St.Mary's Church - Ross-on-Wye

After a good lunch at The Royal we had a wander around the town and first visited St.Mary's Church.
 

 

 

 

Ross-on-Wye

A little while ago we had a great short break with friends near Ross-on-Wye.
We all met up for lunch at The Royal Hotel.
 

Here are the views from the terrace you can see in the photo above.
 

 

 

Inside Shugborough Hall

Wonderful interior perhaps spoilt by surly voluntary stewards - you can smile, you know!
They all looked like they knew you were going to steal something. Shame.
 

 

A reconstruction of Lord Lichfield's photographic studio.
 

 

Enough of this flotilla

Back to our cruise on "Stella" after our diversion to The Thames.
This is Shugborough Hall - home of the Earls of Lichfield.
We moored right outside their humble abode.
 

 

 

 

Jubilee flotilla 6

 

 

 

 

Jubilee flotilla 5

 

 

 

 

Jubilee flotilla 4

 

 

 

 

Jubilee flotilla 3

 

 

 

 

Jubilee flotilla 2

More photos from the flotilla - first the floating belfry.
 

 

 

Commonwealth section.
 

nb President in the Thames Flotilla

Having seen President leave Fradley at the start of the journey to The Thames, it was nice to get some (poor) photos at the end of the journey.
 

 

nb President steams away into the distance

This is the butty "Kildare".
 

Steaming off towards Coventry and on to the Thames pageant.