#Staunton Harold

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Staunton Harold Hall, England (by Colin Bowles)

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Chaos and Order at Staunton Harold church, Leicestershire

Our choir at Portsmouth are performing Haydn's Creation this weekend, with its fabulous depiction of chaos and light, so it was interesting to see what seems such an eighteenth century concept represented nearly 150 years earlier at Staunton Harold Church in Leicestershire. This is a rare example of a church built during the interregnum, and a Laudian one at that, at a time when what we know of today as Anglican worship, with the Book of Common Prayer and its formal style of dress and worship, was outlawed.

The church was commissioned by royalist activist Sir Robert Shirley, who died of smallpox in the Tower of London in 1656. Shirley was too young to have fought in the civil wars of the 1640s, but an example of a new royalist, ardently loyal to the banned rituals of the Church of England.

Reproduction in the church of a painting of Sir Robert by Robert Walker - it is not clear where the original resides. Evidently he was a handsome fellow, and managed to produce five children before his untimely death.

Yet his design, while Laudian in its inclusion of a high altar, contains little else to offend puritan sensibilities. It is plain in style, its only significant imagery on the ceiling being sufficiently abstract to avoid contravening parliamentary ordinances against superstitious images. It compares and contrasts chaos (including a black dog said to represent Cromwell) on the left and order on the right, including the word for God in Hebrew and Greek.

The design was completed after Shirley's death and Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon, a beneficiary of Shirley's will, erected this plaque at the entrance to the church, praising Shirley for doing the 'best things in the worst times' by building the church, as well as supporting 'distressed and orthodox' clergy who had lost their livings for refusing to support the puritan changes to the church.

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Easy Company Members Sorted Between Surviving and Not Surviving WWII:

Died During the War:

Company Commanders:

First Lieutenant Thomas Meehan III (July 8th, 1921 - June 6th, 1944)

Non-commissioned Officers:

Sergeant Warren Harold "Skip" Muck (January 31st, 1922 - January 10th, 1945)

Enlisted Men:

Corporal Donald B. "Hoob" Hoobler (June 28th, 1922 - January 3rd, 1945)

Private First Class Alex Mike Penkala (August 30th, 1924 - January 10th, 1945)

Survived the War:

Company Commanders:

Captain Herbert Maxwell Sobel (January 26th, 1912 - September 30th, 1987)

Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters (January 21st, 1918 - January 2nd, 2011)

First Lieutenant Frederick Theodore "Moose" Heyliger (June 23rd, 1916 - November 3rd, 2001)

First Lieutenant Norman Staunton "Foxhole Norman" Dike Jr. (May 19th, 1918 - June 23rd, 1989)

Captain Ronald Charles Speirs (April 20th, 1920 - April 11th, 2007)

Junior Officers:

Captain Lewis Nixon (September 30th, 1918 - January 11th, 1995)

First Lieutenant Lynn Davis "Buck" Compton (December 31st, 1921 - February 25th, 2012)

First Lieutenant Edward David "Ed" Shames (June 13th, 1922 - December 3rd, 2021)

Second Lieutenant Robert Burnham "Bob" Brewer (January 31st, 1924 - December 5th, 1996)

Second Lieutenant Clifford Carwood "Lip" Lipton (January 30th, 1920 - December 16th, 2001)

Non-commissioned Officers:

Technical Sergeant Donald George "Don" Malarkey (July 30th, 1920 - September 30th, 2017)

Staff Sergeant William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere Sr. (April 28th, 1923 - March 8th, 2014)

Staff Sergeant Herman "Hank, Hack" Hanson (January 3rd, 1918 - May 15th, 1971)

Staff Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman (November 20th, 1920 - June 26th, 2003)

Staff Sergeant Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (March 13th, 1923 - June 17th, 2009)

Staff Sergeant John W. "Johnny" Martin (December 8th, 1921 - December 31st, 2012)

Staff Sergeant Floyd "Tab" Talbert (August 26th, 1923 - October 10th, 1982)

Staff Sergeant Charles E. "Chuck" Grant (March 1922 - October 12th, 1982)

Staff Sergeant Joseph John "Joe" Toye (March 14th, 1919 - September 3rd, 1995)

Sergeant Robert Emory "Popeye" Wynn Jr. (July 10th, 1921 - March 18th, 2000)

Sergeant James H. "Moe" Alley (July 20th, 1922 - March 14th, 2008)

