#hertford bridge

[tommydashwood]

#hertford bridge #oxford #uk

[derkabobhall]

Colleges. (Oxford 2024)

#travel #oxford #england #no filter #university #college #academia #radcliffe camera #examination schools #exeter college #hertford college #hertford bridge #bridge of sighs #sheldonian theatre #bodleian library #university church of st. mary the virgin #st. mary's #magdalen college #christ church college #tom tower #christopher wren

[sinoeurovoices]

古老大學城、「哈利•波特」取景地─牛津 /英國之行(二)

牛津，一個舉世聞名、我神往已久的古老大學城，還因為它是電影「哈利•波特」重要的取景地之一。 牛津大學三一學院（Trinity…

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#「哈利•波特」取景地 #Balliol College #Hertford Bridge #牛津 #牛津大學 #田牧 #陳敏

[buttercupyellow]

Wonka Locations

from this article, and this article.

The Library, where Dorothy Smith (Noodle's mum) lives - Radcliffe Camera, Oxford (a real university library) (Oxford is in the south of England, basically middle of the land in between the bits of land that look like they've had their belt tightened too much).

The bridge that Abigail the Giraffe has to duck under - Hertford Bridge/the Bridge of Sighs, Oxford (again).

The river where the Wonka's lived - Mapledurham, Berkshire (to the left of London, in the middle of the land, on the Thames).

The city's port/lighthouse - Lyme Regis, Dorset (the Cobb specifically i think - southern coast of England, halfway down the wiggly tail looking bit)

Where Willy gives the homeless woman his money, loses his last coin and meets Bleacher and Tiddles - The Colonnade/Parade Gardens, Bath (a bit inland from the start of the wiggly tail bit)

St Benedict's Cathedral (inside only?) (the entrance to the Chocolate Cartel's underground base, where they try to drown Willy and Noodle) - St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Where Larry Chucklesworth does his stand-up and wins back his wife - Rivoli Ballroom, Brockley (London) (inside only)

Slugworth's Office - Eltham Palace, Greenwich (London).

The Zoo where Abigail the Giraffe is (only the lake was used, the rest was built on a set) - Verulamium Park, St Albans (just north of London, if not in London).

Where Slugworth's car is blocked by Flamingos - Bath Street, Bath (again).

Where Willy builds his factory with Lofty - Bodiam Castle, South England (south of London)

#wonka 2023

[asgoodeasgold]

A Discovery of Witches Real Time Read Chapter 3

"The vampire sat in the shadows on the curved expanse of the bridge that spanned New College Lane and connected two parts of Hertford College, his back resting against the worn stone of one of the college’s newer buildings and his feet propped up on the bridge’s roof.

The witch appeared, moving surprisingly surely across the uneven stones of the sidewalk outside the Bodleian. She passed underneath him, her pace quickening. Her nervousness made her look younger than she was and accentuated her vulnerability. So that’s the formidable historian , he thought wryly..."

Deborah Harkness

📷 Sky/Bad Wolf A Discovery of Witches (2018) s1:01 my edit

#matthew goode #a discovery of witches #adow #deborah harkness #all souls trilogy #matthew de clermont #vampires #hot vampire #adow s1

[wondrousmay]

Cool detail: this bridge in Eden Academy based on Hertford Bridge (the Bridge of Sighs) joining two parts of Hertford College in Oxford!

I’ve visited Oxford so it was pretty cool to recognize this landmark in the series. (Pic is mine)

To think that Henderson is one of the best professors in Eden when our first impression of him is based on his elitist and tradition perspective. I’m curious about his backstory now. Does he come from an upper-class family? Is he an alumni of Eden?

#spy x family #henry henderson #sxf ramblings #sxf manga #may reads sxf #SxF mission 3

[dinner-at-charlies]

A market town in the English county of Kent, Tonbridge, was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1087 as Tonebrige - which may indicate a bridge belonging to the estate or manor (from the Old-English tun). Another theory suggests the name is a contraction of 'Town of Bridges' due to the large number of streams the High Street originally crossed.

For a time, the town's name was spelt 'Tunbridge', though this was changed in 1870 to 'Tonbridge' to avoid confusion with nearby Tunbridge Wells.

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Following the Norman Conquest of 1066, Richard Fitz Gilbert was granted land in Kent to guard the crossing of the River Medway. He erected a simple Motte-and-Bailey castle on the site.

