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Post by mossie on Aug 13, 2019 15:19:50 GMT
At last I can post something, it takes considerable courage and organisation to mount an expedition into the uncharted wilds of Norfolk. The cathedral will certainly get its money back for hiring the helter skelter, the place was very busy with many excited children, anyway here is the monster The reason given that people should climb this contraption was to enable them to get a closer look at the "bosses" in the roof. These are ornamental studs where the vaulting crosses and were installed when the roof had to be replaced after a fire in medieval times Out in the cloisters where I captured these people enjoying the maze, which is laid in the stone in the grass area surrounded by the cloisters
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2019 15:59:18 GMT
The helter skelter looks like the one that I saw at the Metz Christmas market last year. (I suppose that all helter skelters look alike.)
The maze is brilliant -- the grass just needs a bit of rain, as all of us do this summer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2019 16:51:17 GMT
Yaaaay ~ I knew Mossie would come through!
Mossie, your picture gives a much better idea of the contraption's size and how it fits into the church than the picture in the newspaper did. I had an extra edge of excitement about it since it was only this year that I found out what a helter-skelter was, thanks to a picture on this forum.
Looks like the fun never ends at that church. I love the two little girls in the foreground of the maze photo. Do you know if the maze is very old, or something fairly modern?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2019 17:01:20 GMT
I suppose that it is assembled in several pieces.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2019 17:06:32 GMT
Huh?
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Post by mossie on Aug 13, 2019 18:23:29 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2019 18:41:34 GMT
I figured, but some cathedrals have such big entrance doors that there might have been another possibility for certain places. Then again, when they transport the thing around, they have to take it apart.
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Post by lugg on Aug 14, 2019 7:50:55 GMT
Fab photos Mossie, it certainly is odd but I guess a good way to increase visitor numbers. it was only this year that I found out what a helter-skelter was . That really surprises me Bixa.
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Post by bjd on Aug 14, 2019 12:08:28 GMT
It doesn't surprise me. I would call that thing a slide.
I also saw in the paper that they put a mini-golf course in Rochester Cathedral.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 14, 2019 17:10:14 GMT
I think it's exclusively a British usage, Lugg. Also, I've never seen one of those things in real life! Bjd, is the mini golf course inside the cathedral, or out in the cloisters or someplace? What is this world coming to?!
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Post by bjd on Aug 14, 2019 18:36:19 GMT
It's inside the cathedral, Bixa. There is a picture in the NY Times article about Norwich Cathedral and the Anglican church trying to get people to come in.
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Post by mossie on Aug 14, 2019 19:12:04 GMT
People in the Catholic world take their religion lot more seriously than we pagan Protestants do. Religious attendances have dropped off in recent times, also fewer people bother to get married in church, they just shack up. Anyhow here is one of the roof bosses carefully painted by some medieval craftsman, which I forgot to include in my original post. host photos online
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Post by lugg on Aug 14, 2019 20:02:37 GMT
Did you go up the helter-skelter or just a great zoom to get that pic Mossie ?
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Post by mossie on Aug 15, 2019 9:20:09 GMT
As the No 1 registered coward, no, I did not risk it. I tried to keep my feet firmly on the ground and, with most of the 720mm zoom on my little Lumix, vainly waved the camera round. Actually I was quite tired and had a hard job holding the camera steady while bending my neck to look up, age is not doing me any favours.
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Post by bjd on Aug 15, 2019 11:27:27 GMT
Mossie, one way to take zoomed photos in a church is to rest your camera on a pew or chair so that it doesn't move at all.
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Post by mossie on Aug 21, 2019 15:28:41 GMT
Paid another visit to Norwich Cathedral yesterday, And noted another attraction aimed possibly at children in a side aisle Seeing the bolt in the head, perhaps not so friendly after all There was also a visiting card left by aliens in the medieval period But I got a better shot of one of the roof bosses Here is a general shot which shows that there is a huge number, the Lord only knows how many men fell while erecting these, but building in those days was a very dangerous occupation and this roof is very high
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 21, 2019 18:49:46 GMT
Fascinating details. All of us always wonder "how could they possibly do that in those days?" Even in "these" days, it would be an amazing exploit.
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Post by lugg on Aug 21, 2019 19:20:43 GMT
Thanks Mossie for showing us more of the cathedral. The roof bosses are very impressive close up but your perspective in the last photo really brings it home how difficult the work must have been. Your first photo is really stunning - love the moody sky against the crisp outline of the cathedral.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2019 4:14:25 GMT
So much wonderful detail -- thanks, Mossie! And ditto what Lugg said about that dramatic picture of the cathedral.
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