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Catching The Bouquet, Statue of King Richard III, Cathedral Gardens, Leicester Cathedral, Leicester, 12/10/15.

19 Monday Oct 2015

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bouquet, British History, British Monarchy, Cathedral Gardens Leicester, crown, flowers, Leicester, Leicester Cathedral, Richard III, sculpture, statue

Leicester.

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Out and About.

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Window Boxes in Bloom, The Royal York Hotel, Station Road, York, 15/08/15.

23 Sunday Aug 2015

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Out and About., Yorkshire.

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flowers, gardening, Grade II listed, North Eastern Railway, Railway Architecture of North East England, Station Road York, The Royal York Hotel, William Peachey, window, window boxes, York

York.
Leaving the train at York is always a feast for the eyes.I usually cross the station using the footbridge, so I can admire one of the great “cathedrals of the Railway Age” [to borrow a phrase a website called “Railway Architecture of North East England“] and take everything in. Then I usually turn left when I leave the station, onto Station Road, passed the waiting taxi cabs and face my first York landmark, The Royal York Hotel, a Grade II listed building designed by William Peachey of the North Eastern Railway. The hotel opened in 1878, a year after the present railway station, and was the flagship hotel for the North Eastern Railway Company’s flagship hotel, according to a certain on-line encyclopaedia.

York.
I can’t say I have notice The Royal York Hotel’s window boxes in the past, but they must have looked particularly charming on this particular occasion [either that or I wasn’t rushing passed then in a hurry to get somewhere for once]!

Rose Bush Update 26/06/15.

28 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in My Roses.

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buds, flowers, Garden, gardening, petals, Rose Bushes, Roses

Rose.

Allotment Gardens, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, 28/04/15.

09 Saturday May 2015

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Out and About.

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allotment gardens, allotments, bath, flowers, gardening, green house, Royal Victoria Park Bath, trees, Upper Bristol Road Bath

Bath.
My sister and I were walking through Royal Victoria Park and I suddenly realised that, beyond the tree lined avenue, were these allotments. I like parks and gardens, but I think allotment gardens have a beauty all of there own.

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The Kingsway Gardens, The Kingsway, Cleethorpes, 23/04/15.

24 Friday Apr 2015

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Cleethorpes, Cleethorpes in Bloom, flower beds, flowers, red, The Kingsway, The Kingsway Gardens, The Kingsway Kiosk

Cleethorpes.

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Cleethorpes. North East Lincolnshire.

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Photo Archive: The “Crown and Anchor” Public House, Winchester, 2013.

13 Friday Feb 2015

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Photo Archive.

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anchor, chalk boards, crown, Crown and Anchor, flowers, Food and Drink, hanging baskets, Public houses, pubs, signs, Winchester

If the "Crown and Anchor" is still under the same management, I recommend the fish.

If the “Crown and Anchor” is still under the same management, I recommend the fish.

Rose Bush Update 08/01/15.

08 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in My Roses.

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first, flowers, Garden, gardening, Rose Bushes, Roses, White Roses

The first rose of 2015.

The first rose of 2015.

Rose Bush Update 03/11/14.

03 Monday Nov 2014

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in My Roses.

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flowers, Garden, gardening, Pink, Pink Roses, raindrops, Rose Bushes, Roses

The Pink Rosebush.

The Pink Rosebush.

Wellington Boot Planter, The Stone Yard, York Minster, York, 12/05/14.

19 Sunday Oct 2014

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flowers, gardening, green, plants, stone masonry, The Stone Yard, Wellington boots, York, York Minster

York.

The creation of a green fingered stone mason.

“The Railwaymen’s Friend”, Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station, August 2014.

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Out and About., Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion.

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Bristol, Bristol Temple Meads Station, flowers, Memorial plaques, memorials, Miss Emma Saunders, Public Transport, Railway Stations, The Railwaymen's Friend, Victorian., Victoriana

The plaque is on the wall behind the rather impressive flower arrangement.

The plaque is on the wall behind the rather impressive flower arrangement.

This flower arrangement was probably worth a blog post all of its own, but it is obscuring something I found even more interesting…

Going deeper into the flowers...

Going deeper into the flowers…

It seems that Miss Emma Saunders, known as The Railway Men’s Friend or “The lady with the basket” was a Victorian woman with a mission. In brief Miss Saunders sort to stop the ever increasing numbers of Bristol railway employees from turning to alcoholism by handing out Christian literature and posies from her basket of flowers. She also set up Bristol & West of England Railwaymen’s Institute, the forerunner of the British Rail Staff Association, which offered railway workers with access to a canteen and a skittle alley. You can read more about Miss Saunders here: http://www.redland.org.uk/cgi-bin/page.cgi?20:20:32

Here's a close up.

Here’s a close up.

To quote Clifton Online’s “famous and infamous” section:

“Her funeral service at Christchurch on her 86th birthday was conducted by three vicars and Clifton society rubbed shoulders with over a thousand of “her” railwaymen, all of whom wore a daffodil in her memory of their friend”.

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