Our little link with history.

This is a famous house in North Oxford. From 1896 to 1921 it was the home of T.E.Lawrence
(Known as the famous Lawrence of Arabia). These facts are recognised by a Blue Plaque on the wall by the front door.
What is our link to this? In July 1962 we were married in the Oxford Registry Office. At the end of August we sailed to Canada where I had a job offer at Carleton University in Ottawa. After a honeymoon in the Lake District we lived for a month in the ground floor of this house and spent our evenings reading about the adventures of the occupant who was brought up there.

This blip was triggered by reading a paragraph in the paper this morning. The T.E.Lawrence Society had applied to have the house given protected status. This was refused on the grounds that it had been extended in the 1970s. The Society will appeal this ruling.

I am not in Oxford today. Through the wonders of technology, and knowing the address, I was able to bring this picture up on Google Streetview. The wording of the Blue Plaque can be found on Wikipedia. The iPad picture was then transferred via Apple tv onto our main tv and I used my camera to take a shot of it.
Photos of tv screens used to be rather poor but now that is much improved and all it needed was a little tweak to make it resectable.
One of the fascinations of Blip is that you wake up in the morning having no notion what your blip will be today. Then a few lines in the paper trigger memories and away you go.