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enchantedengland:    A cottage on Mainland, the most populated island of the Scottish archipelago (group of islands) of Orkney. For over five centures Orkney was part of Norway, not joining Scotland until the fifteenth century. Consequently the Orkney Islands have a Norse rather than a Gaelic flavour, with historic links to the Faroes, Iceland, and Norway.    You’d never believe it from looking at a map, but the Orkney Islands are green, fertile, and populous; with more than 19,000 cheery citizens who speak with a distinct lilting, sing-song accent. Their are endless summer days (locals say The Orcadian can be read outdoors at midnight) and long winter nights; but they’re warmed by the Atlantic and western winds and January temperatures are actually quite similar to the coast of Sussex. (4-6 C or around 40 F)   (Georgia Ghezzi on flickr)

enchantedengland:

   A cottage on Mainland, the most populated island of the Scottish archipelago (group of islands) of Orkney. For over five centures Orkney was part of Norway, not joining Scotland until the fifteenth century. Consequently the Orkney Islands have a Norse rather than a Gaelic flavour, with historic links to the Faroes, Iceland, and Norway.

   You’d never believe it from looking at a map, but the Orkney Islands are green, fertile, and populous; with more than 19,000 cheery citizens who speak with a distinct lilting, sing-song accent. Their are endless summer days (locals say The Orcadian can be read outdoors at midnight) and long winter nights; but they’re warmed by the Atlantic and western winds and January temperatures are actually quite similar to the coast of Sussex. (4-6 C or around 40 F)

  (Georgia Ghezzi on flickr)

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enchantedengland:   Here is another of the thousands of places in Britain I wanna live- Ardverikie House in the Highlands of Scotland. LOOK AT ALL THOSE FABULOUS TURRETS AND SNOW-COVERED SPIRES AND SHIT! (This is why I could never write for Architectural Digest.) I love this place! I want to play in all the passageways and hidden nooks and make snow angels in the yard.   Other bits of interest: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert lived here for a month before they bought Balmoral; and the house played a starring role in the BBC drama, “Monarch of the Glen” (Nick Weall panoramio.com)

enchantedengland:

  Here is another of the thousands of places in Britain I wanna live- Ardverikie House in the Highlands of Scotland. LOOK AT ALL THOSE FABULOUS TURRETS AND SNOW-COVERED SPIRES AND SHIT! (This is why I could never write for Architectural Digest.) I love this place! I want to play in all the passageways and hidden nooks and make snow angels in the yard.

  Other bits of interest: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert lived here for a month before they bought Balmoral; and the house played a starring role in the BBC drama, “Monarch of the Glen” (Nick Weall panoramio.com)

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enchantedengland:   A dreamy atmospheric shot of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland.The museum, adjacent to Kelvingrove Park, is the most popular free attraction in Scotland as well as the most visited museum in the UK outside of London. The museum boasts one of the finest collections of arms and armour in the world along with a vast natural history collection; and outstanding European artworks from the Old Masters, French Impressionists, Dutch Renaissance, and Scottish Colourists.  (image by benedict on beautyineverything.com)

enchantedengland:

  A dreamy atmospheric shot of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland.The museum, adjacent to Kelvingrove Park, is the most popular free attraction in Scotland as well as the most visited museum in the UK outside of London. The museum boasts one of the finest collections of arms and armour in the world along with a vast natural history collection; and outstanding European artworks from the Old Masters, French Impressionists, Dutch Renaissance, and Scottish Colourists. 

(image by benedict on beautyineverything.com)

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enchantedengland:    A blue moon over Alloa, Scotland, in the autumn. If you’re wondering what a Blue Moon actually is, well, every few years there are thirteen Full Moons in a year; and the thirteenth is called the Blue Moon. And if you’re wondering how I know this, it is due to my vast knowledge of the subject of lycanthropy.     (pic by billycurrie on beautyineverything.com)

enchantedengland:

   A blue moon over Alloa, Scotland, in the autumn. If you’re wondering what a Blue Moon actually is, well, every few years there are thirteen Full Moons in a year; and the thirteenth is called the Blue Moon. And if you’re wondering how I know this, it is due to my vast knowledge of the subject of lycanthropy. 

