a bit of corsham court

 

the folly next to corsham court

this was the backdrop for scene one in a short play called "hamlet, an every-day story of countryfolk", wot i wrote

 

resident doves at the folly in corsham

 

two very important dogs in their malmesbury pied-a-terre

 

i lived in the right hand cottage at 35 horsefair in malmesbury from about 1950 to 1955

 

my brother dave has taken the principle of neighbourhood watch to his heart

 

david forward and his sculptures

 

a garden fence in gastons road in malmesbury

 

a nice old cast-iron sign in malmesbury

 

a segment of the porch of malmesbury abbey

 

a waterspout on the porch of malmesbury abbey

 

an ancient coffin in malmesbury churchyard ... just my size !

 

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