A friend suggested that we get together to visit Tewkesbury Medieval Fair which commemorates the Battle of Tewkesbury with re-enactments of the battle that took place there in 1471. Because different activities were taking place on the two days of the festival. Mr C and I decided to turn it into a mini break, meeting [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Tewkesbury 2022
Tewkesbury – Day One
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2022
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Malvern 2021
Tewkesbury Abbey
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2021
For our last breakfast, I opted for the Danish Pastry selection, naughty but nice. We cleared the room and checked out then Mr C retrieved the car and loaded it with our bags before we set off to the nearby Chedworth Roman Villa. I have a childhood memory of visiting the villa on a school [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2021
After breakfast we set off on a walking tour around Cirencester that was based on the recommendations in the information pack the hotel had provided us with. Our first port of call was the Church of St John the Baptist which is situated in the market square. We walked around the burial ground before entering [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 3rd 2021
After breakfast we checked out of our hotel and drove to Stourhead House & Gardens in glorious sunshine. We signed in at the National Trust reception area before heading through to the house and gardens. It was around 20 years since our previous visit and it was our first visit to the house, which contains [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2021
We set off on our journey in glorious sunshine; planning to have lunch on the way. The SatNav was advising an hour’s delay on the motorway so we decided to take a detour which led us to a lovely café that we have previously visited, The Café Craycombe at Fladbury in the Vale of Evesham.
We [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jun 19th 2021
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Sherborne 2019
Dr Jenner’s House…
…the birthplace of vaccination
On my first visit to Berkeley Castle in 2019 I visited the adjacent museum that was formerly Dr Jenner’s house. The museum displays explain how he became the pioneer of vaccinations. He experimented with the mild disease of cowpox leading him to find way to counteract the devastating disease of Smallpox.
The smallpox [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2021
