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Some snaps from the phone from walking around this month. Click on any image to see the whole galley

Francis Crick Centre, St Pancras

Bizarre window display, St Pancas

Liberty's WW2 staff memorial

Liberty's window

Waterloo station WW2 memorial

Tate Modern extension

Tate Modern extension

Holborn Viaduct

Opposite Old Bailey

St Sepulchre, Newgate

Stuff of nightmares

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This frieze / trompe l’oeil has been incorporate

This frieze / trompe l’oeil has been incorporated into the new #peabody buildings in Strath Terrace, Clapham Junction, but obviously predates the recent construction. Anybody know its history?
#claphamjunction #battersea #sculpture #brick #mystery #peabodybuildings

On the foreshore at #battersea bridge. #london #br

On the foreshore at #battersea bridge.
#london #bridges #batterseabridge #bazalgette #thames #riverthames

No Exit. . Brick wall. #Battersea heliport. . #lon

No Exit.
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Brick wall. #Battersea heliport.
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#london #sign #wall #brickwall #ghostsign #noexit

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), essayist and histori

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), essayist and historian, ‘The sage of Chelsea’ in festive (and covid-aware) mode.
#london #chelsea #statue #carlyle #thomascarlyle #cheynewalk

Misty morning, Albert Bridge . . #london #albertbr

Misty morning, Albert Bridge
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#london #albertbridge #albertbridgelondon #thepogues #pogues #battersea #thames

#rainbow over #claphamcommon just now. Not sure th

#rainbow over #claphamcommon just now.
Not sure that it’s the herald of better times, but it is a beautiful thing in itself.

#albertbridge that crosses the Thames between Batt

#albertbridge that crosses the Thames between Battersea and Chelsea.
#london #riverthames #thames #chelsea #battersea #bridge

Don't worry, about a thing 'Cause every little thi

Don't worry, about a thing
'Cause every little thing, gonna be all right
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#bobmarley #threelittlebirds #chelsea #london #blueplaque #englishheritage

“Red sky in the morning...” The sky over Londo

“Red sky in the morning...”
The sky over London now, as we go back into tier 3.
#london #sky #sunrise #redskyinthemorning #tier3

#christmas stars on the side of the Royal Marsden

#christmas stars on the side of the Royal Marsden hospital, Chelsea
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Chelsea Arts Club #london #colour #chelseaartsclub

Chelsea Arts Club
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Behind a low wall near the Queen’s Elm junction

Behind a low wall near the Queen’s Elm junction of Fulham Road is an old Jewish cemetery. Opened in 1815 it closed for burials in 1885.
#chelsea #london #hiddenlondon #secretlondon #cemetery #jewishcemetery

Tree. On a beautiful early winter day on Clapham C

Tree. On a beautiful early winter day on Clapham Common.
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A guide’s bookshelf #london #londonbooks #guide

A guide’s bookshelf

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St Luke’s church, Sydney Street in Chelsea. Buil

St Luke’s church, Sydney Street in Chelsea. Built in 1824 and so one of the first Neo-Gothic churches to be built in London: the nave, 60ft in height, is the tallest of any parish church in London and the tower reaches a height of 142 feet.

It is the church where Charles #dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836.

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Just off Cheyne Walk by Albert Bridge, these plaqu

Just off Cheyne Walk by Albert Bridge, these plaques show where Chelsea Manor House once stood.
Home to Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I)between 1536 and 1548 (there are reputed to be mulberry trees in the garden planted by her), it’s also where Henry’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, died in 1557.
The last owner was Hans Sloane, whose collection formed the basis of the British Museum.
#london #chelsea #cheynewalk #henryviii #henry8 #elizabethi #anneofcleves #blueplaque

Because some days you need a photo of a stink pipe

Because some days you need a photo of a stink pipe.
These are classic bits of Victorian infrastructure - hollow, cast iron pipes that ventilate Bazalgette’s sewers beneath.
#london #stinkpipe #bazalgette #sewers #battersea #industrialarchaeology

The ‘thin house’ in Thurloe Place, South Kensi

The ‘thin house’ in Thurloe Place, South Kensington. At its narrowest point (this end) it’s just 2 metres wide.
#london #southken #southkensington #thinhouse #thurloeplace

Plaque in Chelsea to ‘50s starlet Diana Dors, (b

Plaque in Chelsea to ‘50s starlet Diana Dors, (born Diana Fluck).

The story is told (and se non è vero, è ben trovato) that she was invited to open a fete in her home town. The vicar introduced her by saying ‘We have with us today Diana Dors, whom many of you will remember as Doris Klunt”. It’s a gag recently recycled by Alan Partridge.
#london #dianadors #blueplaque #alanpartridge #alanpartridgequotes

At the next @UKToursOnline #free chat (2 November

At the next @UKToursOnline #free chat (2 November - tap @UKToursOnline and follow link) the five of us will be talking about favourite and least favourite #london buildings.
I’ll be championing the #Victorian terraced house in its multitude of incarnations. The row upon row of #terraces across the capital are still the bedrock of the city’s housing stock and are evidence of the huge growth of the capital in the 1800s.
#virtualevents #virtuallearning #housing #homes #londonstock #architecture

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