May morning

[greenilex]

I have checked that the Magdalen College choir CD (Presto) is still available.

But I shall listen to Radio Oxbox as usual...

[greenilex]

Well, coverage is proving elusive...but I am too far from Magdalen Bridge to even dream of jumping in, so will rest content with my cup of tea.

Radio Five Live seems to be in charge overall among the BBC local radio stations. Leicester / Manchester football rules OK?

PS Solidarity greetings to you all!

[french frank]

There are usually a few reminiscences of 'May Days I have known in Oxford' - is this the descent into redbrick?

Bristol prefers morris dancing, I understand.

[Pulcinella]

This link might work:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36180964

[jean]

is this the descent into redbrick?

Holman Hunt's painting of the event (one version of it, anyway) is in the Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight, on the Wirral...



...not a million miles from the original Redbrick University:

[Stanfordian]

Holman Hunt's painting of the event (one version of it, anyway) is in the Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight, on the Wirral...



...not a million miles from the original Redbrick University:

What and where is this building please?

[jean]

It's the original Liverpool University building.

The term "red brick" or "redbrick" was first coined by Edgar Allison Peers, a professor of Spanish at the University of Liverpool, to describe the civic universities (under the pseudonym "Bruce Truscot" in his 1943 book Redbrick University). His reference was inspired by the fact that The Victoria Building at the University of Liverpool (designed by Alfred Waterhouse and completed in 1892 as the main building for University College, Liverpool) is built from a distinctive red pressed brick, with terracotta decorative dressings. On this basis the University of Liverpool claims be the original "red brick" institution, although the titular, fictional Redbrick University was a cipher for all the civic universities of the day.

[ardcarp]

Doesn't this count as redbrick?

http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/architecture

OTOH, if you are really going to make a redbrick statement, don't go for half-measures, try:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain_Memorial_Clock_Tower

It's the tallest clock-tower in the world, I believe, and I guess singing from the top might involve super-human feats, such as climbing to the top, not being out-of-breath, overcoming vertigo and having the vocal carrying-power of 100 or so on the Pavarotti scale.

[subcontrabass]

Bristol prefers morris dancing, I understand.

And starts earlier - 4.30 a.m. on Brandon Hill.

[greenilex]

I spent the rest of the day in Palmerston Park at our first May Day festival in recent years. Music was good.A good crowd attended including some rather politically-active students and a fair sprinkling of scarlet on the green.

[greenilex]

Festival coming up again tomorrow, bigger and better I hope.

Remains to be seen whether I will be listening to Radio Oxford earlier on...

[Lat-Literal]

Happy May Day to anyone else who has ever considered knocking down the walls of their house to remove the unnatural barriers between home and garden:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/...3489688655.jpg

[greenilex]

A Green Man - my favourite variety of human, though I do prefer to see his face just a little more clearly than in this example...

[Lat-Literal]

A Green Man - my favourite variety of human, though I do prefer to see his face just a little more clearly than in this example...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WCezqvQsrlo/hqdefault.jpg

[greenilex]

Also nice, though being constructed of wicker tends to make me worry about his longevity.

There are various examples in our local cathedrals which have lasted well.