Time Team S15-E07 The Naughty Nuns of Northampton, Towcester, Northamptonshire
When eight-year-old Amy Coleclough buried her cat 'Paintpot' in her garden, she uncovered a massive stone wall. Time Team is called in to investigate.
Sources suggest that a 12th-century nunnery had once stood in the vicinity, but its exact location had remained a mystery for centuri
Emile Gruppe Original Oil painting
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This is a classic example of Emile Grupps's work, a beautiful forest scene showing beechnut trees in a lovely winter setting. Mr. Gruppe is an extremely collectible artist that has been fetching big money at auction. See more of our collection at our online store at the link below or in person at our gallery in Fort Myers Florida.
Life in London: Visiting an art gallery
Today we are out and about in the suburbs of London. Come with me and visit a very special shop, an art gallery full of paintings, sculptures, and other art works. But it's an art gallery with a difference, as money made from sales goes to an organisation called Street Souls, a charity for homeless people. We'll be chatting to David, who runs the gallery and chooses the art works to display there. We'll hear about the special opening of the gallery, attended by a famous London-based film star (I'll give you a clue -- he has appeared in Lord of the Rings!). This is a chance for you to listen to real conversation between two native English speakers, as well as to learn about English culture. So, if you're ready, let's go in...
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TRANSCRIPT
Gill: Hello. I'm Gill at engVid, and today we're doing something a little bit different for our lesson. We are going to be visiting a place in... Seven miles away from Central London, the Artful Pelican Art Gallery, which is a small art gallery and shop. And if you visit or if you're in the U.K., or if you visit a U.K. city you will probably see places like this, so this lesson will help you to find out what to expect if you go in one of these places. It's also an opportunity to hear two native English speakers, that will be me and David, the owner of the shop, speaking, having a conversation in English, so it's an opportunity to hear an English conversation between two people. Okay, so... And also we'll be seeing what kind of thing to expect if you visit an art gallery like this; pictures and sculptures. And so, we'll be seeing pictures of London, pictures of famous people who you may have seen in films, so let's go in and have a look.
David: Hi, Gill.
Gill: Oh, hi, David.
David: Hey. It's nice to see you.
Gill: Hi. Nice to see you. How are you?
David: Excellent. Thanks.
Gill: Oh, good.
David: You too?
Gill: Fine, thank you. Thank you for letting us come in...
David: Hey.
Gill: And have a look around.
David: You know you're always welcome.
Gill: Oh, that's really nice. Well, thank you.
David: This has always been one of my favourites, this charcoal. Amazing art.
Gill: That's lovely. Lovely detail. So, David, so you've been here for a while now, haven't you?
David: Yes.
Gill: I remember the place gradually being decorated and open.
David: Yeah, well, we... I would imagine sometime around about May 2015.
Gill: Yes.
David: And we opened in July in 2015.
Gill: Right, that sounds about right. Yeah.
David: Yeah.
Gill: So that's nearly going on two years?
David: We're getting on for two years, aren't we?
Gill: Yeah.
David: I think you came to our opening, didn't you?
Gill: I did.
David: When we had Sir Ian McKellen here.
Gill: Yes.
David: And a big crowd.
Gill: Wow. You could hardly move.
David: No. It was...
Gill: The place was packed, wasn't it?
David: It was good. It was a nice, fun evening; and very well-supported.
Gill: Yes, it was really nice. And to get Sir Ian McKellen to come and...
David: Quite a coup.
Gill: Open the place was a real coup, wasn't it?
David: Yeah, and it went very well.
Gill: And it was so nice to see him so close. He was about, you know, where that chair is away from me, and I thought: My god, that's Sir Ian McKellen.
David: It's really you, yeah.
Gill: And I'd first seen him on the stage in the 1970s, and been really knocked out by his...
David: Oh, good.
Gill: Like, he was in the Shakespeare play, Richard II, so that was when I first ever saw him.
David: So we fulfilled a wish, then, you got to meet him.
Gill: So all those years later, there he was.
David: Oh, good.
Gill: Slightly nearer.
David: He was very good with everyone that came, yeah.
Gill: So that was great, that was great because he cares a lot about the charity.
David: He cares a lot about homelessness.
Gill: Yes.
David: He has two pet likes, which is homelessness, which is what we're all about.
Gill: Yes.
David: And AIDS, they're his two main... main things.
Gill: Right. Yes, yes.
David: So the homeless thing...
Gill: Yeah.
David: He was very keen to help.
Gill: Yes, yes. So you... This is an art gallery, obviously, but you have this sort of fundraising element for charity?
David: Well... Yes, of course, it is an art gallery, but it's a non-profit art gallery.
Gill: Right.
David: So no one earns a salary in here. Every penny of the profits gets plowed back into the gallery or at homeless projects, Street Souls. So we help homeless people street-level.
