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. [...]
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A Review of 2022 in Twelve Photographs
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 1st 2023
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Royal Connections
The first day of the bank holiday commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II saw us visiting Boscobel House. Boscobel House is famous as a hiding place for King Charles II when fleeing for his life after his defeat in the Civil War. He spent a night in one of priest [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 2nd 2022
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Sunday Afternoon in the Sun
The morning weather looked unpromising so we tried to find a rainy day option for our adventures. This proved challenging because the things that inspired us were surprisingly all shut on Sunday’s! We opted to have lunch at home followed by a trip to a garden centre. On the way we stopped off for me [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2022
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Stafford Castle & Woodland Walk
Stafford Castle is an ancient Grade II listed castle situated two miles west of the town of Stafford in Staffordshire, England. From the time of the Norman Conquest and as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 it was the seat of the powerful Anglo-Norman Stafford family (originally de Tosny, later via a female line[1] de Stafford), feudal barons of Stafford, later Barons Stafford [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 12th 2022
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Lichfield Cathedral
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2022
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2022
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Lichfield Cathedral – Mediaeval Wall Paintings
Above the door inside the Chapter House one of three the mediaeval paintings that can be found within Lichfield Cathedral can be seen. It shows the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The other two paintings are located in the South Isle of the Cathedral. One of the paintings depicts the Crucifixion, the other depicts the Holy Trinity with [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2022
