Feb 24, 2025
Derwent Street, Naseby, Otago, New Zealand.
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Derwent Street, Naseby, Otago, New Zealand.
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Very pleased to be able to support our friends in @newmodelarmy_hammonds at Daventry Museum's exhibition about the Battle of Naseby in 1645. A fantastic display of archaeology and interpretation about a pivotal moment in British history! . #daventry #northampton #northamptonshire #naseby #battle #battleofnaseby #photoreenactment #reenactment #reenactors #reenacting #reenactorstyle #reenactorslife #reenactorsofinstagram #reenactmentphotography #livinghistory #history #photohistory #historicalreenactment #17thcentury #sealedknot #dailyphoto #photoaday #photooftheday #photoadaychallenge #englishcivilwar #instadaily https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BeuU7n8VB/?igshid=15dqjxyhw05i4
Today our photo comes from Naseby, on New Zealand’s South Island. Winter in New Zealand begins in June—in the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are inverted from our own. Soon, the lakes in Naseby will freeze over, creating great conditions for outdoor curling, or what competitors call ‘chess on ice.’ And when there’s a multi-game tournament going on, that’s a ‘bonspiel’ in curling lingo. This year marks the first ever Curling World Cup—with the fourth leg of the months-long event beginning today in Beijing, China. This ultimate bonspiel unites teams from around the globe, and on May 12, 2019, we’ll know which nation swept the competition. (Curling joke!) (via Major Mike | ’Chess on ice’ sweep nation)
It was the end of the world as we knew it
It was the end of the world as we knew it
In his second piece about Northamptonshire during the English Civil War, Mike Ingram takes us back to June 1645, when the future of the nation was decided at the Battle of Naseby…
For three weeks in 1645, Northamptonshire was devastated by war. The county was stripped of its livestock, many skirmishes took place and few villages escaped the plundering. Those who refused to pay their ‘tax’ or to…
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Rupert’s Viewpoint, Naseby, Northamptonshire looking SSE.
Car-park, raised platform (to raise viewer to the height of mounted cavalry), flagpole, interpretation board and cctv cameras.
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