Holyrood Declares 2019 as a Come Home Year Come Ashore
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After last decade's exceptionally weak recovery from the financial crash, this decade looks grim as well, in growth of the economy, and in an unprecedented fall in disposable household income. But it will require a much more efficiently productive economy, breaking out of chronic low growth that will deliver on that vision. One is that raising tax in a recession sucks money out of consumer spending and hurts business revenue and economic growth.
In 1969, Mayor Burt Keough and his Council incorporated Holyrood as a new municipality in the province. 50 years later, the Town of Holyrood is planning a 50th anniversary celebration with a Come Home Year slated for 2019. Mayor Gary Goobie made the announcement to an excited room on Wednesday, May 16 as he unveiled the new Holyrood 50 logo.
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During the subsequent Marian civil war, on 25 July 1571, William Kirkcaldy of Grange bombarded the king’s men garrisoned inside the palace with cannon positioned in the Black Friar Yard, near the Pleasance. James VI took up residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in 1579 when he began his personal rule. The palace was refurbished by William MacDowall with a new north gallery painted by Walter Binning, and an apartment for the king's favourite, Esmé Stewart. The coronation of James’s queen, Anne of Denmark, took place in Holyrood Abbey in 1590, at which time the royal household at the palace numbered around 600 persons. The palace was not however secure enough to prevent the king and queen being surprised in their lodgings during two raids in December 1591 and July 1593 by Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, a nobleman implicated by the North Berwick Witch Trials. Three of James VI’s children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Charles, were baptised in the chapel royal.
The sundial to the north of the palace was carved in 1633 by John Mylne, while the sandstone fountain in the centre of the Forecourt was erected in 1858 by Robert Matheson and is based on the design of the 16th-century fountain at Linlithgow Palace. In 1922 the palace was selected as the site of the Scottish National Memorial to Edward VII and a statue of Edward was erected on the Forecourt, facing the Abbey. As part of the memorial, the Forecourt was also enclosed with boundary walls, richly decorated wrought-iron railings and gates.
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The room is linked by a small spiral staircase to Mary, Queen of Scots' Bedchamber on the second floor. The Evening Drawing Room was originally Charles II's Presence Chamber, where important visitors would have been received by the king. The ornate plasterwork ceiling is one of the original series designed to mark the processional route to the King's Bedchamber.
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The north and south fronts have symmetrical three-storey facades that rise behind to far left and right of the two-storey west front with regular arrangement of bays. General repairs were completed by the architect Robert Reid between 1824 and 1834 that included the partial rebuilding of the south-west corner tower and refacing of the entire south front in ashlar to match that of the east. The east elevation has 17 bays with lightly superimposed pilasters of the three classical orders on each floor. For the internal quadrangle, Bruce designed a colonnaded piazza of nine arches on the north, south and east facades with pilasters, again from the three classical orders, to indicate the importance of the three main floors. The plain Doric order is used for the services of the ground floor, the Ionic order is used for the State Apartments on the first floor, while the elaborate Corinthian order is used for the royal apartments on the second floor.
The palace was formally designated as the monarch's official residence in Scotland and became the location for regular royal ceremonies and events. Located at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, at the opposite end to Edinburgh Castle, Holyroodhouse has served as the principal royal residence in Scotland since the 16th century, and is a setting for state occasions and official entertaining. To help us determine the number of people to expect at our Holyrood 50 Come Home Year Celebrations, we are inviting all those who plan to participate in any events to register. At our opening day events, each registered household will receive a Holyrood 50 bag containing the booklet, souvenirs, coupons and more as well as an entry into our Come Home Year Prize Draw. You will also be able to pre-order our family banners and Holyrood 50 merchandise at the pre-order price.
James VII founded the Order of the Thistle in May 1687 and Holyrood Abbey was designated as the chapel for the new order. The interiors of the chapel, and the Jesuit College, were subsequently destroyed by an anti-Catholic mob in December 1688, following the beginning of the Glorious Revolution. Following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the Palace of Holyroodhouse once again became a royal palace and the meeting place of the reconstituted Privy Council.
Those in debt could escape their creditors, and imprisonment, by taking up residence within the sanctuary, and a small community grew up to the west of the palace. The residents, known colloquially as "Abbey Lairds", were able to leave the sanctuary on Sundays, when no arrests were permitted. The area was controlled by a baillie, and by several constables, appointed by the Keeper of Holyroodhouse. The Great Gallery, at 150 feet in length, is the largest room in the palace and connects the King's Closet on the east side with the Queen's Lobby in James V's Tower to the west. The Gallery features a pair of black marble chimneypieces within Doric surrounds, framed by Ionic pilasters. The most notable decorative features of the gallery are 96 of the 111 original portraits of the Scottish monarchs, beginning with the legendary Fergus I, who supposedly ruled from 330 BC.
Also on the upside, the Scottish Parliament is moving beyond the experimental phase of fiddling with its new tax powers. This year's budget is at least as much about how to secure the tax revenue necessary. The Scottish Fiscal Commission has found a high level of "behavioural effects", which knock out much of the initial gain from higher tax rates. It has also set out a grim picture of the economy - entering a long, shallow recession, and recovering weakly. The junction at which people start to pay higher rate tax, just below £44,000, is where tax becomes not only higher but more complex, and where Holyrood diverges most from Westminster.
Holyrood Cemetery also offers a very wide variety of options for the placement of cremated remains of the body in keeping with the Catholic Church’s teaching that the cremated remains must be reverently place in a cemetery. Cremation columbarium niches are available in the chapel mausoleum as we as in prominent locations throughout the cemetery. The various immigrant communities who make up our local Church today have prominent features designating various sections of the cemetery. These include Our Lady of Antipolo , Our Lady of Lavang , and a monument for St. Andrew Kim parish . The cemetery offices are closed on New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
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