Covent Garden
Covent Garden, London is famous for its shops, street performers, bars, restaurants, theatres and the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden is an Italian-style piazza packed with restaurants, bars and fashionable boutiques. Surrounded by Theatreland, in the heart of London's West End, the area is recognised as the capital's premier entertainment and leisure destination.
Covent garden is also known for the great fruit and vegetable, and herb market of London, originated (circ. 1656) in a few temporary stalls and sheds at the back of the garden wall of Bedford House on the south side of the square. ... The present Market-place (William Fowler, architect) was erected in 1830 at the expense of the late Duke of Bedford. The market is rated (1849) to the poor at 4800l., rather under than above the amount derived from the rental and the tolls.* (*There is a capital view of the part of the old market in Hogarth's print of Morning; and a very good engraving by T. Bowles (1751), showing the Dial, and that part of the Piazza or Arcade which no longer exists.) The stranger in London who wishes to see what Covent-garden Market is like, should visit it on a Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, morning in summer, about 3 o'clock - not later. To see the supply of fruit and vegetables carted off, 7 A.M. is early enough. To enjoy the sight and smell of flowers and fruit, the finest in the world, any time from 10 A.M. to 4 or 5 P.M. will answer. The centre arcade at mid-day is one of the prettiest sights in London. Saturday is the best day
http://www.coventgardenlife.com/info/covent_garden.htmhttp://www.victorianlondon.org/markets/coventgarden.htm
http://filipdemuinck-kristelpardon.blogspot.com/2010/09/street-entertainment-at-covent-garden.html
Covent garden is also known for the great fruit and vegetable, and herb market of London, originated (circ. 1656) in a few temporary stalls and sheds at the back of the garden wall of Bedford House on the south side of the square. ... The present Market-place (William Fowler, architect) was erected in 1830 at the expense of the late Duke of Bedford. The market is rated (1849) to the poor at 4800l., rather under than above the amount derived from the rental and the tolls.* (*There is a capital view of the part of the old market in Hogarth's print of Morning; and a very good engraving by T. Bowles (1751), showing the Dial, and that part of the Piazza or Arcade which no longer exists.) The stranger in London who wishes to see what Covent-garden Market is like, should visit it on a Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, morning in summer, about 3 o'clock - not later. To see the supply of fruit and vegetables carted off, 7 A.M. is early enough. To enjoy the sight and smell of flowers and fruit, the finest in the world, any time from 10 A.M. to 4 or 5 P.M. will answer. The centre arcade at mid-day is one of the prettiest sights in London. Saturday is the best day
http://www.coventgardenlife.com/info/covent_garden.htmhttp://www.victorianlondon.org/markets/coventgarden.htm
http://filipdemuinck-kristelpardon.blogspot.com/2010/09/street-entertainment-at-covent-garden.html
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones is often called the first English architect. Best known for his revolutionary buildings in London, most notably the Queen's House, Greenwich(1616) and the Banqueting House, Whitehall (1619), he can be described as the father of English Palladianism.Born in Smithfield, London in 1573, little is known of his early life except that he was the son of a Welsh cloth worker, and was christened at the church of St Batholomew the Less. Yet despite this humble start, Jones was to go far.
Travel was key to Jones's meteoric rise. On two separate occasions he travelled to Italy, undertaking an early version of the Grand Tour. These trips, between the years of 1598-1603 and 1613-1614, transformed his understanding of architecture.
http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Palladio/PalladianBritain/Architects/InigoJones.aspx
Travel was key to Jones's meteoric rise. On two separate occasions he travelled to Italy, undertaking an early version of the Grand Tour. These trips, between the years of 1598-1603 and 1613-1614, transformed his understanding of architecture.
http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Palladio/PalladianBritain/Architects/InigoJones.aspx
St. Paul’s Church
St. Paul's Church is an evangelical Anglican church in downtown Halifax Nova Scotia within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island of the Anglican Church of Canada. It is located at the south end of the Grand Parade, an open square in downtown Halifax withHalifax City Hall at the northern end. The church takes its name from Paul of Tarsus, the apostle famous for his conversion while travelling to Damascus.
St.Paul's Church, also commonly known as the Actors' Church,[1] is a church designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission byFrancis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford in 1631 to create "houses and buildings fitt for the habitacons of Gentlemen and men of ability" inCovent Garden, London, England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul's,_Covent_Garden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul's_Church_(Halifax)
St.Paul's Church, also commonly known as the Actors' Church,[1] is a church designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission byFrancis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford in 1631 to create "houses and buildings fitt for the habitacons of Gentlemen and men of ability" inCovent Garden, London, England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul's,_Covent_Garden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul's_Church_(Halifax)
Sir Christopher wren
Sir Christopher Wren FRS (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.[1] He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710. The principal creative responsibility for a number of the churches is now more commonly attributed to others in his office, especially Nicholas Hawksmoor. Other notable buildings by Wren include the Royal Naval College in Greenwich and the south front of Hampton Court Palace.
Sir Christopher Wren(b. Wiltshire, England 1632; d. London, England 1723)
Christopher Wren was born in Wiltshire, England in 1632. He attended Wadham College, Oxford in 1649 as a Gentleman Commoner. At Oxford he joined a group of brilliant scholars, who later formed the core of the Royal Society. As assistant to an eminent anatomist, Wren developed skills as an experimental, scientific thinker. With astronomy as his initial course of study, Wren developed skills in working models, diagrams and charting that proved useful when he entered architecture.
