http://www.guidedtouruk.com en-gb guidedtouruk.com 2010-3-26T00:00:00Z guidedtouruk.com http://www.guidedtouruk.com/page17.htm#61479 Alice in Wonderland. As well as being a favorite place for Harry Potter Tours a visit to Christchurch is part of an Alice in Wonderland tour. On my tour we will see picture Dean Liddell head of College and the real Alices father. When Alice was a child there was no west entrance to the cathedral so the Dean had to leave the deanery walk along the Quad round the cloisters and into the cathedral . The Dean was notorious for being late for services. Some say this was the inspiration for the White Rabbit. The bells in the cathedral tower were unsafe so the Dean decided to remove them into a wooden shed. Charles Dodgson or Lewis Carroll we know him the author of the Alice book compared the shed to a teachest which we see in the books. The Alice window in the hall features Dean Liddells name and family arms. One of the most charming windows in the hall features the Queen and Duchess White Rabbit and Mad hatter March Hare and Mock Turtle Knave of Hearts and Footman... 2010-3-26T00:00:00Z http://www.guidedtouruk.com/page17.htm#38190 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1behaviorurlieooui Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable msostylenameTable Normal msotstylerowbandsize0 msotstylecolbandsize0 msostylenoshowyes msostyleparent msopaddingalt0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt msoparamargin0cm msoparamarginbottom.0001pt msopaginationwidoworphan fontsize10.0pt fontfamilyTimes New Roman It was a babys foot literally a slice of life from the 17th century. Floating in liquid and preserved in a jar the infant limb is one of thousands of anatomical exhibits in the Londons Hunterian Museum. The nameless baby was a victim of the smallpox one of the relentless infectious diseases which ravaged the big cities. After death the childs foot became part of one of the oldest anatomical collections in the world part of the burgeoning interest in documenting the workings of the human body. If Damien Hirst opened a museum it wo... 2009-3-14T00:00:00Z http://www.guidedtouruk.com/page17.htm#37838 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1behaviorurlieooui Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable msostylenameTable Normal msotstylerowbandsize0 msotstylecolbandsize0 msostylenoshowyes msostyleparent msopaddingalt0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt msoparamargin0in msoparamarginbottom.0001pt msopaginationwidoworphan fontsize10.0pt fontfamilyTimes New Roman I am in sitting the attic where the English language was defined. Where 40000 words were identified described and ordered by Dr Samuel Johnson the author of first modern dictionary of the English language. When Johnson set to work in his Georgian house off Fleet Street Italy had a dictionary and the French had produced their dictionnaire in 1694. We were later starters Johnsons dictionary was published after eight years of hard lexographic labour in 1755. Our dictionary was a home made effort a great British compromise. ... 2009-3-8T00:00:00Z http://www.guidedtouruk.com/page17.htm#37435 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1behaviorurlieooui Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable msostylenameTable Normal msotstylerowbandsize0 msotstylecolbandsize0 msostylenoshowyes msostyleparent msopaddingalt0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt msoparamargin0in msoparamarginbottom.0001pt msopaginationwidoworphan fontsize10.0pt fontfamilyTimes New Roman It was the lure of the Spanish torture chair which made me cross the river to deepest south east London. It is one of the highlights of the Horniman Museum a place which actually does deserve the overworn accolade hidden gem. Behind the honey coloured limestone fa231ade is a Victorian antiquarys bequest reinvented for the 21st century. Here familiar natural history glass cases of stuffed animals are reinterpreted with information about diminishing habitat and evolution Mr Darwin who lived in the nearby Down House would have been delight... 2009-2-28T00:00:00Z