Visit to James in Loughborough February 2012	with James		The Town Hall
The Sock Statue		Jitty is an alleyway in Loughborough
The Law Courts	The War memorial Carillon	James attempting to scale a pole!
The Great Central Railway Loughborough February 2012 See the movie	See the movie	Stannier 2-8-0 about to depart with the lunchtime diner, the Elizebethan See the movie	See the movie
Brush Type 4 Diesel	Brush Type 2 Diesel	GCR Class 8K	GWR Hall Class
English Electric diesel	Visit to the JCB Factory with the NS National Trust February 2012	The Visitor Centre	Kitting up for the visit
Early Bamford family products iin the factory museum	The original shed where JC Bamford began	The first product	An early excavator
A Back Hoe Loader		Advertising (with an NT property!)	product models
A tracked loader	A home excavator	Advertising model	The word speed record holder for a diesel car
Patriotic charity model	in the factory yard	testing a new machine	Bamford Helicopter
	Picnic in the grounds factory in the background	Coote
Sheld Duck		Egyptian Geese	Egyptian Goose and Goslings
	Black Swan		"Opus"
Ruddy Shelduck		Chatsworth with Stephen & family April 2012	Entrance to the house
			The Chapel
	in the Chapel corridor		The Painted Hall
Garden from the window	The Buffet before the Great Chamber		The State Bed
	Veronese: Adoration of the Maggi	The State Closet	Geogiana, 5th Duchess of Devonshire
George IV		a Guest bedroom	Stat Dining Room
L.S. Lowry	L.S. Lowry	The Sculpture Gallery
from the upper garden	The Cascade
		Sarah	Timmy
with Sarah	pheasant ...	... courting	To the Maze
In the maze
Wedgwood Museum with Stephen and family April 2012		Portland Vase	First gallery
Etruria ...	... with a shut museum	a Trent & Mersey lock
Bristol & Clifton May 2012	Gloucester Row site of Mike & Nicky's ...	... new house number 10	Kitchen ...
with Nicky	James, Nicola and Michael		The Clifton suspension bridge just around the corner
The Avon Gorge	wedding group on the bridge	Hill Fort in Leigh Woods	The bridge from Leigh Woods
		from the Gorge	The former Clifton Rocks Railway
			Clifton College
Clifton Cathedral
a station of the cross		Brougham Castle with the North Staffs. Classical Association May 2012
Roman Inscription in the tiny museum		The Keep	Roman inscription used for roofing a stairway
Andy Fear, our guide, addressing ...	the North Staffs. Classical Association		from the Keep
	River Derwent	lunch with the Jones's	the chapel
	Maryport (Alauna) with the North Staffs. Classical Association May 2012	The extensive museum
Roman inscriptions	recreation of the central standard room	symbol!
		Andy Fear ...	... in full flow
		Looking out over part of the extensive site	Solway Firth
Munich June 2012	Englischer Garten	Red Crested Pochard
		Greylag Goose	Chinesischer Turm
Surfing in the Englischer Garten		Fronleichnam Procession a contingent leaving Marienplatz
passing the Theatiner Kirche	passing the Ludwig statue	Ludwig Strasse the front of the procession passing back in the opposite direction
		The Polish Mission	The Archbishop passing back
	The Czech Mission		The Vietnamese Mission
	from the Hofgarten	Birmingham, June 2012	The Lunar Men
The new library	(later in the month)	Symphony Hall (outside)	inside, waiting for Walkure to start June 30th
Visit to Peter & Traudi, Northampton, June 2012	Peter at lunch	Traudi, recovering from a fall	Winslow June 2012
	Winslow Hall	St Laurence's Church
Stowe June 2012	The Corinthian Arch	from the Arch, towards Buckingham	towards the House
The House from the Octagon Lake	The Gothic Temple	The Palladian Bridge	at the Cascade
Gothic Temple	Palladian Bridge	Lord Cobham's Pillar	The Queen's Temple
Temple of British Worthies	Captain Grenville's Column	Temple of Ancient Virtue	A glimpse of the House
St Mary's Church
	The Grotto		The Serene Beauty
The Obelisk	Temple of Concord and Victory		Fane of Pastoral Poetry
up to the Obelisk ...	... in the Deer Park	Stowe House from the North	The South Front
		Model of the Southern Railway Schools Class Engine, Stowe	George I
3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos	William Pitt	1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos	2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
The Central Hall
	From the South Front ...	...	... towards ...
...the Corinthian Arch	The ceiling of the ...	... School House dining room
The Rotunda	Temple of Venus	Greylag Goose ...	... with Goslings
The Western Lake Pavillion	Temple of Friendship	Pebble Alcove
Buckinghamshire Railway Museum June 2012	The Museum	The entrance, previously at Oxford (LMS station)	GWR Castle Class ...
... Defiant	South African Railways, 3' 6" gauge express locomotive	0-4-0 Saddle Tank	Quainton Road (ex-GCR)
The station	0-6-0T 30585	Gunpowder Wagon	GWR Hall Class under renovation
Frank, Ivy and Alan Towcester, June 2012	Alan ...	... with his father, ...	... mother, ...
...and uncle.	West Kirby with Enid July 2012	Walk across the sands to the Little Eye and Hilbre Island	The Little Eye
	West Kirby beyond Enid and Pat		After the rain shower Pat and Enid
	The Dee Estuary and the North Wales Coast	on Hilbre Island	getting on to Hilbre Island
	The Great Orme (Llandudno)	Hoylake	Liverpool
Bevs at home in Upton		Emily	Emily and Bevis
	Enid with Emily
Waddesdon Manor August 2012	The Aviary
		The Stables	The Fountain
The North Front	Urs Fischer, "Bad Timing, Lamb Chop" a sculpture exhibit	unusual Ivy	South Front
The formal gardens
	Robert Indiana, "Love(Red)" a sculpture exhibit
Brackley August 2012	The Town Hall	Farmer's Market	Bell Tower
St Peter's Church		Crown Inn
Wollerton Old Hall Garden August 2012		with Tony and Brenda Johns
Trentham Monkey Forest August 2012	A Barbary Macaque		with Tony and Brenda Johns
	Garmisch September 2012	with Aileen Patel	Autumn Crocus
	Clun Castle September 2012	from the West
climbing the mound	in the keep
	Clun Church	Llandudno October 2012	The Little Orme from the pier phone photo
from our room at the top of the Imperial		Walk up the Great Orme	Great Ormes Head the shut cafe
The tramway down			half way
	ship in the bay		from the balcony

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