On our drive back to Cardiff from York, we stopped at Preston to see some church history sites. We met a guy there that Tom knows, Peter, and he was our tour guide for the morning. It was great.
This is where we met Petah. It's called Market Square, and it's where the very first LDS missionaries taught. President Hinckley also taught here when he was a missionary in Preston during the 30s.
This is the view of one of the old inns in Preston, possibly where the missionaries stayed during their first few weeks (Peter is in the foreground, but you can't see him very well)
The other side of the street, where another old inn sits that could have possibly housed the missionaries on their first stay
A really pretty old church in Preston that I took a picture of just because :)
An alleyway where one of the first converts and his wife lived. He was originally Jewish, converted to Anglicanism, married an English wife, then heard the missionaries teach, got baptized, and moved to Nauvoo. While there he tutored Joseph Smith in German and Hebrew (this guy knew 7 languages) and practiced dentistry in Brigham Young's parlour. Wish I could remember his name....
View of the house of an elderly widow where the missionaries stayed for a longer period of several months. This is where they had that vision recorded in Church History.....crazy story. Anyway, the place went up for sale several years ago, the press heard about the story and started calling this place "The Devil's House." It still sits empty, and has never been sold.
Pretty park in central Preston where all the rich people's servants used to take their laundry to dry. So basically the center of Preston gossip...
The River Ribble, where the first baptisms in Britain took place. It's gorgeous.
Me in front of the Preston (Chorley) Temple
With some of the pretty flowers in front of the temple doors
After our tour of Preston, we drove a few hours more until we stopped at Powis Castle in Wales, home of one of the largest collections of Far Eastern paraphenalia in Britain. I and one other girl from our group got left behind on the tour......which is just as well since we weren't allowed to take pictures inside the place, anyway. So we got more time to roam the gardens (which were quite extensive) and take pictures...
This is a side view of the castle. Straight through the doors is the courtyard and such, to the left is a steep hill at the bottom of which is the parking lot (whoopee) and to the right is a steep, landscaped hill leading down into the gardens
On the back side of the castle, from the terrace below. This is a little greenhouse-type place built into the hill, looking out over the gardens. Very picturesque.
Only a partial view of the gardens - they stretched from above where I was standing to where the treeline is. You can get a sense of how large and varied they are.
Another back view of the castle, with both terraces in view. Only about half-way down the hill leading to the rest of the gardens.
View from the far garden of the castle (left), holiday cottage (middle) and servants' quarters (right). I wasn't kidding about the gardens being huge.
After Powis we all loaded up in the van (again) and asked our GPS "Gypsy" to take us HOME! We hadn't been in Cardiff since Monday morning and were so ready to take a short rest from all the craziness!
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