{"id":850,"date":"2004-03-24T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2010-07-28T02:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:18:05","slug":"850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/850\/","title":{"rendered":"London showers and the National Portrait Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

London showers<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a windy, Spring day in London and I’ve been enjoying another of my mighty cross-town walks.<\/p>\n

I got the tube to Warren Street, walked along Tottenham Court Rd (sneaking a peek at the glittering array of tempting 8 megapixel new cameras), grabbed a coffee at the Photographer’s Gallery and then trotted over Waterloo Bridge to Southwark for a meeting.<\/p>\n

An hour later, I was back on the move, ambling back through Covent Garden and finally managing to secure a decent pair of walking boots (I’ve been after a good, sturdy pair for years, but had found the prices waaaay too exorbitant).<\/p>\n

Luckily, the Karrimor shop on The Strand was closing down and I managed to get a fab pair of Karrimor GoreTex hiking boots (Karrimor KSB 300 GTX) for \u00a350 – less than half price!<\/p>\n

Suitably chuffed with my bargain, I popped into the National Portrait Gallery<\/a> to check out an exhibition called, ‘We The People <\/a> – postcards from the collection of Tom Phillips’ and features postcard scenes from 1900-1950.<\/p>\n

\"collection<\/p>\n

The exhibition shows hundreds of fascinating slices of long-disappeared British life, with images of scouts, soldiers, sportsmen, salvationists and charabanc-riding day trippers and more.<\/p>\n

It’s also interesting to note how perceptions and society has changed: the section showing male friends arm in arm definitely reads differently to the modern eye!<\/p>\n

I was also intrigued by a turn-of-the century newsagent shop bearing the headline, ‘Disguised man shot in London music hall’. I think I might have to investigate this story further!<\/p>\n

Later on, I strolled up to Rays Jazz Caf\u00e9<\/a> for a cappuccino and to plug into the free internet wi-fi hotspot listed on WiFiHotSpotList.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After several moments looking like a demented Magnus Pike waving my Sony TH55 PDA around in the air, I gave up and decided to connect (expensively) to the web via the bluetooth on my mobile. And you’re now reading the results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London showers It’s a windy, Spring day in London and I’ve been enjoying another of my mighty cross-town walks. I got the tube to Warren Street, walked along Tottenham Court … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5906,"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":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/24_03_04.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-850","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}