The next time that you’re on your way to Matlock Bath by train (as I’m sure you will be shortly!) you may find that you have to spend an hour or so at Derby Station, before changing trains. If you ask politely, the Station staff will be only too happy to allow you out of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sculpture’
The Midland Railway War Memorial, Derby
Posted in Arts, Sculpture, This England, tagged Derby, Sculpture, War memorials, World War 1 on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Summertime at Moorgate and Wantage Road
Posted in Arts, Sculpture, This England, tagged City of London, Northampton, Salvador Dali, Sculpture, Surrealism on June 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
(Warning – this post contains images of nudity) A couple of pieces of public art to welcome the arrival of Summer. This is from the City of London (outside Moorgate Station) This is advertised as being by Salvador Dali. In fact, it appears to be have been fabricated by a dealer based on a illustration [...]
April, by Helen Hunt Jackson (Warning – this post contains an image some viewers may find offensive)
Posted in Advertising, Arts, Clothes, Media, Poetry, Sculpture, tagged Helen Hunt Jackson, Jack Wills, Outrages, Poetry, Praxiteles, Sculpture, Spring on April 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Over to Helen Hunt Jackson, for her preview of the new month. April No days such honored days as these! When yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beauteous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in [...]
In the Gloom, the Gold Gathers the Light Against It
Posted in Arts, Church of England, Poetry, Religion, Sculpture, tagged Church of England, Crucifixion, Ezra Pound, Frank Roper, Gloom, Light, Peterborough Cathedral, Sculpture, Winter on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m either a little late for this, or a little early, but I understand that either the Monday just past, or next Monday, is meant to be the gloomiest day of the year. This Monday certainly felt thoroughly gloomy to me, though I feel things have brightened up slightly since then and the (dread phrase!) “direction [...]
Three Canopied Niches : J.L. Carr and Kettering Parish Church
Posted in Arts, Church of England, Religion, Sculpture, This England, tagged Church of England, J.L. Carr, Kettering, Northamptonshire, Sculpture on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago (El Salvador, Nerja) we witnessed the despoliation of many Spanish churches during the period of the Civil War. We have, of course, been through a similar process ourselves (albeit for different reasons), during the Reformation and then again during our own Civil War. But here is evidence of a small attempt to [...]
Another green man : Sir Alfred East
Posted in Arts, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, tagged Alfred East, Alfred East Art Gallery, Busts, Damien Hirst, Green, Kettering, Northamptonshire, Photography, Sculpture, Statues on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another statue – the great advantage of taking photographs of statues for novice photographers being – do you see?- that they don’t move about. Following on from what I was saying about the statute of John Betjeman at St Pancras, and its hue, here is another very green man – the bust of Sir Alfred [...]
The ghosts of Fleet Street past : Three Printers by Wilfred Dudeney
Posted in Arts, Media, Newspapers, Photography, Sculpture, tagged City of London, Gardens, Ghosts, Goldsmiths' Company, Newspapers, Printers, Sculpture, Statues, Wilfred Dudeney on March 21, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Another statue. From a distance, given its location, it looks a little like the Tomb of the Unknown Yuppie, but it’s really something quite different. This is situated in a garden where I sometimes eat my lunch – the Goldsmiths’ Company garden. It was originally commissioned by the Westminster Press and stood just off Fleet [...]
Too green? John Betjeman at St Pancras
Posted in Arts, Blogging, Photography, Poetry, Sculpture, Trains, tagged Green, John Betjeman, Photography, Poetry, Sculpture, St Pancras, Statues, Trains on March 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I would just like to announce that this blog has now entered a new era, and has taken a further step along the road to becoming a true Multi-Media Experience. I have managed to acquire a digital camera (by inheritance from my daughter) so readers had better brace themselves for a brief, Toad-like outbust of [...]
