Crystal Palace photos
Two (overdue) updates to the photo gallery, with pictures from a summer and an autumn walk around Crystal Palace park and nearby Sydenham. I went along on the Sydenham walk …
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Morden Hall – Colliers Wood Walk
A rare day of winter sunshine sent us scuttling out of the house on Saturday afternoon, heading off to the hitherto unexplored lands of darkest Morden and Colliers Wood. The …
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Piccadilly to Vauxhall walk
The weather wasn’t great, but we shook off some of the festive lard and lingering hangover with a short (4.3m) walk around town yesterday. Here’s some of the pics: Christmas …
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Goodbye New Piccadilly cafe
A much loved London cafe lost forever. April 2006 December 2007 Read my photo feature: The New Piccadilly Café, 8 Denman Street, Piccadilly, London
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Hammersmith Palais RIP
It’s taken me ages to get around to posting these pics up but here’s some shots of the very last days of this much loved music venue. My own band …
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A lighthouse in London
I love this old building right by Kings Cross station. The story is that the building originally served as an oyster house – oysters being the fast food of the …
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Autumn in Regent’s Park
I spent a lovely hour walking around Regent’s Park on Saturday afternoon, grabbing a couple of autumnal scenes on my trusty Ricoh GX100 camera (long term test review coming soon!) …
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A walk around Fitzrovia, London
Had a nice walk around W1 and Fitzrovia on Saturday – interesting to see so many buildings closed and the huge development taking place by Great Portland Street. Photos of …
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A walk around Brick Lane, East End
Blimey, the place is gentrifying so fast you can almost feel your accent changing while you stand there. Here’s a few pics: More photos here: Brick lane, East London
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Rose Theatre, Bankside
By chance we stumbled across the Rose Theatre ‘open weekend’ last week and took a look inside. There’s not really a great deal to see, but it is kind of …
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A walk around Lincoln’s Inn Fields & Holborn
This is a great area of London to wander about in. The park is London’s biggest public square and there’s some fascinating architecture all around. See more pics here: Lincoln’s …
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Behold! The majesty of Tottenham Hale!
Welcome to Tottenham Hale. All cars, roads, railings, roundabouts and concrete. Easily one of the ugliest places in London. This was taken on my route from the tube, a walk …
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DJing, drinking and photographing
Blimey. What a week. Last Saturday I went to the Windmill, Brixton for the leaving bash of two of my friends, Scott and Jo. It was a fabulous night that …
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Winter comes early to the BT Tower
This was a good blag because I: (a) love the BT Telecom Tower(b) love wintery things and(c) love freebies …and all three were on offer today as I’d been invited …
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Dulwich Village/Green Fair photos
It’s just a short bus ride from downtown Brixton, but it feels like a universe away with its quiet village atmosphere, posh houses, well tended verges and lack of shouting …
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London photos
Some more pics from my London ambles… A visit to the Tate Britain Hyde Park, the Strand and Borough Market photos Steam train at Victoria station Covent Garden, Bloomsbury, the …
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Streatham Common Kite Day
This was a whole heap of fun, with the skies around Streatham Common Kite Day being peppered with kites of every shape, size, design and colour. I flew this triplane …
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Went to a friend’s birthday at the Charterhouse Bar last night (oh, all right, he owns the place) and first impressions weren’t good: the upstairs bar was jammed with extraordinarily …
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A trip inside the Camberwell Submarine
This remarkable nuclear sub-like structure sits in the middle of a fairly quiet road in south London. Deep below the ground, boilers provide heat for local council estates, with the …
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“Oy you! You can’t take that picture….”
So, I’m walking along Avemaria Lane (near St Pauls) minding my own business. It’s a quiet afternoon and there’s barely anyone around. I’ve got my little Ricoh GR digital compact …
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Trafalgar Square to St Pauls
Some photos from my walk yesterday: ow turnout for the Biblical Gospel Ministries’ in Trafalgar Square Photographer’s Gallery, Leicester Square A statue of Fenner Brockway, an activist who I’d never …
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A walk through Spitalfields and Brick Lane
Here’s the final part of my photo series from my west-east walk across London on Saturday. I hadn’t really explored the streets around Brick Lane and quite liked the ‘Williamsburg’ …
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Jericho sculpture, Royal Academy
Slammed down in the middle of the Royal Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard, these two huge concrete towers provide a stark contrast to the Palladian architecture of Burlington House. I think they …
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Three London theatres
Battersea Arts Centre It’s been a luvvy month for us as we’ve been to no less than three theatre productions in a single month! Spamalot at the Palace Theatre Check …
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A London walk
Ace historian Chris Roberts kindly agreed to take a gaggle of urbanites on a short walk of the Thames, with a focus on ghost tales and mysterious happenings. More photos …
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A London walk
Armed with my camera, I went for a lone amble around London on Saturday, starting off at Borough market, and then walking along the Southbank to the Tate Modern and …
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Clerkenwell, Smithfield and Red Cow Yard
Save Smithfield! Pictured above is the old General Market at Smithfields Market, part of a complex of fine Victorian buildings scheduled for demolition. Despite much local campaigning and appeals from …
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A rainy day in London Town
A walk around the rain drenched streets of central London with my new Canon Ixus 850IS camera. Trafalgar Square in the rain. No takers at the funfair at Leicester Square. …
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London snapshots (D80)
I tested out my shiny new Nikon D80 dSLR and Sigma 30mm f1.4 lens over the weekend. Here’s a few of the results: See more photos
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Early evening, Soho and Bedford Square
Some more handheld street photos taken with my Ricoh GR Digital Camera Check out the Bedford Square feature More pics: Early evening, Soho
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