Places to see in ( Blandford Forum - UK )
Places to see in ( Blandford Forum - UK )
Blandford Forum, commonly Blandford, is a market town in the North Dorset district of Dorset, England, sited by the River Stour about 24 km northwest of Poole. It is the administrative headquarters of North Dorset District Council.
Blandford is notable for its Georgian architecture, the result of rebuilding after the majority of the town was destroyed by a fire in 1731. The rebuilding work was assisted by an Act of Parliament and a donation by George II, and the rebuilt town centre—to designs by local architects John and William Bastard—has survived to the present day largely intact.
Blandford Camp, a military base, is sited on the hills two miles to the north east of the town. It is the base of the Royal Corps of Signals, the communications wing of the British Army, and the site of the Royal Signals Museum.
Blandford is situated between Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Downs, to the south east of the Blackmore Vale, 24 km (15 mi) northwest of Poole and 35 km (22 mi) southwest of Salisbury. It is sited in the valley of the River Stour, mostly on rising ground northeast of the river, but with some development south of the river at Blandford St Mary.
ost of the buildings in Blandford's centre are Georgian, due to the rebuilding after the 1731 fire and the absence of subsequent change. Pevsner stated that hardly any other town in England can be compared with it. A 1970 report by Donald Insall Associates described Blandford as the most complete and cohesive surviving example of a Georgian country town in England, with the Market Place area in particular given the status of An Area of National Importance and described as a brilliant master piece . Buildings that have received Grade I listing by English Heritage are the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, the town hall and corn exchange, The Old House, Coupar House, Pump House, and several buildings in Market Place: numbers 18, 20 and 26, and the old Greyhound Inn. All the listed structures in Market Place, including the church and another seventeen buildings with either Grade II or Grade II* status, form a group, together with several listed properties in West Street and East Street.
Coupar House, dated around 1750, is the largest private house in Blandford that dates from the post-fire period. It has a richly decorated interior with a notable staircase, and is unique among the town's private dwellings for having Portland stone dressings to its brick façade, though the design of this frontage has been described as curiously amateurish with little attention ... paid to rules of proportion.
Blandford lies at the junction of the A350 and A354 main roads but is skirted by an eastern bypass. The main road running through the town is the B3082, connecting Blandford Forum to Wimborne Minster. Buses run from the town to locations including Poole, Bournemouth, Salisbury and Shaftesbury with the primary operator being Wilts & Dorset. Blandford is 15 miles (24 km) from Bournemouth Airport.
Blandford is 15 miles (24 km) from Poole railway station. From 1860 to 1964, Blandford Forum was a stop on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, which ran from Bath to Bournemouth, until the line closed to passengers in 1966. Located between Templecombe and Broadstone, the railway was still open until the closure of the Blandford's goods yard in 1969, after which the track was lifted. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann.
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Christmas Midnight Mass 2012 At Blandford Parish Church Part 2
blandfordbuzz.co.uk - Christmas Mass service at Blandford Forums St Peter & St Paul Church
Christmas Midnight Mass 2012 At Blandford Parish Church Part 4
blandfordbuzz.co.uk - Christmas comes but once a year and so does Christmas Mass at Blandford St Peter & St Paul church
Dorset Documentary (part 2)
Dorset Documentary (part 2)
Kingston Lacy,Sussex,uk,(history in description).
The house was built between 1663 and 1665 by Ralph Bankes, son of Sir John Bankes, to a design by the architect Sir Roger Pratt. It is a rectangular building with two main storeys, attics and basement, modelled on Chevening in Kent. The gardens and parkland were laid down at the same time, including some of the specimen trees that remain today. Various additions and alterations were made to the house over the years and the estate remained in the ownership of the Bankes family from the 17th to the late 20th century.
The house was designated as a Grade I listed building in 1958 and the park and gardens are included in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens at Grade II. The house was bequeathed to the National Trust upon the death in 1982 of Henry John Ralph Bankes, along with Corfe Castle. The house and gardens are open to the public.
The Kingston Lacy estate originally formed part of a royal estate within the manor of Wimborne. The original house stood to the north of the current house. It was built in the medieval period and was used as a hunting lodge in connection with the deer park to its northwest. Leased to those who found favour with the monarch, lessees included the de Lacys, Earls of Lincoln, who held it in addition to estates at Shapwick and Blandford Forum. In the 15th century the property was leased to John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, whose daughter Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, was brought up at Kingston Lacy.
