More bricks in the wall
Just an ordinary wall, built for a purely functional purpose……each brick was made by a boy or a man working in a brickyard somewhere not too far away…bricks and flint, and two metal things, a wall in Cookham,Berkshire
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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
Something about old sheds…
This perfectly harmless shed or workshop was just there minding its own business, but the quality of the light and the proximity to a very old stone circle made it look strange and mysterious… and somehow creepy…
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Bricks… …shiny bricks… steep bricks… …peepbo bricks… …pipey bricks… All at Wotton House in the Surrey Hills
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Ever since my friend Andrew wrote about ghost signs, I’ve been seeing them everywhere… here is one I managed to snap as we drove through Dorking. If you want to read Andrew’s thoughts on them, have a look here: http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/tracking-down-story-behind-ghost-sign.html … or here: http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/two-ghost-signs-for-one-story-out-in.html … and also here… http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/that-ghost-sign-on-beech-road-painting.html
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The best pot pourri…
In my pursuit of Nottingham jars… I don’t think I shall ever find an actual one, and even if I did it would probably be too expensive, and even if it wasn’t I’m trying to get rid of things not acquire new things… but in my pursuit I came across a completely different sort of […]
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We came across this interesting shop in Canterbury… We weren’t able to go in, but spent a while just gazing into the windows… I can’t find out anything about it, but next time we’re in Kent, maybe we’ll visit! The Saracen’s Lantern
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Lois Elsden 