{"id":18605,"date":"2018-10-18T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18605"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:31:27","slug":"london-15-years-ago-soho-street-scenes-the-tates-weather-project-and-st-pancras-october-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-15-years-ago-soho-street-scenes-the-tates-weather-project-and-st-pancras-october-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"London 15 years ago: Soho street scenes, the Tate’s Weather Project and St Pancras, October 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"London<\/p>\n

Here’s a selection of London scenes from my archives, including scenes from Soho street scenes, the Tate’s Weather Project and St Pancras.<\/p>\n

The photos were all taken 15 years ago – back in October 2003 – during a month when Darkness and Dido topped the UK album charts and Concorde made its final flights.<\/p>\n

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The much missed original Photographers Gallery in Great Newport Street, whose cafe served the finest cakes in London.<\/p>\n

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Shaftesbury Avenue in the low autumn sun.<\/p>\n

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Only the facade now remains of\u00a0York Mansions and Clifton Mansions at 52-58 High Street, Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n

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See more photos of the apartment block here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Euston Station.<\/p>\n

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Work underway at St Pancras railway station and hotel.<\/p>\n

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Inside St Pancras.<\/p>\n

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Booking hall.<\/p>\n

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The magnificent train shed.<\/p>\n

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St Pancras clock.<\/p>\n

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See more: London St Pancras station 15 years ago \u2013 photos of the semi-derelict Midland Grand hotel from June 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kings Cross railway station.<\/p>\n

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Street argument.<\/p>\n

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The Brutalist circular office block at One Kemble Street.<\/p>\n

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Opening in June 2000, but then swiftly closing after pedestrians using the bridge found it swaying around in an alarming manner, a repaired Millennium Bridge reopened in February 2002.<\/p>\n

Still known by some as the ‘Wobbly Bridge,’ the\u00a0325 metres structure offers a handy route from the\u00a0Tate Modern to St Paul’s Cathedral on the northern banks of the Thames.<\/p>\n

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Thames at Low tide.<\/p>\n

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The Weather Project<\/a> by Olafur Eliasson in the\u00a0Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall was an absolute sensation.<\/p>\n

Visitors who stepped in from the rigours of the London winter found themselves facing a dazzling sun, shining out into a setting almost devoid of colour, its outlines blurred by mist.<\/p>\n

When walking towards it down the sloping floor of the 150-metre-long Turbine Hall, their expectations were gradually raised through a whole range of experiences.<\/p>\n

Once they had reached the end of the space, their illusions were shattered when they were allowed to discover the technical components that created the installation: a wide semicircular screen back-lit by a battery of about 200 yellow mono-frequency lamps mounted 7.7 metres from the end wall of the Hall.<\/p>\n

Almost as though revealing a previously hidden theatrical face of the sun, the entire installation set-up came into view, and the impression that it formed a complete circle in an endless environment turned out to be no more than a reflection created by mirror foil that ran the entire length of the ceiling and was supported by aluminium frames.<\/p>\n

On closer inspection, the fog was also revealed to be artificial in origin by the mechanical nozzles that blew it\u00a0out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Disused unit in railway arch.<\/p>\n

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Street advertising for the BCF computer fairs that used to be a regular fixture around Tottenham Court Road.<\/p>\n

Check out this article on the\u00a0History of London Street Advertising<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Photo Gallery of Human Billboards.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"London<\/p>\n

The now-vanished Raymond Revuebar<\/a>\u00a0on Brewer Street, as seen from Rupert Street, Soho.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Raymond Revuebar<\/b>\u00a0(1958\u20132004) was a theatre and\u00a0strip club\u00a0at 11\u00a0Walker’s Court<\/a>\u00a0(now the location of\u00a0The Box Soho\u00a0nightclub), in the heart of London’s\u00a0Soho\u00a0district. For many years, it was the only venue in London that offered full-frontal, on-stage nudity of the sort commonly seen in other cities in Europe and North America.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Its huge brightly lit sign declaring it to be the “World Centre of Erotic Entertainment” made the Revuebar a local landmark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Berwick Street market.<\/p>\n

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The sleazy Walker’s Court.<\/p>\n

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Brewer Street with Madame JoJo’s to the left.<\/p>\n

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Dancing in the Southbank Centre.<\/p>\n

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Giving it large.<\/p>\n

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Greem Man celebrations, Borough.<\/p>\n

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