Chipping Norton Theatre (above) was created from a 19th Century Salvation Army Citadel building. Its theatrical history dates back to 1975, when the Theatre was opened by Tom Baker, famed for playing Doctor Who on BBC TV. The Theatre now features an excellent Bar and Gallery Space next door, and anyone who goes there knows that [...]
STREET PERFORMERS IN LONDON’S COVENT GARDEN
Covent Garden lies in the heart of London theatreland, and continues to be a supreme shopaholic heaven and foody delight, as a recent visit proved. The place hasn’t changed much since its fruit and vegetable market days. My first time there was to visit a small English publisher, whose offices lay at the top of [...]
THE ENGLISH EYE EXPLORES SCOTLAND’S LEGEND – THE REAL LOCH NESS MONSTER eBOOK NOW FROM AMAZON
The eBook ‘The REAL Loch Ness Monster’ is on sale at Amazon and other internet outlets now. It’s available here for Kindle and iPad, plus other eReaders. The illustrated ‘Visual Companion’ will be out soon, too. Background to the ’The REAL Loch Ness Monster’ eBook is our exploration trip to Scotland, the target: to find the true story [...]
A SHARD OF GLASS THROUGH THE HEART OF LONDON
London’s skyline is constantly changing, though perhaps evolving is a better word, as the basics stay much the same. For example, the River Thames – cleaner now than for centuries past – still winds through the middle, for a country-dweller like me providing a breather from the claustrophobic sprawl of the ‘Great Wen’ (pustule), as [...]
IS THIS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CASTLE IN ALL ENGLAND?
At least one man thought so, the military historian and Oxford University Fellow Sir Charles Oman, in 1898. He certainly didn’t spare his words either, “Broughton Castle… about the most beautiful castle in all England … for sheer loveliness of the combination of water, woods and picturesque buildings.” Other writers have added their opinions, including, [...]
WIND TURBINE – BEAUTY OR BEAST?
The subject of wind turbines seems to polarize opinion very quickly indeed – people tend to love them or hate them. Readers of certain popular newspapers are often loudest among the haters, whereas myself and and others I know are more philosophical, as at least the power from a turbine comes ‘free’. Leaving aside arguments [...]
SNOW BLANKETS COUNTRY
Here in the Cotswolds, it’s been a fairly continuous dose of the white stuff since early Friday – and all day today Sunday. Main roads have been kept open though, so traffic has been light but reasonably free-flowing, ‘drive with care’ being the operative phrase for safe travel. Chipping Norton’s 17th century alms houses (main [...]
50 YEARS AGO – ICE-COLD SKETCHING IN LEICESTER, 1963
I saw a headline yesterday saying that the ice and snow we have at the moment is nothing, compared to the frozen depths of 1963, all of which sparked a hunt through some old school sketchbooks from that time. Found! I don’t recall 1963 being especially cold, more like standard winter fare in the East [...]
AN ANTIDOTE TO THE WINTER CHILL – THE SEVERN VALLEY ON A SUMMER’S DAY
It’s extremely chilly in England at the moment, so to relieve the misty winter gloom, here are some shots I took in the summer. The venue is Cam Peak, on the western edge of the Cotswold escarpment, which overlooks the Severn Valley, the hills of the Welsh borders in the distance. The cows at Cam [...]
I LIKE IT, BUT IS IT ART?
Ever since the earliest days of photography, this question has been raised from time to time: “But is it art?” So to think on the subject, here are three versions of the same image, taken recently at the ancient Long Barrow neolithic site, near the ‘English Venice’ village of Bourton-on-the-Water, in Gloucestershire. “Art is what [...]
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A GYPSY CARAVAN FOR SALE IN THE ENGLISH COTSWOLDS
- A few sketches!
- POOHSTICKS: A GAME BORN AT THE HOUSE OF POOH CORNER
- INTERNATIONAL POOHSTICKS COMPETITION ON THE RIVER THAMES, NEAR DORCHESTER
- Source of the Thames
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