10 minutes in Hackney

The faces of Chatsworth Road

Some corner that is forever England (6)

An electric corner 

A famous building

The Lesney factory, where the first Matchbox Cars were made.

Some corner that is forever England (5)

A few things and a mirror in a quiet corner. Outside a siren is wailing 

The straight and narrow (and soft) path

A mown path through the 'wilds' of Hackney Marsh

The short and winding road

The busses of Hackney huddled together in the narrow way patiently waiting their turn to disgorge their cargo.

Prize winner

Worst shop front on Chatsworth Road? The provisional winner, by a very narrow margin.

A shadow of its former self

The old waterworks, once vital to London's water supply is now a quiet park

Some corner that is forever England (4)

A corner in our local, There are books in the other corner. What a great pub!

Some corner that is forever England (3)

Chatsworth Road but it could be downtown Cleveland 

Some corner that is forever England (2)

I never tyre of Hackney

Some corner that is forever England (1)

A corner in a house in Hackney where Rupert Brooke probably never lived...

The straight and narrow path

In this case through the beautiful Victoria Park

15 minutes to paradise

15 minutes from the heart of Hackney is this beautiful spot. Ducks on the pond and on the bank, halfway up a fox watching the ducks and so is it always 

A tree

A warm day, a blue sky, a gum tree. This is Hackney, right?

Any beer in a storm

A pub, a pint, a tree filled with blossom and, although you can't see it, a green space on which to look out on the world. A true anchor in a storm.

The stuff you need

Every available space filled with every available thing

The big round thing

The Round Chapel in the early spring sun

7.5.08 good night...

“Night with her train of stars / And her great gift of sleep.” William Ernest Henley

A window on the world

The windows lean out into the street, not too far of course, just quietly, demurely and with a proper Victorian reserve

Art in the park

This fellow sits in an empty wading pool on a hill in Victoria Park. He is made of bronze. He has a bronze owl on his head...

Gathering clouds

The Victorian excesses of the Millfields School poking over the 60's austere Clapton Park Estate and the clouds coming in and the election gone to the conservatives and a cold wind...

Gothic Hackney

A severely pruned London Plane tree, an abandoned church, a cloudy sky and the mood is set