60 + mins - pencil - ink - watercolour, Topiary at the corner of Irwin and Philpotts. Tile-hung bays alternate with half-timbered facades. Philpotts Avenue is named after a public school headmaster - as you did! Early 20th century (?) - especially those narrow windows and the intersected gable front with its little window set into the triangle of wall above the front door. They seem to have been designed as prestigious suburban dwellings when Bedford was establishing itself as a desirably country location for commuters. Maybe those times are returning. The solidly shaped conifers drew my eye - and the huge expanse, slope and volume of the roofs - and being positioned at the crossroads. As we are. |