Scott made his own pilgrimage: we visited the home of Edward Jenner, the father of immunology. Dr. Jenner claim to fame is that he figured out that exposure cow pox could protect people from small pox and began using small doses of cow pox to vaccinate people against that terrible disease. Thanks to the good doctor's, the world is now free of Small Pox. His home now houses the Jenner museum which has interesting information on Jenner's life, small pox, and immunology in general. 
The photograph on the right is of Scott in front of the Temple Vaccinia (I think that's what it was called) behind Edward Jenner's home. He vaccinated poor people for free there.
Just accross the way from the Jenner home we found Berkeley Castle. The Berkeley family still lives there (and has almost exclusively since it was built in about the twelfth century). which (obviously) made it a very different place than the ruins of Kenilworth we saw earlier.
After seeing Berkeley Castle we found a nearby iron age hill fort near the village of Uley called Uley Bury. As far as I know there has never been any building of any kind there, the fort is an earthwork: a man made hill dating from about 300 B.C. I found the site most interasting as a nice walk with spectacular views of the Severn Valley and across to Wales. We took this photograph by putting our camera on a watering stile (I made up that name-- it seemed like a stile from far away, but in the end was a watering trough for the cattle that now graze atop Uley Bury).
No comments:
Post a Comment