Channel Islands 003) Japanese Pagado looking out over a duckpond in Saumarez Park, Castel, Guerns
Saumarez Rendezvous
750 years in Guernsey
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Guernsey is the second largest of the Channel Islands. Just twenty-five square miles in area, this pocket-sized British Crown dependency is big on sunshine, serenity and history.
St. Peter Port, is one of Europe’s prettiest harbor towns. Standing guard over the capital for over 800 years is Castle Cornet, which houses some of the island’s finest museums.
Continue your history lesson back in town, at the Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery.
Just outside in Candie Gardens, stands a tribute to the literary giant, Victor Hugo, who fell under Guernsey’s spell in the 19th century.
Follow coastal paths, which pass coastal forts like Clarence Battery and sheltered beaches like Petit Bot Bay. While Guernsey’s coastline often steals the show, you’ll find plenty to explore inland too, such as the nature trails and floral displays of Saumarez Park and Sausmarez Manor.
Step into the damp netherworld of the German Underground Hospital, a maze of tunnels hewn from solid rock during World War Two. On the outskirts of St Peter Port, a former U-Boat fuel depot houses the La Vallette Underground Military Museum.
After the war, German equipment littered the island. The German Occupation Museum displays an incredible array of this wartime memorabilia, and pays tribute to the resourceful islanders who endured the years of occupation.
After spending a few hours wandering through the shadows of war, stepping back into the island’s sea air and sunshine is all more the sweeter.
BBC Antiques Roadshow Filming in Guernsey (Part 3 of 4)
This is my filming of the BBC Antiques Roadshow programme when they came to Saumarez Park in Guernsey, Channel Islands to do some filming and to give a chance for local people to take their antiques down to be valued by the regular antiques experts that are seen on the show.
This was filmed on the 9th June 2009 and the programme is due to be shown on the BBC in August or September 2009.
Fiona Bruce is the current presenter and is seen several times during my videos.
The manor house at Saumarez Park used to be the house of a vast private estate which stretched down to Cobo Bay. Today the house is now an old peoples home and the park is a public park.
Gabriella Boyd Artist Blain|Southern ‘Help Yourself’ 23 March – 5 May 2018 Mesmerising !
Notes © Blain Southern 2018 Private View: Thursday 22 March, 6-8pm
For the fourth exhibition in Blain|Southern’s Lodger series, the artist Gabriella Boyd has created a new series of paintings, in which dream logic appears to dominate, and the atmosphere is suffused with both eroticism and threat.
Caught between fretful urgency and an odd, immobilising calm, these canvases feel like glimpses into a sideways dimension, where everything from social conventions to the laws of physics have been subtly redrafted by some shadowy consciousness.
Rendered in a palette of warm yellows, pinks, oranges and deep reds, we might imagine these works giving off heat, like sunbaked brickwork, or human skin. Time accretes on their surfaces, marked by single, swift brushstrokes and dense fogs of pigment. Space buckles and collapses in on itself, and bodies are turned inside out. Human relationships take on shapes that are at once strange and strangely familiar, while near-diagrammatic modes of depiction coexist with the airy diffusion of colour, line and form.
Perhaps it’s not dream logic that holds sway here at all, but rather simply Boyd’s medium. Like dreams, paintings have their own protocols, and their own deep sense of what’s necessary. They strive towards what the artist has termed a ‘given-ness’, the compositional and emotional establishment of ‘a believable world’.
A publication accompanies the exhibition, with a new text by Tom Morton
About the artist
Gabriella Boyd (b.1988, Glasgow) lives and works in London. She studied at Glasgow School of Art (2007-2011) and Royal Academy Schools, London (2014-2017). Selected previous exhibitions include Dreamers Awake, White Cube Bermondsey (2017), Royal Academy Schools Show (2017), Everyone is Rich Now Apparently, Supplement at 255 Canal St, NYC (2017), Gabriella Boyd & Marco Giordano, Art Park, Glasgow International (2016). Boyd was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016, and was commissioned by the Folio Society to illustrate a new edition of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams in 2015. Her work will feature in the forthcoming Glasgow International 2018, where it will be shown at The Pipe Factory.
About Lodger
Lodger is a series of exhibitions at Blain|Southern, conceived by the writer, curator, and contributing editor for frieze magazine, Tom Morton. Running concurrent to the exhibitions in the central space, Lodger expands Blain|Southern’s programme into new territories. Previous artists participating in the Lodger series include Alex Dordoy, Sophie Jung, and Brian Griffiths.
Tom Morton’s exhibitions include Äppärät at the Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2015), British British Polish Polish at the CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2013) the touring survey British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet (2010/11, with Lisa Le Feuvre), and How to Endure at the 1st Athens Biennale (2007). He has worked as a curator at Cubitt Gallery, London and the Hayward Gallery, London, and his writing has appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and anthologies.
Havelet Waters Guernsey
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Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden Events of 2014
A section of events that have taken place for the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden, Saumarez Park, Guernsey during 2014.
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Abandoned Suffolk Mansion/ former luxury spa hotel
Exploring the grounds of an abandoned mansion previously used as a luxury spa and the location of a some scenes in a James Bond movie.
Filmed with the help of my 11yr old son who was really brave coming here with me.
