Images of Lancashire

This isn't intended as a fully-fledged post and I would have liked to have stopped longer on this occasion to have a look at and take pictures of the village of Hurst Green itself which lies next to it. Anyway. Here is an entry on Stonyhurst College, a large Roman Catholic independent school which is a few miles from Clitheroe (although Wikipedia states that it's in Clitheroe, it would be more accurate to say that it's the nearest town). It's a lovely area to see and explore but I can't say I think much of the building itself.

A lot of moneyed people send their kids there (both from within the UK and abroad) and several very famous people went to school ther, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the actor Charles Laughton and the satirist Chris Morris (he of The Day Today and Brass Eye fame). In the late 1990s a big sex abuse scandal was uncovered at Stonyhurst College.

Anyway, enough exposition and on with the pictures!

The entrance to the Stonyhurst grounds at Hurst Green. It's a pretty little village and I plan to go back there on Friday in preparation for another entry:



A statue of Ave Maria in the grounds:



Long shot of the building:



Some closer shots of the building. There are usually loads of ducks hanging around this area but we were feeding them!





As I said earlier it's not really a proper, full-blown entry but it will have to do until Friday.

Toodle pip!