Thursday 30 May 2013

Corfe Castle - The Castle!

This is Corfe Castle overlooking the village of Corfe Castle - with me?
 
 
The village seen from the castle
 
 
Corfe Castle station seen from the castle
 
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Tuesday 28 May 2013

Swanage Railway - Corfe Castle

Approaching Corfe Castle station
 
 
 
Waiting room
 
Eddystone reversing in for the return journey to Swanage
 
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Friday 24 May 2013

Swanage railway - preparing Eddystone

Re-watering Eddystone before the trip to Corfe Castle
 
The pipe was incredibly leaky due to a large split
 
 
 
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Tuesday 21 May 2013

Sunday 19 May 2013

Swanage Railway

We caught the bus from the H.P.B. site to Swanage.
 
 
 
This is "EDDYSTONE" reversing in from Corfe Castle.
 
Uncoupled and ready to head to the front of the train.
Video of this next time...
 
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Friday 17 May 2013

Kingston Lacy - Interior

Photos were allowed inside the house - but without the flash.
Luckily my small Panasonic Lumix was up to the job.
 
 
 
 
 
My reward for trailing round behind SWMBO while she read every single word of every single information  board - twice!
 
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Wednesday 15 May 2013

Kingston Lacy

The house is near Wimborne Minster in Dorset and is now owned by the National Trust.
 
Shame about the scaffolding!
 
 
 
Here's the new Japanese garden.
 
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Monday 13 May 2013

Square & Compass - Worth Matravers

This is a wonderful pub where the beers are all served from the barrel through a hatch rather than at a traditional bar
 
 
Very unspoilt! - brilliant
 
Newspaper cutting in the bar about the "Farriers Arms" in St.Albans which is my Wednesday lunchtime local - would you believe it?
 
There's even a free museum at the pub
 
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Saturday 11 May 2013

H.P.B. Langton House

This was our second visit to a Holiday Property Bond site, this time in Dorset at Langton Matravers
 
As we have now come to expect, everything was first class
 
 
 
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Thursday 9 May 2013

Somerset Village! (Rickford)

Here's a village in Somerset near Blagdon!
Have just been told by SWMBO that it's Rickford (14/05/13)
We went to a wedding in Blagdon, and this a a nearby village - I wish I could remember what it was called.
Must have been a good wedding reception?
 
 
 
 
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