Queen Victoria – Travel with Intent

Sometimes her highness’s finger goes missing

Queen Victoria by J H Swynnerton, Southend-on-Sea, 2022 Now over […]

St Paul’s

St Paul’s Cathedral, London, May 2021 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 26 May 2021 Posted as part of Wordless on Tuesday …

Queen Victoria in reflection

This marble statue of the eighteen year old Queen Victoria, in her coronation robes, was designed by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, in 1893. It stands outside Kensington Palace, where the […]

Fun Foto Challenge

Almost the border, but not quite

The Royal Border Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed is a Grade I listed railway viaduct, opened by Queen Victoria in 1850. Despite its descriptive name, it does not span the border between England and Scotland: […]

-Birmingham

Blue sky in Birmingham

-Kent

Queen Victoria’s Holiday Spot

Built in 1790 or thereabouts, Pierremont Hall was built to the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, great-grand-nephew of Samuel Pepys the Diarist. In 1827, the widowed Duchess of Kent and her little […]

-Manchester

Queen Victoria’s Ablutions

Edward Onslow Ford’s Queen Victoria Monument in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is in need of some tender loving care. This Grade II listed monument caught my attention yesterday because of the weeds that have […]

-Glasgow

Marochetti’s Equestrian Statues in Glasgow

George Square, Glasgow’s central public square, is home to two […]