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Palisade at Powis Castle

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:51:34 +0000

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SC151 - Post 15 June - Composition rules

This photo illustrates the rule 10. Diagonals

HBM from Powis Castle

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:35:44 +0000

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The view from the bench

Gates

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 07:25:06 +0000

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SC102 - Gate

Lake Vyrnwy canoes

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 07:48:23 +0000

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Lake Vyrnwy reservoir was built in the 1880s to supply Liverpool with fresh water. The new lake meant that the farms and houses of the people of the valley would be lost underwater. In order to create the large lake the valley of the River Vyrnwy had to be closed off by the huge stone dam and the whole valley behind the dam which contained the old village of Llanwddyn was flooded.

Work on the dam building project began in 1881, and for the next eight years the dam wall at the bottom of the valley was steadily getting higher while the people living in the village went about their everyday lives. The buildings of the old village were knocked down after the people moved out, and even the remains of the dead were removed from the churchyard and reburied next to the new church.

The dam itself is pretty impressive, 26m high from the bed of the lake to the sill for the overflow, but almost twice that if measured from the buried foundations to the top of the final structure. The dam is 357m long and the base is 36.5m thick.

The level of water in the reservoir was very low yesterday, but not low enough to see the remains of the village. It's going to rain heavily tomorrow, so the level might reach the lip of the dam.

Autum mists and colour at Lake Vyrnwy

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:04:29 +0000

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Lake Vyrnwy boathouse

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:09:20 +0000

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A still and misty morning.

Proud as a Peacock at Powis

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 08:10:05 +0000

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Today's Sunday Challenge is: BLUE

Lake Vyrnwy

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 14:44:11 +0000

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Lake Vynwy Dam

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 14:01:45 +0000

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This week's Sunday challenge: Vanishing Point (in black and white)

Is this my best side?

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:05:46 +0000

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Personally I can't see what all the fuss is about.

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:37:19 +0000

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There were 3 peacocks, all rivals for this peahen, who mostly seemed to be bored by all the posturing, although she did eventually raise her own tail feathers in acknowledgement,

The Second Labour of Hercules - slaying the Hydra

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 18:54:03 +0000

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In the foreground there is a pure white magnolia. Magnolias have been fantastic this year, so far no late frosts to discolour the buds and flowers. Behind Hercules there is a magnificent hedge of cloud cut yew - always a pleasure to see at Powis Castle..

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/powis-castle-and-garden/features/extreme-gardening-at-powis

HFF everyone

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:17:18 +0000

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Montgomery Castle is a stone masonry castle looking over the town of Montgomery in Powys, mid Wales. It is one of many Norman castles on the border between Wales and England. The original motte and bailey is now known as Hen Domen and was built at the order of Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury some time between 1071 and 1074.
The rebuilding of Montgomery Castle in stone was commenced in the late summer of 1223 on the sixteenth birthday of Henry III of England, a mile to the south-east of the original site. After 1295 and the final Welsh War of the thirteenth century the castle became more of a military backwater and prison than a front line fortress.
Peace reduced Montgomery's strategic importance, and by 1343 parts of the castle were already in disrepair. It was refurbished by Roger Mortimer, second earl of March, after 1359, and again under Henry VIII during the 1530s and 1540s. It last saw action under the Herberts during the English Civil War, when it surrendered to the Parliamentarians in 1644; and in 1649 it was demolished.

HFF Everyone

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 07:19:37 +0000

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The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales. The reservoirs, which were built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department, provide clean drinking water for Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. The five lakes are known as the Claerwen, Craig-goch, Pen-y-garreg, Garreg-ddu, and Caban-coch.

The Elan dam scheme was developed in the 19th century following rapid growth of the population of Birmingham in England due to the Industrial Revolution. The city's expansion resulted in regular outbreaks of water-borne diseases and major epidemics such as typhoid, cholera and dysentery because of the lack of clean water.

Victorian politician, Joseph Chamberlain, the leader of Birmingham City Council began a campaign to get clean water from the Elan and Claerwen valleys in mid Wales. The area, which had been identified by civil engineer James Mansergh, would be ideal for water reservoirs because:

1. it had an average annual rainfall of 1,830 millimetres (72 in).
2. dams could be easily built in the narrow valleys.
3. the bedrock was impermeable to water.

This photo shows a Foel Tower on the Gerreg-ddu reservoir is built in a style which, like many of the other structures of the waterworks scheme, is known as' Birmingham Baroque'. The elegant stone tower houses a system of valves and cylinders which can be raised and lowered hydraulically to draw water off from the reservoir at various depths as required. This water is then directed into the start of the aqueduct, controlled by valves.

Shropshire from Powys

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:28:22 +0000

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To the right of the photo it's possible to see the 200ft high chimney of the Hoffman Kiln. It is l a landmark which can be seen from many miles away.

The smelt flue chimney, now disused, was built in 1899, using red brick (English Garden wall bond), held together by iron ties. It has a square section, slightly tapering at the top.

Montgomery Canal Aqueduct from the Vyrnwy bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:33:33 +0000

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A new message from Christophe, but still lots of unsettled questions it seems.

www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4659270

Underneath the arches

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:32:35 +0000

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Flanagan And Allen - Underneath The Arches

Vyrnwy Bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:46:50 +0000

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NOT SUCH GOOD NEWS from IMA:
www.ipernity.com/blog/anna.schramm/4656928

HFF everyone. 21st April 2017

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:44:28 +0000

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This part of the Montgomery Canal is barely navigable, except possibly in a canoe, but is quite spectacular. The canal on the left is part of the aqueduct crossing the River Vyrnwy to the right of the photo.
The sign which I have included in the notes had just been painted that afternoon and looks pristine. The next job for the volunteer painter might be the fence.

Montogomery Canal

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:14:12 +0000

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GOOD NEWS from William Sutherland:
www.ipernity.com/doc/285927/44660612