Britain Beautiful, Interesting and Sometimes Strange

Bath Gardens central Bakewell,Peak District.2nd August 2019.

Calshot Castle with Volendam on 1st October 2020.

Haddon Hall,Derbyshire,2nd August 2019.

Mottisfont,8th June 2019.

Great Chalfield Manor 14th July 2019.

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Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26770)

Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26772)

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St Peter's is a ruined church in Castle Park, Bristol, England. It was bombed during World War II and is now preserved as a memorial.The foundation of the church can be traced back to 1106 when it was endowed on Tewkesbury Abbey, with a 12th-century lower tower, the rest of the church being built in the 15th century. Excavations in 1975 suggest that this was the site of Bristol's first church; the 12th-century city wall runs under the west end of the present church. It was bombed during the Bristol Blitz of 24-25 November 1940 and ruined. It is maintained as a monument to the civilian war dead of Bristol.It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building. The church ran St Peter's Hospital, a workhouse on St Peter's Street which was destroyed by bombing during the Bristol Blitz.21st March 2017.

A woodland walk on the Bowood Estate near Chippenham,Wiltshire.4th May 2018.

Welford Park house dates from about 1652 and was built by John Jackson of Oxford for Richard Jones, the grandson of Sir Francis Jones, Lord Mayor of London in 1620, who had purchased the property in 1618. Jones died with no male heir and his daughter Mary married John Archer in 1680. The house was remodelled by their son-in-law, the architect Thomas Archer (no relation), about 1700, which resulted in an additional storey and a facade decorated with ionic columns. The interior was again altered in 1840. The property then passed in 1706 by marriage to William Eyre, on condition he changed his name to Archer and subsequently (in 1800) to the MP, John Houblon, who also changed his name, to John Archer-Houblon. It then passed to his younger son, Charles, who re-adopted the surname Eyre. In 1891 the house was let to tenants and during the First World War used as a convalescent home. It later (1954) passed by marriage to John Puxley. The house remains in the ownership of his son James Puxley, a local landowner.

Palm House 18th December 2016.

Untitled image in Kew Gardens at Christmas. (22391)

Untitled image in Kew Gardens at Christmas. (22389)

National Arboretum,Westonbirt,31st October 2016.

On the Kennet & Avon Canal.A friendly Heron 27th October 2016.

National Arboretum,Westonbirt,31st October 2016.

Bennacott Chapel replaced an earlier Methodist chapel which stood to the east of the hamlet. It was built before 1882 because it is shown as 'Bible Christian Chapel'

View over the reefs of Warren Beach at Hartland Quay to Lundy.7th July 2016

Views around Frogmore House,8th June 2016. The Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, burial place of Queen Victoria's mother.

Glenmore Bay,Loch Sunart looking West on 27th September 2015.

On shore mist off Falmouth 12th April 2016.

The weather breaking beyond Hythe on 27th April 2016.

Views of Salisbury Cathedral.2nd.June 2011.As a response to deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum Cathedral, the decision was taken to resite the cathedral and the bishopric was moved to Salisbury. The move occurred during the tenure of Bishop Richard Poore, a wealthy man who donated the land on which it was built. The new cathedral was paid for by donations, principally from the canons and vicars of southeast England who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until it was completed.[4] A legend tells that the Bishop of Old Sarum shot an arrow in the direction he would build the cathedral but the arrow hit a deer that died in the place where Salisbury Cathedral is now. The cathedral crossing, Old Sarum and Stonehenge are reputed to be aligned on a ley line, though Clive L.N. Ruggles asserts that the site, on marshland, was chosen because a preferred site several miles to the west could not be obtained.

Views around the Avebury Stone Circle.4th June 2011.

Views around the Avebury Stone Circle.4th June 2011.