.001-07:002015-09-15T02:03:21.543-07:00LITERARY AFTERNOON ‘No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990’ at Guildhall Art Gallery <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><em>Groundings</em></strong><strong>: Radical Readings from the Walter Rodney Bookshop at the Guildhall Art Gallery</strong></span><br /><strong>A literary afternoon in the company of Britain’s leading Black publishers and writers</strong></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sunday 27<sup>th</sup> September 2015 from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1530426151" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">12.30pm</span></span> – <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1530426152" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4.30pm</span></span> Admission: £5.00 (plus booking fee) from <a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/wf/click?upn=J6qBPRVgziwoCR2OIJDNfbR0opEBQgZakuA4b5IL7ErF2kWGHjW4blZ-2BHvXMBtHeZ4cc1I1-2FPbU0n8LOXqq3i2fq-2FlpDuBn1R7795fRZrif-2FVPUcxDzWI4UOOsTmSaLc47jTHYzyo7MyHl7ScfSnaQ-3D-3D_UwzfRYNawfgprdaD3KRtfHBRT86aV1uKIKH8Azm8K0Dw-2BzmwmC0QhwJnRR89W4dqfUfQRLCXLqfV-2FjGJuDMVPg1YIAePsG-2FVLkDr1DQTL1mb7z0cZ4Mtyf2yv6bclUpYMXh6yKKGjEFlBu-2B9-2B4s9PldWutLB24oLdbxTmFnmadLqoN-2FuU0CaE6Ng-2BtWdILPKa-2F-2BMynTMWEZHuB-2FdW3GXnudiXsCFr9D4GAymYAkq97RXqLG09c-2FT2C1dal-2F-2F-2FCC8YRv8ULBW1D9UVRsywMr-2Bfs8H92AjOw3i8C6In0MJyQLC7GFSyUV2BD9g07KcauMf6b6HMXpaIfdRJSy3SG1pkQ-3D-3D" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Eventbrite</a><br /><br />Throughout the tenure of its ground-breaking exhibition <a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/wf/click?upn=HB3-2FLsKbhShrcBbafidImKm19UAJsIgzNLantvZfOTuQelPkaNQ1okfhbhlWL0TPtDh3YZzATf2k3n8dN-2BI26cQe1dNZeqMRRtGJ-2B-2FIXlBDqryFH7Lqx9UWA-2FPYsYMiXAxS2YdZUmMTmITn0muLs1Talg26wqGVvEQYXgRmf2pg-3D_UwzfRYNawfgprdaD3KRtfHBRT86aV1uKIKH8Azm8K0Dw-2BzmwmC0QhwJnRR89W4dqfUfQRLCXLqfV-2FjGJuDMVPg1YIAePsG-2FVLkDr1DQTL1mb7z0cZ4Mtyf2yv6bclUpYMXh6yKKGjEFlBu-2B9-2B4s9PldWutLB24oLdbxTmFnmadLqoN-2FuU0CaE6Ng-2BtWdILPKSh5Q8RSDDNqm4nYyxMML-2F6NJDBFivGifvXQwK-2F7bW3dOGG5bQ1SgoYK321BIqvX8VmQhQ5JF5YxWO3lk-2BjUWXWD25OTkfdA6feb-2Fhdo-2FzOQTEgsWJofRu7YNwG4tJmCtUXbTbQud2Hq0Eb-2FgvJ7AbA-3D-3D" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong>‘No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990’</strong></a> , one of the most comprehensive surveys of Black British cultural heritage and social history in recent years, the Guildhall Art Gallery is playing host to a series of scheduled accompanying events. On Sunday 27<sup>th</sup> September, the gallery will be bringing together the key Black publishers and writers of the time for <strong>‘Groundings: Walter Rodney Bookshop’</strong>, a unique opportunity to share stories, experiences of publishing and opinions regarding Black publishing in the future.<br /><br />The <strong>Walter Rodney bookshop</strong> opened in Ealing, West London in 1975 by pioneering Black publisher and Black rights campaigner Eric Huntley, together with his wife Jessica. Originally called the Bogle L’Ouverture bookshop after Huntley’s publishing company, it was renamed in Walter Rodney’s honour after this Guyanese activist and scholar was assassinated in 1980. The bookshop hosted numerous meetings, talks and readings, which were known as ‘Groundings’ and became a cultural hub for like-minded literary and political activists, such as <strong>John La Rose</strong>, of New Beacon Bookshop. Between them, with ‘Race and Class’ journal, they created the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books, which took place between 1982 and 1995.<br /><br />Highlights of the ‘Groundings’ literary event at Guildhall Art Gallery include:</span></span><br /> <ul>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A live interview with <strong>Eric Huntley</strong> by <strong>Dr. Margaret Andrews</strong>, chair of the Friends of the Huntley Archives and author of the acclaimed biography ‘Doing Nothing is Not an Option: The Radical Lives of Eric and Jessica Huntley’.</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A fascinating insight by renowned artist and curator <strong>Dr Michael McMillan</strong>, into the process of recreating the multi-sensory, multi-visual Bogle-L’Ouverture Walter Rodney Bookshop which forms the centrepiece of the ‘No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990’ exhibition at the gallery.</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">‘Publishing then, Publishing Now’: an open discussion with leading publishers of the era, including <strong>Arif Ali</strong> (Hansib Publications), <strong>Sarah White</strong> (New Beacon Books) as well as a conversation between <strong>Dr Michael McMillan</strong>, literary activist, live artist and poet <strong>Dorothea Smartt</strong> and <strong>Kadija (George</strong>) <strong>Sesay</strong> RSA, an award-winning literary activist, publisher and poet, on the community publishing output of the Centerprise Publishing Project in East London, which was founded by Black publisher Glenn Thompson in 1971.