As we walked back from Bowers Lock via a different path along the River Wey Navigation, we passed many supported, falling down trees. Click images below to enlarge them.
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Bowers Lock
Our walk in Guildford’s Riverside Nature Reserve ended at Bowers Lock on the River Wey Navigation. Click on any picture below to see them enlarged.
Wall Art
We walked along the River Wey Navigation which paralleled the actual River Wey for some distance. Click either of the pictures below to see them enlarged.
A Stand of Trees
A few weeks ago we took the train to Guildford and then walked the Riverside Nature Reserve along the River Wey Navigation. (click any of the pictures below to see them full size.)
Dragon’s Teeth
The concrete Dragon’s Teeth were placed here in WWII as an anti-tank defense.
Cryptography
Antony Gormley sculpture
This mysterious life-size statue of a man contemplating the water held in his cupped hands is the work of the celebrated British sculptor Antony Gormley. Sound II, fashioned from lead out of a plaster cast of the artist’s own body, is in the Cathedral Crypt.
Winchester Cathedral
A few more images to give a sense of the magnificent scale of the place. Click on any of the images below to see them full size.
Winchester Cathedral
Near the end of December we visited Winchester Cathedral on a rainy day. Click any of the images to see them full-size.
Dusky Thames
Headed home, walking over the Golden Jubilee Bridges to Waterloo Station and the train to Farnham the day before Christmas Eve.
Beatlemania
We passed this well-known site on our walk around London the 23rd December. To the left, circled in red next to George, is my cousin Sidney, who shimmied up onto the roof that famous day.
Piccadilly (Potemkin) Village
Christmas Week
We visited with family in London on 23rd December and walked through festive streets (Villiers St and Bond St, shown here).
Train Ride to Waterloo
Chawton Sunset
Waiting for the bus back to Alton.
Chawton
Walking back to the Chawton bus stop after leaving the Chawton House, as dusk fell.
Chawton House grounds
After the graveyard (last post) we walked through the gardens and across the grounds of Chawton House, as the sun sank in the afternoon.
Chawton House Windows
During the break our daughter was visiting from the States and we took her to visit Chawton House, erstwhile home of Jane Austen’s brother (the Jane Austen House itself, which we visited last May was closed for the holiday). The house has a fascinating history, which you can read about at the link above, and I took some pictures out the windows which provided framing of the view.
The Castle
The 12th century castle as seen from Farnham Park.