Barracks and Belfast

This morning we made a short excursion into town by bike, and returned via the old Peninsula Barracks. In the 1990s they were converted into luxury apartments and townhouses and home to a few military museums. The parade ground is now a formal garden, complete with ornamental pond and fountain. Peninsula Square is one of the most sought after addresses in Winchester for those fortunate  to have the means to afford to live there.

This evening we went to the  cinema (situated in the old, decommissioned, military chapel) to watch Kenneth Branagh's film, "Belfast". The story  is set in 1969 and is seen through the eyes of a nine year old boy (the brilliant young actor Jude Hill). I enjoyed the film very much, partly because I was a similar age  in that year, although I was fortunate  to live in the relatively safer suburbs of NW London which, at that time, was an area popular  with Irish emigres.
The film's  soundtrack is wonderful too, being comprised of  music by Van Morrison.