Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Photos of the Early Printing Presses at Fleet Street
Fleet Street may have been known as the traditional heart of London’s newspapers, but in fact, many of the newspapers were situated not on Fleet Street proper, but on side streets around it. One such property was the Associated Newspapers…
Yes, it’s a blatant PR stunt, but Mayor Boris went not just to the top of The Shard today, but actually a little bit higher than even that – as he climbed up the crane sitting on the very top…
A flaccid grey blancmange arrives on London’s Cheapside
The upper end of London’s Cheapside used to contain a rather generic looking 1960s office block of no outstanding architectural detail, but equally not excessively offensive to the eye. This was slowly demolished a few years ago, leaving open a…
Photos – Commemorating the Nine Regicides
If you read the blog regularly, then you may recall that this morning, a march down The Mall took place to commemorate the Nine Regicides.
Sinister black speedboat action
I often see the police boat going past the flat - occasionally at full speed with lights flashing - but also sometimes I also see a couple of sinister black inflatable boats racing up and down the river.
Abandoned London – Wapping’s Tobacco Dock
Nearly two hundred years old, the huge Grade I listed brick and timber built former tobacco warehouse in Wapping is sadly now probably more famous for being a ghostly abandoned site than for its long heritage. Built in 1812 to…
The Shard Arises – Aug/Sept 2010
Latest in the roughly monthly series of photos of The Shard as seen from my flat. At the end of July the rise of the flooring structure around the base of the core, and the emergence of a “mini-core” to…
Latest in the monthly series of photos of The Shard as seen from my flat. At the end of June the concrete core had just surpassed Guys Hospital, but at the end of July was quite noticeably higher. Also of…
Latest in the monthly series of photos of The Shard as seen from my flat. After a couple of months of idleness, the building has really started to rocket upwards and this month, the concrete core overtook the Guys Hospital…
Four NATO warships in Docklands
My route to the shopping centre can sometimes take me over the bridge at West India Docks, and occasionally the scenery is added to by the presence of a visiting ship or two. This weekend, there are in fact four…
The Shard Arises – April & May 2010
After a bit of a hiatus, a resumption of my (supposedly) monthly updates about The Shard tower being built by London Bridge. After doing almost nothing during April, the Shard has over the past couple of weeks finally started rising…
Chalk Cut Christian Cross in Countryside
Heading down to Maidstone, and what did I see when glancing out of the window as the train zoomed toward Shoreham – but a large Christian Cross cut out of the chalk hills. Christian Crosses of that scale and visibility…
This afternoon, some 400 chaps and ladies dressed in Tweed and suitable attire took a merry jaunt around London, and I wandered over to take some photos.
Part of my now monthly report on The Shard developments as seen from my flat. Or more accurately, doesn’t arise at all during March. Apart from the coverings over the next door building and a new crane, the core of…
I use Flickr to host my photos as it is a convenient repository and has some nice, but generally subtle community aspects to the website. However, there is a dark side to the website – and that is the groups.…
Tower Bridge goes Dark for Earth Hour
Lots of buildings turned off their lights last night for an hour to mark the Earth Hour event – and although they were quite late, Tower Bridge eventually went dark – making them the most significant blob of blackness as…
Of a Wood, a Castle and a Common
No long rambling thoughts, just a long ramble through South London to stop me sitting at the computer and doing the work I should be doing. Herewith – some photos: Greenwich foot tunnel – photos of which are officially
A few months ago I decided to start taking regular photos of the skyline to document the construction of The Shard from my home. Umm, a bit of laziness in taking photos and incompetence in keeping some of the ones…
Some Photos of London – Tilt/Shifted
There is a moderately poplar photographic technique, a derivative of tilt-shifting which enables photos of real places to be modified in such a way as they look as if they are photos of scale models. It’s quite a bizarre effect…
The stunning sight this morning of the Full Moon sinking down over London had me reaching for my camera. Thanks to an optical illusion though, if you take a photo of an enlarged moon, it seems to shrink to normal…
Just uploaded some old photos I took last year of a fairly famous City tower taken from a slightly unusual angle.
Over the years since I moved into the docklands area, I have listened to people denigrating the area. Too often I am told the area lacks a “soul”, that it is full of glass and steel towers with no character…
Photo contest with Wikimedia and Museums
Two photography posts in succession? I better stop this sharpish! Anyhow, after yesterdays somewhat sarcastic opinion about a photo contest, here is one which is vastly more worthy and exciting. Britain Loves Wikipedia is a photography contest that will be…
DLR Launches Photography Contest
I am writing about this not because I think the contest is noteworthy due to wondrous prizes, but for the sheer irony of the issues it raises. Over the years I have lived in the docklands area, I have on…
