This is Alfred Bourne. In addition to his excellent hat and beard game, he was Secrerary of the British & Foreign Schools Society for 40 years to 1908. The Society established about 3,800 elementary schools, on the principal of non donominational education.

Autumnal-ness in Oxfordshire. Quite a lot if these woods have quite young trees. I'm guessing that's because they were used for camps for US and Canadian Air Corps in WWII

This made me laugh

For no particular reason, here is the roof of a church I visited at south Creake. It had a rather nice roof which I looked in a CCT book. It told me it's an Angel roof, of which there are 170 in England & Wales, 70% of which are in East Anglia. Puls single Hammer Beam roof. Thoroughly lovely

The bridge over the mighty River Chater, in Champion land, prime hunting- steeple chasing territory. Heading for the medieval village that was and no longer is, Martinsthorpe