London Stroll January 2006: I now do not know why I spent round two and a half hours wandering round London on the afternoon of twentieth January 2006, however the footage inform the story of my route. These photographs are a variety from a relatively bigger quantity I truly made. [The pictures are larger than they appear in this post and you may download them, but like all pictures on this blog are copyright; they must be attributed if posted on social media and a licence is required for any commercial use.]
I believe I used to be going to some night occasion and easily took benefit of some wonderful climate to go up earlier and take some footage. The primary one reveals a number of the sculptural element above the outpatients entrance of the previous Royal Waterloo Hospital for Youngsters and Girls on Waterloo Highway the roundabout near the station, the place I’ll have arrived by prepare.
I then walked on to Waterloo Bridge, pausing to take an image of the Nationwide Theatre, with the roof of the movie museum within the foreground.
There was an exhibition ‘after the wave’ on sq. pillars in entrance of the Nationwide Theatre which relatively appeared to echo the form of the constructing.
On Waterloo Bridge I took a number of footage trying downstream throughout the River Thames, this one concentrating on the north financial institution and St Paul’s Cathedral.
A wider view reveals boats moored within the river and the skyline of London, now relatively extra crowded.
One other with St Paul’s on the left .
On Strand I photographed this lion and two Chinese language males stress-free above Twinings, suppliers of tea to the Queen.
And these wonderful fish on Lloyds Financial institution Legislation Courtroom Department at 222 Strand, then nonetheless open as a financial institution – it closed in 2017. It had been referred to as probably the most lovely financial institution within the nation. The fish are presumably as a result of this Grade II listed constructing was in-built 1882 by Goymour Cuthbert and W Wimble for the Palsgave Restaurant for the Royal Courts of Justice reverse and was solely taken over by Lloyds in 1894.
Some wonderful ironwork and a beehive above the doorway to the financial institution.
Above the doorway at 193 Fleet Road is that this determine of statue of Kaled, the web page of Byron’s Depend Lara by Giuseppe Grandi, relationship from 1872. Extra about it on Decorative Passions.
The constructing was constructed for pawnbrokers George Attenborough and Son in 1883 and has some wonderful sculptural element together with these winged lions, on both aspect of the wrought iron assist from which initially the pawnbrokers three balls have been hung. The Latin motto beneath is ‘Sub Hoc floresco‘, Below This I flourish.
On either side of the clock of St Dunstan’s within the West on Fleet Road are the 2 legendary giants, Gog and Magog (Corineus and Gogmagog) described within the biblical ebook of Revelation because the allies of Devil towards God once we come to the top of days, but in addition the guardians of London – and the Metropolis is definitely on Devil’s aspect as the cash laundering capital of the world. They strike the chimes for the clock right here, stated to be the oldest public clock in London.
My stroll continued – and I’ll put up some extra from it at some later date. You may already see a number of the footage on My London Diary.
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