Seven Sisters and Beachy Head

"The downs shaped my whole outlook and way of painting because the colour of the landscape was so lovely and the design so beautifully obvious!"

(Eric Ravilious)

You came and looked and saw the view

Long known and loved by me

Green Sussex fading into blue

With just a touch of sea

(Alfred Lord Tennyson)

The Grenfell Tower

"When we shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun."

(William Shakespear. Romeo and Juliet)

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun ?

And when the earth shall claim your limbs then shall you truly dance."

(Kahlil Gibran)

Wilmington

I will go out against the sun

Where the rolled scarp retires,

And the Long Man of Wilmington

Looks naked toward the shires;

(Rudyard Kipling. Sussex)

"Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them."

(John James Audubon)

St Pancras Old Cemetery NW1

"Thus, with beer-drinking, pipe-smoking, song-roaring, and infinite caricaturing of woe, the disorderly procession went its way, recruiting at every step, and all the shops shutting before it. Its destination was the old church of St Pancras, far off in the fields."

(Charles Dickens. A tale of two Cities)

At last-it maybe, Death took spite

Or jesting only meant to fright

He sought for Jack night after night

The churchyards round;

And soon they met. The man and spate

In Pancras ground.

(Thomas Hood. Jack Hall)