Category Archives: Art

Durham Cathedral & Castle – a creative viewpoint

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

I have visited Durham just once – it is a long journey from the south of England – and it is time I went back. My friend Anna has inspired me by showing me a short piece she wrote for … Continue reading →

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Wordsworth, Whistler and a Waterloo Sunset – the beauty of London Bridges

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

  The Thames is a river that takes me on imaginative journeys, some of them reflecting my real life and others a dream world that I have inhabited regularly since I left London in the late 1980s. From the Oxfordshire … Continue reading →

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‘This enormous Babel of a place’ – On learning of London before the Victorians

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

I have recently been looking into the history of London between 1810 and 1830 to add some context to my blog posts on the poet John Keats. It is a period in the history of the metropolis that I have … Continue reading →

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Keats House, Hampstead: an architectural and artistic re-build

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

From my late teens onwards I have made regular trips to Keats House in Hampstead, London NW3. I was born and brought up in North London and the relatively short journey to Keats Grove, close to the beautiful heath became … Continue reading →

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