'By The County Court, Salford'

Leaving slightly early gives you an opportunity to take a more leisurely route to your destination, and on my walk back down to college after our lunch break, today, I took a little walk through the backstreets to revisit this house that the Minx and had discovered* earlier.

The blue plaque tells you that the house featured in Lowry's 1926 drawing 'By The County Court, Salford'. Having only looked at the drawing afterwards, I realise I could have captured a better angle. Never mind.

Little has changed, at least as far as the picture is concerned, since Lowry's day. The wall between the arch and the house has been replaced by railings and there's the car, of course. I wonder what the weather was like on the day he chose to sit there and do his sketch. And what was on his mind.

*I always feel slightly misleading saying I've discovered anything. I mean, I'm not Christopher Columbus. I'm finding ever more convoluted ways on the radio show to avoid saying I discovered a song or an artist.

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Reading: 'Jews Don't Count' by David Baddiel