This was one of my favourite sweet treats when I was a youngster, I especially liked the taste of the perilous green ones. The pink Quality Street tin on the right also brings back memories, with it’s Victorian images and chocolates double wrapped in foil and cellophane. I used to try and smooth the [...]
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Filed under Holidays, This & That, York 2010
100 Photos 30 :: Memories
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 24th 2010
Filed under Holidays, PhotoHunt, York 2010
PhotoHunt – Hanging
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
26 Comments CherryPie on Jul 24th 2010
Filed under Holidays, York 2010
York Minster – New Stonework
An area at the back of the minster was displaying some new stonework and a board near to the carvings informed that:
New stonework copies the original stone and this is carried out by our 24 Masons, Carvers and Apprentices.
Occasionally the removed carving is too decayed to see what it used to be. When this [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Jul 22nd 2010
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, York 2010
York Minster – The Chapter House
The Chapter House is tucked away, hiding behind it’s vestibule and on first view it is both a surprise and delight. The octagonal room was completed in 1286 and is unusual in that it does not have a central column to support the vaulted roof.
From the guidebook:
Used from the 1290s onwards for parliaments by [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 21st 2010
Filed under Books, Holidays, York 2010
100 Photos 29 :: Books & Bookshops
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2010
It is commonly thought that the King’s State Bedroom commemorates the occasion James I stayed in Burton Agnes Hall on the way to be crowned in Westminster Abbey. This however is highly unlikely because the Hall was not completed until 1603. The bed is Italian and dates from the seventeenth century [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 19th 2010
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Burton Agnes Hall – the Dining-room…
… and the Long Gallery
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 19th 2010
