Looking up from Oxford Cornmarket Street - where the city's medieval corn market stood - we see this strange juxtaposition of Christmas decoration and
Looking up from Oxford Cornmarket Street - where the city's medieval corn market stood - we see this strange juxtaposition of Christmas decoration and historic building. Although it's only October, the seasonal decorations are up already; they seem to be getting earlier very The oddly shaped Tom Tower is a landmark bell tower, named after its huge bell, Great Tom. It is over Tom Gate, on St Aldates, the main entrance of Christ Church, Oxford, which leads into Tom Quad. Great Tom, housed in the tower, is the loudest bell in Oxford. It weighs six and a quarter tons and was moved from the 12th-century Osney Abbey after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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