Hanwell Churches (46)

Another church this one is in Hanwell and amongst a couple of others and a Saint I'm not familiar with St Mellitus.

A modern Catholic Church

A Methodist Church

A Hanwell  Church named for the Saint Mellitus

Saint Mellitus was an important figure in helping to grow the Christian faith in England when Paganism was widespread but is not so often commemorated these days, he became the first Bishop of London.

A Saint remembered 

It is said that Mellitus achieved Sainthood by virtue of the diverting of a fire in Canterbury - his saints day is April 24th


Mellitus was a sufferer of Gout and sufferers have been advised to pray at the site of his burial (in Canterbury England)

We're looking at £61.23.

{Today is a day celebrated by Buddhists, Parinirvana day this is a day that celebrates that when the rebirth cycle is broken on their death  the person who has reached Nirvana will break out form the recurring cycle, the Buddha attained this at Kusinara .} 

Doors

Who was Cowper I hear you say

Well it seems he was a writer of Hymns and Poems  - and there are some famous lines he's credited with too.

A Black door nicely framed amongst white

The Fox (in memory Lane) and Red 93

For a year or so after I'd moved to London I pretty much continued to live the life of a student but with the added advantage of having money.

Still sun-spoilt and tucked away

This way to the garden

During those halcyon days I was introduced to the delights of Hanwell's Fox public house nestled as it is amongst cottages, Allotments and the canal  it felt positively rural

So it was something of a delight to find that the pub retains its sleepy and friendly atmosphere on a Thursday lunchtime, nice beer and a nice garden too - Thanks John for the lunchtime  treat.

Red 93

So we're preparing today to put out a (slightly scruffy) metaphorical red carpet at the set up of Ealing's Bond Street Pop Up - Leap Year

Only a day away