More About Bryan Hartley
Favourite Sites: New College and Merton College
Favourite Pub: White Horse and The Chequers
Favourite Cream Tea: The Old Parsonage
Favourite Restaurant: Arbequina (Cowley Road) and Pompette (Summertown)
Bryan is not only a Green Badge Oxford guide and member of the Oxford Guild but also a Blue Badge Guide to south east England embracing towns and villages of the Cotswolds, Windsor Castle and beyond.
Brian sings with Oxford’s choirs. The tour Oxford’s Colleges, Chapels, Organs and Choirs is an opportunity to visit areas of the university only open to the public in special circumstances and gain a profound insight into sacred music in Oxford today. A minimum of 14 days notice is normally required to reserve this unique experience.
Walking Tours in Oxford with Bryan Hartley
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visit three quite different Oxford colleges with three very different, but equally breathtaking, chapels. Hear about choral foundations, choral scholars and famous organists in a place which is one of the most important centres of the fabulous English choral tradition.
2.5 Hours
Maximum number of participants: 15
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Oxford University from 1850’ learn about the development of the Sciences, Medicine and Modern Languages within the University, and about the wealthy donors who are making so much of a contribution. Hear how women have finally been welcomed after only waiting almost eight hundred years… oh, and visit a couple of fabulous museums. Private tours only.
3 hours
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A history of medicine at Oxford covering strange ideas about the Plague, discoveries about circulation and cerebral anatomy, a miraculous recovery, and a wealthy, if tactless, physician. On our way we will hear about four Nobel Prize winners - one of whom was discouraged from being a scientist by his elite school.
3 hours
