Hill End Education Centre

Hill End is an environmental activity centre for school aged children on the out skirts of Oxford.  I was surprised to read that the size of this centre is 62 acres and is a trust that the Oxford County Council have run since 1974.  More information on the Hill End can be found on website about what they do.  I was in the area today and out the front of the administration area the Hill End service Citroen was parked on a freshly mowed field, played around a little with this photo.

Open Doors Oxford 2010

This weekend across Oxford and in many other cities around the country, buildings that are not normally open to the public open there doors an allow the public to have a little look behind those closed doors. I love this event, because apart from getting access to places that you normally don't get the opportunity to see, there is lots of historical information about events that took place in or around the buildings.

Open Doors has a very good website with more information on what will be open and from what time, I managed only a few of the places that I wanted to visit today, so I will be back out tomorrow with the camera looking behind those doors.

Todays photo was taken at County Hall, built in 1841 and looking like a Norman Castle. As apart of Open Doors a tour of the building run for about 20min where you could see the council chambers and court room that is still being used today. The highlight for me was really seeing the underground tunnel from the court room straight into the prison that was behind the building, I have a photo of this that I will post later, unless you want to see it on the additional pages?

Mobile Public Library

This is going to be a first for Oxford Daily Photo two photo’s on the one day. We it is of same thing, the Mobile Library just one is a photo of the outside and the other is of the inside. These are a great community service provided by the County Council to get books/Video/CD etc out to people who are just that little bit far from the main Public Libraries. I did not know that there are five Mobile Library’s in Oxfordshire, and that the books you get out from the Mobile Library are not due back for four weeks, unlike the main Libraries which is three.