27 May, 2009

Crouch End Hornsey

A visit to Crouch End, because I've been before but not recently and not knowing about the grade 2 listed library
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There is a commemorative fountain which I dubbed 'the whore in the shower' commemorating the work of the Hornsey borough Council.
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When I called it was turned off, like the other fountain in front of the town hall.

The town clock told inhabitants and travellers the time of day.
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08 May, 2009

Southampton's pretty front garden competition

And if you object to your garden being shown on here then GET IT TIDIED UP! SHAME ON YOU!
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The clear winner! The dustbin collection just gives that edge!
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Weymouth in Dorset

Yes' I'd recommend it to anyone!

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05 May, 2009

Lewes in Sussex

Once the home to Thomas Paine, who I have seen described as little more than an 18th Century Trotsky, I visited Lewes to get beyond Brighton for a time, although my evening was spent in Brighton.

Starting at the Church of St Anne, I had a cup of coffee with the Rector, who showed me round his beautiful church, with anchorite's cell. A very pleasant one.

There are some fine bookshops in Lewes but no self guided walk, which the tourist people would do well to rectify as the town does not give up its treasures easily.

Lewes is the county town of Sussex with courts as well. There were protestant martyrs burnt there too, and every year the bonfire societies burn an efigy of some folk devil, which always used to be the pope but not so much these days.

The Sussex Archeological Trust owns Anne of Cleves House in Southover, a suburb of Lewes and uses it to display their collection of archeological and folk relics. It's good and has some enjoyable exhibits and gardens. Anne of Cleves never lived there though.
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Another suburb of Lewes has this old church (below) with all kinds of relics including an Elizabethan Royal Arms in plaster on the wall.

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The Bloomsbury set liked to live in and near Lewes in all their sexually complicated lives. This round house was once lived in by them - it is the base of a Sussex windmill.

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