Zara Handley
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Language tutor, project coordinator, with a life long love for classic English literature, history, art and antiques!
England, South Lincolnshire
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Felt like someone was watching me when I walked around the church yard, then I saw this beautiful statue, keeping an eye on everyone passing by.
Upper Slaughters, Cotswolds
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Gorgeous winter picture from Conwy, Wales, taken by Christine Slinger, December last year 😍
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What is going on here? It seems architecture of few different centuries have combined to make this wall. Haven’t made a research yet but will try later to see if I can find out anything 🤔
Wirksworth, Peak District
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Had a chance to take some interior photos of this magnificent apothecary shop in Haworth. Interior is still has the Victorian glory with antiques and shop fittings.
📷The Cabinet of Curiosities, Haworth
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Mont Saint-Michel, France! Magnificent, gothic mysterious and full of secrets!
(Not my photo)
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So beautiful, almost doesn’t look real but it is! Cambridgeshire 😍
📷credit J. Cole
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One of the most beautiful libraries I have ever seen!
Chatsworth House 📚📚📚
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“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale”
H.C.Andersen
📷one of the beautiful corners of Hever Castle
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One of the most beautiful medieval houses in the UK! Origins dates as back as 11th century!
📷credit- Haddon Hall Tudor Manor
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It was really an exciting opportunity to see this stunning portrait of Elizabeth I from so close as it has always been on far end wall of Long Gallery in Hardwick Hall. Painted in 1598-9 when queen was in her 60s, commissioned by Bess of Hardwick, showing their close relationship
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I love all medieval doors, and this one definitely stole my heart! 12c ancient door is one of the greatest witnesses of our history!
Little door inside called Wicket designed for guard to control access better. Anyone with wrong intention, won’t cross it!
📷Haddon Hall😍
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Saying goodnight to you all with this beautiful photo of medieval Mermaid Inn in Burford, Cotswolds. I have been in this pub few times day time, but this is the gorgeous evening photo of it! 🍷 🍺
📷credit B. Radlinski
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The most beautiful and historic bus stop I have ever seen! Every building tells a story here😍
Lacock, Cotswolds🚌
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You don’t see that very often, no traditional wooden fence or dry stone wall around the cottage but slate fence instead.
Kingham village, Cotswolds
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Dining room where Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey were written. Brontë sisters spent a lot of time here to discuss their writings, happiness & worries. If you can have the room just for yourself for some minutes like I had today, you can still feel their presence 📚✍️❤️
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Year or two, it may reach to the chimneys, who knows🤷♀️
Anglesey Abbey, pear tree 🍐
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Stunning photo of Highclere Castle posted this morning by castle’s chauffeur P. Mc. Taggart. 👍
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One of the interior doors in Oakwell Hall, Yorkshire, Elizabethan Manor built in 1583.
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Beautiful gothic style stone stair case leading to the library door, built in1480.
📷Rouen Cathedral
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Called “Tiddy House”, built in 1578, located in Exeter, it is a private home. Would love to see it.
📷credit to C. Brewchorne
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Good morning! 😊
📷Hook Norton village, Oxfordshire, credit AJ photography
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I took this photos this day, 2018 in Lincoln!
It’s beauty, history, architecture is always breathtaking, no matter how many times we can visit!
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What a stunning photography here by Jan Sedlacek, Digitlight photography
Great Malvern Priory, Worcestershire in snow.❄️❄️❄️
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Perhaps the thickest recipe book I have ever seen. It was on its way to the skip if I didn’t take it.
1906 editing with full of beautiful colourful photos.
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The Ethelbert Gate leading to Norwich Cathedral, dates back to 1316. Built to replace the earlier gate which was burnt down during the riots in 1272.
Beautiful work of architecture!
📷Norwich, today
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Old Blacksmith’s forge door. Currently occupied by Tissington candle makers.
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“I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.”
C. Dickens, Christmas Carol
📷Belton House
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“Golden lie the meadows; golden run the streams…the sun is coming down to earth and walks the field and waters.”
