Walking to Church

 These are the things I noticed on my walk to church today.

This is a Victorian gaslight near the museum.  It has been restored beautifully.  I wondered if the pole was modeled on a narwhale tusk.

On New Walk. this old tree looks like it is a survivor.  It has large hanging tumours on its branches.

It is the first day that Leicester Cathedral has opened its doors in about a year.  It still looks like it's a building site on the outside.  

My inspection of the new 'Visitors Centre cum Chapterhouse' being constructed.  The jury is still out. 

These bells have been pretty silent for about a year.

The architects picture from the leicester Mercury

Here is an ancient church.  Constructed on the site of a probable pagan shrine.  Anglo Saxon in origin with lots of roman bricks stolen from the Jewry wall and bath house next door.  It is however one of the reasons that the Roman Wall survives to this day, so it has a symbiotic relationship with the past.  Two Roman columns can be seen at the fore of this picture.

Round the back you can see the section of Roman wall (the Jewry Wall).  

Here is the Guru Nanak Gurdwara across the wonderfully named road called "Holy Bones" from St Nicholas

Friars wharf- down by the River Soar

New development of flats

Interesting new houses. 
Very little garden but great riverside views

Looking back on an urban cityscape.

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