In 1088, the de Clare family (descendants of Fitz Gilbert), rebelled against King William II. As consequence, the King's army besieged the castle, and after holding for two days, it fell. As punishment, King William had both the castle and the town of Tonbridge burnt to the ground.

Before 1100, the de Clares replaced the wooden castle with a stone shell keep. This was reinforced during the thirteenth century, and in 1295 a stone wall was built around the town.

The twin-towered gatehouse is thought to have been built by either Richard de Clare, third Earl of Hertford, or perhaps his son, Gilbert. Construction of the gatehouse took 30 years, completed in 1260. It's said to share similarities with those at Caerphilly Castle, built by Gilbert in 1268-1271.

Interestingly, the Great Seal of England was temporarily kept at Tonbridge Castle during one of Edward I's visits to France.

The Mansion was added in 1793.

Always time for one more Tradition: the United Kingdom's first speeding fine was handed out by Tonbridge Petty Sessions court in 1896. The guilty driver was a Mr Walter Arnold of East Peckham, who was fined one shilling for speeding at 8 miles per hour in a 2 mph zone in Paddock Wood. Mr Arnold was apprehended by a policeman who had given chase on his bicycle!

[joezworld]

The Devil in Disguise (2/5)

Traintober 2022 Day 28 - Last Stop

Summary - Time for one last ride...

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The 47 screeched with fury and fear as her own motor was turned against her. “What are you doing?!”

“I’m taking you for a ride.” The 307 said as he kept pushing. Inside both locomotives, alarm horns were sounding as traction motors were pushed past their safe operating limits. “You always liked that, didn’t you? Having someone else do all the work for you?”

They rattled across a set of points linking the up and down lines, and the 47 shrieked as she rocked back and forth like a drunk. “You’re going to get me killed! Hell, you'll get the both of us killed!”

“I don’t know if you noticed yet, but that’s the point.” He said firmly, his pantograph sparking wildly as they passed seventy miles an hour. 

“To get us both killed?!” She said, shocked. “Over something that happened thirty years ago?!”

He said nothing more, silencing the warning horns that blared when they raced past his top speed of seventy-five. 

Stevenage station suddenly loomed large in the distance, and he could feel the 47 try to put the brakes on as they hurtled towards the platforms. In response, he reached up through the multiple unit connectors and found the circuit breaker for the diesel’s brake compressor. 

Click-pop!

With a horrifying sound, the 47 suddenly found her air brake compressor powering down. Unlike the multiple unit, who had listened very carefully when the men had taken his systems to bits in anticipation for the multiple unit trials, she had no idea what a circuit breaker was, let alone how to turn it back on. She tried frantically to apply emergency braking with the now-limited amount of air she did have, but the 307, having disabled his own air brakes, reached through his own systems and opened up an angle cock located between one of his articulated sections.

With a whoosh, the air came shooting out of the opened valve, and the 47 screamed in terror as all of her brake shoes went limp and unresponsive. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!”

“I finished what you started.” He gave her a savage bump as he poured more power into his traction motors. They began to get warm and uncomfortable, but he didn’t care. 

Stevenage station came and went in a flash, and a panicked stationmaster made the first report of the runaway as it thundered past him. “They’re going onto the Hertford Loop!” He yelled, as the train rocked through a low-speed crossover at nearly ninety miles an hour, bound for the diverging track. 

The rocking and rolling was causing chaos inside the 307’s empty compartments, and testing equipment and personal belongings began to fly all over. In the forward-most compartment, the computer had already gone onto the floor, its screen shattering into shards, but the printer was more resistant. It was very heavy, and had rubber “feet”, so it couldn’t slide - a truly enormous force was required to make it move, and when the train hit the crossover, it got it. From the printer’s perspective, the table dropped out from under it momentarily, as the car rocked, dipped, and rolled. Inertia working the way it does, the printer hung in the air for a moment, at which point the table rose up under it and fired it across the carriage like a cannonball. It slammed into the opposite wall with a tremendous smash, before landing mostly on top of a knapsack sitting in the seat below. 

The force of the printer landing on it made the bag spring open, and its contents, including a portable radio, fell to the floor. The radio was very light, and quickly slid all the way to the back of the compartment as the train kept accelerating. It hit the wall with a bang, jarring its cheap controls so much that it turned on. 

