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Twickenham walk

Twickenham, Middx. Thu 30 Jan 2020



 Twickenham riverside, with bridge to Eel Pie Island

 Boathouses on Eel Pie Island

 'Bertha' moored at Twickenham

 The sanded play area has two boats

 

 Eel Pie Island looks much more prosperous than it did twenty years ago

 The gate into the southern part of York House Gardens

 These late nineteenth century Italian marble sculptures were bought by Sir Ratan Tata from a sale at Witley Park

 near Godalming and the Cascade designed here for them. They were covered with mud during the war so their gleaming white bodies
     
 would not stand out as a landmark for German bombers, and were rescued in the 1980s or 1990s, and are now in need of further cleaning.

 

 

 Built around 1650, York House gardens were extensively remodelled by Tata a Parsee from Bombay who
bought the house from the Duc d’Orleans in 1906. Tata's family still own the massive Indian industrial company,
but the house was sold to the local authority and used as their offices on his death.

 A not very Japanese sculpture in the Japanese Garden

 

 The Grade II listing text for York House describes this as a "rare example of a once ubiquitous style of urinal in
  cast iron by the Walter Macfarlane Saracen Ironworks, Glasgow".

 I can confirm it is still in working order, although in need of repainting

 

 The White Swan

 Shop in Church St

and an office which seemed a little empty and seemed to be waiting for something uneasy to happen.

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