Corfe Castle was slighted, by order of parliament, in the 17th century.
By the 16th century the house was in ruins. In 1603 King James I gave the lands to Sir Charles Blount. In 1636, his son sold the estate to Sir John Bankes, who had been appointed attorney general to King Charles I in 1634.
Sir John was born in Cumberland, but through his extensive legal works had acquired sufficient funds to purchase the Corfe estate. During the Civil War, the Bankes family remained loyal to the crown; Sir John died at Oxford in December 1644, the King having retired there for the winter. Left to fend for herself during two sieges, his wife Mary Bankes defended Corfe Castle, but it eventually fell to the Parliamentary forces. In March 1645 Parliament voted to slight the castle, and it was left in its present ruinous state.Although deprived of their castle, the Bankes family owned some 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) of the surrounding Dorset countryside and coastline.The masonry from the destroyed castle was used by local villagers to rebuild their own residences.
Sir Ralph died in 1677, and his widow let the house to the Duke of Ormonde from 1686 and 1688. John Bankes the Elder regained the property in 1693, and with his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Parker of Honington Hall, completed most of his father's original development plan. In 1772 the house passed to his second son Henry who remodelled it, built a servants' wing, and enclosed the parkland for better agricultural management.
The 1784 Enclosure Act allowed Henry Bankes the Younger, grandson of Ralph Bankes, to create the current estate and parkland footprint. He demolished the hamlet of Kingston which was situated adjacent to the 16th-century Keeper's Lodge, diverted the Blandford road (now the B3082) and converted former agricultural land to parkland. He undertook further minor alterations in the 1820s, before he became a Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Corfe. He was a trustee for the British Museum and its parliamentary advocate, and some of his collections which were once part of the house, are now in the museum. Bankes entertained his friends at the house, including William Pitt the Younger and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Bankes' son, the explorer and adventurer William John Bankes, commissioned his friend Charles Barry to encase the red brick hall in stone, and enlarge his other property Soughton Hall. Barry remodelled Kingston Lacy between 1835 and 1838. The work involved facing the brick with Chilmark stone, adding a tall chimney at each corner, and lowering the ground level on one side to expose the basement level and form a new principal entrance. He planted lime tree avenues along the Blandford Road, of which some 2 1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) survives.
William John Bankes collected most of the house's antiquities. He travelled extensively in the Middle East and Asia, amassing the world's largest individual collection of Ancient Egyptian antiques.Most notable is the Philae obelisk which stands prominently in the grounds of the house. When in Genoa he acquired the portrait of Maria di Antonio Serra, by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, painted on the occasion of her marriage to Duke Nicolò Pallavicini in 1606. In 1841, after being caught in a homosexual scandal that could have resulted in a trial and his execution, William John fled the country for Italy. His art collection was left at Kingston Lacy, where his notes and drawings still remain.
Moonrakers Tour Around Bournemouth 2001
Filmed between 28 Jul and 04 Aug 2001.
1 Stapleford Wiltshire S Mary 6 8-1-24
2 South Newton Wiltshire S Andrew 6 9-0-0
3 Wilton Wiltshire SS Mary & Nicholas 6 8-0-7
4 Fordingbridge Hampshire S Mary 8 13-2-1
5 Bournemouth Dorset Sacred Heart 6 3-2-6
6 Bournemouth Dorset S Peter 8 20-2-7
7 Brownsea Island Dorset S Mary 8 4-2-21
8 Bournemouth Dorset S John the Evangelist 8 16-1-18
9 Sopley Hampshire S Michael & All Angels 6 7-1-5
10 Hinton Admiral Hampshire S Michael & All Angels 5 9-0-0
11 Hordle Hampshire All Saints 8 7-2-20
12 Lyndhurst Hampshire S Michael 8 11-0-0
13 Brockenhurst Hampshire S Nicholas 8 4-1-12
14 Milford on Sea Hampshire All Saints 8 12-1-20
15 Lymington Hampshire S Thomas the Apostle 8 20-1-3
16 Poole Dorset S James 10 19-1-20
17 Oakdale, Poole Dorset S George 6 5-3-5
