"Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf. Ring them bells for all of us who are left. Ring them bells for the chosen few who will judge the many when the game is through..." Bob Dylan. Ring Them Bells

After much consideration and doubt...

Recollecting a trip this past summer to Bewl Water, Kent...

Inspired by Dante Alighieri's Canto VIII, The River of Wrath, where he finds his personal enemy, Filippo Argenti, in the mire of the river Styx consumed by his own wrath

A recent visit to the chapel of St Peter and St Paul in the Greenwich university campus, the old Naval College.

Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of this type. It owed its existence to the need to protect the important dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham from a perceived French naval threat during a period of tension in the 1850s. Rapid improvements to artillery technology in the mid-19th century meant that the tower was effectively obsolete as soon as it had been completed. A proposal to turn it into a casemated fort was dropped for being too expensive. By the end of the 19th century the tower had gained a new significance as a defence against raids by fast torpedo boats. It was used in both the First and Second World Wars, when its fabric was substantially altered to support new quick-firing guns.

An image back in time....

Once again a small collection taken with the iPhone