the playground railings at cross hayes infants school

a hundred screaming kids would rush to the railings at the beginning of morning break, just in time to see the only train of the day crossing the narrow meadow on it's way to malmesbury station ... and if we screamed loud enough, the driver and the fireman would wave back to us

 

i learned to tell the time by this clock as i made my late runs to the matinees at the athelstan cinema

 

half of the apostles in the porch of malmesbury abbey

 

robert and felicity hitchings ... you'd like them !

 

james watt ... beautifully modelled in majolica ... maker unknown

an eureka moment !

he's holding a spoon against the spout of a kettle ... note those undone buttons on his weskit ... the face is angelic & the hands so gracefully articulate ... a very fine piece of work