George Meredith
📷not mine from Peak District😍
Good morning to you all🙏
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Anna Hathaway’s cottage, Stratford upon Avon! As beautiful as it looks in this photo, even more! Delightful place to wonder inside and outside😍
📷not mine
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“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”
Isaac Newton
📷credit Tony
Stanton, Gloucestershire
Good morning everyone
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Not my photo, but can’t resist to post for the love of all robins😊
📷B. Atherton from Lake District
Good morning everyone 🎄❄️
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Merry Christmas to all my friends and followers us here. So grateful for your lovely comments, chats, and just being there. 🙏
My book Christmas tree 2023 with my very favourite ones I grew up with. (There are much more I couldn’t fit them all😊)
😍🎄📚
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I usually post my own pictures but how can I resist this beauty taken by Alec Scott.
Stunning view of Yorkshire Dales 😍
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One of the finest libraries owned by NT. The oldest book dates back to 14c handwritten book of hours. This stunning library also includes very rare 1632 Second Folio of Shakespeare’s Works, known as second edition printed in the same format as the first one 😍📚
Charlcote Park
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I am tired and stressed but these cottages will help. So posting another one.
📷not my photo, beautiful thatched from Oxfordshire 😍
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Saying goodnight with this beauty! Not my photo, I wish it was!
📷Chatsworth in Christmas😍🎄
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Saying goodnight with gorgeous room from Hill Top, Beatrix Potter’s home in Lake District!
📷not mine, lovely to see the fire on as I have always visited the house in summer!
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Not my photo! Doesn’t Venice look mysterious and beautiful in mist 🌫😍
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This made my day just by looking at it! Beauty can leave us speechless!
📷from The Queen’s English! Cotswolds 😍
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Swan Hotel, Bibery in autumn 🍂😍
Have seen it in summer, seems beautiful in every season😍
(Not my photo)
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Painswick, nicknamed as “Queen of the Cotswolds”, stunning town to stay and walk around.
📷credit Emily
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I posted about this with someone else’s photo before and now posting with my own. 1502, blacksmith’s cottage was saved from falling into decay and turned into a beautiful, Victorian tea house in 1989.
📷The Bridge Tea Rooms, Bradford on Avon😍
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Agatha Christie who died this day in 1976❤️📚
📷 later years of much loved writer❤️
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Ruins of luxurious Roman villa in Chedworth was discovered in 1864 by a gamekeeper out ferreting for rabbits. Villa stool at its greatest in 4th century with many domestic comforts, underfloor heating and two bath houses. Fascinating place to visit. House in the 1pic is a museum
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Dear Bronte fans! Something amazing is happening in Ponden Hall! Current owner, lovely
@charlotteholds3
is recreating the original library which was once held the largest library in Yorkshire. She has a list of all books that Bronte children read & learned from it. ❤️📚
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Thomas Hardy, great novelist and poet was born this day, 1840 in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset. He wrote Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd in this cottage.
📷 Hardy’s Cottage, birthplace of writer ✍️ 📚
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“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good morning everyone☀️☔️
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“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
C. Brontë, Jane Eyre
🎥 Bronte country landscape, June 2021
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“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”
W. Shakespeare
📷credit B. Radlinski, Grasmere, Lake District
Good morning everyone and wishing Happy New month!🌸🌺🌹
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Charlotte Bronte books! My 19th century book collection! Love, cherish and protect them!
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“I remember every stone, every tree and the scent of heather.. even when the thunder growled in the distance and the wind swept up the valley in fitful gusts, oh it was beautiful, home sweet home.”
Beatrix Potter
📷 Yew Tree farm, once owned by Beatrix Potter
(not my photo)
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“To see the world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
William Blake
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Beautiful evening photo from Bloxham, Oxfordshire!
📷credit N. Houda
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“My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;”
Robert Burns
📷credit Fayazeh, Victorian gothic church of St. Mary and St. Finnan, Highlands!
Doesn’t it look magical😍
Good morning to you all!
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“The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached.”
The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
📷credit fayazey, Peak District
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Couldn’t help to visit it again! Enchanting north door of St. Edwards, framed by two yew trees making it look like a door to mythical world.
Stow-on-the-Wolds, Cotswolds
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“And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.”
