Miscellaneous Monday

This is a view of the front garden

at Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery

where l work as a gallery assistant

the house is Jacobean and recently the garden was 

re-landscaped in the style of the period 

with plants around the sun dial

Miscellaneous Monday #6

I was faffing around with my camera

in the gardens at my work

during a tea break in the summer

and I thrust the camera down into the foliage

pointing the lens skywards

and this was the result

a tad abstract

On my way to work - Monochrome Monday

Monochrome Monday hosted by Aileni

As it is very frosty and cold I am driving to work, shameful, yes,

as its only 1.75 miles uphill down hill in nose to tail traffic.

I park in the nearest car park, courtesy of the City Council, a perk of the job.

Thank you very much.

And this is what l see on my short walk from car park to work!

silhouette of castle gate

looking back over my shoulder where l have walked from

the very ineffectual Millennium Bridge

this is the entrance to the underpass,

which takes us under the dual carriageway that separates

the Castle from the city, the Museum and Cathedral

this is the underpass decorated with old local industrial machinery

and the Cursing Stone produced for the Millennium

and inscribed with a centuries old curse

it receives the wrath of locals as it is considered the cause of all our recent ills,

Foot & mouth and the Floods

the marble floor containing prominent local and Reiver's name

the Whispering Wall, solid glass brick, come alive with audio,

locals relive memories of times gone by, war stories, family histories and more...

Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery

this is where FFF works

Photostory Friday

Under a Dogwood tree

The last few days have been cool but sunny

so I have been spending my lunch break

in the shade under this glorious tree

which is in full bloom

it is situated in the corner of the front gardens

of Tullie House a Jacobean town house

which is now the heart of a Museum & Art Gallery

where I work

(most of these images enlarge if clicked)

my garden seat

the beautiful blush upon the blooms

the view before me as I sit underneath its fringe of blossoms

taken with my phone on panaoramic mode

a Jacobean window

Under a dogwood tree

(Japanese Dogwood/ Japanese Strawberry tree

Botanical name Cornus kousa

Origin-Japan

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

ABC Wednesday - T is for

The TILES of OLD TULLIE HOUSE

Tullie House Tiles

T-oday my museum shift was in Old T-ullie House

this is the oldest wing of the museum,

it is a Jacobean building and orginally a family home

Tullie House:(text from the Tullie House website)

Tullie House incorporates the town house of that name, the origins of which can be traced back at least to the 16th century. The Tullie family and their descendants occupied the building until the 19th century.

Formerly known as the White House, the house was modernised in the late 17th century under the ownership of Thomas Tullie, who was sometime Dean of Carlisle. The handsome classical façade in red and yellow sandstone, with ornate lead downspouts, bears the date of 1689. This faces onto Abbey Street.

Remaining internal features of 17th century date within the building are a large ground floor fireplace and a Jacobean oak staircase. The latter leads to wood-panelled upper rooms. A portrait hanging on the stairs shows the last private occupants, the Dixons, in the largest of these rooms - their Drawing Room - in 1842.

Late 19th century extensions in local sandstone, to the designs of C.J. Ferguson, added a range of buildings on the north side running through from Abbey Street to Castle Street. In part, this replaced some of the earlier buildings. 

Extensive use of tiles (by Craven Dunhill, Jackfield, Ironbridge) and Roman-inspired mosaic flooring are typical of the period. There are two elegant wrought-iron Victorian staircases inset with heraldic shields of the City of Carlisle. The historic buildings are Grade I* Listed.

A new range of buildings was added in 1989-90 to create new galleries and related facilities. This extended the site considerably on the north and east sides. The latest development (2000-2001) created the Carlisle Millennium Gallery, which extends below the A595 road on the north side of the site. A public walkway connecting Castle Street to the Castle Green, runs alongside this and features public artwork of high quality.

... and today with -5 degrees I went to work in the coldest part of the Museum which has minmum heat..can you imagine how cold I was with all these tiles retaining the cold? I am only now warming up....

still all this culture!

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