Opend in 1771, the Assembly Rooms, are where Bath’s high society gathered to play cards, drink tea, engage in polite conversation and from time to time listen to music recitals and dance the night away in the grand Ball Room…..it’s all very Jane Austin:
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Built between 1754 and 1767, The Circus in Bath is widely regarded as an architectutal masterpiece and Britain’s finest circular street:
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Following on from my previous post depicting Bath’s famous Royal Crescent, this post goes inside No 1 The Royal Crescent which has been restored as a museum to showcase the life and times of a wealthy Georgian family towards the end of the 18th century:
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Built between 1767-1774 the Royal Crescent is perhaps Bath’s grandest architectural gem:
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Although Longleat is perhaps most famous for it’s safari park which opened in 1966, the magnificent Elizabethan house and grounds has been the home of the Thynn (or Thynne family) for nearly 500 years.
Widely regarded as one of the finest examples of an Elizabethan stately home in the country, it has been the seat of the Marquess’s of Bath since Thomas Thynne rose to that position in 1789.
Below are a few shots of the house and grounds:
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Inari village has a population of about 600-700 people, but in the sparsley populated area of northern Finland (where there are more Reindeer than people) this counts as a bustling metropolis.
Below are a couple of images of the pretty little Church that we passed on our walk into the village:
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A view from the house of Erasmus Darwin in Lichfield, an 18th century physician and grandfather to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. It was Erasmus, a man way ahead of his time, who laid the ground-work for his grandson’s radical theories about evolution and the origin of species:
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Yet another interior shot of Lichfield Cathedral:
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The Chapel in Lichfield Cathedral dedicated to the Staffordshire Regiments:
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An effigy of a Bishop at Lichfield Cathedral…..but I don’t know who.
Happy New Year everyone.
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