Archive for August, 2018
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
Pitchford Hall
Pitchford Hall, a Grade I listed, Elizabethan Half Timbered House was recently, in 2016 re-acquired by a descendant of the family who owned the property until 1992. Pitchford Hall had been in the same family for 500 years when the then owner Caroline Colthurst and her husband were hit with financial responsibilities after investing in [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2018
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
Busy Busy Busy…
… So what’s new
I am currently in the middle of writing a detailed blog post which I hope to post in the next few days. The blog article is about a place I visited on one of my recent excursions.
But more importantly my mum is moving house and that is no small task, [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2018
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Ted’s Summer Adventure
It has taken me a little time to get around to posting photographs of Ted’s Summer adventure to Ironbridge, lunching in EightySix’d and being taken on a mystery tour around Shropshire.
Ending his day relaxing on the patio as the sun went down.
16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2018
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage
Haddon Hall – The Chapel
The chapel, dedicated to St Nicholas was originally the parish church of Nether Haddon. The chapel has been extended over the years and contains some of the earliest masonry in the fabric of the hall.*
The walls in the chapel display some fine fresco seccoes which would have originally have been brightly coloured. It is thought [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2018
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 19th 2018
