No Cinerator At Ardley

Ardley don't want the Cinerator either

They are against the Incinerator proposals in North Oxfordshire as it will:

• Dramatically reduce air quality in Ardley and the surrounding areas, leading to health risks and poorer quality of life;

• Significantly reduce the housing prices in the Bicester area;

• Destroy the beautiful countryside that they know and love;

• Increase the traffic on the B430, M40 and all the roads in this area.

Don't think we want any of these things neither!!!

Graffitti in Paris

No To The Incinerator

In the normally picturesque village of Sutton Courtenay, posters have appeared in windows and on roadside verges.

Villagers are saying here 'No! to the Incinerator'

WRG (Waste Recycling Group) want to build an incinerator near the village, and OCC (Oxfordshire County Council) will make the decision. This artist thinks they are a push over.

A small tarn

This tarn is only a few metres across, and a couple of feet deep

A Cumbrian Apiary

In the Meadow behind Swarthmoor Hall there were bees .

Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House in Ulverston has just been reroofed and the Friends (Quakers) will return their next week. It should now be good for another 75 years.
While work was underway the Friends met at Swarthmoor Hall nearby. We joined them for an hour of peaceful meditation in the wood panelled front room where Judge Fell and his wife Margaret gave sanctuary to George Fox - the founder of the Quaker movement - back in 1652.

The Old Man of Coniston

The view from near the summit of the Old Man, looking down the zig-zag path to Green Banked Tarn.

We took the back route up to the summit past Dow Crag,

Goats Water, and up Goats Hause.

Then we descended along the zig zag trail shown on the first picture, which took us through piles of discarded slate - from the old Coniston slate mines.

Port Sunlight

Near Birkenhead, model factory housing built round the Lever Brothers factory, and called Port Sunlight. We saw Bowls' greens in front of social clubs, and many buildings that can hardly have changed since they were built in the 1890s. The factory is still there, but I don't know how many of the factory workers could now afford the model housing.

Brixton railway Bridge

This bridge at Brixton always used to give me the feeling that I was entering London proper when coming from the South on the A23. To me it was the gateway to the capital. London seems to have grown, and even Purley and Croydon a few miles south with their red zones and London Corporation crests feel more like part of the capital now.

Abinger Hammer

This cyclist was with me for a long stretch of the A25. I kept stopping and he caught up and overtook, then I drove past him...

Abinger Hammer is one of those places that made a strong impression when I was young. Thats the famous Clock struck with a Hammer, jutting across the road, and the Abinger Arms behind.