Two thousand pounds ($3,000) as it turns out. It was a full size aftermarket plug compatible Dalek in a toy shop window. Apparently if it had been a genuine ex-BBC dalek with working death ray it would cost twenty five thousand pounds, so it’s nice to know that the market provides a more economical alternative for anyone fancying a quiet evening of Extermination and Annihilation. Seeing it close up was scary, particularly as the store had no sofa to hide behind.

St. Mary’s Church was celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death by displaying a first folio alongside a copy of the King James Bible.

In the evening they also had a concert of settings of songs and poems from Shakespeare, given by an choir called Da Capo, which we went along to and thoroughly enjoyed. Here’s some more pictures from St. Mary’s. Stained glass window in the nave.

Tomb of Richard de Beauchamp, thirteenth Earl of Warwick.

Note that his head is resting on his helmet, which has a battle swan on top of it. I told you swans were dangerous.

We had a drink (Becks Blue seems to have cornered the market for non-alcoholic beer in this part of the world) at the Roebuck Inn.

Their web site says they date back to 1470, but the building is from the late 1500s, and there doesn’t seem to be any record of it being used as a pub earlier than 1806, so not everything is as old as it claims. James Branch Cabell once said he loved all the quaint historic buildings in Saint Augustine, Florida, as he had watched most of them being built. Still, on an English scale, a hundred years here or there doesn’t make a lot of difference, except of course for “Shakespeare’s Birthplace” in Stratford which was constructed a few years after Shakespeare was born. Now I have told you that, if I die suddenly in mysterious circumstances blame the Stratford Tourist Board.

After that rant here’s some more old buildings in Warwick.

Finally a bright pink Deux Chevaux (which is French for two horses, after the two horsepower engine.)