Singapore – Asian Civilisations Museum
Sir Stamford Raffles outside the Asian Civilisations Museum
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This ship, an Arabian Dhow, is similar to that which was wrecked around AD830 off Indonesia. The treasures that follow are in the Asian Civilisation Museum in their Tang collection (Named after the Tang dynasty of that time) They were found in 1999 close to the coast in 17m of water
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A selection of pieces.
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A fish tank depicts the making of porcelain China 1745
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Mounted incense burner China 1700
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Candelabra and Dish Chin 18th century.
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Portable Opium case China 1900
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These ceramic bowls were produced in China and exported all over the world, 60,000 were found in the ship. This was how they were safely packed.
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The large container on the left held the ceramic bowls.
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Hidden in this beautiful illuminated Koran is a swastika. It is very hard to spot. 6 images below is an enlargement.
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Here is the swastika in the bottom left hand corner of the cover.
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A sarong – Pagi-sore tiga negeri with pomegranates (Morning and evening three lands)
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Kain panjang tambal (Sarong – Patchwork long cloth) Central Java 1950
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Singapore – N3 lunch
Zhuang Yuan Mi Xian or Zhuangyuan Rice Noodles
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Singapore – Jumbos
The famous Singapore Chili Crab at Jumbo’s. A present from Matthew and Simon on Father’s Day
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Singapore – Bus ride
The F1 race stand. The track is the road. I wonder if the bus drivers are encouraged to keep up with the cars. Maybe they don’t run buses while the race is on.
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Singapore – Quaint House
A period home
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Singapore – Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
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Interior of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
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Interior of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
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Interior of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
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Interior of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
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Interior of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
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Singapore – Maxwell Hawker centre
Maxwell Hawker centre seafood crispy noodles at Somerset food stall.
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Singapore – Indian Heritage
A Bronze of Mahātmā Gandhi (Venerable Gandhi) a gift from India 2015
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A Step Well
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Singapore – Little India
Little India
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Singapore – Making Nan bread
Making my Naan bread for lunch.
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Singapore – Little India
False Advertising?
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Singapore – New Mask
Guess Who?
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Singapore – Crawford Wet Market
The black chickens at the back are used mainly by the Chinese for soup. They are black right through, bones included.
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Crawford Wet market – MSG – monosodium glutamate has been given a bad press. MSG is not necessarily bad for us, so I have read.
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Singapore – Cooking School
My finished dishes with our chef Denise.
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The fish man Malissa (the other student from Perth) and myself.
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Grating palm sugar (No prizes for spotting the bald spot)
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A serious business this cooking!
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Cooking palm sugar and coconut fibre
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3 dips for 3 seconds in hot broth
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Rolling my pancake
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Singapore – Big Cat
Spotty Big Cat
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I think he must have been up late last night. A big yawn.
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Singapore – Giraffe
A very graceful Giraffe close up
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Singapore – Meerkat
Meerkat
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Singapore – Red River Hog
A Red River Hog – This is an animal only a mother would love.
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Singapore – Common Ostrich
A common Ostrich – it is not very nice calling someone ‘Common’. I would have called it the Frequent Ostrich.
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Singapore – Zebra
A Zebra or Striped Horse
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Singapore – Rhinos
Rhino
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Singapore – Orangutans
A thoughtful Orangutan
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Singapore – Malayan Sun Bear
Malayan Sun Bear – the world’s smallest bear.
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Singapore – Misc
The monkeys roam around the paths
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Singapore – Komodo Dragon
Komodo Dragon
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Singapore – Misc
A lizard that appears to have been put together incorrectly.
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Singapore – National Art Gallery
Seven Sisters – South Australia 2018
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2011 Cape York Peninsular
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Crocodile Shark Mask
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Gibson Desert 2009
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View from the National Art Gallery
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Singapore – National Museum
River scene and native huts Early 20th century.
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Singapore-National Museum Desk from the 1970s
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Computer from 1970s
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Singapore Hairdressing Salon 1970s
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Singapore cafe 1970s
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Japanese tank (replica by Stephen Spielberg) – original weight 3.5 tonnes used with bicycles to invade Singapore
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Changi prison cell door
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Lee Kuan Yew who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore between 1959 and 1990
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Kitchen from 1974 – Refrigerators first used in the home. Sometimes placed in the Lounge room as they were a status symbol.
