#rural england

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Milldale, Derbyshire, UK

cr: peakdistrict_ lady

[vox-anglosphere]

The former hunting lodge at Ampney Park personifies rural England

[rherlotshadow]

Winter dawn. Devon.

[visitheworld]

The Manor House, Cotswolds / England (by Amanda).

[mother-lee]

atonement (2007)

[lambotel]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The countryside is not a slice of untilled nature. It is a human institution built over centuries in the image of the people who made it.

- Sir Roger Scruton

An unknown girl looks on in her fox hunting attire for Town and Country Magazine, 1955. Photo by Genevieve Naylor.

[isolate]

bring back warmer days

[bonfires-n-hares]

Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983 (source)

[thepassingerseat]

[awildfreya]

Reading weather

[vox-anglosphere]

A charming row of thatched cottages in Baslow, Derbyshire

[weaversandspinners]

Woman feeding her poultry while holding under her arm the distaff and spindle with which she has been spinning.

📚Luttrell Psalter (1320-1340), British Library, 4213, fol. 166v

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_42130_f166r

[atlasandacamera]

Rosselsike Wood, Nottinghamshire

[northern-punk-lad]

If you live in rural England I have a question for you

How many midges have invaded your house today

[thewondermentofillustration]

Walter J. Phillips - Bredon Village, 1928, colour woodcut; Warren’s Landing, Lake Winnipeg, 1931, colour woodcut; A Gloucester village, 1926, colour woodcut

Walter Joseph Phillips (1884 - 1963) was an English born watercolour painter and illustrator who spent much of his career in Canada. He is remembered as a master and pioneer of woodblock prints and his works are displayed in galleries across Canada and the United States. Philips was born in Lincolnshire, England. He showed a talent for drawing at an early age, and at 14 years, Phillips attended Bourne College and the Municipal School of Art in Birmingham. At 18 years of age (1902), Phillips moved to South Africa with the intention of raising enough money to study art in Paris. However, he returned to England with little more money than he left with. Phillips then worked as a commercial artist for a few years and became art master at Bishop Woodworth School in Salisbury, England, serving between 1908 and 1911. Phillips married in 1910 and they immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada in 1913. He soon befriended another English artist, Cyril H. Barraud, who taught him etching technique and sold him his printing press and equipment. Phillips taught at St John's Technical High School, and then at the University of Wisconsin. In 1925, Phillips and his family spent a year in England developing his art skills, particularly his woodblock techniques. Starting in 1940, Phillips taught for two decades at the Banff School of Art and at the Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary. During this time, He focussed on painting watercolours.