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Archive for August, 2014
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
22 Comments CherryPie on Aug 17th 2014
Filed under Out & About
The Wrekin from Viroconium
The Churches Concervation Trust guide book for St Andrew’s Church at Wroxeter provides and informative introduction to both the Wrekin and Wroxeter.
The name Wroxeter appears to mean ‘fort by the Wrekin’. This hill, which is prominent for miles around, has an Iron Age fort at its crest and the Celtic name for it is thought [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2014
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
Step Inside St Andrew’s Church
Just inside the front door of the church stands a huge font which is thought to be part of a Roman column. The organ was originally built by Charles Brindley in 1849, but little now remains from that date. The knave is furnished with box pews, the pulpit is Jacobean and the altar rails [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 13th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
St Andrew’s Church Wroxeter
Some of you may recall that I have had two failed attempts at taking photographs of St Andrew’s Church. On my first attempt I was nearly run over by a driver who had not noticed I was walking along the country lane.
Afterwards I decided to make the short walk to St Andrew’s church in the nearby [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Science & Nature
Perigee Moon
Yesterday the tail end of Tropical Storm Bertha drifted over the UK in her death throws. We had torrential rain overnight and into the morning, then there was a brief sunny interlude followed by more rain and gusty winds. It didn’t look promising for viewing the so called ‘Supermoon‘…
I was pleasantly surprised when the clouds [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 11th 2014
