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Been busy this week helping My friend Jason (s0ulsurfing) at the Island Games as He is the official NatWest Island games Photographer, This is a shot i took last night at the Cycling Road time trial which was superb to watch! To see some of Jason's great shots click the link soulsurfing.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/NatWest-I...
I will catch up with you all very soon!!!
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no publisher's name. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in Great Britain.
The BT Tower
The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, owned by the BT Group. It has been previously known as the GPO Tower, the Post Office Tower and, most commonly, the British Telecom Tower.
The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 189 metres (620 ft).
Upon completion in 1964, the BT Tower overtook the Millbank Tower to become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom, titles that it held until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower.
Commissioning and Design of the BT Tower
The tower was commissioned by the General Post Office (GPO). Its primary purpose was to support the microwave aerials then used to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country, as part of the General Post Office microwave network.
It replaced a much shorter steel lattice tower which had been built on the roof of the neighbouring Museum telephone exchange in the late 1940's to provide a television link between London and Birmingham.
The taller structure was required to protect the radio links' "line of sight" against some of the tall buildings in London that were then in the planning stage. These links were routed via other GPO microwave stations at Harrow Weald, Bagshot, Kelvedon Hatch and Fairseat, and to places like the London Air Traffic Control Centre at West Drayton.
The tower was designed by the architects of the Ministry of Public Building and Works: the chief architects were Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats.
Typical for its time, the building is concrete clad in glass. The narrow cylindrical shape was chosen because of the requirements of the communications aerials: the building will shift no more than 25 centimetres (10 in) in wind speeds of up to 150 km/h (95 mph).
Initially, the first 16 floors were for technical equipment and power. Above that was a 35-metre section for the microwave aerials, and above that were six floors of suites, kitchens, technical equipment, a revolving restaurant, and finally a cantilevered steel lattice tower. To prevent heat build-up, the glass cladding was of a special tint. The construction cost was £2.5 million.
Construction of the BT Tower
Construction began in June 1961; owing to the building's height and its having a tower crane jib across the top virtually throughout the whole construction period, it gradually became a very prominent landmark that could be seen from almost anywhere in London.
A question was raised in Parliament about the crane: In August 1963, Reginald Bennett MP asked the Minister of Public Buildings and Works, Geoffrey Rippon, how, when the crane on the top of the new Tower had fulfilled its purpose, he proposed to remove it. Rippon replied:
"This is a matter for the contractors. The
problem does not have to be solved for
about a year, but there appears to be no
danger of the crane having to be left in
situ."
The tower was topped out on the 15th. July 1964, and officially opened by the then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson on the 8th. October 1965.
The tower was originally designed to be just 111 metres (364 ft) high; its foundations are sunk down through 53 metres (174 ft) of London clay, and are formed of a concrete raft 27 metres (89 ft) square, 1 metre (3 ft) thick, reinforced with six layers of cables, on top of which sits a reinforced concrete pyramid.
Opening and Use of the BT Tower
The tower was officially opened to the public on the 19th. May 1966, by Tony Benn (then known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn) and Billy Butlin, with HM the Queen visiting on the 17th. May 1966.
As well as the communications equipment and office space, there were viewing galleries, a souvenir shop and a rotating restaurant on the 34th. floor; this was called The Top of the Tower, and operated by Butlins. It made one revolution every 23 minutes.
In its first year the Tower hosted just under one million visitors, and over 100,000 diners ate in the restaurant.
The 1971 Bombing of the BT Tower
A bomb, responsibility for which was at first claimed by the Kilburn Battalion of the IRA, exploded in the roof of the men's toilets at the Top of the Tower restaurant at 04:30 on the 31st. October 1971. Responsibility for the bomb was also claimed by members of the Angry Brigade, a far-left anarchist collective.
The restaurant was closed to the public for security reasons a matter of months after the bombing in 1971, and public access to the building as a whole ceased in 1981.
Despite being closed to the general public, the BT tower is sometimes used for private corporate events, and special events such as a children's Christmas party and Children in Need.
Even though it is closed, the tower retains its revolving floor, providing a full panorama over London and the surrounding area.
