Monday 23 November 2009

Ely Cathedral

Here's a few shots from our drive-by visit to Ely Cathedral. We first saw this place on the BBC documentary called "How We Built Britain" which aired a couple of years back, and thought - that'd be worth a look.

How We Built Britain was an enormously cool show, and David Dimbleby is a pretty cool presenter,travelling about the country from building to building in his bomby old Land Rover. It's worth a look if you manage to catch it. The Cathedral was also enormously cool - as was the weather that day, for which we were enormously unprepared - we still had our beach gear on as we made our way back from Norfolk.


The Cathedral. Construction of the "modern" building began sometime around 1080 we understand. Big, isn't it?



Lucy and Nana out the back.


This looks like a shot from an album cover - not sure if the band's any good though!


The obligatory shot from inside the Cathedral. We're still not sure if this is bad form or not.



And here's a quick vid of the girls catching ladybirds outside the Cathedral - there was a plague of ladybirds last summer, so they were literally everywhere, but do you think this stopped our two from being fascinated every time they saw one??? Of course not!




And if you're interested, here's the opening titles to the show, as found on YouTube.
And here's a clip from the show.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8yf31AAjv8