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National Memorial Arboretum - Policeman sculpture

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:49:21 -0700

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At the National Memorial Arboretum, near Alrewas in Staffordshire.

It was opened in 2001 by HRH The Duchess of Kent. On a site that was reclaimed gravel workings alongside the River Tame.

The land was provided by Redland Aggregates (now LaFarge), who generously donated 82 acres of land. Later 70 acres was added which includes a wildlife lake.

Policeman sculpture in the tea room / cafe. Carved out of wood.

The Regency Tea Rooms - 40 High Street, Bromsgrove

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:31:10 -0700

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Shops on the High Street in Bromsgrove (not the pedestrianised section).

The Regency Tea Rooms at 40 High Street in Bromsgrove.

King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - inside - ceiling - medieval chandelier

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:16:25 -0700

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A visit to the Dorset town of Shaftesbury - home of Gold Hill.

This is King Alfred's Kitchen on the High Street in Shaftesbury. We went here for out lunch the day we went to Shaftesbury.

At 17 and 19 High Street.

King Alfred's Kitchen 17 and 19, Shaftesbury

1.
1615 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 17 & 19
(King Alfred's Kitchen)
ST 8622 2/58 20.6.52.
II GV
2.
Plastered front. The south end has very low room with oak beams etc internally
and has a C17 origin [see RCBM] 2 storeys; 1 window above, 4 windows
below including 1 canted bay and 1 C18 sash window to left of it. North
end has a 3rd storey and most of the external features are quite modern.

Nos 5 to 13 (odd), The Fruit Shop, Nos 17 and 19 form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8623022947

Inside King Alfred's Kitchen.

On the first floor.

The room we had out lunch in, you could see the inside of the roof! Looks like it's medieval (made to look like).

Basic light fitting (before the chandelier evolved).

There was coat of arms shields on the roof / ceiling.

King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - inside - cast iron stove

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:15:25 -0700

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King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - sign - Mind your head

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:14:32 -0700

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A visit to the Dorset town of Shaftesbury - home of Gold Hill.

This is King Alfred's Kitchen on the High Street in Shaftesbury. We went here for out lunch the day we went to Shaftesbury.

At 17 and 19 High Street.

King Alfred's Kitchen 17 and 19, Shaftesbury

1.
1615 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 17 & 19
(King Alfred's Kitchen)
ST 8622 2/58 20.6.52.
II GV
2.
Plastered front. The south end has very low room with oak beams etc internally
and has a C17 origin [see RCBM] 2 storeys; 1 window above, 4 windows
below including 1 canted bay and 1 C18 sash window to left of it. North
end has a 3rd storey and most of the external features are quite modern.

Nos 5 to 13 (odd), The Fruit Shop, Nos 17 and 19 form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8623022947

Inside King Alfred's Kitchen.

Sign - Mind your head & Watch your step. Don't take too long to read this, or you will BANG your head and TRIP over the step!

King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - inside - medieval style light

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:18:06 -0700

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A visit to the Dorset town of Shaftesbury - home of Gold Hill.

This is King Alfred's Kitchen on the High Street in Shaftesbury. We went here for out lunch the day we went to Shaftesbury.

At 17 and 19 High Street.

King Alfred's Kitchen 17 and 19, Shaftesbury

1.
1615 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 17 & 19
(King Alfred's Kitchen)
ST 8622 2/58 20.6.52.
II GV
2.
Plastered front. The south end has very low room with oak beams etc internally
and has a C17 origin [see RCBM] 2 storeys; 1 window above, 4 windows
below including 1 canted bay and 1 C18 sash window to left of it. North
end has a 3rd storey and most of the external features are quite modern.

Nos 5 to 13 (odd), The Fruit Shop, Nos 17 and 19 form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8623022947

Inside King Alfred's Kitchen.

On the first floor.

The room we had out lunch in, you could see the inside of the roof! Looks like it's medieval (made to look like).

Medieval style light (but with light bulbs not candles).

King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - inside - ceiling - owl

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:17:45 -0700

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King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - inside - ceiling - medieval chandelier

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:15:55 -0700

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King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:13:12 -0700

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King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - Gents sign and figure of a boy

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:14:55 -0700

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A visit to the Dorset town of Shaftesbury - home of Gold Hill.

