Sunday evening in mid February I spotted the glowing clouds out the front of our place
I had heard of Minster Lovell Hall but it was never somewhere I thought of visiting. Some of the guys I used to work with came from the village. Last week I was visiting St Kenelms church for my blog and noticed that Mister Lovell Hall was next door so I took the time to have a quick look around the place. Minster Lovell Hall is now under the care of English Heritage and is open during reasonable daylight hours to look around.
You literally walk out of the churchyard and you are in the ground of the hall
Wide angle view of the hall remains, the main entrance is blocked off because the ceiling is unsafe
The remaining tower near the River Windrush
The view you normally see in literature on the place
The west end of the hall
A great hall used for entertaining royalty and other dignitary's
One of the other rooms in the place
the corner which took you to another wing of the building, the old doorway which took you to an upper floor still in place
In the foreground you can see a covered well where they would have drawn water which is a couple of foot below the grate
The grand entrance with the intricate ceiling, I managed to get a photo over the top of the fence
And one of the church through the ruins
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It was my friends Birthday the other day, I only found out after going around for a chat, we have know each other since we were kids and in our teens both rode around on a Lambretta scooter. I know he still owned one (top right) so I made a birthday card with a collage of scooters. He might sill own a couple but I'm happy to go and sit on his now and remember when I owned one.
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This week the Church Explorer visits St James the Great a beautiful old church dating back to the 13th century which is steeped in history
I thought the sunset on the 1st February was quite spectacular especially as it was the beginning of the year.
Looking the opposite was the clouds were beautiful
Blue sky and pink clouds
An amazing pink
Even towards the setting sun the vapor trails took on color
On Sunday I stopped off a The Earth Trust to see an exhibition in some archeological finds that were on show over the weekend
The converted barn where the exhibition was held
This was what I had come to see, it is an iron age Tyuere from a back smiths forge that was uncovered nearby
Various finds which you had to guess what the were best of it all was the archeologists did not know either
This is a return visit to this wonderful old church St Mary the Virgin North Stoke to see the Medieval wall art that decorate the walls of the church
Every sky is different even the blue ones you see, there is always something that makes them stand out, towards the end of January I was outside and looked at the blue sky crisscrossed with vapor trails
