National Trust Lacock Abbey Fox Talbot Museum
National Trust Lacock Abbey Fox Talbot Museum
A very worth while visit to this museum and house of Fox Talbot and not to forget to look round the village as well .
A great day out
Andy's National Trust Travel Blogs: Lacock Abbey and Village
There are 500+ places of interest in the UK under the National Trust banner and I will be attempting to visit as many as I can, reporting as I do all the important stuff relative to accessibility. In this episode I go to Lacock village and the Abbey, situated in Wiltshire. It is also the home of the Fox-Talbot museum for Photography, because this Victorian gentleman invented the processes for developing photo negatives.
A few images from Corsham and Lacock (National Trust) including the Fox Talbot Museum
A very short (apologies a lot of the footage was corrupted!) overview of Corsham including a massive folly in the grounds of Corsham Court and Lacock abbey/house, village including the Fox Talbot Museum.
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The Fox Talbot Photography Museum, Lacock Wiltshire.
William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Talbot was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Additionally, he made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.
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TripTo Travel and Heritage Guide to Lacock Abbey. The building reflects the many changes transforming a 13th century medieval abbey into an English country house. The Fox Talbot Museum tells the story of the pioneering photographic work done by William Henry Fox Talbot.
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A walk around Lacock village & Lacock Abbey cloisters
The picture postcard Lacock Abbey and village (Wiltshire, England) were donated to the National Trust by Matilda Talbot in 1944. Follow this visit to Lacock starting with the Fox Talbot museum showing the contribution to the development of photograpy by William Henry Fox Talbot who in 1835 made the earliest known surviving example of a photographic negative of the oriel window in the south gallery of the Abbey. Next a walk around Lacock Abbey and into the cloisters, with parts unaltered for over 700 years. Some interior sequences in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were filmed at Lacock. The abbey visit is followed by a stroll through the village with its 14th century tithe barn and quaint shops and a 2 mile walk around the Abbey grounds including a thatcher at work on a cottage roof.
Visiting Lacock Abbey and Village
These are the photos of my trip to Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire.
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Lacock Abbey, Grounds And Garden, Wiltshire
Lacock Abbey, dedicated to St Mary and St Bernard, was founded in 1229 by the widowed Lady Ela the Countess of Salisbury, who laid the abbey's first stone 16 April 1232, in the reign of King Henry III, and to which she retired in 1238. Her late husband had been William Longespee, an illegitimate son of King Henry II. The abbey was founded in Snail's Meadow, near the village of Lacock. The first of the nuns were veiled in 1232.
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-16th century, Henry VIII of England sold it to Sir William Sharington, who converted it into a house starting in 1539, demolishing the abbey church.
The house eventually passed to the Talbot family. It is most often associated with amateur scientist and inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, who in 1835 made what may be the earliest surviving photographic camera negative, a view of the oriel window in the south gallery of the Abbey. Talbot's experiments eventually led to his invention of the more sensitive and practical calotype or Talbotype paper negative process for camera use, commercially introduced in 1841.
Some interior sequences in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were filmed at Lacock, including the cloister walk where Harry comes out from Professor Lockhart's room after serving detention and hears the basilisk. During four days in October 2007 Lacock was also used to film some scenes for the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Warner Bros. announced that the spooky nights of Hogwarts were also filmed here with most of the main characters including Daniel Radcliffe.
The Abbey was one of two major locations for the 2008 film version of the historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl.
Lacock appears in the Robin Hood and the Sorcerer, Cromm Cruac and The Pretender episodes of Robin of Sherwood. It was also used in the 1995 BBC/A&E production of Pride and Prejudice.
Scenes for the BBC's historical TV serial Wolf Hall were filmed there in 2014.
Scientists of the National Trust - Fox Talbot
Many scientists and inventors have lived and worked in places now cared for by the National Trust. One man who had a huge impact on the way we live today was William Henry Fox Talbot - the pioneer of photography - find out more about this remarkable man and take a look around Lacock Abbey, where he developed his fascinating process. For more information about Lacock why not go to:
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Lacock Abbey
Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. It was then sold to Sir William Sharington who converted the convent into a residence where he and his family lived.
The house later passed into the hands of the Talbot family and during the 19th century, served as the residence for William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1835 he made what may be the earliest surviving photographic camera negative, an image of one of the windows. The abbey houses the Fox Talbot Museum, devoted to the pioneering work of William Talbot's work in the field of photography.
Some interior sequences in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were filmed at Lacock, including the cloister walk where Harry comes out from Professor Lockhart's room after serving detention and hears the basilisk, and scenes from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince were also shot here.
Lacock Abbey : the brithplace of British photography / travel vlog 4k
Lacock Abbey is most know to be the home residency of William Henry Fox Talbot. The first photograph of latticed window was produced here in 1835. Unfortunately, calotype was never a big success as rival daguerrotype. Patented nature of calotype prevented wider adoption. Nowadays this abbey is a museum run by National Trust. There is plenty of well-preserved examples of medieval architecture which made apperance in number of Harry-Potter movies shot there.
Inside Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire.
Interior of Lacock Abbey a country house with monastic roots, once home to William Henry Fox Talbot, photography pioneer.
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Near the beginning of this video you will see a great front window which was the subject of the very first Photographic Negative made by WH Fox Talbot in 1835. See photos at Scenes from the first two Harry Potter films were filmed here.
Lacock, England - From Medieval to the Movies
Lacock Village in Wiltshire is so well preserved that it has become one of the most popular locations for the production of television and motion pictures, including two Harry Potter films. Lacock Abbey, built in 1229, has stood in for Hogwarts. The village has also been featured in many other productions including Pride and Prejudice. Lacock is famous as the birthplace of photography. William Henry Fox-Talbot took the first image of a window in his manor house in August 1835. Lacock is located about 85 miles west of London and 10 miles from Bath.
