[Vwoolf] Photos of Talland House 2003 and 2012

[Pat Laurence]

Elisa,
Thank you for these photos capturing moments in Woolf, reflecting your
visual talents & long-time fascination & preservation of her house &
landscapes. A gift.
Pat Laurence

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 9:58 AM Mary Ellen Foley via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for these!
>
> I've woken up in that bedroom, too, and felt inordinately lucky to look
> out through the blinds and see *the* lighthouse.  For a while, my husband
> and I used to spend Christmas in one or the other of the Talland House
> flats every year; we were temporarily (we thought) living in England, had
> no family in the country, and no time to fly home, or even to have a real
> holiday some years -- we took our laptops and worked in those congenial
> surroundings.  (There was an exceptional day when I spilled an entire mug
> of cocoa over my husband's keyboard, it stopped working, and we had a
> lovely drive to Penzance, the nearest place where we could buy a plug-in
> keyboard back then.)
>
> On one memorable occasion, a guest from a neighboring flat knocked on the
> door with a plate of mince pies -- it turned out to be another Woolfian, a
> VWSGB member (though I haven't asked her permission to mention her, so I
> won't use her name), who later admitted to just being curious as to who
> else was in residence.  So started a wonderful acquaintance! Unfortunately,
> we couldn't ask her at the time in because my husband, just out of the
> shower, was stranded in the sitting room, his clothes in the bedroom, and
> no way to get between the two without being seen; I kept our mince-pie
> benefactor chatting on the doorstep for some time.  In a later year, when
> she and her husband rented the big downstairs flat, we were invited down to
> dinner there.  They'd moved the furniture to put the dining table where Mrs
> Ramsay's table would've been -- and they even served boeuf en daube.
>
> It seems beyond all understanding that the view of the lighthouse couldn't
> have been preserved and development reduced in the interest of history;
> surely, the Woolf-Talland House connection is worth quite a bit to the
> tourist industry, isn't it?  If they promoted boat trips to the lighthouse,
> performances, etc., surely they could make up the financial difference --
> or maybe I'm kidding myself.
>
> Thanks for the walk down memory lane --
>
> Mary Ellen
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 3:31 AM Elisa Sparks via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all--
>> Having been fortunate enough to visit St. Ives and Talland House twice,
>> in 2003 and in 2012, I have finally gotten around to sharing the pictures I
>> and later I and my students took of the house, gardens, and of a trip we
>> took to the lighthouse.  I have put them all in a blog entry, along with
>> the Ordinance Survey map of Talland House in 1877.  Since so much of the
>> Talland House garden has been disappearing due to development over the
>> years, I thought people might appreciate a historical record.  Feel free to
>> use these in classes; any publication should cite me and the website.
>>
>>
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://studywoolf.blogspot.com/2021/04/talland-house-and-st-ives-20032012.html__;!!KGKeukY!mzIuY_Up2Z2Aggc9pIBOyNe3NFRGnYWGqnJi-38DTdILEf2ufyIn-hURUV-wdYUm5Pk7gaJgqsbN$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://studywoolf.blogspot.com/2021/04/talland-house-and-st-ives-20032012.html__;!!KGKeukY!ju2lskkiuT_F0uGl_KlWLmMHBE2tc7unCRTBaZtJDEw1_OXUI-HqXgcyDfcgalxW0OKOyu-w-QAi$>
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Elisa
>>
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://studywoolf.blogspot.com/2021/04/talland-house-and-st-ives-20032012.html__;!!KGKeukY!ju2lskkiuT_F0uGl_KlWLmMHBE2tc7unCRTBaZtJDEw1_OXUI-HqXgcyDfcgalxW0OKOyu-w-QAi$>
>> Talland House and St Ives 2003/2012
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://studywoolf.blogspot.com/2021/04/talland-house-and-st-ives-20032012.html__;!!KGKeukY!ju2lskkiuT_F0uGl_KlWLmMHBE2tc7unCRTBaZtJDEw1_OXUI-HqXgcyDfcgalxW0OKOyu-w-QAi$>
>>  Talland House and St Ives 2003/2012   Talland House in 2012   In 2003, I
>> was fortunate enough to spend several days in the "Nursery" flat o...
>> studywoolf.blogspot.com
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://studywoolf.blogspot.com__;!!KGKeukY!ksqlAdego5bIAI6Q1P6mx5pKSdUOHjvLPbJjswEAjK4HeVlc0ZVrxb_D3ajFaqglcwgV1Sz8KTi0$>
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