#Digswell Viaduct

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Train Over Digswell Viaduct

14th February 2023

25 second exposure.

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📢 Join Us for the Digswell Arts Open Studios Event! 🎨 We are excited to invite you to our 2024 Open Studios at The Forge! 🗓 Dates: Saturday, 22nd June: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Sunday, 23rd June: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM 📍 Location: The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell, Herts, AL6 0BU Come and meet our talented artists including Elena Turner, Katy Cook, Mary Down, Sandra Smith, Marian Hall, Sue Jarman, Liberty Burrough, Julia Holt, Grete Dalum, Caryl Beach, Tina Culverhouse, Rebecca Newman-Smith, Stephen Brown, and the Open Access Printmakers. ✨ Free Entry ✨ 🅿️ Free parking on-site or at Digswell Park Road (Viaduct) Car Park. 🚶‍♀️ Just a 10-minute walk from Welwyn North Station. Don't miss this chance to engage with our artists, explore their creative spaces, and see their amazing work. Follow us on Instagram @digswellarts for a sneak peek of what's in store!

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A walk near Digswell Viaduct visiting the River Mimram and Digswell Nature Reserve. Digswell Walk One on the Herts Walk App. (at Hertfordshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpA4QqntGlu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A quick snapshot from my phone (at Digswell Viaduct) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7cHxdcJigW/?igshid=zi11puq9lc36

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When can I use my mobile phone coming into or out of Kings Cross?

Just because I can never remember: a list of tunnels, station and landmarks heading north from Kings Cross station:

Kings Cross station

== tunnel ==

Channel Tunnel Rail Link viaduct

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Emirates Stadium

Finsbury Park station

Harringay station

Bounds Green depot

Hornsey station

Alexandra Palace station

== tunnel ==

New Southgate station

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Oakleigh Park station

New Barnet station

== tunnel ==

Hadley Wood station

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Potters Bar station

Brookmans Park station

Welham Green station

Hatfield station

Welwyn Garden City station

Welwyn/Digswell viaduct

Welwyn North station

== two tunnels ===

Knebworth station

Stevenage station

There's over 11 miles between the Potters Bar tunnels and the Welwyn tunnels.

If it's dark and you can't see where you are, then on an East Coast train going north, it normally take 20 minutes to get to Stevenage from Kings Cross.

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Beauty spot or landscape blot? Computer trained to choose surroundings

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Beauty spot or landscape blot? Computer trained to choose surroundings

Wordsworth determined it in a host of daffodils; Nan Shepherd in the nooks of the Cairngorms. For Monet, it popped up all over the place, from the windmills and canals of Amsterdam to the cruising boats of Argenteuil.

What lends a scenic beauty has long been left to the poets and painters to outline, however that can be about to exchange. In a new study, researchers skilled a laptop to inform scenic views from blots on the panorama. One day it can assist with selections over what land to shield, and how better to design new towns and cities, the scientists declare.

“We need to understand what stunning places are composed of due to the fact there’s a connection among stunning places and those’s wellness,” said Chanuki Seresinhe, a researcher on the assignment at the University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute in London. “If we can have a laptop observe the surroundings and inform us how beautiful it’s far, we can use it to increase a greater first-class-tuned know-how,” she added.

The scientists fed a pc extra than 2 hundred,000 pix of locations in Great Britain that have been rated for beauty on the internet site, Scenic-or-not. The pc then connected the rankings to capabilities within the photos and produced lists of what makes one scene stunning some other an eyesore. The solutions are rarely unexpected: lakes, valleys, coastlines and mountains all rating quite, even as derelict commercial sites, dual carriageway junctions and construction websites rating the bottom.

The findings offer reassurance – although the maximum of the pics aren’t recent – that Loch Scavaig on the Isle of Skye, South Wheal Frances in Cornwall, and Embley Wood in Hampshire are all first-rate locations to be. As for the vintage Brancepeth Works in County Durham, the view from Rake Lane in Cheshire, and the A42 at Junction 23a of the M1, the much less said the higher.

The pc discovered that there is more to splendor than the natural world. Scenes with canals, churches and cottages, towers, viaducts, and castles all score properly, whilst hospitals, vehicle parks, and factories bring the rating down. Among the constructed up places, the computer scored rather have been the view down Erewash canal in Derbyshire, the Digswell Viaduct in Hertfordshire, and Panteg Cemetery Chapel close to Pontypool in South Wales. In London, it picked out the Tower of London and the Palace of Westminster.

Perhaps the maximum placing finding is that flat patches of grass score poorly within the splendor stakes. “If the grass is flat and it lacks trees and contours, it receives rated down,” Seresinhe said. That has implications for the layout of latest cities, in which planners may additionally want green areas, she stated. “Putting in a green area isn’t always enough, the nice of the inexperienced space is important too.”

According to the researchers, the findings offer hope for the destiny. “Built structures are coming up as beautiful and that means that city regions don’t need to be unpleasant, we do now not should surrender,” said Seresinhe. The studies are posted in Royal Society Open Science.

Nicholas Crane, a presenter on BBC2’s Coast and president of the Royal Geographical Society, turned into no longer passionate about the paintings. Flat green areas can end up locations for quiet contemplation and provide vistas in opposition to which other structures are set, he said. Meanwhile, locations that aren’t conventionally beautiful can be treasures within the landscape for future generations to discover and understand the beyond. “I’d be extraordinarily alarmed to look this being adopted as a planning tool,” he stated.