- music in the air

I should have been away

But I knew I had to stay

Last train to London

“Looks like they’re playing my song…” The 307 muttered to himself as they whipped under the bridge that carried the ECML over the Hertford Loop. 

Farmland raced by on either side of them. They were past a hundred miles an hour now, and it was readily obvious that neither one of them were going to make it much further. 

Just heading out

Last train to London

Just leaving town

But I really want tonight to last forever

His traction motors actually hurt by this point, and the gauges in his cab were pegged at their stops. The alarms kept ringing, even as he kept ignoring them. 

The 47 wasn’t in much better shape. She was trailing smoke from one of her traction motors, and there was a clatter from her motor that was only getting louder. 

I really wanna be with you

Let the music play on down the line tonight

Underneath a starry sky

Time was still but hours must really have rushed by

A station appeared in the distance, which one it was he didn’t know. They were on it in an instant, screaming past the platforms like a comet. Their passage caused anything not nailed down to go flying, and a few waiting passengers were thrown off their feet. 

I didn't realize

But love was in your eyes

The 47 had given up on reasoning with the insane lunatic 307 she was yoked to, and was now trying anything she could to get the train to stop. Her brakes were useless, and she couldn’t get her aching motor to do what she wanted. She tried making it stop - one of her fitters had said she had a fuel pump?  - but she didn’t know what to do. 

She tried calling for help from passing trains, but the stupid little multiple units looked at her like she was crazy when she raced past them. 

I really should have gone

But love went on and on

Oh this was hopeless. She could really die! She had to do something! 

Quickly, she wracked her mind for anything she could use. “I’ll tell you what happened to her!” She cried, desperately. 

“Beg pardon?” That didn’t sound like idiotic blind devotion. Didn’t he love that thing?

“Your girl! I know what happened to her!” 

“She died.” He snapped, sending a painful burst of electricity down the multiple unit cabling, ending that particular line of bargaining. 

Last train to London

Just heading out

Last train to London

“Don’t try and stop this.” He said, after a moment’s silence. “There’s no point. Either we get put in a siding, or we go all the way to London and have the smashup to end all smashups. Either way, I win.”

Just leaving town

But I really want tonight to last forever

I really wanna be with you

Let the music play on down the line tonight

“But I want to stop! Please!” She wailed. 

“I wanted to grow old with her.” He said icily. “Now stop your crying and keep your chin up. I lived my life, and I’ve got plenty of regrets, but you know what? I’m going to the end with my pantographs held high. Can you say the same?”

But I really want tonight to last forever

I really wanna be with you

Let the music play on down the line tonight

She didn’t answer, and a raucous drum and bass line picked up as the song came to its end. 

-

A mile or so ahead, the end was waiting for them. A group of workmen had been performing work to the embankment next to the line with a dump truck and a sizable Volvo wheel loader. They’d been given the call to clear the line as soon as the runaway had blown through Stevenage, but as it became clear that the train wasn’t able to stop on its own, “Control” had called back with drastic instructions. 

“Park that thing on the line and leg it!” 

“Seriously?”

“Yes! Do it now! You’ve only got a few minutes!”

The foreman had very quickly fired up the loader, and hurriedly parked it astride both lines, before fleeing the area. He and his men ran for their lives, clambering into the dump truck and driving away as fast as it could go.

The Volvo loader had been left with the motor running, and so the giant, non-sentient machine sat on the rails like a growling beast, a yellow sentinel, intent on protecting London from imminent peril. 

And peril was just around the corner. 

-

For a moment, the rails sang, the metal warping minutely as a train traveled over it. With slow trains, it could give almost a half-minute’s warning that a train was coming. 

With a fast train, it was only a few seconds. 

The 47 rounded the corner at ninety-six miles an hour. By the time she registered that there was a giant object in front of her, she was only a few hundred feet away. 

She opened her mouth to scream.

-

In the dump truck, some quarter of a mile away, the collision rattled the windows, before a fireball bloomed, rising into the sky.

#traintober2022 #traintober 2022 #traintober #ttte #fic #sentient vehicles #sentient vehicle headcanon #trains #british rail #dark

[pers-books]

I went out for my weekly postbox bagging walk this morning in the glorious sunshine and chilly wind and as well as bagging 3 postboxes, I also snapped the following things which caught my eye in passing:

This is the new Siew-Sngiem Clocktower and Sukum Navampam Gate at the front of Harris Manchester College, both named for their principal benefactors. Both are the work of Yiangou Architects whose commission had been to produced an addition to the streetscape with ‘jewel-like quality’.

