A Birthday Celebration

It was Stephen Wass's 60th. He invited ten of us to a private dinner at Ettington Park near Stratford on Avon. Ettington Park is a magnificent neo-gothic pile in extensive grounds with the river Stour running through.

The entrance hall with wellies

The house through the (possible) Saxon window in the ruined church. The church was abandoned when the gentry exercised their right to enclose - and kicked out the locals and cleared the village.

Dinner for 10 in the chapel

Stephen can't leave his archaeology behind. There's a dilapidated summer house in the grounds and he and Verna saw parallels with the one at Farnborough Hall and asked me to take some pictures.

A ruined tunnel system in the grounds. Possibly an ice house or maybe a grotto.

Here's the birthday boy

And here he is with Verna


















There are more images here should you be interested