a sign board in the athelstan museum ... i remember mister saunders

as a boy he'd served in the army in india before the first world war

after the first world war he sold tea from a van in the cotswolds and the severn valley and was frost-bitten

he knew how to break horses

in the nineteen fifties and early sixties, his little grocery shop in saint john's street was still without electricity and lit by tilley lamps

 

even when it is windy and wet, i delight in visiting this spot ...

 

... just on the west side of hungerford bridge

 

but if i'd bet on old skewbald, i'd be a free man today ... funny how the memory leaps around, ennit ?

 

the short reach and the lack of synchronisation of this camera's flash gives a curious mixture of hard and soft images

 

five-thirty in mid-winter is far too late for a waterloo sunset

 

the weather ... and whether size matters

it was windy so the camera probably wobbled a bit ... and i want a camera with a bigger lens for clearer long shots like this one

 

on my way home, a train of pullman diners was parked besides stewarts road in nine elms

... you can see the shadow of the fence on the side of the pullman carriage

the view from the cab approaching the hilton metropole at brighton

 

a david inshaw sky at hilton arundel

 

memorial to lancelot shillito at wartling church

 

a kitchen christmas card manufactory

 

the moon hiding behind a plane tree in cadogan square

 

the arun valley just before sunrise

 

an ashdown forest puddle waiting for more rain

 

unexpected grandeur in the fulham road

 

the millenium wheel from the embankment outside the royal festival hall

 

waiting for curtains up at the national film theatre ... they showed louise brooks in pandora's box ... a silent with a real piano player accompanying

the view of the millenium wheel from platform 9 at waterloo

 

the frolicking gods of saturday afternoon football

 

young's brewery at wandsworth

 

i like the angle at which the lion's crown perches

 

a good job its a belt and not a tape measure !

 

remnants of saint leonard's windmill at winchelsea

 

looking west across brede level from saint leonard's windmill at winchelsea