Animals of Isle of Wight

 

Thanks to Tom for another lovely card showing the animals on Isle of Wight.

Sent: 11 June 2016   Received: 22 June 2016   Travelled: 11 days

Bembride Windmill

Bembridge Mill is a four-storey tower mill with a boat-shaped cap, which is winded by chain and wheel. It has four Common sails. The two pairs of millstones are driven underdrift.
Bembridge Mill was built c. 1700. It was painted by Turner in 1795. The mill was working by wind until 1913, having only been used for grinding animal feed after 1897. The mill was restored in 1935 and again in 1959, the latter restoration being funded by public subscription. In 1962 the mill was taken over by the National Trust. It has been restored and is open to the public.
Source: Wikipedia

Thanks to Tom for his holiday postcard and the special postmark of 

Bembridge Windmill :)

Sent: 11 June 2016   Received: 22 June 2016   Travelled: 11 days

Mottistone Gardens

Mottistone is a village on the Isle of Wight, located in the popular tourist area the Back of the Wight. It is located 8 Miles southwest of Newport in the southwest of the island, and is home to the National Trust's Mottistone Manor.

The Island’s only megalithic monument, the Longstone is situated nearby. The name Mottistone (the Speaker’s or pleader’s stone) almost certainly derives from the Longstone. 

Source: Wikipedia

Thanks very much to Tom who sent this lovely card from his holiday

in Isle of Wight and for the special stamp of Mottistone Manor too!

Sent: 10 June 2016   Received: 21 June 2016   Travelled: 11 days

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, North Yorkshire

Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately 3 miles (5 kilometres) south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In 1986 the parkland in which the abbey is situated and the abbey was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It was recognised for fulfilling the criteria of being a masterpiece of human creative genius, and an outstanding example of a type of building or architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates significant stages in human history. Fountains Abbey is owned by the National Trust and maintained by English Heritage. The trust owns Studley Royal Park, Fountains Hall, to which there is partial public access, and St Mary's Church, designed by William Burges and built around 1873, all of which are significant features of the World Heritage Site.
Source: Wikipedia

Thanks to Tom for the card of the medieval deer park 

and lovely bees stamp and art!

Sent: 15 November 2015   Received: 30 November 2015   Travelled: 15 days

Western Screech Owl

Thanks to Tom for this beautiful card of the Western Screech Owl!

Love the cute owl drawing and the colourful stamps. Stamp on the right

shows John McAdam, from the Industrial Revolution issue.

Sent: 19 October   Received: 3 November 2015   Travelled: 15 days

Singer Motor Van

Singer Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturing business, originally a bicycle manufacturer founded as Singer & Co by George Singer, in 1874 in Coventry, England. Singer & Co's bicycle manufacture continued. From 1901 George Singer's Singer Motor Co made cars and commercial vehicles.
Singer Motor Co was the first motor manufacturer to make a small economy car that was a replica of a large car, showing a small car was a practical proposition.It was much more sturdily built than otherwise similar cyclecars. With its four-cylinder ten horsepower engine the Singer Ten was launched at the 1912 Cycle and Motor Cycle Show at Olympia. William Rootes, Singer apprentice at the time of its development and consummate car-salesman, contracted to buy 50, the entire first year's supply. It became a best-seller. Ultimately Singer's business was acquired by his Rootes Group in 1956, which continued the brand until 1970, a few years following Rootes' acquisition by the American Chrysler corporation.
Source:Wikipedia 

Thanks to Simon via Postcrossing for this vintage car :)

Sent: 14 Oct   Received:30 Oct   Travelled: 16 days

Worksop, England

Worksop is the largest town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. It is about 31 km east-south-east of the City of Sheffield and its population is estimated to be 44,970. It is also twinned with the German town Garbsen. Worksop is attracting an increasing quantity of commuters to the local area because of its close proximity of Nottingham, Lincoln and Sheffield.

Worksop is known as the "Gateway to the Dukeries", because of the now four obsolete ducal principle sites of which were closely located next to each other, south of the town. These four ducal locations were; Clumber House, Thoresby Hall, Welbeck Abbey and Worksop Manor.

Thank you Rachel for sharing a piece of your lovely hometown!

(which I'll file under Places with Funny names :P)

Sent:16 Oct   Received: 26 Oct 2015   Travelled: 9 days

Duchess of Cambridge

Thanks to Jill vis Postcrossing for this beautiful card

of Princess Kate.

Sent: 6 October 2015    Received: 19 October 2015   Travelled: 13 days

Cobwebs and bees

A spray of Acer leaves edged with an autumn frost supports a cobweb.

Thanks to Tom for this exceptionally beautiful cobweb card and bees!
The bee stamp comes from the latest Bee issue. There are 10 bees in this issue.
Sent: 3 Oct Received: 13 Oct 2015 Travelled:10days

Morchard Bishop

Morchard Bishop is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon in the English county of Devon. It has a population of 975, and contains a primary school, two churches, and a playing field with tennis court. Notable past residents include Ernest Bevin.

Morchard Bishop is twinned with a village in Normandy. It also has a garage,a post office and a pub called The London Inn, a surgery, a blacksmith and its own woodland. It is a peaceful village set in beautiful scenery about 13 km from the market town of Crediton. It is a vibrant community with lots going on: the village pantomime, an allotment association, a Ukelele band and football teams

Source:Wikipedia

Hehehe thanks to Christine for this Blacksmith Forge from Morchard Bishop

(which is a rather funny name for a village but then it's just me :D )

Sent: 15 August 2015   Received: 21 Sept 2015   Travelled: 37 days

Croft Castle and Parkland

Thank you Tom for the beautiful illustration and this grand view of 

Croft Castle!

