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THE WEAVERS’ COTTAGES OF ARLINGTON ROW

By on April 24, 2009 in arlington row, bibury, Cirencester, cotswolds, weaver, william morris, wool

This video gives you a quick peep at an architectural piece de resistance, the brain-meltingly picturesque Arlington Row, in Bibury, not far from the handsome town of Cirencester. The Cotswold stone cottages once housed weavers who supplied cloth for ‘fulling’ – cleaning wool to remove oil and dirt – at Arlington Mill, also in Bibury. [...]

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FINDING THE SOURCE OF LONDON’S ‘OLD FATHER THAMES’

By on March 23, 2009 in Cirencester, cotswolds, London, Old Father Thames, River Thame, Source of the Thames

According to the map (circled in the pic) the River Thames rises in a quiet field not far from Cirencester, a handsome old town around 100 miles west of London. The nearest road to the source is a busy one, but there are some places to park, and after a false start or two, camera [...]

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Art on the Thames

By on March 21, 2009 in Cirencester, river, source, spring, Thames

The theme of the Thames exploration is “art”. I love doing quickie sketches and miniatures, to capture tiny fragments of a place in a personal way, so that’s the aim of this journal. Who knows, I might even get round to putting up a gallery – that’s if the pieces are any good of course! [...]

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