Races up the BT Tower
The first documented race up the tower's stairs was on the 18th. April 1968, between University College London and Edinburgh University; it was won by an Edinburgh runner in 4 minutes, 46 seconds.
In 1969, eight university teams competed, with John Pearson from Manchester University winning in a time of 5 minutes, 6 seconds.
Secrecy
Due to its importance to the national communications network, information about the BT Tower was designated an official secret.
In 1978, the journalist Duncan Campbell was tried for collecting information about secret locations, and during the trial the judge ordered that the sites could not be identified by name; the Post Office Tower could only be referred to as 'Location 23'.
It is often said that the tower did not appear on Ordnance Survey maps, despite being a 177-metre (581 ft) tall structure in the middle of central London that was open to the public for about 15 years.
However, this is incorrect; the 1:25,000 (published 1971) and 1:10,000 (published 1981) Ordnance Survey maps show the tower. It is also shown in the London A–Z street atlas from 1984.
In February 1993, the MP Kate Hoey used the tower as an example of trivial information being kept officially secret, and joked that she hoped parliamentary privilege allowed her to confirm that the tower existed and to state its street address.
The BT Tower in the 21st. Century
The BT Tower is still in use, and is the site of a major UK communications hub. Microwave links have been replaced by subterranean optical fibre links for most mainstream purposes, but the former are still in use at the tower.
The second floor of the base of the tower contains the TV Network Switching Centre which carries broadcasting traffic and relays signals between television broadcasters, production companies, advertisers, international satellite services and uplink companies.
The outside broadcast control is located above the former revolving restaurant, with the kitchens on floor 35.
Lighting Displays at the BT Tower
A renovation in the early 2000's introduced a 360° coloured lighting display at the top of the tower. Seven colours were programmed to vary constantly at night, and were intended to appear as a rotating globe to reflect BT's "Connected World" corporate styling.
The coloured lights give the tower a conspicuous presence on the London skyline at night. In October 2009, a 360° full-colour LED-based display system was installed at the top of the tower, to replace the previous colour projection system.
The new display, referred to by BT as the "Information Band", is wrapped around the 36th and 37th floors of the tower, 167 m (548 ft) up, and comprises 529,750 LEDs arranged in 177 vertical strips, spaced around the tower. The display is the largest of its type in the world, occupying an area of 280 square metres (3,000 sq. ft) and with a circumference of 59 m (194 ft).
The display is switched off at 10.30pm each day. On the 31st. October 2009, the screen began displaying a countdown of the number of days until the start of the London Olympics in 2012. In April 2019, the display spent almost a day displaying a Windows 7 error message.
The Re-Opening of the BT Tower
In October 2009, The Times reported that the rotating restaurant would be reopened in time for the 2012 London Olympics. However, in December 2010, it was further announced that the plans to reopen had now been "quietly dropped" with no explanation as to the decision.
For the tower's 50th anniversary, the 34th. floor was opened for three days from the 3rd. to the 5th. October 2015 to 2,400 winners of a lottery.
The Removal of Defunct Antennas
The BT Tower was given Grade II listed building status in 2003. Several of the defunct antennae attached to the building could not be removed unless the appropriate listed building consent was granted, as they were protected by this listing.
In 2011, permission for the removal of the defunct antennas was approved on safety grounds as they were in a bad state of repair, and the fixings were no longer secure. In December 2011, the last of the antennas was removed, leaving the core of the tower visible.
The BT Tower Lifts
Entry to the building is by two high-speed lifts which travel at a top speed of 1400 feet per minute (7 metres per second (16 mph)), reaching the top of the building in under 30 seconds. An Act of Parliament was passed to vary fire regulations, allowing the building to be evacuated by using the lifts – unlike other buildings of the time.
The Monitoring of Air Quality at the BT Tower
In 2006, the tower began to be used for short-term air quality observations by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
This has continued in a more permanent form as the BT Tower Observatory, an urban atmospheric pollution observatory to help monitor air quality in the capital. The aim is to measure pollutant levels above ground level to determine their source. One area of investigation is the long-range transport of fine particles from outside the city.
Appearances of the BT Tower in Fiction
-- In the film Three Hats for Lisa (1965) the characters take refuge in the tower. In the story it is under construction.
