Ray's Photos

[Rayge]

Today sees the penultimate posting of 2017 in Part one and in Part two further random hits from my past


Concentration


Snowmen


Pudding


Decorations


Ball


Bunch

Tomorrow, New Year's Eve

[Rayge]

Part Two
All from 1990, the year I moved from Kilburn to Bristol


The New Place
Before we moved in, lot of work for our builder John Lennon and his son, Sean, seen here


Morning Ride
The cavalry out for a summer constitutional at 5 am


The Inspectors
The Mother and the Hatchet see the new house for the first time


The Girls


Smaug


English Bandstand
Queen's Park


Deco
Kilburn High Road

Similar tomorrow.

[Rayge]

Farewell to 2017 in Deepest Devon (entirely in two rooms of my house, on New Years Eve) in Part One, while Part two remains in London in the 1980s.


Broken on a Wheel


Kitchen Surrealism


Emblematic


Poop, Poop


Dulce Domum


Left


Right

Tomorrow, something different ...

[Rayge]

Part Two


Twitter in the 1980s
"All we want is a garden of Eden where none of the fruit is forbidden". Love that one, from a guy called Joseph, who always wrote joined-up and usually signed it. Somewhere in South Kilburn, late ’80s


Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot on a Stick
She is also the much younger sister of the guy responsible for the infamous Rupert Bear/Robert Crumb mash-up in Schoolkids Oz. Late 1980s, Bath


Treat
If you like that sort of thing (it's an anchovy). Chip and beasts ensofaed in Bristol, 1988 or so


Chimp and Keeper
Carlton Mansions, 1988 maybe


Man on Train on Drugs


Answers on Postcard, Please


Rite of Spring


Blazing Buddah


Stagger


Drop


...

[Rayge]

It's a one-parter archive edition today, as I'm seriously fed up. London and the West Country, late 1980s (probably)


Another West Side Attraction


Stepping Out
Random woman walks into my frontage shot (Kenwood House, I think). It happens


Kenwood House, for certain


New Arrival
The first pic I took of Sally, so this is 1987


Flash
Bath Indoor Market


Bizzy


Hang Tight


Brizzle
From Ashton Court Park, looking towards Freezing Hill, Landsdown and Kelston Round Hill


Tag
Putney Bridge

Hope to be feeling better tomorrow

[Tom Waits For No One]

Hope you’re feeling better soon Ray.

Please keep posting the pics.

[Rayge]

Hope you’re feeling better soon Ray.

Please keep posting the pics.

Oh I won't stop until I have to, Kev – it's the last thing I'll give up on here. But sometimes I'm just not right .

As January has been such a murky month, few pics have been taken, and those mostly of puddles, so a double archive helping. Part one from the mid to late ’80s, and the second from before that. Heigh ho


Quiet Flows the Frome
Brizzle, late ’80s


Pink Trio


The North Bank
of the Thames at Putney


Down River
wide-angle lens, low tide


Debris


Fallen Carrier


Four Blooms


Lifestyles of the Wealthy
Hurlingham Mansions, Fulham

...

[Rayge]

Part Two


The Negative Impact of Underground Comics


Shaky Sleeping


Charity Shop Score
mid-70s


Tessie the Terrier


Strawberry Spillage


Helen Makes Up


Nick & Leaf

more of this sort of thing tomorrow, CV

[Rayge]

OK, more of the same: mid to late 80s in part one, earlier in part two

Part one is a bit different, as instead of the usual gallimaufry, there's a single theme. I acquired from somewhere (maybe the library!) a book of inter-war Railway posters, and photographed those that depicted places I thought I knew, for the sake of comparison to my photos, although that fell by the wayside when I realized they were largely fantastical. But bloody lovely in their own right. No need for captions for these, just visions of an England that is long gone or never was












Hotwells and Brunel's suspension bridge, Bristol





Next time, a wedding

[Rayge]

Part Two
Happens to be all in West Wales in the spring/summer of 1981, on one of several visits
I was accustomed make each year to old school friend Clive and his family. Except, on this
occasion, I was witness to that family disintegrating in a very messy way (thankfully no pictures of that)


Llewelen
Most BR steam locomotives had numbers with four or more digits, but the three 0-6-0s that worked the Aberystwyth-Devil's Bridge railway were numbers 7, 8 and 9, the first entries in the trainspotters' bibles. I gave up trainspotting in the very early 1960s, but it was still nice to see these guys


The Damp Family
Holly, Matthew and Sarah


Top of the World, Pa
Matthew is held in place by Clive


Budding Up


Blonde


Reflection


Snot and Tonka Truck


Asteroid


Won't be posting tomorrow, as I'm off to That London for a quick hit and git, and won't be back to back until late.

