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Tony Roberts
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former engineer.
interests: walking in London and around, local and world history, rail transport, beer, natural world.
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Tony Roberts @tonero72.bsky.social · Aug 13
Cycling down to the sea. Although you can't see them, there are marvellous views left and right. On the horizon, the white cliffs of the Isle of Wight.
#landscape #photography #purbeck #dorset #seascape 📷
Two cyclists on the path down to the sea. Sunlight illuminates an area across their path. Across the sea can be seen the white cliffs of the Isle of Wight. The sea is calm and the sky is a little overcast.
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An old corner of the village of Boí in the Vall de Boí. Catalonia.🩶🌺
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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W for Wonky Windows even! ☺️
Interesting to see diaper patterned walls with a later style of window.
December 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Grand Union Canal 17
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Arriving at West Harefield.
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
The Grand Union Canal at West Harefield. Gardens back onto the water, providing personal landing stages. A boat is moored at one. In the water are yellow flowered plants. Looking back up the canal. Trees line both banks. Boats are moored on the left and there are yellow flowered plants in the water. Landing stages of private gardens are on the right.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Perfect. It brightens the day.
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Nothing on this day from the past! Too busy celebrating my sister's birthday so one from sunnier days earlier in the year - Small Tortoiseshell - back garden Birmingham UK - August 2025 #photography #butterflies #insects #lepidoptera #canon #macro #naturephotography #nature #uknature
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Martindale #lakedistrict
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Nice one, Anthony. Great colour and reflections. 😊
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Grand Union Canal 16
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Making for Harefield, pausing for reflections.
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
A large tree reflects in the still waters of the Grand Union Canal, the blue sky showing between branches.
December 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Happy Friday and #Scape Day
.. A memory from last April..
Have a lovely day, 🌳💚☀️
Richmond Park, London, U.K. 📷
#Photography #Nature #EastCoastKin
A prominent tree in pastureland long grass, on the horizon a woodland
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Winter light St. James's Park, London.
Low winter light on a chilly morning with reflections in the lake of leaf shorn trees and weeping willows. Beyond is a fountain and the *fairytale* buildings of Whitehall. All under a blue sky and a few pale clouds.
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Grand Union Canal 15
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
A hundred yards below Springwell we pass Maple Cross water treatment plant.
It's getting somewhat crowded!
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
Boats line both sides of the Grand Union Canal, double lined on the left bank. A gaily painted narrow boat approaches. A boat on the right is covered in trailing plants. Aswan also approaches. A closer view of the approaching boat.
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Grand Union Canal 14
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Not far below Stocker's Lock is Springwell Lock
Two boats make use of the lock together, saving water.
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
Going down. Two boats in the lock when most of the water has drained away. A bright spring day, blue sky and many are gathered around. Are they passengers? A development of relatively new buildings can be seen in the distance. Free at last as levels equalise, the boats prepare to leave the lock. The sun glints off the water of the canal as the boats may their way on to Uxbridge or further.
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Grand Union Canal 13
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Some more pictures of those horses
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
Horses graze on a slope beside the Grand Union Canal. Three Canada Geese are swiming upstream. Young trees and bushes line the bank. Horses graze on a slope beside the Grand Union Canal under a three-quarter moon. The horses are reflected in the water of the canal. A horse is having a drink from the Grand Union Canal, its reflection disturbed by ripples of its own making. A second horse approaches. Meanwhile two men look on. In the background are outbuildings of Stockers Farm.
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Grand Union Canal 12
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Next on our walk is Stockers Lock and House
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
This photo could be considered misleading. In the background are two buildings. The front, white one, is the lock cottage, whereas the taller, stock brick building behind, is Stockers House (grade II listed), built for the City of London Corporation as a residence for its Collector of the Coal Dues on the Grand Junction Canal. To the left can be seen the lock gates and behind it the bridge to the house. In front, a mirror pond. The canal at this location has a distinctly rural feel as we pass Stockers Farm. Horses are grazing and one of them is about to have a drink at the canal.
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Ashcombe Wood, Mole Valley
#Walking #Surrey #Trees #Photo
Photo showing a gnarly tree surrounded by lush green woodland.
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Through the Black Valley into the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks

#MountainMonday #PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Photography #Ireland
A lone white cottage in the distance sits quietly under the mountains. A cloudy day casts shadow over the Reeks.
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Views of the Scafells from the Greendale Round #LakeDistrict
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I finally got down to see the newly opened stretch of the Thames path at Vauxhall that Patricia Stoughton kindly informed us of. It was a lovely day so I decided to test the zoom lens on my Pixel 10 phone on the Elizabeth tower. 📷
The top of the Elizabeth tower, British Houses of Parliament taken from across the Thames. Clock face of the Elizabeth tower, British Houses of Parliament taken from across the Thames. Not all the text is legible. Elizabeth tower, British Houses of Parliament taken from across the Thames. The original photo. View towards Vauxhall Bridge, London, taken from the recently opened section of the Thames Path. A couple and an adult with child are making use of the foreshore. The chimneys of Battersea Power Station rise up behind the bridge.
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Grand Union Canal 11
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Below Batchworth Lock the River Colne leaves the canal.
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
On the Grand Union Canal a boat chugs towards us, passing a towpath bridge over the leaving River Colne. On the boat a woman takes a photograph of the leaving river. The Colne, as it leaves the Grand Union canal, forms a tranquil green pool for a lone fisherman.
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Quiet places
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Grand Union Canal 10
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Batchworth Lock at Rickmansworth
The canal has been following the River Gade, which has joined it. Now it meets the Chess and the Colne
This series isn't attracting much interest, so I may stop posting.
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
The river Chess joins the canal. The Chess is on the left and the Grand Union Canal can be seen on the right of the photo with separate gates. A party is having a picnic beside the Chess and a swan is visible behind the gates. I don't know if the Chess gates get used nowadays. A canal boat is moored in the basin below the lock gates. The Grand Union Canal lock gates are illuminated by the sun. The Chess gates are hidden by a footbridge. The cafe, left, advertises ice cream, cold drinks, maps, gifts, duck food and boat trips. An openstreetmap of Batchworth lock, with the tributaries marked, flowing from right to left.
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The last leaf...
A last leaf among seed ball baubles, caught in the sun.
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Grand Union Canal 9
Making our way slowly towards the Thames
Approaching Batchworth
#photography #canals #grandunion 📷
Foliage creates an arch over the towpath of the Grand Union Canal. In the distance a tall weeping willow overhangs the path. Approaching Batchworth. Glints on the Grand Union Canal. Boats linethe left bank.
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I just loved the forms of the trees in this wood, adorned with countless other plants growing on them. An incredible sight to see and photograph!

#autumn #dartmoor #woodland #nature #photography
The ancient oaks of Dartmoor are gnarled and full of life, from fungi, lichen and ferns growing throughout. The colours are fabulous in autumn, from greens to yellows, and even orange. I just loved capturing these scenes.
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Half way through boat licence year. If I don't move at all now, my CRT licence review next April will still show c.300 miles travelled. Should get a new licence on range, but they'll be wanting words about the 14-day rule
#boatlife
#ukcanals #canal #narrowboat
#KeepCanalsAlive #FundBritainsWaterways
Historic narrowboat travelling down a canal lined with trees in transition from winter to spring.
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Great Gable from Haystacks #LakeDistrict
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM