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Taken on a sunny, Boxing Day early morning. The shot was taken from St Katherine's Pier with the Shard partially visible behind the bridge. The round building in the background is the City Hall.
London – In and around Brick Lane
This collection of images was taken in and around Brick Lane, London. This is an area full of New and Old Architecture, markets, people, graffiti, doors, churches and much more. I’ve posted a selection of items taken in October 2018. This is the second of a number of postings.
More Graffiti and Street Art from around Great Britain and more from Brick Lane and the surrounding streets, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Detail of the pagoda in Victoria Park's west boating lake.
It's a 2010 replica of an 1842 Chinese-style pagoda that had originally formed part of a Chinese exhibition in Hyde Park before being moved to Victoria Park, eventually being demolished in the 1950s.
Victoria Park in east London was created in 1845 and became an essential amenity for local people, many of whom lived in poor housing in the late 19th century.
Now like many London parks it is regularly used as the site for music festivals in the summer. The local council closes off a large area of the park with a tall fence, with access inside only available to ticket-buying festival goers.
Everyone else, like me, has to remain Outside the Festival. This is a collection of images of what we get to see of the event.
The Boundary Estate is a housing development, formally opened in 1900, in the East End of London, England. It is situated in the north western corner of Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and on the boundary with Shoreditch, in the London Borough of Hackney. The estate, constructed from 1890, was one of the earliest social housing schemes built by a local government authority. It replaced the Friars Mount rookery[1] in the Old Nichol. It was built on top of the demolished rookery, the works were begun by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1893 and completed by the recently formed London County Council. It is, arguably, the world's first council housing. The soil from the foundations was used to construct a mound in the middle of Arnold Circus at the centre of the development, this was surmounted by an extant bandstand. The estate consists of multi-story brick tenements radiating from the central circus, each of which bears the name of a location along the River Thames. Source: Wikipedia
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A little bit of processing seemed appropriate to tease out the JG Ballard undertones.
Disused former veneer factory on Chisenhale Road in Tower Hamlets. Propellers for Spitfire fighter planes were manufactured here during the second world war. Nowadays, other parts of the building house an art gallery, studios and dance space.
The architect of the building was Berthold Lubetkin and the building was built in 1962. I have also been to visit his Bevin Court work, which also features a spiral staircase, better than this one, but not as high (19 storeys in this case).
British Bangladeshi members of the Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre prepare their dragon boat for a run.
Block of flats in Globe Town, Tower Hamlets. Designed by architect Denys Lasdun and completed in 1958. It has a matching 'sister' block nearby called Sulkin House.
Grade II listed by Historic England.
Full disclosure: I confess to having cloned out a couple of telephone cables from the upper left side of this shot.
More Graffiti and Street Art from around Great Britain and more from Brick Lane and the surrounding streets, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
This former Bryant & May matchworks in Bow was once the largest factory in London, employing almost 5,000 people in the late 19th century - most of whom were women or girls. Conditions in the factory were poor, with many workers suffering poisoning and disfigurement from the white phosphorus used in matches.
This ultimately drove the workers to strike in 1888, a landmark incident which became known as the match girls' strike. As a result of the strike the company did improve workers' conditions and it eventually changed its manufacturing process to use the less toxic red phosphorus.
Yet, there alone can mortals
Their rest, long wished-for, find ;
There lies beyond those portals,
A home for all mankind.
So, I have lived in London for nearly 4 years now, but from the beginning 2018 I will be moving to Carlisle, Cumbria, in the North of England. I've had some great times here in London, visited many places, and photographed countless more. I have met some great people, who have helped my photography skills no end, and made many more friends on Flickr who have encouraged and assisted me in numerous ways. Thank you to all of you, and I hope that you'll join me in the next stage of my journey.
As I have mentioned before, I have made a photo video of my favourite shots whilst I have been living here. You can watch it by clicking here. It's not a particularly great video, but it took me about a week to learn how to put it together in PhotoShop and to get the music just right.
About this shot: I didn't have a tripod with me as I was planning to visit the Shard for sunset, however the queue was too long, and so I left about 10 mins before sunset. I shot Tower Bridge opening, then moved on and shot from Tower Bridge about 20 mins after sunset, with the wind blowing a gale, and my camera balanced on my bag.
I am still in London for another month, so there's plenty more London shots to come!