Sent: 4 September 2015   Received: 14 September 2015   Travelled: 10 days

English Pubs

Thanks you dear Tony for this beautiful card of English Pub signs!

When I watch Midsomer's Murders I always pay special attention

to the Pub signs, some are quite funny :D

Sent: 19 August 2015   Received: 2 September 2015   Travelled: 14 days

Greetings from United Kingdom

 

Lo and behold another Greetings from card that arrived to my mailbox this week

this time from the UK. Thanks very much Tom for this card. The teapot symbol

makes me laugh haha What do you think of when someone asks you about UK?

ME... I think of the Fish and chips!!

Sent: 1 August 2015   Received: 13 August 2015   Travelled:12 days

Castle Drogo

Castle Drogo is a country house near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. It was built from 1911 and was finished in 1930 for Julius Drewe (businessman and founder of the Home and Colonial Stores) to designs by architect Edwin Lutyens, and is a Grade I listed building. It is currently undergoing a 5-year conservation project (2013-2017) to finally make it watertight. Castle Drogo was the last castle to be built in England, and probably the last private house in the country to be built entirely of granite.

Source: Wikipedia

Thanks to Tom for the beautiful stamp and the

Battle of Waterloo inspired illustrations.

Sent: 25 July 2015   Received: 10 August 2015   Travelled: 16 days

Lloyds Bank balloon

Excerpt: The Lloyds Bank hot air balloon G-BOSF holds 69,000 cu. ft

of hot air and will carry the pilot and two passengers.

Thanks to Tom for this awesome hot air balloon view and the beautiful stamps

of Species At Risk: Barn Owl and Pine Marten.

Sent: 2 July 2015   Received: 14 July 2015   Travelled: 12 days

Croft Castle and Parkland

A building has been on the site from the 11th century and it has from this time been the home of the Croft family and Croft baronets. The Croft family were closely linked to their neighbours the Mortimers of Wigmore and later Ludlow. The Battle of Mortimer's Cross took place on Croft lands nearby in 1461. The present building originated as a castle in the 14th century and has been much altered since. It was the home of a John Croft who married one of Owain Glyndŵr's daughters. In the 15th century the Croft family adopted the Welsh Wyvern crest, a wounded black dragon, seen as a subtle allusion to their Glyndwr heritage. Croft Castle was restored after slighting in the Civil War. It now consists of a stone quadrangular manor house with a small castellated round tower at each corner and a small square tower flanking the north side. The castle is under the care of the National Trust and members of the Croft family still live within it.
Source: Wikipedia

Thanks to Tom for this lovely garden view and the French grenadier 

illustration. Love the Battle of Waterloo stamps!

Sent: 3 July 2015   Received: 14 July 2015   Travelled: 11 days

T. Rex of Oxford University Museum of Natural History

I feel rather proud to have my little collection of dinosaurs growing. 

I honestly cannot say why I find this a fascinating topic. Just amazing

that we can learn about this magnificent terrors that roamed the earth 

before there were people. I don't know if I have mentioned it before 

but once upon a time I visited the museum in Toronto that had a

dinosaur exhibit. They unveiled the first intact feathered dinosaur found

in China which finally solve some perplexing mysteries for paleontologist.

Thank you Tony for the superb card!

Sent: 17 July 2015   Received: 29 July 2015   Travelled: 12 days

Brockhampton Estate

Excerpt: The moat,gatehouse and manor, thought to date from c1380-1400

The Brockhampton Estate is a farmed estate in Herefordshire, England, which is owned by the National Trust. It is located near the village of Brockhampton near the town of Bromyard.

The main attraction of the Brockhampton Estate is Lower Brockhampton, a timber framed manor house that dates back to the late 14th century. The manor house is surrounded by a moat and is entered by a newly restored gatehouse at the front of the house.The house is surrounded by 1,000 acres (400 ha) of farmland and 700 acres (280 ha) of woodland.
The Brockhampton Estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1946 by Colonel John Lutley.
In 2010, the National Trust undertook a major restoration project to the house using traditional wattle and daub building methods.
(Source:Wikipedia)

It's enjoyable to see that old estates like Brockhampton can be restored traditionally

Thanks to Tom for the stamp and illustration :D

Sent 10 July 2015   Received:24 July 2015   Travelled: 14 days

Eagle Owl

Excerpt: Eagle Owl in the court of Oxford University Museum of Natural 

History. The Bengali Eagle Owl is one of the largest species of owl.This owl

was also bred in captivity. These powerful predators are capable of killing large

mammals.

Sent: 16 June 2015   Received: 26 June 2015   Travelled: 10 days

Cerne Abbas giant

The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. Made by a turf-cut outline filled with chalk, it depicts a large, naked man, with a substantial erect penis, typically described as a giant wielding a club. The figure is listed as a scheduled monument in the United Kingdom and the site where he stands is owned by the National Trust.
The figure has been the subject of much study and speculation, but its origin and age are unclear. It is often thought of as an ancient construction, though the earliest mention of it dates to the late 17th century. Early antiquarians associated it, on little evidence, with a Saxon deity, while other scholars sought to identify it with a Celtic British figure or the Roman Hercules, or some syncretization of the two. Archaeological evidence that parts of the drawing have been lost over time strengthen the Hercules identification. However the lack of earlier descriptions leads modern scholars to conclude that it may date from the 17th century, and perhaps originated as political satire.
Regardless of its age, the Cerne Abbas Giant has become an important part of local culture and folklore, which often associates it with fertility. It is one of England's best known hill figures and is a major visitor attraction in the region.

Thanks to Tom for the funny balloon card and the beautiful stamps!

Sent:  28 May 2015   Received: 9 June 2015   Travelled: 11 days