-- Large portions of the Doctor Who serial The War Machines (1966) are set in and around the tower.
-- In the film Smashing Time (1967), the BT Tower appears to spin out of control, creating a fairground centrifugal effect for the occupants and short-circuiting the whole of London's power supply.
-- The tower is featured in Stanley Donen's film Bedazzled (1967) as a vantage point from which Peter Cook, playing Satan, launches various forms of mischief.
-- The tower is featured in The Goodies when it is toppled over by Twinkle the Giant Kitten in the episode "Kitten Kong" (1971). This scene was included in the title sequence of all later series.
-- Characters in Iris Murdoch's novel The Black Prince (1973) frequently reference the Post Office Tower. The restaurant is the setting for a lunch involving Bradley Pearson, the novel's first-person protagonist, and the daughter of rival novelist Arnold Baffin and his wife Rachel.
-- The tower is destroyed in the James Herbert novel The Fog (1975) by a Boeing 747 whose captain has been driven mad by the eponymous fog.
-- In The Judas Goat (1978), the fourth novel about Robert B. Parker's detective character Spenser, Spenser eats in the tower's revolving restaurant even though it violates Spenser's Law (that the quality of meals in revolving restaurants never match their price).
-- The tower is destroyed by an apparently alien robot from Mars – in fact a device operated by Baron Silas Greenback – in an episode of Danger Mouse (1981).
-- In Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta (1982) the tower is headquarters for both the "Eye", and the "Ear", the visual and audio surveillance divisions of the government. The tower is destroyed through sabotage. It is also featured in the film adaptation (2005), although in the film it is not destroyed. It is renamed Jordan Tower in the film and is the headquarters of the "British Television Network".
-- Frank Muir's short story "The Law Is Not Concerned With Trifles" is set in the tower's revolving restaurant.
-- Harry Adam Knight's sci-fi novel The Fungus (1985) climaxes in the tower, which undergoes a dramatic transformation:
"It resembled an enormous mushroom.
Fungus, dark and malevolent, had
accumulated around its bulbous summit."
-- In Steven King's book "It" (1986) the fictional character, Ben Hanscom is said to have designed the tower to look like a tunnel that connects two wings of the local library.
-- In Patrick Keiller's film London (1992) the narrator claims the tower is a monument to the love affair between Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, who lived nearby.
-- The BT Tower appears on the cover of, and features in, Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005).
-- The bombing is a central plot feature of Hari Kunzru's novel My Revolutions (2007), in which the bomb is the work of political radicals who are never caught.
-- In Daniel H. Wilson's 2011 novel Robopocalypse, the tower, is used by the sentient artificial intelligence named Archos to control and jam satellite communications.
-- In Sky1's adaptation of The Runaway (2011) the bombing of the tower is featured in Episode 4.
-- In the film The Girl with All the Gifts (2016), fungi pods grow up around the tower.
-- In Watch Dogs: Legion (2020), the tower is portrayed as being operated by the game's fictional corporation Blume.
This old Routemaster used to be an open topped bus before Natwest bought it. As you can tell from the roof a lot of modification work had to be carried out It is not a bank but a mobile centre for people who want advice on starting up their own business.
The former NatWest bank on the corner of Newcastle Street and Westport Road (often referred to as Fountain Place because of the association with Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Works which sits across Pack Horse Lane to the right) in the "Mother Town" of the Potteries, Burslem.
Dating back to 1870 (estimated) and built for the District Bank, this branch, like many other bank branches, has been closed, for this branch that happened in 2017.
District Bank Ltd dated back to the early 1800's and operated until aquired by National Provincial Bank in 1962. National Provincial Bank then merged with Westminster Bank and in 1970 became National Westminster Bank, which this building operated as a branch of until closure.
This fine building, althought slowly decaying, is grade II listed.
This Branch Closed`24 June....A Bank Has Stood On The Site For Over 150 Years...Due To Be Replaced By A Hotel..
Update June 2011:
Pointers for shooting your own urban star trails now available on my long exposure tips blog.
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Pulled an all nighter last night with Dean. The sky was so kind to us all night long.
