A short flight with a DJI Mini 3 Pro above St Barnabas church in Jericho half an hour before sunset. Canal and railway are alongside to the west and towards the city you glimpse University buildings and the HQ of Oxford University Press.
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Thanks. A reminder of my youth as a student there for most of the seventies.
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Cheers, if you lived in Jericho there were plenty of pubs around then - somewhat reduced in number now. And of course the Lucy Iron Works are gone too.
Not to mention the Radcliffe Infirmary!
In which case you might enjoy this video, taken on the old RI site. Construction work on a new centre for the humanities:
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Thanks, Howard. I think thatâs taken from the Walton street side. I was up there on the Woodstock road earlier this year (June). I blagged my way into Green college and took photos of the Tower of the Winds and the gardens. Also the Pathology building, which was quite new when I had practicals there!. I think this building work is mainly where the old âhutted wardsâ were. They were put up in the 2nd world war, around the same time as the Churchill was built (I think by the Americans). âThe hutsâ were still in clinical use for patients in the late 70s into the early 80s. The first bit of the new John Radcliffe (JR1) was built was the Obs and Gynae dept, where I delivered 19 babies as a medical student. It still irks me that I didnât have the opportunity to make it a score!!. I went down to Plymouth for my first House Job, then back to Oxford for the second (surgical) house job. The second JR phase had opened by then, with the path labs operational, and after a month or so at the RI, the Nuffield Dept of Surgery was the first team to move up to the JR2. So the NDS and I were the first clinical team to move into the new white building - which is probably much bigger now than it was then!
I also took some drone pics from above Jesus college (my alma mater), but it was the day of the gay pride march, so all the streets were packed with crowds, which I couldnât overfly. So mainly stills of the college and its environs, and some distant shots of the JRI.
William
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Oooh, thanks - I remember seeing the drone shots earlier. I live up behind the JR in Old Headington, not far from the White Hart pub, which Iâm sure you will know.
Yes the hospital is quite large and has expanded in all sorts of ways, most notably with the West Wing, which houses the childrensâ hospital and the eye hospital (formally in a portacabin on the Walton Street side of the RI site).
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