Wood Norton Hall, a Victorian stately. Themlast home of Pronce Phillipe, Duc d'Orleans. During WWII it became a BBC radio monitoring station and emergency broadcasting centre. In response to the cold was the BBC added a deep nuclear bunker.
It was here I saw a kingfisher, very exciting.
A glorious day
For Betty and Geoff, thank god they're not in the water yet!
An 'in' joke. Last year we did our best to wipe out a whole squad of budding little future kayak champions.
Fladbury Lock
Filling Fladbury Lock
The two former mills at Fladbury
The lock house and mill - what is the tree on the left?
Two boats, breasted up, waiting to go into the lock we have just vacated.
Another glorious view
A swan stretching her wings. It was that sort of day, everything was happy.
Another view
Aqua Life is feeling slightly out of place here.
A dredger at work
We reached our objective of Pershore, moored up and left the motor running while I used the vacuum cleaner -again. Then it was off to explore Pershore, but lunch came first
The Abbey Church of Pershore. The town could only raise enough money to keep a third or less of the original Abbey. The rest Thomas Cromwell on behalf of the Crown had knocked down.
The side in the sun
The buttresses were added in 1903 to keep the building upright.
Looking up to the bell platform
The ceiling, amazing
The ceiling over the centre part of the building
Wow,,where did the monks get the money to build this?
11 miles, 3 locks, 3.5 hours
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