1000 words, 1000 posts, let's get back!

Fanny it is indeed Mary Stevens Park, I am surprised you recognised it from those photos!

Checking further I think he lived in the house for 25 years - whatever, it's a fabulous house!

Jane from my poor photography you can't see the blue plaque but just checking online he seems to have lived there for 50 years! The house is just too grand to ever have been a ' boarding house'.

All the houses seem to have basements where staff would have cooked. Whether the 'great and the good' ever needed a kitchen, who knows!

First steps in crochet

Riverwalk thanks for those - I’m particularly interested in the Rossetti one. Was it the Rossetti family home?
I think when he lived with Lizzie Siddal they had some sort of apartment - I remember reading in a biography of her, that most apartments had no cooking facilities and that was why they ate out all the time.

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Taken this morning - one is the home of Rossetti, where his muse Fanny Cornforth (the original!) must have spent some time and the other is George Eliot's home. They are a few doors away from each other.

The photo taken from the front with the big gates is Rossetti's.

Artists and writers of their era certainly lived well!

A grey day in the park, but the view is always good.

My snowbooted footprints ?

Welcome colour on a grey day!

Jan honestly, this is only the second time that I've looked at this thread, and once again, the first pictures I see are yours!
Mary Stevens' Park - I had many a mispent afternoon there as a teenager, larking about with mates and a bottle of wine from the offie!
I'd give myself a dirty look and a tut now!

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Lovely Namsnanny

A walk to our local park yesterday. The geese are walking on water

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Lovely shades of grey Ellianne

More Snowdrops NannyJan53, Blossoming.

Snap! Lisagran!!

Meet Cone-an (The Snow-man) or Twiggy, (if you can see his arms you'll understand why).

Me and my shadow on a quiet Transpennine Trail this morning.

The end of a peaceful day (weatherwise).

What's that bird?

Pretty visitor today

I was worried callistemon, thought global warming had confused it.

Lovely!

I can't see my tortoise, he's snowbound

Ps he's not real before I get messages saying he should be in hibernation

Garden cherub with bouffant hairdo

Callistemon

Very good!!

Did you build him Lisagran?

No, we just saw him on our walk

Brilliant photos. This is our house taken by our neighbour.

Very good!!

Did you build him Lisagran?

Covid responsible snowman

You can have ours Ellianne