Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Dawn over Parwich

Thank you Mike G for this photo taken last Saturday:

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Dappled autumn light.

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Parwich Parish Council are developing their own web-pages to be created in conjunction with PARWICH.ORG. They would like to include photographs of the village, particularly those associated with the facilities under their umbrella such as the sports facilities, the greens and the children’s play area. Also photos including people and activities will be more interesting on the site than just empty greens or sports areas.

If you have any photographs they could use, please email them to parwich@hotmail.co.uk (marked for the attention of Peter T) or directly to the Parish Council’s Clerk, Karen Wigley on ppccl@fsmail.net.

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Jean Allen, of Croft Avenue, who lived for many years at Woodeaves, just outside Fenny Bentley, has shown me some splendid photos of people from Alsop en le Dale dating back to the 1920s. Her father, Charlie Allen, was stationmaster at Alsop when the trains still ran on that line. These provide a remarkable glimpse of Alsop church and parish, from a time when there was a Sunday School and choir!

See them below, or click here (which includes a full screen option) –

I have also uploaded onto Youtube some photos from our link diocese in India, Patna, which date from the late 1800s. These were shown to me earlier this month by the Bishop of Patna, Philip Marandih, and show scenes from the early years of the Christian missionaries among the Santal tribe in the village of Taljhari. Click here to see them.

Christopher Harrison

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Autumn Sun

These photos were taken in Wolfscote Dale behind Hartington on Sunday afternoon. It was glorious to see the turning leaves in the sunlight….and such a short drive from Parwich. Makes you forget all about the wet Summer!


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An autumn walk.

These photos were taken last Sunday: when the weather was fine and clear, and the autumn colours just starting to emerge.

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Some Autumn Colour

Thank you to the contributor who sent in these photos of the developing autumn colour at White Meadows:


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A morning walk

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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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.

Sui Jianguo - Mao VestRichard Hudson - Love Me
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Indian Summer?

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.

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A tea time visitor

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

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Summer Flowering

Some blooming lovely flowers!

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One that got away

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:

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What is an Inversion?

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

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Thanks to Mike G. for sending these in.

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Here’s a video montage of images taken at this year’s Y-Not Festival. Click the picture to activate the movie….

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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:

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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:

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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!


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Thank you Cheryl for sending in a couple of photos that Bob took round the village last Autumn – somewhere between the rain showers!!

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Summer is here – at last

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.

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Thanks to Kevin S. for taking these photos yesterday evening, at Pikehall’s latest harness racing event.

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Parwich pics

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.

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Parwich Church Institute

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).

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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!

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Flower Power

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…

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Morning mist from Gibbons Bank

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.

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Views from The Hill

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…

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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:

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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.

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Odd Fellows Parade

It’s now 2pm and the Odd Fellows are now sitting down to their roast beef.

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Monsdale Lane

Thank you to Matt H for sending in this photo, which he took whilst walking down Monsdale Lane during the summer of 2006.

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Open Gardens Slide Show

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.

 

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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:

 

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Following three weeks of guess-work and numerous wrong answers, the identity of our mystery man has finally  been revealed as… 

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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!

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The old Shop

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:

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Well for all of us that still don’t know the identity of Who is this?, here is a further clue:


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Chewing the cud

Thank you to Mike G for the photos of these fine beasts:

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Thank you to Mike G for this photo continuing the garden theme in our build up to Sunday:

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