Merry Christmas 2016

...and, 

warmest best wishes to you for a Happy New Year.

Close Up

Coombe Country Park

at the bird hide last Sunday.

Thank you, Mr Robin, for sitting so still.

Participating in Wild Bird Wednesday

Summer House

Coombe Country Park

Coombe Abbey Hotel is just out of view on the right.

The stone pavilion structure (in the middle of the top photo),

and known as a summer house, has recently been restored.  

 On some occasions, it will serve as a new wedding venue

 at Coombe Abbey Hotel.

I expect I will have to wait until a much

warmer day to actually see a wedding taking place here.

It was very frosty last Sunday :).

CDP Theme Day - Transitions

Transitions in Aviation

Sir Frank Whittle

Inventor of the Turbojet Engine

1907 - 1996

Sir Frank Whittle, a British Pilot, born in Coventry

designed and patented the first turbojet engine in 1930.

Millennium Place, Coventry

This statute of  Sir Frank Whittle was unveiled in Coventry

on what would have been the 100th birthday

of this great inventor from Coventry.

Above the statute is the 'Whittle Arch' -

described as a twin-arch tubular structure.

Below you can see more of the Whittle Arch.

The blue structure is a walkway, called 'The Glass Bridge'.

You can just make out the statute in front of the bus.

There is plenty of construction going on in Coventry too.

More university student accommodation, I am told.

Participating (a day late) in City Daily Photo

Theme Day.  For more 'Transitions' photographs,

please following the link HERE.