November 2024
Return from Hannover
Birthday Time
Shopping at Sainsburys
A walk at Norton Common
Spirella
Armistice Day
A final walk around town
On the long way home from Hitchin
From Heathrow via Singapore to Perth
Back in Perth
Letchworth to Perth
In My Pocket Book
Aussie politicians receiving their copies on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Do you have yours?
Anthony Albanese – Prime Minister of Australia
Peter Dutton – Leader of the Opposition
Deputy Mayor of Stirling, Suzanne Migdale, and Peter Dutton
Senator Michaelia Cash
Dr Tony Buti – WA Minister of Education
Simon Millman – WA MLA
Libby Mettam – WA Liberal Leader
Our Supporters
Eli with Barbara & Gabriele
Jill, Gabriele, Esther & Gabriele Jnr
Jill, Eli, Gabriele, the Levine brothers, Gabriele Jnr & Gerhardt
London 5
30 October 2025
Imperial War Museum London
with Hannah Devenney
Meeting Jill’s cousin David Leboff for the first time, at Southwark Station
Leboff, David; Demuth, Tim (1999). No Need to Ask! Early Maps of London’s Underground Railways. London: Capital Transport Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85414-215-3.
West End Theatre, Chinatown & Trafalgar Square
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The National Gallery
The National Gallery, London
The Nation’s Gallery. The story of European art, masterpiece by masterpiece.
Halloween in Letchworth
London 4
Letchworth to Kings Cross
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King’s Cross, London – Wikipedia
Repurposed gas holders and canal locks at King’s Cross, with the buildings of St Pancras Square behind
Liberty
Liberty (department store) – Wikipedia
Liberty, commonly known as Liberty’s, is a luxury department store in London, England. It is located on Great Marlborough Street in the West End of London. The building spans from Carnaby Street on the East to Kingly Street on the West, where it forms a three storey archway over the Northern entrance to the Kingly Street mall that houses the Liberty Clock in its centre. Liberty is known around the world for its close connection to art and culture, but it is most famous for its bold and floral print fabrics. The vast mock-Tudor store also sells men’s, women’s and children’s fashion, beauty and homewares from a mix of high-end and emerging brands and labels.
Oxford Street
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Meeting Saul and Ivan in Swiss Cottage
Swiss Cottage – Wikipedia
Swiss Cottage is an area in the London Borough of Camden, England. It is centred on the junction of Avenue Road and Finchley Road and includes Swiss Cottage tube station. Swiss Cottage lies 3.25 miles (5.23 km) north-northwest of Charing Cross. The area was named after a public house in the centre of it, known as “Ye Olde Swiss Cottage”.
Selfridges
Oxford Street to Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus – Wikipedia
Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London’s West End in the City of Westminster. It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning “circle”, is a round open space at a street junction.[1]
The National Portrait Gallery
Getting ready for Halloween
Halloween – Wikipedia
Halloween, or Hallowe’en[7][8] (less commonly known as Allhalloween,[9] All Hallows’ Eve,[10] or All Saints’ Eve),[11] is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide,[12] the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.[3][13][14][15] In popular culture, the day has become a celebration of horror and is associated with the macabre and the supernatural.[16]
London
17 October 2024
Letchworth to Kings Cross London
Covent Garden
The Adelphi Theatre
Embankment
South Bank
Westminster Bridge
Westminster Bridge – Wikipedia
Westminster Bridge is a road-and-foot-traffic bridge crossing over the River Thames in London, linking Westminster on the west side and Lambeth on the east side.
Walk up Whitehall to Trafalgar Square
Whitehall – Wikipedia
This article is about the street in London. For the street in Manhattan, see Whitehall Street.
18 October 2024
Kings Cross London
The Changing of the Guard – Buckingham Palace
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Walk through to Piccadilly
Fortnum & Mason
Piccadilly – Carnaby Street – Soho
West End of London – Wikipedia
This article is about part of London, England. For the western part of London, see West London.
Tube to Edgeware
With Binnie
Cambridge Visit
15 October 2024
The train from Letchworth to Cambridge
Walking Around Cambridge
Lunch
Downing College
Fitzwilliam Museum
Swimwear in the Museum including Jantzen
DNA “The Secret of Life” 28th February 1953
At The Eagle Pub, near the old Cavendish Laboratory, Francis Crick and James Watson first celebrated the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. This breakthrough relied on data from Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins and other scientists. Location: 5 Bene’t St, Cambridge, CB2 3QN.
Back in Letchworth
A Day In Ely
With cousins Ruth & Robert
14 October 2024
Goodbye to niece Natalie – see you next time!
