A collection of photographs taken by myself of the historic Church of St. Philip & St. James, locally called Ratby Church, which was built in four stages from the 13th century to 15th century and restored by Nicholas Joyce in 1881.
Sadly I only managed to take a small number of photographs of Groby church. The images were utilised in the production of the 2016/2017 Parish Profile in which I was involved. The Parish Profile was produced for the recruitment of a new vicar in 2016/2017.
St. Philip and St. James Church Groby this was built in 1840 by the Earl of Stamford owing to the distance to Ratby Church from his home in Bradgate House, and ‘to the foulness of the way there’. Henry Grey, the 7th Earl of Stamford, decided to build a chapel of Ease at Groby for the princely sum of £2,300.
Although Groby had no church prior to 1840, it is recorded that in earlier times two or three chapels existed here. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, many castles were built throughout the country.
The Game Boy Advance was released in 2001, even now holds it’s own as a great portable gaming platform, however the original screen does leave a lot to be desired, thankfully it is a colour screen but not backlit, so playing in a dark room is a definite no no, unless you are a dwarf with darkvision….However modifiying the Game Boy Advance to support a backlit screen is pretty easy in 2017, this brings the GBA right upto date with a crisp beautiful backlighted screen.
The first step is to check which screen type your motherboard has, two types exist a 32 pin version and a 40 pin version. Just remove the battery compartment cover, and you will see printed in white lettering a line of numbers, just where the locking tab of the battery cover clips into place.
For a 40 pin screen connector Game Boy Advance AGB-001 the first number is “0” see example below:
GBA Mainboard with 40 pin screen connector
For a 32 pin screen connector Game Boy Advance AGB-001 the first number is “1” see example below:
GBA Mainboard with 32 pin screen connector
Another project I started recently was the purchasing of old postcards and photographs of Ratby, Leicestershire in the UK. My original aim was to frame them and have them on display in my house, however some of the post card and photos were in poor condition or damaged, so with trusty Photoshop I set about restoring them. Each restoration is fairly time consuming I will add more as I complete them.
This is dated on the rear of the postcard 1960 (hand written) however I assume this picture to be of a much earlier date. The picture depicts the junction of Desford Lane, Main Street and Station Road. The picture was taken looking down Main Street towards Station Road, with the road to Desford Lane on the right of the picture.
Original – Click image to view at high resolution.
Cleaned – Click image to view at high resolution.
Finished – Click image to view at high resolution.