The Norman tower-keep of Rochester Castle was built in around 1127 with Kentish ragstone. It is 113 feet high and has three floors above the basement level.
Archive for January, 2012
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2012
It is the cause of all perfection of all things throughout the universe.
The Emerald Tablet (around 300 BC)
29 Comments CherryPie on Jan 29th 2012
Filed under Holidays, Kent January 2012
Rochester Guildhall
On my recent trip to Kent I payed my first visit to Rochester and one of the first things I noticed as I entered the city was a weather vane in the shape of a ship. On further investigation I found that it was on top of the guildhall which was built in 1687.
Outside, [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Jan 28th 2012
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PhotoHunt – Fluffy
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out Whistlestop PhotoHunt.
19 Comments CherryPie on Jan 27th 2012
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What is a Teacher?
I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches you something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
Paulo Coelho (from the Witch of Portobello)
28 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2012
In the 1860s Charles Fechter sent Charles Dickens a Christmas present, it arrived in 58 packing cases at Gravesend station. The present was a prefabricated Swiss Chalet which Dickens assembled in the garden at his country home at Gadshill Place. He constructed it in the second part of his garden which was across the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2012
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Kent January 2012
To the Moon and Back
I have now returned from from my second journey (in a month) down south. It is such a long journey (5 hours) that it feels like a trip to the moon. Making the journey by road is less than ideal; it is mostly motorways, which currently have a lot of roadworks that slow down the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2012
