Ray's Photos

[Rayge]

Still 1989, mostly early autumn late summer: lurking in London in Part one and out and about around Bristol and the Forest of Dean after that



The Tide is High
Lapping the Embankment


Zoo Mist
From Primrose Hill, Regent's Park Zoo in Foreground


Icons
From London Bridge


Under Construction
North bank East of London Bridge before the Walkie Talkie, Cheese grater, Gherkin and others built. Spire of St Dunstans still visible among the cranes


Canyons
Another Wren church buried, NatWest building behind

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Part Two
Off to the South-west


Comfy?
Snoozy Tallulah


Lapcat
Pussa the ancient asleep on Chip's legs


Cat Hotel


Sniffable
Sally in dog heaven - the Forest of Dean


Lakeside
May actualy be a hammer pond.


Trail

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Part three




Fun Guys


Best Girl


Bracken Bridge


On the Waterfront


Long View


England
The Forest is West of the Severn, officially in Wales. On the way home, we drove along the high ground looking out across the Severn Valley

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Part Four


The Malvern Hills



Chestnut Mare

At the Mad Hatter's Cafe. Great place to get tea; quirky, indeed trippy, as all get-out. I wish I could remember the name of the village

Dresser


Mine Host


Tea for Four

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Part Five
Maybe that same day, maybe later, on the English side of the Estuary


Pylon


Bay Area


Severn Bridge

And back in Bristol

Balloon


Sumac

Back soon with some from February this year, and more from 32 years ago

[Rayge]

A short and sudden sojourn in 2021, with a few from last month, which was as sodden and gloomy as February usually is in south-west England, and also pretty damn cold. And both my cameras were playing silly buggers (get your excuses in early, lad)


Wild Weir


Blue Sky Sinking


Grouper


There Used to Be a Path


Housing Crisis


Outnumbered

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Part Two



WitchHazel


Laughing Buddah


Part Company


Whirls Within Whorls


Chips

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Part Three


Write Your Own Caption


The Brown Stuff


Beached Egret


Mackerel Sky


Meadowlands


Bursting with Joy

Next up, the last days of Feb and back to ’89

[Rayge]

First finish February, then a few from 1989.


Times Past


Let's Pretend


Lunch


Portal

At this point, the zoom on my camera stopped functioning

Wet Way


Gaps


Lock

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Part Two
And a right jumble from 1989


Mango Sundown
Sunset at Mangotsfield Common


Eh?
Corbel in a church I can't place


Time


Street Life


Patience


Windsor Knot

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Part Three


Lamplight

Scatter
Finally got myself set up at my new apartments in Belsize Road


Kitchen


Gunship Diplomacy


St Dunstan's
Wren church spire (which inspired that of the parish church in Faversham, where I lived for four years in the early 1970s) dwarfed by new builds downstream of London Bridge


Monument
Column marking the start point of the Great Fire of 1665

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Part Four


Reflected Glory
More old and new in the City of London


Complimentary
The only international I ever attended, a freebie for sub-editing a book on tactics for Charles someone-or-other, an FA bigwig and promoter of Direct Play, which was based on a complete misunderstanding of statistics. Didn't have the heart to point that out, just got on with it.


Daylight
Sobering to thing that, 30+ years on, I still have everything in that picture (including the hibiscus!) save for that rather handsome frosted glass vase.


Cote D'Azur


Tropical Hot Dog Night


Wow, Man, the Textures

More very soon (I hope and trust)

[Rayge]

A few more from 1989, since I'm at a loose end


Ripped Revelation


Sage Advice
For those hard of reading - Keep of drugs – stick to acid


Golden Geese (and other floating fowl)


Hail to the Chief


The Illuminati Woz Ere


Sally

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Part Two


Biorigami


Pigeon Post


Crucible


Beasts


Belsize Road



Bustered
The humiliation of Pussa

More soon

[Rayge]

Oh well, not that soon, then. Still in 1989, autumn definitely, and a visit to Weston-Super-Mare, or more specifically Birnbeck Pier, north of the harbour


Southward


Wobble


Two Piers
The pleasure pier, which burned down sometime in the late Nineties or early Noughties, in the distance on the right


Brean Down and Rock Pool


Decay

Back to London for a bit

Dragon


Tiger

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Part Two

Cut


Reg


Urban Sunset


Likewise - in the Park


Chimney Pots

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Part Three
Down Memory Lane (other streets are available) in Tottenham


Freeholb for Sale
Used to play chess with a kid who lived over and behind this shop. He was a lot better at it than I was


Barrier
Used to walk to school along here: blocked off now by a socking great leisure centre built across Clyde Road


Bruce Castle


Ramifications
Bruce Castle Park


View from My Seat
Season ticket seat at White Hart Lane


East Stand


Lights On
Spurs vs Derby County

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Part Four
London from 1989, but otherwise displaced in time

Reg Again
Loved those sunglasses. Originally came with flashing lights, but that did not last long


Deco
Kilburn High Road


Striding Out


Elephant House
In Regents Park Zoo. The green-roofed thing in the middle distance at the bottom of the hill


From Primrose Hill






Viewpoint
Strangers on top of Primrose Hill

Back later this month with more from then, and some from last month