What you've got here is a few minutes of star trails over one of the landmark buildings in London - NatWest Tower. Pretty certain trails haven't been done before over any big city skyscraper; if you like this you'll be wanting to see the follow up posts.
The lights are on in the building but we saw very little activity, beyond the over-zealous security guard who claimed we had to shoot from the road and then called the police even though we moved. What I love about star trails, particularly the urban series, is how they confirm the world keeps turning even when there's no-one around.
By the time we shot this it was starting to get light. Just about time to head over to Docklands for a depressingly plain sunrise, before heading to a cafe for a cup of tea soo good another two followed. Finally we wrapped up the session with a quick facedown
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Bunch of frames at ISO200 f/2.8 stacked using StarStaX for Mac.
Fancy gin and tonics with my beloved on Valentine's Day - at the Cosy Club, where London Street meets Bedford Street.
Only popped in to see the sights, and they've done it very nicely!
I took my older two children Ishbel & Alastair down to Edgbaston, Birmingham for the Natwest Blast T20 Semifinals and Final Day 2016. We met up and stayed with good friends and had a great day in spite of a few showers. Northamptonshire beat Nottinghamshire in the 1st semifinal then Durham beat mighty Yorkshire in the 2nd. Northamptonshire won the final It was a great day's entertainment. This is a 9-portrait photo stitch from the back of the Drayton Manor Family Stand where we were sitting.
Dipping back in the NatWest Island Games Archive with this Vertorama from just before the finish of the Road Race at Blackgang Chine. This did have the functional title "Blackgang Cycling Climb Vertorama" but for some reason every time I look at it now I hear the Supertramp song in my head, so thats its new title instead :)
Click here to see galleries from all the sports on my website.
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Walkie Talkie Bd. Torre Fenchurch
20 Fenchurch Street City de Londres
Arquitecto: Rafael Viñoly (Rafael Viñoly Architects) 2004-14
Tower 42 "NatWest Tower"
21 Old Broad Street. The City London
Arquitecto(s) R Siefert & Partners 1971 - 1980
The Leadenhall Building “Cheesegrater London”.
122 Leadenhall St. City London Londres
Arquitectura: Rogers Stirk Harbour +Partners. Ingeniería Arup. Ejecución 2002 – 2014
Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
NatWest, originally National Westminster Bank, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. This branch has since permanently closed since my visit : (
52 High Street at Maiden Lane, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9
Former NatWest Bank, High Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire; closed circa 2018. At best guess, it was probably built for the National & Provincial Bank around 1890.
Sony A7II + Contax C/Y Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm f/3.4 MM
Not quite caught up with all the editing from the wedding at the weekend yet, should definitely have something for tomorrow, but i do have another new gallery of photos to share from the NatWest Island Games today.
This time it's cycling, and 118 new photos from the four cycling events. Starting with the Criterium held on the streets of Ventnor in the south of the island, followed by the Road Race & Time Trials on the undulating roads on the South West of the Island with the finish at Blackgang, and finally the Mountain Bike Races that took place at Cheverton Farm, Shorwell.
This was shot on the first day of action, during the criterium event held in Ventnor using the Canon 24-70 1/1000 at f2.8 and was deliberately wonky :)
Click here to see the cycling gallery on my website.
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Well the NatWest Island Games 2011 is finally over, it's been an amazing week and i'm really gonna miss all the excitement and action now its gone, but I've just got around 3,500 photos to edit which should keep me busy for a while! So still not much flickering for a while but catch up with everyone soon as i can.
Gallery from the final day now added to my website. No Password Required and 120 new pics!
Yesterday for me was all about the Mountain biking, Football Final (brilliant match which the Isle of Wight won 4-2 in extra time) and the closing ceremony.
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This image was taken in the 2000s by John Hall. It was commissioned by Culture Vannin as a part of a set of images of the Isle of Man, taken for use within educational resources.
Culture Vannin exists to promote and support all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man.
Still catching up on the NatWest Island Games photos, 4 images to share from the opening ceremony and parade today, I really enjoyed just being there, lots of colour and energy and 40,000 people on the streets of Ryde to see it apparently.