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Early 20th century pair of decanters and 8 matching minature cups.
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Singapore – National Art Gallery
Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvathi on a Bull
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Singapore – Sri Krishnan Temple
Singapore-Sri Krishnan Temple
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Singapore – From Coleman Bridge to Clarke Quay
Coleman Bridge and The Gardens by the Sea from Elgin Bridge
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Singapore – From Ann Siang Hill Park
Singapore-From Ann Siang Hill Park – You need air conditioning here!
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Singapore – Telok Ayer Park
A great mural
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Depicting the Chinese Amoy settlers
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Telok Ayer Park
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More Amoy settlers
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Another street mural
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Singapore – Belt Shop
This is the shop where I bought 2 leather belts for $10
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Singapore – Chinatown Complex
Chinatown – maybe cleaner that the Chinatown in Sydney?
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Singapore – Flowers
Singapore is a very green city – 1.5 million trees will be planted in the next 10 years
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Singapore – East Coast Food centre
Saturday lunch – Satay prawns, pork and cockles
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The real thing
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Singapore – Tiger Brewery
Original Vats to brew beer
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An original (1932) delivery truck
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So much beer and so little time to drink it!
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Some Tiger beer taps
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Singapore – MRT
An empty MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) near the end of the line
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Singapore – MRT Above Ground
MRT Above Ground
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Singapore – Tiger Brewery
Tiger Brewery building
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A glass of beer after the Tiger brewery tour.
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Singapore – Lorong Buang kok
Lorong Buangkok. Built in 1956, it is the last surviving kampong (native villiage) on Singapore Island
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The Kampong is very green and all the paths are gravel.
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Some houses more modern
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Some not so modern
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You can just see an old man beating the long leaves.
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A free range chook
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Not far from high rise.
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Some lovely flowers were growing in the Kampong
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Some more
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The name of these is ‘Red Ones’
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The name of this one is ‘Long Red One’
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Singapore – Nice homes on Gerald Drive
A short walk away from the Kampong.
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Singapore – Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve- I made it!
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You may be pleased to note that I was able to overtake this man on the way up.
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I did not need to exercise before heading down. I belong to the same school as the man at the back. R & R is more important.
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This is a Merbau tree – Hardwood
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This was the climb that I made to get to the top of the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve summit. After climbing up 500 feet and 1.2 km along and up (If you see what I mean, sorry about the mixed metaphors and for the picture quality)
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What beautiful green foliage
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More beauty
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Singapore – Botanical – Ethnobotany Garden
Bougainvillea
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Singapore – Botanical – Herbs & Spices
Lemon Grass which is widely used in South East Asian cooking
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Singapore – Botanical – Chook
A Chook in the Botanical garden
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Singapore – Botanical – Red Brick Path
Tree stump beside the Red Brick Path
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Singapore – Botanical – Fragrant Garden
These Pandanus leaves are used in Asian cooking for flavour or colouring.
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Singapore – Botanical – Healing Garden
A plant from the Healing Garden
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Again from the Healing Garden
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Singapore – Botanical – Cannonball Tree
The Cannonball tree!
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Singapore – Botanical – Dalvey Gate Road
A serious root system.
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A Red plant next to a tree
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A reddish plant
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A sinister plant if ever I saw one.
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A red and orange one.
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We saw this one before in the Kampong. I have since found out its Latin name. ‘Dum Rubrum est’ in English it is ‘Long Red one’.
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Palm Valley
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Singapore – Botanical – Orchid Garden
Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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An interesting looking couple.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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Orchid Garden.
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This plant in the VIP garden (hybrids) was named after Jacinda Ardern, the NZ prime minister.
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Margret Thatcher
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Angela Merkel
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Narendra Modi – Prime Minister of India
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Barack and Michelle Obama
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Joe and Jill Biden
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Princess Diana
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Orchid Garden
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Singapore – Botanical – Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage
Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage
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Singapore – Botanical – Heliconia Walk
A sculpture of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach
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Singapore – Botanical – Mower
A lawn mower or a vacumn cleaner?
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Singapore – Robot
A Robot (Cat) in a Singapore supermarket that seems to miss running into customers.
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Singapore – Shi Xiang Satay
Finally Satay at Shi Xiang Satay
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Singapore – Jewel Changi T1 Departure
Changi departures entrance
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QF1 – Dinner
QF1 Dinner in Premium Economy it looked much tastier than the regular meal.
