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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For my final post from Lichfield, here is a rare shot of my darling (and long suffering camera-widow) wife with the Minster Pool in the background:
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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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More from the interior of Lichfield Cathedral, I just liked the way this shot looks through four arches:
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A close up shot of the floor tiles in Lichfield Cathedral:
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