Diamond Sky

A view towards Didcot Powerstation looking over the top of Diamond Light Source

The Rood Screen

 

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The Bomb Store

This is a view of part of the old RAF Harwell site, the road you see is part of the airfield perimeter road and just past the grass stripped area is the old Bomb Store where the bombs were kept in bunkers during the war. When the UKAEA took over it was used to store stuff like old radioactive material. When it was realised what was there it was cleared and decontaminated, to top that the building you see is the local school so great care had to be taken. The stripped area is where a archaeological dig was done and Bronze age round houses were found along with a roman building.

A few months later it looked like this 

This was the beginnings of a housing estate that was being built, I meant to go back at intervals to update the  progress  but never did. I noticed the houses were going up from the office I work out of so I popped up for an update and this is how it looks now.

Taking part in Our World Tuesday

 

Breaking Dawn

Another photo from my bedroom window of dawn just breaking over the houses

The Shrine

Smoke over Sidney

Today I'm going to show a couple of photos taken by someone else my friend Dave Barber who who started me off into SLR photography by letting me borrow his camera way back in the late 1970s. I used to work with Dave back at Oxford Instruments before he emigrated with his family to Australia. He is still a keen photographer and quite regularly send me some of his work just to show he is still better than me.
The two photos show the smoke blowing over the area he lives and comes from 150 miles away.

 It's hard to believe this is smoke and not a storm cloud

 The temp is over 30c and more than 200 homes have been lost in this. My thanks to David for letting me show his photos
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Clouds over the Wheat Field

This is a field just outside the village I live. Oxfordshire County Council want to put a gravel pit here so far the village and surrounding villages and towns have resisted it and long may they do so. The photos are stitch photos so click on the photo to see and enlarged version.

 This looks towards Wallingford with clouds showing signs of rain

Looking back to the place I took the last photo which is about the center of the photo.

Sat on the chair

Could not resist taking a photo of this puppy sat in a chair

You got to love a puppy

The Duckhouse

Manor Farm

This is my world the village I live in, here we look towards Manor farm which was famous for having at one time the longest barn in the UK.

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Stomtrooper on a Jetsky

Bit of a different shot today, a stormtrooper riding a jetski well he's of a video game at the Insert Coin show a few years back.

Have a great weekend

The Garden

I never knew this street in Glastonbury existed till I noticed a plaque by the entrance, I just had to see what was down there.

 

This was the St Mary Magdalen Hospital then later the Royal Almshouses, they date back to before 1322 by 1958 they had become derelict. The town council and trustees gained permission from the charity commission to demolish part to build flatlets for old people (Beyond the far wall) and restored the garden and buildings on the right.

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Under the Arch

A Narrowboat comes under one of the arches of Abingdon Bridge on the River Thames

Have a great weekend

Morning Skytrails

I could not help not taking a photo of the dawn from my bedroom window last Friday morning

Storm over the pond

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