Seen on a wall next to the Soldier’s of Gloucestershire Museum.
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Filed under Art, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Youth Wheel
A bronze sculpture by Stojan Batič.
Batič was born in a working-class family in Trbovlje, a mining town in central Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Already as a teenager, he worked in the local coal mine. At the age of 19, he joined the partisan resistance, which fought the Nazi German forces. After World War [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2016
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Mindful Colouring
For Christmas my mum asked for some adult colouring books which are currently popular in the UK. Whilst I was choosing which books to buy for her I was inspired to have a go at colouring too. I ordered a book and some felt pens. The pens arrived quickly but the book was not due [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 17th 2016
Filed under Art, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
More Street Art
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2016
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Cathedral Church of St Mary – Newcastle
The church was built in the 1840s to a neo-Gothic design by architect August Welby Pugin, famous for his work on the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. It was paid for by halfpenny donations from the poorest community of immigrants on Tyneside, and was enhanced in the following decades by bequests from the Dunn family [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2015