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London – National Gallery
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543) Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (‘The Ambassadors’), 1533. Jean de Dinteville (left) was French ambassador to the court of Henry VIII in 1533.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) MADAME MOITESSIER 1856 This portrait was commissioned to celebrate the marriage of Madame Moitessier (1821-1897) to the older businessman Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier (1799-1889). Ingres was reluctant to accept the commission, but changed his mind after meeting the beautiful 23-year-old.
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) WOMAN WITH A BOOK 1932 In an intimate, sensual scene, Picasso depicts his muse, Marie-Thérése Walter (1909-1977), a constant presence in his art and life from 1927 until the mid-1930s and the other of his daughter, Maya (b. 1935). The night-time setting, reflecting their affair, is contrasted with the bright colours that illuminate Walter. Her dress is made up of large expanses of flat colour and patterns, typical of Picasso’s style during this period.
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George Stubbs (1724-1 806) Whistlejacket, about 1762
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John Constable (1776-1 837) Stratford Mill, 1820 A group of boys are shown fishing on the River Stour in Constable’s native suffolk, watched by a young girl in a red skirt. Stratford Mill (far left), on an island in the river, was used for making Paper. For Constable the depiction of the light-filled sky was the most important and challenging aspect.
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John Constable (1776-1837) The Hay Wain, 1821 The ‘hay wain’ is the horse-drawn wagon shown crossing a ford. In the distance, labourers can be seen cutting hay in the fields. The scenery is that of the River Stour in Constable’s native Suffolk. The red-roofed, whitewashed building on the left was the home of a local farmer, Willy Lott.
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In this close-up of the Hay Wain you can see an blurred object.
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William Hogarth (1697-1764) The Graham Children, 1742 – The children’s father was Daniel Graham, apothecary to the royal household and to Chelsea Hospital. The baby sits in an elaborate gilded cart which could be pulled along. In the background on the left is a clock surmounted by a figure of Cupid with Time’s scythe, a reference to mortality — the baby Thomas died before the picture was completed.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) The Umbrellas, about 1881-6 This bustling Paris street in the rain is typical of the scenes of everyday modern life beloved by Renoir and the Impressionists. A milliner’s assistant holding a bandbox looks Out at the viewer, as does a little girl, while a canopy of umbrellas unfur| behind them. Renoir began the painting using a soft. feathery style, but later reworked the left side using harder contours and muted colours.
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) Snow Scene at Argenteuil, 1875 The heavy snowfalls during the winter of 1874-5 prompted Monet to paint 18 views of the landscape around his home in the village of Argenteuil, of which this is the largest. It evokes the cold winter atmosphere through a steely palette of blues and greys, occasionally given depth by sharp accents of colour.
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During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir painted together at La Grenouillère, a slightly raffish resort on the river Seine some 12 kilometres west of Paris. It had become a popular weekend retreat from the city during the 1860s. Monet made several oil sketches at the resort, including this picture.
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) Water-Lilies, after 1916 In 1916 Monet had a new studio built at Giverny in order to work on huge canvasses; large-scale, close-up views of the surface of his water-lily pond. In 1918, the day after the Armistice was signed, the painter promised a group of the paintings to the French nation as a “monument to peace”. It was a war memorial, but of a personal, unprecedented kind. Monet described his Water-Lilies as “producing the effect of an endless whole, of a watery surface with no horizon and no shore”. Distance and perspective are abolished; a limitless expanse of water occupies our entire field of vision. Closely related to that project, the present monumental canvas was not included in Monet’s gift, which hangs today in the Orangerie of the Tuileries in Paris.
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Georges Seurat (1859-1891) Bathers at Asniéres, 1884 Asnieres is a suburb of Paris. On the right is the island of the Grande Jatte and in the distance, the factories of Clichy. Seurat reworked parts of the picture, such as the hat of the boy on the right, probably in 1886 after he had invented the technique of using dots of contrasting colour to create a vibrant, luminous effect. The work is based on numerous preparatory drawings and oil studies.
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Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Late Afternoon in our Meadow, 1887 This view of a meadow bordered by the River Epte was Painted from the end of Pissarro’s garden in Eragny, where he had relocated in 1884. It shows the artist’s ‘new style’ of the mid-1880s, when he was experimenting with Georges Seurat and Paul Signac’s radical Pointillist technique of applying small. Precise brushstrokes of pure colour.
