This post is part of the A to Z 2020 Challenge. I have decided to theme the posts around personal and societal responses to the Covid 19 crisis, including my resumption of Blogging!
Oxford – The Bridge of Sighs
Oxford is my city of birth and this photograph is from my last visit in 2017 to meet up with school friends. Due to the wonders of the internet, we have been connected by a Yahoo group for over twenty-five years. We used to meet up in Oxford and play the current boys at cricket, but now the youngest of us is 65, that doesn’t quite work! We should have been meeting up again this month but Covid 19 has put paid to that. So this photograph is a reminder of the last time but also of growing up in the iconic city. There is something special about growing up in a place that so many people visit, recognize, attend university at – it is yours but it is everybody’s…
Although this is called the Bridge of Sighs due to a resemblance to the bridge of that name in Venice, it actually bears a closer resemblance to the Rialto Bridge – also in Venice. It is part of Hertford College.
You will meet all again soon, in this beautiful city!
You could have written something about university also.
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What would you have liked to hear about the university – did you perhaps go there?
Thank you Fréderique. Let us hope so..
Are you keeping well?
OK -so, my father was a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Oxford. He was "up" during the war in a very small engineering department that was regarded with deep suspicion within the university generally since it was not an "academic" subject. This led my father to adopt the saying that " to most of the world, the word 'academic' means 'irrelevant'"! After designing the first fiberglass dinghy and trying to get industrial interest in a power generator using the Rankine cycle, he finally settled on Intermediate or Appropriate Technology. He designed an improved rickshaw called the Oxtrike and was a founder member of ITDG.
Oh, I adore Oxford. I've been there a couple of times (Tolkien super nerd over here, ya know) and I totally fell in love with the town. There is a special atmosphere to it, which I can't really explain.
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