Woolsthorpe Manor- Birth place of Sir Isaac Newton

This is the manor house where Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1642. When the plague came to Cambridge and it was closed from 1665-1667, he returned home. 

Manor House

While home he conducted his experiments in splitting light into a spectrum of colors and his theory about gravity.  The apple tree under which he worked is still in the garden.  It blew down during a storm, but rooted and grew again.

Famous apple tree

 

The house was very small with two big rooms downstairs, a small parlor, a kitchen scullery attached to the rear, and two large and one small bedroom upstairs. 

Large parlor downstairs
 

It did have an attic for servants, a cellar for food storage, as well as many out buildings.  The farm consisted of more than 300 acres in Newton lifetime growing all that they needed to survive.

Longwool sheep raised in Newton's time. It has a higher quality of wool.

 

             Wimbledon

 

England’s BBC has the policy that any major sporting event is televised live, for free, to the country.  As a result all of the Wimbledon matches have been shown. Yesterday was sunny and all the neighbors were out enjoying the English summer. (It’s often short or doesn’t appear.) The time came for the Wimbledon final and it was obvious the whole country was watching as it became silent. Everyone is elated for Andy Murray to be the first Brit to win in England in 77 years. No wild parties in our neck of the woods just lots of smiles.