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Here's an alternate version of another one of my shots from back in February when I hired the Canon tilt shift lens to take round the City area of London and grab some shots of various buildings old and new ...
Tucked into the theatrical bustle of St Martin’s Lane, The Salisbury stands as one of London’s finest surviving examples of late Victorian pub design. Built around 1899, this Grade II listed gem replaced an earlier establishment and was originally named The Salisbury Stores—hence the “SS” motif still seen in the etched glass and mirrorwork. Inside, it dazzles with Art Nouveau bronze nymphs, carved wood panelling, and intricate glasswork that places it on CAMRA’s National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Named after Lord Salisbury (three-time Prime Minister and head of the influential Cecil family), the building still belongs to the Cecils, their coat of arms flanked by two angels above the corner entrance.
Beyond the bar’s architectural bravado lies a more intimate legacy: The Salisbury was a rare gay-friendly pub from Oscar Wilde’s era into the 1980s, and it featured prominently in the landmark 1961 film Victim—the first English-language film to use the word “homosexual.” Not all chapters are happy ones: in 1979, serial killer Dennis Nilsen met a would-be victim here, who escaped, though others tragically did not.
It remains today a striking cultural landmark—equal parts stained-glass splendour and layered social memory.
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🇫🇷 Situé au cœur de St Martin’s Lane, The Salisbury est l’un des plus beaux témoignages de l’architecture des pubs victoriens tardifs à Londres. Construit vers 1899 sur le site d’un ancien établissement, ce pub classé Grade II fut à l’origine baptisé The Salisbury Stores – d’où le motif « SS » que l’on retrouve dans ses vitres finement gravées. Son intérieur, orné de nymphes en bronze Art Nouveau, de boiseries sculptées et de miroirs opulents, figure sur l’inventaire national de CAMRA pour ses intérieurs historiques.
Le pub tire son nom de Lord Salisbury, trois fois Premier ministre, dont la famille Cecil possède toujours le bâtiment. Au-dessus de l’entrée d’angle, son blason est soutenu par deux anges, une touche noble à ce coin de Covent Garden.
Mais derrière l’élégance se cache une histoire plus personnelle : The Salisbury fut l’un des rares pubs londoniens accueillants envers les homosexuels dès l’époque d’Oscar Wilde jusqu’aux années 1980. Il apparaît dans le film Victim (1961), pionnier en son genre, et fut lié à une tentative de meurtre échappée du tueur en série Dennis Nilsen.
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Side extension of Blackfriars station redevelopment - the metal clad concourse with glazing facade overlooking Blackfriars underpass.
So, I've started putting together a collection of Grade I & II listed buildings in London and beyond that I have a fairly relaxed project to try and photograph. My recent shot of Temple Church was the first one I went to, and this morning I called by another, this one was the Guildhall in the heart of the City Of London.
It was built in 1440 and more historical info can be found courtesy of Wikipedia:
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A detail of the Architecture columns at the entrance in the Natural History Museum, London.
London Architecture Columns of Museum
Although I took a photograph from the same location almost exactly a year ago, I thought it was worth a revisit. I liked the addition of the blurry boat detail in this one.
I'd actually hoped to catch the spotlights fanning out from the top of The Shard, but they didn't do it during the hour or so I was there which was a shame. Also it started raining and my hands were getting numb so I didn't quite manage to get what I was hoping for, but what the hey, I think this shot's a good consolation prize :)
This is a re-edit of an old picture I uploaded. Tell me which you prefer, this or the old one. (www.flickr.com/photos/bessam/9409227057/in/dateposted-pub...)
Good to be able to get a shot of the Gherkin from high up, as it enables me to show the shape of the building without the distortions that you get when photographing from ground level.
Slightly hemmed in by the construction works visible on the right here, but it's still a beautifully-designed building, and the oldest of the modern crop of office blocks to appear since the turn of the millennium ...
SAINT PAULS CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London.
Address: St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD
Construction started: June 21, 1675
Opened: 1708
Height: 111 m CTBUH
Architect Sir Christopher Wren
SAINT PAULS CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London.
Address: St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD
Construction started: June 21, 1675
Opened: 1708
Height: 111 m CTBUH
Architect Sir Christopher Wren
Another one of the Hayward Gallery, this time from the outside. Such an interesting and quirky design for a building - it's all slabs and angles, but somehow it works. South Bank Brutalism at its best ...
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A rare iPhone shot here. I'd spent a while taking long exposures of Vauxhall with my Canon 6D, and as I was leaving the area I noticed the evening sun on the power station. Didn't quite have the motivation to get my gear out so did a quick iPhone snap which came out pretty well.
This was taken with the camera within Lightroom Mobile rather than the stock Apple 'Camera' app, as it doesn't do all the automatic processing which I find makes cityscape and architecture shots look overworked for my taste ...
St Andrew Undershaft
Situated in St Mary Axe, London EC3A, St Andrew’s occupied the site as far back as 1147, demolished and rebuilt in the 14th century, then demolished and again rebuilt between 1520 and 1532.
The name undershaft derives from the shaft of a May Pole which existed on the site but was destroyed in 1547 after a particularly severe sermon which accused the May Pole of being an Idol.
The church is of perpendicular style, the interior being divided into six bays. It has survived Victorian renovations with many of its original fitting. Unfortunately one of original features, a 17th century large stained glass window was destroyed in 1992 when the Baltic Exchange was bombed.
The aisles have 12 windows of clear glass depicting the Arms of Guilds and Donors, all from the 16th century. The Bell tower and turret were built in 1695, the turret was rebuilt in 1830. It is 90ft high and there are six bells hanging there.
