View from Carfax

 

These were taken in December 2014 0n my wife's birthday when I took her out for afternoon tea at some posh restaurant, we had a walk around and went up Carfax tower to see Oxford from on high. They were taken with a compact camera 

The green spire I think is near the castle

This is looking up the high street towards the University church of St Mary which is the tall spire. You were looking towards me in the photos I showed a few weeks ago

This is straight down the tower which is all that remains of the old church that stood here, just beside that roof below is a few headstones that remain of the churchyard

That area is Carfax where George street, Cormarket Street, High Street and St Aldates meet

This looks across the top of Cornmarket street towards Exeter collage

Back up the High Street

Turning a little and the town hall is on the right

Zoomed in on the Ratcliffe Camera Left and Lincoln Collage library , St Mary's spire is just left of it

Could well be Merton Collage chapel 

 

To the town hall

Towards Tom Tower and St Aldates church

That is the top of Carfax tower

 And that is where I had been. 

 The clock chimes on the hour and ever tourist and their dog stand gawking at it while the two men hammer the bell

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St Aloysius Gonzaga Oxford

 

This week the Church Explorer visits  St Aloysius Gonzaga Oxford one of the few Catholic churches I get to see but it is one of the most stunning churches I have visited

 

Lakeside Walk

 

These were taken in the morning when we took the pup for a walk around the campsite lake

There is a hit of mist rising off the water

The ducks were waking up

The water was still with not a breath of a breeze 

It was all just still

Giving some superb reflections 

The seat in the lake

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Around the lake

 

Collage to start with

 

The swans and cygnets beside the lake, the near one in hissing BTW because of our puppy

Bull rush by the lake

Well more do grow along it but a few have not gone to seed

The swan was preening itself and moments later flapped it's wings from which you could feel the air move 

I watched the ducks swim up and get over coming to see if they would get fed, sadly for them no but it did not stop the swans coming near to see what was on offer. Seems people must feed them to be so forthcoming 

The Red Admiral was on a Buddleja and I could not resist getting a photo

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St Giles Oxford

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Giles Oxford a church that sits between two roads at the end of  St Giles in Oxford

A walk around St Giles

 

Some photos from my recent trip to Oxford to visit  some churches there 

Collage of some of the places I went

The north end of St Giles where the Woodstock and Banbury roads meet, St Giles church is in the middle

Oxford War memorial

 

St Giles Church
 

Little Clarendon Street, I used to visit a restaurant here with my Wife

Browns another place I have been to in the past

 

The Radcliffe Observatory 

 

 

John Radcliffe himself

 

 

The Radcliffe infirmary where I was born back in 1951 

 

 

St Lukes chapel 

 

 

The plaque is very recent and unveiled in the last few months

 

I'm sure this was the hospital entrance as I seem to remember being taken through here to A& E a few times due to work related accidents. Basically dumped off and told to phone for a lift back when you were sorted

The Woodstock road

 

Finally St Giles looking south

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St Bilo Llanfilo

 

This week the Church Explorer is back in Wales visiting St Bilo Llanfilo where I got to see something I had been longing to see. A rood loft an original medieval one, the churches in Wales have rarely been disappointing 

Cloudy Sky

 

Some clouds and blue sky I took during a morning walk last month

 

This is a wheat field we walk though along a footpath there are a lot of fluffy white clouds in the sky

 

The dog roses were in bloom

 

They showed up nicely against the sky

 

As we got near home I noticed these two balloons by the allotment gate, left over from a previous days party

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