Instagram – John Beardsworth

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JohnSep 6, 2018

For more than a year I have been posting new pictures to Instagram and odd videos on YouTube. Just don’t take this as evidence of any burgeoning social media strategy, let alone of any ambition to be an “influencer”, or whatever. It’s just proof that I am still alive, if anyone is wondering.

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Oxford Street I didn’t watch yesterday’s funer

Oxford Street
I didn’t watch yesterday’s funeral (I’d vote for a republic if they let us have the chance) but you can’t avoid feeling human sympathy for a woman sitting alone in church after losing her husband of more than 70 years. It’s a necessary cruelty that so many have experienced in the last year .

#PrincePhilip, #dukeofedinburgh #mourning #london #buckinghampalace #lightroom #fujifilm

Who needs souvenirs when our memories are online?

Who needs souvenirs when our memories are online? Central London.

#street #streetphotography #candidpublicphotography #london #fujifilm #lightroom

After the death of Prince Philip, the Queen's husb

After the death of Prince Philip, the Queen's husband for 73 years, some people came to lay flowers outside Buckingham Palace. Covid 19 restrictions are still in operation, and the numbers were small compared with other occasions around the palace.

#PrincePhilip, #dukeofedinburgh #mourning #london #buckinghampalace #lightroom #fujifilm

"A Sea of Benches" or "Totes Gasthaus" depending w

"A Sea of Benches" or "Totes Gasthaus" depending whether your preferred allusions are to photography or painting.

In anticipation of pubs being able to serve customers outside from April 12, this Wetherspoons (hiss boo) is making preparations. Of course I wish the staff well and hope its customers enjoy their pint, but hell will freeze over.....

#covid_19 #coronaviruspandemic #coronavirusuk #pubs #london #se5 #denmarkhill #fujifilm #lightroom

National Covid 19 Memorial Wall On the wall of St

National Covid 19 Memorial Wall
On the wall of St Thomas's Hospital, directly across the river from the Houses of Parliament, people can volunteer to draw red hearts as a simple people's memorial to those who have been lost or have suffered in the pandemic.
I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but St Thomas's was where Boris Johnson was treated when seriously ill with Covid, so while we may celebrate the success of the vaccination programme, let's not let it blind us to how his government presided over the worst death rate in Europe.

#coronavirus #covid_19 #coronavirusuk #memorial

National Covid 19 Memorial Wall On the wall of St

National Covid 19 Memorial Wall
On the wall of St Thomas's Hospital, directly across the river from the Houses of Parliament, people can volunteer to draw red hearts as a simple people's memorial to those who have been lost or have suffered in the pandemic.
I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but St Thomas's was where Boris Johnson was treated when seriously ill with Covid, so while we may celebrate the success of the vaccination programme, let's not let it blind us to how his government presided over the worst death rate in Europe.

#coronavirus #covid_19 #coronavirusuk #memorial

Protest signs against male violence attached to th

Protest signs against male violence attached to the railings of James Allen’s Girls’ School, one of south London's leading private schools, after recent news about sexual abuse allegations involving pupils from Dulwich College, the nearby boys school.

#dulwich #jags #dulwich

Soon most of these Yoshino cherry trees in Dulwich

Soon most of these Yoshino cherry trees in Dulwich/Herne Hill will have one or two parakeets biting off flowers and quickly spitting them out. Maybe they're fast eaters, or perhaps they just don't like blossom?

I'll add that I'm not a birder, just noticed the behaviour when recording this video last year https://youtu.be/1BDy5Ok4pqg

#dulwich #hernehill #parakeets #ringneckedparakeet #birds #ring #yoshino #cherryblossom #spring #london #fujifilm #lightroom

Spring in (leafy) Dulwich - well, really Herne Hil

Spring in (leafy) Dulwich - well, really Herne Hill

A year ago the gentle beauty of these Yoshino cherry trees (planted as recently as 2012) provided a strange contrast to the anxiety of Covid-19 and the silence of lockdown. They're about ten minutes' walk away but I was nervous that stopping to photograph or record video might not be the daily exercise I was permitted to take (this was before Dominic Cummings' Barnard Castle trip). This year, after what we've all been through, their arrival is worth celebrating - and surely next time they flower you'll be allowed to come and see them!

If you're interested, here's last year's video https://youtu.be/1BDy5Ok4pqg

#dulwich #hernehill #yoshino #cherryblossom #spring #london #fujifilm #lightroom

Sarah Everard memorial, Clapham Common. A longer

Sarah Everard memorial, Clapham Common.

A longer daily walk than usual, for a few hundred metres I must have been on exactly the same stretches of the S Circular road that Sarah Everard would have been on that shocking evening. She was only walking home.

#saraheverard #NotAllMenButAllWomen #claphamcommon #london

Sarah Everard memorial, Clapham Common. A longer

Sarah Everard memorial, Clapham Common.

A longer daily walk than usual, for a few hundred metres I must have been on exactly the same stretches of the S Circular road that Sarah Everard would have been on that shocking evening. She was only walking home.

#saraheverard #NotAllMenButAllWomen #claphamcommon #london

Approaching storm, central London About 6 months s

Approaching storm, central London
About 6 months since I last ventured outside London, 3 since I last went into the centre, and it seems the longer I've been stuck round home the more I seem to seek out the higher spots of SE London. Maybe I just want to know the world doesn't end at the borders of Dulwich.

#london #southlondon #viewpoints #storm #winter #se24 #dulwich

A Tale of Two Billies - Bill Gates’ “Plan to S

A Tale of Two Billies - Bill Gates’ “Plan to Save the World” and Billie the lost dog. Bonus was Extinction Level Event 2 (whatever that may be) ad on the bus. East Dulwich, south London.

#lostdog #billgates #climatechange #climatecrisis #eastdulwich #dulwich #se22 #fujifilm #lightroom

Victorian-era shopfront, Herne Hill, south London

Victorian-era shopfront, Herne Hill, south London

#se24 #hernehill #tiles #decorativetiles #decay #decayingbeauty #fujifilm #lightroom

Cracked paint, Rosendale Road shop front, Herne Hi

Cracked paint, Rosendale Road shop front, Herne Hill

#se24 #hernehill #paint #crackedpaint #texture #decay #decayingbeauty #fujifilm #lightroom

The last snow, Cox's Walk, Dulwich Wood⁣ ⁣⁣

The last snow, Cox's Walk, Dulwich Wood⁣
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⁣#Dulwich #SE21 #DulwichWoods #SouthLondon #London #Woods #winter #snow #lightroom #fujifilm

North Dulwich during the second great blizzard of

North Dulwich during the second great blizzard of 2021. On two successive days 25mm of snow blanketed south London's leafiest suburb and temperatures plunged to 1C with a gentle breeze producing a wind chill that sent the hardy Northern photographer in his fellwalking boots scuttling back home after half an hour.

#se24 #dulwich #northdulwich #snow #london
#fujifilm #lightroom

The Leaning Postbox of Dulwich In these lockdown t

The Leaning Postbox of Dulwich
In these lockdown times, travel to Tuscany (or even outside SE London) is all in the mind.

#se24 #dulwich #northdulwich
#iphone #lightroom

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