   (pic by billycurrie on beautyineverything.com)

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enchantedengland:    Fraserburgh lies at the extreme northeast corner of Aberdeenshire, which is a unitary council (something like a county) that lies in northeast Scotland. (Scotland is divided into 32 designated council areas.) Aberdeenshire is the locus of a large number of Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological sites, BTW. So hurry on up there with your trowel and dig, or satiate your sea lust with the marshmallow-spun turquoise foam of the North Sea crashing around the harbour lighthouse. (T. Keith Bruce beautyineverything)

enchantedengland:

   Fraserburgh lies at the extreme northeast corner of Aberdeenshire, which is a unitary council (something like a county) that lies in northeast Scotland. (Scotland is divided into 32 designated council areas.) Aberdeenshire is the locus of a large number of Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological sites, BTW. So hurry on up there with your trowel and dig, or satiate your sea lust with the marshmallow-spun turquoise foam of the North Sea crashing around the harbour lighthouse. (T. Keith Bruce beautyineverything)

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xmorbidcuriosityx: moriartyforpm: siemprefiestanuncasiesta: This is a grave from the Victorian age when a fear of zombies and vampires was prevalent. The cage was intended to trap the undead just in case the corpse reanimated. I have a feeling that I’ll be buried beneath one of these. Whilst there was undeniably an interest in all things ‘vampiric’ during the late Victorian period, these cages are called mortsafes and were designed, by and large, to protect against ‘Resurrection Men’ - nocturnal gangs of grave-robbers. These unscrupulous characters dug up freshly-interred corpses and sold them on to anatomists for dissection. The burgeoning science had created a market in dead bodies, with demand regularly outstripping supply. Interestingly, the theft of a body was not considered a criminal offence, unless the shroud in which the body had been wrapped had also been taken! Invented in c.1816, the cages were put in place by relatives of the deceased so as to guard against the disturbance of the body at a time when many people believed in its literal resurrection on the Day of Judgement - to be dissected was therefore to put the very soul in jeopardy. They are most common in Scotland, which was rife with body-snatching, as illustrated by the infamous case of Burke and Hare. Rich families could afford their own mortsafes, but others clubbed together to form societies that would purchase a mortsafe that would be used temporarily until a body had reached a suitably decomposed state that would render it useless to anatomists. The mortsafe could then be reused by another family.  The introduction of the Anatomy Act in the 1830s finally secured a steady, legal, supply of bodies for the purposes of anatomisation - through the corpses of executed criminals and others on the margins of society, most notably the insane, prostitutes, suicide victims and orphans. The use of mortsafes therefore waned as fear of the Resurrectionists subsided.

xmorbidcuriosityx:

moriartyforpm:

siemprefiestanuncasiesta:

This is a grave from the Victorian age when a fear of zombies and vampires was prevalent. The cage was intended to trap the undead just in case the corpse reanimated.

I have a feeling that I’ll be buried beneath one of these.

Whilst there was undeniably an interest in all things ‘vampiric’ during the late Victorian period, these cages are called mortsafes and were designed, by and large, to protect against ‘Resurrection Men’ - nocturnal gangs of grave-robbers.

These unscrupulous characters dug up freshly-interred corpses and sold them on to anatomists for dissection. The burgeoning science had created a market in dead bodies, with demand regularly outstripping supply. Interestingly, the theft of a body was not considered a criminal offence, unless the shroud in which the body had been wrapped had also been taken!

Invented in c.1816, the cages were put in place by relatives of the deceased so as to guard against the disturbance of the body at a time when many people believed in its literal resurrection on the Day of Judgement - to be dissected was therefore to put the very soul in jeopardy. They are most common in Scotland, which was rife with body-snatching, as illustrated by the infamous case of Burke and Hare.

Rich families could afford their own mortsafes, but others clubbed together to form societies that would purchase a mortsafe that would be used temporarily until a body had reached a suitably decomposed state that would render it useless to anatomists. The mortsafe could then be reused by another family. 

The introduction of the Anatomy Act in the 1830s finally secured a steady, legal, supply of bodies for the purposes of anatomisation - through the corpses of executed criminals and others on the margins of society, most notably the insane, prostitutes, suicide victims and orphans. The use of mortsafes therefore waned as fear of the Resurrectionists subsided.

(Source: thenotebooktoremember)

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