History of Shrubland Hall
Previously used as an exclusive health clinic, the 24-bedroom period building, sits in hundreds of acres of English Heritage registered parkland, and was once the childhood haunt of Roddy Llewellyn, the former lover of the late Princess Margaret.
It was built in the late 18th Century for the Rev John Bacon.
It was remodelled in the early 1830s and again between 1849-55 for Sir William Fowle Middleton, who also created the terraced gardens.
After Sir William’s death in 1860, the property passed to his cousin Sir George Nathaniel Broke Middleton, then to his niece Jane Anne Broke and her husband James Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez.
It was used as a convalescent home during the First World War and parts of it as a brigade headquarters during the Second World War.
The 6th Baron de Saumarez established a health clinic at the property in the 1960s.
The health clinic continued, operating from the adjoining Shrubland Park Gardens, until April 2006, when the Shrubland estate, totalling 1,300 acres, was put up for sale with an asking price of £23 million.
The hall also featured in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again.
It was put on the market in 2006 for £23m.
The estate was sold in 42 separate lots in 2009-2010, with the hall itself going to Dr Farmer.
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Grand Pageant - West Show 2008
This is a video of the Grand Pageant display which was at Guernsey's West Show 2008.
It is a reinactment of a Bazaar which was held in 1907 in Guernsey's Saumarez Park to raise money for a charity, the Guernsey Benifices Augmentation Fund. The theme was characteristic life in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Houses would be built to represent each part of the UK and during the Bazaar the people from each part would entertain the crowds. The houses seen here from right to left represent England, Wales, Jersey, Ireland and Scotland. The event was organised by the churches of the country parishes. In this event the local clergymen who struggled to live on the very low pay at the time, would receive monetary gifts from the Governor of Guernsey at the time, a Major Campbell.
It has been turned into a very funny reinactment with the addition of a drunk clergyman and the Jersey house because we like to poke fun at our neighbouring island Jersey, as they do with us.
See my Channel for 14 other videos of the Guernsey West Show 2008.
German Military Nazi Museum - St. Peter Port - Guernsey - September 2009
George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party. He was a major figure in the neo-Nazi movement in the United States, and his beliefs and writings have continued to be influential among white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
On August 25, 1967, Rockwell was killed by gunshots while leaving a shopping center in Arlington, Virginia. John Patler, a former member of Rockwell's group, was arrested, convicted of the murder, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Patler was paroled in 1975, after serving eight years.
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Captain Obvious Walks Around Guernsey Sausmarez Manor
Lee Valley Walking.mov
Gerard Ryan talks about the great times he has with The Lee Valley walking group based near Macroom in Co. Cork Ireland
Maritime history of the Channel Islands | Wikipedia audio article
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Maritime history of the Channel Islands
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00:00:40 1.1 Stone Age and Bronze Age
00:01:15 1.2 Iron Age
00:01:41 1.3 Roman
00:02:39 1.4 Early Middle Ages
00:03:14 1.5 High Middle Ages
00:05:11 1.6 Early Modern
00:10:07 1.7 Late Modern
00:13:11 2 Advantages enjoyed by the Islands
00:14:56 3 Types of trade
00:15:05 3.1 Fishing
00:17:25 3.2 Manufactured goods
00:18:26 3.3 Entrepôt
00:19:18 3.4 Cod and North America
00:20:40 3.5 Horticulture and agriculture
00:21:28 3.6 Quarrying
00:22:11 4 Other activities
00:22:20 4.1 Privateering
00:24:49 4.2 Smuggling
00:27:28 4.3 Royal Navy
00:28:37 4.4 Passenger transport
00:30:12 5 Shipwrecks
00:31:40 6 Famous Channel Island mariners
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The Channel Islands comprise a group of islands off the coast of France. The largest island is Jersey, followed by Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and a number of smaller islands, islets and rocky outcrops. The islands were separated from mainland Europe with rising sea levels in the Neolithic period, thereafter maritime activity commenced.
Needing to trade, the Islands were innovative and changed with times, building up skills, earning money and investing capital in maritime businesses.
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Sterling banknotes are the banknotes in circulation in the British Islands (encompassing the United Kingdom and the British Crown dependencies), denominated in pounds sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code GBP). One pound is equivalent to 100 pence.
The pound is the official currency of the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies of Britain. Three British Overseas Territories also have currencies called pounds which are at par with the pound sterling.
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Exeter Property Group is Using Drone Technology: 575 Veterans Parkway - Breaking Ground August 2014
Property Specifications:
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Indian Ocean in World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:27:27 1.4 1943
00:38:47 1.5 1944
00:49:03 1.6 1945
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Prior to World War II, the Indian Ocean was an important maritime trade route between European nations and their colonial territories in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, British India, Indochina, the East Indies (Indonesia), and Australia for a long time. Naval presence was dominated by the Royal Navy Eastern Fleet and the Royal Australian Navy as World War II began, with a major portion of the Royal Netherlands Navy operating in the Dutch East Indies and the Red Sea Flotilla of the Italian Regia Marina operating from Massawa.
Axis naval forces gave a high priority to disrupting Allied trade in the Indian Ocean. Initial anti-shipping measures of unrestricted submarine warfare and covert raiding ships expanded to include airstrikes by aircraft carriers and raids by cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. A Kriegsmarine Monsun Gruppe of U-boats operated from the eastern Indian Ocean after the Persian Corridor became an important military supply route to the Soviet Union.
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