DSC09819.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral nave looking back to the main entrance.
DSC09749.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The main street Abbey House (c1750).
DSC09842a.jpg=Basingstoke, England - town centre. On the right is the building's ornate front entry.
DSC09751.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Our pub lunch at one of possibly 100's of Crown and Anchor pubs in the UK.
Wchtr16.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; some of many Winchester Cathedral monuments on the outer walls.
Wchtr08.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral quire. (panorama)
Wchtr01.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The main street Guild Hall (panorama).
DSC09850.JPG=Basingstoke, England - 1960's kitchen and living room in the Willis Museum.
DSC09875.JPG=Basingstoke, England - items in the Willis Museum. A superb early Moto-Reve (London) motorcycle.
DSC09754.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The Guild Hall foundation stone - 1871.
Wchtr03.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The Guild Hall Bapsy Room.
DSC09841.JPG=Basingstoke, England - town centre.
Home02.JPG=A hazy afternoon in Hong Kong on our way home. (panorama)
DSC09874.JPG=Basingstoke, England - items in the Willis Museum. A superb early Moto-Reve (London) motorcycle. Engine drives via a rubber belt (far side) and assisted by conventional pedals and chain (near side)
DSC09808.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Medieval 13th century floor tiling in Winchester Cathedral nave.
DSC09836.JPG=Basingstoke, England - town centre.
DSC09877.JPG=Basingstoke, England - top floor of the Willis Museum. Moto-Reve (London) motorcycle on the right.
Wchtr18.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral has many "Chantries". A Chantry is a small building inside the Cathedral and is a place to say praise for a person of good deeds (in these cases, Bishops) - usually funded and built by the person before his demise.
DSC09796.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral nave.
DSC09837.JPG=Basingstoke, England - town centre.
DSC09756a.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Guild Hall portraits; the 5th Marquess of Winchester (painted c1670) and "Bapsy" the Marchioness of Winchester (c1958).
DSC09775.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral grounds decorated for the 2012 London Olympics.
DSC09840.JPG=Basingstoke, England - town centre.
DSC09849.JPG=Basingstoke, England - old Knife Sharpener's cart in the Willis Museum.
DSC09844.JPG=Basingstoke, England - a street market in the town centre. I was keen to buy one of these dresses for Joy but she couldn't decide whether she preferred the red or black number.
DSC09884a.jpg=Our final night and dinner with Richard and Carol at a Kingston restaurant on the Thames.
DSC09865.JPG=Basingstoke, England - room of the Victorian era in the Willis Museum.
DSC09845.JPG=Basingstoke, England - town centre. The small, but excellent "Willis Museum of Basingstoke Town and Country Life".
DSC09881.JPG=Lovely sunset on our final night at Kingston restaurant on the Thames.
Wchtr17.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral quire.
DSC09862a.jpg=Basingstoke, England - telephones in the Willis Museum. Candlestick phone is partly obscured. (c1925).
HOEGH_TROOPER.jpg=She is actually travelling on this less spectacular vessel - the H�egh Trooper (Internet picture)
Sthtn01.JPG=Southampton harbour. (panorama)
DSC09772.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Town centre.
DSC09854.JPG=Basingstoke, England - Bakelite items in the Willis Museum. A very nice Bakelite "232" including the bellset (c1935).
DSC09893.JPG=The park manager's residence in Kingston Park, London before we made our way to Heathrow.
Wchtr19.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral has many "Chantries".
DSC09887.JPG=A patriotic Aussie narrow boat celebrating the 2012 Olympics on the Thames.
DSC09740.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The main street Guild Hall (Council building).
Bstke01.JPG=Basingstoke, England - Wall story of the plight of the farmer and workers that led to civil unrest and rioting in late 1700's.
DSC09852.JPG=Basingstoke, England - Post WWII Bakelite items in the Willis Museum.
DSC09871a.jpg=Basingstoke, England - items in the Willis Museum. An early manual washing machine and (c1813) clock motor installed in the stables at Hackwood Park.
LHR01.JPG=Sunset at Kingston on the Thames. (panorama)
Wchtr11.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral (panorama).
DSC09773.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral with giant screens set up and showing Olympic events.
DSC09838.JPG=Basingstoke, England - town centre.
Wchtr15.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; some of many Winchester Cathedral monuments on the outer walls.
Wchtr14.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral main entrance and Jane Austin's gravestone.
Wchtr21.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral  stained glass.
DSC09790.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; 12th century Tournai marble font deicts scenes from the life of St Nicholas.
DSC09734.JPG=A misty morning ready to take our M/H to Southampton Docks.
Wchtr13.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Guild Hall and Greenwich time - early buildings in modern use.
DSC09859.JPG=Basingstoke, England - Bakelite items in the Willis Museum. (c1935).
DSC09753.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The Guild Hall main entrance.
DSC09846.JPG=Basingstoke, England - this magnificent ceramic pub sign in the Willis Museum was saved from the front of the Grapes Hotel. It dates from 1890.
DSC09848a.jpg=Basingstoke, England - in the Willis Museum.
DSC09803.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; superb marble and bronze sarcophagus of General Sir Henry Redvers Buller VC (1839-1908), Colonel Commandant of the King's Royal Rifles Corps.\
					
Wchtr12.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; monuments to Alfred, King of the Saxons (871 -899) and William Walker, the diver who saved the Cathedral by underpinning.
DSC09801.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral crypt containing Gormley's sculpture "Sound II".
Wchtr24.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral panorama viewsfrom the Treasury mezzanine. The West window was destroyed by Parliamentary troops during the Civil War and rebuilt in 1660 using shattered glass.
DSC09771.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Town centre.
DSC09851.JPG=Basingstoke, England - 1960's kitchen and living room in the Willis Museum.
DSC09787.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Jane Austin's memorial.
DSC09890.JPG=At Kingston on the Thames; the Clattern Bridge, one of the oldest in Surrey (c 1300).\
					
DSC09820.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; one of many Winchester Cathedral bishop's monuments.
Bstke02.JPG=Basingstoke, England - Bakelite items in the Willis Museum. Including, hair dryers, records, magnifying glass, shave, pipe holder, clock, string holder (c1930).
Wchtr22.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral  stained glass. On the left is the Jane Austin window, created in 1900 from public subscriptions.
DSC09736.JPG=Southampton Docks and harbour.
DSC09839.JPG=Basingstoke, England - town centre.
LHR02.JPG=At Kingston on the Thames; beside the Clattern Bridge. (panorama)
DSC09770.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Town centre.
DSC09792.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral nave.
DSC09752.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The main street Guild Hall (Council building).
DSC09785.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Inside the Winchester Cathedral treasury.
Wchtr20.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral  stained glass.
DSC09735.JPG=At Southampton Docks, the QMII was berthed beside our drop off point for the M/H - but no such luxury ride for her.
DSC09766.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. The Welcome Gospel Hall. Like many of the buildings they were built using split flint stones about cricket ball size.
DSC09767.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Town centre with more of the split stones used in the building to the right.
Wchtr23.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral naves. (panorama)
DSC09768.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire, on our way to London. Town centre mall decorated for the 2012 London Olympics.
Wchtr25.jpg=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral High Altar and South Transept. (panoramas)
DSC09813.JPG=Winchester, Hampshire; Winchester Cathedral holy icons behind the high altar.
