Anne Guy
Anne Guy
I am a former garden designer living in rural Worcestershire. I have many interests among them gardens, art, history and architecture, nature and wildlife which are reflected in my blogs.
Categories
Blogs I Follow
- Running Past
- Laura Adkins Art
- Lavender Moon: Artist, Poet and Lover of Nature
- Planting Diaries
- Too Lazy To Weed
- A Mudlark's Diary
- The Postal Adventures of Morris Mouse
- Cornwall in Colours
- Nick Andrew. drawing projects
- FabFourBlog
- OLD FATHER THAMES | Tide Travelling Mudlark
- Ros the traveling cat
- Hedgespoken - the blog
- The Cornish Bird
- long man guide to Sussex walks
- LOOK UP LONDON
- Sing Better English
- Nicola Oakey Design
- My Site
- Girl, Always Interrupted
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
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Recent Posts
- Hunting Hockney January 25, 2021
- Cley Skies or Cley Days… January 29, 2020
- The Garden at 120 March 17, 2019
- Life on The Edge January 6, 2019
- Theatre of Small Convenience December 23, 2018
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Author Archives: Anne Guy
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
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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
A Taste of the Tropics in Surrey
Whilst driving down to Sussex a couple of weeks ago, I decided to take a break from the monotony of traffic on the M25 and make a quick detour for some horticultural therapy at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Wisley garden. Situated just a few … Continue reading
Lending a Hand to Save Norton Folgate
I don’t normally participate in direct action, but when I read about the Spitalfields Trust Campaign to Save Norton Folgate calling for people to demonstrate against the proposals to demolish some 72% of buildings within a Conservation Area in East London…I felt … Continue reading
Posted in East End, London, Spitalfields
Tagged Dan Cruickshank, Save Norton Folgate, Spitalfields Trust, The Gentle Author, Tower Hamlets
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Away from the Drawing Board 