\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wren
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Sir_Christopher_Wren.html
Sir Christopher Wren(b. Wiltshire, England 1632; d. London, England 1723)
Christopher Wren was born in Wiltshire, England in 1632. He attended Wadham College, Oxford in 1649 as a Gentleman Commoner. At Oxford he joined a group of brilliant scholars, who later formed the core of the Royal Society. As assistant to an eminent anatomist, Wren developed skills as an experimental, scientific thinker. With astronomy as his initial course of study, Wren developed skills in working models, diagrams and charting that proved useful when he entered architecture.
\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wren
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Sir_Christopher_Wren.html
St. Pauls cathedral
History of St Paul’s Cathedral
The present St Paul's is the fifth cathedral to have stood on the site since 604, and was built between 1675 and 1710, after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. This was the first cathedral to be built after the English Reformation in the sixteenth century, when Henry VIII removed the Church of England from the jurisdiction of the Pope and the Crown took control of the Church's life.
Throughout its history, St Paul's has been a place where the individual and the nation can express those feelings of joy, gratitude and sorrow that are so central to our lives.
Among the events marked at St Paul's are royal occasions. In 1897 Queen Victoria chose to commemorate her diamond jubilee here. More recently Queen Elizabeth II has celebrated her jubilees at St Paul's , and also her 80th birthday in 2006. Royal weddings have been held here as well: the marriage of Catherine of Aragon to Prince Arthur in 1501 and famously the wedding of HRH the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
http://www.stpauls.co.uk/Cathedral-History
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The present St Paul's is the fifth cathedral to have stood on the site since 604, and was built between 1675 and 1710, after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. This was the first cathedral to be built after the English Reformation in the sixteenth century, when Henry VIII removed the Church of England from the jurisdiction of the Pope and the Crown took control of the Church's life.
Throughout its history, St Paul's has been a place where the individual and the nation can express those feelings of joy, gratitude and sorrow that are so central to our lives.
Among the events marked at St Paul's are royal occasions. In 1897 Queen Victoria chose to commemorate her diamond jubilee here. More recently Queen Elizabeth II has celebrated her jubilees at St Paul's , and also her 80th birthday in 2006. Royal weddings have been held here as well: the marriage of Catherine of Aragon to Prince Arthur in 1501 and famously the wedding of HRH the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
http://www.stpauls.co.uk/Cathedral-History
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Cecil Lawson
Regarded by many of his contemporaries as one of the leading modern British landscape artists of the late 19th Century, Cecil Gordon Lawson was born in Wellington on December 3rd 1849. During his lifetime, Lawson's bold and innovative style gained favourable comparisons with greats such as Turner, Constable and Gainsborough, before illness tragically intervened and ended his career at the age of just 32.
ٍSome of Cecil Photo's below:
http://www.wellingtonla21.org.uk/discover/ancestors_cecil_lawson.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/cecil-lawson
ٍSome of Cecil Photo's below:
http://www.wellingtonla21.org.uk/discover/ancestors_cecil_lawson.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/cecil-lawson
William Morris
William Morris , he was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century.
Famous as the founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was born in Walthamstow, then a village, and moved to a grand residence there called Water House at the age of 14 - this has since become the William Morris Gallery. He studied at Oxford with the intention of becoming a clergyman, but while there he met Edward Coley Burne-Jones, also studying for the church, and they both began to turn towards art. They were persuaded by Rossetti to give up the studies and become artists. Morris did a year in architectural practice of G. E. Street, and then turned to painting. However, he soon found that his metier was design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/illus/morris.htm
Famous as the founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was born in Walthamstow, then a village, and moved to a grand residence there called Water House at the age of 14 - this has since become the William Morris Gallery. He studied at Oxford with the intention of becoming a clergyman, but while there he met Edward Coley Burne-Jones, also studying for the church, and they both began to turn towards art. They were persuaded by Rossetti to give up the studies and become artists. Morris did a year in architectural practice of G. E. Street, and then turned to painting. However, he soon found that his metier was design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/illus/morris.htm
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Coley Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham on August 28, 1833; his mother, Elizabeth Coley, died only a few days later. Through his father Edward Jones, a frame-maker, and other relatives, Edward was able to develop his natural gift for drawing, although he had little or no formal tuition before leaving King Edward VI School, Birmingham, to enter Exeter College, Oxford, in 1853. There he met William Morris, with whom he indulged in a passion for all things medieval and for the writings of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin; through the University Printer Thomas Combe, they were introduced to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. With others of a like mind, they contributed to the short-lived Oxford and Cambridge Magazine in 1856. Both had intended to enter the Church but decided to become artists after making a tour of northern French cathedrals in 1855. In November 1856 they moved into rooms in London at 17 Red Lion Square which had formerly been occupied by Rossetti, from whom Burne-Jones (as he now styled himself) took some informal lessons. They were also the leading figures in the campaign of mural painting in the Oxford Union debating chamber in 1857-1858.ٍA Photo's below:
http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=edward-burne-jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones
http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=edward-burne-jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones
At-home dayThe At Home day was a social custom in Victorian Britain, where women of gentle status would receive visitors on a specific day of the week. The woman would print calling cards indicating she would be "At Home" e.g. "Fridays in April" Those of her acquaintances who had received the card could then call on her that day. It was considered impolite to visit unannounced on any other day, or to visit without having received a card. Guests should visit between three or four and six in the afternoon, and stay for a period from a quarter of an hour to an hour, depending on the level of intimacy with the hostess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Home_day
Navvy
Navvy is a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (USA) and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Britain when numerous canals were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations", or "eternal navigations", intended to last forever.
Brit informal a labourer on a building site, excavations, etc...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/navvy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvy
Brit informal a labourer on a building site, excavations, etc...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/navvy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvy