Amelia's photos with the keyword: Architecture.

Eaton Park Lilly Pond

16 Aug 2020 48 25 432
Today's Sunday Challenge: Take a photograph of something you've never taken before. Having been to Norfolk at least 5 times a year since our youngest daughter moved there 10 years ago, we have visited many parts of the coast, 3 National Trust properties, numerous old churches in small hamlets and villages and of course the county town of Norwich. We hadn't been to Norfolk since just before lockdown, and were very aware of social distancing measures, so we chose to visit a park where we had never been, having been reassured by our daughter that it was large enough to avoid being in close contact with anyone. . I hadn't looked at the challenge until we got back from a trip on Thursday evening. What a gift of a challenge.

Tyntesfield House and Chapel

13 Apr 2017 9 3 526
Latest news: www.ipernity.com/doc/serola/44613266 This wonderful property, now owned by the National Trust, was purchased in 1843 by the Gibbs family, who made a fortune in the family business, Antony Gibbs & Sons. From 1847 the firm had an effective monopoly in the import and marketing to Europe and North America of guano from Peru as a fertilizer. This was mined by indentured Chinese labour on the Chincha Islands in conditions which the Peruvian government acknowledged in 1856 had degenerated "into a kind of Negro slave trade". The firm's profits from this trade were such that William Gibbs became the richest non-noble man in England.