26 Eastern Avenue, its residents and visitors

Images are © Jonathan Gregory 1998-2018.

See also the MOBILE VERSION of this album, and the OTHER ALBUMS.

Each thumbnail image below is a link to its own picture page, and each picture page has a link to the next one.

Front of house and Robinia pseudacacia
02-02 Spring 1998 03-001 03-002 Early summer 1998
11-036 Spring 2000 42-001 May 2006
53-039 After installation of dormer window, October 2007 54-024 April 2008
58-037 58-036 After unexpectedly severe pruning, April 2009
60-027 Abundant growth after pruning, August 2009 63-030 Early May 2010
d001-125 Late May 2010 d001-274 Late August 2010
d003-452 24 October 2010 d004-739 31 July 2011
f020-6035 22 Sep 2020 f022-15655 20 Nov 2022
Garden flowers
04-020 Forsythia, spring 1998 10-021 Forsythia, spring 2000
13-002 Virginia creeper, autumn 2000 d004-692 Pieris, April 2011
20-011 20-013 Wisteria, April 2002 22-02 22-01 Wisteria, April 2003
31-021 31-020 Wisteria, May 2004 48-040 Wisteria, May 2007
54-020 Wisteria, May 2008 58-035 58-034 Wisteria, April 2009
63-029 Wisteria, May 2010 20-012 Clematis, April 2002
27-36 Crab apple, September 2003 d004-693 Crab apple, April 2011
02-36 Roses, early summer 1998 63-027 Roses, May 2010 (Velvia)
d001-124 Roses, May 2010 (digital) 10-024 Flowering currant and kerria, spring 2000
10-023 11-001 Camellia, spring 2000
35-037 Camellia, April 2005 m001-170401_110832 Camellia and kerria, April 2017
f021-8238 f021-8277 Camellia, April 2021 11-027 Honesty, spring 2000
11-032 Caeonothus and honesty, spring 2000 54-023 54-021 Caeonothus, May 2008
05-037 Lavatera, July 1999 11-037 Aquilegia in back garden, spring 2000
42-002 Campanula in back garden, May 2006 02-03 Bluebells, April 1998
05-035 Hydrangea, July 1999 05-036 Monbretia, July 1999
10-017 Hyacinth and polyanthus, spring 2000
24-24 24-23 Honeysuckle, June 2003
42-003 Roses in front garden, May 2006
53-008 53-007 53-006 Snow on Sunday morning, 6th April 2008
60-005 Viburnum in front garden, December 2009 f020-5143 Hypericum, May 2020
f020-7007 Viburnum, Nov 2020 f022-11419 f022-11422 Quince, Mar 2022
f022-11752 Pieris, Apr 2022 f022-14532 Sedum, Oct 2022
f022-15585 Arum lily, Nov 2022 f022-15654 Copper beech at No 36, Nov 2022
f023-18119 Hypericum, Jun 2023
People, events and things
10-020 Reading half-marathon, Sunday 12th March 2000 11-038 Ann Keen and Helene Banks, summer 2000
25-01 James Carew, July 2003 55-018 James Hayles on the campus, 17th July 2008
55-009 Ricky at Silchester (Calleva), Sunday 28th September 2008 18-002 Pull-up bar, autumn 2001
10-022 Mugs, spring 2000 18-001 Kitchen shelves, autumn 2001
31-019 31-017 Cake made by Sonja for my 40th birthday, May 2004
31-018 Sonja and Gabriel 31-016 Cake sent by Peter Cox and family
39-001 1950s pint-size ink bottles from the New Towns Commission in Welwyn Garden City 37-002 Digital TV aerial installed by Paul Stacey, Sunday, 25th September 2005
52-005 View from newly completed front dormer, April 2008 55-005 New dual-coil hot-water cylinder, November 2008
62-008 62-007a 62-006 62-003 Installation of solar PV, Thursday, 18th March 2010
62-001 62-005 62-002
d004-707 May 2011 53-040 Solar thermal panel in its new position, October 2007
