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The Five's Oxford
I recently went on a trip to Oxford and took lots of pictures of places of importance, or that could potentially have been important to The Five. I know how frustrating it is to have a picture and not know what context it is in or where it was taken from, however, so I have provided a small map as reference!
3. Assorted Architecture on Cornmarket Street.
4. Assorted Architecture on High Street.
5. St. Mary's Passage leading to Radcliffe Square
6. The Radcliffe Camera (All Souls College in the Background)
8. The Radcliffe Camera (Entrance)
10. The Clarendon Building (Part of the Bodleian since 1875)
12. The Ashmolean Building (Now the Museum of the History of Science)
13. The Bridge of Sighs (New College Lane)
15. Queen's Lane
16. Queen's Lane (looking towards the High Street)
Lady Margaret Hall
Before leaving Oxford, I decided to sneak into LMH to try and get a couple of pictures of Old Old Hall. However, I ended up at the back entrance of the college and was completely lost, so I was going to get caught. I decided to stop posing as a student and play nice with the porter. It more than worked, because he gave me a guided tour of the place!
Although people associate Lady Margaret Hall with the red brick Talbot Building and the other beautiful structures and grounds that make up the quadrangle, the original college that was founded in 1878 was just a white brick house on the main street.
The porter was kind enough to get the keys to the old entrance, so that he could guide me through the house as it would have been used in the Victorian era.
As you walk up the front steps and through the main door, you enter a hallway that is dominated by a stairwell covering two of its walls. There is a door to the right and one in front. I believe there is a third door on the wall ahead, but unfortunately I was a little overwhelmed! To the left, there is a small, separate hallway which contains a bathroom and a further room on the front side of the house, and a stairwell leading downstairs on the back. These rooms would have been the dining room, study room / library and the reception (sitting) room in the 1800s.
Downstairs there is an assortment of reasonably large rooms. These, I am told, would have been the kitchens, the pantry, the scullery, store room and staff quarters.
Upstairs there are about five rooms on each level, plus bathrooms (the upper floor and the attic space). These would have been the bedrooms for the original students at Lady Margaret Hall, who studied under the first principal, Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth.
Below are a few pictures I was fortunate enough to take.
