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Blue Boy or Doctor Who?

The Exeter Free Grammar School opened in 1633, on the upper floor of the medieval buildings of St John’s Hospital, which had stood on the south side of the High Street […]

Blue Night for Juventus

Hex colour reference:  #1A467B This rich, dark blue dates back to the original Crayola crayons in 1903, when it had two names, Dark Blue and Prussian Blue.  The Dark Blue […]

Melons in Rye

  Hex colour reference:  FDBCB4 A colourful note:  it is amazing how many shades of orange colour are named after fruits and vegetables; the colour melon is apparently named after the […]
Melons in Rye

Lowry in Salford

Winter light can always be relied on to give gold colouring and reflections, though this bridge is impressive at any time.  It is a 92 metre long, single span lifting footbridge across […]

Wisdom and Effort

“Concilio et Labore” is Manchester’s motto, which loosely translated means “Wisdom and Effort”.  The ship on this bridge represents the trading relationships of Manchester; the white heraldic antelope with its […]

Raining Umbrellas

Hex Colour reference:  C8385A A colourful note: maroon is the term used for a dark brown-red , with the first recorded use of this as an English colour name in 1789.  The name comes from […]