Exploring with my camera
‘..For the sake of visiting localities of greater interest, we..turn aside from Gray’s Inn Road and enter Coldbath Fields … once famous for a cold spring that still exists in Bath Street..’. (I think that the spring is now enclosed in … Continued
This area, now Clerkenwell, was originally fertile meadows rising to small hills and watered by the Fleet River and numerous springs. The land belonged originally to the Augustinian nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell, and the Priory of St John of … Continued
‘Pentonville, a large district on the north side of the New Road, was unbuilt upon till 1773, when the fields of Mr Henry Penton were appropriated to receive the increasing population. Of late years it has extended rapidly..’. The association … Continued
The weather stays warm and there are beautiful sights in Cratfield gardens.
It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny. People were gardening, digging up worms, and this little chap was waiting…
At the end of a beautiful day the light in a Cratfield garden was beautiful.
Primroses crowd into the ditches and field edges now, a beautiful soft yellow, with the flowers on single stems, nestling amongst the leaves. Primula vulgaris.
The flowers in London this Spring have been wonderful, and often in unexpected places, like the Pentonville Road. These clematis were in Clerkenwell.