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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

“Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/tuesday-july-29-2025/

Today's photo

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/775716371784957952/todays-flickr-photo-with-the-most-hits-the?source=share

#ArtInstitute #Chicago #MiniatureRooms #Georgian #architecture #model

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Georgian rotunda.

A detail from one of the miniature rooms at the Art Institute, Chicago.

#ArtInstitute #Chicago #MiniatureRooms #Georgian #architecture #model

17Sept1838 The London-Birmingham Railway is fully opened. The train from Euston Station at 8am would arrive in Birmingham at 1:45pm, the Birmingham-Liverpool connection would get you to Liverpool by 6:30pm, irreversibly changing how spectators travelled to & from fights

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

16Sept1843 Dick Curtis the ‘Pet of the Fancy’ & ‘Champion of the Light Weighs’ died at 1 Little Surrey St, Blackfriars Rd aged 41yrs, buried in St George’s Churchyard Southwark. Born 1802 Curtis fought 15x in the London Prize Ring 13win1loss1draw & 1forfeit.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

14Sept1828 The Weekly Dispatch publishes a letter telling publicans including Harry Holt to never allow, ‘..John Scroggins to consume more than 1 quart of gin, rum, or brandy—nor more than 30 glasses of liquor called grog (at the same time) By order of the Commander-in-Chief’

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

13Sept1824 Rough Robin #Manchester defeats Jack Manning #Birmingham in 30rds & 45min in front of 5K people at Delph 4mi north of Oldham (Manchester). Robin Seconded by Sampson, Manning by Harry Holt. After his win Holt invites Robin to #London to train him.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The fight between Randall & Martin in Sept 1821 was immortalised in a publication titled, ‘Real Life In London, or, The rambles & adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq, & his cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall…’ apparently written by ‘An Amateur’ later attributed to Pierce Egan or someone unknown copying his style.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

Jack Randall (1794-1828) the ‘Nonpareil’(no match or equal) was undefeated in 16x Prizefights but being a middle weight was ineligible for a Championship Title. Randall defeated Holt in May 1817 at Coombe-Warren before they became sparring partners for many years

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

11Sept1821 Jack Randall defeats Jack Martin knocking him out after 7min10sec at Crawley Downs. Randall was Seconded by Harry Holt & Paddington Jones, Martin by Tom Spring & John Thurtell. (300guineas aside)

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

10Sept1822 Josh Hudson defeats Barlow in 6rds & 6min at St Albans after Tom Belcher stopped the fight & conceded for Barlow who had been knocked senseless. In the same Ring Jem Ward Defeated Burke (Jr) in 7min. Ward Seconded by Harry Holt, Burke by Tom Oliver.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

Harry Holt trained Jack Hannan for a month prior his fight against Johnny Walker in April 1839 choosing the Bald Faced Stag at #Finchley as their headquarters. Well known pedestrian Bob Fuller assisted Holt in training Hannan which may account for his ability to last almost 4hrs in the Ring.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

One of the longest #Bareknuckle fights to ever take place in the London #PrizeRing was between Jack Hannan & Johnny Walker on #Chesterford Common near #Littlebury, #Essex on 2April1839. Hannan (Seconded by Harry Holt) defeated Walker (Seconded by Dick Curtis) in 3hr48min.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

6Sept1831 Harry Holt & Jem Ward (Champion of England) stop & exhibit for several days in #Edinburgh on their Grand Sparring Tour of #England & #Scotland. Scottish Surgeon, Physician, Philosopher & Writer, Robert Macnish is noted as seeing them exhibit 3x.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

Harry Holt didn’t take a permanent position as a Committee Member in the ‘Fair Play Club’ instead distancing himself from ‘politics’ & positions of financial influence over the Ring. Holt remains focused on getting-up matches, Training, Promoting & Seconding Prizefighters.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

After controversy in 1829 the ‘Fair Play Club’ Committee makes it clear that the Club’s role is to simply preserve the integrity of the Ring & not as an arbitrator of disputes between Stakeholders, Backers or Combatants. The Fair Play Clib is sadly disbanded in December 1829.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