46-000 53-009 Solar thermal panel seen from Granby Gardens in its original position (left, on Sunday, 19th November 2006) and its new position (right, Monday, 31st March 2008)
62-004 With scaffolding after the installation of the first set of PV panels (Saturday, 20th March 2010) d004-744w Panels after the construction of the new side-wall, October 2011
d005-834 The new side-wall d006-1089 After the installation of the second set of PV panels, July 2012
d006-1090 Saturday, 1st September 2012 d001-126 The chimney of No 5 (testing new long lens)
d001-002 Remy Furtado, May 2010 d001-004 Gabriel, May 2010
d001-128 d001-129 In my room, May 2010 d004-698w Gabriel and Shabnam's Quaker wedding certificate, April 2011
f004-0671 The signed certificate in their home, July 2013
d004-727 d004-728 Views from the top of the scaffolding, June 2011
etc-Gaurav_120228 Gaurav at work in Henley, February 2012 d005-845 Gaurav on the train at Henley
d004-824 New stove, December 2011
d006-1095w d006-1101w Before and after insulation of sitting-room front wall, autumn 2012
For room advertisement
d004-734w d004-735 d004-736w d004-737
d004-826w d005-828w d006-1091a d006-1093
f004-0537 f004-0663 Nathanael van Twillert
f004-0670 Nathanael's car f004-0816 Nathanael's native vowels
f004-0547 Eleanor Bageine and Robert Thollin
f005-1014a f005-1013 f005-1008 f005-1010 Liang Guo, Christoph Biehl, and their friend Melinda at late Chinese New Year celebration, Sunday 2nd February 2014
f005-1015 jigsaw puzzle of Victorian map centred on 26EA, present from Gabriel at Christmas 2013
f005-1036 f005-1037 Liang at Bwlch Coch, Saturday 19th April 2014
etc-MJW_161126 etc-GBK_161126 Kitchen-opening dinner, Saturday 26th November 2016
m001-170409_152713 Marlous and Nathanael in their flat in Amsterdam (photo of a photo), Friday 7th April 2017
New kitchen, December 2016
f005-2040 f005-2039 f005-2032 f005-2031 f005-2033
f005-2042 f005-2041 f005-2038 f005-2035 f005-2036
m018-180528_WA0000 Birthday cake from Benoit and Liang in 2018
m018-180808_WA0001 m018-180810_WA0001 Game cards and glasses made by Benoit for Giuseppe on his stag party
m018-180812_WA0003 Liang at home while I was in hospital m018-180816_WA0000 Marlous and Nathanael in Bratislava
m018-180818_WA0001 US jigsaw including those state capitals that Mum, Chris and I could remember f021-10506 CERN alumnus award, October 2021
Matt Couldrey's leaving, Thursday 31st March 2022
f022-11609 Matt f022-11613 Buwen Dong, William Ingram
f022-11615 Jon Robson, Rémi Tailleux f022-11618 Quran Wu, Giorgio Graffino, Len Shaffrey
f022-11624 Giorgio Graffino, Andrew Dittus, Quran Wu, Benoît Vannière, Xiangbo Feng, Len Shaffrey
etc-240527_WA0005 My 60th birthday dinner etc-240622_142655 Liang, Marta and Tendai, 22nd June 2024
Gabriel's MSc graduation, Saturday, 13th December 2003
29-13 Gabriel and his dad 29-12 Gabriel with Maureen Lewis, Anne Wheldon and his mum
29-11 Gabriel with Sonja and me 29-10 Gabriel with his parents
29-09 Gabriel and Jules (Julian Elsworth)
Gabriel's 26th birthday, Sunday, 13th February 2005
At home and in the Fisherman's Arms
32-010 32-009 Gabriel 32-011 32-005 Ola
32-008 Lizzie and Sonja 32-007 Frank and Sonja
32-006 Jules 32-004 Pete, Seyhan and Simon
32-003 Ola and Dan Copsey 32-002 me
32-001 Lizzie, Gabriel, Noelia, Carlos, Seyhan, Jules, Simon and Pete