{"id":13416,"date":"2013-10-07T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2013-10-07T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:22:22","slug":"cheltenham-photos-the-posh-promenade-teenage-graffiti-ace-architecture-and-windfall-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/cheltenham-photos-the-posh-promenade-teenage-graffiti-ace-architecture-and-windfall-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham photos – the posh Promenade, teenage graffiti, ace architecture and windfall apples"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photos<\/p>\n

Here’s some more photos from my travels around Cheltenham<\/a>, a\u00a0large\u00a0spa town\u00a0and\u00a0borough\u00a0in\u00a0Gloucestershire,\u00a0England.<\/p>\n

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In the suburbs, a generous soul had offered a wheelbarrow full of windfall cooking apples.<\/p>\n

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Cheltenham is full of private roads and gated communities. Do. Not. Like.<\/p>\n

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A bloke with natty lime green trainers trots through Cox’s Meadow.<\/p>\n

We saw lots of joggers pounding the pavements of Cheltenham, while on the roads there was an near-endless stream of 4x4s and oversized cars. Didn’t much like that, either.<\/p>\n

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A tempting message written in a back alley.<\/p>\n

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The white heat of Friday night at the Little Owl pub on Cirencester Road, which, curiously enough, has a horse on the pub sign.<\/p>\n

On our way to the pub, a goat-sized badger scuttled right past us at high speed, which proved to be the most excitement we’d find that evening.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

Ordering a beer at the Little Owl.<\/p>\n

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Scene from the upmarket shopping area of town.<\/p>\n

Developed in the 1830s and 1840s, the Montpellier area of Cheltenham takes its name from the fashionable French town, which was renown at the time for being a pleasant place to live.<\/p>\n

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The shops along Montpellier Walk properties are separated by 32 individual stone caryatids, based on the classical models on the Erechtheion in Athens.<\/p>\n

The earliest two were made \u00a0from terracotta\u00a0by the London sculptor Rossi and\u00a0date back to 1840, while the remainder were created by a local man from Tivoli Street, with an additional pair added in the 1970s. Read more: [Ipswich-lettering.org<\/a>].<\/p>\n

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\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

There is some stunning late Georgian\/early Victorian architecture around Cheltenham.<\/p>\n

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Statue of the Cheltenham-born composer\u00a0Gustav Holst (1874-1934) . Holst is most famous for his “Planets Suite.”<\/p>\n

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Walking along the posh Promenade in Cheltenham.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

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Taking a rest on the Promenade.<\/p>\n

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Before the guests arrive at the wedding.<\/p>\n

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After the wedding.<\/p>\n

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Rodney!<\/p>\n

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Neptune fountain, which was\u00a0sculpted in 1893 by local firm RL Boulton and Sons. It is considered to have been styled on the Trevi Fountain in Rome.<\/p>\n

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Rather weird Minotaur and the Hare sculpture (1995) by Sophie Ryder, as seen on the Promenade.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

G’s Rock Bar advertises a petition against the late night levy.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

Old fire station, 1906. It was last used by firemen in 1959.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

Adjacent Engine House.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

The splendid Crescent Bakery building.<\/p>\n

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Curious sculpture on a storm drain.<\/p>\n

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This bit of fading graffiti proves testament to the moment when some angry person somewhere truly Socked it to The Man.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

Somewhat underwhelming fountain.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

The pair of old bent rails lobbed together marks the old railway route that takes you to Cheltenham Spa station.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

Along the old trackbed.<\/p>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

Situated on the\u00a0Bristol-Birmingham main line, Cheltenham Spa railway station\u00a0is about one mile from the town centre.<\/p>\n

Opening in 1849, the station was formerly known as Lansdown, but with the closure of all the other stations in Cheltenham, this remaining one got upgraded to ‘Cheltenham Spa’.<\/p>\n

The excellent\u00a0Cheltonia blog<\/a> reports that…<\/p>\n

The main station building itself is a lovely Regency specimen designed by Samuel Whitfield Daukes, an esteemed architect responsible for many of Cheltenham\u2019s fine villas. It originally had a spectacular stone portico at the front supported on a hefty row of Doric columns. Regrettably the powers in charge of the station in 1961 had it removed and replaced with the present boring wooden canopy. Eejits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Cheltenham<\/p>\n

It’s a bit of a run down station with some really ugly, exhaust-stained modern canopies stuck atop the elegant \u00a0cast iron supports.<\/p>\n

Time for the train back to London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s some more photos from my travels around Cheltenham, a\u00a0large\u00a0spa town\u00a0and\u00a0borough\u00a0in\u00a0Gloucestershire,\u00a0England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193,90],"tags":[698,440],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-cheltenham","tag-gloucestershire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cheltenham-scenes-16.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13445,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions\/13445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}