Many thanks to our Local Weatherman for these photos of drystone walling taken on his morning constitutional today in Monsdale Lane:
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A morning walk
Posted in 2008, Photography, Posts of Note on Thursday October 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Beyond Limits 2008: sculpture exhibition at Chatsworth House.
Posted in 2008, Arts, Out & About, Photography, Posts of Note on Sunday October 5, 2008| 5 Comments »
For the third year running, Sotheby’s of London are staging Beyond Limits: a selling exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture in the gardens of Chatsworth House.
This year’s display includes sculptures by Salvador Dali, Marc Quinn, Zadok Ben-David, Lynn Chadwick, Robert Indiana, Zaha Hadid, Richard Hudson and many more.
Our favourites this year were Marc Quinn’s giant bronze baby (“Planet”), which sits at the near end of the lake, and Robert Indiana’s “The American Love”, which sits at the far end. We were also very much taken by Jedd Novatt’s more abstract – and endlessly fascinating – “Chaos Vascos II”.
The exhibition runs until November 2nd and comes highly recommended – particularly on a clear, bright afternoon, when the sunlight displays the works to their best advantage.
(Hover your cursor over each image to reveal its title, and click on each image to enlarge it.)
Which sculpture is your favourite? Please let us know in the comments.
Indian Summer?
Posted in Photography, Weather on Sunday September 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
What wonderful weather we have had over the weekend. Here are a few photos taken from Parwich Hill on Sunday afternoon to prove it’s not always lashing it down! Click on each picture to see it enlarged.
A tea time visitor
Posted in Photography on Sunday September 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to send you a photo of our little visitor who comes to share his/her tea with the cats most evenings.
Best regards
Robert and Cheryl
Summer Flowering
Posted in 2008, Photography, Posts of Note on Monday August 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
One that got away
Posted in Gardens, Photography on Sunday August 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thank you to our reader who sent in this photo of a hanging basket that was not entered in the competition. Hopefully they will enter next year.
Also although the baskets at the Sycamore Inn could not be included in the competition as they had been planted up by the judge, they are well worth seeing, so here is some photos of them as well:
What is an Inversion?
Posted in Photography on Saturday August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This is proof that it has not been raining all day today, however these pictures of an inversion were taken at 6.45am this morning from the Gibbons Bank area of the village. Thank you.
For full details about what an inversion is click here
Cromford Steam Rally: some photos.
Posted in Events, Out & About, Photography on Sunday August 3, 2008| 1 Comment »
Y-Not Festival: video montage.
Posted in Events, Photography, Pikehall, Y-Not on Sunday August 3, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a video montage of images taken at this year’s Y-Not Festival. Click the picture to activate the movie….
Y-Not Festival: photo gallery from Friday.
Posted in 2008, Events, Photography, Pikehall, Posts of Note, Y-Not on Saturday August 2, 2008| 1 Comment »
Despite some heavy rain earlier in the day, the Pikehall Y-Not festival got off to a dry and bright start yesterday. Although technical problems delayed the opening of the main stage, the large acoustic tent proved to be an ideal venue to house the Friday afternoon/evening line-up. The bands alternated on stage with the scheduled acoustic artists, with an impressively quick turnaround time between each act.
Our small but enthusiastic Parwich posse witnessed a great set of performances from The Moutown Project, Anthea Neads, Esteban, comedian Ruth Cockburn, The Rusticles, Toufique Ali and our clear favourites: the splendid Whiskycats from Manchester.
As the evening sunshine poured into the tent and the crowd thrashed around wildly to an unknown, unsigned band who were clearly loving every minute, the underlying purpose of the festival – to promote undiscovered talent in a relaxed environment, surrounded by beautiful countryside – became gloriously apparent.
To view a full photoset of images from Friday, please click here. Or if you prefer, you can simply start with this image and work your way forwards.