18 Lytchett Minster Dorset unknown 6 9-3-13
19 Wareham Dorset Lady S Mary 10 15-2-14
20 Kingston Dorset S James 10 26-3-16
21 Worth Matravers Dorset S Nicholas 6 6-0-6
22 Corfe Castle Dorset S Edward the Martyr 6 11-2-11
23 Puddletown Dorset S Mary the Virgin 6 16-1-18
24 Charminster Dorset S Mary the Virgin 10 14-3-8
25 Dorchester Dorset S Peter, Holy Trinity & All Saints 8 20-3-0
26 Fordington, Dorchester Dorset S George 6 13-0-27
27 Wimborne St Giles Dorset S Giles 8 14-1-5
28 Martin Hampshire All Saints 6 8-3-22
29 Damerham Hampshire S George 6 8-1-16
30 Cranborne Dorset SS Mary & Bartholomew 8 17-0-21
31 Witchampton Dorset SS Mary, Cuthberga & All Saints 5 8-0-0
32 Wimborne Minster Dorset S Cuthberga 10 29-2-20
33 Canford Magna Dorset unknown 6 10-0-0
34 Sturminster Marshall Dorset S Mary 6 18-0-23
35 Tarrant Keyneston Dorset All Saints 5 6-3-0
36 Blandford Forum Dorset SS Peter & Paul 8 19-3-5
37 Bryanston Dorset S Martin 8 16-3-27
38 Milton Abbey Dorset S Sampson 8 10-0-0
39 Winterborne Whitechurch Dorset S Mary 6 11-0-10
40 Tollard Royal Wiltshire S Peter ad Vincula 6 7-0-14
41 Bowerchalke Wiltshire Holy Trinity 5 11-3-25
42 Fovant Wiltshire S George 6 8-3-5
St Andrew Memorial Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral
St. Andrew Memorial Church is a Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral on Main St, in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States. It is the headquarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA.
Opened in 1965.
Not very clear in the video but actually a beautiful architecture.
Ringing from Winterborne Stickland, Dorset
Winterborne Stickland, Dorset
A nice, easy 4, tenor 7cwt in Bb. They replaced the previous treble with a 1868 Warner which is not foul! It has greatly improved the bells sound as a ring.
The church is in a lovely, fairly rural setting and is interesting to look round.
1 4-0-26 Eb 27.75 1868 John Warner & Sons
2 4-3-00 D 29.00 1905 Thomas Blackbourn
3 5-2-00 C 30.25 1622 John Wallis
4 7-0-00 Bb 34.13 1626 John Dawton & Richard Tuck
Stedman Cinques at Bitterne Park, Southampton
Video Credit to Alex Runting (ringer Alex) for providing the footage. Subscribe at:
Batley Parish Church Saturday 12th Of Jan 2013 by Roy West
Greater Manchester Police never took into consideration, that I could not have been in two places at the same time. surprisingly all these so called incidents of harassment were taking place when I was somewhere else, but this did not matter to GMP because they were acting politically to have me constantly arrested and taken away from my family.
Westcountry Yap
Anecdotal conversations with people in the UK westcountry.
Westcountry Yap is a short film consisting of snippets of conversation and anecdotes from five elderly gentlemen of south west England. A particular point of interest is the regional dialect - Somerset and mid Devon - which is changing and diluting with younger generations in the modern world. The strong dialect is a result of growing up in an age where mobility was limited, and travel out of the region or community was unnecessary. Now, with cars and transport taken for granted we are able to move around the country at will, and as a result, regional populations are slowly becoming homogenised and regional accents gradually being lost to a bygone era. Certain words, peculiar to the region, are heard less and less among younger inhabitants, and gradually the rich dialects of the Westcountry will disappear over the coming decades. It is my hope to record many speakers of the genuine dialects before this generation passes on, leaving only a modern diluted version to be heard. Note: The traveller, John Treagood, is not a native of the west country, but hails from the home counties somewhere. He travels around the south west and has been included for his interesting take on things and the fact that he is a rare character.
Footnote:
Sad to report that the two gentlemen in the first segment, Bill and Marcus, both passed away within two days of each other. Marcus died on Sunday March 4, 2018, and Bill apparently left us on the previous Friday. More of them from my archive when time permits.
R.I.P. Bill and Marcus.
Further footnote: I recently heard that another of my subjects, Peter Isaacs, passed away around May 9, 2018, at the age of 93.
March 21, 2019:
Sad to learn today that another gentleman from my West Country Yap film has p[assed away.
