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This post features Twickenham's Mary Wallace Theatre, St. Mary's Church and The Barmy Arms. Tucked away on Twickenham’s riverside...

After the closing photograph in yesterday’s post, I had to pay a visit here. Twickenham Fine Ales brewery The first brewery in Twickenham...

Naked ladies covered in sludge ... no, it’s not something from my bucket list, rather a reflection of the vagaries of war. I'll get to...

Enthusiastic climber, artist, author - probably in that order - Edward Whymper, (1840-1911), lived here at 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington...

From the Tram to the Diddler to the Diesel Bus. In the early 1900s the London United Tramways Company had big plans for Fulwell: it was...

The Shot Tower, built in 1828 (amazing it's still standing really) Friend John Royle and I went on a bike trail through the Crane Park in...

Sunday, May 31st. 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer, 1,870 pigs, 1,240 Oxen, 760 calves and 53 wild boar. That's 14,453 animals. A lot of meat....

And that's just scratching the surface. I’d never heard of this bloke until I happened upon a blue plaque for him while looking around...

Oh dear. No ride today. Well, just a very short one to the bike shop a mile down the road. Burt's bike shop on Hampton High Street While...

A water-colour painting from a photograph I took of The Jolly Coopers pub in Hampton village. I cycle past this old pub in a Grade II...

Three and a half miles of loveliness along the north bank of the River Thames, between Kingston and Hampton Court Bridges. Looking south...

An ancient barrow in Richmond Park is known as King Henry’s Mound. Dating back to neolithic times it was probably created as a burial...

You don't get to write a title like that every day. Pioneering metrologist and physicist Bryan Kibble was born in Letcombe Regis,...

That noise you can hear is the endless rumble of traffic above your head. That's if you've the good fortune to be visiting Alexander...

His hero wasn't averse to including a bit of headless retribution in his writing: "Off with his head, and set it on York gates; So York...

On a roll! Another wrought iron triumph after yesterday's rampant success with local manhole covers. A rather grand gate outside a rather...

My thanks to friend Mick Gorton^ for opening my eyes to manhole cover art, (now there's a sentence I never thought I’d write). Anyway, I...

A laid-back approach to rowing, by Hampton Court Bridge. It’s almost as if he doesn’t know how busy this stretch of water can be Between...

The title of this post shows Leo Sayer‘s lyrical u-turn at the end of each chorus in his first hit song “The Show Must Go On”. Scheduled...

Teddington Lock is the lowest full-tide lock and second lowest of all-tide locks on the Thames. Work started on it back in 1810, with it...