My Trip to England was a Smashing Success! Here are some of the highlights!
This is from York, part of some Roman buildings still around! I think this was a gate house.
The BIG church in York. Very old, can't remember the date though.
Couldn't resist taking this photo, typical English Pub, it is called
The Three Legged Mare!
The Three Legged Mare!
This is part of the wall that goes around the city of York, very narrow and very cool.
The slits where they would shoot arrow out of to defend the city in the old days!
Quite the doorway, you should see the stair going up in this too, tiny, narrow and VERY old!
The Shambles, is a street in York where there is almost no room to walk down. All the buildings are very old and VERY crooked and extremely charming! Great little shops all up and down the street.
Betty's is a famous Tea Shop in York, the line was long in and outside the shop!
Took this for Mom it is in York!
Preston Temple, so beautiful!
I think this is the church in Wigan, where some of my ancestors would have gone to church before moving over the ocean.
Across from on of the old churches we visited, I think the sign above the door says 1560, yeah, that's old!
I think it was at this Church in Tyldesley where I found some family names on some old graves!
The view of Lincoln from the church (LDS) parking lot.
Such a cute little Laura Ashley store, I just had to take the picture for my mom to see how they are in England! Not in a mall that is for sure!
Belton House, where they filmed Rosings in the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. The cost to get in was quite steep so we snagged a few photos from the outside!
Stamford was the coolest little market town EVER. So wished we could have spend more time and hadn't been interrupted by the Queen on her jubilee tour!! She drove through the town so we missed her by minutes and couldn't find a place to park for a while!
The do a lot of filming in Stamford for movies and mini-series as it hasn't changed in a VERY LONG time!
This is called the London End, which would have been an inn where people would stop and rest on the journey's to and from London. Very old and very charming!
Burghley House, where they filmed Rosings in the Keira Knightley verison of Pride & Prejudice. The Queen had a garden party that day so it was crazy trying to get out there. We missed getting into the house by about 10 mins, but it is still amazing from the outside!
This house was built by one of Elizabeth I most trusted advisers (I can't remember the name of the guy). I know she wanted the house for her self as it was much more grand than her own house. It is one of the best Elizabethan Homes in England! One day we will return and GO IN!