Alternatively, click “Continue Reading” for some selected highlights:
Townhead & the Brownson family
Posted in Gardens, History, People, Photography on Tuesday July 29, 2008| 38 Comments »
Thank you Eileen Brownson for your request for a picture of Townhead. Here are some provided by Mike G, with kind permission from Rosemary and Stuart:
Where are we walking to?
Posted in Out & About, Photography, Project Parwich on Monday July 28, 2008| 11 Comments »
Our mystery photographer took these shots yesterday afternoon, while walking from Parwich to… where, exactly?
If you can name the mystery destination, then our mystery photographer will make a donation to Project Parwich.
But be warned: for every day that the mystery remains unsolved, the size of the donation will decrease by £1.
The twenty shots below are arranged in the same sequence as the walk. Because of lighting conditions, some of them are taken looking backwards rather than forwards. Click on each image to enlarge it, and click on “Continue Reading” (at the foot of this post) to see all twenty images.
When the mystery has been solved, we will publish a photo of the mystery walkers at their final destination.
Please feel free to discuss the clues in the comments box!
Make the most of the summer as autumn is not far away!!
Posted in Photography on Sunday July 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thank you Cheryl for sending in a couple of photos that Bob took round the village last Autumn – somewhere between the rain showers!!
Summer is here – at last
Posted in Photography on Saturday July 26, 2008| 5 Comments »
Good morning all at Parwich.org
I spotted a dragonfly clinging to a clematis is our front garden so Bob took a photo – thought I’d share it with you.
Thank you to Cheryl W for sending in this wonderful summer vision.
Pikehall harness racing: photo gallery.
Posted in 2008, Events, Photography, Pikehall, Posts of Note, Sport on Friday July 25, 2008| 1 Comment »
Thanks to Kevin S. for taking these photos yesterday evening, at Pikehall’s latest harness racing event.
As always, please click on each image to enlarge it.
Parwich pics
Posted in 2008, Photography, Posts of Note on Monday July 21, 2008| 1 Comment »
As we had some sun over the last day or two, we thought you would appreciate some photographs taken around the green and church this weekend. Click on a picture to enlarge it.
Parwich Church Institute
Posted in History, Photography on Wednesday July 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
From Parwich & District Local History Society:
We are working on the next issue of the Local History Society newsletter and wondered if anyone had any more/better photographs of the old Parwich Church Institute, which can be seen here on the right hand side of the photograph below, behind the cart shed and the carbide shed.
Also does anyone have information on where this corrugated metal prefabricated building came from? Local tradition has it that it was a redundant World War I military building, though it would have been moved here about the same time that the buildings from Tin Town were being sold off. Tin Town was a temporary village (complete with shops, church and school) created for the workforce that constructed the Howden and Derwent Reservoirs.
If you can help please email parwich@hotmail.co.uk or contact Peter T (tel 287).
Photographs page updated.
Posted in About this site, Photography on Sunday July 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Our photographic archive has just been updated. It now contains most of the images that have appeared on this site during the past month, as well as older images stretching back to last year.
Click here to take a look – but please be patient while the thumbnail images load, as there are now nearly 400 of them!
Flower Power
Posted in 2008, Church, Photography, Posts of Note on Saturday July 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is Marion F-S’s comment on the Parwich Flower Festival together with some of John’s photos to give you a taste. Do take the opportunity to go tomorrow afternoon 1pm to 5pm (Sunday 6th June):
I have just come back from the flower festival in the church, completely bowled over by the beautiful displays, the wonderful scent of roses, soothing background music and – of course – the welcoming coffee and delicious home made cakes.
The first surprise is the porch, complete with garden gate and hastily abandoned galoshes – obviously some keen gardener (someone looking for an allotment, perhaps?) has taken it over. They’ve been suddenly called away, but doubtless will soon be back…
Morning mist from Gibbons Bank
Posted in Photography on Friday July 4, 2008| 2 Comments »
What better way to mark the 500th post on PARWICH.ORG, than with these images of Parwich in the morning mist?
