Category: London

Saturday morning on the Thames at Brentford

Saturday morning, September 9, 2022 was my last day in London. With an afternoon flight,  that morning, I walked down to the Thames from my hotel, enjoyed the late summer sun and photographed the birds gathered along the low tide shoreline. There were boaters and scullers on the water and people walking along the shore […]

My visit to Highgate East Cemetery

During my visit to London, I met veteran videographer Brian Kelly, who took me and my nephew Christopher Christou on a tour of the famed Highgate East Cemetery. (My second great grandfather George Hugh Doherty Pennell (1832-1902) is buried at Highgate but due to post Covid staffing issues, it wasn’t possible to locate the grave […]

The blue police box on Earls Court Road

Cue the Dr. Who theme.   During my visit to London and my old haunts from the 1980s  in Earls Court, I spotted an old blue police box just by the tube station. I had been back in London for a day or so and was coming out of the Greggs on the right (excellent egg […]

The feral parakeets of Kensington Gardens

  Walking through London’s Kensington Gardens I saw a crowd of people around some trees and a loud screeching of birds.  Then I saw flashes of green as the birds flew between the trees and often landed on people’s hands and even heads, as they were (sometimes) fed. This was a flock of what is called […]