London: The Square Mile
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… Fishmongers Hall and Adelaide House flanking London Bridge. The Walkie Talkie, Gherkin and Cheesegrater in the second row. 22 Bishopsgate on the left is still under construction.
A credit must go to my Flickr friend Bob French for directing me to this location on Waithman Street, EC4, which is in a tiny hidden away street very close to Blackfriars station. There is a building there where virtually an entire wall is tiled with these extraordinary patterns, almost 3d in effect. There are more than 20 panels like you see here, all of them decorated with different patterns. After some research I found out they were created by an artist named Rupert Spira nearly 30 years ago. An extraordinary location virtually in the heart of London which very few people have come across. More info and more images can be found here:
symbolsandsecrets.london/2019/01/03/the-city-gent-on-the-...
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Looking towards Ludgate Circus and St. Pauls Cathedral - May 1962.
Buildings still showing their 'war time' grime. Modern architecture was taking over as can be seen on the bomb site above Ludgate Circus. Smokeless fuel had just been mandated for the London area, following the disastrous smogs of the 1950's, most buildings still had to be cleaned by sand blasting.
Fleet Street was then known as 'the street of ink', the principal offices and printing of the major British newspapers were located here. The building with the clock at the left housed the 'Daily Telegraph', the 'Daily Express' was almost next door.
Camera: Wirgin Edixa Mat FlexS
Film: Perutz color C18 transparency
Scanner: Epson V800 / Epson Scan software
St. Pauls Cathedral in the background at the top of Ludgate Hill, with most buildings still showing their 'war time' grime. Smokeless fuel had just been mandated for the London area, following the disastrous smogs of the 1950's, most buildings still had to be cleaned by sand blasting.
The black vehicle appears to be a 1951 L Series Vauxhall Wyvern.
View taken: May 1962
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Camera: Wirgin Edixa Mat FlexS
Film: Perutzcolor C18 transparency
Scanner: Epson V800 / Epson Scan software
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Neo-classical architecture on the River Thames. Taken from the Thames Path. Cannon Street Station tower in the background.
London Millennium Footbridge
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St Paul's Cathedral
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Second tallest Wren tower/spire at 226-feet
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The view roughly south-west from the roof of One New Change.
Buildings marked:
240 Blackfriars Road
Arbor, Bankside Yards
Capital Tower
One Blackfriars
Southbank Tower
Sea Containers
Casson Square
The London Eye
Elizabeth Tower (aka Big Ben)
The OXO Tower
72 Upper Ground
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A portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth the second in the long room of Customs House in the City of London, EC4.
Artist unknown.
Update: Apparently a copy of an original 1960's oil over canvas by Sir Herbert James Gunn (1893 - 1964) of the Queen in her coronation robes. Original in the Royal Collection and currently displayed at Windsor Castle.
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In the alleys below the St. Paul's Cathedral you'll find a place with the strange-looking name "Wardrobe Place".
This is a quirky way of english place names. The travel writer Bill Bryson writes about this in his books, where he also marvels at the fact that you in London can stumble upon place names such as a church called "St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe" (which is just around the corner here)
This was the place where the King's Wardrobe stood - before the big fire of 1666. Obviously there is something more than what me might put into the word "wardrobe" - it was more of a deparment of the royal household, and a storehouse for arms, clothing and other things of the Crown.