The pictures were taken at around 5:00 this morning by “early bird” Mike G, from his vantage point on Gibbons Bank.
As the sequence progresses, you can see the first rays of morning sunlight creeping across the valley.
By the final image, the mist has started to fade, and you can see the tree tops beginning to poke through. (Best seen if you click to enlarge.)
Thanks to Mike for getting up so early, and capturing a scene that many of us would never normally get to see.
Views from The Hill
Posted in 2008, Photography, Posts of Note on Thursday July 3, 2008| 2 Comments »
The breeze blowing this evening provided a beautifully clear view from The Hill. You could also get a good view of the helicopters which seemed to be practising low level manoevres over the top of the village!
Here are a few photos of this beautiful evening…
More Photos of Campsite Fun
Posted in Photography, Sport, Wakes on Tuesday July 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Many thanks for the anonymous CD of photos in a plain brown envelope put through my letter box. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more …….. However, back to this post.
We have included the Odd Fellows Parade photos from the CD with others to create a second slide show of the Parade, The ones of the Campsite Sports are below:
First Wakes Slide Show On-Line
Posted in About this site, Oddfellows, Photography, Wakes on Monday June 30, 2008| 1 Comment »
The first of our 2008 Wakes Slide Show with some of the Odd Fellows Parade photographs is now on-line; click here to go to our Slide Shows index, or click on the image below to go straight to:
Slide Show No. 5: Odd Fellows Parade 2008
More to follow through the week …..
PS We haven’t forgotten about the Jigsaws, but there is just not enough time to get all that is hapening covered this fortnight.
Odd Fellows Parade
Posted in 2008, Oddfellows, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Saturday June 28, 2008| 1 Comment »
Monsdale Lane
Posted in Photography on Friday June 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thank you to Matt H for sending in this photo, which he took whilst walking down Monsdale Lane during the summer of 2006.
Open Gardens Slide Show
Posted in Events, Gardens, Photography on Wednesday June 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
You wait for ages, then three come along at once. Click here to link to our Slide Show Index, and on the photo below to see the silde show of the 2008 Open Gardens and Scarecrow Competition.
Children’s Show slide show
Posted in About this site, Events, Gardens, Photography, Young people on Tuesday June 24, 2008| 1 Comment »
We have a new slide show on-line with photographs of the 2008 Children’s Horticultural Show. A further show on Open Gardens will follow soon. Click here to go to our index of slide shows, or click on the photo link below to go straight to the Children’s Show photos:
“Who is this?” – mystery solved at last!
Posted in People, Photography, Project Parwich on Monday June 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Following three weeks of guess-work and numerous wrong answers, the identity of our mystery man has finally been revealed as…
Open Gardens & Scarecrows: a photo gallery.
Posted in 2008, Events, Gardens, Photography, Posts of Note, Societies on Sunday June 22, 2008| 3 Comments »
Photographing seventeen gardens within the space of two and a half hours was always going to be a tall order. For Kevin S., who was forced to decline numerous offers of liquid refreshment along the way in the name of duty, completing the circuit represented an almost superhuman feat of endurance.
Kevin also found time to snap most (or was it all?) of the entries in this year’s scarecrow competition. Sincere apologies to anyone whose scarecrow remained undiscovered.
Despite the cloudy skies and the heavy winds, the gardens of Parwich looked truly magnificent this afternoon. Many thanks to all who took part, to all who visted, and of course to the Horticultural Society for arranging yet another successful and enjoyable event.
In the gallery which follows, our seventeen show gardens are displayed in numerical order, according to the official map: The School, School View, Stable Cottage, Wheatsheaf Cottage, Pool Croft, Town Head, Parwich Hall, Gardener’s Cottage, Knob Hall, Creamery Cottage, Orchard Farm, 6 Church Walk, Church Cottage, Flaxdale, The Fold, Walnut Cottage and Brook Close Farm.
