Monthly Archives: September 2015

Light 50

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Chroma Cromer 2

Hub of wheel of tractor used on the slipway for hauling fishing boats out of the sea and up the shingle bank, Cromer.  Transient abstract painting by salt corrosion.

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Chroma Cromer

Photo: Cromer, Norfolk, September 2015

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Light 49

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Faceless

Number 20 Piccadilly: ‘J C Cording & Co Traditional British clothing for gentlemen since 1839’. A smooth, faceless mannequin hiding behind a veneer of good taste.

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Light 48

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Burwell

Pevsner describes St Mary Burwell as ‘The most perfect example in the county [Cambridgeshire] of the Perp ideal of the glasshouse…a feeling of great spaciousness’.  In 2015 the Sunday Communion service draws a congregation of about 20; about 60 meet … Continue reading

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Private World

One of the pleasures of travelling by train is to imagine the lives of others from overheard conversations, the books and papers they read, the files they riffle through. Life stories can be built up from the little they reveal. … Continue reading

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Light 47

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University Arms Hotel, Cambridge

On 8th August 2014 in a post on my BRH Associates WordPress site, in the context of hotel design in Cambridge, I said: “The 1965-66 rebuilding of the Regent Street front of the University Arms Hotel by Feilden and Mawson … Continue reading

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