</span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>John Lyons</strong>, one of the exhibiting artists in the ‘No Colour Bar’ exhibition, who published his first poetry collection ‘Lure of the Cascadura’ with Bogle L’Ouverture Publishing (1989) will be reading from this work and his latest books published by Peepal Tree Press and Cane Arrow Press.</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Dorothea Smartt</strong> will be reading from her acclaimed chapbook, ‘Reader, I married him and other queer goings-on’ (published by Peepal Tree Press)<strong>. </strong>She will also be sharing extracts from a new work based on archival research and a recent trip to Panama, which imagines the lives of West Indians as they moved from Barbados to work on the Panama Canal at the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: red;">Books by and about all the publishers and speakers will be available for sale at the Guildhall Art Gallery.</span><br /><strong><br /></strong></span></span>MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-22559932171980408412015-08-19T06:02:00.002-07:002015-08-20T01:31:54.698-07:00My Saturday & Sunday - So good I have to share!Last weekend was so fabulous, fun and fulfilling that I have to share it on my blog. I am still smiling and tingling with the excitement and potential of it all. Happy Monday was followed by a Taxing Tuesday, but here I am with speedy fingers, still wanting to write it all up.<br />
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A quiet relaxing Saturday morning getting in the mood and preparing for the wedding party of two wonderful people in the evening, plus a meet up for a quick Birthday drink with Jane, my London Historian pal in Camden. Not a good idea you think? Well it turned out to be the perfect night out ever!<br />
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Arrived in Camden Road in bright sunshine so Jane and I sat ourside the Grand Union, I was immediately taken with the cocktails on the blackboard at £5 each, so ordered a Mojito which was prepared right in front of me, and was delicious. Whilst supping and chatting, a chap left a card on the table and invited us to a gallery view across the road. 'Are there drinks available?' I asked cheekily, 'Yes most certainly' he replied. Well that settled it. I was feeling I should get down the road to the Wedding but Jane intimated the view would not take long. WRONG!<br />
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The pavement outside the <a href="http://www.camden-image-gallery.co.uk/">Camden Image Gallery</a> was buzzing with gorgeous young things, supping, chatting and laughing. We were dazzled immediately we entered the Gallery, this was going to be SOOOO good.<br />
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I was very taken with the work of Kassia Niemczynska - extraordinary penmanship and eclectic subject matter, as Kassia is an illustrator that would not be unusual. The 'Guardian's' drawing was particularly powerful, a small girl-child 'embraced' by her guardians made me think of those scary german fairy tales, or stories of magic with your other self taking the form of an animal/familiar of the forest or the air. Impressive and her web site is here, <a href="http://nkassia.com/">http://nkassia.com/</a>.<br />
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Next work to amaze and distract was by Billy Valencia, an architect, so no surprise there, that he is good at detail, and how! Erotic doodles that make you examine his work in way that might be considered inappropriate, but it is art after all and it should be inspected closely! His nimble fingers are bewitched by the Indian Goddess Gaia, the lady of the many breasts, methinks!<br />
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The paintings by <a href="https://www.behance.net/mrbrian">Brian Hollingsworth</a> are big, bold and colourful, and give a powerful punch, just check out the titles! After the minute detail offered by Billy, they are a welcome feast to the eye. This is a most talented individual, check out the link!<br />
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<b>The exhibition is open until 23rd August, the last night is also a 'meet the artist' event. 12-5pm.</b><br />
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I had to leave, reluctantly. I had a wedding to go to! Left Jane with her Rose wine and wended my way to the reception being held at <a href="http://www.londonirishcentre.org/venue-hire/">The London Irish Centre</a> in Camden Square, a splendid venue. I was just in time to see the happy couple dancing Swing, having just completed their wedding Tango. Several familiar faces from the tango scene were there as well as special friends.<br />
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Got a lift home to South London, driving across London we put the world to rights and I dropped into bed with my sore feet, feeling giddy with my mixture of Mojitos and Champagne so very happy, very happy indeed.<br />
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An evening of new friends, old friends, art and talent and dancing at a celebration of love between two wonderful people.<br />