In 1461 during the #WarsoftheRoses the 2nd Battle of St Albans was partially fought (flight of the Yorkists) on #Nomansland Common & in #C17th gangs of thieves regularly robbed travellers on the Common including the legendary ‘Wicked Lady’ Highwaywoman Katherine Ferrers.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

2Sept1828 Harry Holt & his student Paddy Flynn travel to Warwick Races on a ‘Milling Speculation’ where Flynn was to fight a local countryman. The match does not come off & they return to London several days later.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

1Sep1821 Published on this day 302 years ago:

‘THE INTERIOR OF THE FIVES COURT WITH RANDALL AND TURNER SPARRING’

by Charles Turner (1821).

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The 1st time the Fair Play Club’s ‘Regulators’ are use was at a fight on 16Sept1828 at Shire Mear, Bedfordsire when Harry Jones defeats Ned Stockman. The Regulators were Ward, Holt, Tebbutt, Reid, Oliver, Gaynor, Fogo and Tisdale

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

In 1828 the ‘Fair Play Club’ became the governing body of the #London #PrizeRing with power to employ ‘Regulators’ to keep the integrity of the Ring. #Regulators were paid a Half Guinea & armed with Whips to stop spectators from invading the Ring or disrupting fights

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

30Aug1825 Rough Robin defeats Harry Bundollock in 18rds & 25min at #Nomansland Common near St Albans. Robin Seconded by Harry Holt & Josh Hudson, Bundollock by George Head & Harry Harmer (£25 aside)

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

29Aug1828 The Fair Play Club is establish on this day by Harry Holt, Tom Spring, Mr Harmer(Owner Weekly Dispatch) Mr Smith(Editor Weekly Dispatch) & Vincent George Dowling(Editor Bell’s Life in London) at the Castle Tavern, Holborn. Tom Spring is selected as Treasurer.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

28Aug1821 Peter Crawley holds a Benefit at the Fives Court & uses the proceeds to purchases a Butchers shop in Lombard (now Tower) Court, Seven Dials.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

28Aug1820 Dick Curtis (pic) defeats Ned Brown in 15rds & 57min at Wimbledon Common. In the same ring Paddy O’Leary defeats Young Hawkins in 38rds & 50min. O’Leary Seconded by Jack Randall, Hawkins by Harry Holt.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

27Aug1831 The Champion of England Jem Ward & his Second, Harry Holt continue their Sparring Tour of England & Scotland exhibiting on this day in Glasgow before continuing on to Edinburgh.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The ‘heroic archetype’ of John Bull was created by John Arbuthnot in 1712 & can be compared with that of ‘Uncle Sam’ in the #USA (1st used 1812-16). It was used to arouse feelings of patriotism. #JohnBull #UncleSam

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

After #Napoleon’s defeat at #Waterloo in 1815 a lack of war news led to an increase in sports reporting. By 1820 reporting Prizefights had grown in popularity as people wanted to associate a pugilists strength & courage with the 'John Bull' fighting spirit of Georgian #England.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

Jack O’Donnel was born in Ireland 1784. His 1st fight was in 1802 before a burglary conviction in 1806 saw him Transported for 7yrs. After returning from the Colony his last #PrizeRing fight was with Holt in 1818. Little is known of his latter life. (6win3loss)

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

Benjamin Haydon has been described as one of the most interesting men of his generation & on 28Dec1818 he records extensively in his journal a dinner hosted for his friends #WilliamWordsworth #JohnKeats #CharlesLamb & others famously referred to as ‘The Immortal Dinner’ #poets

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Haydon

Servitude: the thread about why James Craig’s New Town isn’t as regular as he would have liked

Have you ever wondered why at the far western end of Queen Street, where it meets North Charlotte Street, the regular, right-angled Georgian grid of the First New Town does something odd and has a bevelled corner? You have? Great! Lets find out why that is.

No, the Georgians weren’t future-proofing the street corner here for a 20th century traffic engineer’s filter lane. This has to do with something much more predictable than that – land ownership disputes!

