Tag:England
This Coldstream Guard was on duty at Buckingham Palace. You can tell he’s a Coldstream Guard from the pairs of buttons on his tunic. Apparently the Coldstream Guards are the oldest regiment in the British Army in continuous active service. Curiously now, given their role in protecting the Queen, they started as a Roundhead or Parliamentary regiment in the English civil war between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists. Having fought and won for the Parliamentarians, their founder and leader decided […]
There are lots of ‘Marlboroughs’ around the world. This one is in Wiltshire, England, where I went to school. RC & J Upton Leathercraft of Marlborough sits in an alleyway between 106 and 107 High Street. The Post Office refers to this as ‘Old Hughendon Yard’. Applebys, at the end of the yard serves tea, coffee, breakfast and lunch, though I’m more likely to take a few more steps for some fine real ales. If you stroll up to Applebys […]
The last few days here in my corner of Texas have been gray and overcast so I went looking for an image that reminded me of summer. I found this one that, for want of a better title, I’m calling Tree on the Horizon. I took this image in England back in 2012, near where I grew up in the Marlborough Downs. I’d gone for a walk, retracing the steps I’d taken many times some 35 or more years before, […]
With news today that a London Duck tours DUKW caught fire and sank in the River Thames, I thought I’d post a view from a DUKW that I took a couple of years back.
Today’s photo is another shot of the Philadelphia in Aldbourne Square. There’s also a black and white rendering below the color one.
Today’s photo is a reworking of The Philadelphia at the Crown, Aldbourne, a version of which I previously posted in August, 2011.
