180 Degrees

I took two shots from the same spot, but in opposite directions. So turning 180 degrees.

The building in the blip is Peover Hall, originally completed for the Mainwaring family in (I think)1585. It has had the usual chequered history. Changes of ownership, requisitioned for the use of General Patton and his staff during WW2, and then used for returning prisoners of war and then people returning to the UK after the partition of India. In 1950 it returned to the Brooks family, who still live here.

Very quiet today. We met only one person, an elderly gardener. He showed us inside the walled garden. More lawn than garden, used for a bit of Polo knock about it seems. This part of Cheshire is Polo country. A bit beyond us !

Turning around, and looking between parkland trees, is the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank. Operational from 1957, it was the radio telescope that tracked Sputnik, the first satellite. The Soviet Union as then was shocked the West and took the lead in the “Space Race”.

It’s been a funny old day, triggered by a phone call. Life is never as straightforward as you want it to be.