Royal Botanical Gardens Kew England
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England. The director is Professor Stephen D. Hopper, who succeeded Professor Sir Peter Crane. The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew is also the name of the organisation that runs Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place gardens in Sussex. It is an internationally important botanical research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of £44 million for the year ended 31 March 2006.
Kew Gardens originated in the exotic garden at Kew Park formed by Lord Capel of Tewkesbury. It was enlarged and extended by Princess Augusta, the widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, for whom Sir William Chambers built several garden structures. One of these, the lofty Chinese pagoda built in 1761 still remains. George III enriched the gardens, aided by William Aiton and Sir Joseph Banks. The old Kew Park (by then renamed the White House), was demolished in 1802. The Dutch House adjoining was purchased by George III in 1781 as a nursery for the royal children. It is a plain brick structure now known as Kew Palace.
In 1840 the gardens were adopted as a national botanical garden. Under Kew's director, William Hooker, the gardens were increased to 30 hectares (75 acres) and the pleasure grounds, or arboretum, extended to 109 hectares (270 acres), and later to its present size of 120 hectares (300 acres).
The Palm House was built by architect Decimus Burton and iron-maker Richard Turner between 1844 and 1848, and was the first large-scale structural use of wrought iron. The structure's panes of glass are all hand-blown. The Temperate house, which is twice as large as the Palm House, followed later in the 19th century. It is now the largest Victorian glasshouse in existence.
Kew was the location of the successful effort in the 19th century to propagate rubber trees for cultivation outside South America.
Princess of Wales ConservatoryThe year 1987 saw the opening of Kew's third major conservatory, the Princess of Wales Conservatory (opened by Princess Diana in commemoration of her predecessor Augusta's associations with Kew),[2] which houses 10 climate zones.
In October 1987 Kew Gardens lost hundreds of trees in the Great Storm of 1987.
In July 2003, the gardens were put on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO
The Duchess Of Gloucester Opens Sydney Street Estate (1938)
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Various shots of the Duchess of Gloucester (Princess Alice) at the opening the last block of flats to complete the Somers Town Garden Estate rehousing scheme. She makes a speech saying she has very much pleasure in declaring this much-needed new block of flats open. She pulls on a rope to unfurl an English flag. A little girl presents the Duchess with a bouquet of flowers. She poses briefly outside the entrance to the block.
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Ashley's orginal stem gallopers
Ashley's Gallopers are a true example of the engineering heritage of our Victorian ancestors and the artistic skills of the carvers and painters in British workshops. Having undergone an extensive restoration programme they have been sympathetically rebuilt, copying original patterns and styles wherever possible. Despite their age, they still travel each summer season to bring the enjoyment and pleasure of a lost of form of entertainment from another era. They were built c 1894 by Thomas Walker of Tewkesbury . Unusual in having 14 sections, the ride features 39 Horses and 3 Cockerels , A Trumpet Fair Organ. They appear at selective events during the summer season but are also available for hire for private functions. If you like this video please pass this link to everybody how may be interest to see it. Thanks.........
Great Englishwomen Audiobook by M.B. Synge | Audiobook with Subtitles
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the education and living conditions of the poor. Some were great painters, poets, and writers. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)
Great Englishwomen
M. B. SYNGE
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Chapters:
00:00:20 | 01 - Queen Bertha
00:10:54 | 02 - Maude the Good
00:18:38 | 03 - Eleanor of Aquitane
00:34:40 | 04 - Philippa of Hainault
00:47:11 | 05 - Margaret of Anjou
00:58:26 | 06 - The Lady Margaret
01:11:23 | 07 - Margaret Roper
01:20:44 | 08 - Lady Jane Grey
01:35:37 | 09 - Princess Elizabeth
01:48:56 | 10 - Lady Rachel Russell
02:04:34 | 11 - Angelica Kaufmann
02:17:04 |12 - Hannah More
02:27:30 | 13 - Elizabeth Fry
02:40:05 | 14 - Mary Somerville
02:56:37 | 15 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
03:12:10 | 16 - Florence Nightingale
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William Morris | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:19 1 Early life
00:03:28 1.1 Youth: 1834–1852
00:06:45 1.2 Oxford and the Birmingham Set: 1852–1856
00:11:22 1.3 Apprenticeship, the Pre-Raphaelites, and marriage: 1856–1859
00:14:31 2 Career and fame
00:14:40 2.1 Red House and the Firm: 1859–1865
00:20:09 2.2 Queen Square and iThe Earthly Paradise/i: 1865–1870
00:23:49 2.3 Kelmscott Manor and Iceland: 1870–1875
00:28:58 2.4 Textile experimentation and political embrace: 1875–1880
00:36:06 3 Later life
00:36:14 3.1 Merton Abbey and the Democratic Federation: 1881–1884
00:42:42 3.2 Socialist League: 1884–1889
00:49:10 3.3 The Kelmscott Press and Morris' final years: 1889–96
00:56:06 4 Personal life
01:00:21 5 Work
01:00:30 5.1 Literature
01:04:42 5.2 Textile design
01:08:49 5.3 Book illustration and design
01:11:20 6 Legacy
01:14:16 6.1 Notable collections and house museums
01:17:50 7 Literary works
01:18:09 7.1 Collected poetry, fiction, and essays
01:19:55 7.2 Translations
01:20:55 7.3 Published lectures and papers
01:21:25 8 Gallery
01:21:34 8.1 Morris & Co. stained glass
01:21:42 8.2 Morris & Co. textiles
01:21:49 8.3 Kelmscott Press
01:22:00 9 See also
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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.
Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex to a wealthy middle-class family. He came under the strong influence of medievalism while studying Classics at Oxford University, there joining the Birmingham Set. After university, he trained as an architect, married Jane Burden, and developed close friendships with Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and with Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb. Webb and Morris designed Red House in Kent where Morris lived from 1859 to 1865, before moving to Bloomsbury, central London. In 1861, Morris founded the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co decorative arts firm with Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Webb, and others, which became highly fashionable and much in demand. The firm profoundly influenced interior decoration throughout the Victorian period, with Morris designing tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and stained glass windows. In 1875, he assumed total control of the company, which was renamed Morris & Co.
Morris rented the rural retreat of Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire from 1871 while also retaining a main home in London. He was greatly influenced by visits to Iceland with Eiríkr Magnússon, and he produced a series of English-language translations of Icelandic Sagas. He also achieved success with the publication of his epic poems and novels, namely The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), the Utopian News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End (1896). In 1877, he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to campaign against the damage caused by architectural restoration. He embraced Marxism and was influenced by anarchism in the 1880s and became a committed revolutionary socialist activist. He founded the Socialist League in 1884 after an involvement in the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), but he broke with that organization in 1890. In 1891, he founded the Kelmscott Press to publish limited-edition, illuminated-style print books, a cause to which he devoted his final years.
Morris is recognised as one of the most significant cultural figures of Victoria ...