Wheatley Village

Wheatley is a village just outside Oxford along the A40. The main London Road ran though the village until it was bypassed by a dual carriageway and then the M40 Motorway. I had scansion to visit a couple of times and took a few photo's while I was there

This is the mini roundabout at the west end of the village, going across it takes you to the Brooks university Sports grounds

This is the original London road or A40 

same road a bit further along

The parish church St Mary the Virgin 

and this is the main entrance to it

One of the Toads called Holloway Road

This interesting building along Church Street is the old Village Lockup

It sits in it's own are by the recreation ground

Further down Holloway road is the High Street

which also had an old postoffice now converted into a house

Just along High Street is the War memorial 

 That used to be at Magdalen College

 I think it looks better here as a memorial to those who gave their lives in the Two World Wars

This road is called Station Road and there is a pub called the Railway here. The Station was a little way further along but closed down in the 1960's and little of it is still around

The United Reformed Church at the bottom of High Street

I ended back on Church Street and walked along it till I passed this pub called the Sun

and went back along the High Street passing this place called Wheatley Manor, Its an old Tudor house

Further along is this place which looked like an old coaching in and was called the George

Tomas House dies there in 1577

 Last place I saw was this

The King & Queen.

Home you enjoyed the walk round Wheatley

Van on a Van

I noticed this on the side of a van at the Caravan show I went to with my wife last month and thought this was a neat wrap or what ever they do to make this on the side of the van

The new T6 VW transporter with the old T1 cleverly placed over the rear wheel arch giving the right impression

 

Taking Part in Monday Mural

We Will Remember them

We Will Remember them

We Will Remember them

Nuffield Sky

Taken from a bedroom window at Nuffield Place the home of Lord Nuffield now owned by the National Trust. The view you see is towards the Berkshire Downs. I think we need a cheerful scene on a dull day like it is in the UK

Crow in the Bin

The Caravan Show

The Camping, Caravan & Motorhome show  is held a couple of times a year at Birmingham. In the Autumn show they tend to showcase the  new stuff coming on the market for the following year, and spring the new tents. My wife & I went along to the show in October to view the new caravans and I took my camera along to record it.

One the first things we saw was the caravan maneuvering, where you could go along and be shown by the experts from the Caravan Club 

Or learn to drive your motorhome. Personally I think they are just big vans so no problem

 One of the first areas we visited, I needed a part for my awning

Nearby you could view new Ssangyong cars. They were tow car of the year 2015

 You could look inside the caravans, this was the one I was interested in

which as you can see is very nice inside

and very comfortable as well

  The caravan on the right here is like mine

Not far away you could see the motorhomes

Bradley Wiggens motorhome

 How about this one, a smart car in the back

or one for traveling over rough terrain 

These are called Tabs and are big enough for two people.

My favorite the T5 or  or T6 as they are now

Nice in White

 Great color this one

One by Vanworx

I loved this pop up tent for dogs

By it's big brother which is called a motordome as you can park up your VW  by it and join it on or remove it ad drive off out for the day

Remember the tab

well here is another made from Lego

 How cool is that right down to replication the inside as well

anyone for chess

Couple more I had a liking for

but my wife only had eyes for this one

By this time we had had enough so 

so decided to go after watching   people learning to maneuver  on the Camping and Caravan area.

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