Karl Moritz admires the steps of Douglas House - # 152
A couple of hundred yards from Rutland Lodge Karl pauses to admire delicate iron work and planting around the steps of a large mansion called Douglas House, built in 1680. It would please him to know that today this mansion is part of the campus of the German School for London. The grounds now host a very fine modern school building developed in the late 1970s.
Nice detail in this photo Chucker. D'you think these date back to Moritz time? I guess the concept of Germany would be a difficult one for Karl to get used to, let alone a German School in Richmond
ReplyDeleteGermany is one thing, but German language and culture is something else, so he would anyhow certainly be very much pleased!
ReplyDelete@Peter - you're right of course. I was being a bit flippant just to get in an easy comment!
ReplyDeleteGood points....I think the iron work is unlikely to be 1680, but it could well be Moritz time, don't you think.
ReplyDeleteAs to nationhood etc, Karl has some comments relevant to that, which I intned to try to "picture" in due course.
The colour and sweep of the railing and the contrasting sharp lines of the step with the dainty shade of yellow all combine to work well in this photo.
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