Ray's Photos

[Rayge]

Cheers TWfN and indeed MtM
Moving right along, First week of December last...


Risen


Clinging On


Tug-o-Stick


Rude Intrusion


Raddling Rams


Racing Rabbit

...

[Rayge]

Part Two
It's 1984-5 or 1987, but it's definitely London


Wednesday Night at The Mansions


Visual Ragtime


The Arena
Newly decorated hall at Mansions, venue of great mini-frisbee derring do-nuts
I still have the bentwood chairs - sitting on one as I type this – and the bass body hanging on the wall


Censorship


Absence


Chilled
Pussa relaxes

soon come

[Rayge]

Part one still pootering in Deepest Devon just over a month ago


Faded, Still Glorious


House of Light


Corner


Cold Front


Mole Hunt


Swollen

Tomorrow, OMG, That London!

[Rayge]

Part Two
These definitely from the later Eighties


Abandoned Hope


Perched
3-year-old Tallullah surveys the scene in the Mansions in the few months she lived there in 1987


The Lodgers


Stripes
No idea where I took this...


Gravity


Swan Trug
Matt & Sarah at the Mansions


Ranunculus

Tomorrow, back in Xmas 84

[Rayge]

On the weekend of 9 December, I ventured forth to That London (via the south Wales home of the sponsor of this trip, Phil the Prof) to visit old friends I hadn't seen for over a decade - my football team, currently camped out in Wembley, and a uni pal (and room-mate in no less than three student lets) and her family out Wimbledon way.


Setting Out


Arch
For this parking spot, Phil paid about £35 upfront


Replacing Divots
The view from the gods


Half-Time


Full Attention
Tashi the Tibetan Terrier gets on her hind legs


Family Dynamic


Total Tart

Next time, back to that Devon

[Rayge]

Part Two
Warning for those of a sensitive disposition: these pics from around 1984 Xmas feature members of my family


Where's Chekhov When You Need Him?
left to right, Good old Auntie Ciss in the murky pinny, Hatchet-Faced Hilda the Xmas Blight, Mum


Newmarket
Ma is obscured in this one. The one on the left is grumpy Aunt Glad. She is how I can date this with confidence, as she died the following year. The token male is the only surviving spouse, Edwin, married to The Hatchet. A friendly and funny man, but cringe-makingly patronisingly racist.

Just for fun, here's the four sisters 55 years before

The Edwards Sisters
1929 or 30. Ciss is in the cloche, the other three in sacks


Toots and Tallulah


Precision


Chris & Penn


Peep Show

back soon, although maybe not tomorrow.

[Rayge]

Continuing to unspool December last in Part One, back in the archives in Part Two


Chicks Behind Bars


Communications Centre


Contained
The garden at Furlongs


Good Grass


Mammoney
Xmas Market in precincts of Exeter Cathedral


Chestnut Mare

More of this sort of trenchant comment 2morrow

[Rayge]

Part Two
Back to London, mid-1980s


Foggy


Doggy
Chip tries to watch TV while Butch, Tosca and Toots vie for the holy place in front of the gas fire


Big Scary World


Big Hefty Tome


Warm Tones


Wooden Bones


Gulls


Brighton Beach

More South Coast fun to come, here, tomorrow.

[Rayge]

Devon in mid-December in part one, and I'm starting to exhibit symptoms of the virus that would define the rest of the month...


Chosen
A random shaft lights up a 16th-century shop on the cathedral green


Great Tit at the Fly-Through Diner


Several Other Green Worlds


Scream


Peoples Park Piddler


Waving, not Drowning

tbc

[Rayge]

in Part Two, from the mid-80s, we start in a stoner's lair in Brighton, then move back to London for more of the similar


Dramatis Personae


Asparagus, Aloe, Candle


Sages


Grandmother



Jim and Sebsi
God how I loved that pipe. Perfect delivery for single hits of North African hashish


Angular Dementum


Off

more hot ’80s inaction tomorrow

[Rayge]

The week or so leading up to Xmas and the virus has pretty much floored me, but I'm still stumbling about with his dogness


Good Time Girls


Raddled


Prelude


The Pause That Refreshes


The Last of It


Elemental


I Told You I Was Ill

Tomorrow, Xmas spirit

[Rayge]

In Part Two, in mid-’80s London, it's turned decidedly chilly.


Slide


Skate


Run


Line-up



No Play Today


Wrassle

CUN24

[Rayge]

Xmas is icumen in, etc, in Part One. Part Two is wintry in the mid 1980s.


Strike Up the Band


Doggy in the Window


Bears


Xmas Eve


Well-Dressed


Multiplication


Candy Jar

Tomorrow, back to Nature

[Rayge]

Part Two
London, 1984/5

It's a Worry


New Guys
Pound coins were introduced in 1983


Tangled Up in Mist
West Heath


Avenue


Highgate Ponds


Pigeon Rink
Gladstone Park


Gazehound


There's Always One
Bill, the youngest of my mother's siblings, coould never be doing with family Xmases, but since he lodged with Auntie Ciss, had no alternative but to sit in the corner with a book - usually a western – and ignore everything

unstuck in time tomorrow

[Minnie the Minx]

Fabulous
Love the gulls pic, that's wonderful

[Rayge]

As threatened: Part 1 is out and about after Xmas in Deepest Devon, while part Two stumbles around my past.


Fallen


Angry Creedy


Mmmmm [Drool]... Fencepost


Puddles


Showers May Turn Wintry Over the Moors


Sunny Interval


Green Lines

More rural gloom tomorrow

[Rayge]

Part Two
Mostly London in the ’80s, thoroughly unchronologically


Belsize Road, Dawn
View from the flat I lived in 1989-90


Reg Goes for Cool, Misses
1987


Willesden Sunset
1989?


Blue and White
Timeless


Further Adventures in the Dying Light
Also timeless


Freeholb for Sale
Taken on a sentimental trip back to Tottenham. I briefly knew a guy whose parents ran this shop back in the early Sixties.


Ooof
This was the way I walked to school 1959-60. Some time in the early 1980s, they closed the road just beyond the railway bridge and built this socking great thing across it.

more darting about tomorrow

[Rayge]

We all know the drill. Part one, just after Xmas last year


Pathway


Argument


Fly-Away


Goat


Goatier


Tuning Up


First Lesson
Delayed trip to visit descendants, bearing guitars.

Next time, more from the last days of 2017

[Rayge]

Part Two
Tottenham and Brighton at various random dates around 30 years ago


Bruce Castle


The Old Tree


Saturday at the Spurs
Sunset viewed from my season ticket seat at White Hart Lane


Best Idiot
Fisherman Bob speechifies at his big brother's wedding in Brighton in 1991


Radiate
Jim Boone turns on the charm at the same wedding


Empty
Don't remember the occasion - a strike maybe? - but I never saw Paddington look like this before or since

Won't be tomorrow, but back soon

[Rayge]

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