Sunday Photo

Thisle

Newbury Sunday Morning

Northbrook Street in Newbury on a Sunday Morning

Taking Part in Skywatch Friday

VeeDub

Classic

New Space

A while ago I posted a photo of a hoarding showing a proposed new building 
well it has been started. First they did a few experimental digs for archeology the the fence went up

 The fence and dig can be seen in this photo above

 Same area different angle, the excavator is digging an access road.

A little later it looked like this.

Then a crane was on site

 Finally the tower crane was in place.

The site as it was taken today

I'll post more from time to time. Taking Part in Our World Tuesday

Rood Screen And Altar

Forgive me I realise I used a mural twice in one of my blogs even calling it the same title. I hope I have not done the same with this one. It was taken a while ago in St James Church Avebury the link will show more of the church and the murals there. This was not one of my best days for photos as I messed up the camera settings and it was not till I got home I realised what I had done but some editing has let me come up with these photos for you.

 This first one is backdrop to the altar and shows the Crucifixion

 These paintings depicting Saints are on either side of the First photo

but a little further down the wall

The rood screen which was dismantled and hidden from the parliamentarians in the civil war and only found again a couple of hundred years later

 You can see these paintings of Saints on EIther side as well

I also noticed that there are more on the gates on the roodscreen which I missed getting. Taking part in Monday Mural

Sunday Photo

Bikes by the wall

Have a nice Sunday

Oxford Skys

Happy 4th July

 I have showed photos of this skyline before, it's taken from the top follr of the JR Hospital and looks in a westerly direction

 This is a stitch photo of the whole scene you can see from the window

Taking art in Skywatch Friday

The Road

County Hall

Last week  I showed a couple of photos from Abingdon for Wordless Wednesday well today I will tell you a little bit about what is in the photos.

Abingdon Bridge which crosses the river Thames

The Old Gaol which was built to hole Napoleonic prisoners and probably built by them as well. It was derelict when I used to go to collage in the town and then was made into a leisure centre. That closed and now it is being converted into flats.

Abingdon used to be the County Town of Berkshire till some numpties decided to move the boundary's and placed it in Oxfordshire, this was it's County Hall. The first photo is original sign you saw when you came into the town, now its a scabby old Oxford County one. County Hall is now used as a museum and was open the day I was in town so my wife and I had a look round.

Abingdon was famous for building MG's, this was the last one made

Would you believe it that they brought the car in though this window. I saw the video of them doing it

You can see an excellent exhibition on MGs in the museum

It was also famous fro brewing beer and did so for hundreds of years till Green King come along and bought the place, then sold off the brewery and brewed the beer elsewhere.

The roof was open to look round so it was rude not to. This is the old gaol you saw in the earlier photo

Here we look down at the town square

This road leads out of town towards Witney and is called Ock Street after the river which flows into the Thames

This was the Brewery which is no more and is now turned into flats

One of the sights you see for miles around is Didcot Power station and is due to be demolished. The first three towers you see in the foreground come down on the 27th July

Just to prove I was on top of County Hall this is the top. Hope you enjoyed my little tour.
                                        Taking Part in Our World Tuesday

Raglan Sky's

Last Saturday I was in Wales & visited Raglan castle (future blog) and as it was such a nice day took a few skywatch photo's (well rude not to) so enjoy some Welsh sky's

 Castle entrance

 Welsh countryside

The Tower

Raglan Castle.

 Happy Skywatch