Latest Blog Posts
Posted 1 day 23 hours ago
A rather ordinary-looking privet bush which grows at the chapel was briefly remarkable the other week. Its plain white flowers, which would not normally attract attention, were alive with bees and butterflies. Whatever they lack to our eye they compensate in nectar if the flying insect community is anything to go by.
Posted 1 day 23 hours ago
Perhaps it was the grey skies and the autumnal detritus from the trees which were littering the lawns. Or was it the grim shutters over the windows and the peeling paint? Or the rather functional seventies or eighties architecture? The church building just did not match the incongruous name: Fountain of Hope Church.
Posted 3 days 23 hours ago
I called at the Louwman Museum in South Holland last week. It was not cheap at 20 Euros, and I had only an hour or so to spare, but I am pleased that I went. The rather stylish building houses hundreds of vintage and unusual cars; its strapline is ‘Fine Art on Wheels’. I was keen to see its Rolls Royce Silver Ghost which was officially designated the 1913 Best Car in the World, below:
Posted 4 days 23 hours ago
The ‘new’ church of Holy Trinity, Barnoldswick, was consecrated in 1960 by Dr Donald Coggan, Bishop of Bradford, and future Archbishop of Canterbury. It had previously enjoyed a tower, but was replaced on account of structural problems, getting instead a small but distinctive copper spire.
Sunday Worship 10.45am & 6.00pm