And again...

Perhaps I should have posted this one first! Wasn't much of a band with only one Mandolin was it!

Band on North Street

I wish I had some time to stand and listen to this band who set up in Taunton on Saturday. I heard the first tune which sounded something like The Pogues or Flogging Molly might have done. Sort of Irish or at least a little celtic... Anyway I didn't - I had to rush off - so if you know who they were drop me a line!

Back to the Old School

Unfortunately I haven't actually been back to the school yet, I took this at the same time!
This is the front door, on Mary Street.

Taunton Town Charity

Taunton Town Charity on Magdalene Street.

A building that deserves a better photographer than me but hey, I'm all you have!

Anything that provides good, affordable housing for the oldsters has got to be a good thing in my book, just waiting for the good affordable housing for us (relative) youngsters now!

Burtons

This is the Burtons/Dorothy Perkins shop on North Street in Taunton town centre.
I love the fact that Barbara Jessie Burton laid the foundation stone for this shop in 1930 and here it is 77 years later still being used by the same company - not many shops on the high street have that sort of heritage.

There is a photo of the same foundation stone laid three years earlier on a Burtons shop in Cork, Ireland here.

Burtons itself was started by Monty Burton in 1900 in Chesterfield, England as a tailors and gents outfitters.

Oh, and did anyone see Dr Who? Hot up there wasn't it! ;)

Polo

Just over the road from my house is Taunton Canoe Club. I don't know if this girl was just early for a meeting or if she planned to play polo with the swan.

Back to the Tudor House

I said I would go back to the Tudor House soon so I popped back tonight with the 200mm lens on the Nikon hoping to capture some detail I thought I had seen the other day.

Well here it is, I was not so interested in the woman, who looks like something from a ship by the way, rather the creepy face carved into the post she hang from!

What I didn't notice until I loaded the photo into Apple Aperture is the date carved into the beam behind it, from what I can work out it says 13?8, I will have to go back to try and see the missing digit.

While I was taking the photo there was a minor commotion behind me when a police officer was stopping a couple of lads drinking cider in the street, when I left 2 PCSOs had just turned up to back him up. I didn't think he would appreciate a photo so I left them to it!