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Chronica Domus: July 2015
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Reflections of home life with the occasional diversion elsewhere. Saturday, July 4, 2015. George Washington In The Eye of The Beholder. Today, as America celebrates its independence, one cannot help but to think of the country's founding fathers and George Washington in particular, the young nation's first president. Imagine what it must have felt like to lead an army of soldiers to victory and then head an independent fledgling nation as its leader. Horatio Greenough's depiction of. The statue has becom...
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Here & Hereafter: March 2014
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Undertaker Ghost Signs Around the World. From the smallest towns in America to remote settlements in Australia, ghost signs remind us of the undertakers of the past who once built coffins and provided a place for the preparation for burials of their citizens. First up is this colourful old sign in Clyde, New Zealand. In this unique double ghost sign in Illinois, you can just make out the original undertaker sign beneath the funeral home sign. The foreboding hand in Eureka Springs, Arizona. View my comple...
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Here & Hereafter
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MEET THE LONDON UNDERTAKER:. An Interview With Brian Parsons. Brian Parsons is a funeral director and training consultant to funeral directors, trading under the name Funeral Training Service London. He trains new funeral directors and works to enhance skills of existing funeral directors. Brian researches, lectures and writes about the British funeral industry, particularly regarding the latter part of the 19. Century up to the present day. I was delighted to sit with Brian and pose a few questions.
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Here & Hereafter
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Technical Curator of Barts Pathology Museum. 8220;I consider the body a canvas that’s been painted on by various diseases or accidents and from them you can interpret and find out what happened to the person. That’s what I did in the mortuary and that’s what I do now at Barts.”. By Rob Greig for Time out. Carla Valentine knew she wanted to be a mortician from the age of eight. I spoke with Carla in her cosy office at Barts Pathology Museum. I got a microscope for Christmas when I was eight. I brought...
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The Lothians: (3) Carlton House London - A Virtual Tour of the State Apartments on the Principal Floor
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An Eclectic Appreciation of Things Old, Stately, Quirky or Simply of Historical Interest. Monday, 1 April 2013. 3) Carlton House London - A Virtual Tour of the State Apartments on the Principal Floor. An enlargement of part of a watercolour of the. Circular Dining Room by Charles Wild, 1819. The full image appears further down this page. Source : Wikipedia Commons]. Should you reference this Blog elsewhere, please cite. Http:/ the-lothians.blogspot.com. Lady Sarah Spencer wistfully commented that, " He c...
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Chronica Domus: March 2015
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Reflections of home life with the occasional diversion elsewhere. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Spring Cleaning: A Broom Cupboard Alternative. Natural bristle, lambswool, and feathers beautifully crafted into traditional cleaning tools lined up on Shaker pegs. At the conclusion of our lessons. Which afforded me the opportunity of adding a sturdy enamel dustpan and a soft natural bristle brush, both made in England, to my cache. A little jewel of a shop tucked away in one of Petaluma's historic buildings. T...
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The Lothians: February 2015
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An Eclectic Appreciation of Things Old, Stately, Quirky or Simply of Historical Interest. Saturday, 21 February 2015. The London Motor Show - 1916. Arrol-Johnston", Dumfries, Scotland. Austin Motor Company Ltd". So, while there appears - for very obvious reasons - not to have been a "London Motor Show" in 1916, these are actual advertisements of the period December 1915 to December 1916, being taken from copies of " The Graphic. A Napier Car outside the Tate Gallery, London. Napier" - now wholly producing.
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Chronica Domus: A Visit To The Bank
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Reflections of home life with the occasional diversion elsewhere. Wednesday, March 4, 2015. A Visit To The Bank. The Seed Bank in Petaluma is one of the largest repositories of heirloom seeds in the world. Can you think back to the last time you had occasion to visit a bank, and why? Some of us (or would that be most of us nowadays? In the quaint northern California town of Petaluma, located about forty miles north of San Francisco. Heirloom seeds are what make this bank rather special. All the seeds con...
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