Covering 12 acres that was reclaimed from scrub woodland, the sculpture garden at Burghley House contains a vast array of contemporary sculptures, some of which are considerably stranger than others! Some of my favourites are highlighted below.
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Burghley House: The Sculpture Garden
Throwback Thursday: Magna Plaza, Amsterdam
Opened as a shopping centre in 1992, this impressive looking building with some gorgeous detailing and intricately designed towers was built between 1895 – 1899 and used to be the main Amsterdam post office building.
Categories: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tags: architecture, history, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Burghley House: Garden of Surprises
Opened in 2007 the Garden of Surprises was influenced by the garden that William Cecil, the first owner of Burghley House, had created in his Hertfordshire home, Theobalds. It was common for Elizabethan gardens to have “tricks” such as mazes, statues, grottos, concealed water pipes to shoot out water etc. all of which can be found in this modern version.
Categories: England, Lincolnshire
Tags: fun and games, garden, interactive, photo post, statue, water feature
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Throwback Thursday: Exchange Newsroom War Memorial, Liverpool
This is another monument that stands in a recess of Exchange Flags. The statue is a memorial to the members of the Liverpool Exchange Newsroom who died during the First World War and depicts soldiers ready for battle and a nurse tending to a wounded soldier. Britannia is above overseeing events.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, history, photo post, statue, Throwback Thursday, war memorial
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Burghley House
For my birthday back in May we paid a visit to Burghley House and Gardens (the Garden of Surprises and the Sculpture Garden will feature in future posts). Built to impress, the house was the work of William Cecil, 1st Lord Burghley and Treasurer to Elizabeth I and is still home to his descendants today.
Throwback Thursday: Nelson Monument, Liverpool
The Nelson Monument stands in the open area in front of Exchange Flags. It’s an imposing and rather striking creation, crowded with figures of a soldier, angel and skeleton as well as Nelson himself on top, with four chained people depicted below. It was sculpted by Sir Richard Westmacott with a design by Matthew Cotes Wyatt and was unveiled in 1813, making it the first public sculpture to be erected in the city.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: Admiral Nelson, photo post, statue, Throwback Thursday
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St Leonard’s Church, Rockingham Village
St Leonard’s is the parish church of Rockingham Village and sits just below the walls of the castle – it is open to visitors on days when the castle is open to the public. There was probably a chapel inside the castle in the 11th century and in the 15th century a church on the site of the present building was destroyed in the Civil War; the present church dates to 1650.
Categories: England, Northamptonshire
Tags: architecture, cemetery, church, history, memorial, photo post, stained glass
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Throwback Thursday: Exchange Flags, Liverpool
A Grade II listed building Exchange Flags is an office complex and restaurant space in the centre of Liverpool’s commercial district. The name of the building reflects the city’s history in regards to slavery – cotton traders and brokers would meet here to do their buying and selling and exchange a form of business card, hence the name.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, history, photo post, Second World War, Throwback Thursday
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Rockingham Castle Gardens
The gardens at Rockingham Castle are made up of several different terraces that are divided from the plain Terraced Lawn directly in front of the castle building by the Elephant Hedge – so called because they are sculpted to look like a row of elephants.
Categories: England, Northamptonshire
Tags: flowers, gardens, hedge, photo post, walk
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Nottinghamshire Pride 2022
Earlier today I went into Nottingham City Centre to photograph the Pride Parade and support the community. I don’t know if numbers have been calculated yet but it certainly seemed like a large turnout, with the parade itself taking over an hour to move around the Market Square with musical performances and dancers along the route and lots of fun costumes, plus some very cute dogs! A few of my photos from the event are below:
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: nottingham, nottinghamshire, nottinghamshirepride, nottspride, photo post, prideparade
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