Itâs my favourite time of the year, fruit trees blooming, the damsons and Blackthorns, and here pears in Boston Manor allotments, in full flower. Stunning! Apples still to come! đ
Sudbury Town station is absolutely glorious! The modern building is from 1930/31 by the great architect Charles Holden. Very well looked after too and has a second hand bookshop! What more could you want?!? Music choice, Nicky Hopkins, the legendary Sudbury raised rock pianist.
Love this sadly abandoned 18thC subway with its colourful mosaics, at Richmond, under Petersham Road from Terrace Gardens to Buccleuch Gardens. I imagine due the complexity of the mosaic work using I am guessing by the colour, broken iron slag, it will be a complex expensive job to renovate. Itâs Grade 2 listed. Also note the little Coade urn, made, it says in Lambeth in 1791. The Coade factory was where the South Bank Centre is now.
And a few more pics from weird West/Wycombe the first ones from the @wyrd_wycombe space in Wycombe. Wyrd Wycombe have a festival on Sunday 1st Feb with @new.moonmorris dancing and the Wycombe Wyrm will be released!
Been under the weather lately but couldnât resist a tour of the Hellfire caves in West Wycombe last weekend with the multi-talented @stevyncolgan and @maxcrowreeves , and they are as amazing as I had hoped! Definitely worth a visit but remember your head/torch! đ Cheers Stevyn!
A lovely, and Iâd say old, sewer amenity access cover in Kennington Park Gardens, while on the trail of #austinosmanspare who grew up in close proximity and judging by the date would have seen, ignored and or walked on or around on his way to St Agnes School or Church. Yes thatâs a rat hole!
Bakerloo have the, imo the best, and oldest carriages on the underground. Itâs called 1972 Stock and dates from 1972-1974. Easily the most comfortable, and most attractive imo and now over 50 years old and apparently with years more service in them! Luxury compared to more modern tube and overground trains. I know Iâm lucky I donât have to commute on these everyday and might regard them differently but I actually love getting these! đ The old long gone Metropolitan line trains were even better iirc. Hawkwindâs Silver Machine also from 1972! đ /wiki/London_Underground_1972_Stock
Another music playing weekend away and surprisingly, for me, my first visit to/ walk in the Quantocks and damn theyâre beautiful, in a small way! Amazing views north across MĂ´r Hafren, The Bristol Channel, to south Wales, Barry and Cardiff in the distance, , and west to Minehead and Exmoor! Glorious! Didnât see any Red Deer though. Music by Camsell Downing who Iâve not come across before but I do like this song.
Really amazing to be part of the celebrations yesterday at @ben_edge_art exhibition at the ridiculously beautiful @fitzroviachapel , celebrating Benâs amazing paintings and his incredible new work Albion, celebrating @maxcrowreeves brilliant book of Crossbones photography, listening to John Crow and Micalef speak their magic, celebrate the spirit of Crossbones and above all celebrating Albion! And really great to play for and reconnect with the joyous @belles_of_london_city An afternoon of joy! I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem, in Englands green and pleasant land! #paulrobeson #benedge #fitzroviachapel #maxcrowreeves #bellesoflondoncity #crossbonesgraveyard
Not 1, not 2, but 3 guard or jostle stones protecting this corner in the lovely Newmanâs Passage off Rathbone Place. Interesting fact, the word jostle, apparently, comes from jousting and relates in the case of jostle stones to the stones being knocked against, bumped, pushed into and the word also therefore was used, in olden days, as a word for having sex.
Lovely short walk up Hanter Hill on Saturday. Itâs in Wales, just the other side of the border from Hergest Ridge. Spot the Welsh border sentries! Views west further into Wales of the massive granite quarries of Old Radnor that have almost completely removed 2 hills in the last 50 years. And south to the Black Mountains I think, and east to Hergest Ridge.