The altarpiece was presented by The East India Company in 1724. The organ by Renatus Harris was installed in 1696. The west window was installed in 1996 after it’s destruction in 1992 and shows the first five Protestant Kings of England and their coats of arms, above there are smaller lights which came from earlier windows.
The Tower of London. Photo taken with my Nikon camera from Tower Bridge. Just another one of my thousands of London photos!
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded toward the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was initially a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new Norman ruling class. The castle was also used as a prison from 1100 (Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham) until 1952 (the Kray twins), although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under kings Richard I, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late 13th century remains despite later activity on the site.
The Tower of London has played a prominent role in English history. It was besieged several times, and controlling it has been important to controlling the country. The Tower has served variously as an armoury, a treasury, a menagerie, the home of the Royal Mint, a public record office, and the home of the Crown Jewels of England. From the early 14th century until the reign of Charles II in the 17th century, the monarch would traditionally prepare for several nights at the Tower, and lead a procession from there to Westminster Abbey for their coronation. In the absence of the monarch, the Constable of the Tower was in charge of the castle. This was a powerful and trusted position in the medieval period. In the late 15th century, the Princes in the Tower were housed at the castle when they mysteriously disappeared, presumed murdered. Under the Tudors, the Tower became used less as a royal residence, and despite attempts to refortify and repair the castle, its defences lagged behind developments to deal with artillery.
The zenith of the castle's use as a prison was the 16th and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as Elizabeth I before she became queen, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Elizabeth Throckmorton, were held within its walls. This use has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower". Despite its enduring reputation as a place of torture and death, popularised by 16th-century religious propagandists and 19th-century writers, only seven people were executed within the Tower before the world wars of the 20th century. Executions were more commonly held on the notorious Tower Hill to the north of the castle, with 112 occurring there over a 400-year period. In the latter half of the 19th century, institutions such as the Royal Mint moved out of the castle to other locations, leaving many buildings empty. Anthony Salvin and John Taylor took the opportunity to restore the Tower to what was felt to be its medieval appearance, clearing out many of the vacant post-medieval structures.
In the First and Second World Wars, the Tower was again used as a prison and witnessed the executions of 12 men for espionage. After the Second World War, damage caused during the Blitz was repaired, and the castle reopened to the public. Today, the Tower of London is one of the country's most popular tourist attractions. Under the ceremonial charge of the Constable of the Tower, operated by the Resident Governor of the Tower of London and Keeper of the Jewel House, and guarded by the Yeomen Warders, the property is cared for by the charity Historic Royal Palaces and is protected as a World Heritage Site.
An interesting intersection of architectural textures to be seen here, with the curving lattice of Thomas Heatherwick's Boiler Suit and the slabulous edifice of Guy's Hospital, converging with the massive Shard in the London Bridge area.
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In a hundred lifetimes,
In a hundred worlds,
In any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you......
To dismiss this as a Billion-Dollar-Malaysian-REIT-Investment- Shopping Mall is an arrogant judgement ;
this RePurposed Power Station is so beautifully-detailed and so artfully-executed ,
one can only appreciate it- in person.
The steel-framed Battersea building was designed
by 2 engineers
Sir Leonard Pearce and Henry Newmarch Allott
with James Theo Halliday The Interior Architect
of the Art-Deco-ness.
Halliday’s opulent design details , for the earlier half of
Battersea Power Station, rivaled that of the finest contemporary hotels, with walls lined in Italian marble & faience, w/ sculpted bronze doors, wrought-iron stairs and (teak) parquet floors.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of Waterloo Bridge, Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral and the nation’s iconic
Red Phone Booths, dressed the engineers’ steel frame
in the highest quality brickwork, and
gave the chimneys their eye-catching profile.
To complete the trio of church images, here's one of All Souls Langham Place.
This is In the pretty early afternoon sunshine on my lunchbreak from work ...
Thought I'd try a slightly different perspective on the London skyline this time, with a portrait shot of 20 Fenchurch Street all on its own, rather than surrounded by the usual scrum of other skyscrapers ...
The New West End Synagogue, located in St. Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, London, is one of the oldest synagogues in the United Kingdom still in use. It is one of two synagogues which have been awarded Grade I listed building status by Historic England, which has described it as "the architectural high-water mark of Anglo-Jewish architecture".
An interestingly incongruous juxtaposition, this 650 year old church nestling up against the 1960s concrete brutalism of the Barbican Estate ...
Unlike the travesty of what's happening to Battersea Power Station, I'm very glad that there are still plenty of iconic London landmarks that can be enjoyed with an unobstructed view.
Another frequent location for me, this time round I wanted to make use of the interesting clouds and dark skies behind the MI6 building at Vauxhall, and I happened to get lucky with the union jack speedboat coming by at the same time ...
Taken from the impressive Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in Leadenhall St, here you can see Tower 42 (old Natwest Tower) on the left, the 'Cheesegrater' in the middle and the 'Gherkin' (aka St Mary Axe) on the right.
To get this shot, you'll have stand right up against the glass and do so whilst keeping an eye out for security.
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Tower Bridge reflected in a small puddle on the seating area above Queen's Walk gives an interesting size perspective.
Another photo of the brutalist car park in Central London behind Debenham's in Oxford Street, built in 1970.
Note dated 7 March 2017. This building is sadly due to close on 13 March 2017. It's fate is unknown. Many people, including me, are hoping that it will not be demolished.
Update April 2019: This building is in the process of being demolished.