Liverpool Photos

The Museum of Liverpool, the Three Graces, Mann Island and the Albert Dock.

The Museum of Liverpool - opened on July 19th 2011.

The Museum of Liverpool and the Beatles Story Pier Head museum.

The Beatles Story Pier Head museum.

The White Star Line building - from the middle window on the third floor it was officially announced, in 1912, that the Titanic had sunk.

Inside the India Buildings, originally built for the Blue Funnel line, now offices and shops.

The Big Wheel with the Albert Dock in the foreground.

The Echo Arena as seen from the Big Wheel - currently the location of the Labour Conference 2012.

The Big Wheel and the Echo Arena.

A panorama from the Big Wheel.

The World War 2 amphibious landning craft user by the Yellow Duck Marine company to take visitors around the streets of Liverpool then into the docks.

The Yellow Duck Marine in the Albert Dock.

The Yellow Duck Marine leaving the Albert Dock.

HMS Albion is a Landing Platform Dock launched in 2001. She can deploy four landing craft as used by amphibious forces to transport equipment and troops to the shore and can also support helicopter operations.

The Swedish church: Gustaf Adolfs Kyrka, built in 1883-84, for Swedish seafarers and immigrants. Now use for both locals and residents Scandinavians.

The Chinese Ceremonial Archway in Liverpool's Chinatown it was imported piece by piece from Shanghai and is the largest in Europe.

St Luke's Church aka "the bombed-out church" - in 1941 it was hit and burned out by an incendiary bomb. It is occasionally used for arts events.

St John's Beacon built between 1965 and 1969 - it was once a revolving restaurant but is now run by the radio station Radio City and has a viewing gallery.

Looking from St John's Beacon west towards the Three Graces.

Looking from St John's Beacon south towards the two cathedrals.

St George's Hall containing concert halls and law courts, it has been stated that it was "one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world".

The A59 heading north.

The Echo Arena and the Big Wheel.

The Three Graces, the Liverpool Museum and the Beatles Story Pier Head.

A bronze statue of Ken Dodd (who is still alive) unveiled in 2009 at Lime Street station.

UBS Head Offices in London

The UBS head offices where the "rogue trader" worked.

Oxford Photos

A view from the top of Carfax Tower. This tower is 74 ft tall and no building in central Oxford may be constructed higher than it.

The Radcliffe Camera, completed in 1748, is the earliest example in England of a circular library.

All Souls College - it has no undergraduate members, but each year recent graduates of Oxford and other universities compete in "the hardest exam in the world" for Examination Fellowships. There are no teaching or research requirements; they can study anything for free at Oxford with room and board. Past Fellows include T. E. Lawrence and Sir Isaiah Berlin.

Helen near Hertford Bridge, aka the Bridge of Sighs, links together Old and New Quadrangles of Hertford College.

The Tower of the Five Orders at the Bodleian Library.

The courtyard of the Bodleian Library. The library is responsible for 11 million items on 117 miles of shelving, and has a staff of over 400.

Brasenose College whose alumni include Michael Palin and David Cameron.

The Turf Tavern where former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke set a Guinness World Record for consuming a yard glass of ale in 11 seconds.

Legend also has it that it was at the Turf Tavern where Bill Clinton "did not inhale".

Uffington White Horse near Wantage. This highly stylised prehistoric hill figure dates back over 3,000 years, to the Bronze Age.

The view looking north-west from the Uffington White Horse.