Another Day

By pcc

St Nicholas Church at Morton, Dorset.

Today, Terry and I have been tiki touring around all the little road and lanes east of Weymouth. He knows so much history, and one of the places we went to see was the grave site of Thomas Edward Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia. It was in a little cemetery adjacent to the above church. It was a new headstone, and very clean.
His funeral service was held in the church on the 21 May 1935, after a motorcycle accident.
The church is a Georgian Gothic which dates back to 1776. It had been damaged by bombs on 1940, and was rebuilt in 1950. We could not get inside, but was quite plain.
It had exquisite windows, with one dedicated to T E Lawrence. It was like etching in the glass.
Not coloured or stained. Pictures of butterflies, landscape, and houses amongst the etchings.
Another historic place we visited was the birth place and house where Thomas Hardy was born. Unfortunately it was not open. We have had a lovely time, stopping off to photograph rape fields, blue bells, and cows, and it was a lovely sunny day with birds singing.
Unfortunately the weather is to turn tomorrow, but we are off to London.
Until then......

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