Cultural Journey through England

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Monday, 24 September 2012 - Explored Cambridge on a clear day, admired the Pitt Building and Cambridge University Press, wandered through Peterhouse College courtyard with its flowers, viewed ornate roofs and weather vanes, photographed Emmanuel United Reformed Church tower, toured Pembroke College and King's College including its cathedral-like chapel, saw the Senate House and St Mary's Church with centuries of history, walked Trinity College grounds with statues and ivy-covered buildings, visited St John's College Chapel and Bridge of Sighs over the Cam, and finished the day at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford before driving to South Lodge in West Sussex.

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Walking to breakfast the sky was clear - no rain today.

The flag of the Cambridge Press flies over the Pitt Building which is their conference building downtown. The press itself is in a modern building.
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Flowers in the courtyard of Peterhouse College.
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The roofs are so ornate. Here a weather vane and chimney.
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The tower of the Emmanuel United Reformed Church without the clouds.
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Portico into a college yard at Pimbroke College.
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Pimbroke College yard
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King's College in the morning as we walked back from breakfast.
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King's College Chapel is more like a cathedral.
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Next to King's College is the Senate Building. The Senate House of the University of Cambridge is now used for degree ceremonies. At the end of the academic year, class-lists for most degrees are posted up on the outer wall of the building. The building is from 1722-1730.
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St Mary's church dominates the space near the market and across from King's College. The physical foundations originate from around 1010 and a church of one kind or another has occupied this site since then - well before the colleges.

During its rich history the church has been burned to the ground (1291), rebuilt (1351), expanded (1475-1519), and a tower raised (1690).
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Trinity College was founded by Henry VIII in 1546, combining Michaelhouse and King's Hall. Michaelhouse had existed since 1324; King's Hall had been established by Edward II in 1317 and refounded by Edward III in 1337. Trinity's flag, flown on special occasions, has as its design the royal standard of Edward III.

Beautiful work - stone and statues all over.
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Trinity College Master's house covered in ivy.
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The Chapel of St John's College is entered by the northwest corner of First Court, and was constructed between 1866-1869 in order to replace the smaller, medieval chapel which dated back to the 13th-century.

The tower is 50 meters high, and is the tallest structure in Cambridge (followed by the Cambridge University Library and King's College Chapel).
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Inside St John's College Chapel.
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Detail of the St John's College Chapel sculpture.
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St John's College tower. The College was founded on the site of the 13th century Hospital of St John. The college received its charter on April 9, 1511.

This is the inner gate towers between the second and third court.
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Bridge of Sighs over the Cam connecting the St John's College campus across the river. You can see the punts on the river heading under the bridge.

The bridge connecting Third Court to New Court, originally known as New Bridge, is now commonly known as the Bridge of Sighs. It was described by the visiting Queen Victoria as "so pretty and picturesque". It is a single-span bridge of stone with highly decorative Neo-Gothic covered foot walk over with terraced openings.
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Old bridge near the Bridge of Sighs
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Ivy on a tower of the New Court (1831) at St John's College - the ivy is so pretty from the Cam and is all over the building.
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Ivy surrounds a window of the New Court.
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From the courtyard of the New Court of St John's College looking out to the open country behind Trinity College.
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As we left Cambridge one more picture of the building statues at Trinity College.
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From Cambridge we drove to Duxford to the Imperial War Museum. The airfield for the museum was originally operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the First World War. During the Second World War Duxford played a prominent role during the Battle of Britain and was later used by United States Army Air Forces fighter units in support of the daylight bombing of Germany. Now it is home of a huge collection of airplanes - civilian and military.

Here is one of the bombers on the tarmac - the Memphis Belle.
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The museum is huge - I mean really big. Virginia Ann was a trooper and walked the grounds with me - the Infantry museum was the furthest from the entrance.

This is a huge hangar filled with US military warplanes.


From here a long drive to South Lodge in West Sussex.
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