Places to see in ( Street - UK )
Places to see in ( Street - UK )
Street is a large village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. It is situated on a dry spot in the Somerset Levels, at the end of the Polden Hills, 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of Glastonbury. There is evidence of Roman occupation. Much of the history of the village is dominated by Glastonbury Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and indeed its name comes from a 12th-century causeway from Glastonbury which was built to transport local Blue Lias stone from what is now Street to rebuild the Abbey, although it had previously been known as Lantokay and Lega.
The Society of Friends had become established there by the mid-17th century. One Quaker family, the Clarks, started a business in sheepskin rugs, woollen slippers and, later, boots and shoes. This became C&J Clark which still has its headquarters in Street, but shoes are no longer manufactured there. Instead, in 1993, redundant factory buildings were converted to form Clarks Village, the first purpose-built factory outlet in the United Kingdom. The Shoe Museum provides information about the history of Clarks and footwear manufacture in general.
The Clark family's former mansion and its estate at the edge of the town are now owned by Millfield School, an independent co-educational boarding school. Street is also home to Crispin School and Strode College.
To the north of Street is the River Brue, which marks the boundary with Glastonbury. South of Street are the Walton and Ivythorn Hills and East Polden Grasslands biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Street has two public swimming pools, one indoor which is part of the Strode complex, and the outdoor lido, Greenbank. Strode Theatre provides a venue for films, exhibitions and live performances. The Anglican Parish Church of The Holy Trinity dates from the 14th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
The settlement's earliest known name is Lantokay, meaning the sacred enclosure of Kea, a Celtic saint. In the Domesday Book it was recorded as Strate, and also Lega, a name still used throughout the country in the modern form, Leigh. The centre of Street is where Lower Leigh hamlet was, and the road called Middle Leigh and the community called Overleigh are to the south of the village.
The River Brue marks the boundary with Glastonbury, to the north of Street. At the time of King Arthur, the Brue formed a lake just south of the hilly ground on which Glastonbury stands. This lake is one of the locations suggested by Arthurian legend as the home of the Lady of the Lake. Pomparles Bridge stood at the western end of this lake, guarding Glastonbury from the south, and it was here that Sir Bedivere is thought to have thrown the sword Excalibur into the waters after King Arthur fell at the Battle of Camlann.[18] The old bridge was replaced by a reinforced concrete arch bridge in 1911.
In Roman times Street was close to the route of the Fosse Way and is now on the route of the modern A39 road which runs from Bath to Cornwall, and the A361. Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe. Opened in 1854 as Glastonbury, and renamed in 1886, it had three platforms, two for Evercreech to Highbridge services and one for the branch service to Wells. The station had a large goods yard controlled from a signal box. The site is now a timber yard for a local company. The nearest stations are now around 13 miles away, at Castle Cary and Bridgwater. Replica level crossing gates have been placed at the old station entrance.
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City is Ours free exhibition at the Museum of London
Discover how participative social housing in Chile is helping to build communities, experience standing on top of a skyscraper in Hong Kong. See how social media is used to organise flash mobs and protests around the world; hear the stories of migrants and homeless people as they share their cities on film.
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Finding Unique shops in London these days isn't easy, There is such a huge competition on the high street that people seem to forget about London's beautiful side streets, where personal shopping is not forgotten.
My first discovery was this small, extravagant clothing shop with an unrepeatable 1920's feel, almost like stepping back in time, with some of the highest quality men's and lady's clothing at an affordable price, from Harris tweed to Hand crafted shoes.
'Thomas Farthing' is situated on Museum Street, opposite the 'British Museum' - The Street alone has has a beautiful 'Charles Dickens' feel and is well known for its Range of 'Independent' Cafe's.
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International footwear designer Guy West was on hand to officially unveil the re-furbished Northampton Shoe Museum following its six month face-lift
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Here, we are going to admire The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) which is a bronze sculpture by Rodin. The work shows a nude male figure of over life-size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought and is often used as an image to represent philosophy.
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British family stories: Northampton shoe tales
It's the town where Dr Marten's first made their mark, and Oliver Cromwell got his marching boots, British Future's Rachael Jolley returns to Britain's shoe town Northampton.
Shiny shoes were big in the Jolley family. On Sunday evenings my dad used to get out all the family's shoes and make sure they were in tip-top glowing shape for the week ahead.
Shoes were big in the family bloodline, on both my mum and dad's side. They grew up a few streets away from each other in an area called Semilong where a lot of people who worked in the shoe trade lived. You could say shoes brought them together.
