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Posted 21 hours 42 min 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 1 day 21 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.
Posted 2 days 21 hours ago
Oude Kerk at Scheveningen, translated Old Church, is a well-appointed, fifteenth-century construction in one of The Hague’s northern districts close to the sea. Its belltower gives the pleasantly light, melodic ring for which the Low Countries’ churches are famous. At the year’s start, a new bell was hung in the tower by the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry. Upon it is written, in Dutch:
Posted 3 days 13 hours ago
It’s a sunny summer’s day, with a warm wind sending fleecy clouds across the blue sky above us, reminding me that we haven’t had as many wet afternoons as usual this year. That’s good! My small OA bible hasn’t had to be dried out on the radiator as often, which means it’s lasting longer than previous ones.
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