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'Sunday on the Strand', 2021 by Nick Grove

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We are sailing.

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Hampstead Green Wildflowers Meadow, 2022, acrylic on canvas paper, 508x405mm, Sold

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Monument on grave of Samuel Leigh Sotheby (d. 1861), Brompton Cemetery, London; 19.3.2022

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Rowans, from Finsbury Park NR, Pfm 1

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London, Isle of Dogs in 1974. The pub, Waterman’s Arms, stands alone after demolition of surrounding buildings. This pub had a moment of fame in the 1960s when the landlord was Daniel Farson. He was also a photographer, and worked for ITV, and this pub was used in the programme ‘Time Gentleman Please’, showing Pub entertainment acts.

Info from Google

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Canary Wharf, London.

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The Victoria and Albert Museum photographed from Thurloe Square with Thurloe Square Gardens at left. This Photograph was snapped around 1960.

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Abell House, John Islip Street, Westminster

1940

T. P. Bennett & Son

Image from RIBApix

Modernist London

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Traffic queuing (nothing changes) in Bury Place near Oxford Street in 1952. The Building on the right is the head office of the Co-operative Permanent Building Society which ultimately became The Nationwide Building Society in 1972.

W.H. Auden mused in 'A Curse'....Dark was that day when Diesel conceived his grim engine that begot you, vile invention, more vicious, more criminal than the camera even, metallic monstrosity, bale and bane of our culture, chief woe of our Commonweal. How dare the Law prohibit hashish and heroin yet license your use, who inflate all weak inferior egos? Their addicts only do harm to their own lives: you poison the lungs of the innocent, your din dithers the peaceful, and on choked roads hundreds must daily die by chance-medley. Nimble technicians, surely you should hang your heads in shame. Your wit works mighty wonders, has landed men on the Moon, replaced brains by computers, and can smithy a "smart" bomb. It is a crying scandal that you cannot take the time or be bothered to build us, what sanity knows we need, an odorless and noiseless staid little electric brougham

W.H. Auden (1907-1973), A Curse.

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LU Hangar Lane (NE entrance), W5

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“ANGEL ROAD SUPERSTORES”, Edmonton, London; 28.8.2008. “ANGEL ROAD SUPERSTORES” is what it used to say was its destination on the front of the 341 bus. Before that it said “NORTHUMBERLAND PARK TESCO”. Now it’s changed again to “MERIDIAN WATER STATION”, though the bus still terminates just by Ikea, not at the new railway station.

CORRECTION: Last night I noticed that it said “NORTHUMBERLAND PARK” on the front of the bus. But the screen inside the bus says the destination is “MERIDIAN WATER, GLOVER DRIVE SUPERSTORE”, while the recorded announcement says “MERIDIAN WATER, GLOVER DRIVE SUPERSTORES” (plural). Meanwhile, the TfL website says “MERIDIAN WATER STATION”. What a shambles.

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Bow

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An Unknown Girl’s Grave

In 1995, builders were clearing the site for the construction of 30 St Mary Axe – these days better known as the Gherkin. An archaeological investigation unearthed the grave of a teenage girl, estimated to be between 13 and 17 years old. Carbon dating and pottery finds dated her death to between 350 and 400 C.E.. Whether she was Roman, Briton, or from elsewhere in the Empire is unknown.

Whilst construction of the skyscraper continued, the girl’s remains were removed to the Museum of London. When the Gherkin was finished in 2004, the developers requested that the girl be reburied at the site. In 2007, she was given a service at a nearby church, followed by a procession accompanied by an approximation of Roman music, and laid to rest (again).

Her new grave can be seen (somewhat appropriately) on Bury Street; the marble benches that are often occupied by bankers on lunch (or at after-work drinks) bear a small memorial. The inscription reads, in both English and Latin: “To the spirits of the dead, the unknown young girl from Roman London lies buried here.”

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A wonderful collection of colour photographs taken in Trafalgar Square in the summer of 1950 transport us back in time beautifully.