Monthly Archives: February 2012

Valentine

Display in Hastings for Valentine’s Day.  Subtle in Sussex. Photo: Hastings, February 2012

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Mixed

Mixed media: stone, wood, metal, blue rope. Photo: Hastings, February 2012

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Land Sea Sky

Start of a possible land-sea-sky series. Photo: Hastings, February 2012

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Pelham

‘Visitors seem to have come [to Hastings] from about 1775 onwards, but architecturally the first event is PELHAM CRESCENT of 1824-8, by Joseph Kay, an enterprise of the first Earl of Chichester.  The crescent rises as it curves, and its … Continue reading

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Outfall

The day I was in Hastings residents at a planning meeting complained about the state of drainage in the town and the disgrace of inadequate sewerage in new housing developments.  This is just surface water (well, in non-storm conditions anyway), … Continue reading

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Cafe Life

The women on the left are chatting; the man in the middle gazes out of the window, hand resting on his i-pad; and the reader of the right is well into the Steve Jobs biography.  A slice of Hastings’ cafe … Continue reading

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All Liable

15.31h Hastings to Charing Cross, Thursday 16th February, 2012 : sleeping on trains is no respecter of persons, we are all liable – I had just woken up. Photo: Hastings to Charing Cross, February 2012

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Commuters

London Bridge Station, 08.23h, Thursday 16th February 2012.  Heading south to Hastings I’m going against the flow. Photo: London Bridge Station, February 2012

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Triple

Triple ephemera: snow, flowers, life. Photo: Mowbray Road Cambridge, February 2012

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Counting

Another little piece of the Wapping technology.  768,602 what and how many times round the clock? Photo: The Wapping Project, February 2012

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Technology

One of the delights of The Wapping Project is the chance to see the heritage of Victorian technology, the robust mechanical engineering that was ingenious, yet functioned in a way that was not totally mysterious.  Technology that was not immediately … Continue reading

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Wapping

Edgar Martins at The Wapping Project: Beautiful and thought provoking (about both photography and the irrationalities of the housing market) photographs from Edgar Martins’ work This is Not a House stunningly hung and lit. Photo: The Wapping Project, 3rd February … Continue reading

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A Hastiness

Walking back to Holborn underground station from the British Museum at 6.15 pm yesterday with RoyH we came across this congregation of cooks loitering in the corner of Great Russell Street and Montague Street.  What were they doing there?  Apparently … Continue reading

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