Here’s a small group of photos I took today while I was walking from the Royal Festival Hall to Southwark tube station. I stumbled across some interesting things; amongst them an eerie moving statue (click here to see it doing its stuff on youtube) and some parts of Southwark tube station that you would never […]
“Transparent” Government
We visited City Hall today, as it was having one of its regular open days. It’s situated on the river just at the southern end of Tower Bridge, and houses the Greater London Authority, the decision-making body that controls cross-borough issues in London such as the transport system, the Fire Service and the Metropolitan Police. […]
High Drama on Cable Street
On our way to the Greater London Authority ‘open day’ today, we left the Docklands Light Railway at Shadwell and walked along Cable St. This was the site in 1936 of the ‘Battle of Cable St‘ where trade unionists, communists, Irish dockers and members of the Jewish community fought Oswald Moseley’s notorious fascist ‘blackshirts’ to […]
City of Art
I’ve posted quite a few albums showing the statues, sculptures and art installations around Canary Wharf, but I managed to grab a few more shots today with my Nokia N95. From Canary Wharf … From Canary Wharf … One of these days I’m going to have photographs of every single one, but I’m pretty sure […]
It’s A Mystery
I went to Lakeside today. There’s absolutely nothing worth photographing there, so I didn’t take the camera, but I found something interesting on the way. We travelled by train from Limehouse, and as I was walking along the platform I spotted this tucked into a crevice. But what is it? A fragment from a long-abandoned […]
The City of London’s Secret Gardens
Today we went for a walk from St Paul’s Cathedral to the merchant navy war memorial at Trinity Square, taking in some of the City’s hidden gems along the way, including St Mary le Bow church, Whittington Gardens, St Olave’s Church (the burial place of Samuel Pepys) and the atmospheric walled gardens enclosed by the […]
Down On the Farm
Halfway between Mudchute and Island Gardens DLR stations is the Mudchute Park and Farm. We spent an hour getting muddy wandering around looking at the rare breeds amongst the more common-place sheep and donkeys. From Mudchute Park… Between the farm and playing fields are a group of allotments and, as you can see from this […]