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) The Gare St-Lazare, 1877 This is one of 12 pictures of the train station in Paris that Monet painted on the spot. The view is from inside the Station, looking west. Two locomotives make steam as passengers disembark. A third train disappears under thebr idge on the left.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 -1919) At the Theatre (La Premiére Sortie), 1876-7 A young girl and her chaperone are seated in a theatre box. They, not the stage, are the subject of the artist’s and the audience’s attention. The bright gold of the box emphasises their separation from the audience. It also makes a deliberate contrast with their blue dresses.
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Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833 Lady Jane Grey reigned as queen for nine days in 1553 until deposed by supporters of the Catholic Queen Mary. She was beheaded at the Tower of London.
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Canaletto (1697-1 768) Venice: Campo S. Vidal and santa Maria della Carita (‘The Stonemason’s Yard’), about 1728 This intimate view of Venice shows the Campo S. Vidal filled with large pieces of Masonry and a workman’s hut. The stone was probably intended for the facade of the church of S. Vidal (not shown). The Campo still exists but the bell-tower seen across the canal collapsed in 1744. This is one of Canaletto’s most celebrated works.
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) The Supper at Emmaus, 1601 After his Resurrection, Christ walked to Emmaus with two disciples. The men only recognised him when they dined together and Christ blessed the bread (Luke 24), as he had done at the Last Supper. The inn-keeper stands behind Christ. One disciple starts out of his chair while the other throws his arms wide in astonishment. This disciple wears a shell, the emblem of a pilgrim.
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Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) The Toilet of Venus (‘The Rokeby Venus’), 1647-51 Venus reclines on a bed before the mirror held up by a winged Cupid. The reflection shows her face, suggesting that she is observing the viewer rather than herself. The female nude Is very rare in Spanish painting at this date. During the 19th century the painting was at Rokeby Park, hence its subtitle.
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Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, about 1670-2 Vermeer’s serene depiction of a keyboard player is also an idealised image of virtuous love. Cool and elegant, the young woman gazes directly at the viewer. Behind her is a painting of Cupid holding up a card, signifying ‘one ought to love only one’. Similar in size and subject matter, this may be a companion piece to Young Woman seated at a Virginal, also in the Gallery’s collection.
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Self Portrait at the Age of 63, 1669 Rembrandt appears quite frail in this moving likeness painted in the final year of his life: his hands are limp, his skin is pasty, and even his characteristic wiry hair seems subdued. Still, the portrait is painted with great sensitivity. Paint is thickly applied in the highlighted areas of the face, while darker areas are more thinly painted.
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Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait at the Age of 34, 1640 Rembrandt presents himself as wealthy, successful and confident, in keeping with his position as one of Amsterdam’s leading painters. His pose is taken from Titian’s Man with a Quilted Sleeve (on display elsewhere in the Gallery), which was then thought to depict the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto.
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London – Trafalgar Square
St. Martin in the Fields – Trafalgar Square
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London – Cartoon Museum
London-Cartoon Museum
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London-Cartoon Museum
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William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) The Blow-Bomb: An Engine for blowing out the Fuses of Zeppelin Bombs The Sketch, 1915 Pen, ink & wash This drawing from World War shows an imaginary British invention to counter the attacks of German Zeppelin airships. During World War Heath Robinson’s three anti-German cartoon collections we greatly admired and he repeated the success in Wor War Il with Heath Robinson at War (1941).
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Bruce Bairnsfather (1887-1959) – One of Our Minor Wars ‘Well, if you knows of a better ’ole, go fo it’ The Bystander, 24 November 1915 Pen, ink & gouache Bruce Bairnsfather, a serving machine gun officer in The Royal Warwickshire Regiment in October 1915 drew what would become for many the quintessential cartoon of the war: ‘The Better ’Ole’. The curmudgeonly ‘old soldiers’ in the shell hole eventually grew into ‘Old Bill who appeared in many Bairnsfather drawings
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Lou McKeever ‘Blue Lou’ Rendezvous July 2018 A pastiche of David Low’s famous World War Il cartoon — about the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact of Non-Aggression. Here, however, instead of Hitler and Stalin meeting over the dead body of a Polish soldier after the two countries invaded Poland, the main characters are US president — Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the time of their summit meeting in Helsinki in July 2018. They are seen as unlikely allies imposing restrictions on the media and greeting each other over the dead body of the world’s Press.