Lacock Abbey
A building displaying a 900 year narrative with the added interest of being where photographic history was made by William Henry Fox Talbot.
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2016-05-23 Drive to Lacock, Lacock village & Lacock Abby
William Henry Fox Talbot, 1950's - Film 16492
Story of the life of William Henry Fox Talbot 1800 - 1877
Film Made for 100th anniversary of birth of Fox Talbot Lacock Abbey 1950.
A fellow in a Stove Pipe hat is seen behind the titles.
A title appears, stating: The 150th anniversary of the birth of Talbot Fox was commemorated at Lacock, Wiltshire in February 1950
Title: This film endeavours to provide a permanent record of that occasion
On February 11th 1800 at Melbury in Dorset, was born William Henry Fox Talbot
Most of his life was spent in the village of Lacock in Wiltshire. The village, with Elizabethan housing and a horse pulling along a wooden cart, with male driver. Some wooden bracing on a house, followed by a shot of Talbot's house. The village church.
Fox Talbot's cameras were made in the village workshop of John Cale.
Inside the workshop, with a wooden workbench taking up much of the floor space.
Talbot's experimental work was carried out at Lacock Abbey (There is a nice establishing shot of the abbey)
Founded in A.D. 1229
A bell tower through an ornate archway as part of a wall. The entrance to the abbey has an elaborate stone stairway.
Miss Matilda Talbot, grand daughter of Fox Talbot, now occupies the abbey
Mr. Harold White has spent much time compiling the biography of Fox Talbot Two people sitting at a table, looking over some old books of Talbot.
Talbot invented the Calotype, forerunner of the photographic of today
The two people examine photographs. One is of a Greco-Roman building (possibly the Acropolis in Athens.)
The possibility of the Camera Club organising a commemoration for 150th Anniversary arises. The two look at a programme of the cinema club.
Trowbridge Camera and Cine Club was interested in the deal.
The idea was to suggest a restaging in period costume, of some of Talbot's calotypes.
Some scenes of the re-staging of the pictures. A man in a pair of chequered trousers stands in front of a box , mounted on a tripod. He is then given some instruction by a man in a long black coat.
The hallway of a living room, and see some letters falling through the front door of the house. Some slippered feet come downstairs and collect the letters. A fellow in a dressing gown looks at the letters and opens one of them, examines it and puts it on the table.
A town hall, where a meeting is taking place, a man on the panel, on the raised platform rises and addresses the assembly.
Volunteers are required (There is much pipe smoking that ensues)
Then in different scenes, on different days, that are denoted by the peeling off of days on a calendar, both men and women are shown signing up for taking part in the re-construction. People are then seen trying on costumes, and we see a poster advertising the event, and a man coming along and pinning a sign on the top of it saying Today.
Some shots of the village - it is tipping down with rain. A a bus full of people, rounding a corner and heading down a wet road. People get off the bus and stand outside the town hall with their umbrellas up
The restaged scenes create considerable interest
One of the scenes that is being re-constructed is that of a young family posing for a portrait - there is a father, mother and young boy. People in contemporary clothes stand by and watch.
Next, a man with a white 'Abraham Lincoln' beard sets up a tripod. We see another middle-aged man put a monocle up to his eye and look at the camera.
A Calotype picture is being taken, modern photographs of this scene are also being taken by the crowd of onlookers.
The next Calotype picture to be taken is of a man standing in the open doorway of a barn, on the second floor of the barn-building, with the man at the top of the ladder.
Within the abbey,
A corridor, with a bookcase covering one of the walls and a piano to the right, and also a music stand.
The calotype process was evolved in 1840
There is a shot of some old cameras on display in the house. The public are milling around the house.
The earliest form of camera (We see this)
Miss Talbot looks through some books that Fox Talbot wrote. One is called The Pencil of Nature
The window, subject of Talbot's first photographic experiments
The representatives of all branches of photography were present …and so the day ended
Miss. Talbot is then presented with a bouquet of white roses.
There is a shot of Fox Talbot's grave in the churchyard, and a wreath being laid at it,.
But a far greater memorial than this, he has raised himself
For every photograph taken is a reminder of the man who made it possible
There is a final shot of Fox Talbot, with the title over the top: William Henry Fox Talbot, 1800 - 1877.
The End.
Lacock Village. (part2)
Lacock is a village in Wiltshire, 3 miles from the town of Chippenham. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust, and attracts many visitors by virtue of its unspoiled appearance. Most of the houses are 18th century or earlier in construction. There is a 14th century tithe barn, a medieval church, and an inn dating from the 15th century and an 18th century lock-up.
The village has been used as a film and television set, notably for the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice and the Harry Potter movies. Close by is Lacock Abbey, also owned by the National Trust, who market the Abbey and the village together as Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village
History
The history of Lacock Village is very much linked to that of the Abbey. The village dates back to the 13th century. Lacock developed a thriving wool industry during the Middle Ages. Together with the Abbey, the village was given to the National Trust in 1944 by Matilda Talbot.
Lacock Village
Lacock is a village in Wiltshire, 3 miles from the town of Chippenham. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust, and attracts many visitors by virtue of its unspoiled appearance. Most of the houses are 18th century or earlier in construction. There is a 14th century tithe barn, a medieval church, and an inn dating from the 15th century and an 18th century lock-up.
The village has been used as a film and television set, notably for the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice and the Harry Potter movies. Close by is Lacock Abbey, also owned by the National Trust, who market the Abbey and the village together as Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village
History
The history of Lacock Village is very much linked to that of the Abbey. The village dates back to the 13th century. Lacock developed a thriving wool industry during the Middle Ages. Together with the Abbey, the village was given to the National Trust in 1944 by Matilda Talbot.