Today's thread will be interspersed with random Dorset pics, 'cos it's #dorsetday. Here be Eggardon Hill, looking toward Portland, doubling up for #HillfortsWednesday with ramparty goodness.
Carousel fascism on the South Bank.
The code stone, 1837, lion by Woodington. Once proudly guarding the gates of Lambeth's Lion brewery.
Now on Westminster Bridge not a #tinylion
@TheMinster1 has its own treasures, in particular the chained library, now located in the old Treasury. Founded in 1686, it is one of four extant in the kingdom.
It's got all sorts up their like this gorgeous encaustic #tile from the C13th/c14th.
This rather splendid escutcheon of Henry VII probably dates from his 1509 accession. His mother Lady Margaret Beaufort founded a chapel and paud for a cleric as a teacher. Thus starting QE school.
Her parents, the Dule and Duchess of Somerset were buried @TheMinster1 1444.
Another wandering thread. Today being Palm Sunday, it started with a procession.
But go North middle aged man. So to Walford. Next to the early C16th bridge over the River Allen is the old Walford Mill am 1800 rebuild of a C16th original.
Sad dead pub, I remember it as The Case is Altered, later the Crown and Anchor now a dead office. Arts and craft exterior on an C18th centre. Another attempt to knock it down failed last month. With all the new housing, perhaps a beer flavoured future could arise?
Bit of a thread. Car had to go to the garage, but fear it's the last rites. So went for a bimble, it was supposed to be for an hour, that was at 9.30. So here's the illustrated, annotated version.
An unusual turnstile footpath gate, about 1850, by Charles Barry (pére).
The Lady Wimborne railway bridge, by Sir Charles Barry of 1852, it used to carry the old Somerset an Dorset line, and Lady Wimborne wanted something impressive as it crossed the Canford estate, bought by her father-in-law, the Merthyr ironmaster Sir John Guest.
Pink bell wildflower, not sure what but very pretty.