Faded elegance

This street is in an inner city area where the once rather elegant town houses,

are now nearly all divided into bedsits.

In the crowded inner city

every space, however small or lacking in privacy, can become an oasis on a beautiful day.

Higgledy Piggledy

means - muddled, unsystematic, irregular. haphazard, jumbled.

 

On street parking

A Gated Community

It has been a really hard winter for 'Rough Sleepers' in the city.

We always have a lot of rain but this year that has been made worse 

by the long period of record breaking low temperatures.

As Socrates said

"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom 

is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."

How did it all go so wrong?

Houses built, over a century ago, for workers in the Royal Naval Dockyard, 
which for generations was the major employer of men  in the city 
with a workforce of 20,000 until comparatively recent times.

A welcome splash of colour

on a wet, dismal, grey day.

A little Autumn colour ........

..... on a grey day in a grey street.

Autumn Colour

Many areas of Plymouth are very colourful this autumn because there are lots a trees in public places and in private gardens, while here in Wyndham Street, an inner city area that has seen better times, these few trees are doing their best to add some colour and cheer people up in these difficult economic times.