Ashmolean Museum

Been watching Endeavour on Masterpiece Mystery again. The most recent episode was set in March 1967. It was strange seeing Morse & C.I. Thursday wandering around Oxford and sitting on a bench near the Radcliffe Camera. I was working in Oxford in the Summer and Winter of 1967. In September 67 I was sitting on that exact spot in which they were! It looked exactly like that back then. It all appears as if someone borrowed my body and did those things. It could not be the quiet Michael living in Halifax that experienced those surroundings. The Summer of Love;  The Summer of Sgt. Pepper.

Just down from my office, 2  blocks or so, was the Ashmolean Museum. Before arriving in Oxford I was unaware of its status as the first public Museum in western culture. It was neglected and almost ignored back then. I would sit on its steps and watch the world go by.

It is a very changed institution now.

The bottom picture is from the Sixties.