#Oxford City

[aquitainequeen]

Chile pressed on with a global ocean treaty, the EU approved a greenwashing law, and a new cancer drug brought hope, plus more good news

An ‘historic’ ocean treaty took a step forward

The EU approved a landmark greenwashing law

Data showed a fall in Amazon deforestation

New cancer drug ‘kinder’ than chemotherapy

The UK set a welcome energy milestone

Dominican Republic latest to trial four-day week

Oxford pioneered a green travel initiative

UK pools could soon be heated by data centres

Positive News headlines appeared on UK streets

Data dispelled doom narratives

Read more from Gavin Haines!

[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.

[thisdrinkinglife]

Some retro: Oxford City v Worcester City - Second goal and Worcester City fans (2012)

[therealefl]

Peterborough United Star Linked With Shock Exit

Peterborough United’s Kabongo Tshimanga has been linked with an exit, as he has been the subject of a bid from League Two side Wrexham, as revealed by TEAMtalk. The Welsh side are currently without last season’s top goalscorer Paul Mullin, who was injured in a pre-season clash with Manchester United, puncturing his lung following a collision with the United goalkeeper. Wrexham manager Phil…

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: comewithkris

[student-by-day]

just finished my first wk of uni, which means it's abt time to return to studyblr after being on hiatus for years (?!?) 🥲

[literatureaesthetic]

18th april '24 — london

this was such a special trip for me. my first time travelling entirely on my own, discovering and falling in love with a city. i've been to london a few times growing up, but i've never had the chance to really explore and live in it until now. forever an experience i'll cherish <3

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

England: Winchester, Lincoln, Allerford, Kynance Cove, Winchester, Beachy Head, Oxford, Orford, Norwich, Lyme Regis, Berwick-Upon-Tweed

[vox-anglosphere]

The mellow stone of Oxford University warms in the evening light

[l1fe1nf0cu5]

My Oxford

[atlasandacamera]

London, England

[o-uncle-newt]

I WENT TO OXFORD

It was rainy but basically perfect- and now I have a question.

Anyway, first thing I did, while waiting for my Bodleian tour to start, was do the (very quick) "Harriet finally goes up like straw" walking tour, from the Broad Street gate of Balliol to New College Lane just past the Bridge of Sighs. It was excellent.

Below is the first photo I took- of the intersection of Broad Street and Catte Street (in my copy of the book spelled Cat Street), or the Holywell Corner, as Harriet calls it. This photo is how Peter and Harriet would have seen it, though presumably at night time (and I guess, potentially, on the other side of the street). From here, they'd cross ahead and to the right, and walk on the left side of Catte Street a few yards to New College Lane.

For those who like me have memorized the last page of this book- does anyone notice anything interesting?

I'll set the scene- they're walking back, and Peter drops that

'I have been afraid,' he said simply; 'because I knew that from anything you said to me here, there could be no going back.... But I will ask you now, and if you say No, I promise you that this time I will accept your answer. Harriet; you know that I love you: will you marry me?' The traffic lights winked at the Holywell Corner: Yes; No; Wait. 

Wait what? What traffic lights?!

I can confirm, I walked on all sides of that intersection and couldn't find a traffic light or any indication that one had ever been there. No traffic light, no pedestrian stoplight, no nothing.

I have to assume that, however much Sayers might like metaphors and allegories and such, she wouldn't invent a traffic light for the sake of one. But maybe she did? Or maybe one did exist in 1935 and has been since removed in the name of some kind of renewal project? Is it related to the New Bodleian (now Weston) library being built starting in 1937 on that corner, or totally unrelated?

I'm not going to pretend that any of this matters, just say that a) I am always interested in things like this, whether they are important or not, and if anyone knows please tell me and b) it's a tribute to Sayers that so many of the scenes in the book felt so vivid that seeing the locations in person felt like returning to them- and that something feeling even slightly off from that could be jarring.

Bonus photo, to thank you for bearing with me- picture two Senior Members of the university closely and passionately embracing just past the bridge over there.

[dreamgirlstudy]

i’d hoped leaving london would be easier this time, since i’d already done it before. hurt just the same as i remember :’’)

[chronicallychlo]

saturday night, sunset vibes

[therealefl]

Oxford City Land Promotion Hero

Newly promoted Oxford City have confirmed the return of goalkeeper Chris Haigh from Ebbsfleet United on a season-long loan deal, as confirmed via a statement on the club’s website. The 26-year-old played a starring role in the club’s play-off campaign last season, after joining on an emergency loan deal at the end of the 2022/23 season and becoming the club’s first signing of the summer. Who is…

[darkparisian]

I love to study in Paris