Sergeant Wayne "Skinny" Sisk (March 4th, 1922 - July 13th, 1999)

Corporal Walter Scott "Smokey" Gordon Jr. (April 15th, 1920 - April 19th, 1997)

Enlisted Men:

Technician Fourth Grade George Luz (June 17th, 1921 - October 15th, 1998)

Technician Fourth Grade Eugene Gilbert "Doc" Roe Sr. (October 17th, 1922 - December 30th, 1998)

Technician Fifth Grade Joseph David "Joe" Liebgott (May 17th, 1915 - June 28th, 1992)

Private First Class Edward James "Babe" Heffron (May 16th, 1923 - December 1st, 2013)

Private First Class Edward Joseph "Tip" Tipper (August 3rd, 1921 - February 1st, 2017)

Private First Class David Kenyon Webster (June 2nd, 1922 - September 9th, 1961)

*This is not all of Easy Co. just some of the more recognizable names. If I missed anyone that you would like to see listed please message me and I would be glad to add him.

**I was also thinking about adding more info to this list and/or making a separate post with additional details like awards/medals, how and where they were wounded (if at all), and maybe some personal details like where they were born/died, their family (parents, siblings, spouse, children), what they did after the war (if they survived) stuff like that (though that might be a separate list idk yet). I would love to hear your opinion and if you'd like to see something like this. Basically just one large masterpost! Message me and tell me your thoughts!!!! I'm open to ideas!

[angel-princess-anna]

DA Movie 3 Cast

(breaking this down so it's easier to figure out)

Confirmations as IN:

From the TV show: Robert, Cora, Mary, Edith, Bertie, Tom, Isobel, Dickie, Carson, Mrs Hughes, Anna, Bates, Thomas, Baxter, Molesley, Mrs Patmore, Andy, Daisy, Harold

From the films: Guy

New additions played by: Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale, Arty Froushan

(We know that Sybbie and George will appear thanks to the child actors' parents posting on Instagram.)

Who is NOT listed:

From the TV show who also appeared in at least one film: Matthew Goode (Henry Talbot), Paul Copley (Mr Mason), Samantha Bond (Rosamund) (and of course Maggie but I don't think Violet is appearing as a ghost)

From the films: Tuppence Middleton (Lucy), Imelda Staunton (Maud - but she already confirmed this)

Gonna be pedantic, but it's actually not quite proper grammatically to say "many other fan favorites" after the "exciting new additions", as it implies that somehow the fan favorites are new additions, but I assume does this mean someone will cameo. But also not like Paul didn't play Harold in the TV show lol.

Tuppence Middleton is filming The Forsyte Saga this summer, so I assume she's too busy to be in the film overall, but maybe Lucy will have a cameo? Don't know what this spells for Henry, but we'll see.

Also not listed is Shirley MacLaine is also not listed as Martha, Cora and Harold's mother in the TV show.

Let the speculations begin!

EDIT: I left off Dr Clarkson! He is not listed.

[theohonohan]

Ornamental lakes, part 2

I feel like my previous post about this may not have made it as clear as it could be. The original is a little bit less explicit than I would like. There is an underlying logic to the change in landscape design practices which still needs to be brought out. Anyway, here is an extract from Bishop's thesis.

Irregular lakes began to be made in the 1720s. While landscapes were intrinsically linear, with symmetry as the underlying ethos, it was very difficult to make lakes in them without disturbing those things. Ornamental water basically had to be in the form of canals to be feasible in the design. Exceptional circumstances, such as wealth and topography did enable some geometric lakes to be made, as we have seen at Boughton, Welford and Staunton Harold: either the land was virtually flat, or the patron had enough money to pay for substantial earth moving. However, geometric water usually had to be fairly small, not just because it was expensive to make but because it would not fit easily into the overall design. Once irregular ornamental lakes started to become fashionable the geometric straitjacket did not fit, and flexibility or unbalancing in landscape design began to increase. Irregular aspects in garden and landscape features, such as sinuous paths in wildernesses, irregular outlines to plantations, and irregularly shaped ornamental water began to appear in the late 1710s. By the later 1720s irregular elements were becoming increasingly significant, as Badeslade’s bird’s-eye view of Hamels illustrates, as well as plans published by Switzer and Batty Langley. Wildernesses and plantations were familiar elements, albeit in the process of changing, but the first truly irregular element to appear was the water. It changed out of all recognition, in size and shape, during this period (1720s-30s), becoming completely irregular—what we would call a ‘lake’ today.