Both families have shoes marching through their histories. My sister has spent a couple of years researching the family's history, in the hope of finding an exciting story of one that got away. Once a couple moved down the road to Daventry (it was lovely there when I was growing up, my mum tells me). But it wasn't long before they were back from the heady world of Daventry, recorded in the next census, back in the city limits. On my dad's side we have found shoelace makers and shoebox makers, on my mum's the heady heights of clickers, the prestigious top of the shoe making world. Being a clicker was like being top of the class, you were the ones who cut out the pattern of leather by hand, it was and is a special skill. Both Uncle Horace and Uncle Stan were clickers, I have just discovered.
I only lived in Northampton as a small child, we used to pop back to visit the extended family and pick up huge cartoons of ice cream from Gallone's, the local ice cream maker, because obviously nobody could make ice cream where we lived in Bristol.
But as a family we travelled the world in the cause of shoes, as my dad moved from working in factories in Bristol, to a company in Pittsburgh, USA, and went off on trips to buy leather in Brazil and Spain.
Sometimes he came back stocked up on samples, which luckily seemed to fit me. I was the only person in my school with gold shiny sci-fi style boots, and obviously the only one with style. I already stood out from the American crowd due to my British accent, so stunning boots just added to the outsider quality.
To understand more about my family history, and the history of shoes in Northampton, I headed off to Northampton's Museum of Shoes where expert Rebecca Shawcross filled me in on tales of sexy shoes, and how Kinky Boots kicked up a revival in Northampton's shoe trade, as well as enlightening me about the ins and outs of the various shoe jobs.
Famously Oliver Cromwell ordered boots for his men from Northampton, but never paid for them. Northampton shoe makers also made millions of boots for soldiers in WWI and WWII, and Northamptonshire develops special waterprooof boots for Hilary's successful expedition up Mount Everest.
It feels as if Northampton's shoes turn up in almost every big moment of British history, as well as every generation of Jolley family history.
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The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, commuter rail, and bridge and tunnel systems under the administration of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The main Museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. There is a smaller satellite Museum Annex in Grand Central Terminal in the midtown area of Manhattan.
Clarks Village - Video 2
Clarks Village is an outlet shopping village in Street, Somerset, England. It was established in 1993 on the site of old C&J Clark factory buildings. In the 19th century Cyrus Clark started a business in sheepskin rugs, later joined by his brother James, who introduced the production of woollen slippers, and later, boots and shoes. However, shoes are no longer manufactured there.
It includes over 90 high street and designer retailers, as well as a number of coffee shops, restaurants and fast food chains. The site is owned by the Hermes Real Estate group and managed by REALM Ltd, who also manage a number of other outlet centres in the United Kingdom. Each year the range of shops and brands available changes. Many family events take place during the year with activities and school holiday activities. Clarks Village selects a charity of the year to support and Somerset Rural Youth Project is its chosen charity for 2016.
The Shoe Museum, which is a short distance from Clarks Village, provides a wealth of information about the history of Clarks and footwear manufacture in general, and a selection of shop display showcards from the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s, and television advertisements. The frontage of the shoe museum includes the clock tower and water tower.
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V&A Museum: Shoes: Pleasure & Pain
Das Londoner Victoria and Albert Museum widmet sich dem wohl beliebtesten Accessoire der Frau – Shoes: Pleasure & Pain lautet der Titel der Ausstellung, die rund 200 Exponate zeigt.
Als Anstoß zur Idee nahm Helen Persson, Kuratorin der Ausstellung, opulente, indische Slipper, die sie vor einigen Jahren im Archiv des Museums fand. Angeordnet wurden die Exponate übrigens in drei Hauptthemen: Transformation, Status und Verführung.
Von Schuhen aus edelster Seide, getragen von Königin Victoria, bis hin zu extravaganten Kreationen von Designerin Westwood – Shoes: Pleasure and Pain skizziert eine Zeitreise durch die Geschichte und beweist, dass Schuhe von hoher kultureller Bedeutung sind. Angefangen bei Modellen von Aphrodite, die stark an heutige Plateauschuhe erinnern, über glitzernde Glas-High Heels im Cinderellastil – Kuratorin Hele Persson meint: “Shoes have such a cultural importance throughout history and in nearly all cultures, because they do signify the status of the wearer, because the more uncomfortable and impractical shoe, the higher the status of the wearer, the more wealthy. Or, a really, a big desire to belong to that kind of exclusive group”
Natürlich dürfen auch die Modelle bedeutender Designer wie Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik und Jimmy Choo nicht fehlen. Aber auch Sneaker von Adidas und historische Schuhe aus dem antiken Griechenland sind in der Ausstellung zu sehen.
Shoes: Pleasure & Pain ist noch bis Januar 2016 im Londoner Victoria and Albert Museum zu bestaunen. Wie sagte Cinderella so schön: One pair of shoes can change your life“ (KiyaTv)