Day 151 – Holywell Ford
This is Holywell Ford in Oxford. It is part of Madgalene college. I believe now that it is student accommodation but years ago it was a family home and where my Father grew up as […]
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31
May
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25
May
Day 145 – Oxford ways
“When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin […]
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18
May
Day 138 – Cloisters
“I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.” ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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14
May
Day 134 – The Bodleian
“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked past it […]
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24
Apr
Day 113 – Beautiful Oxford
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.” ~ William Butler […]
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15
Apr
Day 105 – The Cursed Child
“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” ~ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
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13
Apr
Day 103 – Demolition
“Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.” ~ Kamahl
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5
Apr
Day 95 – Works of the century
“The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple…the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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28
Mar
Day 87 – Asylum
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“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.” ~ A. E. Housman
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17
Feb
Day 48 – Landmark of our age
“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. … Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost […]
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