Helen Stephenson's Groombridge Pictures

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Groombridge Place is a moated manor house located on the Kent-Sussex border near Tunbridge Wells. Stephen and I visited during the Spring of 2004.

These pictures were scanned using the CanoScan FS2710 film scanner.

If you want to see a larger image of any of these pictures, please click on the picture.



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Although the house isn't open to the public, the formal gardens are, and from those gardens there are good views across the moat to the house.

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The flowerpot figure is outside the restaurant. On its left shoulder is a raven, which is part of the figure. Over its right shoulder you can just see a peacock displaying on the restaurant roof.

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Within the Enchanted Forest, there is a bluebell wood.

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There are a number of ponds within the Enchanted Forest. I particularly liked this one, which had a little grotto and waterfall at the back of it.

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The dinosaur and its eggs are also to be found in the enchanted forest. It's near enough to being a dragon that I think my Australian friend Ærchie might appreciate it/her!

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It is unfortunate that you can't see my best picture of the dinosaur, but it was a casualty of the second most stupid mistake I've ever made with a camera: I opened the back while there was a film in it and ruined two dinosaur shots on slide film. Fortunately I had these others on print film in a different camera. (My most stupid mistake with a camera was to try and economise on film and not get the take-up spool to grab the leader properly - and to not realise this until I'd taken about 40 "photographs"! It's the reason why there are no Cerne Abbas Giant pictures on my website at time of writing...)






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