A notable feature of the tower is the six-faced clock made by Derby  Clockmakers. Beneath carved in stone, facing the street, is the legend: “It’s later than you think.” To the right is carved: “But it’s never too late.”

The first is a saying from WH Auden’s poem Consider This and In Our Time - the whole is the college’s motto since Harris Manchester College is for mature students.

And the doorway of the college caught my eye for all the stone carvings around it:

A pair of wooden doors surrounding by a stone archway from which protrude at intervals stone carvings of flowers and creatures.

Then there were the four workmen abseiling down the front of the Radcliffe Camera in order to clean the stonework. Sooner them than me, to be frank!

Then there’s Oxford’s ‘Bridge of Sighs’, more properly the Hertford Bridge, which I had to try to snap three times before I managed to get it without cyclists or passersby in shot! It joins two parts of Hertford College across New College Lane and it was designed by Thomas Graham Jackson, being completed in 1914.

Cast iron pump in the corner of St Mary’s Passage alongside the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. (I’ve no idea if it still works!)

Green Man carving on the door of the former City Arms pub (now part of Brasenose College).

Centre: University Church of St Mary the Virgin; Left: Radcliffe Camera; Right: Brasenose College.

This doorway into the Department for International Development caught my eye because of the multiple stone arches above it.

#Personal #Oxford City

[whatdoesshedotothem]

[KISS] Friday 4 May 1838

8 ½

12 ¼

Good kiss last night fine morning waited for the hairdresser A- and I and I long in dressing and not downstairs till 11 20 – breakfast – had Mr. Pearce – will embark the carriage and take all trouble – very civil – very nice clean (new) carriage and civil coachman and good horses from Pearce the coachmaker – out about 12 ½ - drove to 114 Park street Hutton tailor, and ordered grooms’ coat and waistcoat and pair of trousers (all Oxford mixed cloth) for George and left Button [?] with Hutton to be sent to [Strengitham] – then drove about seeking Miss Lloyd (recommended by Mrs. Lawton whose name we never mentioned) dressmaker upper Brook street Grosvenor – found her in Lower Brook street n°56 – A- took her a dress to make up – be at Mr. Dumergues (Dentist 2 Albemarle street) at 2 – took up Oddy and set down A- and her a few minutes past 2 – I drove off to Whitehall – Lady Stuart gone – then drove to 4 Carlton terrace – admitted – found Lady S. de R- and Louisa and Mr. Scarlett sitting with them surprised but very glad to see me – soon went in to luncheon, and helped twice to vermicelli soup Lady Eastnor and one of her younger daughters came in and then Mrs. [Dundy?] – sat 1/2 hour very comfortably – Lady S- at Eastcombe Lady Buckinghamshire’s to go to the Lodge on Monday – Lady S. de R- wanted me

SH:7/ML/E/21/0090

to put off my journey for a fortnight or longer and go with Lady S- to the Lodge – said I really could not do this – very sorry – too unwell to go to agreeableize – had thought of getting well, and then trying to agreeable – the S. de R-s have some thought of letting their house for the coronation to Marshal Soult in which case they will all go to the Lodge and there will be no room for me – said I would drive over to Eastcombe tomorrow – from Lady S. de R-s’ drove to Lady Gordons’ 34 Hertford street – found her and Georgiana and Cosmo – and saw Alicia a fine girl aetatis 16 not to be introduced of one year or more – said I would by and by order a butt of sherry for Cosmo - £80 per butt for the best – any colour I liked – Cosmo always liked to know this – he prefers medium colour, neither very brown nor very pale – about 600 bottles (did he say?) in a butt – duty about £30 – and then there would be fright – sent a great deal to Hull – some gentleman said he found the sherry (the best) stand [him] to 4/8 per bottle – more said I then I now pay – yes! said Cosmo, if you have it from a wine merchant - £3 per dozen = 5/. per bottle – sat about ½ hour with Lady G- till Lady Charlotte Luscombe? came in which sent me off – Lady G- begged to see me on my return – she was laid up with cold and rheumatism or something in her knees – I joked her about having refused me – she said as if offhand enough to be at unawares – yes! and I have never repented it but once – that is, always – of this I took no notice but by saying with a smile, I daresay we should have done very well together – Returned home direct from Herford street and took up A- about 4 and drove into the city – called en passant at Pearces’ Longacre 103 –to the Heralds’ college – Mr. Harrison not there – at the Earl marshal’s office 30 Great George street Westminster  - all busy about the coronation – the porter would let him know to call on us at 11am tomorrow and then to Fenchurch street 123 about the passage by the Princess Victoria packet to Antwerp – took our places (births) and got order for embarking the carriage – ourselves £2.2.0 each – carriage £5. total including two servants = £12.14.0 of which paid £6 – bought biscuits at Lemanns’ Threadneedle street, and thermometer at Bates’, and A- left her watch and I my McL- watch at Rundel and Bridges, and stopt a moment at Pearces’ and bought hat for George at Dudley’s 148 Regent street and home about 7 ¼ - dinner almost immediately – Potage à la julienne – part of [roast] loin of little mutton spinach and potatoes and a pudding – pint of Madeira for A- and bottle of Claret for myself of which we respectively drank ½ and both slept till 10 soon after when we went upstairs to bed – ate oranges – and dawdled over getting into bed – and had a pretty good kiss and then fell asleep

