Clock Tower – Travel with Intent

A hungry visitor in St Albans?

Outside the Clock Tower, St Albans, Hertfordshire, December 2022 Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings. I’ll admit that many of […]

-Hertfordshire

Oddly grotesque

Clock Tower, St Albans, Hertfordshire Gargoyles, these charmingly grotesque figures, date back as far as Ancient Egyptian architecture and, in more recent times, became a common feature in Gothic architecture. […]

-Berlin

1924 meets 1999

Potsdamer Platz with its replica traffic light tower, Berlin, August 2021 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 25 August 2021 Posted as part of Wordless …

-Staffordshire

Time to relax

Tower Square, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, April 2021 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 25 April 2021 Posted as part of All Seasons …

-Hertfordshire

Roosting up high

The St Albans Clock Tower stands just a short walk from the Abbey, and if you climb to the top you have a great view back to the cathedral and […]

-Hertfordshire

Sailing up into the wavy clouds

Peeping through the windows of the Waterlily House, Kew Gardens, London, October 2020 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 18 January 2021 Posted as part of Becky’s January SquareUp …

-Hertfordshire

Wandering around St Albans again

St Albans, May 2020 Good to see you all here at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks after I abandoned you at this same spot last week. This place has a long […]

-London

Double-checking railway time

If we go back to the days before railways, the time of day differed around Britain based on the geographic position in which you found yourself. For example, there was […]

-Hertfordshire

It’s christmas time in St Albans

– Copyright Debbie Smyth, 21 December 2018Posted as part of #timesquare And click here for an overview of all my square contributions

Square challenges

Beauty around-the-clock

To open up my contribution to Becky’s December “timesquare” challenge, I thought I’d show my local clock tower. It makes a great meeting point in the centre of St Albans, […]

-Hertfordshire

Three Towers of St Albans

I’m just back from walking the three towers in St Albans, as part of Heritage Open Days. It was a fun climb up many stone steps, round lots of spirals, […]

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