A Lofty View

Here's my contribution to the Blipcommunity What's Outside My Window challenge. I've blipped this view from our loft bedroom window before, but it's (marginally) more interesting than the views from the other rooms so here it is.

In the centre foreground our apple tree is dominating our back garden, with the typically narrow gardens of the largely 19th Century neighbouring houses, built for workers in Clarks' shoe factory, either side.

On the right hand side of the roof line, the white wooden tower sits atop what was the village's Victorian Board school, opened in 1839 and taken over by the County Council as a Secondary school in 1903. When the new comprehensive school opened in 1973, the building became a furniture store, owned and run by the brother of Michael Evis of Glastonbury Festival fame.

Over the central rooftops are the now defunct chimney of the Clarks factory and, in the distance, Glastonbury Tor. You'll have to take my word that the Mendip Hills, Cheddar Gorge and Wells are hidden in the haze in the far distance left.

We've had a quiet day preparing for a few days away starting tomorrow, so hopefully a different view tomorrow.

Yeovil had their customary low-key end to the season with a 2-0 defeat away at Colchester this evening