Gloucester Cathedral has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1,300 years, since Osric, an Anglo-Saxon prince, founded a religious house here in 678-9 AD. Little is known for certain about the communities which worshipped here or the buildings they used over the next 400 years although it is believed that the Benedictine [...]
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Filed under Colwall 2016, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays
Gloucester Cathedral
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2016
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Wall Art
Seen on a wall next to the Soldier’s of Gloucestershire Museum.
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2016
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Gloucester Docks
Fifteen Victorian warehouses stand as proud guardians to Britain’s most inland port. The former dock estate has become a popular destination where visitors can enjoy interesting views and a range of modern facilities while wandering around a remarkably complete example of a Victorian port. Views include many fine late Victorian era warehouses, a working dry [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 24th 2016
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Colwall – Day Two
We booked an early morning call to make sure we were awake in time for breakfast. The early morning call didn’t happen, but luckily we were awake anyway!
I started breakfast with mixed fresh fruit, during which time our breakfast order was taken. Shortly afterwards a complimentary glass of Prosecco arrived, followed almost immediately by the cooked [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 23rd 2016
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Colwall – Day One
The weather was gloriously sunny as we drove through the Shropshire and Herefordshire countryside for our overnight stay at Colwall village. When we crossed over the border into Herfordshire I noticed an abundance of Mistletoe in the trees. I can’t remember the last time I saw mistletoe growing in the UK and I have never [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2016
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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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The Land Where Mistletoe Grows
I have been away on a mini break to the land where mistletoe grows and am currently working through the photographs I took while I was away. Work is also rather manic at the moment so bear with me until normal service is resumed
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 16th 2016
