Monday 24 November 2014

Normanby Hall, North Lincolnshire. (part 1 of 3)

Normanby Hall.

Normanby Hall is a classic English mansion, located near the village of Burton-upon-Stather, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.

The present Hall was built in 1825–30 to the designs of Robert Smirke for Sir Robert Sheffield (1786–1862). The Sheffield family had lived on the site since 1539 and the family's titles include Dukes of Buckingham and Normanby and Sheffield baronets. It replaced a previous 17th-century building.

John Sheffield became Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703. He built a fine mansion in London called Buckingham House. His son, the second Duke sold the house to George III and it is now known as Buckingham Palace.

The house was extended and altered to designs by Walter Brierley between 1906 and 1908.

The Sheffield family moved out of Normanby Hall in 1963. The Hall is now in the care of the North Lincolnshire Council. The former 350 acre (1.4 km²) estate around the Hall is now a Country Park. Within it, there are a restored working Victorian walled garden, a farming museum, a stableyard, duck ponds, a deer sanctuary, a fishing lake, a miniature railway and broadleaf woodland.

Samantha Cameron, wife of the Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron and elder daughter of the eighth Baronet, grew up on the estate.





Produce for sale at the Hall's shop, grown on site in the walled garden.




My wifes' painting group had a day at the Hall.

Part 2 to follow soon.

Friday 21 November 2014

NEW BLOG

Please take a look at a new blog that I've just started, 
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Thursday 20 November 2014

Autumn Clours (2 of 2]

A few more colours.












This little hut has been here for as long as I can remember.








Photographs taken at different locations on a variety of cameras.

Monday 17 November 2014

Autumn Clours (1 of 2)

Autumn pictures taken at different locations.






















Part 2 will follow soon.

Monday 10 November 2014

Gunby Hall Gardens, late summer/early autumn. (2 of 2)

Thistle seed heads.



Pampus Grasses.





Enjoying the late summer sunshine.



All photographs taken on my Panasonic G5 camera.