back to the west side of vauxhall bridge to try harder ... agriculture and architecture again

vauxhall bridge ... west side

Bob Speel informs us that : On the upstream side, F. W. Pomeroy was the sculptor. From the south-east side, the first allegorical figure is Pottery, holding a pot, of course, and with very nice drapes; second is Engineering, and holds a Mamod-like fixed steam engine, with 1 cylinder and a big flywheel. Her right hand holds a mallet resting on an anvil next to her. Architecture is next, holding a model of St Paul's Cathedral in her left hand - the fact that the model is about 2 ft long indicates the scale of the statue - and callipers in her right hand. Finally, closest to the north-west bank is Agriculture, with rather magnificent shepherd's crook and a sheaf of corn.

It looks like a scythe to me !

burgeoning excitement between billingshurst and pulborough

turned out nice again in climping

fair to middlin' off rottingdean

bromley-by-bow ... one of my favourite gasworks

snapped one-handed through the rattler's grimy windscreen ... who invited robin ?

star players, posing & in action, at the h&b picnic in battersea park

carters fun fair ... victory dive bomber

carters fun fair ... the coconut shy

carters fun fair again ... the steam yachts

happy

strap on the electrodes luv

carters fun fair is in battersea park until the 19th August

cor blimey ! an irresistably alluring magnolia at ockenden manor

i was delivering sacks of flour along the street & couldn't stop ...

max miller lived 'ere

astonishing and delightful portraits by julian cash

http://flickr.com/photos/juliancash/sets/72157600572658621/show/

sunday morning chores ... the washing of re-discovered spectacles

one year on ... the jack daniel's remains unopened

a bit of local colour beneath vauxhall bridge

the bus is crossing lambeth bridge

allegorical figures by drury on the downstream side of vauxhall bridge

if you are curious about municipal art in london, bob speel is your man ...

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/london/vauxbr.htm

from coombe wood on bury hill, looking down the arun valley

the sea is just a smudge on the horizon

the blasted tree is named "joe bialik's tree" after the best workmate in the universe

... and the image is grainy because i'd left the "film speed" on ASA 1600 by mistake

battersea reference library on lavender hill

in the park at leeds castle in kent

wandsworth road becomes religious

the church at ticehurst

the rocking horse factory at bethersden in kent

cap'n bligh lived 'ere ... i think i'm sufficiently mature to audition for the part !

camouflage exhibition at the imperial war museum ... spy post ... a false tree trunk made of iron

imperial war museum ... the tin hat, by jacob epstein

imperial war museum ... lawrence of arabia's seventh ( and final ) brough superior

humble critturs mindin' their own business beside the bus stop on putney heath

the imperial war museum

cecil harrison, an old chap in malmesbury, who'd flown something like this in the great war, was a pacifist, so he was despised in our little town