W. Wordsworth
📷credit B. Radlinski, Lake District
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Isn’t it beautiful! This ornately chest dates to 1536 and was found in attic in vicarage. It contained many historic parish papers. Chest apparently, has many similarities to the one discovered from Mary Rose Tudor ship.
St John Baptist church, Cirencester
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Good morning everyone!
Something cheerful to look at to brighten our frosty Tuesday.
📷credit AJ photo, from Somerset😍
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Mermaid Inn,Rye, built in 1156, current building dates 1420 with later Tudor additions. Stronghold for Hawkhurst Gangs smugglers(1730-40, secret tunnel still there), accommodated many famous people then and now including queen EI.
Haunted by smugglers and their family members👻
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Evening now, perhaps can post this snowy beauty from Whitby!
📷credit makou
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“The house was very quiet, and the fog-we are in November now-pressed against the windows like and excluded ghost.”
E.M.Forster, Howards End
Good morning and happy November everyone🙏
📷Dumbleton Hall in one misty morning 🌫️
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One of the most beautiful and nation’s favourite stately home! Visit once and it will get you obsessed with visiting others! The seat of Cavendish family since 1549!
📷Chatsworth House, last April😍
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Stopped in York to see this.
Her late majesty Queen Elizabeth II on York Minster 😍
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Good morning everyone.
Wish you a cheerful Tuesday with Christmas cottage from Charming Cottages.
📷credit Sirlei Holmstrom
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“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”
Virginia Woolf
Good morning😊
📷Cute cottage by unknown photographer
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“This is the brief life, but in its brevity it offers some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”
R.Kipling
📷credit fayazey, Snowhill, Cotswolds 😍
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If I ever book to visit Hampshire again, this cottage will be the reason of my visit.
Film location for TV Miss Marple series
📷Thanks to Elaine from Bath taking this beautiful photo😍
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Just a thatched cheer for Wednesday from Exton village, Rutland, not far from me😊
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“Rough winds to shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
W.Shakespeare, sonnet XVIII
Good morning everyone🌺
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“Oh to be in England now that April’s there
And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware…”
R. Browning
Happy April everyone, wishing you all the best in this beautiful month when nature really revives!
🎥one spring morning in Corfe Castle, Dorset, 2022
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Charlotte Bronte visited Oakwell Hall and used it as “Fieldhead” in “Shirley”.
Oakwell Hall was built in 1583, it is a beautiful example of Tudor, Elizabethan manor.
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I know Christmas is over but still going to post this beautiful nativity window from Cologne cathedral.
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Pretty cottage as you walk up to the lake view in Grasmere, Lake District
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Gateway entrance to Bishop palace from Wells Market place! 14 century magnificent structure dominates the beautiful medieval square.
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Bluebell season is here and we need to get out and about to enjoy these little elegant beauties!
📷credit Elaine, cottage in Worcestershire 😍
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Just walked pass “Dove Cottage”, Grasmere, home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808.
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Every cottage, every street has some story to tell in Lacock! Quintessential English village with no changes since Middle Ages. A real and beautiful way of travelling to the past.
📷few springs away
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Oozing elegance and beauty dear old Stamford ❤️
From this morning
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“One of wonders of the medieval world”. 14c octagonal lantern Tower of Ely Cathedral is one of the unique experiences to explore in over 900 years old place of worship.
Good morning everyone🙏
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Built in 1072 this magnificent architecture always take breath away! One of the most distinguished cathedrals in England!
📷my photo few years ago! Lincoln Cathedral 😍
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Beautiful, sunny and breezy day in Bronte country this morning ☀️ 💨
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“Believe there is a great power silently working all things good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
Beatrix Potter
📷writer’s home Hill Top, Lake District. I have many photos of my own as I visit Hill Top often but this one from someone else just so beautiful 😍 🐰
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After the heavy rain here comes the sun!
📷Wells Cathedral view from Bishops Palace, this morning
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Do I need to introduce this magnificent architecture I have just approached😊😍
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Wishing you a peaceful night everyone🙏
Fleece Inn, Cotswolds, last January
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