Side Trip To Oxford

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June 16, 2006

The view from Carfax Tower.

Great Tom, the bell at Christ Church College that tolls 101 times nightly at 9:05 p.m.

Elysse and Nancy at Christ Church College.

Christ Church College Cathedral spire

The door is studded with "no peel", a protest leftover from 1829 when Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, proposed greater freedoms for Catholics.

The dining hall in Christ Church College, the model for the Great Hall in the Harry Potter series.

Elysse and Nancy at a table in the dining hall.

The head table in the dining hall.

Great Tom and the quad

The St. Thomas Becket window in Christ Church College. In order to avoid destruction since Becket fell out of favor with Henry VIII, Becket's face has been erased

The Bodleian Library's reading room, inside the domed Radcliffe Camera.

A bridge modelled after the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy.

Elysse's little slice of heaven, the History of Science museum

The Asmolean Museum, Oxford University's art and archaeology collection.

The pub sign from the Eagle and Child, where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien once lifted a pint.


 

 

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