He said there has been a “detail of banality” in splendor being equated to famous landmarks like the Tower of London. “Urban beauty is a long way, a ways greater diffused than this,” he stated. “The Banksy at ankle height in an East End doorway or sunlit rivets under a canal bridge can alternate a passer-with the aid of’s day, but I suspect those would be difficult to thing right into a version,” he stated.

Ralph Pite, a professor of English literature who studies Robert Frost at the University of Bristol, is likewise unconvinced. Beauty, he stated, can be a false measure of what’s well worth preserving. The Lake District might be very stunning, however environmentally, it is not a fulfillment story.

“Personally, I love the mudflats of the Severn estuary and the Mersey. I marvel how high they could rating? Bogland, wetland, the Somerset Levels, the flow united states of America of Caithness – I don’t assume any of those would get a great deal of a look-in. But I could hate to lose them or see them broken.

“If you accompanied this set of rules you will emerge as with us of a residence parkland everywhere, due to the fact our sense of splendor could be very limited and cliched. Better, in my opinion, to go on out to the mudflat and learn how to find it irresistible,” he stated.

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The Digswell Arts Trust was founded in 1957 by Henry Morris, the revolutionary educationalist, and inaugurated by Lady Mountbatten on 29th May 1959. Morris was a great enthusiast for the arts, and had been appointed to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning to advise on the cultural and leisure arrangements in the recently designated British New Towns. Morris passionately believed in art for people, and maintained that artists were vital for the well-being of society.

Through his energy, dedication and influence he persuaded the Government and the Welwyn Garden City Development Corporation to establish a Trust for professional artists. Digswell House, the first home of the Trust, was a regency mansion with cottages and outbuildings on the edge of Welwyn Garden City. The Development Corporation agreed to restore the house for artists’ accommodation, studios and workshops and lease it to the Trust at a modest rent, which would in turn reflect public patronage via affordable rents for the artists, who were designated “Fellows”.

Nearly 150 artists were accommodated by the Trust over the next 27 years at Digswell House. Some became internationally famous, including Hans Coper, Michael Andrews, John Brunsden, John Mills, James Butler, Peter Collingwood, Ralph Brown, Liz Fritsch, Lol Coxhill. Many other distinguished people supported the Trust including Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Bryan Robertson, Roland Penrose, Jane Drew, Jack Pritchard, and Victor Margrie.

Digswell House provided a collegiate environment but over the years required significant repair which the Trust was unable to financially support. Therefore, in 1984 the Trust moved to Attimore Hall Barn, near Welwyn Garden City, where it resided until 2006. At this time, with the support of English Partnerships, the Trust took a 25 year lease on a purpose-built studio building on the site of the former forge in Digswell, near Welwyn.

Over the last fifteen years, the trust has expanded from its initial base. In 1993, Stevenage Borough Council kindly agreed to lease Fairlands Valley Farmhouse to the Trust, which doubled the Trust’s available studio space. In 2011, in an exciting development, in partnership with the Heritage Foundation, the Trust opened a new flagship studio facility in Letchworth at the Fenners Building which will bring capacity to approximately forty artist studios.

To celebrate the 60th Anniversary Artists at The Forge Digswell will be holding an Open Studio Event on May 6th and 7th 11am-4pm.

Design: Charlie Bentley. Image: Sally Tyrie

Design : Charlie Bentley Images:Sally Tyrie

Visit www.digswellarts.org for more details.

As part of the Open Studios, artists are creating new works to celebrate the links between Digswell Village and Digswell Arts.

Digswell House site of the first DA Artist Studios

Digswell Viaduct

Digswell Arts 60th Anniversary The Digswell Arts Trust was founded in 1957 by Henry Morris, the revolutionary educationalist, and inaugurated by Lady Mountbatten on 29th May 1959.

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Digswell Viaduct

14 February 2023

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🎨🖼️ Explore the inspiring talent of our local artists at the Digswell Arts Open Studios event this weekend! We're proud to present Sandra Smith. Sandra Smith is a painter concerned with landscape in the broadest sense, including domestic and suburban environments and has a special interest in traditional practices of proportion in relation to the human body, architecture and space. The work in the open studios includes work in progress on two large canvasses of the Shredded Wheat Factory in Welwyn Garden City, and an interior of a writers living space, as well as several works in progress of drawn interiors, documented in lockdown. Speak directly with Sandra and our other creative talents, gaining insights into their artistic processes and inspirations. Whether you're an avid art collector or simply appreciate the beauty of artistic expression, you're sure to be captivated. 📅 Mark your calendars for this Saturday, July 1st (11:00-18:00), and Sunday, July 2nd (11:00-16:00). Join us at The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell, Herts, AL6 0BU (Free on-site parking available, with additional parking just a short 5-minute walk away at Digswell Park Road (Viaduct) Car Park)📍

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A Walk Near Digswell Viaduct. A walk on Friday near Digswell Viaduct visiting the River Mimram and the Snowdrops next to the River. (at Hertfordshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoidWyUtOs5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Nice little shot from today (at Digswell Viaduct)

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Starlight over a passing train on the Digswell Viaduct

21 February 2023

Long exposure of 30 seconds