At least one image from each garden has been chosen; usually there are two, and occasionally there are three. Again, our apologies to those gardens who received somewhat short shrift; time was very limited, and lighting conditions were far from ideal.
Our 2008 gallery starts “below the fold”. As always, clicky-clicky to make it biggy-biggy!
The old Shop
Posted in 2008, Photography, Posts of Note, Shop on Friday June 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Following on from Caroline H’s photos of the old Shop, Mike G has sent us a few more that have been scanned from shots taken some 15 years ago, well before it was extended:
Who is this? – A clue
Posted in People, Photography, Project Parwich on Friday June 20, 2008| 4 Comments »
Well for all of us that still don’t know the identity of Who is this?, here is a further clue:
Chewing the cud
Posted in 2008, Farming, Photography, Posts of Note on Thursday June 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Continuing the gardens theme
Posted in Gardens, Photography on Tuesday June 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thank you to Mike G for this photo continuing the garden theme in our build up to Sunday:
Slide Shows on-line
Posted in About this site, Photography on Monday June 16, 2008| 1 Comment »
At last we have got our first slide show of local photographs on-line. Click on the following to go to THE INDEX OF SLIDE SHOWS (only one available so far) or go directly to SLIDE SHOW NO.1 – GENERAL PHOTOS.
As we do more slide shows we will get better at it, but in the mean time let us know your thoughts on how this works. Also let us know if you have any problems displaying it with your browsers.
Please get in touch if you have any sets of photos you think would make a good slide show, or if you are willing to take photos at Open Gardens or during Wakes Week to create specific shows on them.
A few more pictures of Parwich
Posted in 2008, Photography, Posts of Note, Shop on Monday June 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
More Jigsaws On-line – 15th June
Posted in About this site, Photography on Sunday June 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Go to our JIGSAW page to see the latest puzzles. Again there is a page with more information about the ‘Jigsaw of the Week’, but the link to this page will only be activated when you have completed the puzzle.
Click on the photo thumbnail for the jigsaw of the week
If anyone has ideas for future ‘Jigsaws of the Week’ and wants to help create a background page do let us know via parwich@hotmail.co.uk.
Daisy Bush
Posted in Gardens, Photography on Sunday June 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thank you Mike G for sending us this splendid photo of a Daisy Bush in full bloom. It is very much in keeping with our current garden theme, and should help draw more visitors to Open Gardens next Sunday afternoon. Is it in your garden or do we need to locate it ourselves? (more…)
Volunteer Photographers Wanted
Posted in About this site, Gardens, Photography on Saturday June 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
If people are willing to take photographs of the Children’s Show, scarecrows and gardens on Sunday 22nd, PARWICH.ORG can make a slide show that will be accessed on-line. Send your photos to parwich@hotmail.co.uk or give them to Peter T (tel 287) on CD.
No names, house names or addresses will be included, just photos. Also we will check with the garden owners whether they are happy or not to have their gardens included.
Hopefully we can also do the same for Wakes Week.
Solihull or Slough?
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Project Parwich on Friday June 13, 2008| 17 Comments »
The driving ranges of Solihull or the roundabouts of Slough?
Having so far failed dismally to create a challenging observation task, here is one last go. All the photos below have been taken in the lanes of Parwich in the last three days. In which gardens or in front of which houses are these wonderful flowers (or vegetables) growing. Putting my money where my keyboard is, I will donate £25 to Project Parwich if anyone manages to get all 25 correct. Further if anyone submits a post with all correct by 6pm on Sunday 15th June 2008, I will double this, and give a box of chocolates to the winner. (If a number of people get them all correct by 6pm on Sunday, the winner will be drawn out of a hat or nearest equivalent.)
Peter T
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And another door to identify
Posted in Photography on Thursday June 12, 2008| 5 Comments »
Mike A suggested we test your observation skills with this Parwich door. Where is it?
Update: the location has been guessed correctly. Check the comments for the answer…
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