'Gate' streets and Eclipses

We haven't done any work such as painting, grouting, etc. today but we did spend the best part of 6 hours wandering around shops buying stuff for the 'New' bedroom and en-suite. Marlane really enjoyed it, she loves browsing around and bought some lovely things to put into the bathroom.
We started out going to pick up some framed prints, very expensive framed prints but they were an absolutely knock down price on Facebook Market Place. The prints of the 'Gate' Streets of Gloucester are the ones that were, originally, very expensive and are of Eastgate St, Westgate St, Northgate St and Southgate St. The streets are so named after the city gates that the Romans constructed when they founded the city in AD 97 under Emperor Nerva. They named it Colonia Glevum Nevensis, you still see many places using the name Glevum around Gloucester. The photographs are from 1892 through to 1948 and are part of the Francis Fritch Collection.

The Eclipse photographs are of both the Sun and the Moon.

"The First Eclipse of the Moon in Third Millennium - January 9 2001 
Photographed at Twigworth, Near Gloucester" 
(N.B. Ivor Gurney, the poet and composer, is buried in Twigworth church graveyard)

"The Eclipse of the Sun; August 11 1999 - Photographed at Prestbury Near Cheltenham Gloucestershire"
(N.B. Prestbury is where Cheltenham racecourse is).
Each of the three photographs in each eclipse stage are timed.

They are all beautifully framed and all we needed to do was clean the glass of each one and touch up where there were small marks on the frames. Very pleased with them, and it is such a pleasure to study them.