#Godalming Surrey

[karloff-the-uncanny]

Photos of when I visited Boris Karloff’s memorial plaque in Gildford crematorium, Surrey in July 2022.

It was a very modest memorial, just the same as every other one in the garden of remembrance. I liked that there is a yellow rose growing over his plaque, as Karloff used to grow roses and I like to think of his ghost tending to the bushes there.

Unfortunately I can never confirm whether or not his ashes were actually spread in the crematorium or not. I have heard conflicting stories.

I was a little disappointed that Boris wasn't there to greet me like this...

but maybe he was sick of the living by the time I visited! Our conversation was pleasant, but rather one-sided.

I hope to visit again soon.

[livesunique]

 Gertrude Jekyll garden at Vann,

Hambledon, Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom,

Photography by Richard Davies

[federer7]

A meeting of brides of Christ on their wedding day to their Lord at the nunnery in Godalming, Surrey, England. 1965

Photo: Eve Arnold

[theholmwoodfoundation]

Nobody's voting for Henri's lab report yet but I DO also like it very much

In this house we love Henrietta Martin.

There's a reason we haven't been able to do as much with her as we would like pre-season one, but we can't wait for you all to meet her properly!

[toopeanutcrown]

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[okinawanmatt]

Artist: Genesis Song: I Can’t Dance Album: We Can’t Dance Year: 1991 Genre: Rock, Progressive Pop Origin: Godalming, Surrey, England

[arunsilva]

It was so nice to step out today on lunch break to pop back to the old school @charterhousesch to pick up a piece of the historic stained glass which used to be in the old chapel. It was also lovely to catch up with Catherine from Archives as I did work with her and the Charterhouse foundation a while back. I also got a whistle stop tour of all the new changes at the school, including the new and refurbished OHH Reception and Brooke Hall. It was also wonderful to get recognised by a few staff members who had known me throughout my time, including a lovely security guard who remembered me for playing the organ and the bells and the admissions lady who saw me join as a 13 year old and saw me finish as a 18 year old😊💜. The windows were made in 1874 & 1878 and they were removed in 1940 when the chapel got converted into what we know as the Old Music School. The glass has also survived two fires whilst in storage. Thank you Catherine for the lovely tour. Every time I come back and see the changes, it never stops me feeling like I’m back home again 😊💜. #Charterhouse #OldBoy #Alumni #OldCarthusian #OC #ProudtoBeAnOC #Home #5Years #Carthusian #DeoDanteDedi #OldSchool #Surrey #SurreyLife #Godalming #Countryside (at Charterhouse School) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjO9S-Kcta/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 13 November 2023

In Castle Gordon Walled Garden, Scotland, a range of apple cultivars have been harvested and were being stored including:

Malus domestica 'Michaelmas Red' (apple) an extremely sweet, juicy and aromatic fruit. It was raised in Kent, UK, in 1929.

Malus domestica ‘Joybells’(apple) raised by Will Tayler in Godalming, Surrey, with records showing that trees were grafted in about 1914.

Malus domestica ‘Howgate Wonder’ (apple) one of the largest cooking apples in cultivation. It was raised on the Isle of Wight, UK, in 1915 by G. Wratten of Howgate Lane, Bembridge. The cultivar was a cross between Malus domestica ‘Newton Wonder’ and Malus domestica ‘Blenheim Orange’.

Jill Raggett

[thethirdromana]

Just thinking about this some more:

The men were scared every time we turned our electric lamp on them, and fell on their knees and prayed.

There are two possible interpretations here: one, that electric lamps were relatively unknown in Romania, so it's a scary new technology. Two, that there's something else scaring the men (per this post).

I suspect Bram Stoker's intention was for it to be ambiguous, and also that he had absolutely no idea of the level of electrification in Romania.

But I have checked how much option one actually holds up and... it doesn't.

The first electrical power plant was built in Bucharest in 1882 and used to run on gas. Two years later, the first hydro-power plant was built at Peleș, one year after the inauguration of the royal castle, to supply the king's residence with electricity.

