Ray's Photos

[Rayge]

In tonight's thrilling instalments, part one is floundering about in Devon and Somerset last month, while part two is out and about in late October 1987.


Primeval


Regret


Laid
Hedgers at work


The New Place


Kitchen


Boy vs. Tree part 1,798


The Long Plantation


Gated Crossing

More from then when I get some edited

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[Rayge]

Part Two


Shelter
On Weston sea front


Cleft
Just north of Weston


Sunset over Exmoor


Snuggled
Mangotsfield


Needs Orange
Carlton Mansions


Horatio and Martin
Central London

next time, whizz! Bang! Guy Fawkes night at Ed's

[Rayge]

In Part One today, November 5 1987, and fireworks at Ed's place. In part two, the last week of January this year.


Roman Candle


Sparklers


Sign Writing


Disc


Eruption


Shower


Pink

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Part Two


Orange
One of the less challenging colour schemes in the new house in Taunton


Taking Possession
A moiety of my record, book and CD collections taken over in a symbolic gesture of ownership


Hello in There


Primulas
The shamefully neglected winter garden in Sandford still capable of the odd flower


Scrap 1
Crediton


Bandstand
Likewise

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[Rayge]

In part one, signs of life, and not-so-life, in the Devon countryside in late January. In part two, London in November 1987, scanned from slides. Enjoy.

Or else...


Standing Tall


Three Graces


Up and Under
Snowdrops


Rush


First Out

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Part Two

Two from the Mansions to start

Caligula's Hoard


Cars Hiss By My Window

Central London for the rest

Pub


Hell and Heaven
I loved the Atlantis bookshop. Just seven short months from this date, I would let a hairdresser near my head for the last time. Bastards


Let Me In
The owner of the cafe awaits admittance


Slaver


Slosh
Very high tide on the Thames, looking downstream from the Embankment towards Blackfriars Bridge

Next time, snow in part two and Westminster sunsets in part one

[Rayge]

Today, in part two, it's getting to the end of January, and Devon's rather insipid version of the white hell – well, white heck – is back. Before that, though, out and about in London in November/December of 1987


Bridge


Clock
The Strand




Two Sunsets over the Thames


Gormenghast


Bend
From Putney, looking downriver

Next time, the last of 1987

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Part two


A Light Dust


Council Chamber


The Fallen


Unfurling


Entrance


Queen of the Hill


Blue Sky Kinking

that's it for today

[Rayge]

In part one today, the last of last month: and in part two, the last of 1987.


The Village


Drops in the Wood


The Prickly Seat


The Devil in the Detail


Drama in the West


Tremble


Delve

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Part Two


Lap Usurper
Sal, Bella and Chip, Mangotsfield


Post No Bills


Winter Light
Gladstone Park, London


Walkers
As above


Waterfront
The Avon at Bath

And that's it for the year. No knowledge of any Xmas shots - maybe this was the year that C&I were supposed to go to my mother's for Xmas, but didn't make it because we both got a nasty virus

[Rayge]

Today, a quick dip in the bran tub of (mostly) the early 1980s, then, in Part Two, a few chilly snaps from the beginning of this month.

Begin with a few visitors to the Mansions in the early 1980s

Glyn and Paul
Two friends from University days. I've known Glyn from the 68-69 academic year, half a century, my second-oldest chum. Paul, older than both of us, came to Kent as a mature student in the early 1970s. He married Frankie (whom you've seen before), and through her we got to be good friends, although we lost touch after Chip died.


Hobson Expatiates
Michael Hobson was a former student of a friend of Clive, who became a friend. The girl, Clive's eldest by his first wife Jean (whom I met when I was ten, when I started at secondary school). She was born in 1974, so I'm thinking this was 1982 or so


Drawing


Nick and Hazel
In the early eighties, several Aberystwythians used the Mansions as a stoned stop-over when on their way to or from Heathrow


Wild Water
From Hove, looking toward Shoreham


Burnham Beeches: Detail


Old Timer
As above
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Part Two
Here comes February, and look what greets us


'Drive'


'Glade'


Sledgers
Tiny spots of colour on the horizon. look hard


Bud and the Bughouse


Transformed Woodland


Triumphal Arch

we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

[Rayge]

Part One, a walk in the woods at the beginning of February 2019 in Sandford, Devon. Part Two, Cricklewood and Kensal Green, January 1988.






Syncopation


Collapsing


Fuck Yngwie, Here's Some Proper Shredding


Enchantment

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Part Two


Tulips


Oil Lamp and Candle


Angular Momentum


Stone and Straw
Kensal Green Necropolis


Rococo Gothic
Tomb of Charles Spencer Ricketts (who he?)


Falling Angel
Note the lippy...

Back tomorrow, dog willing

[Rayge]

Sorry I didn't make it yesterday - major stress events going on in my life right now. But I have a respite. Part one today, sensibly staying indoors in January, possibly February 1988. Part Two goes out and about in Devon at a similar time this year


It's a Worry
It took a long while for Sally to stop being afeart of Tallulah, who delighted in dominating her, while Pussa treated her with total disdain.


New Romantic


Ark


Mob


Clubbing
These four from the collection of Ed's daughter, Laura


Fish Fire


Bladder Wreck
Billy's lamp, made from camel bladders, became mine some time in the 1980s after it was damaged by bulbs that burned too hot

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Part Two


Bleak


Entry


Brighter
People's Park, Crediton, the following day


Across the Fields


On the Bank


Winter Greens

I'll try to be back soon

[Rayge]

Part One continues with more from early this month, while part two, from the bran tub, goes to West Wales some time in the very early 1980s


Brightening Up


The Badger Sett


Quilt


I Surrender
Baloo is a cross between a mastiff and an Irish wolfhound


Arc


Swollen

Next time, That London

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Part Two


Standing Stones
Can't remember what they're called - something to do with Taliesin, I think, and north-east of Aberystwyth


Dry Valley
One for the geologically minded. As above


Ready for War


Good Eating


Suspicion


Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
This tea party may be in honour of Holly's birthday, which, despite her name, is in late spring, May I think


Relic
Abandoned piece of farm machinery of uncertain function


Ten Rings, Three Bangles, and a Rollie


A Nice Cup of Tea
Two Views of Trish

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[Rayge]

More disgraceful scenes and scenesters from the turn of the 1980s in Brighton and London in part one, while part two takes a swift day trip to London on the 11th of this month and doesn't get outside much.


Livener


Chopping
Amphetamine sulphate


Billy's Dragons
Now my dragons, as it goes


Lick
Most of these have been up before, maybe recently, but they're better versions


Biggles Attacks!


Hennaed
Frankie showing off her new hair colour on the balcony at the Mansions


Little Brother
Frankie's little brother, Andrew. At the age of 55, he died of an aneurysm after being accidentally
knocked down by a bullock in his front garden. True story


Sleazy Drug Den

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Part Two


Victorian Vaulting
Mediaeval masons had their cathedrals, 19th century engineers their railway stations. The results were the same.
This is Paddington


Glimpses of the Past
St Pauls seen from inside London Bridge Station


Reach
The Shard


Bronze Bear
Statue of Paddington on platform one of the eponymous station – I'm on my way home at this point


Light Show
Apologies for the wobble - had not set the camera properly


Tracery

till next time