[enricosketching]

For my very first drawing in Oxford, since I do not yet have favourite or beloved spots, I went for tourist attractions. This is #Hertford Bridge, a connection between two buildings also known as the Bridge of Sighs, because it resembles the one in Venice (actually, it does not). While I was there drawing, a constant flux of tourists was taking pictures from every side. At some point a girl was posing from its central window while her relatives were taking photos of her from below. . . . #oxford #bridgeofsighs #oxforduniversity #artdrawing #art #myart #myartwork #artwork #drawingart #artoninstagram #sketching #urbansketching #illustration #wercolorillustration #watercolorartist #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #artistoninstagram #instagramartist #watercolorsketch #inkandwatercolor #watercolors #penandwash #penandwatercolor #danielsmith #davincibrushes #escodabrushes #sailorpen (at Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmVnvBxNwTy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hertford #oxford #bridgeofsighs #oxforduniversity #artdrawing #art #myart #myartwork #artwork #drawingart #artoninstagram #sketching #urbansketching #illustration #wercolorillustration #watercolorartist #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #artistoninstagram #instagramartist #watercolorsketch #inkandwatercolor #watercolors #penandwash #penandwatercolor #danielsmith #davincibrushes #escodabrushes #sailorpen

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

Oxford, England, UK

#oxford #england #architecture #oxford architecture #hertford college #bridge of sighs #oxford streets #hertford bridge #street #street photography #bridge #oxford universities #oxford colleges #road #neo classical architecture #gothic architecture #gothic #urban #city #oxfordshire #uk #uk travel #travel #travel photography #europe #great britain #united kingdom #submission

[derkabobhall]

Arches. Gates. Bridges. Backstreets. (Oxford 2024)

#travel #oxford #england #no filter #university #college #academia #hertford college #new college #radcliffe camera #folly bridge #bacon's tower #bodleian library

[architectureforsuicides]

The Quiet Ones (John Pogue, 2014) Hertford Bridge / Bridge of Sighs Hertford College, Oxford, Oxfordshire (UK) Bridge over New College Lane Type: arch bridge.

#the quiet ones #john pogue #2014 #hertford bridge #bridge of sighs #hertford college #oxford #Oxfordshire #uk #england #united kingdom #new college lane #skyway #bridge #arch bridge

[bluesman56]

Bridge of Sighs by Tony Via Flickr: often called the Bridge of Sighs, is a skyway joining two parts of Hertford College over New College Lane in Oxford, England. Its distinctive design makes it a city landmark The bridge is often referred to as the Bridge of Sighs because of its supposed similarity to the better known Bridge of Sighs in Venice. There is a false legend saying that many decades ago, a survey of the health of students was taken, and as Hertford College's students were the heaviest, the college closed off the bridge to force them to take the stairs, giving them extra exercise. However, if the bridge is not used, the students actually climb fewer stairs than if they do use the bridge.

#England #Jeffrey Oser #Oxford #britain #cityscape #europe #oxfordshire #©2021 Tony Sherratt #2021 10 23 140344 #Bridge #Architecture #building #Hertford College

[paulpingminho]

#bridge #clouds #sky #road trip #Hertford #North Carolina #travel #Route 13