Bath is a picturesque city with famous Georgian architecture and Roman baths. It is a spa city, built on a natural spring. Notable sights of Bath include the Roman baths, Bath Abbey, the Pulteney bridge, the Circus and the Royal Crescent. Here are some photos taken as I wandered around the city. The rotunda design […]
Last weekend I went to a wedding in Kent. The couple are friends of my girlfriend, and it was a lovely occasion that took place in a large country house. After the wedding we had an opportunity to go looking around some of the surrounding villages in Kent, so went out for a drive in […]
I visit the village of Dullingham one hot day in late July. It is a village of flint walls and chocolate-box cottages. Horses are neighing from stables, and bells chime in the church. I wander through the sleeping village, in the thick hazy heat of the afternoon. Roses tumble from flint walls, in their last […]
Recently I visited the city of Bath, in Somerset, for the first time. In ancient times Bath was the site of a hot spring, a place treated as a shrine by Iron Age Britons. A temple was built on the site in 60-70AD, during the Roman occupation of Britain. A complex of public baths gradually […]
Next I drove to Cowlinge, a particularly pretty village in Suffolk. It was midday on a Friday, and I’d expected the village to be deserted on a week day. However there were many people out and about: mowing lawns, riding horses, walking dogs, cycling, mending walls. This is the old blacksmith’s cottage. This is the […]
This is my first post in a series on English villages. I think many people don’t realise how beautiful Britain is, including a proportion of those that live here, and I want to share through photography some of the beauty I see here. I don’t live anywhere dramatic, not in those parts of the British […]