walk in kew

These pictures are from April 12, and they're pretty nasty - dark and shit. I took them on a walk down Cotham Road, Kew in the evening. April 12 was a Sunday. Cotham Road was closed to traffic for tram track work I think. It wouldn't have been a day to have a heart attack, or maybe it would, I suppose the ambulance could have got to you quicker once it got through the fence. Here is a garden I found interesting. 

 

 Here is a mansion I found interesting:

 Here is some of that fencing, and the road:

 And more of the same:

 Here are some flats I apparently found interesting:

 Here is someone's attempt to put a paper cup in a rubbish bin, thwarted ironically by the fence:

 I was interested in this because unless I'm wrong (but I guess that qualifier could go in any statement, ever, about one's experience) this building was once Exposure Records, where I bought  lot of records between about 1981 and 1984. Dole cheque put to good use:

 ...And also important in my childhood, the newsagent where I used to get my comics in the early 70s:

 This house is interesting:

 This sculpture by Peter Schipperheyn - well, it's nothing new (it's from 1978 and it's called The Big Walking Stick) but it would seem churlish not to photograph it, on a walk down Cotham Road, right?

 The City of Kew logo. I wish there was still a City of Kew. But there is not.

 The Warm Emorial at Kew Junction. It was getting dark by this time and I ate some dumplings at a dumping establishment.

Ciao, Kew!