Bench end featuring a dodo,. Worcester College chapel, Oxford. The now extinct dodo not only features in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland but is also celebrated in Oxford’s Natural History Museum.
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Inside
A study in textures: looking out of a sash window with shutters from inside the Georgian House Museum, Clifton, Bristol.
Dome
Ceiling and dome of Worcester College chapel, Oxford, completed in 1770.
Observer
Young observer looking down through the glass well into the lobby, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.
Lane
Street art in Leonard Lane, a narrow thoroughfare named after a former medieval church, which follows the line of the old city walls of Bristol, now leading past Centrespace gallery and studios to St John’s and the last remaining gateway to the medieval city.
Through
Framed by wisteria, the vista through from garden to quad, Worcester College, Oxford.
Naughty
Customised seat outside bric-à-brac shop, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
Centre
Looking along the pedestrianised part of Corn Road towards the old centre of Bristol just beyond All Saints church tower on the right.
Defunct
Demolition in progress by Bristol’s River Avon Floating Harbour adjacent to the Cheese Lane Shot Tower a grade II listed shot tower. It was built in 1969 to manufacture lead shot, a replacement for the demolished 18th-century shot tower in Redcliffe which was the first in the world. It’s now defunct as a factory, incorporatedContinue reading “Defunct”
Swirl
The curving swirl of railway tracks and glass roof and canopy over Bristol’s Temple Meads train station.
Minutiae 