Festival Place

Festival Place in Basingstoke on a rainy day (when isn't it!).

Boundary

Parish boundary marker seen by the roadside in Alton

Cakes

I love cake!!

Old from new

View of Old Portsmouth from the top of the Spinaker Tower.

Gunwharf quays

Early evening in Portsmouth

Bank Holiday

Shot through the rain in Hook. The forcast for the weekend is getting slightly better.....I'll believe it when I see it.

Sea King

Sea King Helicopter seen in field in Lasham. There is an aircraft museum here with a field of relics waiting to be restored. Link

Pough

Old plough by the side of the road in Hook.

Timber

This was a pile of logs awaiting collection beside the road in Lasham. The timber is not of the best quality so I guess it will be used for fencing. I loved the honey colour of freshly sawn timber which was just a bit damp after all the rain we've had.

All the fun of the fair

Funfair in Basingstoke

Any one for tea?

Catering in the park.

Bike

Bike seen in Overton

Fingerpost

Fingerpost in Overton. This type of sign was very common at road junctions prior to the implimentation of national road numbering. As you can see this post is situated at the junction of two major roads and would have been an important staging point.

Ring Ring

A pair of telephone boxes found in Overton. These red boxes once found all over the place are now few and far between. A part of British streetscape now almost extinct around here. In fact telephone boxes are being removed completely due to lack of use in some area's.

Bang!

Signs on Yateley Common which is used by the Army for live amunition training and is a popular place for walking dogs. Signs like this can be seen all over North Hampshire.

Oil

This is a marker showing the route of a pipeline between Southampton and Heathrow Airport which carries aviation fuel. This one is between Odiham and Farnham.

War memorial, Alton

This is the war memorial in Alton, it is shaped in the form of a cain which is slightly unusual and records the dead from two world wars.