Category: Local

Black Redstart

This is a Black Redstart. It is about the same size as a Robin.

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A Corpse on the Roof

  According to the Prime Minister, Peppa Pig is the key to unlocking productivity in the UK. Bertie isn’t.

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Death on the Thames

Margravine Cemetery is all things to all men, women, children, fauna, flora, birds of the air and creepy-crawlies.

On the River Bank

The London plane trees in Bishop’s Park provide a shady walk along the Thames upstream of Putney Bridge. The oldest were planted in 1893.

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Spot the Difference

This is the view looking north from the rear of our house. Note the BP car wash, bottom right, and the Ark building on the left as they will appear again. The trees will not appear again so give them a clap now.

Coming Home to Roost

I lived in Margravine Gardens in 1976. After that I tried out different parts of London before coming home to roost, in the house next door to my old lodging, in 1984.

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Crisp Road

Crisp Road runs parallel to the river on the north side, one block away, on the site of the original Brandenburgh House.

Brandenburgh House

Brandenburgh House is on the west side of Fulham Palace Road, opposite Charing Cross Hospital.

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Wormholt and White City

This ward in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham returns three councillors and had a population in 2018 of 13,385 – the third largest in the borough.