After eating breakfast in the old wooden dining hall with the college shield hanging on the wall above the head table, we met in our classroom for orientation and a discussion of places we will be visiting in southeast England. During the break we went on a walk to the Covered Market to purchase some newspapers to bring back to the college. As we sat in the old seminar room reading the different newspapers we tried to determine which were more liberal and which were more conservative. All of them were surprisingly fair and balanced. In Britain reading the newspaper is much more common than it is in America.
We went back to the dining hall for lunch before leaving the college for a walk to Iffley Church. It took a while to get there with everyone walking so slowly. On the way to the church, we saw the track where Roger Banister ran the first sub four minute mile. I run the 800 m and 1600 m in track so I truly appreciate the significance of this achievement. The church in Iffley is a Romanesque, stone Norman church that was built during the thirteenth century. There were beautiful stain glass windows lighting the church.
We walked back along a canal and on to the River Thames. Each of the different colleges has a boathouse along the river or shares one with another college.
David Dameron
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| Class time at Brasenose. |
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| Blog author enjoys sites along the Iffley Road in Oxford. |
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| A "Fir Tree" differing from the snack bar at WFS. |
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| Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Iffley. |
Lock keeper's house at Iffley Lock; canal leading to the Thames.
Returning to our rooms in staircase #11, New Quad, Brasenose College.
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