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Car park ban for peacock which 'trashed' BMW#Car #park #ban #peacock #trashed #BMW

John Blunt said Toby had become an enormous attraction at the Ferrers Centre The owner of an arts and crafts centre has been forced to lock up his peacock after it damaged a visitor’s car. John Blunt runs the Ferrers Centre in Staunton Harold on the border of Leicestershire and Derbyshire. He said Toby pecked at his reflection in a shiny black BMW that was parked on the site, causing hundreds of…

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Because who wouldn’t want a blonde Peter Lorre lookalike standing outside their cafe, proffering dubious-looking cake?  (Currently on display/ sale at the antiques hut by the aquatic store at the Staunton Harold estate, North West Leicestershire, the name of which escapes me...)

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#365daysofbiking New ways out and pushing the Boundary :

June 22nd - A hurried, fast three hour ride out to an event I’d not been to before - Ashby Steam Fair at Boundary, between Swadlincote and Ashby de la Zouch. A fine day.

The fair itself was excellent, and probably the best I’d ever been to - and after I carried on to Calke, Staunton Harold Reservoir, Melbourne and then into Derby via National Cycle Route 6.

I’m always charmed by a decent steam event, and this one was terrific; not least for the sheer diversity of collections, exhibits and pastimes on display. You can see a full gallery of that on my main blog here.

I left Derby on Route 54 and returned via Rolleston, Anslow, Barton and Lichfield.

It was a great day, and Staunton Harold was much more peaceful and as beautiful as ever it was.

Can’t think why I haven’t featured it before

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Holy Trinity chapel, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire in December. X

[thecrownnet]

Oscar-winners, acting legends and a very famous Doctor have all portrayed characters in The Crown Season 1 - 6 ♚

Queen Elizabeth II - Claire Foy, Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton 

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - Matt Smith, Tobias Menzies and Jonathan Pryce 

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon - Vanessa Kirby, Helena Bonham Carter and Lesley Manville 

Other key cast in The Crown:

Eileen Atkins as Queen Mary (season 1)

Victoria Hamilton (seasons 1–2), Marion Bailey (seasons 3–4), and Marcia Warren (seasons 5-6) as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Ben Miles (season 1, featured season 2) and Timothy Dalton (season 5) as Group Captain Peter Townsend 

Greg Wise (seasons 1–2) and Charles Dance (season 3, featured season 4) as Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Jared Harris as King George VI (season 1, featured season 2)

John Lithgow as Winston Churchill (season 1, featured seasons 2–3)

Alex Jennings (season 1, featured season 2) and Derek Jacobi (featured season 3) as Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor

Anton Lesser as Harold Macmillan (season 2)

Matthew Goode (season 2) and Ben Daniels (season 3) as Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon

Jason Watkins as Harold Wilson (season 3)

Erin Doherty (seasons 3–4) Claudia Harrison (seasons 5-6) as Princess Anne

Josh O'Connor (seasons 3–4) and Dominic West (seasons 5-6) as Charles, Prince of Wales 

Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher (season 4)

Emma Corrin (season 4) and Elizabeth Debicki (seasons 5-6) as Diana, Princess of Wales 

Emerald Fennell (season 4, featured season 3) and Olivia Williams (seasons 5-6) as Camilla Shand 

Stream The Crown Seasons 1-4 on Netflix.

The Crown Season 5 premieres Wednesday 9 November on Netflix.

- The Crown: Who’s played Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and key cast through the years?, BT .com Sept 27, 2022

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Back in 2016, if your memory is able to rewind that far, Tom Hiddleston was coming off a stellar performance fronting BBC series The Night Manager and subsequently fending off Bond rumours.

Then came the infamous 'I <3 T.S' t-shirt he was photographed wearing while frolicking in the sea with then-girlfriend Taylor Swift. Their relationship ending provided only passing gossip, but the memory of the white vest lives on forever in our collective memory.

It turns out that his time as part of a couple in the media spotlight was worth it after all, because if you can't play Bond then the next best thing in terms of England's starting XI of icons is surely playing Prince Charles. He might need to dye his hair, but Hiddleston certainly has all of the nervous charm and plummy charisma to take on the throne.

This weekend brought the news that Hiddleston's The Night Manager co-star Elizabeth Debicki has been cast as Princess Diana for the final two seasons of Netflix's The Crown. Debicki played Hiddleston's love interest in the BBC series based on the novel of the same name by John le Carré, with the pair involved in a complicated and dangerous love triangle that gave the Charles–Diana–Camilla entanglement a run for its money.

