Tag: Carshalton

Annabolina

June 27, 2026

I have a piece about Anne Boleyn in Pond Life, a Carshalton fanzine, available from logofiasco records. This is linked with the current Carshalton Festival featuring CAOS, in which an impressive number of local artists open up to visitors.

In the zine I’m afraid they got my name slightly wrong, and they changed the title of the piece. But they made up for that by giving it this very nice illustration by Ruth Joyce.

Restoration of Anne Boleyn

May 19, 2025

This figure, a modern carving on a modern house, became a bit of a landmark in Carshalton. It was removed for restoration a long time ago, but today Anne is back!

Why Anne Boleyn? She stands opposite ‘Anne Boleyn’s Well’ by All Saints’ churchyard, but in fact the history is garbled: the well was originally associated with the local Boulogne family, not connected with the Boleyns (or Bullens as they were more prosaically known).

Nice to see her back, though.