Being quite close to France, Canterbury is full of daytripping school groups, but even so it's worth a visit. I was tempted by the charity shops but went in to only one, the one nearest the train station, and was rewarded for abstemiousness [though the abstaining came afterwards] by a nice book published in 1939 called "
In a Word" - etymologies nicely written, with illustrations by
James Thurber -
More about the book another time.
Canterbury itself - old buildings -
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| Old above, contemporary at ground level |
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"...a very old house bulging out over the road ... leaning forward, trying to see who was
passing on the narrow pavement below..." - Charles Dickens, 1849 |
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| a quiet back street |
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| historic carving |
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| angels on the gatehous of the cathedral |
In Lilford gallery, a show of prints by David Hockney, work by various artists including a
radiometer chandelier by
Luke Jerram and an "object" cast in resin by
Kirsten Baskett, a recent graduate from Camberwell -
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| photons make the flags go round |
In the delightful library/museum, aka
The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, panels of 17th-century stained glass, even the tiniest scraps carefully patched together (click on image to enlarge) -
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| A Sheep - by Thomas Sidney Cooper |
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| insect collecting case - doesn't the lid look like a musical score? |
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| teddy bears spring to life, hitting each other with sticks |
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| stuffed birds (part of my ongoing collection of photos) |
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| this duckling, now stuffed, has four legs |
On the way home, gathering source material for the latest irresistible idea for the "dislocation" challenge quilt -
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