My father sold his house in Lymington in June and I moved to Leamington Spa temporarily until I can move back to Wimbledon in Spring 2014.
I intended to go away in the Van in the Autumn but when it came to it I decided to sell it – so I took this photo on the day it was sold:
Miscellaneous pictures in Warwickshire:
Warwick in July
Misericords in Stratford Church
Chesterton windmill in a modern stained glass window
A very impressive settlement crack in a road bridge over the Oxford Canal
In Leamington Spa, no self respecting pillar box can be seen out alone:
And also in Leamington Spa, the ugliest and most ineffectual fountain:
and still in Leamington Spa, an Argentine asado.
The Sermon on the Mount, Packwood House:
And the new Library in Birmingham:
While it is really encouraging that a local authority has just opened a large new library, personally I don’t warm to the exterior which seems just a tad chavvy.
The inside is very roomy on the lower levels but not on the high levels and it is a struggle to access the Shakespeare Memorial Room which is in the orange pod on the top of the building
What is very pleasant is the “secret garden” on Floor 7 from which there are views of the roofscape of Birmingham - which isn’t that distinguished.
but on a personal note it was interesting to clearly see St Peter’s, Spring Hill and the vicarage.
Also from Floor 7, I took a picture of another building with chavvy cladding:
It was a delight to discover what had been a favourite pub had survived all this new development and was a tiny Victorian oasis in the midst of C20th & C21st redevelopment. However the interior had not survived and in particular the decoration of the lavatories:
The decoration in the Ladies was very boring
- compared with that of the Gents
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