Twickenham walk
Twickenham, Middx. Thu 30 Jan 2020
Twickenham riverside, with bridge to Eel Pie Island
Boathouses on Eel Pie Island
'Bertha' moored at Twickenham
The sanded play area has two boats
Eel Pie Island looks much more prosperous than it did twenty years
ago
The gate into the southern part of York House Gardens
These late nineteenth century Italian marble sculptures were bought
by Sir Ratan Tata from a sale at Witley Park
near Godalming and the Cascade designed here for them. They were covered
with mud during the war so their gleaming white bodies
would not stand out as a landmark for German bombers, and were rescued
in the 1980s or 1990s, and are now in need of further cleaning.
Built around 1650, York House gardens were extensively remodelled
by Tata a Parsee from Bombay who
bought the house from the Duc d’Orleans in 1906. Tata's family still
own the massive Indian industrial company,
but the house was sold to the local authority and used as their offices
on his death.
A not very Japanese sculpture in the Japanese Garden
The Grade II listing text for York House describes this as a "rare
example of a once ubiquitous style of urinal in
cast iron by the Walter Macfarlane Saracen Ironworks, Glasgow".
I can confirm it is still in working order, although in need of repainting
The White Swan
Shop in Church St
and an office which seemed a little empty and seemed to be waiting for something
uneasy to happen.
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