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Perspective: on the New Year DAVID BRYSON FRPS
Perspective: on the New Year
DAVID BRYSON FRPS
Best wishes to all members for a fruitful 2022. The first edition this year hasn’t really ended up with a theme it is just showing great examples of members’ stories and photographs. Themes unless they naturally come together can be restrictive. So the more material or ideas for current or future issues the better so I have as wide a choice as possible for future issues from members’ photography and stories so much the better. If a theme develops great if not I just look forward to publishing the stories and photographs you submit. As always I can only publish from the work that is submitted to me. If you would like to get feedback and submit stories/ideas of photographs for the journal please contact me by e-mail. heritage. editor@rps.org This issue starts with Eric Houlder’s reminiscences about Sutton Hoo in view of the recent film”The Dig”. Then we take a look inside a Stanhope with Robert Galloway. From the very small to larger edifices we take to the skies to see aerial view of some of the Parish Churches of Worcestershire with Mike Glyde. The next piece takes us back to the Festival of Britain with some family photographs and the story of canal barges travelling from Lapworth to London. The last piece takes us to the UNESCO sites, monuments and festivals in Russia from Sergey one of our newest members.
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This year has already seen some amazing archaeological and palaeontological finds many of which have featured in our facebook group posts as well as on “Digging for Britain” on the BBC featured on the front cover with a site photograph by Mike Glyde our honorary secretary New Challenge for the New Year
Mike Glyde invited the group members to photograph the heritage monument in their city and take 3 pictures for the New Year’s Challenge collection. Sergey chose the EGYPTIAN GATE monument in St. Petersburg. This structure was built in 1827-1830 . The facility was designed by the Scottish architect
Adam Adamovich Menelas. At the beginning of the 19th century, there was a fascination with Egyptomania in different European countries. And many houses were built, buildings on Egyptian themes. So in Russia, such gates were built. The gate is the entrance to St. Petersburg. It should be noted that when St. Petersburg was developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, many different specialists from European countries came: including architects, gardeners, ship builders,doctors, merchants and scientists. Specialists from England have made a huge contribution to the creation of St. Petersburg. The architect Adam Adamovich Menelas built many different buildings and parks in the city. Do join our private facebook group and contribute your own images and thoughts. https://www. facebook.com/groups/rpsah
