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Night Sky over Horatio

Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is commemorated by Nelson’s Column that towers over London’s Trafalgar Square.  It was constructed between 1840 and 1843 at […]

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Scottish Design in Kent

The Sun Foundry was established in 1858 by George Smith in Glasgow.  It was an important company in the iron industry of the day, expanding quickly and moving to a larger site […]

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Isaac Newton: Bigger than Life

This is an imposing depiction of Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726), an English physicist and mathematician whose achievements are many and varied.  He shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of […]

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A Balanced Alien

I have featured this massive upside-down alien previously.  He landed on his head in a London garden in early 2013, and was a feature that I would make a detour […]

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Speeding through London

  A colourful note: The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890, obviously named after the fruit.  I don’t know when electric […]

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Misty Walk Along the Thames

This week I’m going to take you along the Thames from Blackfriars Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge on a misty January day. At this point I had run out of time and […]

-Kent

Beach Huts Ready for Summer

Hex colour reference:  #2b6cc4 A colourful note:  denim is a shade of indigo named after the blue jeans fabric.  I wonder if the huts are white inside, just as jeans should […]

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Sunny Day so Highspeed for me

Sun came out, my meeting that day was cancelled, so what could I do but go to the seaside! Linked to Six Word Saturday and Blue Monday Copyright Debbie Smyth, 30 January 2016   […]