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Back into the office again today, for an all-day, all-staff meeting. Lots of useful updates from everyone, and I did a short presentation with a colleague, too. All went well. My boss had booked space in a bar for everyone afterwards, but I headed home at that point - still don't feel ready to go to the pub yet, Covid-wise. I'll be happier when infection rates are falling again.
Super tired by the time I got home (as usual), so had a very relaxing evening with Tim, catching up on the latest episode of David Attenborough's Dynasties II. Elephants :)
Heard from my sister this evening that my nephew had had another seizure, this time at work, while she was waiting to pick him up. He then had another one later at home. Poor lad.
Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, early 1970s. Lauderdale Place and Seddon Highwalk. Grade II listed. Barbican Estate, City of London.
Thomas More House & Lauderdale Tower. The Barbican, London EC1.
Sony A7II + Contax C/Y Distagon 35mm f/2.8 MM
Willoughby Highwalk is one of the pedestrian rights of way through the Barbican Centre, a brutalist residential and leisure estate in the City of London. Designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and built between 1965-76.
Dorothy Annan (19 January 1908 - 28 June 1983)
In November 2011, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) granted Grade 11 listed status to Annans murals on the front of the Fleet Building, 70 Farringdon Street, formally the largest telephone exchange in London. English Heritage advised the DCMS that the nine ceramic tile murals, which depict pylons, cables, telephone poles and generators, were of 'historic interest' to the telecoms industry and had 'relative rarity as surviving works of 1960s mural art'. The listing was supported by the Twentieth Century Society, and the Tiles and Architectural Ceramic Society, artist Frank Auerbach and Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain.
The murals were commissioned at a cost of £300 per panel in 1960. Annan visited the Hathernware pottery in Loughborough and hand-scored her design onto each wet clay tile, her brush marks can also be seen in the fired panels.
The building is owned by Goldman Sachs, who wish to redevelop the site and oppose the listing of the murals.
Update:
Since this photograph was taken, all the Dorothy Annan murals have been carefully removed from the building by the Museum of London.
Thankfully, the City Corporation, English Heritage and the 20th Century Society were able to find an alternative location for the panels – the Barbican highwalks. You can find Dorothy Annan’s murals between Speed House and the Barbican Centre on the highwalk.
Home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, seen from The Barbican, London EC2
Sony A7II + Contax C/Y Distagon 35mm f/2.8 MM
Speed Highwalk is one of the public rights of way through the Barbican Estate, a brutalist residential and leisure development in the City of London. Designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and built between 1965-76.
The tower block in the background is Shakespeare Tower, one of the three 42-storey blocks in the Barbican.
In the middle, semicircular windows mark the roofline of Frobisher Crescent.
And on the left, the Barbican Conservatory - a horticultural glasshouse.
Today felt so long! I seem to be having a weird quiet patch at work, which I am not at all used to. There's always plenty of little bits and bobs that need doing, but I really had to keep myself motivated today to get on and do them. I'm used to being much, much busier!
Popped out with my friend Sarah at lunchtime, to soak up a bit of the lovely spring sunshine. The sun was still shining on my way home, too, so I took a slightly different route to Cannon Street, along another part of the Barbican highwalk. I liked the light and shadows falling on the street below as I crossed over London Wall.
Totally exhausted this evening. Still don't seem to have shaken the bug that I've had for weeks. Wish it would do one!
Woke up feeling really dizzy and full of bug this morning. Decided to still go in to work as I had a meeting - then found it was cancelled, grrrr. Felt a bit nauseous,too, so asked my boss if I could work from home tomorrow. Stuck out the rest of the day - and captured this beautiful light on Silk Street from the Barbican highwalk on my way home.
Photograph on the recently reopened and newly constructed St Alphage High Walk, linking Aldersgate with Moorgate along London Wall. In the foreground is a reminder of the age of the original highwalk which was demolished to make way for the London Wall Buildings development.
A long morning of training for the UAT on our new database today - didn't get to lunch until gone 2pm. Brain full by the afternoon - but I did manage to make another start on the UAT. Actually got quite engrossed in it and ended up catching a later train home. Swung by the new bit of highwalk on the way and found a bluebell to snap.
Quite apt as it is my friend - Bluebell's Mum's - birthday today. I embarrassed myself singing happy birthday to her voicemail as I walked through the city to work this morning :)
Taken for the RPS "Bleeding London" Project. As part of this project I decided to set myself my own
challenge and project to photograph everey street in the Square Mile- progress can be followed at bleedinglondoncity.blogspot.co.uk/
It Was Only Put There In About 2016 When The Building On The Left Was Complete...Now The Building On The Right Has Been Demolished...Will It Return?..
Up early for a breakfast seminar thing today. Sooo tired all day afterwards! It was a really good discussion though, and looks like it may continue into the future.
Had my appraisal this afternoon - just about managed to stay awake for that. My early start meant I could leave work a little earlier this afternoon though, which I was very glad to do. Paused on the highwalk over London Wall for a few shots of these fabulous shadows down below.
So tired again today! I felt less ill though, just really sleepy, and I couldn't really work from home as I had a team meeting to go to. Had a busy day, too, so it was a bit easier to be in the office.
Before I left this evening I checked the trains and saw mine was cancelled, so I took my time walking to Cannon Street, and took the chance to explore a little bit at ground level below the new bits of highwalk - and found this water featurey thing. Hello new view! :)