Showing posts with label memorial stone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial stone. Show all posts

Friday, 9 November 2012

Beyond 'Beyond Limits' ...

Here are a few more features I saw when I was at Chatsworth a couple of months ago.

The first is a fan of a Rolls Royce jet engine ...

Another [dusty] sculpture ... at Chatsworth  

... it needs a duster running round it !

After the Conservative Wall I included in a recent blog here's a more modern greenhouse built in 1970 ...

One of Chatsworth's greenhouses ...

Here's the same greenhouse beside a more traditional greenhouse on the right and the Conservative Wall in the background ...

Two greenhouses and the Conservative Wall ... at Chatsworth

After discovering the gravestone in memory of the tame red deer earlier in the day I then noticed another gravestone erected in memory of Smut, Grandpa ... and others ...

Another memorial ... at Chatsworth

Smut and Grandpa etc appear to have lived for 12 to 15 years so I assume they are dogs.

Then on its own nearby was a stone in memory of Portly who was born in 1951 and died in 1962 ...

... and yet another memorial ... at Chatsworth.  

Why Portly was buried on his or her own I don't know. What Portly was I don't know.

A bit of a mish-mash of photographs but it gives you an idea as to the variety in the garden at Chatsworth. You could easily spend an hour or two looking around. They're worth a visit but even more so when the Beyond Limits exhibition is on. Then you can spend a couple of hours just looking at the sculptures in that exhibition.

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

A memorial to a deer ... at Chatsworth

One thing that made my September visit to Chatsworth more enjoyable was all the different things I saw whilst I was there. I did find quite a few things I had never seen before ... including this memorial stone ... 

Memorial stone to a deer ...

I had never seen this memorial until September of this year which means I have been going for 30 years and missed it. Now how did I manage that ? I suppose it could be a new memorial but it doesn't look like it does it.

I recall seeing a very tame deer when I visted Chatsworth back in the 1970s so I suppose it could well have been Sarah. I even have some photos somewhere. I will have to try and dig them out ...

In the meantime I just have the memorial stone to show you ~ albeit a rather unusual memorial stone.