Calne (Saturday 18th November 2023)

I again got side-tracked when planning to photograph a building on the High Street, when I noticed that the plaster on the shop front of Sam Widges had fallen away to reveal this engraved ghost sign. E Hawkins were the proprietors of 8 High Street and the next door shop, but I don't know what kind either shop was.

In earlier times there was once a weekly market held on both sides of the river. It had a large cattle market adjacent to Hawkins on one side and a wooden bridge that connected to the other side. Those who did misdeeds got tied to the back of a cart and flogged. I believe this practice has died out.

Before I moved to Calne the shop had become A4 Antiques and I had eaten in the café then housed upstairs there whilst house-hunting. A few years later my late friend Deirdre co-owned it and sold groceries and the like there, and since then it became the much loved baguette shop as Sam Widges, unbeaten in the area.

L.
Saturday 18.11.2023 (1756 hr)

Blip #3999 (#3749 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #003
Blips/Extras In 2023 #204/265 + #089/100 Extras
Day #4985 (1178 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3139 (#2979 + 160 in archived blips)

Calne series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Sigma AF 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro HSM lens

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Beatles - We Can Work It Out (2023 Stereo Remix) (recorded 20 October 1965, vocals added 29 October, EMI Studios, Abbey Rd)
By today I had thoroughly examined and played to death CD1 and CD2 of the brand new Red album. The original double-album would easily have fitted on a single CD, but the addition of 10 extra tracks on the new version meant that it still occupies two CD discs. Whereas the original release had only Lennon-McCartney songs, two of the extra tracks were George Harrison songs (If I Needed Someone and Taxman). All were new remixes apart from the eight from the previous year's new version of Revolver (including the single Paperback Writer on a bonus disc).
We Can Work It Out was quite a departure sonically for the Beatles and was a double-A-side with DayTripper, both recorded during the Rubber Soul sessions. As they weren't on the album, stereo fans had to wait a full year for A Collection Of Beatles Oldies to be released in a stereo (as well as mono) version.


One year ago:
The Woodland Garden