If you are having difficulty seeing the photograph visit Greenford 365 and click on the individual post. Ten years ago today I created the 153rd post for Greenford 365. To…
This is one of the few independent clothes retailers in the area, a few doors away from a shop selling menswear. Evergreen is an Aladdin’s cave of everything from knitwear to…
Once upon a time this was a tiny hamlet at the foot of Horsenden Hill. It was inhabited by the 1750s, but the last house was demolished in 1972 and…
There has been a dramatic drop in temperature. The footbridge over the frozen canal is draped with crystal cobwebs. Teasels and cow parsley glitter in the hedgerows. The meadow that…
Whoever is responsible for this put their own life at risk as well as that of anyone driving past at the time and the person who has to remove it.…
This is the highest point in the area, 85m above sea level. The summit of Horsenden Hill is on the route of the Capital Ring walk and although it is…
I’ve walked past the end of this footpath so many times but have never used it. Two days ago an elderly woman was assaulted here as two men stole her…
This small area lies alongside carefully maintained and marked sports fields. The young trees within it include young oaks amongst others. This is the view south towards Ruislip Road East.…
Making a phone call is so much easier today than it was when the old fashioned red boxes were first available. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott they became British…
The Vikings believed that the World Tree, Yggdrasil, was an ash, with its roots in the Underworld. This is a humbler specimen, Fraxinus excelsior, one of many under threat from…