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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

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Holborn Viaduct

Opposite Old Bailey

St Sepulchre, Newgate

Stuff of nightmares

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Romeo and Juliet on a new building in New Inn Street. This road runs parallel to Curtain Road, and in the excavation for the development there have been found archeological remains of the original Theatre - the theatre of Burbage and Shakespeare.
The Theatre was dismantled and transported across the river where it was reerected and called ‘The Globe’.
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Spot of street art, St Anne’s Court, Soho.
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This Saturday, 3 December, 1030am - last walk of the year: Rock and Roll Soho. Just £8.
Meet outside 1 Savile Row, W1

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The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square - Michael Rakowitz’s ‘The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist’. Rakowitz started the project in 2006. It attempts to recreate more than 7,000 objects which have been lost forever. Some were looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, while others were destroyed at archaeological sites across the country during the Iraq War and the subsequent ‘Islamic State’. For the Fourth Plinth, Rakowitz has recreated the Lamassu. This winged bull and protective deity guarded the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh (near modern day Mosul) from c700 BC until it was destroyed by Isis in 2015.

The reconstructions in The Invisible Enemy project are made from recycled packaging from Middle Eastern foodstuffs. The Lamassu is made from 10,500 empty Iraqi date syrup cans.
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The Barbican’s Shakespeare Tower (1976, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon).
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One of the towers at the Barbican.
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Golden Lane estate, the Barbican. 1950s social housing within the City of London, built on land flattened during the Blitz. (Chamberlin, Powell and Bon architects)
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Blog post to follow, but the #londoncalling exhibition at @museumoflondon is well worth half an hour of your life. Lots of photos, memorabilia, lyric sheets, film of the ‘70s (one forgets how *grey* that decade was). Satta Massagana.
#london #museumoflondon #theclash #clash #joestrummer #londoncalling

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The #londoncalling mini-exhibition at @museumoflondon. Quit holding out you zombies of death
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Everything is beautiful on a day like today.
#sunshine #bluesky #telegraphpole #wintersun #london

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You only see this plaque when the vine dies back. Brookfield Road in Battersea, site of William Wilberforce’s house - he and other anti-slavery campaigners worshipped in Holy Trinity church on Clapham Common.
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Autumn leaves, Battersea
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Victoria’s Westminster Cathedral is lit up red this evening.
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Some new blog posts, and details of forthcoming tours - www.stuffaboutlondon.co.uk

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Entrance lobby at @sketchlondon
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Visitors from Sicily brought marzipan.
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And there goes the bridge.
125 years old this year and still looking pretty good.
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Just an ordinary day in London...
I was doing a #beatles tour and stopped in Montagu Square when these carriages came past with police escort.
The second one is pulled by Windsor Greys, which implies a royal was onboard, but I couldn’t see who.
#london #visitlondon #royalfamily #horse #carriage #pageantry #windsorgrey #marylebone #montagusquare

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The Floral Hall at Covent Garden.
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#london #coventgarden #royaloperahouse #floralhall #opera #ballet #visitlondon

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