Category: ArchitecturePage 11 of 15

Carreras building, Mornington Crescent

Wow! I’ve been living in London for 31 years and somehow I’ve never walked up Hampstead Road before which means I’ve never seen this absolute gob-smacking ugly-beauty brute…

From manufactory to gallery in Fitzrovia: T J Boultings and Sons

I love Fitzrovia; the area and the word. It’s named after Fitzroy Square*, a beautiful Georgian Square at its heart which was pedestrianised in the 1970’s and now…

A day at the cricket in SE11

To the Oval for a Surrey championship match. The county game is very under supported and the few people watching this game almost don’t qualify as a crowd….

Alone, underground

For a very brief moment I was completely alone in the tube station. It was late at night, no trains were on the platforms and the absence of…

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…

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…

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.