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Tower Bridge hiding in plain sight

I saw picture line up as I walked to a business meeting in More London. Perfect timing.  

Oxford Street in Autumn before the shoppers arrive

8am. The Christmas lights are up but the season is still more Summer Holiday than Christmas Holiday. It was just workers arriving at shop and studio and office….

Crane dancing on Oxford Street

Autumn 2015. More cranes across London than I can remember. This lot are dancing above a site opposite Newman Street and is probably part of the Crossrail re-development.

The Best Jukebox in London

I have many memories of nights spent in Bradley’s bar tucked away off the dominating thoroughfare of Oxford Street – in little Hamwell Street. A fight, a meeting…

After the match

Wales had just lost to Australia at Twickenham in the Rugby World Cup. I looked down at the crowd swirling round the old stadium and took this photo.

The distant City from the footbridge at Clapham Junction

The Borribles – pointy eared class warfare in South London

Some time ago Londonist website ran a poll to choose the best London novel of all time.  I’d heard of most of the top ten and had even read…

Smashing Night Club remembered 1991-1996

One of the best London night clubs that I’ve ever been to was Smashing. It used to inhabit Eve’s club on Regents Street in the early 1990’s. It…

Patrick Keiller’s London. Then & Now.

Patrick Keiller made his strange, uncategorisable  film, London, in 1992. It’s not a documentary although it uses documentary style footage and it’s certainly not traditional fiction. Perhaps Peter Ackroyd’s…

Henry Moore – down in the tube station at midnight?

There’s a new exhibition of Henry Moore’s work at Tate Britain which runs from February 24th to August 8th, 2010. It includes some of the most famous pictures of London during…