My final posting on Flickr for 2015 - From Threads Come.....

At Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire. Shot at 3200 DIN and 1/50th of a second this image of a weaving machine, of some sort, was lightened in Photoshop and then processed using Pixir - something new for me.

Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

The mill is on the bank of the River Bollin which provided water to power the waterwheels. It was connected by road to the Bridgewater Canal (see my previous photo post) for transporting raw cotton from the port of Liverpool.

First today was Opulant Dining at Tredegar House, simply shot at 3200 DIN, 1/40th of a second and f3.5.

later I lightened the shadows and added just a hint of contrast.

Tredegar House / Tŷ Tredegar

is a 17th-century Charles II-era country house mansion in Coedkernew, at the western edge of the city of Newport.

 

For over five hundred years it was home to the Morgan family, later Lords Tredegar (until they left in 1951); one of the most powerful and influential families in the area. Described by John Newman in his book The Buildings of Wales, as "The grandest and most exuberant country house" in Monmouthshire and one of the "outstanding houses of the Restoration period in the whole of Britain".

 

The house stands in a now reduced landscaped garden of 90 acres (36.5 Hectares).

 

After 1951 the house was bought by the Catholic Church as a convent school with boarders, later St. Joseph's Roman Catholic comprehensive school. It was bought by the Newport Corporation Council in 1974, giving rise to its then status as "the grandest council house in Britain".

 

In December 2011 the National Trust signed an agreement with Newport City Council to take on the management of the building, as well as the 90 acres of gardens and parkland, on a 50-year lease from 2012. The Trust said that Tredegar House was of "great importance" as many similar properties had been lost in the past 100 years.

First up to Flickr was Fountains Abbey from a slightly different perspective and in, for me at least, quite heavy HDR. processed in Photomatix

Fountains Abbey is a joint venture, if you like, between The National Trust and English Heritage.

The NT own the property and manage visitors, whilst EH maintain and repair the structures.

Members of either organization can gain free entry to this World Heritage Site.