End of the summer hols

I was intending to post quite another shot today, but as I came back from a rather blustery walk in the water meadows this brief moment was just presented to me .  It's the kind of blipping I love, the lens interacting with an unrepeatable instant. 

So what's this boy doing?  He's leaving the cathedral's Inner Close past these magnificent, worm-eaten gates that are still locked every night.  Behind him is a glorious building now part of Pilgrim's Prep School and on the right is Cheney Court, currently some lucky peoples' living accommodation, originally literally the Bishop's court where he sat in judgement.

Interesting trivia:  local legend says that in the '70s some IRA trials were held in Winchester because a) there is a tunnel from the prison to the law courts and b) the judges could be locked in here at night for security.  Don't know if it's true, could be garbled tosh, but there you are...

Happy Tuesday evening  xx