The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 7)

[Ruskie]

I love your photo Mongibello. It sounds like a really interesting walk .... wish I was there ....  If you have the route handy, could you please post it here? I'm sure there are lots of us who would be interested. Probably a bit too short for Steven though. 

Daisy the chimney's are amazing. It looks like a really nice area. I agree about the cars - they mess up every photo you try to take these days. Even looking at some of the old Frith postcards from the 1960's there are so few cars. How peaceful it must have been.

[Steven Bryceson]

I'll let everyone know when I and some others will be walking the Nathaniel Bryceson Memorial Walk and it will be super to have others join us! Peace, Steven.

[ShaunJ]

Just imagine people looking at that photo in 100 years time and arguing about what model that lovely old Ford is, and why the white van has such big windows, and what was that yellow thing for.  

[Daisy Loo]

Going a wee bit off-topic...but was that pub, Youngs always a pub?  How stragically placed, right next door to a church!!!

lol@ Shaun and the "yellow thing" - but made me think that littler bins were probably not needed back in NB's time...no plastic wrappers - what garbage would one have on a walk/trek?  An apple core?  a paper bag perhaps?

[ShaunJ]

Young's is the name of the brewery Daisy ! The pub is the Greyhound.

[alpinecottage]

Returning to the topic of NB's relationship to Ann Fox ~ why, in today's entry does he write; Took a walk with Ann Fox........Why was that in italics?  I have always felt that all aspects of his relationship with her were clandestine. Though I've no real idea about what he feels for her, at least part of his interest is physical.  From her viewpoint, perhaps she enjoyed having someone who she could have an interesting conversation with or perhaps he was her "passport" so she could go beyond the confines of her home area.

[Mongibello]

Here is the route Ruskie.   Remember you did ask!    I guess Nathaniel would have walked straight up Tottenham Court Road to Camden Town, Hampstead, Golders Green to Hendon.
Not wishing to walk on main roads all the way, I took a less direct route

[Ruskie]

 
I just lost a message I was about to post ....

Thanks for that Mongibello. I will trace the journey via google maps (a lot less effort). Having said that, Steven, Iwould love to join you on an NB memorial walk if I was in England. Sadly I am not. (that's my excuse anyway  )

[Ruskie]

Today's entry is interesting if short. There is a lot on google about the Swiss Giantess (assuming there was only one  ) She appears to have been born about 1801. Her name?  A letter written in 1850 says she commited suicide by drowing, thought it doesn't say where or when ...