Lionel Callow Photography

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Finchcocks

I visited Finchcocks Musical Museum in August 2015 and I have just heard that the museum has closed down early this year (2016). I was kindly given permission to take my tripod in and take photos of their collection, unfortunately I was not happy with the results so I did not post any photos of this visit. I had intended to pay another visit this year and do a better job. In view of the fact that the collection has been sold and therefore I guess it is unlikely to be seen as a collection again so I am putting up my images in this post, warts and all. I am sorry but I have not collected the names of each instrument.

When I visited there was a recital in progress so I had to be very quiet and as this is a very old building with a very large collection I found this very difficult to do.

A Google search for “ Finchcocks” will give you the full story.

Monday, 8 August 2016

Steeple Morden

My last post for the day is Steeple Morden’s church, St Peter & St Paul (Nr. Royston Cambridgeshire). This was my last village of the day. My wanderings around the villages near to my home that I have never visited before has been most enjoyable and I intend to repeat this kind of day out again in the future. Better still having done the recce of these different places next time I will take a packed lunch and visit the best of them on foot.

Finally we were about to have our food and outside the pub was the steam roller just setting off down the road so I rushed outside and grabbed these two shots.

Ardeley

This is my second post from my wanderings around the English villages within an hour or so of my home.

Ardeley is a small East Hertfordshire village. It has a beautiful village green surrounded with a number of traditional thatched houses. Opposite is the church of St. Lawrence’s it has a small pond just outside the church yard, unfortunately the strong shadows today stopped me from taking any shots of it. Ardeley is the quintessential English village.

Bringing in the harvest

Sunday was such a beautiful day Carol and I decided to take a drive out into the East Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire countryside. The idea was to visit places well off the beaten track, villages we had never visited before even though they are less than an hour from where we live. I think that most of us just stick to the main roads to get to our destination as quickly as we can. So the day was spent taking any small road that would take us as far away from the main roads as possible.

This first post concentrates on bringing in the harvest, the subsequent posts look at some of the interesting buildings we found.