Have been away at a meeting in Oxford all week so not much opportunity to spend time watching nature. Did…
4464 Bittern
Bittern was built in 1937. It spent most of its working life on the East Coast mainline, particularly hauling the…
Roman Mosaics: Halicarnassus
The most famous mosaics from Halicarnassus come from the excavations by CT Newton (later keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities…
Azure Damselfly
Moon
photos taken using NASA Harvard telescope
The capture of Lachish (3)
The final scenes in the wall reliefs from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh show the conquering Assyrian army returning with the…
6023 King Edward II – watering and coaling
Some shots of King Edward II during a break in her running at Didcot in order to take on water…
Moon
Wood Duck
The North American Wood Duck is a bird of wooded swamps and shallow lakes, which is sometimes seen in the…
The Ice Well
Before the invention of refrigerators and freezers, many country houses would have a ice well. These would be brick built…
