Corner Art Deco

Furness at UPENN

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Affinities

this is the place in the UK that most reminds me of NJ

River Humber

Light Leak on Dew

Sheep

Ship in a Bottle

St. Pancras Station

Pinhole Cave

Doghole Cave

Cavers

 to visit the caves, you get actual caving helmets

Robin Hood Cave

millions year history of graffitti

Creswell Crags

 Along this river is a series of caves that hold the evidence for Iron Age man-humankind's most Northern presence.

tilework

Edwardian mantle piece

feminism

Tudors

Guildhall

this 15th-16th guildhall and arch replacing medieval and Roman gates

Tudor interiors

river Whitham

oldest church in Lincoln

antlers

when bucks grow their antlers, they rub against things to remove the sheath. this is a branch that clearly had been put to that purpose

task

young buck

sunset

tower in the distance

Beverley Minster-Roof Walk

One of the more unusual features of a visit to Beverley Minster is the Roof Tour. Sure you might have to pay for it and there're 114 (someodd) stairs but it takes you behind the scenes of the cathedral construction like nothing I've been before. You literally are walking above the vaulting (remember this is Late Gothic-these are tall vaults) getting to stare at medieval timbering and a peek at the various caretakers of the cathedral over the years.

 One of the roof windows

 When they were constructing the cathedral additions during the Victorian period, they were building on marshy ground-the sudden change of plans is visible from this half finished clerestory carving rising out of the unfinished roof

some of the lead pieces awaiting roof placement

 the last man-powered treadmill that literally lifts a boss (for transporting material from the church floor to the metal workers workshop)

 

the lifting of the boss

 a look down into the organ

 we're above the saint's burial place actually

 a joke etched on the roof window panes by a 1950s caretaker

 signatures of Beverley town elders and caretakers ranging from 1798 to modern times (in this photo)

medieval pristine timbering