Friday 25 July 2014

Manor Way.



The alley way leads towards Tenterfield's school. When I was a child, I was told that this area was called Tenterfields because travellers (the tenter folk- because they had tents?) used this land to set up camp. Tenterfields school took the land that was once occupied by an isolation hospital. The hospital was demolished, and a single arch remains- not shown in this film.

A Coop dairy, the place milk floats went...has been replaced by McDonald's

The Christadelphian's have been waiting for the end of the world, all my life. They are a millenarian church. Christadelphian's like the Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there are signs indicating end times. The Olivet Prophecy in particular describes the signs that Christadelphians believe indicate the return of Jesus. The signs are described by Jesus in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13 and Luke 21 and include war, famine, "men's hearts failing them for fear" and people being more interested in themselves than in God. Christadelphians believe these signs have been fulfilled and, consequently, that Jesus will soon return. The Christadelphian movement was founded by John Thomas (1805-71), in America in 1848.

A surgical plaster stuck on the wall by the bus stop.

As we began to walk along Manor Way, Gavin saw round things on the pavement. Most likely the round things are damsons from this tree.

At the side of the road Gavin spotted the second instant of detached kettle lead. This is inexplicable.

Manor way and the sun shines directly into our faces. Traffic is slow, one lane has been coned off for gas repair. We walk past Sandvik. A set of offices, or it it a factory, that sells tools for the handyman; saws in particular. Sandvik is Scandinavian. It means sandy bay.

We leave Manor Way. The Clent Hills and Walton are on the horizon.

Walking towards Manor Way school, an amber cat.

A hole in the hedge leading back to Manor Way.

At the top of which is 'Death Island'. This rather innocuous traffic island was called Death Island because someone died there. The accident happened in the early hours. Two guys were racing, but they smashed into each other because this island is not all that it seems to be. The island used to be much smaller.

We walk back to Tenterfields.

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