Can you name a London Street? Chances are, if you can, you’ll say a major one like Oxford Street, The Mall or Piccadilly. We all know the main routes but what about the side streets, and there are many? London’s small streets are a maze. Keep to the main routes and it’s pretty straightforward. Nip […]
Which Way? Perils of One Way streets. Read More »
Ever been lost in a city?
Most people have at some time or other. Especially when they don’t know it. Every city has it’s iconic places. The buildings that define it, that tell you about a place. Where you instantly recognise what and where they are from their outline. Eiffel Tower, Sidney Opera House, Tower Bridge to name but a few.
How should we describe this, urban bland?
Battersea Powered Sellout? Oh Battersea Power Station, how you’ve changed! What an Icon you’ve become. The question is which one? Urban Power Once a symbol of industrial might, that powered a thriving metropolis. London’s urban scene was illuminated. Newpaper presses, offices, banks, manufacturing plants, television empires and domestic settings all relied on your output. Whilst
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Sculptures are everywhere! We may not notice them but once you start looking you find they are. Even in less populated areas you stumble across sculptures like the Willow Man on the A5. But Cities are littered with Sculptures! Frequently traditional busts and figures, memorials depicting noteable worthies associated with the place. Then there are
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Building melts cars! Or so the headlines went the construction of 20 Fenchurch Street or the Walkie Talkie was nearing completion in Sept 2013. Somewhere in the planning of a skyscraper that faces south nobody had considered that concave glass surfaces focus the sun’s rays. Dispite the fact it’s happened before! This was the first time
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HMS Belfast is an impressive sight. I was naturally drawn to its elegance, and the chains. Floating on the Thames it’s now a museum. A popular attraction it has a serene elegance despite its lethal abilities. Even though it has been decommissioned, those guns still hint of menace. You know they were once fired with
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