Monday, December 31, 2018

27th September 2018 Waltham Abbey and Lee Valley Park

Hi Folk,

Back in England and staying a few days with Jean at her house.  Jean drove us out for the day to Waltham Abbey.


There are just a few ruins left.  Notice the longer than normal bricks in the wall.




This is the interior of Waltham Abbey Church.  If you look below notice the last archway is  missing the lower arch.  The original architects and builders built it with the arch, but move on a couple of hundred years and the powers that be decided that they wanted a more open look to the church and were going to take out all the lower supporting archways.  They took one out on either side, this is where they stopped, as the arches started to bow and had to be banded for strength.  I guess the original builders knew what they were doing.





We stopped in this pub The Welsh Harp for lunch.





Afterwards we drove over to the Lee Valley Park.  Notice the fish ponds where the monks used to fish.




This is a wild life sanctuary, it used to be quarries.


Such a lovely day.

Christine

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