Travel and Events.: 2014

Saturday, 5 April 2014

Topping of the Willow Tree - April 5, 2014

Sunday, 30 March 2014

COLLECTIONS

COLLECTIONS

How to digitize a Collection ? Does jpeg has limitations... ?

The Medley of Music which the band Blue berry Hill & Sheila G. White , played on the Download I bought meant that I had to quickly find another Set of Items - Match Books - which I had collected over the years, to reach the 4 mins of music . I was just short so I photo collected some current blooms from the garden - night and day Tulips and the Honeysuckle or Forsythia not sure which made up this Video Timeline.

Monday, 24 March 2014

Cranes on the March 21 - 23, 2014

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Lunch by the River Thames - Windsor 3 miles to Oakley Court Hotel.

OAKLEY COURT HOTEL

Olympians return to the Lunch Table

During the 2012 Olympic Rowing I managed to Lunch in the Oakley Court Hotel near Eton Dorney Windsor, as the Olympic Rowing Finals which I had managed to get a Ticket for actually finished about 12 am

We had been at the 1984 Olympics, in Los Angeles on the day Mary Decker slipped behind Zola Bud.

1984 Ticket for Olympics - Our seats.

2012 Olympic Tickets - my Seats.

Walk in to Eton Dorney Canoe Finals - removable walkway over Windsor Race Course.

Here are some highlights of the Final Day Canoe Sprint.

Part 1.

http://youtu.be/d0aGWS7y3RI

Part 3

http://youtu.be/lnYHpkhlesc

Part 4

http://youtu.be/4GNkV_wyVuI

Oakley Court Hotel on Canoe Sprint Finals Day.

Wembely Stadium - England v Brasil Ladies Football.

1984 Olympic Stadium from our seat.

Meyfarth,U- 2.02 m Ladies High Jump Presentation

British Library 2012 - Ian.

This weekend I revisited the Oakley Court Hotel for a Saturday Light Lunch with a friend.

My friend Cherrie at Lunch. in 2012 after the Olympic Rowing Final outside in the Oakley Court Hotel Garden Servery area - which was not recently flooded.

What turned out on the day ? Not a crowd of Olympic Champion Procession cheerers but Swans and Geese along the River Thames

Crowds on the Strand London waiting for the Olympic procession.

http://youtu.be/UiShtFyp3Es

That was the lunch this weekend - the choice of Music was from a CD by Jim Vincent , of Ann Arbor, Michigan, whom as my new Brother in Law, I must take for dinner next time he is in UK .

'Wedding' is the Title he played on a Steinway D . I chose it as my friends daughter is getting married soon.

Thursday, 13 February 2014

L is a Library Shelf Mark.

L is a bit of a Library Shelf Mark for a Bible one part of L.15.f.1 it meant 'Large' book, 15 is a group of books, f a sub-group and 1 a specific book, making L.15.f.1.

You can see it is a Large Book in the photograph of Ian holding it

The Bible is the Doway Bible one of many that size, held in the British Library at St Pancras, London.
In the British Library Catalogue there are 4 Volumes of Bibles, all different Catalogue numbers, this group of Large Bibles are stored together by size and include Concordance,Illustrated,Old Testement and just plane Holy Bible, from countries through out the World.

When the current large Flooding problem happened in Egham, Windsor and Maidenhead I met the Connection magazine Community Contact Page Organiser, Rob one evening while having a meal in the WineCircle Restaurant. He asked me to write a page about what I did at work in the British Library and describe the Large Bibles, I had mentioned, including a few photos

In the Large Bibles the Illustrations when used, are very well engraved or etched or drawn and then printed and quite often, are very helpful in explaining a passage, which a Reader may refer to.

One Illustration, I noticed one day, was 3 men with ropes hanging round their necks asking a Pharo to release their friend from Jail as he was a Prisoner of War and they, by wearing ropes were suggesting they were rich men and able to buy him out of Jail. The reply was, there is no point in doing that as we are about to go to war again and your friend would die in the coming war anyway.

Another Illustration depicted a Large man holding a Rod after being kicked by a smaller man on his shin, so they called the hill upon which he was kicked, Babel

How do we get the large Books to the Researchers in the Reading Rooms ?

We use Barrows as they are too large or fragile to go up in the Mechanical Handling system's plastic boxes.

As the Flooding recedes and Easter is approaching we turn our minds to Adam and Eve and Easter Egg gifts for each other. See following Online Image on your computer:-

http://imagesonline.bl.uk/assets/thumbnails/88/3/6bb8c393fadefeec619c15c84e1eb663.jpg

The Large Books and Bibles will be here in St Pancras London, for ever to refer to, but where did they come from and who Published them ?

Most of those details are explained on the on line catalogue @ bl.uk .

The KITTO Pictorial Sunday Book Scripture Atlas 'Geography of the Holy Land' Shelfmark L.16.d 4 however was Printed in London and New York and edited by Dr John Kitto F.S.A price 1 shilling or 20 cents. The Illustrations mentioned above are from 'Kitto'.

Ian was born in Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland and lives in Virginia Water for relaxation he enjoys Hillwalking, Golf and Swimming below Ian and his late wife Jackie recently lost to Cancer , just North of Glasgow a few years ago Walking with the Glasgow Ramblers.

I looked the word Magazine up in one of the Concordance, and 'Magda' was closest with Passage Reference to Mathew 15.6 "arriving ashore in a Ship " a bit like the Large Bibles arriving in the Reading Rooms on a Barrow.

No sign of a Magazine in the Bible though because Magazines started as Pulp Fiction in America transferring News between new settlers from Europe and grew into the industry we have today that supports 'CONNECTION' our Community magazine.

If you have a question about a word, or story from the Bible which you would like to research, Ian would bring it up to the Rare Books Reading Room for you.