Author: TheLondoniPage 20 of 28

The roofs of London

Looking east from the edges of the City of London. The constant rebuilding of the metropolis is evidenced by the cranes.  St Pauls Cathedral, meanwhile, is beginning to…

New Covent Garden

The market not the soup. It’s a great place to walk around early in the morning (it seems to trade from middle of the night to middle of…

Slow train coming

The DLR train came to a momentary holt as it passed across Canary Wharf so that the passengers could admire the City of London; the Gherkin, Cheese Grater…

The Cheshire Cheese

When first landed in the Smoke, I worked in the grey 1970’s building that you can see behind the sign of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in the featured…

Kings Cross being refurbished

Behind the scaffolding in 2010 Kings Cross station was being turned into a “beautiful butterfly”

The pink thinker

Out the back of The Grapes pub in Limehouse, if you swivel your head to the left you see this fellow.

By Poplar demand

Poplar from Canary Wharf, looking over Poplar Dock

Never seek permission

An alley off Oxford Street before the store is opened.

Casting off

A father and son fishing off the side of the Limehouse Basin. Shard photo-bombing in the distance.

The Gun at Coldharbour

I found this pub after walking from Limehouse and across Canary Wharf. Heading south on a busy faceless road past Poplar Dock and then the West Indian Millwall…