(source)

Meanwhile in the UK:

In 1881, the first public electricity generator in Britain was installed in Godalming, Surrey. The next year they passed the Electric Light Act which was the first public measure dealing with electricity supply.

(source)

The reference books Stoker did use were riddled with inaccuracies so this may not even be his fault. But in contrast to the implication in the novel that our heroes are travelling into an older or more 'primitive' country, there wasn't much difference in access to modern technology between the UK and Romania in the 1890s.

[justforbooks]

Towards the end of his life, the actor Adrian Schiller, who has died unexpectedly aged 60, found success and sudden fame in two blockbuster TV shows: The Last Kingdom (2018-22), on Netflix, in which he played the richest man in medieval Wessex, Aethelhelm; and ITV’s drama Victoria (2016-19), as Cornelius Penge, a footman in the royal household.

In both, a fleeting glance would suggest that here was a naturally authoritative actor, blessed with gravitas and style. This camouflaged the demonic comic spirit within, which had informed so many of his memorable stage performances since he first appeared in the German Expressionist Carl Sternheim’s 1911 play The Knickers at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1991. In a delicious comic performance, he played a weak-chested Wagner-loving barber thunderstruck by a flash of discarded lingerie as the Kaiser drove by, suggesting, said the Times critic, “a tousle-headed combination of Charlie Chaplin, Egon Schiele and Gollum, whose idea of romance is reading extracts from the Flying Dutchman”.

Schiller proceeded to leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1990s – his Porter in a disappointing 1996 Macbeth was the funniest I had ever seen, while his entertaining Touchstone in an awful 2000 designer knitwear production of As You Like It rescued another dud evening.

He was less prominent in some strange productions at the National – Peter Handke’s wordless The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other in 2008, as one of 27 actors playing 450 characters in a town square, coming and going with no interaction, and as a revolutionary tailor in a poor 2013 retread of Carl Zuckmayer’s 1931 Captain of Kopenick, in which Antony Sher did not eclipse memories of Paul Scofield in the NT’s 1971 production.

On the other hand, he was outstanding in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, superbly directed, and modernised, by Benedict Andrews at the Young Vic in 2012, playing Kulygin, a leather-jacketed schoolteacher tragically infatuated with his own disloyal wife; and he was a compelling, original, quietly spoken and sympathetic Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the Wanamaker, the candle-lit indoor venue at Shakespeare’s Globe, in 2022. The Merchant rekindled the current noise around the play – is it antisemitic or about antisemitism?

In an interview with the Jewish Chronicle, Schiller tilted towards the second view. He averred that he was “a Jew, but not Jewish”.

Schiller was born in Oxford, the second of four children of Judith (nee Bennett), a teacher, and Klaus Schiller, a gastroenterologist whose family had emigrated from Austria to Britain in 1938. When Klaus was appointed a consultant at St Peter’s hospital, Chertsey, the Schillers moved to Surrey.

Adrian was educated at Kingston grammar school and Charterhouse, in Godalming, Surrey, where he pursued a busy life in stage productions. Instead of drama school, he took a good degree in philosophy (after switching from architecture) at University College London, although he always self-deprecatingly said that he majored in “plays and partying”.

His early television career encompassed series such as Prime Suspect, A Touch of Frost, Judge John Deed and much else, through to the first series of Endeavour in 2013. He also popped up in the Channel 4 series The Devil’s Whore (2008) set in the English civil war, and the Doctor Who story strand The Doctor’s Wife in 2011.

One of his most effective cameos on screen was as the barman in a striking government-sponsored advert in the anti-drink-driving campaign in 2007. He leaned deep into the camera with a series of non-equivocal questions to a bemused, unimpressed young glass-holding customer who may or may not have grasped the seriousness of the interrogation.

But he always returned to the theatre, seeking out the most demanding roles with companies who would accommodate him. He gave an almost ideal Cassius, wirily intellectual while bubbling passionately underneath, said Michael Billington, for David Farr’s 2005 RSC touring version of Julius Caesar. In the title role of Tartuffe at the Watermill, Newbury, in 2006, he was cool and venomous, as well as understated, and clearly the star of the show.