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William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) A Surprise Packet for the Cat Burglar Sunday Graphic, reproduced in Absurdities (1934)
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H.M.Bateman (1887-1970) The Girl Who Ordered a Glass of Milk at the Cafe Royal. The Tatler Artists Proof print In the 1920s Bateman’s ‘The Man Who …” drawings captures the British obsession with class and the horrors of the social faux pas.
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Wally Fawkes ‘Trog’ (b.1924) Final Appearance – or Grand Comeback Punch, 9 October 1974 Cover illustration Pen, ink & gouache Edward Heath (1916—2005) lost the February 1974 © general election. Harold Wilson, without an overall majority, called another general election for October 1974. Heath’s social awkwardness had become an electoral liability. He was advised to take on a new persona. On 10 October Wilson beat him once again.
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Wally Fawkes ‘Trog’ (b.1924) The Queen at the Queen Vic in 2001 The Queen’s tour of the Albert Same set of the BBC soap opera EastEnders at Elstree studios, Hertfordshire, included a visit to the famous Queen Vic pub. Wally Fawkes was one of the founder members of the British Cartoonists’ Association in 1966.
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Wokingham – Okingham Belle, Oak Avenue, Wokingham
Shirley & Jeremy at Okingham Belle pub in Wokingham. Shirley’s 70th Birthday.
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Paul, Shirley, Jeremy, Geoff, Leidi and Barry at Shirley’s 70th. (Laura is behind the camera)
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Wokingham – Market Place, Wokingham
Tributes to the late Queen in the Market Place, Wokingham UK
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Keswick – Keswick
River Derwent which runs through Keswick, Lake District
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Keswick – World of Illusion
Often how I feel, squashed!
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Barry on top of things
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Not quite how it was built
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What does this spell? The answer is below.
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Trust me, I measured them and they are of equal size.
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B is much light than A isn’t it? The answer is below.
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No, they are exactly the same shade
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A trick of perspective. Look at the arches, they are on the same plane but then check the pillars. They are on a different plane.
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This is a spiral, Surely? Check below to make sure.
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No, they are all circles.
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This is me normal height.
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As I walk…
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I get taller!
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This is not a chair
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Or is it?
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Happy or…
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Sad, when you look at him the other way up
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Teach and Learn.
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Can you read this?
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Keswick – Derwent Water
The launches on Derwent Water
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Where has all the earth gone?
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Another one!
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Derwent Water – maybe it moved in the night?
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Keswick – Hope Park
Keswick-Hope Park
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Tea out of the weather.
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Keswick – Keswick
Keep Keswick swimming
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Keswick – Market Square, Keswick
A repurposed telephone box in the Market Square at Keswick
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Keswick – Derwent Pencil Museum
An original pencil sharpener
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A pencil case made by Cumberland Pencil Company.
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A reproduction of a pencil secretly made for airmen in WW11 that contained a rolled up map on very thin tissue paper.
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The pencil, compass and a recreated tissue paper map.
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The statistics.
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Each pencil lead has a minature sculpture on the end.
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An elephant?
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A weight-lifter.
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The pencil set ‘Fotocol’ was used to colour black and white photos before colour prints were available.
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When I go to London I will call in at the Royal Academy and see if they want to ‘show’ me.
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Keswick – The Skiddaw Hotel
Jeremy and I celebrating a birthday drink at the Skiddaw Hotel.
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Threlkeld – Threlkeld Quarry
Threlkeld Quarry, a once loved heavy road roller
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Threlkeld Quarry – converted granite mine narrow gauge train
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Wagons once used to haul granite
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Sorry I cannot identify the village.
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The granite workings
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A preserved shovel
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1920’s steam engine ‘Sir Tom’
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The train with a diesel engine.
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Derwent Water – Lake cruise
The jetty and launch on Derwent Water
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Derwent Water – Derwent Water
Derwent Water from Friar’s crag.
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Helvellyn – Helvellyn
The summit as seen from the downward path.
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Lake Thirlemere on the way down.
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Another sheep on the hillside.
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Lake Thirlemere again.
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Lastly a 3+ kms through the forest back to the car park.
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A selfie before I start the climb up Helvellyn.
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The easy bit at the start.
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Lake Thirlmere at the start of the climb.
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The climb gets a bit steeper but not as steep as later on.