The train to Ely – change in Cambridge. Met by cousins Ruth and Robert
Ely, Cambridgeshire – Wikipedia
Ely ( EE-lee) is a cathedral city and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district, in Cambridgeshire, England, 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Cambridge, 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Peterborough and 80 miles (130 km) from London. At the 2021 census, the built-up area had a population of 19,200.[2] The parish which includes the villages of Chettisham, Prickwillow, Queen Adelaide and Stuntney and the hamlet of Mile End had a population of 20,574 in 2021.[3]
The walk to Ely Gothic Cathedral
Inside the Cathedral
The area around the cathedral
Oliver Cromwell’s House
A walk around the town
RBK at the Riverside
Riverside Bar & Kitchen | Food & Drink Ely, Cambridgeshire
RBK is a stunning Bar & Kitchen based on Riverside walk. Fresh exciting dining and handcrafted cocktails, with views along the riverside.
Waterside Antique store
Waterside Antiques, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Large selection of antiques and collectables
Waterside Antiques, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Large selection of antiques and collectables
Back to the train station & Letchworth
Met by Dean
London
9 – 13 October 2024
West Harrow to Baker Street
With Geraldine and Ronnie
Oxford Street – Selfridges
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Regent Street
Hamleys
With Geraldine & Laura
Russell Square
The British Museum
The Oldest Chess Set at the Museum
The Rosetta Stone
The Egyptian gallery
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SOAS University of London reception
SOAS University of London – Wikipedia
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; )[5] is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area of central London.
Abbey Road St Johns Wood
Around the West End
The British Library
British Library – Wikipedia
The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.[7] It is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million[1][2][3][4] items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British Library receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The Library is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Meeting niece Natalie at St Pancras Station
Manchester
Arrival from Glasgow
Manchester – Wikipedia
Manchester ()[6][7] is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had an estimated population of 568,996 in 2022.[4] Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92 million.[8] It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The city borders the boroughs of Trafford, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and Salford.
Jewish Manchester
The Manchester Jewish Community Centre
Manchester Jewish Community Centre provides religious services, educational institutions and leisure facilities, including a swimming pool.
The Manchester Jewish Museum
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Old Sephardic Synagogue in the Museum
To Trafford Wharfside
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IWM North
Imperial War Museum North – Wikipedia
Imperial War Museum North (sometimes referred to as IWM North) is a museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society. It is the first branch of the Imperial War Museum to be located in the north of England. The museum occupies a site overlooking the Manchester Ship Canal on Trafford Wharf Road,[2] Trafford Park, an area which during World War II was a key industrial centre and consequently heavily bombed during the Manchester Blitz in 1940.[3] The area is now home to the Lowry cultural centre and the MediaCityUK development, which stand opposite the museum at Salford Quays.
Manchester Wharfside
To Piccadilly Station
Manchester Piccadilly station – Wikipedia
Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of the city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton and Bournemouth; regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York; and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms: 12 terminal and two through platforms (numbers 13 and 14). Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
Train to London & West Harrow
Scotland
Luton Airport to Glasgow
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Glasgow
Our hosts, Shula & Philip Spain
Train to Ayr
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Meeting David Sim
A drive around Ayr
Meeting Dorrith Sim’s family
Train to Edinburgh
Edinburgh – Wikipedia
Edinburgh (, ED-in-bər-ə;[3][4][5] Scots: [ˈɛdɪnbʌrə]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [t̪un ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh had a population of 506,520 in 2020,[6] making it the second-most populous city in Scotland and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. The wider metropolitan area had a population of 912,490 in the same year.[7]
Edinburgh Royal Mile
St Giles Cathedral
More Royal Mile
Edinburgh Castle
The National Gallery
Scottish National Gallery – Wikipedia
The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.[2]
The Walter Scott Memorial
Scott Monument – Wikipedia
The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana.[1] It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the former Jenners building on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott’s Waverley novels.
Back to Glasgow
Sharmanka
GarnetHill Synagogue
Garnethill Synagogue – Wikipedia
The Garnethill Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogues located in Garnethill, Glasgow, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. Completed in 1881, the historic synagogue is considered the ‘cathedral synagogue’ of Scotland.[1]
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
Scottish Jewish Archives Centre – Wikipedia
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre (SJAC) is the largest repository of items relating to Jewish migration to Scotland and life in Scotland.[1] It aims to document and illustrate the religious, organisational, social, economic, political, cultural and family life of Jews in Scotland from the 18th century to the present-day in order to heighten awareness – and to stimulate study of – the country’s Jewish heritage.[2][3]
Leaving Garnethill
To Kelvingrove
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum – Wikipedia
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. The building is located in Kelvingrove Park in the West End of the city, adjacent to Argyle Street. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is one of Scotland’s most popular museums and free visitor attractions.[2]
Train to Manchester
