This is a fantastic museum, really well done, especially when you compare it to some other similar museums* in the UK that look a bit ragged round the edges in comparison IMHO. We’ve visited Duxford any number of times since living in London. My OH grew up in Cambridge (just down the road) and so …
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A visit to the Natural History Museum
I have been in love with London’s Natural History Museum in South Kensington ever since I was a small boy and I went on several school and family trips there. I developed a lifelong facination for Dinosaurs and other creatures as a result! Visiting it more recently, I began to appreciate the magnificent architecture of …
The view from my office window
I’ve posted this scene so many times on Facebook, but I’ve always loved the view from my office window, ever since we moved to this building. Now it looks like we might be moving out of the building, and if we do, I will miss this view a lot. Here are a few shots of …
The Lightmills of Leadenhall
I was in Leadenhall Market grabbing my lunch this week and I wandered over to the market stalls under the cupola. I had seen one particular stall before selling what I thought was glass ornaments. When I looked at them I realised they were Lightmills, otherwise known as a Crookes radiometer, which consists of an …
iPhone 5 vs X-Pro1
This is an immensely silly post motivated by no more than having some fun. Of course the iPhone will be worse than a camera with an APS-C sensor, it has a sensor about the size of a grain of rice… Nevertheless this is a fun comparison to show people why a real camera is worthwhile …
Drone Wars
On my way back from a Chiropractic Appointment of all places I came across a protest in front of Tower 42 (which many may know by its old name of the Natwest Tower). These days Natwest are long gone, the building is multi let and I’m led to believe one of the tenants is General …
Christ Church Spitalfields
Yesterday, inspired by my walk past it the other day, I popped into Christ Church Spitalfields, the magnificent Church next to Spitalfields market. Christ Church was built under the Act of Parliament of 1711 which required the building of fifty new churches to serve the new populations on the fringes of London. The Act established …
Spitalfields Market
Today at lunchtime I walked through the churchyard of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate and then on to Spitalfields. Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. There has been a market on the site since 1638 when Charles I of England gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to …
Jaguar XJS
It has rained pretty much all day today so all I’ve done is clean and clear junk from our back bedroom. I”ll be honest it didn’t look like a great day for photography. Having assembled a bag full of old books I took it over to the nearest charity book bank in a nearby Sainbury’s …
A walk past Rectory Farm
So this old, dead farm is coming very firmly back to life. To those who haven’t seen my other posts on this topic, there was a derelict farm not far from where I live in Enfield, North London, which has been planted up as an arable farm and “brought back to life”. Yesterday we went …
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