More from the opening and closing ceremonies as well as galleries from all seven days of the games and all of the sports involved can be viewed on my website.
I did take some new William photos in the last few days, hoping to have time to look at them and upload a few by early next week.
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Taken during RM60 event at Finsbury Park. This is an ex London United bus that was withdrawn from service and was stored at Tolworth depot in September 2004.
El domingo 4 de Septiembre se celebró en Gibraltar el segundo triathlon organizado por la Asociación Gibraltareña de Triathlon. Una prueba realizada con mucha ilusión por parte de los organizadores que este segundo año han querido darle un mayor énfasis a la difusión de la prueba. Han contado con colaboradores importantes :
NatWest
The Ministry of Defence
The Sea Scouts
Gibraltar Army Cadets
The Med Kayak Team
The Staff of Victoria Stadium
The Royal Gibraltar Police
AMCO (Gibraltar) Ltd
Mr Marcelo Sanguinetti of the Gibraltar Tourist Board
Y también con una nutrida participación. La prueba se ha celebrado en la playa de Western Beach cercana al aeropuerto. Aquí se realizó la salida de las diferentes categorías para ir a la zona de transferencia en la misma pista del aeropuerto, coger la bicicleta y hacer cinco vueltas sobre un circuito. Luego, soltar la bicicleta y realizar la carrera a pie por las calles cercanas al Victoria Stadium donde estaba colocada la meta.
Los premios de las diferentes categorías fueron:
Cadetes (8-10)
Niñas:
-Kaia Kaemmerlen
-Hannah Caras-Altas
-Sophie Frendo
Niños:
-Zack Kaemmerlen
-Luis Frendo
-Julian Viñales
Junior (11-14)
Niñas:
-Kate McCullough
Niños:
-Daniel Yeo
-Jeremy McGuiness
-Ángel de la Vega
Equipos Corporativos
-St Minver Terminators
-Investors Europe
-St Minver Chuck Norris
Equipos Relevos
-Campamento Team
-La Línea
-Los Macizos
Mujeres
-Sonia Gomar Hoyos
-Stephanie Sherrif
-María Rodriguez Galán (Campeona Veteranos)
Hombres
-Laureano Mesa
-Jose L. Sánchez Lago (Campeón menor de 18)
-Jose García Lois (Campeón Veteranos)
La verdad que todo el mundo quedó contento, hubo camisetas para todos y esperemos que el año que viene la participación aumente. Muchas gracias.
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Yesterday Sunday 4th September was celebrated, in Gibraltar, the second triathlon organised by the Gibraltar Association of Triathlon. It was made hopefully by the organizators who wanted to give more emphasis to the spreading of the test. They had important collaborators:
NatWest
The Ministry of Defence
The Sea Scouts
Gibraltar Army Cadets
The Med Kayak Team
The Staff of Victoria Stadium
The Royal Gibraltar Police
AMCO (Gibraltar) Ltd
Mr Marcelo Sanguinetti of the Gibraltar Tourist Board
Many people participated. The test was celebrated in the “Western Beach” near the airport. Here was the start of the differents categorys to go to the transfer zone in the airport track, take the bike and go around the place for five times. Then, they left the bike and they had to run in the streets near the “Victoria Stadium” where the finishing line was.
The prizes of the differents categorys were:
Cadets (8-10)
Girls:
-Kaia Kaemmerlen
-Hannah Caras-Altas
-Sophie Frendo
Boys:
-Zack Kaemmerlen
-Luis Frendo
-Julian Viñales
Junior (11-14)
Girls:
-Kate McCullough
Boys:
-Daniel Yeo
-Jeremy McGuiness
-Ángel de la Vega
Corporate Relay Challenge
-St Minver Terminators
-Investors Europe
-St Minver Chuck Norris
Mixed Relay
-Campamento Team
-La Línea
-Los Macizos
Ladies
-Sonia Gomar Hoyos
-Stephanie Sherrif
-María Rodriguez Galán (Veteran)
Men
-Laureano Mesa
-Jose L. Sánchez Lago (Under 18)
-Jose García Lois (Veteran)
Finally, everyone was happy , there was T-shirts for everyone and I hope that next year there will be more participants. Thank you very much.