[Rayge]

Today, in part one, it's the mid-1980s show, featuring When Cousins Wed. But first, a mystery


Beats Me
I have no memory of when why or how I took this picture up into the branches of a tree, I just like the colour of the sky


Confetti and Pearls
M&J are first cousins, but he was born and grew up in NZ, she in suburban London, and they didn't meet until M came over to do a degree, and never left


Cutting


Best Man, Worst Shirt


Throttle
Matt & Bananamon hold still for a portrait


Smoker


Picture of Lilies

Tomorrow, the swimsuit issue...

[Rayge]

Part two
1981 in Aberystwyth and the Hinterland


Peekabo
A scan of a transparency of two black and white photos made by someone else


Bingo


Bozo


Heartbreaker


Fateful


Jockey Cap


Catch


Caught

[Rayge]

Part one, mid to late 80s, part two early eighties...


Marker
Everywhere I ever lived, I got into the habit of taking pictures of more or less the same thing from about the same place at different
times of the year. This curved field boundary is in Mangotsfield, where Chip lived from 1987-90, dating this lot, along with other clues
to about summer of 1988 – except that I can't work out for the life of me where I took the following...


Pool Party


Only Sleeping?


All of the Jim-Jims in this Town


The Murder Mystery


It's a Terrier Thing
Sally presages Scrap in a determined effort to remove sticks from a waterway - this time a weir on the Frome in Eastville Park, Fishponds, Bristol


Rotten Roots
Stapleton church (I think) from Eastville Park (probably)


Marker and Sal
hmm...

[Rayge]

Part Two
Back to 1981, and it's a brief interlude in Brighton and London before heading back to West Wales


View from a Room
Which room, I'm not sure...


Palace Pier
Now just a wave-battered skeleton remains, but 35+ years ago it still looks like it could be saved.


Avenue
Gladstone Park, north-west London. This was one of those places often photographed without anything particularly dramatic happening


1,000-Yard Stare
Pretty sure Bill took this with my camera after a hard afternoon's frisbeeing in St Anne's Well Gardens.


Summertime
Back in West Wales. Clive and Sarah now living apart. Other person in the picture is Hazel, Nick's wife


Hands


Hips

[Rayge]

Busy day today, so just one batch from the mid to late eighties – around 1988, all around Mangotsfield in East Bristol


Sunset Sal


Wild Life


Heartz


Trucking: TT


A Yard of Red Flannel


Platform


You're a Long Time Waiting

Full quota tomorrow, featuring Bath and Romney Marsh

[Rayge]

Part one today a little different from scheduled, it's a Romney Marsh special from the late 1980s. Part two is stuck in West Wales in 1981 or so for the duration...


Scoured
Porch at Brooklands church


Detached
The shingled bell tower/pagoda at Brooklands


Rural
The church at Fairfield, only accessible across the fields - having first got the key from a cottage about 300m away


Cladding
The brick is an outer shell


Looking East
Inside is a half-timbered building and 18th-century wooden box pews


West Window from the Chancel


Different Times


Former Seafront Property


Fallen Blossoms
All the last three are in Rye

Tomorrow, Back in the West Country

[Rayge]

Part Two


Baby Driver


Private Leaning Post
Nick & Mark


The Bear Whose Head Expanded


Putting Jack Back
Holly


Isolation


The Interior

more of this sort of thing tomorrow

[Rayge]

In part one, I'm still in west Wales in 1981, summertime, and life's even more of a mess than usual. Not that it shows in the pics, which are from a walk with
Nick and Leaf into the high country towards Plinlimmon (?sp) and a stay with Sarah at the house she formerly shared with Clive.


Cairn


A Land Fit for Sheep
Nick's better at standing on edges than I am


Enviable
I can't remember which of Sarah's friends these belonged to, but, golly, they were yar


Perfect Peace
Ironic Rose


Incensed


A Rebel is Born
Matt gets his first sit on a motor-bike


Dryad

more from there and then tomorrow

[Rayge]

Part Two
is out and about in Bath (in 1988 or so), and Ware, sometime earlier

Orange Skies


Reporting for Grinding


Dinner with Jeff and Karen


Swanning


Gypsy Woman


Duty Call
This must be ’85 or so because it has Toots in it. A visit to my mother's house in Ware


Fruit Salad
one of Ma's roses


Tickled
A rare shot of my mother laughing, presumably at something on the TV


Strawberry Blancmange
another of Ma's roses

Tomorrow, this section will be wandering around That London

[Minnie the Minx]

Glorious