Author Archives: toby1960
Some colour for the last of summer
It would be a pity not to celebrate this last burst of sun and light for the year with something vivid. So here’s one thing old, three things new, nothing borrowed and a bit of blue.
Walks in monochrome
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Steel and sky
Wasteground
This is a companion to the post A liminal place that visited locations around the boundary of Luton airport, borderlands where the tectonic plates of ancient countryside grate against modernity. The new post looks at an acre or two of long-abandoned industrial estate, a place that is rewilding itself, a small corner where flora andContinue reading “Wasteground”
Four New York cliches
Manhattan from Ellis Island Tongue in cheek – the Flatiron Building pace Steiglitz, Steichen et al MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village bars C-list photo shoot, Brooklyn Bridge
Balloons
Just for fun.
St. Mary the Virgin – Letchworth
The oldest church in Letchworth, St. Mary’s has traces of its Saxon origins but is mostly of early Norman construction. It’s a tiny and delightful building on Letchworth Lane with some interesting 19th and 20th gravestones, including one of a Belgian soldier of the First World War, paid for by work mates from the factoryContinue reading “St. Mary the Virgin – Letchworth”
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