Graeme Young

Retired Building Surveyor/Project Manager with interest in local history, architecture & photography. In absence of personal website, may as well promote this ↓

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

The mausoleum is currently being managed as a 'controlled ruin', as it is too far gone & too vulnerable to consider restoration. There was some preservation & stabilisation work carried out 2020, to prevent further decay, together with renewal of 4 or 5 defective cornice stones.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

Recently came across a, new to me, photo of Seaton Delaval Mausoleum as it was in the 1920s, in a 1994 Issue of Country Life magazine. It is a higher quality image than most early c.20 photos of the mausoleum & probably the last to capture the building in anywhere near its glory.

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By the 1940s Seaton Delaval Mausoleum was in a state of terminal decline following a series of lead thefts from the roof and miscellaneous acts of vandalism.
#SeatonDelaval #NationalTrust #Mausoleum

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

In support of the 1755 Green House theory, the stonework to either side of the windows of the Saloon entrance exhibits signs of historical fixings in a vertical alignment, possibly associated with the framework of a conservatory type structure...
#SeatonDelaval #NationalTrust

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

"In the house [Seaton Delaval Hall] I saw nothing remarkable but what was remarkably bad: such pictures as an honest heathen would be ashamed to receive under his roof unless he designed his wife and daughters to be common prostitutes" - John Wesley's views on the 'Gay Delavals'.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

The Mystery Green House and Salacious (?) Paintings in the Southeast Wing - An article from my Facebook group contemplating a couple of mysteries at Seaton Delaval Hall.
#SeatonDelaval #NationalTrust

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

@JHCPAL @northumbriana I am aware that both forms are in widespread use. I was just wondering if there was any clear geographic bias in favour of one or the other.

As you, perhaps, suggest it may be down to fragmented regional educational factors in distinct areas rather than strictly geographic.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

🎵"And sent them hameward, tae think again".🎵

Eleven years ago today, I joined the Scottish fans in the Rugby World Cup 2015 fan zone in Newcastle to honour my Hawick ancestry.

Unfortunately South Africa sent Scotland home to think again with a 34-16 victory.
#Scotland #Rugby

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

...This comprehensive architectural study served as a vital historical record of classical British domestic buildings constructed between 1640 and 1800, featuring precise measured elevations, floor plans, and technical descriptions, together with photographic illustrations.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

Due to status as one of masterpieces of English Baroque architecture, the last country house designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Seaton Delaval Hall was featured in 'Later Renaissance Architecture in England' 1901, a seminal publication by architects John Belcher & Mervyn Macartney...

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

Otd, 386 years ago, 28 August 1640, Sir Jacob Astley (he of the Seaton Delaval Hall buff coat) surrendered #Newcastle upon Tyne to the Scottish commander, Alexander Leslie following the defeat of the English forces under the command of Lord Conway at the Battle of #Newburn Ford.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

Seaton Delaval Hall, Rose Garden Redevelopment, Spring 2025.

The complete redevelopment of the Rose Garden followed on from an unsuccessful attempt at rejuvenation, following an attack of box blight around ten years previously, which caused widespread dieback across the garden.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

@TyneSnapper @JHCPAL Steve, I hope you don't mind me pointing this out, but this is the listing for the former agricultural building, later brewhouse/coach house, to the NE of the Hall. Stone built with later brick north gable. Now the Café.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

@TyneSnapper AI with its tendency to quote Facebook and Blogs on a par with substantive authoritative sources is one of the worst for misinformation being passed on as fact. I spent 20 minutes last week arguing with Gemini re. T Dan Smith.

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

Anyone understand why so many Facebook history group admins can't accept being corrected? Christopher Jameson the latest to remove a comment & shut down commenting.

Michael Preston of the Newcastle History in Photographs Page is notorious for banning people who correct him. Why?

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

@billy6715 It's irritating when you take the trouble to respond in order to correct inaccuracies, and your comment is removed in a matter of minutes, leaving the mis-information in place.

There is no logic to it. If you have a real interest in history why not aim for factual accuracy?

[Graeme Young @Novocastria2020]

@NUFC Can't help wondering if this was an omen.

It's Coming Home! - Ian Broudie and @Lightning_Seeds, Blyth 2018.

Big Dan Burn - He's from Blyth! - Was he there?
#DanBurn #MEXENG #ENGMEX #England #FIFAWorldCup
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