And for Stephen Unwin’s English Touring Theatre in 2007, he rebooted the remorseless villain, De Flores, in Middleton and Rowley’s Jacobean shocker, The Changeling. He was more than notable, too, opposite Sher’s Sigmund Freud, as a vividly hilarious Salvador Dalí, in their great encounter scene in Terry Johnson’s Hysteria at the Hampstead theatre, revived there in 2013, 20 years after its Royal Court premiere.

His feature film credits were not extensive, but in 2014 he was well cast as the sardonic high priest Caiaphas in Son of God, Christopher Spencer’s biblical epic. In Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette (2015), scripted by Abi Morgan, he was an imposing Lloyd George, coming round to the persuasion of the militant vote-seeking women led by Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst and Carey Mulligan as a fictional worker fuelled by the excitement of change and protest.

His last movie, yet to be released, is Red Sonja, in which he plays the king of Turan in a remake of the 1985 sword-and-sorcery Marvel Comics fantasy.

Back on stage in 2023, he returned to questions of Jewish identity and survival in three short new plays at the Soho theatre and a more substantial Holocaust drama, The White Factory by Dmitry Glukhovsky, at the sparky new Marylebone theatre (formerly the Steiner Hall), in which he was a powerful, wise presence in the story of a survivor of the Łódź ghetto in Poland, played by Mark Quartley, adapting to American life in the Brooklyn of the 60s.

At the time of his death, Schiller – who was also a skilled sculptor and guitarist – had just returned from Sydney and the triumphant international tour of The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Sam Mendes, and had been looking forward to the next leg of the tour in San Francisco.

He is survived by his partner, Milena Wlodkowska, a laboratory support technician, and their son, Gabriel, and by his sister, Ginny, and brothers, Nick and Ben.

🔔 Adrian Townsend Schiller, actor, born 21 February 1964; died 3 April 2024

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[popsicle-stick]

I checked the London Necropolis Railway. Oh wow . And the logo goes pretty hard ngl. Also to Surray? I think that's where Arthur Holmwood's place was correct me if I'm wrong

i think the only thing that could improve this is if the skull was on fire and perhaps screaming maybe

and yeah! arthur is (at least lord of) godalming, surrey, which isn't far south of brookwood cemetery, of the same county, the place where london was outsourcing its burial plots to. coincidence. i think not

[bjsmall]

01.09.23

After blogging for Blue Fish in Burpham, Guildford, we went to checkout the canal walk from the River Wey and Godalming Navigations and Dapdune Wharf.

On our walk we saw the Angel Blue canal boat that I went on with Chris in Year 11 at the Abbey School. Below are some pictures from this trip back in May 2011.

The surrounding area looks a little different today.

Surrey Outdoor Learning link.

[grandmaster-anne]

14 October 2022 The Duchess of Gloucester, President, Bridewell Royal Hospital, King Edward's School, Witley, officially opened the Exhibition Hall and afterwards attended the Admissions Day Service at King Edward's School, Witley, Godalming, and was received by His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey (Mr. Michael More-Molyneux). 📸: King Edward's Witley

[theholmwoodfoundation]

I am curious about the lore on how Holmwood made this whole Thing

OBITUARY Lord Arthur Godalming Died January 12th 1952 Leading Founder of The Holmwood Foundation

Lord Arthur Godalming, who received an OBE in 1930 for services to medicine and his philanthropic contributions, passed away from old age last week in his home in Surrey. Sir Godalming is best known to the public for founding The Holmwood Foundation. The Foundation was set up in 1894 after the tragic death of his fiancée, Lucy Westenra four years prior. It is well known that blood infusions were used to help treat her serious illness, and that was what prompted him to work closely with Professor Abraham Van Helsing and noted scientific colleagues in the field to pioneer research into the field of classic haematology, building and financing some of the most advanced laboratories in the world. He is survived by his widow and two adopted daughters.

Published in The Lancet, 1952

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