Tag: west end
In photos: Anish Kapoor’s Symphony for a Beloved Daughter at the Royal Academy, London, July 2018
The celebrations for the Royal Academy’s 250th Summer Exhibition sees this striking sculpture by Anish Kapoor dominating the courtyard outside Burlington House in central London.
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Wim Wenders, alleyways and a monster bauble – London’s West End in photos, Nov 2017
December hasn’t arrived yet but the West End is already in full Christmas mode, with every shop ablaze with festive messages of consumerism and consumption. I battled the crowds earlier …
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The return of the Golf Sale guy in a hat, Regent Street, London W1
With Westminster council banning the large-scale street placards that used to pepper the West End streets, the folks behind the Golf Sale business have had to downsize their advertising methods.
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On The Beat Records, 22 Hanway Street, London W1 – a great old record store
There was a time when central London was full of record stores, but On The Beat records is one of the few survivors. Tucked away in Hanway Street off Tottenham Court Road …
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‘Lice Sex Shop,’ bookshops, old hospitals and autumnal London street scenes
Amusingly damaged neon sign in the window of a Licensed Sex Shop, Charing Cross Road, W1.
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