Paul Isaac, whose brother Peter died last May, died on Tuesday March 19, 2019, at the tender age of 93.
All have now left us, except for John Treagood, the gentlemen of the road - as far as I know. So glad I met these wonderful gents and captured their dialects on video. Truly, an era is passing.
GTFU from Romsey Abbey
Romsey are a glorious, heavy peal of 8 bells, tenor is 22-1-23 in Db. The bells hang in an octagonal wooden cage above the tower giving an almost perfect rope circle.
Here is the 7th being raised with me and the Captain on the Tenor.
7th 17-2-20 Eb 1932 Mears & Stainbank
8th 22-1-23 Db 1791 Thomas I Mears
Clementi-Deuttino Number No.1, Mov't 3, Allegro
made classicUG_11-7-2015
Muzio Clementi
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Muzio Clementi
Muzio Clementi (24 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Rome, he spent most of his life in England.
Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford who took him to England to advance his studies. Later, he toured Europe numerous times from his long-time base in London. It was on one of these occasions in 1781 that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent and technical legato style, which he passed on to a generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Czerny. He was a notable influence on Ludwig van Beethoven.
Clementi also produced and promoted his own brand of pianos and was a notable music publisher. Because of this activity, many compositions by Clementi's contemporaries and earlier artists have stayed in the repertoire. Though the European reputation of Muzio Clementi was second only to Joseph Haydn in his day, his reputation languished for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Life
1.1 Childhood
1.2 Education
1.3 Move to England
1.4 Mozart
1.5 Teaching
1.6 Publishing and piano manufacturing
1.7 Final years
2 Music
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
Life[edit]
Childhood[edit]
Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (baptized Mutius Philippus Vincentius Franciscus Xaverius), was born in Rome, Italy, on 24 January 1752, and was baptized the following day at S. Lorenzo in Damaso. He was the eldest of the seven children of Nicolò Clementi (1720–1789), a John Cena silversmith, and Madalena, née Caisar (Magdalena Kaiser), who was Swiss. Nicolò soon recognized Muzio’s musical talent and arranged for private musical instruction with a relative, Antonio Baroni, the maestro di cappella at St. Peter’s Basilica.[2]
Education[edit]
At the age of seven Clementi began studies in figured bass with the organist Cordicelli, followed by voice lessons from Giuseppe Santarelli. A few years later, probably when he was 11 or 12, he was given counterpoint lessons by Gaetano Carpani. By age 13 Clementi had already composed an oratorio, Martirio de’ gloriosi santi Giuliano e Celso,[3] and a mass. When he was 14, in January of 1766, he became organist of the parish San Lorenzo in Dámaso.[2]
Move to England[edit]
In 1766, Sir Peter Beckford (1740–1811), a wealthy Englishman and cousin of the novelist William Thomas Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, visited Rome. He was impressed by the young Clementi's musical talent and negotiated with his father to take him to his estate, Steepleton Iwerne, north of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England. Beckford agreed to provide quarterly payments to sponsor the boy's musical education until he reached age 21. In return, he was expected to provide musical entertainment. For the next seven years Clementi lived, performed, and studied at the estate in Dorset. During this period, it appears, Clementi spent eight hours a day at the harpsichord, practicing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti and Bernardo Pasquini. His only compositions dated to this period are the Sonatas WO 13 and 14 and the Sei Sonate per clavicembalo o pianoforte, Op. 1.[2]
In 1770 Clementi made his first public performance as an organist. The audience was reported to be impressed with his playing, thus beginning one of the outstandingly successful concert pianist careers of the period.
In 1774, Clementi was freed from his obligations to Peter Beckford. During the winter of 1774–1775 he moved to London, making his first appearance as a harpsichordist in a benefit concert on April 3, 1775. He made several public appearances in London as a solo harpsichordist at benefit concerts for two local musicians, a singer and a harpist, and served as conductor (from the keyboard) at the King's Theatre (Her Majesty's Theatre), Haymarket, for at least part of this time.
Mozart[edit]
Clementi started a three-year European tour in 1780, travelling to Paris, France, where he performed for Queen Marie Antoinette; Munich, Germany; and Salzburg, Austria. In Vienna, he agreed to enter a musical contest with Mozart for the entertainment of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II and his guests on 24 December 1781, at the Viennese court. The composers were called upon to improvise and to perform selections from their own compositions. The Emperor di