Bridges and River Crossings

There are quite a few cheap construction bridges over river corssings in my neck of the wood, East Hertfordshire. They were fords, and in effect still are, but recent pedistrian footbridges have been put in place. These are generally concrete and metail, with not much thought to the design. A very utlitarian, agri-industry style. The […]

St Helen’s Bishopsgate Church

St Helen’s Bishopsgate is in the City of London, right by the insurance district where you will find the Gherkin, Lloyd’s of London and the other new high rises. It was a dull day and the camera found it difficult to balance the grey light and grey stone. Robert Hooke was first laid to rest […]

Venetian Walls

Venice is infamous for romance, whatever the time of year. The buildings, the shapes and forms, the services on the outside of the buildings; it all has an equal balance of beauty and decay. I find the walls are just that. Where ever you go, a canal, campo or calle, there are the plastered areas […]

Poperinge

In a Brewery yard inPoperinge, in Belgium, I was stopped in my tracks by a plain, but wonderful wall on the side of a building. More details on the Brewery Museum: https://www.toerismepoperinge.be/hopmuseum

Titchfield Abbey

Titchfield Abbey is a place I grew up with. I remember going there well before starting school picking apples and having fun. Nowadays I go there at least three or four times a year. The place is a shell of a former Tudor house built by Thomas Wriothsley, First Earl of Southampton. Everything is stripped […]

Church Walls II – Orford

These were taken in Orford of the church, St. Bartholomew. When there is lack of good limestone to build your buidlings, other materials are used. In this case, good water-rounded flint pebbles. No-one pebble is alike. And some are like faces.

Woodbridge Walls

Fascinating. Someone’s creativity shines through, using bricks in place of wooden struts. Over time the elements of Woodbridge, which is not far from the open sea, have worn the soft brick away, leaving a bone-like strucutre. Do bricks have bones? Quite appropriately, being a coastal town, the shapes and strucutres looks like fish bones.