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A photo (or three) a day for 2012.

Archive for the category “London”

30 Dec 2012

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Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park…

St Mark’s Church, in Prince Albert Road, north of Regent’s Park, south of Primrose Hill…

Feng Shang Chinese Restaurant, Regent’s Park Canal, north of Regent’s Park…

Atop Primrose Hill, and the weather today was mercifully kind ;)…

“I have conversed with the spiritual sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill.” William Blake, English poet and artist (1757-1827)…

Zooming in, to show St. Paul’s Cathedral and The Shard, London’s tallest building…

In Queen Mary’s Garden, Regent’s Park…

Also in Queen Mary’s Garden…

Queen Mary’s Garden waterfall water coursing over a mossy stone…

So here it is, the year’s final London image on this photoblog: the connecting passage between the Bakerloo and Northern Lines at Embankment Tube station…:).

Posted in London and tagged Bakerloo Line, Embankment Tube station, Macro flowers, Northern Line, Primrose Hill, Prince Albert Road, Queen Mary's Garden, Regent's Park, Regent's Park Canal, rose, St Mark's, St Paul's Cathedral, The Shard, waterfall, William Blake

29 Dec 2012

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A Rainy Day in London Town…

Metropolitan Line platforms, Baker Street Tube Station…

I was in Baker Street to get my hair cut, but here’s the queue for the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Baker Street, at about three o’clock this afternoon… 😉

Then it was off to Camden Town for a look around there…

There are several shops in Camden High Street with interesting adornments above…

Tree overlooking Camden Lock…

A food stall beside Camden Lock, with some interesting seating to the right ;)…

Another stall, of very many, at Camden Lock….I bought myself a few Blues CDs nearby…

Some posters in a shop window in Camden High Street that caught my attention as I passed by…

…and back home via Mornington Crescent station, at the southern end of Camden Town…

Posted in London and tagged Baker Street, Baker Street Tube station, Camden Lock, Camden Town Tube station, market stalls, Max Orient, Mornington Crescent Tube station, Sherlock Holmes Museum

28 Dec 2012

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The year’s last visit to London’s South Bank…

The IMAX cinema illuminated…

A semi-abstract composition with a South Bank fountain in the foreground and the Queen Elizabeth Hall beyond…

This week’s Friday Tonic gig, in the Clore Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall, between 5.30 pm and 7.00 pm, was The Liane Carroll Trio, and excellent they were too 🙂

The music was initially jazz standards, but became more diversified later…

Apologies there are no photos of the the guitarist (Roger Carey) and drummer (Mark Fletcher) here, but they weren’t visible from where I was sitting on the floor ;)…

Liane was seated at the piano throughout, with the exception of one song ‘Fever’ in which she encouraged an audience singalong :)…

The set finished with the Trio’s version of ‘Fairytale of New York’, as popularised by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl…

The Queen Elizabeth Hall…

The Christmas Tree in front of the Queen Elizabeth Hall…

Posted in London and tagged Christmas tree, Fairytale of New York, Fever, fountain, IMAX cinema, Liane Carroll, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank

23 Dec 2012

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And Sunday afternoon in Hampstead…

Giraffe peering out of the doorway of ‘The 100 Acres’ shop in Heath Street, Hampstead…;)

An aesthetically pleasing curved corridor near the lifts down to the platforms at Hampstead Tube station. If the lifts are out of action this corridor leads to a staircase … 😉

The pillar box in the foreground of this shot in the High Street is actually a Penfold Pillar Box dating from about 1870, an historical monument, and is no longer in use (the Post Office is on the other side of the road). However, I did wonder when taking this photo, which was the older, the pillar box or the tree beyond it ;).

Posted in London and tagged Hampstead High Street, Hampstead village, Heath Street, kangaroo, London NW3, Penfold Pillar Box, The 100 Acres

22 Dec 2012

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Saturday evening in London’s West End…

The Criterion Theatre, in Coventry Street, where ‘The 39 Steps’ is currently showing…

Wardour Street, at the western edge of London’s Chinatown…

The statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus, silhouetted against the electronic advertising hoardings...

The statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus, silhouetted against electronic advertising hoardings…

Posted in London and tagged Chinatown, Coventry Street, Eros, Piccadilly Circus, silhouette, The 39 Steps, Wardour Street, West End

21 Dec 2012

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Whetstone reflections, High Street Kensington and the South Bank revisited…

(Inverted) tree and moon reflected in the pond in Swan Lane Open Space, Whetstone…

Smart area of London is Kensington, and perhaps reflected here in the entrance to High Street Kensington Tube station… 😉

View at the junction of Kensington Church Street and High Street Kensington…

Standing on Hungerford Bridge, looking towards the Royal Festival Hall, and to its left, The Shard, London’s tallest building, a couple of miles distant near London Bridge…

The Friday Tonic, a free gig in the Clore Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall most Fridays, between 5.30 pm and 7.00 pm, and this week featuring the Soothsayers… 🙂

And if you wander back towards Waterloo station from the Royal Festival Hall, you’ll probably pass by Archdukes at the top of Concert Hall Approach (and notice the Boris Bikes in the foreground, a latter-day feature of the London landscape) ;).