Ziggy’s Zizzi, with Aladdin Sane’s stripe in the pavement, Beckenham High Street
August 18 2019
Sunday: papers, roast and football on TV
August 17 2019
Stop
August 16 2019
A view toward central London from Canonbie Road, Forest Hill, South London
Today’s photo is similar to one I took here back in December 2017. The main differences are: location – I am a little higher up the hill for this image; the trees are now in leaf; the light is more diffuse here; my colour treatment is warmer than with the other photo, and I have used a 3 by 6 aspect ratio here as apposed to the 2 by 1 on the previous photo.
August 15 2019
Thornton’s Corner, Beckenham High Street
August 14 2019
Summer!
August 13 2019
Eggpectation
August 12 2019
The morning view from Camber Dock, Portsmouth toward the Shabab Oman II, a full rigged training ship belonging to the Royal Navy of Oman with the Sailing Barge Alice in the foreground.
August 11 2019
Both the Polaris Highway and Queen Mary 2 dwarf the Red Funnel ferry in Southampton Harbour.
August 10 2019
The Portsmouth Kite Festival was too windy for many.
August 9 2019
The sky-walk and viewing platform at the Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
August 8 2019
Portsmouth Naval Memorial detail. Southsea seafront. It’s as though these guys are looking out for all of us.
August 7 2019
Same difference
August 6 2019
Beckenham in my hand
August 5 2019
A new shop in the High Street
August 4 2019
If yesterday was about the past then today has been about the future
August 3 2019
Mum. January 3 1928 – August 4 2014. Always in our hearts.
August 2 2019
Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery
August 1 2019
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
July 31 2019
Harris Academy (formerly: Kelsey Park Sports College; Kelsey Park School for Boys; Kelsey Park Secondary Modern School for Boys; Alexandra School for Boys.)
At the end of summer 1969 I began my secondary school education on this site.
The School had opened the year before transferring all the teachers and boys from Alexandra Secondary School based in Parish Lane Penge, to the grand location of Elgood Playing Fields in “posh” Beckenham and granted a name to suit.
Given that it has been fifty years since I enrolled here, and the fact that I hadn’t seen any of the buildings in over 45 years as the school is hidden behind houses and accessed by a secured driveway I decided to phone to see if I could enter the grounds to take a photo of the buildings. Here is the result.
Nothing accept the location and long access drive remain of the school I remember, but being there brought back memories of many of the names and faces of the teachers and boys I was schooled by and with.
Mr Lock, Lake, Rolinson, Howes, Duval, Mann, Davies….
The changes at the school should not surprise me – 50 years is a long time – but it I do regret the repeated changes of school name as it does break with the past. Indeed that is probably why the powers that be do it.
One day, one photo 