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| 1. Me and the knocker on Durham Cethedral. It's a replica
of the real one that they had on show inside the cethedral. The Cethedral
was biult in 1100. The knocker offered sanctuary for anyone who was
running away from the police of anything like that. So they could
arrange to either leave the country or sort out whatever the prblem
was 2.Durham Castle from on top of the Cathedral. We were staying in the round part on top of that little hill (called a 'motte'), The Keep. We had a huge room with four beds. We don't know why. The doors in there were old and heavy so it was realy hard to go anywhere without making a huge noise. Our room had four towels, a basin, four cupboards and a window which looked out unto the courtyard. |
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The two end towers on the Cathedral in Durham taken from the tallest tower. There were more than 350 steps to get up to the highest tower. We could see every where around us from up there. It was the highest place I had ever been in my life. Apart from aeroplane that is. You can see all the little streets and houseds in the background. |
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0 The Dun cow on a wall on the cathedral which led the monks carrying St Cuthbert's coffin (chest) to the place were the Cathedral was built. That is why Durham use to be called Dunholme. St Chuthbert came from Lindisfarne and was born around AD 600. We saw the chest that St Cuthbert was carried in. It had carvings of saint's and writing all around it but there wer only a few pieces left of it. We saw Cuthberts tomb and it was very glamourous. St Bead also came from Lindisfarne. He was born in ??? and wrote the Lindisfarne Gospels. And we saw his tomb in the Cethedral. It was fancy but not as fancy as St Cuthberts |
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The Durham Castle dining hall. We had breakfast in here. Inside it had lots of pictures of scholars and a huge stain glass window at the back and lot's of pikes, old guns and suits of armour at the back. Just to the right there was an old stair case that led up to the students' rooms. When It was built it was supposed to be a staircase that was totally supported by the wall but the engineers miscalculated the weight of the oak wood and the staris now slope inwards, even with a beam going down the middle. On each students room there were two doors if you had both of them shut it meant that you were out or busy. If you had the front door open it meant that you were able to entertain guests. The stair part of the castle is falling slowly down. They pumped tons and tons of cement into it but it is still falling down. The can tell because the nail a piece of plastic to the crack, and then, in a while it will snap. |
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1. We were only passing through when we found it. The Observatory in
Middleston was built buy Thomas Wright around 1750. We had never before
seen or herd of it until we went there. You couldn't go inside but you
could see through a wondow that there wasn't much space. It was about
four metres tall and two metres in diametre.
2.The plaque on the tower commemorating his book and him. The plaque says,
This observatory was erected by Thomas Wright, born at
Byers Green 1711, died 1780. To commemorate treatise The Theory Of The
Universe published in 1750, this tablet was placed here by The Universsity
Of Durham 1950.