You see, when Town Council first had a plan of land ownership drawn up for the planning of the New Town, they didn’t actually yet own all the land on which they intended to build. In fact, they only owned about three quarters of it. Standing in the way to the west was “Allan’s Park“, owned by Dean of Guild Allan (Thomas Allan), and “Barjarg’s Feu” – owned by James Erskine, Lord Barjarg of Drumsheugh House.

Allan’s Park was relatively easy to acquire, and was done so by the time the above plan was released to James Craig and other prospective architects for the design competition in April 1766, but Barjarg’s Feu still formed a salient into it. But planning proceeded on the basis that the Council hoped to acquire the land anyway and James Craig’s winning entry therefore drew the western town blocks over it.

Building commenced at the eastern end within short order and by the late 1760s or early 1770s, the New Town was creeping westwards. By the time it reached the boundary of Barjarg’s Feu in 1785, in the vicinity of Castle Street, the the owner – by now styled Lord Alva having inherited that estate – agreed to sell to the council and the plan could continue uninterrupted (although it took until 1820 to conclude, and was not on entirely favourable terms for the Cityand subsequent proprietors). But if we look closer at the western edge of Craig’s plan, and compare it with what is on the ground, we notice that Queen Street should meet North Charlotte Street on a regular grid (it doesn’t) and both Queen Street and the city grid should extend for another block west from where it does (it doesn’t!). Something else stood in the way. (P.S. Charlotte Square was originally to be St. George’s Square)

So what went wrong? Well, it wasn’t just Lord Alva’s land in the way. In 1782, the Trustees of Heriot’s Hospital (who had sold much of the land for the northern portion of the New Town to the city) had sold a portion of land to Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray and on this he had built for himself a mansion, Moray House, and laid out extensive gardens. And Moray wasn’t for selling, so the New Town plans had to be hurriedly altered to build around his land.

This explains why the north western corner could not be completed as planned, and why Queen Street stopped short at North Charlotte Street, but not why they build that awkward and incongruous bevel on the corner? Well that’s because of a little legal thing called “servitude”. What does servitude mean? “A right that an owner of heritable property has over property owned by another. A servitude runs with the land and not the owner“. The Earl of Moray and Lord Alva had servitude over each other that neither could built within 90 feet of their boundary. When Edinburgh bought the land from Alva, Moray maintained his servitude over it. And can you guess what the distance from the bevelled façade on the corner of Queen Street and North Charlotte Street is from the boundary with the Earl of Moray’s land? Yes, that’s right, it’s *exactly* 90 feet.

This old boundary cut through what is now Glenfinlas Street and explains why the pavement suddenly changes width about 1/3 of the way down – it was built at two different times.

It wasn’t until the intransigent Earl of Moray’s son began to be feu the ground in 1822 that the owners of the properties on the north side of Charlotte Square got the change to buy the rest of “their” gardens. The maps below show 1817 compared with 1849 (slide to compare). You can see at this time, a garden wall still existed on the old boundary at the very west of these gardens, and that the formal portions (marked out by the perimeter paths) also conform to the boundary.

You can find the result of this boundary dispute in other places too. It is the reason for instance that Randolph Lane takes an odd, irregular form if you follow it northwards.

Amazingly, the last of the legal niceties over this portion of land weren’t resolved along this boundary for almost 170 years! Those nicely cleaned and restored “Georgian” townhouses at 1-3 Glenfinlas Street? They were only built in 1990 to finally finish this corner of the New Town (almost) as planned.

There’s actually a few more of these incongruous and awkwardly non-right angles scattered through the New Town – it’s always about old boundaries. This thread details the Gabriel’s Road boundary and the line it still cleaves across the New Town. If you want to understand why any New Town street in Edinburgh isn’t on a right angle – overlay an old land boundary plan on it (in this case, the eastern end of John Laurie’s 1766 plan) and it will probably reveal the answer. Broughton Street and York Lane? Cathedral Lane and the foot of Leith Street? St. James Square and Gabriel’s Road? Truncated southern side of Abercrombie Place? Property boundaries are your answer.

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