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Christmas pictures

Just a few Richmond pictures with a Christmas theme. One of them (The Castle pub at night) is not particularly Christmassy, but is interesting as the place ceased to exist a long time ago – do readers remember it?   Anyway, here are the pictures:                     [...]

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            There is a hill beside the silver Thames Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems. Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.   Robert Bridges – Poet Laureate       There won’t be much text in this post.          [...]

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    Two cool Richmond establishments in ten days. Dipsophile’s cup runneth over.    Despite the fact that it doesn’t serve alcohol (and that’s a serious drawback as far as Dipsophile is concerned) this place is so cool it’s sub-zero.   Looking out over the newly restored and replanted Terrace Gardens, the building has an air [...]

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The White Swan – Richmond

      Dipsophile has been drinking in this pub for more than thirty years. Not continuously, you understand (Oliver Reed-like figure lurches briefly across the reader’s mind), but on and off since John Foster was the landlord in the Seventies.   To read the press today you’d think binge drinking was a modern invention. [...]

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Et in Arcadia ego

                      ARCADIA is the title of a magazine produced by the Council for the residents of Richmond Upon Thames. So what is Arcadia and what has it got to do with our area?  Well, Arcadia is a region of Greece. As Wikipedia says: “Arcadia remained [...]

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