Little lanes such as these should be able to speak for they have much history to share.
The name obviously refers to a pub, but we were on our way to the Pitt Rivers Museum!

It was probably as long ago as the late-1980s or early-1990s that I had visited this museum, but I always wanted
to return as the collection is so versatile it needs numerous revisits to take it all in.

The original donation consisted of approximately 22,000 items; this has now grown to a wopping 500,000 items!
Many of these have been donated by travellers, scholars and missionaries. [Wikipedia, more..]

Pitt Rivers Museum website

What could be more British than the pub!
This is the White Horse pub, next to Blackwell's bookshop on Broad Street. It was also a 'Morse hangout'.

This seems a good time to consider Oxford's streetmap:

The many brownish markings are the Colleges of Oxford University, we'll have a look at some of them here.

We were fortunate to have arrived at Open Doors Weekend, which allowed
entrance to several of the Colleges (at least past the gate and into the grounds).

Wadham College happened to be closed but I was allowed a look past the gate.

The famous bridge in New College Lane: 'Bridge of Sighs'. It connects to Hertford College (right).
It is a unique backdrop which features in a number of the (Inspector) Morse, Lewis and Endeavour episodes.

Keep following the winding lanes and you'll end up at a College: not surprisingly (walking on New College Lane) we
arrive here at New College.

The Cloisters and the Chapel are of particular note. Renowned for its grand interior, some of the stained glass windows
were designed by the 18th-century portraitist Sir Joshua Reynolds and contains works by Sir Jacob Epstein and El Greco.

St Edmund Hall

Tombstones recycled for use as steps.

James Sadler, the first English aeronaut.

These Colleges all have produced famous names: politicians, writers, artists, etc. Perhaps these boys will be famous too?

Lunch at the Cafe Loco; look at who has been here too.

Alas, Brasenose College remained off limits for us.

Balliol College, our visit coinciding with their 750th (!) anniversary.

'Fellows Bicycles Only'.

The oldest parts of the college are the north and west ranges of the front quadrangle, dated to 1431,
respectively the medieval hall, west side, now the 'new library' and the 'old library' first floor north side.
The ground floor is the 'Old' (i.e. Senior) Common Room.
This means that Balliol's 2nd library pre-dates the publication of printed books in Europe!

Covered Market

Nuffield College.

From its inception, Nuffield College initiated a number of trends at both Oxford and Cambridge.
It was the first college to have both women and men housed together. It was also the first college to consist solely
of graduate students. In addition, it was the first in modern times to have a defined subject focus, namely, the social sciences.

I was allowed to take a photo of the Concierge Station, but only after certain items had been
removed from view and the window had been closed.

Quite a modern hall.

Christ Church College & Cathedral

Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the diocese of Oxford, which consists of the counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. It is also, uniquely, the chapel of Christ Church College.
[Wikipedia]

John Locke (b.29Aug1632 – d.28Oct1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an
English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring
prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant. Locke was the first to define
the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa.

Lincoln College

Lincoln College, or offcially: The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln.
It was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, then Bishop of Lincoln. It is the 9th oldest of Oxford University's colleges.

A number of notable alumni have attended Lincoln College including John Radcliffe, Howard Florey, Nevil Sidgwick,
John Wesley, John le Carré and Dr. Seuss.

The college chapel was built in late perpendicular style between 1629 and 1631; its windows are enamelled rather than
stained, which is a process of painting the windows then firing them, a complicated procedure.
They are the work of Abraham van Linge, who was an expert in this technique. [Wikipedia]

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Exeter College is located on Turl Street, where it was originally founded in 1314 by Devon-born Walter de Stapeldon,
Bishop of Exeter, as a school to educate clergymen.
From its foundation Exeter was popular with the sons of the Devonshire gentry and has been associated with
a number of notable people, including the novelist J.R.R. Tolkien.

The chapel was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and constructed in 1854-60,
which was heavily inspired by the Sainte Chapelle in Paris.

We were treated on some a capella singing, which had an entralling quality in this church.

The Radcliffe Camera, which features as a backdrop in almost every episode of the Inspector Morse (et all) series.
Seen from the Fellows' Garden of Exeter College.

The University of Oxford (informally referred to as Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a
collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096,
making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the second-oldest surviving university
in the world, after the University of Bologna.
It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.
After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge,
where they established what became the University of Cambridge. [Wikipedia]

We had to visit one more Inspector Morse hangout: the bar of the Randolph.

The center photo has Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse novels, raising his glass.
The photo on the left has Inspector Morse with his sidekick Detective Sergeant Lewis (he became the main character
in the Inspector Lewis tv series, after John Thaw had died). John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse on the right.
That photo on the left also has Sir John Gielgud portrayed, which must have been the 1993 episode 'Twilight of the Gods'.