But, of course, there is more to Derbyshire than Matlock Bath. “Oh no!” (reader’s voice). Oh yes. I recently satisfied a long-nursed curiosity by visiting Long Eaton. I don’t know about you, but I find that, if I hear an announcement about where a stopping train is going to stop often enough, I develop a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
Peace And Light In Long Eaton
Posted in Architecture, Arts, This England, Trains, tagged Andrew Stoddart, Architecture, Derbyshire, Libraries, Long Eaton, Stained Glass on December 3, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Illusions of Grandeur
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Painting, This England, tagged Architecture, Hedges, Illusions, London, Shard on October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the Spring, I observed the imaginative solution adopted by Kettering Borough Council to the problem of having a Restaurant Quarter with no restaurants, only empty shops – (Facades). Now I see the practice seems to be spreading to London. Exit St. Pancras and see how the works at King’s Cross are hidden from view by this [...]
Fine Energies : Demolition at Moorgate
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Poetry, Sport, This England, tagged Architecture, City of London, Cricket, Demolition, John Keats, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Shard, Warwickshire County Cricket Club on May 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m afraid that circumstances have conspired to prevent me bringing you a full account of Leicestershire’s defeat on Sunday against Warwickshire in the 40 over league. But I think this is an accurate graphic illustration of where the Foxes’ hopes lie at the half-way stage in the competition. A row of shops opposite the entrance [...]
White Buildings … : Foster’s Mill, Cambridge
Posted in Architecture, Arts, tagged Architecture, Cambridge, Foster's Mill on May 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
These are the remains of a large and imposing white building that stood directly opposite, and rather overshadowed, Cambridge Railway Station. From 1898 until last year it would have been the first thing that confronted anyone arriving at Cambridge by train. I always thought it seemed somehow disproportionate to its surroundings and slightly forbidding (not dark, but faintly Satanic) [...]
The Many Faces of Kettering : Northampton House and Station Road in Transition
Posted in Architecture, Arts, History, Painting, Politics, This England, tagged Architecture, Change and Decay, History, Kettering, Northampton House, Northamptonshire, Regeneration, Station Road, Unemployment, Vandalism on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The longer this blog goes on, the more chances it offers to revisit the recent past and observe the processes of change (and sometimes decay). It was about a year ago that I began taking photographs, and I see that one of the first things I snapped were a pair of buildings at the [...]
A Cloud-capp’d Tower
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Poetry, tagged Architecture, City of London, Heron Tower, William Shakespeare on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Actually, the recently [...]
Daffodils and a vanished church : St Mary Aldermanbury
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Church of England, Flowers, History, Nature, Photography, Religion, tagged Architecture, Arthur Mee, Church of England, City of London, Daffodils, Demolition, John Betjeman, Spring, St Mary Aldermanbury on March 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I believe it’s a contractual obligation for any blogger to provide at least one picture of daffodils to record the coming of Spring. I can’t wait for the dozy articles in my back yard to get their act together, so here is a display of daffs from another Garden Where I Sometimes Eat My Lunch. [...]
Ashes to Ashes : Ash Wednesday
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Church of England, Religion, tagged Architecture, Ash Wednesday, Ashes, Church of England, Fires, Penitence, Unfortunate accidents on February 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent and a moveable feast (not the same thing as a takeaway). Traditionally the day (and the worshippers) are marked by the Imposition of Ashes. The priest marks the forehead of the penitent with a sign of the cross made from the ashes of the palm fronds [...]
The Automatic Vending Association and a mariachi band
Posted in Architecture, Arts, This England, tagged Architecture, Automatic vending, Birmingham, Police on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To the NEC in Birmingham. Coming out of the station into the Centre, the first thing I see is a spaniel dancing around a heap of handbags, surrounded by admiring women. Think this must be some sort of dog act (as seen on TV) but turns out to be a random bag search – presumably sniffing out drugs [...]
