sps1955's photos

Stone griffin made in Dresden, 1730, in the dahlia garden, laid out in the 1930s. Taken, I must admit, because the capping of snow reminds me of a 19th-century lady's lace cap.

Looking along Quy Water towards Lode Mill

Looking along Quy Water towards Lode mill.

The Riverside Walk beside Quy Water. Compare www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/8390923754/in/set-7215... taken about an hour later.

Looking across the frozen Quarry Pool and down the lime avenue towards the arboretum

In the Winter Walk

View on to the East Lawn from the Winter Walk. Gates by John Creed for the National Trust, 2010: "They aim to create harmony between nature and man using bold understatement of form with weathering and stainless steel for two gates placed within an autumnal setting": www.creedmetalwork.com/Anglesey-Abbey-Gardens-Gates.html

Frosty viburnum in the winter walk

Frosty dogwood in the Winter Walk

About 10.15 a.m., with a heavy frost over the remains of the light snow that had fallen at the start of the week.

About 9.30 a.m. after 2013's first snowfall.

Occupied by an ancestor in 1861 and probably in 1851 too. Although the building has been extensively modernized and the left-hand section may have been completely rebuilt, the two-storey section does appear to be C19 or older and the oldest large-scale OS map on www.old-maps.co.uk (1880) shows a two-part building with the same proportions as the existing one. Photo by my cousin Guy.

Occupied by an ancestor in 1861 and probably in 1851 too. Although the building has been extensively modernized and the nearer section, containing the garages, may have been completely rebuilt, the two-storey section does appear to be C19 or older and the oldest large-scale OS map on www.old-maps.co.uk (1880) shows a two-part building with the same proportions as the existing one; the smithy itself appears to have been where the garages now are, and to have been entered from the east. Photo by my cousin Guy.

Looking WSW from Warren Hill. The roof of Tattersalls sale room is in the centre of the photo and the grandstand of the Rowley Mile racecourse can be made out just below the horizon to the right.

Looking SW from Warren Hill. The roof of Tattersalls sale room is visible on the right. Old Station Road runs across the middle ground, with Heath Road on the left.

From W. Built for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai at the top of Warren Hill; locally described as “the ugliest house in Newmarket”, according to www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sheikh-mohamme... .

Seen from the Bridleway east of Wilbraham Temple, and looking quite modest in scale until one realizes that those are full-size trees on the horizon on the right.