Scenes from the English 'MIDLANDS'

A few snippets of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire so far.

1. Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire

2. Monsal Dale, Derbyshire, the Barrel Pub and the Mompesson Well

3. Eyam, Derbyshire (1) Village houses and their sad plague tales

4. Eyam (2) The Parish Church of St Lawrence with its Saxon Cross

5. Eyam (3) Other buildings in the main street of the village

6. Four Village Churches in rural Leicestershire - Tugby, Illston-on-the-Hill, Gaulby, Kings Norton

7. Leicester (1) Around Victoria Park, War Memorial and Opal court

8. Leicester (2) Castle House and St Mary de Castro Church

9. Leicester (3) The Newarke Houses Museum and the Turret Gateway

10. Leicester (4) A miscellany of locations and buildings - Jain Centre, Magazine Gatehouse, Castle Park-Gardens, Grand Union Canal Bridge

11. Leicester (5) St Martin's Cathedral Church and Medieval Guildhall

12. Leicester (6) The medieval Wygston's House and St Margaret's Church and two Victorian Gothic Churches

13. Leicester (7) The Jewry Wall, Roman Baths, Museum & St Nicholas Church

14. Leicester (8) All Saints Church and the Great Central Railway Station

15. Leicester (9) The New Walk and Leicester Museum

16. Leicester (10) A sporting sculpture and Leicester Market

17. Leicester (11) East St Martins and The Free Grammar School

Above left: The magnificent pyramidal lead west towers Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire; Above right: The 8th-9th century Saxon Cross in the 'plague' village of Eyam's St Lawrence Church graveyard, Derbyshire; Below: The beautifully carved stonework of the north wall of the medieval church of St Mary de Castro and adjoining timbered gatehouse of 1445 in the City of Leicester.

*  Midlands pages updated April 22nd 2008  *   EMAIL Phil Brown  *  digital images-photographs-pictures-photos-webshots-views-snaps-snaphots-scenes-pics-blogs © Dr W P Brown 2007 * If you are interested in using any of the photographs email me, but any image used must involve permission and acknowledgement   *

* Phil & Molly's 'Docs Pics' Index of all the holiday-walking-touring holidays in England, Ireland and Scotland  *   Yorkshire Dales-East Cumbria-North Pennines walking landscape scenes and notes  *  Whitby and surrounding area scenes and notes  *  York - scenes around the City  *  The River Esk Valley and North York Moors walking Landscapes  *  Fragments of Archaeology and History on the North Yorks Moors  *  Helmsley, Coxwold, Kirkbymoorside & Rievaulx Abbey Scenes  *  Pickering in Ryedale, North Yorkshire Scenes and notes  *  Lastingham, Hutton-le-Hole,Appleton-le-Moors Scenes  *  Malton in Ryedale & Howardian Hills Scenes in North Yorkshire  *  Sutton Bank National Park Centre (walks on North Yorks Moors)  * North East England - Newcastle upon Tyne City, County Durham, Northumbria Scenes  *  Cleveland (NE England) Scenes  *  Northern England-selected views  *  Ireland - Dublin - scenes & notes on our 'tourism'  *  Ireland - Dublin - selected Irish 'tourist' holiday views  *  Ireland - selected Irish views from walking-touring holidays  *  Ireland - Irish Landscape holiday Scenes and Notes  *  Midlands Scenes of England  *  Archaeology sites from miscellaneous walking holidays  *  Paris Scenes and Notes  *  South West of England Scenes  *  A Scotland-rail trip  *  Cameos of London Town - Snapshots of the City of London  *  Can you identify?  *  Tea Rooms, Cafes, Pubs and B&B's, Hostels etc.  *  Domestic and rural animal Scenes  *  Nature scenes  *  Geological-Rock Scenes  *  The excellent Esk Valley Lealholm Hall holiday cottage near Whitby  *  Peter M. Hicks - Northern landscape artist-painter  *  Peter Rushforth, The sadly missed novelist ("Pinkerton's Sister")  *  Music  *  See also www.lealholmhall.co.uk/ and www.petermhicks.co.uk/

Recommended books

Colin Ellis "History in Leicester"

* PLEASE get further publishing details from the internet. *

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