I mentioned the village of Aldborough some years ago. The day we went the English Heritage site was closed. In September 2023 it was open.

It’s a small site up a lane in the village but it opens out into somethig more substantial. There is also a small museum attached.

We wandered round both.

Roman perimeter wall/ditch:-

A smaller (closed off) building on the site contains a Roman mosaic:-

Another mosaic:-

Information in the museum about the above two:-

This one was under glass in the museum:-

Among other exhibits there are of course many prieces by Hepworth herself at The Hepworth Wakefield.

These are typical Hepworth sculpted forms:-

To left and centre; Two Forms and Three Oblique Forms:-

To right above; Three Hemispheres:-

Maquette for Sculpture for Waterloo Bridge:-

Winged Figure:-

An arch with a cross in the gap, lanterns to either side.

I have featured this memorial before but it was partly obscured by a street fair then. In September 2023 it wasn’t.

Great War Dedication and names:-

World War 2 Dedication and names. Also on  pavement below the inscription, “220 miles to Ypres”:-

This time were able to get into the street behind the memorial where there was an assortment of wreaths:-

The plaque to the right above is a Victoria Cross commemoration. Lt Colonel Philip Bent, Leicestershire Regiment, 1/10/1917:-

Close up on tributes to left above:-

Previously in Alcester I’d only seen one decoish building. This time round we stayed at a different hotel a bit out of the town centre in a direction we hadn’t taken before.

As a result I came across two more.

St Benedict’s Catholic High School. Curved wall and glass bricks.:-

Just over the road really was this one. The Greig Hall and Leisure Centre. Note circular entrance building with porthole windows:-

The previous three times we visited Alcester I had noticed this hall sited beyond the church but hadn’t looked at the plaque on its wall.

It was purchased from the owner and rededicated as a War Memorial in 1919:-

The Church can be seen in this post on Alcester I made in 2012. We visited the town again on our way back up from Bath. This time we went inside the church.

Chancel and Altar:-

Emrys-Jones Memorial stained glass window:-

Information about the window:-

War Memorial plaque to the men of Alcester and Oversley, erected 1951:-

Individual memorial to Arthur Boobbyer Jephcott who fell at Pozières, 4/8/1916, aged 20:-

We passed through Ogbourne St Andrew, a small village in Wiltshire, on our way back north from Avebury. I spotted this War Memorial, a cross above an arcing plinth, by a minor junction on the A 346 road.

Memorial, Great War names and dedication:-

Names for the Second World War were added to the reverse of the memorial:-

Wiltshire is seemingly full of those hill figures called white horses, carved out of hillsides.

As we were passing close to one on the way up from Bath I decided to detour a little and photograph one.

It was the one at Hackpen:-

Closer view, actually a bit too close:-

The Church in Avebury village is dedicated to St James:-

Since it was open we decided to take a look inside. It has an ornate rood screen:-

Part of interior:-

On display was part of an oak bell-frame dated 1636:-

Avebury’s War Memorial consists of two plaques inside the church, one for each World War:-

Ramparts at Avebury:-

If you follow the path round you come to the outer circle of stones complete with grazing sheep:-

Standing Stones from road:-

Inner circle of stones with people communing with the spirits of the past:-