Dorrett and Webb
Wet Common from Pursuit of Spring Man with umbrella This road links Burntwood Lane down on the right and Nightingale Lane just over the railway bridge on the left. Thomas gives 21 March 1913 as the starting date of his In Pursuit of Spring Quantock-bound journey. He first cycles along these roads flanking the Common before turning left at the bottom19
on to Garratt Lane, bound for South Wimbledon, Merton and the rest of his Spring pursuit. He says this stretch of road was tame; it was at once artificial and artless, and touched with beauty only by the strong wind and by the subdued brightness due to the rain — with its not quite lusty grass, the hard, dull gravel, the shining puddles and sharp green buds.
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