Some halloween photos

 Halloween is getting big in the UK now and most houses are entering into the spirit of things, On Sunday morning after I walked around the village with my dog to see what was around.

 This was down the road from me, it was all lit up at night, I missed getting a photo of it

This display has gotten bigger this year ad I think taken over form the one in the village center who was not doing it this year.

Hanging around in a cage

I'd love to see who was sat in this chair

 A cemetery in your front yard

Most places I went around had put on some kid of display

Jack o lantern looking a little thin today

Not sure I would want one of these on my wall

Balloons and more

Love the colour of this spider

How do you get in

Mum and dad have been waiting around too long

Had to show some sky at the Pub I passed

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BTW is anyone having problems loading photos from your PC, I have to use Google photos to do it now 

The Sheldonian

 The last place from my tour of Oxford is the Sheldonian Theater One of the most famous buildings in Oxford. I've past it many times in the past but while we waited for the Lincoln College library to open we walked up here for a look

 The Sheldonian you all see from the road

Wider view of it

Going around the side you see this building which I think take you to the  Bodlian Library which is to the left

This is the Clarendon Building

 I think this is the Clarendon Quad in the distance you can see New college lane and the Bridge of Sighs, the Bodlian Library is to my right

The Sheldonian Theater where we are going

Close up of the ceiling

Wider view of it

Outside there did not appear to be many people about that's because they were all inside

Over to the right are a queue of people I found out were going up on the cupola above to look around Oxford, I could name a couple of better places to view from which are higher up  

The organ which looks quite magnificent

That's it, hope you enjoyed my tour. I will return to Oxford again for more photos

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More from Oxford

 

A few more from around Oxford, this is the last but one as next week I will show the Sheldonian Theater  

Another view from the Westgate terrace

This is part of the terrace, it's full of restaurants and places to eat

One of the Ox from the Ox trail this one is Finding Alice 

 You got it Alice in Wonderland 

Turl street I'm going to the Lincoln Library which used to be All Saints church, the spire you see

Carfax tower, it's all that remains of a church that stood here, the tower would be at the west end of the church which would have come over towards the road. If you look at the clock you can see the out line of the old Nave roof.

This was a mistake I took while walking down Queen street

 Last one, the castle mound. Built around 1071 by Robert D'Oyly following the Norman Conquest. Originally topped with a wooden palisade, later replaced by a stone keep. It features a surviving 13th-century well chamber inside. People used to stand or sit on the hill watching the Executions at the prison next door. it's nicknamed Hangmans Hill. Take Care

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Into Oxford

 

I hope my little tour of Oxford is not boring you as I stll have more to come yet of some of the places I visited.

This is the electric scooter park outside the Saïd Business School which is built where the old Rewley road LMS station used to be, the swing bridge in one of my previous posts took the trains here so I am stood where the old sattion would have been.

On the other-side of St Frideswide square is this building, the Royal Oxford Hotel though quite why Sainsburys Local is there I could not say other than the hotel needed the money

 Rewley road fire Station, I did think of haveing a look but there were a lot of budding Firement Sams running around from the look of all the pushchairs parked up outside. The place was in danger of closing but the powers to be saw sense

George Street looking towards the center, on the left is one of the electric busses the city runs. You don't hear then coming up behind you.

This is where Gloucester Green Bus station is, they will take you all over the place from here. The one with Tube on is the one for London

The old Fire Station, you saw where is moved to a few photos ago, this is now a community center and cafe

The old Odeon George Street was built in 1935-1936 as Ritz Cinema, replacing a former cinema built in 1912. It was renamed the ABC cinema in 1963, and renamed the Odeon George Street in 2000. The cinema closed permanently in January 2025, after decades of operation.I went to see Starwars here when it first came out. The place is due to be made into a aparthotel

 I will leave you with this view over Oxford taken from the Westgate Shopping Center terrace

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The Botley Road

 

More photos I took round Oxford on my Open Doors visit 

Bike park by the station If you get off the train when visiting the city not doubt you will not help noticing them

 

The Botley road one part most visitors don't really venture but I dare say they notice this lot going on, it's been shut for the last three years die to network rails incompetence. The photo shows it in the final stages before opening which it did the following week

 

 

 The footpath takes you along by the road, this is new

 

The original tunnel was smaller than this

This looks back the other way

The Botley road river bridge

 

Which goes over this river the Thames of Isis which ever you like , they are the same. I used to walk along the footpath by the river to get to Osney where I worked at Oxford Instruments which at the time was a small company

You will always see ducks around on the Thames

 The takes from the bridge looking towards Osney Lock. the building you see to the right used to be a power station

I will leave you with this photo of the old Botley road Rail bridge taken back in 2009 and shows the old footpath through the tunnel I might add trucks and the odd Double Decker bus got stuck under the bridge. the photo was take with a lot of photos around Oxford of places that have now gone so I will show them at a later date.

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