Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 26, 2014February 26, 2014

What is a plowman trundle?

I saw this sign on the side of a building in Bridgwater, Somerset; apparently it was built in the early 1800s and is Flemish-bond cream brick, with stone coping It has twentieth century additions and maybe the sign should actually read ‘W.H.Smith, Plowman and Trundle – Saddler’ – I think! It is a little confusing because […]

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 25, 2014

Stained glass

There is something wonderful about going into English churches… and I guess others in other countries, and in even quite small churches you see the most wonderful stained glass. This is not a really small church, it is the church of St Mary in Bridgewater, but the glass is still quite moving. My picture doesn’t […]

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 23, 2014

Do you dream in colour?

Before colour photography was as cheap as black and white, before films were made in technicolour, nearly all photographic images and film was two-tone. It was a common question to ask… ‘do you dream in black and white?’ No one would say this any more, would they.