Oxford Open Doors

 

Some of the places I visited on the Oxford Open Doors even 2026 which I will be showing you for the next few weeks

This was not the first place I went but I had wanted to visit again as it had bee restored

 

 

It's Rewley Road Swing bridge that goes over the Sheepwash Channel connecting the Oxford canal with the river Thames or Isis as it's called in Oxford 

It used to connect to the old LMS station or Rewley Road station 

Which was beyond the building you see near St Fridewides Square, I used to drive past it going to work each day for around ten tears

End on view of the bridge

Plaque gives a bit of info on it

Two me 5 minuets craning this around moving 85 tons, you nee to be fit to do that 

Sheepwash channel and the rail bridge in the distance is Sheepwash Bridge

Just as we were going a narrowboat came down the channel

Going on up to the River Thames

This was the spire of the church I was going to next taken from the Botley road near the first place I went.

Take Care 

Dark sunset

 

First of all one of the reasons I did not post last week was because I stupidly forgot to back up my photos and the SD card I Used as storage on my laptop failed big time. I did try a few things to retrieve the photos but in the end sent it off to a place to get them recovered which they managed to do. If I had not got them recovered I would have lost 8 months of work and most likely would have give up blogging. I now have the photos backed up and have changed storage method on my laptop. I might add it was a 500 gb SD car with about 400 on it and I would have lost around 40 gb of photos. I will have to be more careful and back up on a regular basis. These photos were taken the 3 September and were not on the card

The recreation ground in the morning

Evening I noticed a dark sky and had to get some photos, this looks south from the bathroom

Going round south east

West to the sunset

 

Back to the south with more fir tree

South east with the oak tree in the frame

 West with the sun gone

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Giving it a Miss

 

Blogger does not seem to be bothered about sorting updating the reading list the so I wonder why I bother writing them, I'm giving it a miss till I see they have sorted it. Don't seem to stop the AI bots crawling over my blogs though.

 

Abingdon

 

A few photos I took in Abingdon the other week 

Looking downstream towards St Helens church

St Helen from West St Helens Street

 St Helen from St Helens Wharf

 This is St Helens Wharf

Ducks and geese on the slipway nearby

Back up the Thames to the bridge

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Thames at Abingdon

 

Only one photo this week from my trip to Abingdon taken from wharf road looking towards the bridge.

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Like a few other bloggers I cannot comment on other people’s blogs for some reason, not even my own. Hope it is sorted soon

St Mary Kentchurch

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Kentchurch which I passed on the way to Garway so stopped off on the way back unfortunately the church was locked so I took photos of the church and churchyard

 

Hanging around

 

 Finally managed tobget back to our caravan in Wales after all the heat for a couple of days

On the way in I noticed a sign saying BCC parking, I wondered what it meant and looked it up to find it was a paragliding competition 

 

 

High on the thermals

Floating on air

 Turning around

So my wife and I sat down outside after setting up our caravan and watched what was going on

The photos were taken with mu compact zoom so may be a little out of focus 

The parafoils were everywhere

all different colours 

High up on the thermals 

This guy just came into land

Sat floating around

Another coming into land

they turned one way then another

This guy landing had a group of kids running after him

Colours were really vibrant 

There were also a few hang gliders 

 This guy flew past landing in the field behind.

 

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St Michael, Garway

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Michael Garway. St Michael is the Templar church with an interesting history and the church I had wanted to visit on my last tour of the area but just found it one too far. 

  

Hot sunset

 

A sunset after one of the hot days we had in June

Looking out of the bathroom window 

West past the chimneys 

 

Outside from my drive to the sunset

 

Northwest

 

West over the allotments

East from the bedroom window 

I have been blogging for just over 14 years now though this one is just coming up 14 years, I have never attained that meany followers and was pleased my blog got to 1.000,000 views but then noticed that I was getting some serious hits getting up to nearly 2.6 million views in a short time with nearly 200000 last month. I had over 2600 posts to troll through. The advent of AI has given them free rein to troll my blogs so I have now implemented a few changes to who can view and on top of that deleted over 2000 posts. The photos are all stored on my laptop any way so the post are not missed, I've been cutting down to once or twice a week to post now and may well give up sometime. The last two months of the hot weather was worse than going through Covid for us. If I take a break for a while I hope you will understand.

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