bolney lychgate ... i wonder why they thought latin was preferable to english ?

et in caram parentum suorum memoriam tam desideratorum

henrici huth et augustae ludovicae sophiae huth

hanc porticum amoris et pietatis causa st(r?)uxit filius

anno salutis mcmv

bolney church

coat of arms photographed in near darkness in bolney church

you often find an old coat of arms in a church, usually in some dark recess

i'm not really sure what their purpose was but sometimes the painting is rarther well done

i wonder if someone somewhere is an expert on their history ?

bolney churchyard has some unique gravestones, long and thin with a ball or disc at each end, no one knows why

more mossy graves at bolney

another 4am visit to the nymph in sloane square

the parish church at old heathfield in sussex

in memory of robert hunt

window in memory of robert hunt at the church in old heathfield, sussex

he sailed to america with captain john smith

he celebrated the first anglican communion in the new world at jamestown

he perished there not long afterwards

lanterns on the south bank

part of the view from the south bank

a curious incident

an usher came out of the queen elizabeth hall to insist that "tripods are not allowed !"

yet there is no sign forbidding them

he threatened to call security because i was unwilling to comply

can anyone explain ?

portsmouth skyline from porchester

portslade docks in a frosty dawn

 

"behind the desk sat an attractive blonde with long expressive fingers ..."

 

passing a gate which is usually closed, i spotted this old sign in the car park of a neighbouring company

 

... a very skilfull drawing

 

wadworth's northgate brewery at devizes

 

ellen rose forward ...

... waiting for a train

nice old lettering at bradford-on-avon

 

bradford-on-avon pigeons holding a meeting

 

a steeple in trowbridge

 

corsham steeple

to my eye, the weathercock has a chinese dragon sort of style about it

 

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