2023-07-16 Oxford - Radcliffe Camera with Iris and Elaine.
2023-07-16 Oxford - Radcliffe Camera with Catherine and Elaine.
2023-07-16 Oxford – St Mary's Passage
2023-07-16 Oxford – University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Radcliffe Square
2023-07-16 Oxford – University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street
2023-07-16 Oxford – Pew, University Church of St Mary the Virgin
2023-07-16 Oxford – Brasenose College. Catherine's great-grandfather Abraham Spencer entered Brasenose College in 1867. He took his B.A. degree in 1871 with honours in mathematics.
2023-07-16 Oxford – Brasenose College
2023-07-16 Oxford – All Saints Church
2023-07-16 Oxford – Heading back to London on the Great Western Railway
2023-07-16 London – Paddington Station
2023-07-16 London – Paddington Station
2023-07-18 Heathrow – Elaine on a moving sidewalk at the airport.
2023-07-18 Heathrow –Younger siblings bid their older sister a safe journey home.
2023-07-18 London – Transport for London map
2023-07-18 London – Stairway in tube station.
2023-07-18 London – Plaque commemorating the 1954 centenary of Paddington Station with bronze engraving of its designer and builder, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
2023-07-18 Paddington Station, London – Paddington Bear who first appeared Michael Bond's 1958 chidren's book "A Bear Called Paddington."
2023-07-18 Paddington Bear welcoming a tourist.
1910 Hope Lodge, 7 Cavendish Road, Brondesbury. In which Catherine's great-grandparents William Thorp Millachip and Emily Gear Millachip, grandparents George Spencer and Grace Emily Millichip Spencer, and mother Iris Mary Spencer once lived.
2023-07-18 London - 7 Cavendish Road today. Catherine's mother lived here from birth to age 12 (1918-1930)
2023-07-18 7 Cavendish Road
2023-07-18 7 Cavendish Road
2023-07-19 – East Finchley tube station, on the way to visits cousins.
2023-07-19 – On the road from London to Steeple Aston.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston
circa 1875 Steeple Aston –Cottage of Hannah Wing Spencer and Abraham Spencer. Narrative written by their daughter Hannah Spencer in the 1970s.
circa 1875 Steeple Aston –Catherine's great-grandparents Hannah Wing Spencer and Abraham Spencer in the garden of their cottage.
1875-07-20 The marriage of Abraham Spencer and Hannah Wing took place in the Steeple Aston church with Hannah's father William Wing as one of the witnesses.
The Rev. Abraham Spencer and his wife Hannah Wing Spencer later in life. Six of their eight children, including Catherine's grandfather George were born in Steeple Aston.
1875 engraving of the Steeple Aston Church from William Wing's "Annals of Steeple Aston and Middle Aston in the County of Oxford."
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston –"The church of St Peter and St Paul occupies a commanding position on high ground at the north-east end of Steeple Aston village. It is built of both limestone and ironstone and comprises a chancel with north chapel, nave of three bays, north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower, all battlemented." British History Online.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – St Peter & St Paul Church
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston– Church tower dating from the 1500s.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – Catherine and Iris at the church entrance.
2023-07-19 Steeple Aston – Interior panorama of the St Peter and St Paul Anglcian Church.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston –Church interior.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – Photo display of the Steeple Aston Cope.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – St Peter & St Paul Church memorial plaque to William Wing (1762-1841) and his wife Frances Millachip Wing (1766-1819). Catherine's maternal third great-grandparents.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – St Peter & St Paul Church memorial plaque to William Wing (1710-1882) Catherine's maternal great-great-grandgrandfather.
1875 Steeple Aston –Family copy of the local history written by Catherine's great-great grandfather.
Family photograph of William Wing (1810-1882). Wing served as lay church warden and vestry clerk for the Steeple Aston Church. At his death, the church rector gave this epitaph: “He lived and died in Steeple Aston. A lover of his native village. A constant worshipper in its church. A leader in all its public business. The diligent compiler of its annals. And a ready helper for all around him.” It was his daughter Hannah who married Catherine's great-grandfather Abraham Spencer.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – St Peter & St Paul Church World War I memorial plaque. George Spencer, 1886-1918 (Catherine's grandfather) and his brother James Hilary Spencer, 1894-1918. The Spencer family lived in Steeple Aston from 1872-1882 when their father was first deacon then priest of the parish church.
George Spencer (1886-1918) – Catherine's grandfather. Died of wounds from the raid on the harbor in Zeebrugge, Belgium.
James Hilary Spencer (1894-1918) – Catherine's great uncle and grandfather's brother who died of battle wounds in a German prisoner of war camp.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – Churchyard gravemarkers.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston - Iris rests her feet with cousin Heather.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – Iris and Catherine wishing they had post cards for friends and relatives for the slot of this traditional Royal Mail Postal Box
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – Dog Parking—Attach leash here.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – House with thatched roof.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – House with thatched roof.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston –Catherine and Iris outside local pub.
2023-07-17 Steeple Aston – Cousins Iris and Heather at the local pub for lunch.
2023-07-17 London – The London Eye measures 443 feet tall and 394 feet in diameter, and rotates in 30 minutes.
2023-07-17 London – Iris eying the London eye.
2023-07-17 London – Big Ben between Catherine and Iris with the river Thames stretching into the distance.
2023-07-17 London – The Hungerford Bridge and the Waterloo Bridge on the Thames.
2023-07-19 London – Each capsule is about 32 x 13 feet in size and holds up to 25 passengers.
2023-07-17 London – Catherine after her whirl on the London Eye.