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Scroll right down to the end of this link and you will see the happy couple, Loretta and Onel - beautiful people. <br />
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<a href="http://www.natashathompson.co.uk/2015/08/17/july-august-weddings-previews/">http://www.natashathompson.co.uk/2015/08/17/july-august-weddings-previews/</a><br />
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SUNDAY at <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/morden-hall-park/">Morden Hall Park</a><br />
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Woke with a fuzzy head but ready for my History Walks at Morden Hall Park, one part of me was wondering if I was going to remember anything!<br />
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Arrived at the Hall without my glasses or my National Trust Badge, so far not good. One I could not swot up me notes, nor did I have i.d. Nevermind the bag and walkie talkie I have to carry around are both big enough to give me credentials! <br />
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Two folk for the first walk and what lovely people. As this had become a personal tour I could really expand on the history and answer as many questions as were asked, the fuzzy head soon gone when in plugged in to guiding mode. The 1pm tour amounted to a lady coming for a recce for <a href="http://peoplespilgrimage.org/">The People's Pilgrimage </a>on 11th October, 'to beat climate change every step counts'. The National Trust have agreed for the 'pilgrimage' to take place in the grounds.<br />
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Again there were just us so I could offer all sorts of tips and ideas, the walk on the 23rd includes prayer and music, so I showed Juliet some out of the way areas where the group would be able to pray or sing a hymn. A fascinating afternoon and the kind of work I like, sharing the history of this lovely park as well as facilitating an event.<br />
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Spent the rest of Sunday chillaxing and reading, feeling good about life, the world, the universe and everything.<br />
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The City of London is not adverse to cultural diversity, paticularly regarding banks, people and food, and the new exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery really packs a punch, in words, film and the works on display, as the pamphlet states - 'is one of the most comprehensive surveys of Black British Art in recent years'.<br />
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The exhibition takes the form, in part, as a replica bookshop opened in Ealing in 1975, and re-named after Walter Rodney (a prominent Guyanese activist and scholar - assassinated in 1980). The bookshop was the brainchild of Jessica and Eric Huntley, who founded <a href="http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/118/13731.htm">Bogle-L'Overture</a> Publications in 1969.<br />
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As policitical activists, involved in international activisim and campaigning, they published the works of black writers and artists, whilst also providing a space for 'political and creative engagement' where they 'could meet one another and interact in the community'. At this time this was an enlightened and radical idea and not without its problems. This is dealt with in detail using the Huntley's business and personal papers, which are on loan from the London Metropolitan Archives. The audio visual is a real 'eye opener' as to what was going on in their neighbourhood, and other areas of London too.<br />
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<a href="http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=615:the-funeral-of-mother-jessica-huntley&catid=148:obituary&Itemid=142">Jessica Huntley</a> was a prolific letter writer, and fundraiser (some are available to read at the exhibition) and international at that, considering a time without computers and the world wide web, one cannot help but wonder how much further her outreach would have extended if she had had the technology of today at her fingertips!<br />
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The Exhibition Team are also worth a mention:<br />
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Makeda Coaston Curator, Black British Art in Action (Friends of the Huntley Archive at LMA) and described as a change maker and senior cultural strategist with over 25 years' experience.<br />
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Katty Pearce, Curator, Black British Art in Action - works at the Guildhall Art Gallery and was very busy last year when she co-curated the rehang of the new permanent collection completed January 2015.<br />
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Michael McMillan, Curator, Walter Rodney Bookshop. His curatorial work includes the critally acclaimed: The West Indian Front Room (Geffrye Museum 2005-6). Plus so much more.<br />
