After a good night’s sleep, it was time to find out what was on offer for breakfast. Cold buffet options were on display but hot food was cooked to order. I was pleasantly surprised to see that my favourite breakfast options; tomatoes on toast, mushrooms on toast, egg on toast were listed as options on [...]
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Gloucester – Day Two
Comments Off CherryPie on Aug 25th 2023
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2023
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A Review of 2022 in Twelve Photographs
Some special moments and memories from 2022, one from each month of the year. The photographs are taken from a calendar that I created for myself and due to the printing deadline, December’s photograph is also from November.
1. The Inclined Plane, Coalport, 2. Lichfield Cathedral, 3. Local Pathway, 4. Llangollen Canal Nr Chirk Aqueduct, 5. [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 1st 2023
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist
The present building dates from 1822 when it replaced an ancient building with Saxon arches and Norman work that was in dire need of expensive renovation. The outer walls follow the plan of the mediaeval church with old burial vaults lying beneath the present floor; retained memorials from the previous church can be [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 31st 2022
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Windsor Guildhall
From Wiki:
A deed of 1369, now in the possession of Eton College, refers to the “gildaule”, and a charter of 1439 states that “pleas happening in the said borough … shall be pleaded and holden in the guildhall there, before the mayor and bailiffs for the time being”.[2] Norden’s map of 1607 shows a market house in [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 30th 2022
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Tewkesbury 2022
Pathways to Tewkesbury Abbey
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 26th 2022
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The Friends Burial Ground, Tewkesbury
It is reputed to have been in use since 1660. There are references in 1670 and 1677 to an adjacent Quaker meeting-place, occupying ‘three messuages in St Mary’s Street’. Two of these cottages (timber-framed) still exist, and as “16 and 18 St Mary’s Lane” are Grade II Listed Buildings – see the British Listed Buildings website [...]
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