Four photos uploaded today from the NatWest Island Games opening ceremony and parade. I really enjoyed just being there, lots of colour and energy and 40,000 people on the streets of Ryde to see it apparently.
These horse costumes were really spectacular and i tried to capture some of the chaotic fun by getting up close with the 10mm wide angle lens
More shots from the opening and closing ceremonies as well as photo galleries from all seven days of the games can be viewed at my website.
I did take some new William photos in the last few days, hoping to have time to look at them and upload a few by early next week.
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An Antique Market being held in Castle Hill, in front of Lincoln Cathedral, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Castle Hill is the area between Bailgate/Exchequergate and Lincoln Castle east gate. It is popularly called Castle Square. John Wesley who is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement Methodism preached here in 1780. Public floggings were still held here until 1819 and Bull-baiting took place until 1823.
Documentary evidence shows that a market was held in Castle Hill in the medieval period. The constable of the Castle may have benefited from the resulting tolls. It was held on Saturday evenings under the auspices of the Duchy of Lancaster in the rectangular square which developed between the East Gate of the Castle and Exchequer Gate. There seems to be no record of its grant, but it was still in operation in the 19th century as a vegetable market and stallage was free to individuals, being paid to the Duchy by the parishes of St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene and St Peter in Eastgate. The right to collect these tolls was abandoned in 1847. Although the market may have been established in the mid 12th century, and although it may have been encroached upon to both the north and south, little seems to be known of the scope of the market stalls here. Even so, as it was held outside the jurisdiction of the city (being within the Bail), in the early modern era it may not have specialised in any particular product (unlike those in the Lower City).
And again catching up on the new galleries (sorted by sports) from the NatWest Island Games, this time it's windsurfing!
Click here to see 35 (mostly new) images in the windsurfing gallery on my website.
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Bank. 1838. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar with hipped slate roof and rendered stacks to sides. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: Late Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range, though a side entrance occupies the place of the far-left ground-floor window. Platbands between floors; rusticated quoins; banded rustication to the ground-floor, with voussoirs to 6/6-pane round-arched windows reaching the platband which bears the bank name. Steps up to the central door, the round arch of which echoes the window arches. Above this is a 6/6-pane sash set in a classical architrave with Ionic pilasters resting on a cill with consoles, and supporting a cornice and pediment: above this is a 3/6-pane sash. To outer bays, on the first-floor, are 6/6-pane tripartite sashes, with similar 3/6-pane ones above. A substantial cornice, below a parapet, supports a balustrade over the central bay, with a heraldic device bearing a lion rampant. Both doors have iron gates. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: notable as one of the first purpose-built banks in the country; built for the Stuckey Banking Company, and a fine example of its type. EH Listing
For the NatWest International 20/20 Match hosted on Saturday 31 August 2013 at Chester-le-Street, Go North East operated some extra services:
- Service 500 operated from Durham Railway Station, running from 08:30 and cost just £2 for a single.
- Service 501 operated from Lambton Park, running from 08:30, and cost just £3 per car.
- Service 502 operated from Chester-le-Street Railway Station, running from 09:00, and cost just £1.50 per journey.
Shown in-shot here is Volvo B7TL/East Lancs Vyking 3980 (PJ02 PZG), Volvo Olympian/Northern Counties Palatine 2 3811 (S811 FVK), Volvo B7TL/East Lancs Vyking 3974 (PJ02 PZA) and Volvo B7TL/East Lancs Vyking 3981 (PJ02 PZH). 31/08/13
red sky last night, blue haze this morning! Medium zoom. The Swiss re building at St. Mary Axe and the Nat West tower.
Natwest porcelain piggy banks collection
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Building 42, formerly the NatWest tower.
I have 2 more night photo workshops lined-up for the 7th and 14th of April and will list some more dates for April and May in the next day or two, you can book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/nigel-blake-16061853414 _30A7185
14 April 1979: NatWest Shoreditch Branch. Flats over the branch have an address of 18 Anning Street, Shoreditch EC2. I lived on the first floor for three months in 1979.
August 2024 photograph of the same scene: flic.kr/p/2qkps5U