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Also a special mention to Crescent Lodge, who created all the art work, props, signage for the exhibition, the banner above as you go in to the exhibition was hand painted to be in keeping with the way Jessica & Eric Huntley would have had it made, all hands to the cause.<br />
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We may also be getting used to having the famous Copley painting covered up to be used as a projection screen. It is a great idea and creates an impact which ignites your interest the moment you arrive on the first level of the gallery. You will also see a couple of paintings from the No Colour Bar exhibition amongst the Victorian collection, they certainly create an impression!<br />
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The exhibition is Free and is on until 24th January 2016.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visit-the-city/attractions/guildhall-galleries/Pages/guildhall-art-gallery.aspx">Guildhall Art Gallery</a> is open Monday to Sunday.<br />
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<br />MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970368370653927621.post-92230734504507776512015-07-27T07:13:00.000-07:002015-07-27T07:13:18.444-07:00Below Smithfield Market - More of Crossrail at FarringdonYou will have most probably already ready my first blog about my visit last Monday, 20th July, but there was oh so much more to show and tell!<br />
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The project manager took us wherever we wanted to go and the tour would not have been complete without seeking out the underground Victorian tunnels, especially those that were used to bring the meat to Smithfield market by rail. They will come into use again once Crossrail is up and running as shunting areas for South West trains and various other railway related works.<br />
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As we left behind us the shuttering, blasting, spraying and sheeting of the modern engineering practice, you immediately were drawn to the extraordinary skill of the brickwork of the old tunnels. They are immense, long, deep and the vaulted ceilings are a wonder. The tracks are still underneath just covered up with aggregate and chalk for the time being to protect them from the current comings and goings of machinery. Part of the tunnels, under Smithfield Market will be the power house for London Underground, cables and technical stuff being re-routed and made tidy as part of a Crossrail agreement.<br />
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Also a northern section of Smithfield Marked is currently propped up by squat black boxes the size of a catering tin of tomatoes! See picture below. Closely monitored, I can assure you, and sight to behold and wonder at. All movement in all parts of the excavation and building works are closely monitored by prisims attached to walls and checked with clever technology, so the minutest movement can be discerned.<br />
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Walking through the tunnels to the end we come out to see the rear of the new Farringdon Station, with the Tube line running along to our right behind Cowcross Street.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Narrower tunnels on the right side once used as office<br />and for storage by the Shunting Manager, space to make<br />a brew!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How to hold up a large building! Floating Smithfield Market</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Example of the clever device that is holding up the foundations of Smithfield Market. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great brickwork - all of one piece.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back to Barbican Station across the Farringdon site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down the Victorian tunnel to our exit point.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cut-out oblong square in the roof is where the carcasses were hauled up to the meat market.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming up to the Snow Hill Curve that feeds to the left, we are going for the right.<br />
At one time, long ago, connected to the Post Office stop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A decorated Victorian post not sure if it's an air shaft or a lamp post of sorts?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great shafts used for boring holes horizontally which are then filled with cement.<br />
These go for many metres in a 'sun ray' pattern in all directions. They are and used to stablilise the ground<br />
around the tunnel site and fan out for many metres.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Underground lines leading to Barbican Station, behind Cowcross Street.</span></td></tr>
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Special thanks to the Project Manager and Crossrail staff who made this a very special tour!<br />
A job well done and on time. Looking forward to seeing the completed project in 2018.<br />
<br />MissBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02688804035690831262noreply@blogger.com1