Tag: Victorian

• Budapest Line 1

  During my stay in Budapest I didn’t really use the public transport for the first few days of my stay. The reason for this is that it seemed confusing and I’d read online that every trip something or another needed to be validated or you’d get a huge fine. In fact everything I’d read online…

  Alan Peters

  17th Feb 2023

  Oddments, Stations, Uncategorized

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• Salvation Army Citadel, Sheffield.

  I walk past this beautiful derelict building quite a lot on my way to work. It has a strange eerie quality to it and stands out from it’s surroundings. As the rest of the area gets knocked down and built up with towering buildings it does seem strange that it has managed to survive. From…

  Alan Peters

  27th Jul 2022

  Buildings

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• Charlton Cemetery under snow.

  I did promise a few days ago a follow up post to my Charlton Cemetery post. Here it is. These photos were taken in January 2007. It had been snowing through the night and I just happened to be passing Charlton Cemetery. My camera was quite small so I had it in my jacket pocket…

  Alan Peters

  25th Jun 2022

  Cemeteries

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• The statue of Sir John Betjeman, St Pancras Station.

  Let’s start with the who. Who was Sir John Betjeman? Well, he was a poet, the one time poet laureate in fact, a well loved television personality and campaigner to save Victorian architecture. Betjeman had a love for Victorian buildings and structures and, as part of the Victorian society, campaigned to save many great Victorian…

  Alan Peters

  9th Jun 2022

  statues

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