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A lonely sheep on the hillside.
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The summit of Helvellyn at 3118ft.
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A shelter out of the wind to eat lunch as seen from the summit.
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South Kensington – V & A
A choir screen from the Netherlands 1600
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A life sized copy of Michelangelo’s David.
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Table setting from late 1800
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These vases were exhibited in 1862 in London
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Queen Victoria and Print Albert at the opening of the Great Exhibition 1st May 1851
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Adam style side table made in 1785
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Unguent Jar – Egypt 1400 BC
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Clock from the Netherlands 1665
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Political Cartoon
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Political Cartoon
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DAME FOR A LAUGH 1.5 million cans of Heinz Baked Beans are sold every day in the UK. Australian comic Barry Humphries wore this homage to the ‘fry up’, complete with cascading baked beans, for a TV series in which his alter ego Dame Edna Everage toured UK factories.
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Wine cup of the Emperor Shah Jahan
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This is how the cup above was made. A lapidary specialises in Cutting, engraving Pen and wash on paper and polishing gemstones. Here, the lapidary Mughal drills a hole in a small gemstone, possibly a ¢.1780 pearl. The gemstone is fixed to g wooden base. and a diamond tipped drill is held above it and spun back and forth with the aid of a stringed Dow, to create the hole necessary for stringing gems together. Water from the pots at either end clear the surface of dust Lapidary skills were highly developed and valued in the Mughal courts.
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TIPPOO’S TIGER – Tipu Sultan was killed when the East India Company army stormed Seringapatam in 1799. The soldiers looted the city and parts of the palace. Order was restored after two days by hanging and flogging some of the looters. As was usual, the royal treasury was then divided up between the army.The wooden tiger with an organ inside its body was discovered in the palace’s music room and shipped to London.
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A beautiful ceiling in the original part of the V&A Shutter:
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Henry Cole – the founder of the V&A
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Portrait of Queen Victoria About 1857-61 In 1842 Queen Victoria posed for a portrait painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. It became one of the most popular images of the young queen and many replicas, like this one, were produced. In the painting, Victoria wears a sapphire and diamond coronet, designed for her by her husband, Prince Albert, in the year they were married. The jewel remains a symbol of both their love and artistic collaboration.
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East End – London Wall
Part of the Roman built London Wall
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East End – Museum of London
The Shepperton woman reconstructed 3640-31008c The woman had a Striking and somewhat masculine face. However, the colour of her eyes and hair remain unknown.
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This dining room (‘Triclinium’) dates from AD 300. The room and furniture are reconstructed, but all the objects and the mosaic floor come from excavations of Roman London.
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Painting of the Fire of London which started in a Bakery in September 1666
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Sir Winston Churchill taken from a video in museum of London.
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A good spot for lunch on a sunny day.
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St Mary Le-Bow church where the bells ring (Bow Bells). Any person born in the sound of bow bells is a cockney.
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The bust of Captain Arthur Phillip, (the first Governor of New South Wales) in St Mary Le-Bow. Moved here after a bomb destroyed St Mildred’s Church, Bread Street during a raid in 1941,
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St Mary’s Le-Bow church
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This Patisserie must be good with a queue like this.
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Market – Portobello Road
A market stall in Notting Hill (Portobello Road). This street was used in ‘Notting Hill’ the Julia Roberts movie. Hugh Grants’s flat with a blue door is a real house. It has been vandalised. His bookshop in the film is a real shop. At the time it was a tasefull Antiques shop. It is now a shop selling disgusting souvenirs.
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A rather small (chic?) garage.
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St Paul’s Cathedral – St Paul’s Cathedral
Internal staircase in St. Pauls Cathederal
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SCULPTURES TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR (1914-1918) These two large cruciform sculptures by artist Gerry Judah have been placed in St Paul’s this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War. They recall the white crosses placed over the dead in the many war cemeteries across the world. Embedded on each sculpture are intricate models of cities and settlements decimated by contemporary conflict. They recall the waste, pity and devastation of war — both a hundred years ago and, in particular, today.
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A beautiful ceiling in St Paul’s.
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St Pauls Cathedral – St Pauls Cathedral
An unusual angle.
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The chair that the King/Queen use.
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Lord Nelson get his own statue.
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View from the Stone Gallery
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View towards London Eye and Waterloo Bridge.
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Tower Bridge from St Paul’s
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