Anne Guy
Anne Guy
I am a garden designer living and working in rural Worcestershire For more information and to see examples of my work see www.anneguygardendesigns.co.uk
Categories
Blogs I Follow
- STICKS IN THE SMOKE (a sketchbook in London)
- The World according to Dina
- OLD FATHER THAMES | Diary of a Thames Mudlark
- Ros the traveling cat
- Hedgespoken - the blog
- cornishbirdblog
- long man's walking guide to Sussex
- LOOK UP LONDON
- Sing Better English
- Working Plot
- A Peace of London
- Girl Always Interrupted
- Enthusiastic Gardener
- Walks in Suffolk
- Off The Edge Gardening
- Susan Rushton
- The Frustrated Gardener
- London Street Views
- Katzenworld
- womanwithafish
Tags
Adnams brewery Alice in Wonderland AWRE Back to Backs Bankside Bellarmine Jars Birmingham Bobs World Cat Cafe James Bowen Carreras Factory Camden Cat Cafe London Cat Meat Seller Dahlias Dan Cruickshank Dick Whittington Exotic gardening Ferry Road Southwold Foreshore finds George Saunders Tailor Hawksmoor Churches Hodge Huguenots James Bowen Jewellery Jewellery Quarter Kaspar The Savoy Cat Little Venice London London's East End London Cats Michael Bond Millennium Bridge Mosaics Mudlarking Mudlarks Museum of London National Collection of Dahlias National Trust Orford Ness Paddington Paddington Trail Paul Bommer Penzance Port of London Public Sculpture Queenhithe RHS Wisley Save Norton Folgate Sculpture in the City Trail Shell Ford Social History South Bank Mosaics Southwold Southwold History Southwold Pier Spitalfields Gardens Huguenots Spitalfields Life Spitalfields Silks Spitalfields Trust St Barts Church Street Cat Bob Thames The Gentle Author The Gherkin Tobacco Dock Tower Hamlets Town House Town House Fournier Street Town of Ramsgate Tropical Plants Wapping Wildlife Will Giles Exotic Garden Wilton's Music Hall Worcester floods Worthing-
Recent Posts
- Gormley Men May 20, 2016
- A Sad Day for Norton Folgate May 11, 2016
- In Search of Shingle Street February 28, 2016
- Arun to Adur…a walk along the south coast January 29, 2016
- A Blogger’s Year December 28, 2015
Archives
Author Archives: Anne Guy
Gormley Men
Last weekend a farewell party was held in the small Warwickshire village of Lowsonford to say goodbye to one of its famous residents. Whilst only in residence for a year he had received many visits from art lovers and … Continue reading
Posted in Antony Gormley, Art, Uncategorized
Tagged Aldeburgh, Crosby Beach, Gormley Men, Hayward Gallery, Landmark Trust, London, Lowsonford, Sculpture, Sculpture Antony Gormley
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A Sad Day for Norton Folgate
Two weeks ago the Spitalfields Trust campaign to halt British Land’s destruction of Norton Folgate went to a judicial review in the High Court. Today I learnt of the Judge’s verdict… Justice Gilbart found in favour of Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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In Search of Shingle Street
A couple of years ago whilst in a bookshop in Aldeburgh, I saw a black and white postcard of a row of coastguard cottages called simply “Shingle Street”. It looked a desolate and mysterious place and one I simply had to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Arun to Adur…a walk along the south coast
You might be forgiven for thinking that this sunny beach photograph was taken in some exotic location abroad, it is in fact on the south coast of England, in West Sussex and to be more precise, it is the beach at Worthing! Worthing … Continue reading
Posted in West Sussex, Worthing
Tagged East Beach Cafe, Ferring, Goring, Lancing, Littlehampton, Longest Bench, Shoreham, SHoreham airport, Worthing, Worthing Pier
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A Blogger’s Year
It is that post Christmas/pre New Year time for reflection, a chance to look back over my blogs from the last twelve months and to begin to think about next year’s posts… It has a been a full year and I have visited lot of places, … Continue reading
Posted in 20 Fenchurch Street London, Architecture, Huguenots, London, London Gardens, Paul Bommer, Sky Garden, Spitalfields, Spitalfields Gardens, Suffolk, Uncategorized
Tagged Antony Gormley, Bawdsey, Hawksmoor Churches, London, Martello Towers, Postmans Park, Southwold, Spitalfields Life, Thames, Worthing
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Sky Garden
On a cold and decidedly windy grey November afternoon, we made our way to the City to meet up with a fellow blogger and her husband to visit the new “Sky Garden” at the top of one of London’s latest sky scraping … Continue reading
Round and Round the Gherkin
The purpose of my visit today was to visit an exhibition at the Town House in Fournier Street, but as it was a beautifully warm sunny October day, I decided to check out a few places on my to do list whilst in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, East End, London, Paul Bommer, Public Sculpture, Sculpture Trail, Spitalfields
Tagged Adam Chodzko, Ai Weiwei, Amphitheatre Guildhall London, Bruce Beasley, Damien Hirst, Dick Whittington, Ekkehard Altenburger, Folkert de Jong, Guildhall, Guildhall Art Gallery, Keita Miyazaki, Kris Martin, Laura Ford, Leadenhall Market, LFWE, Lloyds Building, London, London Fruit and Wool Exchange, Magic Lantern Exhibition, Mickeys Shelter, Paul Bommer, Sculpture in the City Trail, Shan Hur, Sigalit Landau, Spitalfields, St Botolphs without Bishopsgate, St Helens London, St Vedast alias Foster, The Gherkin, Theladytravels, Tomoaki Suzuki, Town House Fournier Street, Xavier Veilhan
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Birmingham’s Back to Backs…a journey through time
On a wet November afternoon, I paid a visit with my family to the “Birmingham Back to Backs” in the heart of the City. The Back to Backs, also known as Court 15 at 50 -54 Inge Street and 55-63 Hurst … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Back to Backs, Birmingham, George Saunders Tailor, Jewellery, Jewellery Quarter, National Trust, Social History
14 Comments
Will Giles
My love of tropical and exotic plants stems from a day over ten years ago now, when as a design student, I attended a days workshop run by Will Giles at the Cotswold Wildlife Park to explore ways to use … Continue reading
Posted in Exotic Gardening
Tagged Exotic gardening, Tropical Plants, Will Giles Exotic Garden
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Blooming Marvellous
Whilst visiting my family in Cornwall this week, I decided to take a trip to the National Dahlia Collection at Varfell, near Penzance. Situated on the South facing, fertile and well draining slopes overlooking Mounts Bay, the dahlia beds were looking stunning … Continue reading
