More Pictures from my Perambles

Some flowers abloom in a garden at Christ Church on a nice summer day.



Looking across Christ Church meadow towards spires of Magdalen College.



One of the Tudor residence houses at Christ Church College.



This little narrow lane now contains a 17th century hotel (rooms are on both sides of the street) but it was originally an area where Flemish weavers set up shop just outside the city walls. Through the back alleys is the Turf Tavern, set in the area where the medieval privies at the base of the city wall used to be. It's been voted the best pub in Britain, but its more famous as the place where Bill Clinton "didn't inhale."



The inside and main floor display area of the Pitt Rivers Museum.



A series of different animal skeletons on parade in the Natural History Museum. They include and African and Asian elephant in the rear and a giraffe.



A display on the real life animals connected to the Alice and Wonderland stories.




The outside of the Natural History Museum and also the entrance to the Pitts River Museum which is at the rear.



A little "hobbit sized" door and residence at Wadham College. People actually live here and just after I took the picture, the postman arrived to slip letters through the door. Yes he had to bend down to do so.



Looking down Turl Street towards the High. Jesus College is behind me. The steeple belongs to a church that is now part of Lincoln College and used as their library.



Part of the medieval wall that remains in Oxford. I believe those are the buildings of Pembroke College just beyond the tops of the wall.



This is Brewer Street and to the left is the medieval wall, one of the easiest sections to see that is not within one of the colleges. Where I am standing taking the picture is the site of the Littlegate, one of the medieval entrances into the walled city from the south.