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The Abernethy Building Now Stands On The Right`Reclad In 2018..The Sixties Dental Institute Has Shut...The 1930s Block Designed By Adams, Holden & Pearson As The London Hospital’s Department of Physical Medicine Is Also Boarded Up..
Robin Hood Gardens Complete In 1972...The Left Side Now Wiped Away That Part Is Now Parkside West...The Other Side Will Go In Time...The Old Queens Theatre Stood On The Extreme Left That Got Demolished In The Mid Sixties...
I photographed this garage with its sign-writing on several occasions as I walked past. Still there, it has lost the signage that made it interesting and has an extension adjoining that has remained unfinished for years.
Artist: Jerome Davenport (b.Australia c.1990). Mural depicting Sylvia Pankhurst, whose HQ of the East London Federation of the Suffragettes opened in 1914 — next door to the Lord Morpeth public house. The artwork and a community herb garden commemorate the site. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Street art next to the Hertford Union Canal, Old Ford, Tower Hamlets, London.
GOC Hertfordshire's walk on 19 September 2015, which was a repeat of the February 2015 walk when I did not take my camera. It went from Walthamstow to Stratford via Lea Bridge and Victoria Park, all in London. John T was the walk leader and it was 9.1 miles. Please check out the other photos from the walk here, or to see my collections, go here. For more information on the Gay Outdoor Club, see www.goc.org.uk.
EPR Architects, 2017. Primarily a residential development, here showing the orange 14-storey block facing Millwall Inner Dock. Millennium Quarter, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The diamond-pattern tower reaching completion is Newfoundland, designed by Horden Cherry Lee architects. It will provide 636 apartments over 60 storeys.
The new build to right is the Landmark Pinnacle designed by Squire and Partners. When complete next year it will be London's tallest residential tower at 75 storeys.
Seen from Limehouse, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
British, probably early 18th century
The driver's coat was worn by Ordnance employees who accompanied the artillery drum carriage on campaign. The drum carriage personnel represented the Board of Ordnance's public face and they were dressed appropriately. Uniform coats could cost as much as £50 (nearly £4,000 today).
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Architects: Herzog & de Meuron, residential tower completing in 2020. Wood Wharf, Canary Wharf estate, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
(CC BY-SA - credit: Images George Rex.)
London ident for a Tower Hamlets that i'm not totally sure i recognise, but beautiful arch work never the less.
With a colourful background.
Tenuous Link: another rural mural
Connected (in the Connect group): bulrushes
The old brick bridge carrying the Fenchurch St. to Southend railway is restricting road width and is being demolished. Its replacement waits on the far side to be slid into position when ready. see www.flickr.com/photos/deevee40/36879119262/in/photostream/
Taken on a Minolta X700 camera with a Tokina 35 - 105mm zoom lens on Kodachrome slide film.
Leyden Street But Once Short Street Up To 1913....Old Edwardian/Victorian Whatever They Have Been Here For Over 100 Years...Sadly Closed For Quite A Few Years Now....These Ladies Toilets Once Had 4 Urinettes For Ladies To Stand And Pee Separated By A Privacy Curtain Not A Door...As Well As 6 Water Closets...The Urinettes Did Not Catch On....I Recall An Early Episode Of The Bill When June Ackland Walked Past These..
For various reasons I haven't managed to get out much recently, but here is a shot from earlier this year, of a cormorant at the East India Dock Basin in London's east end. D500_01742.NEF. Many thanks for views, comments and favourites.
Marking the outbreak of the First World War, and commemorating the British and Colonial servicemen killed during its course.
The installation consisted of one ceramic poppy for each of the 888,246 serviceman. It was installed at the Tower of London with poppies added each day from 17 July, concluding 11 November.
The project was conceived by artist was Paul Cummins, with setting by Tom Piper, and was designed to appear as a sea of blood spilling out.
The title of the piece comes from a poem in the unsigned will of an unknown soldier who died in the war: "The blood swept lands and seas of red, / Where angels dare to tread"
Empress Coaches Depot in Cambridge Heath, London E2.
Empress started out as a bus operator in 1923, running vehicles over the London General Omnibus Company's routes, including the no. 8, in the days when such direct on-the-road competition was allowed. Initially based in London Fields, the company moved to this depot in Corbridge Crescent in 1927. In 1933 the newly-formed London Passenger Transport Board was given the powers to compulsorily acquire all the competing bus services in its area, and Empress used its payoff of £35,000 to acquire coaches and move into the private hire business.
Before and after the Second World War the company was kept busy with excursion traffic, taking many an East Ender for day trips to the seaside at a time when many could not afford to take a holiday. In more recent times the company was used to transport troops, at a time when The Troubles in Northern Ireland were at their height and the IRA was running an active bombing campaign on the British mainland. The coaches ran in convoys with a military escort and the drivers were instructed not to stop - even if they hit someone. Nowadays the pickings are much slimmer, and it is likely that the company will be wound up when the current proprietor retires in the next few years, with the land being sold for redevelopment.
Trying to make my way home one night I got fed up waiting for a bus that was seemingly not coming. Knowing the river was nearby I decided to explore hoping for a nice view to Canary Wharf and found one.
The shot was bracketed so I could use an underexposed version to be able to recover some detail at the tops of the towers.