Roger Bennion's photos

Happy Fence Friday, All A very small part of the very large Keble College in Oxford :-)

Was thinking about how sad it was that Brian Wilson passed away recently. Thankfully, can still listen to all the brilliant Beach Boys music :-) Maybe one of the not-so-well-known albums was "Surfs Up", their 17th studio album from 1971. It is one of my fave Beach Boys albums and the title track is also one of my faves :-) I figured my Milford-on-Sea photo would be a pretty reasonable 'Sight & Sound' match :-)) Also added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here - Surfs Up by The Beach Boys

Happy Fence Friday, All Life & Mind Building, Oxford From this angle the building looks fairly complete but building work is still continuing. It is expected that the building will be fully open by the end of this year (2025). The building will be fondly referred to as the LaMB. It will accomodate Oxford's Biology and Experimental Psychology departments and will accommodate almost 1,200 academic, support and research staff plus graduate students. It will be the main teaching location for around 1,000 undergraduates making it Oxford University's largest teaching and research facility. Funding and delivery of the LaMB has been undertaken in partnership with Legal & General. Construction began in November 2021 following demolition of the Tinbergen building, which had been the primary location for the departments of Experimental Psychology and Zoology for almost 50 years. And, a pretty obscure link for 'Sight & Sound - Also added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here - Beautiful Life by Ace of Base

Happy Fence Friday, All West Wycombe Park (National Trust)

Happy Fence Friday, All The Isis (River Thames) Oxford From Wikipedia - " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isis " "The Isis" is an alternative name for the River Thames, used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the River Thame at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. Notably, the Isis flows through Oxford and has given its name to several institutions and products of the city. The modern form of the name, first recorded c.1540 relates to the Egyptian goddess Isis. The deity was venerated throughout the Roman Empire and was worshipped at the Temple of Isis near the Thames in Londinium during the Roman occupation."

Happy Fence Friday, All Croome Estate, Worcestershire (National Trust) Was struggling to find an HFF shot for this week and wasn't sure if there was fence in this older photo. But, upon closer inspection, there is :-)))

Happy Fence Friday, All Victorian Manor, Chenies Manor

Happy Fence Friday, All Another, very, very, very old Guernsey photo :-)

A very, very, very, very old photo of the Bathing Pools in Guernsey :-)) Happy Fence Friday, All

Happy Fence Friday, All This is Merton College, Oxford. I also wanted to add this to 'Sight and Sound'. Merton College has a choir and I wanted a fairly 'sunny' song :-) But, when I searched YouTube a wintery song popped up :-)) Also added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here - In the Bleak Midwinter by the Merton College Choir, Oxford

Happy Fence Friday, All From Wikipedia - "Chenies Manor House in the parish of Chenies in Buckinghamshire, England, is a Tudor Grade I listed building once known as Chenies Palace, although it was never a royal seat or the seat of a bishop. It was held by the Cheney family from 1180 and passed by marriage successively to the Semark and Sapcote families and then, in 1526, to the Russell family, Earls of Bedford, later Dukes of Bedford, by whom it was held for several centuries. Although the Russell family soon abandoned Chenies as its main seat in favour of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, Chenies parish church remains the site of the private "Bedford Chapel", the mausoleum still in use by that family." And also, here comes one of my most obscure links for Sight & Sound :-) Chenies Manor overlooks the Chess Valley. Bo Diddley recorded "Who Do You Love" on Chess Records :-))) Also added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here - Who Do You Love by Bo Diddley

Happy Fence Friday, All Grand Union Canal, Bulbourne From Wikipedia - "The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system. It is the principal navigable waterway between London and the Midlands. Starting in London, one arm runs to Leicester and another ends in Birmingham, with the latter stretching for 137 miles (220 km) with 166 locks from London. The Birmingham line has a number of short branches to places including Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover, and Northampton."

Pretty obscure music link here but there is a violin in my photo. Alison Krauss plays violin/fiddle so I have chosen one of Alison’s performances. Also added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here - Lucky One by Alison Krauss & Union Station

Happy Fence Friday, All West Wycombe Park (National Trust) Also added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ Shadows - Gordon Lightfoot

Happy Fence Friday, All Croome Estate, Worcestershire (National Trust)

Happy Fence Friday, All Merton College, Oxford Also added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ Shadows & Light - Joni Mitchell

Happy Fence Friday, All Merton College, Oxford

Happy Fence Friday, All Another Oxford photo.....now there's a surprise :-))) This time it is the Oxford Canal :-) I should really know which lock this is :-) After some investigation and realising it is Bridge No. 243 in the background I feel 99.9% certain that this is Isis Lock :-) Not this part of the canal, but I am pretty familiar with the bottom of the Oxford Canal quite bit further North !!! :-)) We had many narrowboat holidays with quite a few on the Oxford Canal. On one occasion, we ran aground. I thought I could free us by using the pole you get with the boat to push us back to the middle of the canal !! Well, the pole went one way, and I went the other straight into the canal between the boat and the bank !!! :-))) Helen panicked, thought I was going to drown, and disappeared into the inside of the boat :-) Fortunately, I was pretty much able to sit up in the water with my head above the surface :-)) I was very wet and smelly :-))) And, I am still here to tell the story :-))) From Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Canal "The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile (126 km) narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury (just north of Coventry and south of Bedworth) via Banbury and Rugby. Completed in 1790, it connects to the River Thames at Oxford, and links with the Grand Union Canal, which it is combined with for 5 miles (8 km) between to the villages of Braunston and Napton-on-the-Hill.The canal is usually divided into the North Oxford Canal (north of Napton, via Rugby to Hawkesbury Junction near Coventry) and the South Oxford Canal, south of Napton to Banbury and Oxford. The canal was for about 15 years the main canal artery of trade between the Midlands and London, via its connection to the Thames, until the Grand Union Canal (then called the Grand Junction Canal) took most of the London-bound traffic following its opening in 1805. The North Oxford Canal (which had been straightened in the 1830s) remained an important artery of trade carrying coal and other commodities until the 1960s; the more rural South Oxford Canal however became something of a backwater, especially following the opening of the Grand Junction Canal, and it faced closure proposals in the 1950s. Since the end of regular commercial goods carriage on the canal in the 1960s, it has gained a new use as a leisure resource, and become used primarily for narrowboat pleasure boating.The Oxford Canal traverses Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and east Warwickshire through broad, shallow valleys and lightly rolling hills; the canal's route northeast and then northwest forms part of the Warwickshire ring."