Lincoln’s Inn Fields, near to Sir John Soane’s Museum, is the largest public square in London. I had a brief walk through here – and stopped off at the cafe for a quick drink after visiting the museum. It was created in the 1630s and as you can see is a very popular spot for dog walking.
St. Chad’s certainly dominates the skyline of Shrewsbury particularly from the Quarry area. It was completely empty when I wandered through and so I didn’t spend much time there just admired the interior then left with a detour through the churchyard next door.
Bush House is a Grade II listed building that stands very imposingly at the end of Kingsway Road between Aldwych and the Strand. It was the headquarters of the BBC World Service for over 70 years. King’s College London has now leased the building.
A few weeks ago I went along to the University of Nottingham Museum to visit an exhibition on the discoveries made in the 1960s at what turned out to be an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Broughton Lodge in Willoughby-on-the Wolds, a small village in Nottinghamshire. The site was excavated between 1948 and 1968 and contained about 120 graves, including evidence of horses being buried alongside people. The items from the dig were held jointly by Nottingham City Museums and the University of Nottingham Museum and had never been seen all together until this exhibition.
St Mary’s proved to be the most welcoming of the churches I visited in Shrewsbury, kept open daily by volunteers. I was greeted as I entered by a very enthusiastic volunteer, whose name I never got, who offered to give me a brief rundown of the church which I really enjoyed and told me which parts of the church to take a closer look at. The church is pretty popular because the day before while dining out at a restaurant I got chatting to a couple at the next table and they also told me what to look out for at St Mary’s.
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