On the walk between my hotel & the conference, I went past the house where the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary lived
Oxford has lots of picturesque little side streets
Oxford University doesn't have a centralised campus like Leeds or Bath--this gorgeous old residential property is home to the University's career services office!
St. Giles' Church, right near the conference venue Ertegun House
Central Oxford--the graveyard at St. Mary Magdalene is across the street from Waterstone's bookshop
This street has a whisky shop, a suit shop, and a leather goods/stationery shop--all the accoutrements for young Oxford men
This suit is exactly like the ones in the famous picture of Prime Minister David Cameron & London Mayor Boris Johnson at Eton, below--they were students here at Oxford, too:
I can't believe people still wear this stuff...Just another illustration as to why the Tories are out of touch!
Radcliffe Camera
St. Mary's, university church--we had tea & carrot cake in the cafe
Bodleian Library
Each door has its label in Latin--this one's the library of the School of Natural Philosophy
Statue of the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of the University 1617-30
History of Science Museum
St. Michael's Church
On top of the Saxon Tower at St. Michael's, the oldest building in Oxford
View of Cornmarket Street
Bells in the Saxon Tower
Jesus College courtyard
St. Mary's again (I went twice, once in the morning before Richard arrived & again later to show him around!)
The view from our room at Eynsham Hall
Even though we were in the Lodge (below), we were close enough to see the formal gardens of the main hall
The Lodge at Eynsham Hall--a surprisingly cheap countryside option near Oxford. My room at the Best Western in Oxford was more expensive, and look at where we got to have breakfast!
The main house. We had drinks in The Gun Room bar that night, then in the morning we had a lovely buffet breakfast in the restaurant.
The driveway
Bell notice board--gives you an idea of the number of rooms!
Our view at breakfast
Even the ladies' room was gorgeous
It was built in 1908, on the site of an older manor house
From one manor house to another--we went to Blenheim Palace for the day before heading home
It really is huge & grand--even bigger than Chatsworth
The ceiling in the entrance hallway
Winston Churchill's baby vest (undershirt)
Winston Churchill's birthplace
This weird looking thing is a lock of curls that were cut from Winston's hair when he was 5 years old.
Winston Churchill's slippers & suit
The 1st Duke of Marlborough, Duchess Sarah and their children
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Entrance Hall
China ante-room
Their pattern is very simple and tasteful
The green room
The painting on the left is Consuelo and the Duke and their children
I love these tapestries
And the chairs upholstered in the same fabric that's on the walls
The dining hall is ridiculously opulent
The ceiling
The walls have a trompe l'oeil effect, with columns and people painted to look 3-D
Obviously a ladies' room (presumably the women would go here after dinner, and the men would go to the green upholstered room on the other side of the dining hall)
Ceiling of the Long Library
The library is gorgeous
Statue of Queen Anne, who gave the first Duke of Marlborough the land to build Blenheim
On the left, the robes worn by the Duke & Duchess to George VI's coronation in 1937, and on the right, the robes they would wear to Parliament.
The 1st Duke's tomb in the palace chapel
The water terrace
The Temple of Diana, where Winston Churchill proposed to Clementine
Apparently they were en route to the Rose Garden where he planned to ask her, but it started raining so they went in here and he proposed. It's a bit like our story, where Richard improvised with the bandstand when it started raining in Ramsgate!
The train to the Pleasure Gardens
Model Village
The butterfly house was excellent--way more butterflies and way more visible ones than I've seen at the butterfly houses at Science Center or Tropical World!
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