tailsandmemories @tailsandmemories@travel-friends.chat
A journal of my travels, much aided by my recent entitlement to a bus pass.
I hope that my trails will gently lengthen in duration, and that there shall be many years more of exciting discoveries to share with you.
All of these photos are taken by myself, on what some would call an out of date phone. They are edited solely to make them smaller, that they pop up and you do not need to wait.
#WorldBookDay
A normal suburban street in the North Western suburb of Harrow, but look, and wonder!
This is not just the TARDIS, it is also a book hub, the location of today`s four bus adventure.
Sadly at the moment it has powered down......
though signs affixed thereon do promise that it will one day whirr in to regeneration mode....
This is Harrow Arts Centre, another favourite for it has a gallery that plays host to many different artists and styles.
This picture was taken at the bus stop, right outside, and I was impressed by the way the trees stole the show in their gnarliness, and by the white blossom that obscured the top windows.
The wooden fence also added another layer, and some texture.
And I was not displeased by the white framework of a sign doing its best to get into view.
This is Peterborough Road in Harrow on the Hill, climbing up from the Town Centre and looking at Harrow School`s Speech Room.
This is the first time I took this particular bus, the 258, I always get on a bus and find it is one of the ones which skirts the hill, wisely, perhaps, for the sake of its engine, for the hill is severe in its steepness both this side, and the other.
#Harrow #HarrowOnTheHill #HarrowSchool #School #Photo #Photography #OnTheBus
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
Never participated in this one, but here is a view from my own regular window seat whenever I am coming home on the H12 bus. You see the H12 does not pass where I live, but the 398 stops quite near, and the H9 even closer. So at about this point I begin to intersect my journey with the first of those buses, and here I sit, hoping to see it in the distance, with time enough to get off my bus and get on that, or, a little further along, to do the same with the H9.
Oh!
I have news!
A fellow traveller, from another galaxy, has found their way across to me, and illuminated a star below my tiny tooting.
Such bravery must be rewarded. Hence my first follow of someone I know absolutely nothing about, except that they, too, like Doctor Who.
Mind you, that`s reason enough to follow!
#Intro #Introduction #Hi #Greetings
- whatever you call such things, I guess its time for mine. So these are a few of the things that make me smile, or gasp, or get way too excited - sometimes all at the same time.
#adventure #buses #trains #LondonTransport #travel #exploration #writing #researching #vintage #memorabilia #collecting #ephemera #PostCards #GumCards #TradingCards #cards #books #poetry #art #tattoos #Rebellion #SciFi #ScienceFiction #DrWho #XFiles #StarWars #BattlestarGalactica
#WorldBookDay
A normal suburban street in the North Western suburb of Harrow, but look, and wonder!
This is not just the TARDIS, it is also a book hub, the location of today`s four bus adventure.
Sadly at the moment it has powered down......
though signs affixed thereon do promise that it will one day whirr in to regeneration mode....
Rush Hour? Not here. Never been the only person on the top of the bus until now!
last flashback - promise.
This one is probably the second most important leg of my journey so far, after that decision to get on the bus.
For here I am, returned to an auction.
This used to be Bainbridges, where I hung out hoping for sleepers to fall in my lap.
Now it is the London saleroom of Adam Partridge.
It is very close to West Ruislip Station, and I never realised how easy it was to go by bus, rather than drive, not get a parking space, and go home!
This one was the first place I went after getting my bus pass, its Stompbox in Northwood Hills. They seem to offer everything, even guitar lessons. So watch this space! As a dyslexic, learning such things, or any things, does not come naturally to me, but I do have a bit of a hankering to sit by an open fire and strum away soulfully, even if this is destined to be a solitary pleasure.
Ah.
The Underground.
Or at this point the overground; it only plunges beneath later on.
If you split the photo in two halves, right and left, the right hand side is entirely tracks and trees. That is the Piccadilly, to South Harrow, and Cockfosters.
On the left hand side is the Metropolitan, to West Harrow, and Aldgate, the train snakes in, with definite curvature, for it must negotiate the steep bend to the right that is coming up.
If I stay on that bus and go round that corner Hatch End comes along next. This is the station, and just inside the foyer there is a small but useful book hub (leave a book, take a book, or both).
When it opened in 1842 it was called Pinner Station, and it was on the London and Birmingham Railway.
In 1897 it became Pinner and Hatch End.
This lovely building is not the original, it came along in 1911.
And it has been Hatch End alone since the 1950s
This is my header picture in full, but edited for size.
It is an important photo, and the start of everything, because this records my first bus trip, a spur of the moment decision.
For I might have resigned myself to walking where I was able if it were not for the sudden impulse of seeing this bus, knowing where it went, and deciding to get on.
#bus #H12 #Pinner #UxbridgeRoad, #transport #tfl #TransportForLondon #Introduction
A journal of my travels, much aided by my recent entitlement to a bus pass.
I hope that my trails will gently lengthen in duration, and that there shall be many years more of exciting discoveries to share with you.
All of these photos are taken by myself, on what some would call an out of date phone. They are edited solely to make them smaller, that they pop up and you do not need to wait.
