st.laurance's church, hawkhurst, kent

a curiosity ... all the church windows were blown out when a german flying bomb exploded in the churchyard in 1944 ... the restoration was celebrated in 1957 & so this church has a posh set of big nearly new windows, though i didn't find them attractive as the main theme seemed to be heraldic ... oh, the agonies of empire ... and the figures, which i haven't bothered to photograph, seemed to lack animation & emotion, neither of which any religion can really do without

 

mysterious heraldry at st. laurance's church, hawkhurst

the battersea elephant, again !

he's still there, or at least he was at about a quarter to four !

 

the battersea elephant, and again

the light was just a little better & the elephant was still there so i took some more pictures this afternoon

 

?animatronic? elephant

i couldn't get close but managed to get this view from the nearby railway bridge across four lanes of traffic

 

more battersea elephant stuff ..

if you blow this one up you can see some of the hydraulics behind his trunk

 

more battersea puppetry ...

this ?animatronic? girl must be about 25 feet tall

they were just dismantling her when i arrived at the roadside opposite the power station this afternoon

sorry the picture is fuzzy, it's only a little camera & she was about three hundred yards away