Gill: Right.
David: And in particular homeless artists through the art gallery. […]
Cornwall's Fishermen, 1950s - Film 96592
Cornish fishermen, a fishing boat enters a harbour. Gulls fly off a harbour wall. Fishermen on a boat moor up and unload their fish cargo in baskets. Baskets are weighed at the harbourside. Gulls fight over scraps in the water. View of harbour with tide out, 2 men walk along the seafront. View of boats bobbing in the water in a village harbour. Two men untangle and fold nets on the harbour wall. Close up of man repairing a net with a large needle. Woman painting at her easel at the harbourside, facing out to sea. Men prepare nets on boats moored on the beach of a tiny cove. Close up of older men in their flat caps, talking. Picture signs hang from buildings showing two men in night caps, another sign is of judges or gentrified men. Small group of Cornish men stand beside a stone wall chatting and smoking pipes. An iron hanging sign, The Ship. View towards sea from under the bow of a large boat. A carved wooden figure of a woman is mounted on the bow. A store or collection of ship’s figurines, ship’s wheels, life buoys and lanterns removed from their boats.
The Coffee Pot Railcar
Coffee Pot - Driver: Hayden Hart, Fireman: Mark Grimshaw, Loco Inspector: Bill Bennett, The Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society is an entirely voluntary organisation dedicated to the preservation Of Australia's most ambitious operating railway museum. Railway workshops and operations are based at Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. The steam coach was built at Leeds, England, in 1905, and is the only one of its type left in the world today. It operated between Quorn and Port Augusta and Quorn and Hawker until 1928 when it was retired. It is the Society's intention to renovate this coach so that it can again operate in Pichi Richi Pass. It is extremely well built, and due to the Commonwealth Railways keeping a good coat of paint on this vehicle over the years, it is remarkably well preserved. A big vote of thanks goes to our Patron, Mr. K.A. Smith, for his foresight in preserving this vehicle and for making this truly unique steam motor coach available to the Society. We are sure that when it is again operational it will prove to be a big tourist draw card for us.
Through the Gaps Newlyn Fishing News Cornwall UK
Newlyn's fishing community thrives on these who make a living going out Through the Gaps. The fishermen of Newlyn land the finest handline, trawl, net and pot caught fish and shellfish daily so that Michelin starred Cornish chefs like Nathan Outlaw can source #MSCCertified #Hake, #Sardine. Digital fishing images are available from stock or on commission. Come and enjoy the fantastic light to draw or paint in the footsteps of the Newlyn School.
Early morning inshore boat action in Newlyn
Newlyn's fishing community thrives on these who make a living going out Through the Gaps. The fishermen of Newlyn land the finest handline, trawl, net and pot caught fish and shellfish daily so that Michelin starred Cornish chefs like Nathan Outlaw can source #MSCCertified #Hake, #Sardine. Digital fishing images are available from stock or on commission. Come and enjoy the fantastic light to draw or paint in the footsteps of the Newlyn School.
Teresa May's Brexit fishing industry statement from Mansion House, London.
As an icy wind whips through Newlyn there are tough talks ahead for the government over the fishing industry.
Newlyn's fishing community thrives on these who make a living going out Through the Gaps. The fishermen of Newlyn land the finest handline, trawl, net and pot caught fish and shellfish daily so that Michelin starred Cornish chefs like Nathan Outlaw can source #MSCCertified #Hake, #Sardine. Digital fishing images are available from stock or on commission. Come and enjoy the fantastic light to draw or paint in the footsteps of the Newlyn School.
Penellen Bed & Breakfast, St Ives Cornwall
Make your holiday memories perfect with our Bed & Breakfast in St Ives Cornwall. Take in the wonderful views and beautiful sunsets at the Penellen.
GWR Steam Railmotor 80 Completed
A model of GWR Steam Railmotor No. 80 in 7mm/ft scale O Gauge Finescale
bridlington boats
MFV JANORAS HEADIN HOME TO BRIDLINGTON
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Dartmoor - Postbridge
The view from the top of a hill at Postbridge, Devon :-)
Top Lobster Catches of 2014 [Snorkeling]
Here's some footage of our top lobster catches taken with a GoPro while snorkeling in the FL Keys for the 2 day mini-season in July of 2014. We were staying in Islamorada.
Sorry for the quick motions... I was more focused on catching than filming! Just thought I'd publish it since it can help those who have never been lobstering see how to catch lobster with a tickle stick while snorkeling.
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Sunset Fistral Beach Newquay - Sunset Over Headland
- Video clips of sunset around the Headland in Newquay
Bristol | Wikipedia audio article
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Bristol
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Bristol ( (listen)) is a city and county in South West England with a population of 459,300. The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England. The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U.K.—the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015.