Photos from Paradoxplace Home Page Archive from Jan 2011

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Home Page Photo Archive from July 2012

Some of the photos and captions that have appeared on the Home Page of Paradoxplace

(the dates refer to when the photo was on the home page, not when the photo was taken).

Link to photos which appeared on the Paradoxplace Home Page in 2007 and 2008 in 2009 and 2010 and in 2011 and 2012

Food photos from the home page can be found in "Simply the Best Meals"

Reims Cathedral - Coronation place of the Kings of France

April 2013

Gregory & Adriano enjoy a

Working Lunch at Lamole in 2002

those were the (Chianti) Days

Wells Cathedral

English Cathedral Photo Pages

April 2013

Soaring Magnificence

Cathedral of St Gatien, Tours

February 2013

Gislebertus captures the arrival of the Magi

in the Chapter House of

La Cathédrale St-Lazare, Autun (Burgundy)

January 2013

March 2013

A Durham Prince Bishop enjoys the winter sun and

looks down on the Cathedral's crossing from on high.

Eleanor Cross, Geddington

28 November 1290

Eleanor of Castile - Spanish Queen Consort of England's Edward I, dies in Harby near Lincoln

2013

Aries – Le Bélier (The Ram) - March 21 to April 20

Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Chartres

Medieval Zodiacs & Labours of the Months

April 2013

Portraits from the Middle Ages

Lorenzo "il Magnifico" de' Medici

1449 - 1469 - 9 April 1492 (43)

1492 - Lorenzo the Magnificent dies in Florence (9 April),

Columbus discovers America,

and Granada (the last Moslem presence in Spain) falls

it is " the end of the Middle Ages !"

NEW PAGE: Ilam, Staffordshire Peak District

February 2013

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

Friday 8 February is the Feast of St Jerome Emiliani, patron saint of Orphans

1487 - Andrea della Robbia - infant in swaddling clothes on the facade of

Brunelleschi's Spedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital - Florence)

6 January - Epiphany - Twelfth Night - El Día de los Reyes

HERE COME THE MAGI

The Place's Magi star - King Melchior says G'Day in the Cathedral of St Gatien, Tours

Link to lots more Magi memories

21 December was the Winter Solstice

St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)

Flowers for Ognissanti (November 1) in the beautiful little cemetery at La Foce (South of Siena)

Santa Maria in Trastevere

December 2012

Churches of Rome

Nativity scene in the little painted Pilgrims' Church of

St-Jacques des Guérets, Loir Valley

December 2012

Paradoxplace Nativity Scenes

This “Spanish Nativity Scene” is part of the painted plaster ceiling of the Guild House of the Spanish Merchants' Company in Barnstaple, North Devon. It was originally completed on 9 July 1620.

CHRISTMAS DAY 1914

25 December 2012

Domenico Ghirlandaio - Nativity (1482)

in the wonderful Capella Sassetti, church of SS Trinita, Florence.

St Peter, Hook Norton (Oxfordshire)

Sagittarius – Le Sagitaire (The Archer)

November 23 – December 21

13 December is the Feast of Santa Lucia

Patron Saint of Ortigia (Siracusa)

Eleanor Cross, Geddington

28 November 1290

Eleanor of Castile - Spanish Queen Consort of England's Edward I, dies in Harby near Lincoln

Sunday 11 November 2012

is the anniversary of the Armistice which ended WW I in 1918. This photo of Peggy, Clare and Jimmy Sproule was taken at Bigbury-on-Sea, S Devon, in late August 1918. Jimmy was on a brief leave from the command of 131 Field Ambulance which served the front line fighting troops of the Welsh Division in one of the bloodiest battle areas near Amiens. At this time it seemed the fighting could go on for much much longer than two more months.

More about WW I

Interesting that Clare resembles closely the beautiful Margravine Uta, statued in Naumburg Cathedral (Eastern Germany) c1250.

Jimmy Sproule gets the autograph of the Prince of Wales

a couple of months after the end of WWI