Pam & Alan's Europe 08-09: English Photos part 2

After London came Pam's cousin Henry's family and house in Stowe Maries, near Chelmsford in Essex. After that comes Pam's cousin Frank's family & place near Saffron Walden & Cambridge, including some of the lovely buildings in Cambridge & Saffron Walden esp the traditional rendering found in the area.
You will continue to notice Pam's love of old buildings.
After Frank we move to our friend's Kim & Chris and their house in Alvechurch, near Birmingham and then the gathering at our friend John's place in Birmingham, incl. our greeting by Baabaara the sheep, Pam's 50th birthday cake and John's OBE medal. For more details, read the previous blog.
Finally we move to Alan's Aunt Joyce in Shrewton, near Salisbury, her village, and lunch with her daughter Mitzy and some of her family, plus a few shots of Stonehenge taken from the car because I didn't want to pay to go in.

Henry & Family

Henry's House with Henry, Liliane & Pam

The family: L-R Liliane, Lucille, Corrine, Sian, Henry

The Family: L-R Henry, Pam, Lucille, Liliane, Sian, Corrine

Henry & Alan with the TVR sports car

Their property from the back window showing all their fields and stables

Henry in the snow.

Pam on the public walking track that crosses their fields

The local church in Stowe Maries - note the weatherboard tower - there were a lot of weather board buildings in East Anglia - this surprised us as we are used to stone and brick in England

The storm approaching Malden, a nearby town on a river estuary.

Frank's Family, (Newport, Saffron Walden & Cambridge)

Frank, Jill, Alexander & Alan in front of Frank's house (a converted historic barn)

Family Group L-R: Pam, Reece (or Rhys?), Samantha, Frank, Jill, Charles, Alexander

Family Group L-R: Alan, Pam, Samantha, Frank, Jill, Charles, Alexander

7 x historic buildings in Saffron Walden or Newport, incl traditional rendering

3 x Cambridge colleges incl green trees (just for Pam!)

Our Birmingham Friends

Pam, then Kim on the canal path opposite their new house (a converted brick factory!)
Canal boats a bit further upstream
Please note, that these photos still look dark and wet despite using photoshop elements, because it was literally pouring with rain when I took them (Only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" and I might add the pouring rain. As I do both, what does that make me???!!!)

View of the canal from inside Chris & Kim's lounge
Group shot L-R: Pam, Kim, Chris, Alan, then Chris on her own with a boat passing by

John & Baabaara greeting Alan at John's place

Pam's 50th birthday cake presented by John & Barbara

Group Photo L-R: Kim, Barbara (in front), Alan, John, Jim, Chris & Pam

Pam, John & Alan with John's OBE awarded in 1999 for Services to Libraries

Joyce & Family, Shrewton, Wiltshire

Alan, our hire car & Joyce's block of houses

Alan & Joyce outside her place

Alan in the local churchyard looking for family (they weren't there! Remeber the photo of the church that was in our dining room collection - this is the cemetry for that church)