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Photos of Lyra & Will's bench from the Botanic Garden

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Photos of Lyra & Will's bench from the Botanic Garden

Postby clay-walk » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:41 pm

I traveled to Oxford & London last week from the US to visit the Botanic Garden & see the stage plays. I would like to share some of the images with the forum.

"Lyra led him almost to the end of the garden, over a little bridge, to a wooden seat under a spreading, low-branched tree..."

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This is the view from the bench.

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Postby jessia » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:56 pm

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i have to go look for the rest of my pictures
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Postby Ian » Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:40 am

How did it feel to see in real life what you have read about so many times?
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Postby krebbe » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:03 am

It's looking a bit greener than it did in January:

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Postby blueangel » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:56 am

Wow, thats cool, i didn't realise it was a real place in Botanic Garden, i've never been there before.
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Postby clay-walk » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:14 pm

How did it feel to see in real life what you have read about so many times?
It was interesting to say the least. Since walking through Oxford is so much like walking through the last 800 years of history, your mind & imagination are already quite engaged.

I don't think I really had any real preconceived idea of what I thought it would look like. I have been in a lot of gardens & to England before for horticulture events... The only reason we thought there might really be a "real" bench in the Gardens was because of the photo in "Lyra's Oxford."

We really enjoyed walking into the Botanic Garden and seeing the items that Pullman described that lead us to the bench. It was a lovely morning. The Botanic Garden are quite beautiful.

I was a little taken back by the post above that seems to imply that "Lyra" is scratched on the bench there. I would hope that people traveling to see this location will realize the sacredness of the setting, irregardless of the HDM literature.

We did take a picture of ourselves with our daemons...

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Postby blueangel » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:16 pm

Aww thats cool.
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Postby Ian » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:35 pm

*Phones relatives in Oxford, and informs them that I am coming to stay, despite having exams in the very near future*
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Postby Katita » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:55 am

Awww those pics are awesome!!!!!!!! I wannna goooooo :-( Stupid midterms...
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Postby Enitharmon » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:12 am

Don't forget, also, that we have a gallery of photograms of HDM-related locations on this site.

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Postby Ian » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:36 pm

OMG!!!

I have driven past the horn beam trees, I just remembered. That is my HDM moment of the day.
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Postby Townie » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:14 pm

Walking virtually anywhere through town these days has a somewhat otherworldly feel to it. :shock:
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Postby Ian » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:58 pm

Any other world in particular?
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Postby daemons-master » Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:34 pm

i'm not sure if i'm right but isn't this will+lyra bench http://www.bridgetothestars.net/images/bench.jpg
Admin: Converted to link as the image was too big
(to a wooden seat under a spreading)

Admin: Image removed as it was my copyright image posted without attribution
(it's also a low branched tree)

P.S- it says this at http://www.bridgetothestars.net
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Postby Tomsy » Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:49 pm

i'm not sure if i'm right but isn't this will+lyra bench
Yes, it's the same one as those above.

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Postby krebbe » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:14 am

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Postby Tomsy » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:16 am

Oh Christ. You're going to take my bal-.. daemon now, aren't you?
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Postby Blue Bird » Mon May 02, 2005 8:46 am

Gah, those pictures are beautiful. I hope I'll have a chance to visit there someday...and pretend that Lyra is there with me in a different world. What can I say? I'm a kid at heart.
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Postby Ian » Mon May 02, 2005 10:23 am

I'm a kid at heart.
But you're a monster raving loony on the outside?

There's also some more good photos from clay here
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Postby Rikku26 » Mon May 02, 2005 11:49 am

wow
I knew that the gardens existed but
didn't that they were that amazing
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