A Day In 29270 Carhaix Plouguer, Finistère, France 10th November 2016
An afternoon in 29270 Carhaix-Plouguer, Finistère, Brittany, France
Videoed on Thursday, 10th November 2016
© Mike Fairman 2017
Saint-Trémeur Church Carhaix-Plouguer, Finistère, Brittany, France 14th September 2008
Video & pictures of Saint-Trémeur Church, 29270 Carhaix Plouguer,, Finistère, Brittany, France.
Videoed: 14th September 2008
© Mike Fairman 2008
Driving Along Rue du Général de Gaulle, Rue Nationale & Rue François Mitterrand, Pontivy, France
Driving along Rue du Général de Gaulle, Rue Nationale & Rue François Mitterrand, Pontivy, Morbihan, Brittany, France
Videoed on Friday, 29th April 2011
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From Paris to Calais 3part 24-25.12.08..
Avenue Raymond Poincaré Paris Arrondissement 16e
Avenue Raymond-Poincaré
Arrondissement 16e
Quartier Porte-Dauphine
Chaillot
Début Place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre
Fin 39 avenue Foch
Longueur 950 m
Largeur 23,5 m
Driving Along The N12 E50 From Saint-Martin-des-Champs To Plouigneau, Finistère, Brittany, France
Driving along the N12 E50 from Saint-Martin-des-Champs to Plouigneau, Finistère, Brittany, France
Videoed on Wednesday, 20th June 2012
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Driving Along The A449 From Ledbury, Herefordshire To Great Malvern, Worcestershire
Driving along the A449 from Ledbury, Herefordshire to Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Videoed on Friday, 4th March 2011
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Our Lady & Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church Hanley Swan, Worcestershire, England 7th April 2013
Our Lady & Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire, England
Videoed Sunday, 7th April 2013
© Mike Fairman 2013
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In 1846 the Hornyold family funded the building of a Catholic church in Hanley Swan. Our Lady and St Alphonsus, with adjoining presbytery, was built on land donated by Thomas Charles Hornyold and was paid for by his nephew John Vincent Gandolfi-Hornyold at a cost of £30,000 (£2m today). It was designed in the Gothic Revival style by the architect Charles Hansom, whose brother designed Birmingham Town Hall and also the Hansom cab. The furnishings, including a fine tiled floor made by Mintons, were by the architect and designer A W Pugin.
A cloister joins the church to the presbytery, which was originally built as a monastery to accommodate a community of nine Redemptorists - an order founded in the 18th century by St Alphonsus to work among the poor of Naples. John Vincent Gandolfi had met them while travelling on the Continent and invited them to establish a house at Blackmore. But they left in 1851 and the building was turned into a priest's house. After the Blackmore Park sale of 1919, ownership of the church and presbytery was transferred to the archdiocese of Birmingham. In 1944-45 there were 12 weddings at the church between Americans from the military hospital in Blackmore Park and English or Irish girls.
Today the priest lives at Upton, where more than half the 600 Catholics in the area live, but has an office at Blackmore, and the presbytery is rented to a Catholic family.
Driving On The A449 From Ledbury To Malvern, England 12th September 2014
Driving along the A449 from Ledbury, Herefordshire through (or near) Massington, Chances Pitch, Little Malvern, Malvern Wells, Lower Wyche, Great Malvern to Malvern Link, Worcestershire, England
Videoed on Friday, 12th September 2014
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© Mike Fairman 2014