This is King Alfred's Kitchen on the High Street in Shaftesbury. We went here for out lunch the day we went to Shaftesbury.

At 17 and 19 High Street.

King Alfred's Kitchen 17 and 19, Shaftesbury

1.
1615 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 17 & 19
(King Alfred's Kitchen)
ST 8622 2/58 20.6.52.
II GV
2.
Plastered front. The south end has very low room with oak beams etc internally
and has a C17 origin [see RCBM] 2 storeys; 1 window above, 4 windows
below including 1 canted bay and 1 C18 sash window to left of it. North
end has a 3rd storey and most of the external features are quite modern.

Nos 5 to 13 (odd), The Fruit Shop, Nos 17 and 19 form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8623022947

Inside King Alfred's Kitchen.

The gents was up the stairs (2nd floor).

On the first floor.

King Alfred's Kitchen and Nature's Treasures - High Street, Shaftesbury

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:13:41 -0700

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King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - inside - ceiling - coat of arms

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:16:57 -0700

ell brown posted a photo:

A visit to the Dorset town of Shaftesbury - home of Gold Hill.

This is King Alfred's Kitchen on the High Street in Shaftesbury. We went here for out lunch the day we went to Shaftesbury.

At 17 and 19 High Street.

King Alfred's Kitchen 17 and 19, Shaftesbury

1.
1615 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 17 & 19
(King Alfred's Kitchen)
ST 8622 2/58 20.6.52.
II GV
2.
Plastered front. The south end has very low room with oak beams etc internally
and has a C17 origin [see RCBM] 2 storeys; 1 window above, 4 windows
below including 1 canted bay and 1 C18 sash window to left of it. North
end has a 3rd storey and most of the external features are quite modern.

Nos 5 to 13 (odd), The Fruit Shop, Nos 17 and 19 form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8623022947

Inside King Alfred's Kitchen.

On the first floor.

The room we had out lunch in, you could see the inside of the roof! Looks like it's medieval (made to look like).

There was coat of arms shields on the roof / ceiling.

National Memorial Arboretum - Policeman sculpture

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:49:21 -0700

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King Alfred's Kitchen - High Street, Shaftesbury - inside - ceiling - crown - orb

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:17:26 -0700

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A visit to the Dorset town of Shaftesbury - home of Gold Hill.

This is King Alfred's Kitchen on the High Street in Shaftesbury. We went here for out lunch the day we went to Shaftesbury.

At 17 and 19 High Street.

King Alfred's Kitchen 17 and 19, Shaftesbury

1.
1615 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 17 & 19
(King Alfred's Kitchen)
ST 8622 2/58 20.6.52.
II GV
2.
Plastered front. The south end has very low room with oak beams etc internally
and has a C17 origin [see RCBM] 2 storeys; 1 window above, 4 windows
below including 1 canted bay and 1 C18 sash window to left of it. North
end has a 3rd storey and most of the external features are quite modern.

Nos 5 to 13 (odd), The Fruit Shop, Nos 17 and 19 form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8623022947

Inside King Alfred's Kitchen.

On the first floor.

The room we had out lunch in, you could see the inside of the roof! Looks like it's medieval (made to look like).

Saw this crowned jewel like thing on the beam above.

Sherborne Castle & Lakeside Gardens - Dairy (back of Tea Room)

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:43:56 -0700

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The Estate of Sherborne Castle - grounds and gardens.

The Dairy at the back of the Tea Room. Grade II* listed.

Dairy, Immediately North-west of Sherborne Castle, Castleton

CASTLETON
SHERBORNE CASTLE
ST 6416
Dairy, immediately
12/29 north-west of Sherborne
Castle

11.7.51
II*
GV
Dairy, forming vestibule of C20 structure. Late C18, in Gothick style.
Ashlar stone walls - slate pyrammidal roof. One storey. 3 bays. The arcaded
north front has clustered columns and an embattled and pinnacled parapet.
Doorway at centre. Interior: counters and shelves of late C18 date painted
green and white. Reset in the floor is part of a Roman pavement from Lenthay
Common.
(RCHM Dorset I, p.69(5))

Listing NGR: ST6487516416

Ell at Sherborne Castle - Sherborne New Castle

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:16:51 -0700

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The Estate of Sherborne Castle - grounds and gardens.

