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Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire Dales of England, 3.5 miles north-east of Bakewell and 9 miles west of Chesterfield. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to his Cavendish family since 1549. In the foreground is the famous Emperor Fountain. It is on record as having reached the height of 90m (300ft). It is gravity fed and powered simply by the pressure of water dropping 122m, through a 40cm iron pipe. Available to buy from my fine art printing & framing site at worldwidewayman.pictures soon.
"Funiculì, Funiculà" is a Neapolitan song composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to lyrics by Peppino Turco. It was written to commemorate the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius. Before Mount Vesuvius last erupted in 1944 they moved it to Saltburn-by-Sea in Yorkshire, UK, just In case. There they called it, more prosaically, a tramway. None of this is quite true but it's still a finicular railway. So there. Available to buy from my fine art printing & framing site at worldwidewayman.pictures soon.
If you look very carefully in Salisbury there is this spirey thing sticking up into the sky. Lots of photos show a big churchy building stuck to the bottom of it. All very well and good but it's a distraction from the main event, I say. Buy it from my fine art printing & framing site at worldwidewayman.pictures
It is not well known but The Ascension was re-enacted in Sherborne, Dorset only last year, on Easter Sunday around eight minutes past twelve. With the original cast and a more powerful rocket this time. Quite a show, it was. Buy it from my fine art printing & framing site at worldwidewayman.pictures