The discovery has led to the garden being upgraded by English Heritage to the top Grade I listing, putting it on a par with great gardens such as Stourhead and Studley Royal. The image sheds light on one of the oldest surviving gardens in the country, which the trust said has been shrouded in mystery since it was begun by Sir Thomas Tresham more than 400 years ago.

The photograph is part of a series at the United States National Archive at Baltimore in Maryland and was discovered by National Trust gardens and parks curator Chris Gallagher while he was conducting research.We checked the database and found the photo existed but when we ordered up the image it revealed far more than we ever expected,’ he said. Not only did it expose the remnants of the original circular design – set within what Sir Thomas Tresham, who created the garden, then called his ‘moated orchard’ – you can also make out the vestiges of a regular array of planting holes, which we have taken to be the last remains of an Elizabethan fruit garden.’ Lyveden’s property manager Mark Bradshaw described the find as ‘probably one of the most important garden discoveries of recent times’. We’re still not exactly clear what these circles represent, but it’s amazing that the outline can be clearly made out in an aerial photograph taken almost 350 years after the garden was created,’ he said.

The garden was made by Sir Thomas Tresham but, along with the house, remained incomplete after his death in 1605. In the same year, his son Francis was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot, and afterwards a large collection of Tresham’s correspondence was hidden away at the family’s principal home Rushton Hall amid fears of further persecution, the National Trust said. The papers, which were discovered in 1821 and deposited in the British Library, include detailed plans for the garden. Mr Bradshaw said: ‘Some of the letters refer to 400 raspberries and roses to be planted within Tresham’s circular borders, which suggest these are the same circles that appear in the aerial photo. ‘A number of interpretations of this layout are possible, including that of a labyrinth, which was a popular feature of gardens of the 15th and 16th centuries. Labyrinths were often symbolic and it is likely that the plants within the ‘circular borders’ were themselves emblematic of religious or regal qualities.’ To give a sense of how the Lyveden garden may have looked when it was created, the National Trust has established a temporary labyrinth, which people would have used for contemplative walks along the long winding path, by mowing a pattern into the grass.

]]> http://www.crystalkiss.com/lost-tudor-garden-revealed-luftwaffe-spy-pictures-world-war/feed/ 0 http://www.crystalkiss.com/iconic-photos-vietnam-war/ http://www.crystalkiss.com/iconic-photos-vietnam-war/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:30:09 +0000 ivana http://www.crystalkiss.com/?p=2412 The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 , to April 30, 1975 when Saigon fell. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other capitalist nations. The Viet Cong, a lightly-armed South Vietnamese communist-controlled common front, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The North Vietnamese Army engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units into battle. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery and airstrikes.

Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents in the village Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo. When photographed on Nov. 6 Protegee was in a crowd of thousands in the town of Kiwanja, having walked for three days by herself after being separated from her mother as they fled on foot from her town about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. Protegee finally found her mother in Kiwanja at a makeshift refuge.

A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda’s rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country’s east.

March 11, 2008

An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008.

The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs.

29 April, 2008

A man carries the body of a child recovered from the rubble of a destroyed house after a US air strike in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Iraq, 29 April 2008.

US army said at least 45 people had been killed in clashes between a joint US-Iraqi military forces and Mehdi army fighters in Sadr City.

November 7, 2008

The head of a male student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the church school that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, November 7, 2008.

At least 30 people were killed when the three-story La Promesse school building collapsed while class was in session and some of the walls and debris crushed neighboring homes in the Nerettes community near Port-au-Prince.

August 9, 2008

A wounded Georgian woman lies in front of an apartment building damaged by a Russian airstrike in the northern Georgian town of Gori.

Russian airborne troops reached Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia, where fierce fighting was reported and both sides claimed to have “liberated” the city. Russian state media reported some 100 military transport flights were planned to bring more units to the fray.

August 18, 2008

Georgians escape from a house set on fire by South Ossetian militia on August 18 in the Georgian village Kvemo-Achebeti, some 5 km from Tskhinvali.

Russia on Monday announced the start of a withdrawal from Georgia, as President Dmitry Medvedev lauded his army’s assault on the neighbouring country. Georgia however accused Russia of stalling and said its continued military operations there were in contravention of a ceasefire agreement.

August 12, 2008

A robot moves towards the remains of a pair of bodies at the site of a suicide bomb attack in central Baquba in Diyala province August 12, 2008.

Two people were killed and seven wounded when the bomber detonated an explosive vest near the convoy carrying Diyala Governor Raad Rasheed in the provincial capital Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad.