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Statues do matter
Or so the recent dramas in Parliament Square would suggest, during which graffiti was attached to the statues of Churchill and Lincoln. Cue angry history lessons from Old People. So here are a few more...
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Now thrive the scaffolders and the craners
Quota photos, yes, but I trust amusing ones: That’s the Tate Modern extension nearing completion, photoed by me five years and one day ago. So not really now. But the scaffolders and the craners do now...
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Pavlova dances – backed by a line of cranes
From 2014. Cranes, having spent the day transforming the top end of Victoria Street, relax by going out dancing with Pavlova: The statue is carefully contrived to look beautiful. The cranes are just...
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The South Bank (red) Lion
There has been lots of photo-reminiscing here lately, so here are some photos I took much more recently. Well, in May of this year anyway: Yes, it’s the lion at the South Bank end of Westminster...
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Lining up Big Ben with a little Big Ben
On September 13th 2018, Big Ben was looking much as it does now, being smothered in scaffolding: It looked, for a moment in October 2019, as if this scaffolding would come down, but all that went was...
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The Broadgate Tower … etcetera
The Broadgate Tower, because I like it. This particular City of London Big Thing is in a slightly different style to the more celebrated Big Things just to its south, in that it is one of those towers...
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My neighbourhood – not that bad after all
Well I was in a grumpy mood the other day, calling my part of London boring. Today, after a bit of an absence from it, indoors, I visited my neighbourhood again, and found myself, eventually, to be in...
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Purple pavement passage
Which sounds like a description of a particularly florid piece of writing about a pavement, but actually I’m talking about this: Passages like that one are one of the oddities of modern urban life....
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Nelson with scaffolding
Another photo of Nelson, done by me yesterday …: … to add to these two. As reported earlier here, one of those two photos found its way onto the Nelson sculptor’s own website. I doubt Lesley Pover will...
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Look back along Hobart Place at roof clutter – and …
A few days ago, I walked beyond the top end of Victoria, beyond Victoria Station, at the top end of Grosvenor Gardens, and I saw this: But it was getting dark when I first photoed the above scene, so...
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Cromwell plus scaffolding
I grow increasingly fond of the statue of Oliver Cromwell, which is right next to Parliament itself rather than out in Parliament Square like Churchill, Gandhi, Smuts, Mandela and the rest of them....
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Taxis-with-adverts photos from August 2006
August 31st 2006, to be precise. I was looking through a directory of photos based on an expedition I made to St Paul’s Cathedral on August 31at 2006, and very informative they were too. I encountered...
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May 30th 2020 – photography is light
One of the last really successful photo-walkabouts I had in London was on May 30th of this year. I remember having two designated destinations, rather than just the one. There was where they are...
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Win a home in London!
I haven’t been getting out enough, what with my back hurting. But today, I was determined to get out and about, as well as needing to do some shopping, and I decided to do that even before doing...
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The lights of Piccadilly Circus – and for once I’m impressed
London contains many tourist attractions that are truly attractive, truly impressive. But I have never thought that the lights of Piccadilly Circus are one of those attractions. What a let down. Is...
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A photo of itself on the outside
In this earlier posting, about the very underwhelming lights of Piccadilly, I mentioned the relatively recent phenomenon of buildings covered in scaffolding, and the scaffolding then being covered with...
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Scaffolding as architecture
I’m not the only one who thinks scaffolding is pretty: That’s not a house that is being worked on by builders. It’s .. a house. It’s finished. Here. However, when architects start “designing”...
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The Royal Albert Hall with pictures of the Royal Albert Hall on it
Whenever 6k picks up on a posting I did here I always reckon that means I’m onto something, so I’m pleased that he noticed that posting I recently did about a building with a picture of itself on the...
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Another building with a picture of a building on the outside of it
I was browsing through the photo-archives and I encountered this favourite photo from two years ago: Makes a nice contrast with this photo recently posted here, and this one of the Royal Albert Hall....
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Dramatic sky behind Parliament
Indeed. Photoed by me late this afternoon: I photoed lots more photos today, but I also did a lot more walking today than I’ve been doing lately, and having, as I do, the choice between doing a long...
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