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Filed under Art, Heritage, Out & About
Sudbury Hall – The Great Staircase
8 Comments CherryPie on May 27th 2011
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Out & About
I Was a Stranger…
… and you took me in.
This is a window from All Saints Church that can be found within the grounds of Sudbury Hall. A plaque in front of the window gives the following information:
When war was declared in 1939, Manchester like many other cities moved fast to protect its young; living in and near to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 21st 2011
Filed under Art, Books, Out & About
Great A’Tuin
Great A’Tuin is the Giant Star Turtle who travels through the Discworld universe carrying four elephants who in turn carry the Discworld:
The sex of the World Turtle is pivotal in proving or disproving a number of conflicting theories about the destination of Great A’Tuin’s journey through the cosmos. If, as the Discworld version of the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 6th 2011
Filed under Art, Holidays, Kent January 2011
Figurehead from the Ship Implacable
This figurehead (Medusa) was taken from the ship implacable. This ship was originally named Duguay-Trouin which was a French ship that fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. Later it was captured by the British and renamed.*
*Information taken from museum literature.
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2011
