Visits 2015


Visit to Melanie in Kingskerswell
January 2015

Haytor

with Melanie


from the upper rock



view to the sea

Dartmouth, from Kingswear


Kingswear Station (Dartmouth Steam Railway)

The Lower Ferry

"Our flat" (1979) - blue in the centre

up river

The other ferry boat

Slapton Sands


The American Memorial

Tank, recovered from the sea

The beach at Tor Cross

towards Start Point


Back at Dartmouth
Harbour Entrance

The lower town

Gloucester Cathedral and Docks



The South Entrance

The Nave

The Cloisters


The High Altar

The Nave from the Choir

Tomb of Edward II


Lady Chapel

Modern Glass


The High Altar, through the screen arch

An Alderman's Tomb

The Nave

Norman Pillars

St Nicholas Church

Gloucester Docks



The Earl of Pembroke


Moorcroft Pottery with the Probus Club
May 2015

The Heritage Centre




Trentham Park Lodge
National Garden Day, May 2015







Birmingham, June 2015

St Philip's Cathedral

Windows, by Burne-Jones



Botanic Garden - Swallowtail; just hatched

?


Munich, June 2015

St Michael's Church


Nymphenburgh Palace

Red Crested Pochards

Botanic Garden: the rose garden

The pool in the formal garden



Ceramic Parrot

Gunera


The cactus display

Pinakothek der Moderne




Displays of more recent design




Jackdaws, waiting for a bus

The Friedensengel

The Chinese Turm, Englischer Garten

Keele Hall, July 2015




Morton Corbet Castle
July 2015







Morton Corbet Church

Buxton Festival
July 2015

Morris Dancing Display ...

... outside the Opera House

The Stoke Black Molly Group


Barn Owl in a display

A Hawk

A bedraggled Cormorant by the pond

A walk to Solomon's Temple and the railway

A grey Buxton from the Temple



The former Cromford and High Peak Railway

Solomon's Temple from the Railway

The walk
screenshot


With Richard outside Roseleigh


Little Moreton Hall, with Rebecca
August 2015








The long gallery



The Chapel





Mow Cop with Rebecca


Buxton with Rebecca
August 2015

The Dome




Munich
September 2015

Posters for Alban Berg's Opera, Lulu


On the opera promenade


Morning visit to the Oktoberfest

Skyfall - up ...

... down!

Bavaria

Beer Tent : 11.30 AM

Brewery Dray


A further tent


Aerial chairoplane

Schloss Nymphenburg
Monopterus

The Badenburg

The Schloss

Gondola to hire


The Schloss

Museum: Mensch und Natur

Pyrites

Quartz


Sea birds


Exhibition: Jugen Rose's theatre and Opera Costumes
Bayerische Akademie der Kunst

The Reception Line



Marriage of Figaro

Entrance staicase model, with reflection



Farewell

Milford on Sea and Hurst Castle
October 2015

Lunch at the Cirencester Roman Amphitheatre


Cirencester Church of St John the Baptist

From the hotel: The Isle of Wight and the Needles


Marine House, Milford


Sunset on Thursday


The Moon and Venus

Dawn on Friday


Sunrise over Sturt Pond and Keyhaven Marsh
from our window





With Brother Frank


Hurst Castle

Saturday sunrise

The approach from the shingle spit

The Tudor Keep



The lighthouse from the Keep

The Victorian extension from the Keep

The shingle spit from the Victorian part

The Solent and the Needles

The ferry to Keyhaven

Leaving the castle

Turnstones


The Westbury White Horse

The White Horse
photographed by Glen Henderson

Following the Horse
photo: Glen Henderson

The RAF Museum, Cosford
with the Probus Club
October 2015

Ted Bowers, Rosalind Hartley, Val Bowers, and John Hartley


Nimrod

Spitfire
(stitched photos)

In the courtyard

A Vulcan

A lightning

A Dakota


The Cold War Building

Munich
for the Opera

The Fuerige Engel
Opera Posters



The Opera (Nationaltheater)

Constuction opposite the Opera

Kaufingerstrasse

Walk along the Isar

Walk along the Isar


Walk in the Englischer Garten
The Chinese Pagoda

The Panopticon
under repair

Bubbles




Sunset on the way home to Manchester

Tewksbury Abbey
on the way to meet Mike and Nicky





An old house in Tewksbury

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