Hello again, everyone! I wanted to share some photos of places I visited over spring break. I went to a lot of places, so I will be posting on various locations separately. I started in the university towns Cambridge and Oxford. I have been to Cambridge a few times, but this was my first time visiting Oxford. The highlight for me was the Bodleian Library. The Bodleian Libraries system supports Oxford University and processes over 4,000 new items per week. I took a tour of the Old Bodleian Library and also saw an interesting exhibit at the Weston Library called Write—Cut—Rewrite, where work by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Christina Rossetti, J.S. Bach, and Kenneth Grahame (among others) was on display. I visited the Ashmolean Museum and walked along Christ Church Meadow. I also visited the covered market, some other shops, and the big Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford. On Sunday I attended a service at Christ Church Cathedral.
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Old Bodleian Library
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| Reading Room |
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| Alarmed books |
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| Quiet please |
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| Bridge of Sighs |
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| Radcliffe Camera |
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| Turl Street |
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| Blackwell's Bookshop |
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| Teapots at Cardews |
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| Woollen Cosy Life in the Covered Market |
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| The Woolhound in the Covered Market |
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| Public Library, Oxford |
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| It's always tea time |
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| Oxford Yarn Store |
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| The Ashmolean Museum |
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| "The Return of the Dove to the Ark" |
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| Sixteenth century instruments by Andrea Amati (violas were bigger!) |
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| Christ Church, Oxford |
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| Christ Church cloisters |
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| River Thames from Folly Bridge |
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| Alice's Shop (The Old Sheep Shop) |
Since I was in Cambridge on a Thursday for once, the historic David Parr House on Gwydir Street was open. Parr was a decorative painter for F.R. Leach & Sons from the 1890s until the early 1920s. The company would get directions from designers like William Morris and then they would carry out the actual installations. During the years Parr worked for the company he decorated the rooms in his own house in a similar style (and this was before acrylic paints!). In the evening, I attended a concert by the Bootleg Beatles at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. It really got me excited for my trip to Liverpool in May! I was impressed by how well they imitated the Beatles' mannerisms on stage, and they had great costumes. From a distance I could almost believe I was at a real Beatles concert—without the screaming, of course. We could hear when a string was out of tune (oops), unlike the original concerts!
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| David Parr House (image from Google) |
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| Front room (image from Google) |
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| Cambridge Corn Exchange (image from Google) |
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| Beatles concert |
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| Bootleg Beatles |
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| Christ College, where I stayed in Cambridge |
I also visited Avebury, Bath, Cardiff, Chepstow, Tintern, and London last week. More posts to come!
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