Debicki takes over from Emma Corrin who plays young Diana opposite Josh O'Connor in the forthcoming season four, a chapter which will focus on Charles and Diana's romance and the strain that the media attention on the people's princess put on their relationship.

In his interview with Esquire, O'Connor spoke of how “the Diana stuff” has been “thrilling to play”, with one moment from their 1983 tour of Australia showing Charles' rage at being outshone by his dazzling wife. “I don’t deserve this!” he says in the scene. “This is supposed to be my tour.”

Their tumultuous relationship will carry on to season five, the penultimate instalment of the series, which is packed with high profile stars including Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret and Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip. Given the patterns that previous seasons have followed, and the news that Staunton would be “taking The Crown into the 21st century”, it seems likely that the fifth season will focus on the early Nineties and end in the early Noughties.

This era included the divorce of Charles and Diana as well as her tragic death, the fallout of which show creator Peter Morgan has already documented in The Queen, the 2006 film which stars Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth in the wake of Diana's death.

The throes of these years require someone with the theatrical talent of Hiddleston, an actor who has been twice nominated [sic] for and once won a Laurence Olivier Award for turns in Shakespeare plays, as well as winning plaudits for his portrayal of Henry V.

Perhaps the greatest demonstration he is the man to play Charles was his recent performance in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, a simmering love triangle which dug into the complicated emotions, jealousies and veiled motives of each of the trio when it played in the West End and later on Broadway.

His Shakespeare pedigree as well as his time as a Marvel superhero are both roles which stand him in good stead to play a man who is somewhere between a King and a God, but never allowed to be fully human. His clear on-screen chemistry with Debicki and ability to play conflicted and complicated characters could make for an electric chapter of The Crown, with Morgan describing the marriage of Charles and Diana as, “three Brexits and three Covids wrapped into one.”

Cometh the hour, cometh the nervous Englishman.

[monsterintheballroom]

That´s also my fav genre😊 Keep your superheroes and give me more Calendar Girls, Marigold Hotels etc 💜

[free-martinis]

‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Martin Freeman’ to take place on Saturday 22 June  

London, 28 May 2019: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced that BAFTA-winning actor Martin Freeman will discuss his career at a ‘BAFTA: A Life in Pictures’ event on Saturday 22 June.

‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ is a long-running series of onstage interviews in which some of the world’s leading film and television talent share insights into the experiences that helped them hone and develop their craft. The series has previously hosted figures including Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Fincher, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley Sam Mendes, Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Scorsese, Kristin Scott Thomas, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet.

Martin Freeman first came to public attention in the BAFTA-winning British sitcom The Office, for which he received his first BAFTA nomination in 2004. Early film credits include Love Actually (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007), as well as lead roles in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Confetti (2006).

In 2011 Freeman won a BAFTA for playing Dr John Watson in the TV series Sherlock, in which he stars alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, and received a further BAFTA nomination in 2012, as well as an Emmy in 2014. Other major roles include Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit film trilogy (2012, 2013 and 2014) and Lester Nygaard in the award-winning Coen Brothers’ television adaptation of Fargo, which earned him Golden Globe and Emmy ‘Best Actor’ nominations. In 2016 Freeman first appeared as Everett K Ross in the Marvel blockbuster Captain America: Civil War, before reprising the role in Black Panther (2018), winner of the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Later this year, Martin Freeman will star in Jeff Pope’s six-part drama A Confession with Imelda Staunton. Freeman is also the co-creator and executive producer of new FX/SKY/Avalon comedy series Breeders, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of parenthood. Forthcoming feature films include The Operative alongside Diane Kruger, and Ode to Joy, from Modern Family director Jason Winer and The Colbert Report writer Max Werner.

Freeman’s stage credits include Pinter Seven - A Slight Ache / The Dumb Waiter at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Richard III at Trafalgar Studios, Clybourne Park and Kosher Harry at the Royal Court Theatre, and Blue Eyes and Heels at the Soho Theatre.

Public tickets for ‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Martin Freeman’ will be available from 12.30pm on Friday 31 May at www.bafta.org/whats-on/.

Event and venue details:

BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Martin Freeman Saturday 22 June at BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, London, 19:00-20:30

[charlotteinengland]

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Staunton Harold Reservoir - 2019