Herry's Journal

Chilcomb, Winchester I have been spending a lot of time in Winchester lately. It's such a beautiful city, and as someone said yesterd...

Add caption The Drapers' Livery Company maintain some 180 almshouses on three sites around London, continuing a tradition initiat...

The Chelsea Flower Show this year was held at the end of the sunniest and driest spring anyone could remember and the exhibitors strugg...

Tall Nettles TALL nettles cover up, as they have done These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough Long worn out, a...

I rarely post photos of flowers - apart from the bluebells in my favourite wood in Wiltshire - as they are so difficult to photograph w...

The residents of Wandle Road, including some who had moved away but retained close friends in the street, held a party to celebrate the R...

Wandsworth Common  Until 1850, only about 300 people lived in the area known as South Battersea. The land had originally belonged to th...

Martin Sixsmith's   Russia: the Wild East - explores the history of this great land and for the first time for me explains why Russia...

Jean Shrimpton at the Dolls' House Museum by Terry O'Neill I was lucky enough to see two photographic exhibitions in London th...