Di Xiao Plays Holywell Music Room

I was hoping to meet and photograph Di Xiao this afternoon, as she was playing in Oxford's Holywell Music Room which is a 255 year old music hall belonging to the University, how ever things did not marry up and we missed our connection. Di Xiao is a Classical Pianist of the highest standard from her website she has performed at all the best concert hall around the world, so it was great that she was able to add our Holywell Music Room to that impressive list. Hope your visit to Oxford went well, I know that getting into Oxford can be harder than getting into Oxford University if the traffic is against you.

Bath Place

Just of Holywell Street nestled between New College and the old city wall you will find Bath Place, which is a small street with a couple of cottages and the Bath Place Hotel.  The main reason that locals and visitors head down Bath Place is that at the end of this dead end street is a small passage that leads you to the Turf Tavern, perhaps one of the better 'Real Ale' pubs in Oxford, I think it would also be Oxfords best hidden pub, so much so that a friend of mine who is Oxford born and bread did not know about it, and he is 40+ years old...  Well worth a visit..

Now to all the daily visitors, sorry for the missing few photo's this week.  I have been very bust at work and socially with a couple of last night trips to London and Reading, hope to get the regular photo's up next week.

Happy Birthday India

Happy Birthday India, 60 years of Independence celebrated today across India. In central Oxford we have an old building that when you look at it closely you can see it once had a close attachment with India. On the corner of Holywell and Catte Street you have the Universities History Faculty, however if you look closely at the building you can see that it used to be the ‘Indian Institute’ and you can see the building is decorated with elephants and tigers. On the weathercock you can also see an elephant, not a lot of visitors stop to look at the details of this building to understand its past. You can just see in this photo the wording above the entry 'INDIAN INSTITUTE'