Lewis Carroll window

Monday
No chance for a lie-in this morning as we had to go to Manchester airport to meet our eldest daughter, flying in from Houston for the week, to join in the celebration of Roger's parents' diamond wedding anniversary on Thursday. Her flight was more or less on time, and she too came through immigration and customs quickly. Back to Janets to leave her bags and have a drink, then up the road to her grandparents. It was a rather gloomy day, and unfortunately Jen is suffering from foot pain at present, so isn't up to walking very far, so after lunch we went to the newly opened Lewis Carroll Center in the nearby village of Daresbury. Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Revd Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born in Daresbury village. He lived here for the first 11 years of his life, from 1832 to 1843. Lewis Carroll's father, another Revd Charles Dodgson, was the much-loved vicar at the parish church for 16 years, from 1827 to 1843. Young Charles and nine of his ten brothers and sisters were born at the Old Parsonage, which unfortunately has since been destroyed. He became the famous writer of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass when he was a lecturer at Oxford University. The center, which is quite small, but interesting, is attached to the church. The east window of the Daniell chapel was erected following a memorial fund to celebrate the centenary of Carroll's birth in 1935. It was designed by Geoffrey Webb and dedicated on 30 June 1935 by Herbert Gresford Jones, Bishop of Warrington. The upper panels depict a nativity scene surmounted by eight angels, the leftmost panel showing Lewis Carroll himself accompanied by Alice Liddell. The windows incorporate symbolic panels relating to Carroll's life, including the Cheshire wheatsheaf, the arms of Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, and mathematical instruments. Across the base of the window are five panels, one of which is depicted in my blip, which include characters from the Alice books together with words from Carroll's poem Christmas Greetings.
When we were finished there, Jen was feeling ready for a nap, so we took her back to Janets, and Roger and I went for a walk along the River Weaver. We spotted quite a bit of bird life, including a couple of great crested grebes and a couple of tufted ducks. This stretch of the river is navigable and we walked as far as Dutton Locks and the Dutton viaduct, which carries the West Coast Main Line across the River Weaver. It is built of red sandstone and has 20 arches.

One year ago: Big bugs!