Last Saturday a friend and I went to an Open Day at Christ Church College. Very enjoyable. There were lectures, a tour, lunch, and later tea in the gardens and croquet.
Oxford at its best!
Sadly the same can't be said for my photos, but oh well ...
Inside the college, between two quads
Unusual fountain, moss-covered, in the secret garden
Croquet
Secret door used by Queen Elizabeth I when she lived in Christ Church - built so she could come unobserved into the Hall, bricked up after she had left, as no longer needed. That's what the Guide said, anyway.
Dining Hall - lots of portraits of famous people, including the founders of Pennsylvania and Methodism
I wish I had a fish eye lens ....
The library
Peckwater quad - off limits to all but public school boys before the 1960s, apparently. We had an old member on the tour, who was a grammar school boy and not allowed to stay here. He got exiled to some place near the train station instead. Things have changed since then!
