Category: Railway History

I have mixed memories about Salisbury Cathedral – www.salisburycathedral.org.uk. I last visited ten years ago when Hannah was doing an Eton Choral Course and came and sang Evensong here. It was while Gareth was waiting for his transplant, so a day with mixed emotions. Previously to that I had come to a conference at Salisbury Theological College (now Sarum College) and went across to the Cathedral to book for a Spire Tour. When we gathered for the tour there was only me and the Clerk of Works. He took me to all sorts of places normal members of the...

Truro was not particularly lively first thing on a Bank Holiday Monday (26 May), but we found a little cafe in Duke Street. We went into Waterstone’s and I found a book about Agatha Christie’s houses which I sat and read while J perused the whole of the rest of the stock. Then WHSmiths – another brush with the self-service tills (am I the only one who hates them?). We sought calm in Truro Cathedral – the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was a wet day and disabled access is temporary through the West Door – a...

Saturday 10 May 2014. We are on our second Sabbatical jaunt. Having spent a night in Sheffield we went to Bolsover Castle and then on to Southwell, and had a lovely wander round the Minster. Southwell Minster – website – The Cathedral and Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a very special place. I did a placement here in 1992, while at Lincoln Theological College, with the Reverend John Wardle, who was Vicar Choral at the time. We got on extremely well, I loved being part of the Cathedral, was allowed to precent for the first time (“Well...