From the edge of the park, you can look down the mouths of several saints - Alban, Augustine, Andrew - a typically eclectic nineteenth century selection. St Alban road bends out of sight at the house with chimneys, but that's intriguing: a tall birch hides what's beyond. I liked the '20 zone' sign and the stacked shoulders of the care home at the corner.
In the afternoon I went to the area known as Black Tom; - or 'the prime ministers' (although Hartington never was one, despite having been the leader of three political parties). I'd hoped to sketch the alley-way connecting Hartington to Gladstone Street, but the view through was obscured by corrugated ironwork. Hartington stretches uphill directly away from the church in the town centre whose spire appears spookily like a destination from every front door.
At the intersection of Hartington and Stanley Street, I was attracted to the banded brickwork of 23A (possibly Stanley Street), the big house on the corner. There's a huge variety of design in this street of solidly built Victorian houses, in a humbler one of which, just round the corner, Ronnie Barker was born 98 years ago. The cars, the satellite dishes and the trailing wires wouldn't have been there then.
In the afternoon I went to the area known as Black Tom; - or 'the prime ministers' (although Hartington never was one, despite having been the leader of three political parties). I'd hoped to sketch the alley-way connecting Hartington to Gladstone Street, but the view through was obscured by corrugated ironwork. Hartington stretches uphill directly away from the church in the town centre whose spire appears spookily like a destination from every front door.
At the intersection of Hartington and Stanley Street, I was attracted to the banded brickwork of 23A (possibly Stanley Street), the big house on the corner. There's a huge variety of design in this street of solidly built Victorian houses, in a humbler one of which, just round the corner, Ronnie Barker was born 98 years ago. The cars, the satellite dishes and the trailing wires wouldn't have been there then.