Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2022
The words ‘God Save The King 1769 are embellished on the side of Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall.
The Hall was built in the reign of Charles I and throughout its chequered history has seen calamitous events including being extensively damaged from a gunpowder explosion in 1643. Just over a century later the Hall was actually pulled down [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 21st 2022
After breakfast we checked out of the hotel, taking the opportunity to mention that we had been locked out of the hotel the previous evening. The receptionist seemed unconcerned about our experience and I wasn’t convinced that the problem would be escalated to make sure it didn’t happen to anyone else. I was persistent on [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 14th 2022
We navigated our way around the breakfast menu which somehow didn’t quite work, for example there was no bread to accompany the meat and cheese that are part of the continental breakfast.
After breakfast, our first destination was Shakespeare’s birthplace where the room guides’ explanations and stories added to the experience. We then visited the nearby [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 11th 2022
We awoke to glorious sunshine and were given a window seat for breakfast which allowed us to to make the most of it. The breakfast was excellent although the portions were enormous. My plate of scrambled egg and salmon could have fed two people.
Straight after breakfast we headed into town to pick up some bottled [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Dec 6th 2022
We set off a little later than planned because Mr C had been away in London at a conference and needed to pack.
With lunch in mind, just outside of Stratford, we noticed a Dobbies garden centre. We negotiated around a car crash that was outside the garden centre but, on arrival at the cafe we [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 5th 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
Brooklands Museum houses historic aircraft including a Vickers Wellington bomber recovered from Loch Ness in 1985, a British Airways Concorde, G-BBDG (c/n 202), the UK’s first production Concorde, and now also owns the 40% scale Concorde model “G-CONC” displayed for many years as a gate guardian at Heathrow Airport, until movement in 2007. After restoration and repainting, the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 25th 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
Brooklands was a 2.767-mile (4.453 km) motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1907 and was the world’s first purpose-built ‘banked’ motor racing circuit[n 1] as well as one of Britain’s first airfields, which also became Britain’s largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington and civil [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Nov 23rd 2022
