The bare backside of Beckenham High street
Tag: realism
August 26 2019
Branded Steakhouse, Beckenham
August 19 2019
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 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 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 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.
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.
July 26 2019
I found this little Peacock Butterfly on my desk. Sadly dead, but beautiful nonetheless.
July 24 2019
An early start for the fast – 40 plus knot – hovercraft ferry crossing to Ryde and passing Spitbank Fort Hotel and HMS Queen Elizabeth’s navigation aids.
July 23 2019
HMS Queen Elizabeth looking massive against King Stairs Jetty, Portsmouth Harbour
July 21 2019
Southsea Food Festival
July 20 2019
Morris Dancing at Hotwalls, Old Portsmouth
July 19 2019
Monuments to the past and the present, Hotwalls, Old Portsmouth
One day, one photo 