Golden Gates....

Life blew me to Warrington this morning and then dumped me for two hours with nothing to do. I'm going to have to have a word with life. Fortunately I had my little camera in my pocket so I went off to see what I could find. And I found the Golden Gates.

The story is that they were built to be installed at Sandringham House for Queen Victoria. But when she went to have a look at them, the company who created them had erected a statue of Oliver Cromwell near them. The Queen was not amused. Hadn't Oliver Cromwell had her ancestor, Charles I, beheaded? Well she didn't take the gates and they sat in the foundry's yard for the next 30 years. Eventually they took the fancy of a wealthy, Warrington industrialist who bought them and presented them to the town to be erected in front of the Town Hall. And there they are today,

They are a little too OTT for my taste so here's one of the angels standing on the top of them...