{"id":4625,"date":"2011-07-04T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2011-07-04T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T00:18:10","slug":"another-trip-up-the-london-monument-tower-photo-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/another-trip-up-the-london-monument-tower-photo-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Another trip up the London Monument Tower (photo feature)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/climbing-the-london-monument-09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"London Nocturne bike races, Smithfield Market, central London, Saturday June 11th 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I posted a feature about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-trip-up-the-330-year-old-monument-tower-in-central-london\/\">Monument tower back in May<\/a>, but after\u00a0unexpectedly\u00a0finding myself\u00a0traipsing\u00a0back up the 311 steps to the windy viewing platform again recently, I&#8217;ve posted up some new photos for your delectation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/climbing-the-london-monument-20.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Climbing the 330 year old Monument tower in central London\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This time around it was a lot busier, although I noted that the interior looked a lot tidier since my last visit &#8211; the result of a\u00a0\u00a34.5 million refurbishment project that started in July 2007 and was completed in February 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/climbing-the-london-monument-11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Climbing the 330 year old Monument tower in central London\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view from the top was as magnificent as ever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/climbing-the-london-monument-22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Climbing the 330 year old Monument tower in central London\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graffiti\u00a0from 1709. Ruddy Ye Olde Vandals!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/climbing-the-london-monument-23.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Climbing the 330 year old Monument tower in central London\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bride heads for the top!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/climbing-the-london-monument.html\" target=\"_blank\">More photos here<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-trip-up-the-330-year-old-monument-tower-in-central-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monument tower feature (and\u00a0opening\u00a0times etc)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonumentview.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">cool video installation<\/a> streaming time lapse images from the\u00a0Monument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a feature about the Monument tower back in May, but after\u00a0unexpectedly\u00a0finding myself\u00a0traipsing\u00a0back up the 311 steps to the windy viewing platform again recently, I&#8217;ve posted up some new &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/climbing-the-london-monument-09.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1cB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}