The "new" castle which now has the name Sherborne Castle (was Sherborne Lodge in Sir Walter Raleighs day.

It was built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594, and has been the family home of the Digby's since 1617 (Walter was in the Tower of London and was executed in 1618).

Grade I listed.

Sherborne Castle, Castleton

CASTLETON SHERBORNE CASTLE
ST 6416

12/27
Sherborne Castle
11.7.51
GV I
Country House in grounds. Late C16 rectangular central block with its angle
turrets, for Sir Walter Raleigh. Enlarged by the addition of the four wings
of 2 storeys with cellars and hexagonal towers in 1625 by Sir John Digby.
Alteration in the C17 and C18. Drastically restored in 1859-60 by G D
Wingfield-Digby. Rubble-stone walls, stuccoed, with freestone dressings.
Lead-covered roofs. Many ashlar stone stacks, both square and elongated
hexagonal, with moulded plinths balustraded and cornices. South front:
four storeys, with mannered gabling over the top-storey, and parapet with
the lower two divided by strings. 3 windows, cross-transomed stone mullion
windows of three, four, three lights, moulded cornices as labels over. Single
light windows each side of top window. South entrance: round-headed doorway,
framed by fluted Roman Doric half-columns supporting an entablature. Stone
achievement of arms of Digby, earl of Bristol. Panelled door. The flanking
hexagonal turrets have restored 2-light mullion-and-transom windows, and are
finished with plain parapets and heraldic beasts or chimney stacks. The north
front, similar to south front, restored doorway has an enriched entablature
with a 4-light window over, in place of the achievement-of-arms. The east
front of central block: 3 storeys with attics, finished with a shaped gable.
Restored mullion-and-transom windows. Flanking turrets each have a square-
headed doorway, north turret door blocked. The added wings are of 2 storeys
and 3 bays, finished with a balustraded parapet. Windows are c. late C17
insertions, square-headed with eaved architraves, console-brackets, entablatures
and pediments. Internally, to the courtyard are C19 mullion-and-transom windows.
Between the wings are balustraded stone screens with central entrance, flanked
by shell-niches, entablature and Digby crest. Interior: Geometrical C17 plaster
ceilings with various devices in the Red Drawing Room, Lady Bristol's Room,
Green Drawing Room, Boudoir. Early C17 panelling, very extensive, behind the
Library bookcases, in the Oak Room (with enclosure). Lady Bristol's Room. C17
and later fireplaces with overmantels, in the Red Drawing Room (Plate 94, (RCHM),
and the Green Drawing Room, both with achievement-of-arms of Digby in gadrooned
panels. In each of the hexagonal bays is a smaller fireplace with Corinthian
side columns supporting an entablature. The Library is lined with C18 Gothic
fittings; bookcases have ogee trefoil-headed arcading on clustered columns, with
circular spandrel niches containing busts. Coved arcaded cornice. The house is
unusual in its original plan, and extended plan.
(RCHM Dorset I, p.66(5))

Listing NGR: ST6491416404

Round the back of the castle. The side that faces the lake.

I'm in front of the castle.

In my new Alien 3 related t-shirt - Fiorina 'Fury' 161.

Behind on the right is a Grade II* listed Dairy. (behind the Tea Room).

Dairy, Immediately North-west of Sherborne Castle, Castleton

CASTLETON
SHERBORNE CASTLE
ST 6416
Dairy, immediately
12/29 north-west of Sherborne
Castle

11.7.51
II*
GV
Dairy, forming vestibule of C20 structure. Late C18, in Gothick style.
Ashlar stone walls - slate pyrammidal roof. One storey. 3 bays. The arcaded
north front has clustered columns and an embattled and pinnacled parapet.
Doorway at centre. Interior: counters and shelves of late C18 date painted
green and white. Reset in the floor is part of a Roman pavement from Lenthay
Common.
(RCHM Dorset I, p.69(5))

Listing NGR: ST6487516416

Sherborne Castle - Tea Room - sign

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:25:22 -0700

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Sherborne Castle - Tea Room - sign

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:24:53 -0700

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Sherborne Castle - Tea Room

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:24:25 -0700

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Sherborne Castle - Tea Room

nobody@flickr.com (ell brown) — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:23:55 -0700

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