Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 14

A Person Playing with a Ball.

At four and a half my grandson is really getting into practising football skills.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 1

A Pier
The longest pleasure pier in the world is to be found at Southend. Built  first in 1830, it is 1.33 miles long. This iron one was built a bit later.




I don't know how this Jewish gentleman could concentrate on his prayers - he was only yards away from a very noisy fairground with dreadful roller coasters etc.
















A father and son were making sandcastles next to Paignton Pier.














Here are two of Torquay's three piers.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 2

A Clothesline
Some days you can use it, some days you can't.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 3

A Border.
First, one from my friend's garden
then one from Barking Splashpark
finally two from Torre Abbey Gardens in Torquay.
The orange flower was in a border of them outside the hothouse.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 6

A Historical Landmark.
Two, in fact.
St Paul's Cathedral and Marble Arch. Both just down the road, here in London UK

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 7

A person playing a musical instrument
This is Brian - my DH
followed by our grandaughter, CassCass - at the other end of the scale. No pun intended!

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 4

A roadside stand selling something.

These two were the nearest I could get to this sort of thing.
They are on Green Lane leading east out of Ilford and are quite near Heather's house.
She buys fruit here. The stalls are always busy with Indian ladies in colourful saris and shalwar kameez. This is a favourite bus stop of mine where I can enjoy the colours of the fruit and the fabrics while the bus is stopped there.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 5

A train.
This is one of the steam train that runs between Kingswear (across the river Dart from Dartmouth) and Paignton.

Two photos of Eurostar trains, taken at St Pancras as Heather and the family left for Paris on the first leg of their journey to Guadeloupe.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 8

 A person dressed as an angel, or a statue of an angel.
This statue of an angel is in a graveyard in Ilford. It is the grave of Sir Peter Griggs, the first MP for Ilford.
 This angel was spotted in Covent Garden.





















oops! a fountain crept in here - this one is in Covent Garden.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 9

 A fountain.
This is the oldest one I saw. It is in Princess Gardens on the seafront in Torquay. The princess in question is Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. She visited the town in 1890.
Evidently there is a similar photo in the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. They used the same casts for the iron . . .                                                                                                     
Fountain number 2 is in the Splash Park in Barking Park.
















Number 3 is in the hothouse in the grounds of Torre Abbey, Torquay,














and number 4 is in Dartmouth.

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 10

A horse.
For my first attempt, a kind friend took me to a field on the edge of Ilford. The horse is a bit distant, but I was more interested to note that I could see both Canary Wharf and The Shard on the horizon. Canary Wharf is almost in the middle and The Shard is at the edge of the tree on the left. I didn't identify the buidling on the left.
Feeling the need of another picture of a horse, we visited a riding school not far from us.
























Then on the way to Torquay we passed this horse on the hillside. On the left near the top of the hill if you haven't got your binoculars to hand!

Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt - 11

A shadow.
The first two are in Heather's garden, while we house and hen sat for her this summer.
I recovered this chair for her and was so pleased with the result I carried it outside to photograph.





















The second two photos were taken in Torquay - shadows cast by a palm tree and a pine tree. I loved the pink walls and the  blue sky. There were so many little birds in that pine tree!