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2017 England Highlights

Pictures of London (9 days) and Paris (1 day) captured with both my iPhone 6 Plus and Sony RX100M3.
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A Bedford hotel named after the famous John Bunyan book, "The Pilgrim's Progress."
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A Bedford hotel named after the famous John Bunyan book, "The Pilgrim's Progress."

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  • Reading material for my trip to Bedford.
  • Flitwick station (just before Bedford).
  • Bedford train stand.
  • A lovely Bedford home.
  • A Bedford hotel named after the famous John Bunyan book, "The Pilgrim's Progress."
  • John Bunyan Museum is a museum primarily dedicated to the life, times and works of John Bunyan. The museum is located in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England.<br><br>

John Bunyan (1628 – 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born in Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress">The Pilgrim's Progress</a>, arguably the most famous published Christian allegory. In the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August.<br><br>

In 1672, the congregation led by Bunyan purchased a barn which they used to conduct worship. Eventually, a church, which came to be called the Bunyan Meeting Free Church, was built on the site of the barn. In 1849, a second church was built which is still used for services. A separate museum building was constructed in the compound in 1998 and the Bunyan artefacts and memorabilia formerly housed in a small museum room in the church were moved into it.<br><br>

The museum's displays recreate a number of scenes from Bunyan's life which also show some of Bedford's social history in the seventeenth century. In addition there are artefacts such as Bunyan's iron violin and wooden flute, Bunyan's stoneware jug he used in prison as well as his will and a third edition of The Pilgrim's Progress. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan_Museum">Wikipedia</a>)
  • John Bunyan Museum garden.
  • John Bunyan Museum garden.<br />
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Inscription on the pedestal: JOHN BUNYAN; Minister of this church From 1672 to 1688. Baptized Nov. 30, 1628. Died Aug. 31, 1688. Buried at Bunhill Fields London.
  • John Bunyan Museum.
  • John Bunyan Museum. The Pulpit Bunyan preached from.
  • John Bunyan Museum garden. One reason that "care should be taken when walking in this church garden" is that those slabs of concrete are tombstones laid flat! This grassy area was once the church cemetery, but had been turned into a garden, and the headstones turned into payment.
  • I guess art is in the eye of the beholder, and there are a lot of beholders in Bedford who don't consider this art. LoL<br />
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"Rick Kirby’s £100,000 commissioned sculpture of two Silver Faces in Silver Street, Bedford was voted the town’s worst eyesore by Bedfordshire on Sunday readers."<br />
Read more at <a href="http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/faces-eyesoresuffers-surroundings-says-sculptor/story-21719913-detail/story.html">http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/faces-eyesoresuffers-surroundings-says-sculptor/story-21719913-detail/story.html</a>
  • A common street in Bedford.
  • <a href="https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/">London Transport Museum</a>. This old map of the Underground train system is a more geographical representative. That approach was replaced by the schematic Tube map, designed by Harry Beck in 1931, (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground#Map">Wikipedia</a>) As a schematic diagram, [the new map] does not show the geographic locations but rather the relative positions of the stations, lines, the stations' connective relations, and fare zones. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_map">Wikipedia</a>)<br><br>

~ A Tube Map app can be obtained <a href="https://www.mapway.com/apps/tube-map-london-underground/">here</a>.<br>
~ The <a href="https://appadvice.com/app/tube-tamer-london-transport-journey-planner/558106521">Tub Tamer</a> app helps you plan your journey. I can't recommend it highly enough!<br><br>

The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, London, seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collection of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for London (TfL) in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all aspects of transportation in the city. (<a>Wikipedia</a>)
  • An early mode of London public transport.
  • A public car would move quicker on rails while horse-pulled than on wheels.
  • Some of the early horse-drawn public street cars in London.
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  • Early London transport memorabilia.
  • Various examples of early London public transport.
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