Category Archives: Travel
Winchester Architecture – St Thomas Street / Southgate Street / St Cross Road
This area is to the south west of the city centre. St Thomas St is a fine street running from the High St to St Swithuns, with a variety of houses mainly C18. Southgate St runs parallel and is much … Continue reading
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Tagged southgate, st cross road, st thomas street, thomas st, well house
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Winchester Architecture – Kingsgate and Canon Street
Continuing my tour of the Listed Buildings of Winchester, today I covered Kingsgate Rd/St and Canon St. This area is to the south of the city centre, outside of the old walls. From the medieval gate, Kingsgate Street runs directly … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, C17, C18, georgian, georgian road, kingsgate, medieval gate, winchester
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Winchester Architecture – Wales Street / St Johns / Chesil Street Areas (The Soke)
Ther is a suburbe at the est gate of sum caullid the Soken: and is the biggest of al the suburbes longging to the cyte of Winchester. Minns says:- The Soke, so called from the Saxon soc, which signifies a … Continue reading
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Winchester Architecture – Broadway / Eastgate St / Colebrook Area
An architectural tour of the Listed Buildings in the Broadway, Eastgate and Colebrook areas of Winchester, in the east of the city. These buildings include The Guildhall, St Johns Chapel, mills, old hospitals, shops and houses, and are mostly from … Continue reading
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Landport Architecture, Portsmouth
Today I walked around the Landport area of Portsmouth, seeking out those buildings not destroyed in WWII. Landport was a development outside of the original city’s defences and dockyard. Being near to the naval base, it was heavily bombed in … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, charles dickens, portsmouth, slum clearance
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Old Sarum
Feel the ancientness! Just north of the city of Salisbury sits the site of Old Sarum hill fort and castle. From Wiki: The site contains evidence of human habitation as early as 3000 BC. Old Sarum is mentioned in some … Continue reading
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Portsea Buildings
Today I walked around Portsea, between Gunwharf, the university and the naval base. The area has a much less genteel, more rugged feeling than Old Portsmouth but in amongst the council housing and blocks are some interesting old buildings. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 11/11/11, architecture, portsea, portsmouth
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Old Portsmouth and Gunwharf
Photographs taken around Gunwharf and Old Portsmouth in October. While certain others are shopping I like to wander around the city in the immediate area of Gunwharf. Inside Gunwharf itself are many original dock buildings dating back to the c18. … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, georgian buildings, gunwharf, maritime city, old portsmouth, portsmouth cathedral, spice island
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Ai Weiwei on Beijing’s Nightmare City
Having just been, I found this piece on Beijing by Ai Weiwei very interesting: Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is … Continue reading
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Forbidden City and Beihai Park
4/9 Slept until gone 0900 – what a treat after the broken up nights. Breakfasted at 10 (great omelette chef at the hotel) and then out into Beijing. Took the subway Line 10 south for a few stations, then onto … Continue reading
A Meeting with the Krishnamurti Chinese Committee
3/9 A public day at the fair, but still not very busy at all. We had a good couple of meetings with existing publishers looking for new titles and were able to offer appropriate titles to their previous publications and … Continue reading
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Van Gogh vs China
2/9 A rather uneventful day at the book fair, although successful meetings with publishers. Also took some time to wander around the place and check out the exhibitor’s stands. Van Gogh prints at the Netherlands area and the ultra modern … Continue reading
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Second Day At the Book Fair
1/9 It rained overnight and cleared the air. The megasmog has gone… into the ground I guess… and a welcome breeze on stepping out of the hotel this morning. Slept soundly, all the way through from 2230 until 0730. Felt … Continue reading
First Day of the Beijing Book Fair
31/8/10 First day at the bookfair. We were among the less organised of the exhibitors, most people having registered and set up their stands yesterday. We arrived at around 10am and were not allowed past security as we didn’t have … Continue reading
Travel and Arrival in Beijing
29/30 August. Getting here and arrival in Beijing At 1130 I left Brockwood, Jerome giving me a lift to Heathrow. We went the Odiham route, quaint Englishness, nothing like what was ahead, and got to Terminal Five in an hour … Continue reading
Weekend Walk 29 – Winchester to Eastleigh – The Itchen Way
Last Sunday I walked from the City Mill in Winchester along the c17 Itchen Navigation as far as Eastleigh. Passing Wharf Hill, St Catherine’s Hill, Twyford Down, Twyford, Shawford, Bambridge and Highbridge, and many locks, hundreds of years old. This … Continue reading
Weekend Walk 27 – Cheriton to Alresford – Itchen Way
After (most of) the South Downs Way and the Hangers Way, I’ve chosen the Itchen Way for my next long distance path. Yesterday we walked a short stage, from the source of the river south of Cheriton, to the southern … Continue reading
110305 & 6
The weekend of my brother Martin’s stag do. I drove down to Southsea early on Saturday morning, dressed in the manner of a country gent. Sort of. Arriving at Tristan’s at 0650, everyone ready, Martin in his military fancy dress, … Continue reading
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