about JohnH
Sorted, fit. Current activities are photography, hiking, motorbiking, trail biking, music, geology/geoscience, dinner-at-home, travel and more.
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View from Buckingham Palace - my part in the Charles and Diana Royal Wedding, 1981
I saw the Charles and Diana Royal Wedding from the roof of Buckingham Palace. In one way the complete best place because we saw and heard the huge crowd below in The Mall, we saw the carriages go out and return and we saw the crowd surge when the barriers were relaxed.
However, during the actual service there were three of us crowded around the five-inch monochrome viewfinder of the television camera which I was minding: the cameraman, the rigger and myself. Sometime during the afternoon a couple of lads came up to see the crowd from our vantage point, we worked out later they were probably the Princes Andrew and Edward.
You can see our presence on photos of the Palace as little dots on the towers above the famous balcony. ITV’s camera was on the left-hand position. And my Mother almost certainly still has my passes from the day!
Not sure I like blue outside my windows: crane at St Andrews, Fulham Fields church construction site.
The crane looks about 30m high; it is higher than St Andrews church steeple when in the position in the photograph.
Of course it's still a listed building: compare with the church before the demolition
And the house opposite with the white balcony is for sale at £2,000,000...
Some people have been kind enough to offer to send me a present in recognition of pleasure derived from this website and the effort I put in to it. The best way seems to do this by offering a link to a public wish list on amazon, which will dispatch to my address. Be sure to include a greeting so I know who to thank.
Click here for my wish list on amazon
Here's a picture of St Andrews church near where I live. The demolition crew have moved in: the building to the left of the tower will be demolished and replaced with a modern block of flats. The new building will be as high as the church roof to the left of the tower but will occupy the site currently occupied by the vestry building; so much more intrusive to the road space. So much for listed building status and a conservation area if you believe you have God on your side!
Click here for more details: Save St Andrews Church W14
