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Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *The Now Building - 01Dec22*

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Shoreditch Street Art ~ 15Jun22*

Post by Pen Pusher » Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:14 am

Bimbling Around London - Saturday: 2nd July 2022

Elizabeth Line - London Underground.
The Elizabeth Line, previously known as Crossrail, runs for 73 miles from Reading in the west to Shenfield in the east with 27 miles of it running under London. Most of the tube old stations on the London Underground have individual identities which distinguish one from the other but on the Elizabeth Line they all seem to be built using the same pattern book. Apart from the station names in the roundels, when you’ve seen one you've seen them all. My short journey was from Tottenham Court Road to Liverpool Street. Not often you get to ride an overground train, Bombardier Class 345 Aventra for the anoraks, on the underground. Very fast, smooth and quiet.

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Spitalfields - London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
A herd of life-size bronze pachyderms have taken up residence along Brushfield Street and Bishops Square in Spitalfields. I quickly realised that this was not the first time this extended family of a mother and twenty babies had been to London as in 2020 they had spent a few months at Marble Arch.

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Rabbitwoman and Dogman, clutching cups of coffee, on a motorbike ride. A bronze sculpture by Gillie and Marc.
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Smokoloko - Bishops Square, Spitalfields.
Fast food BBQ stall using a vintage locomotive as a grill and smoker.
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Dirty Dick’s - Bishopsgate, City of London.
Now a pub, the building dates from around 1745 and was once a hardware shop and warehouse owned by Richard Bentley (born1735-died1809) who became known as ‘Dirty Dick’ when following the death of his fiancée on their wedding day he refused to wash or clean and for the rest of his life lived in squalor.
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London Bridge - City of London.
A popular location for Instagram shots as the Shard is framed by London Bridge on the right and the pedestrian stairs on the left.
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Southwark Bridge Fruiterers Passage Underpass.
I'm always on the lookout for vanishing points, and this is a good example. Called Fruiterers Passage as the Worshipful Company of Vintners hall is behind it on Upper Thames Street.
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Millennium Bridge House - City of London.
The ever changing face of London. Millennium Bridge House was completed in 1988 and is now being partly demolished, re-built and refurbished and will have a public viewing platform overlooking the Thames and South Bank.
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Sea Containers Hotel - South Bank.
To coincide with the ‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’ exhibition at the Tate Modern, surrealist art installations have been installed along the terrace of the hotel.
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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Saturday 2nd July 2022*

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Shoreditch Street Art ~ 15Jun22*

Post by pg1610 » Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:31 am

Brian excellent as always, iT amazing how something as mundane as a railway system can be made to look artisic, thanks for posting

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Spitalfields - London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
A herd of life-size bronze pachyderms have taken up residence along Brushfield Street and Bishops Square in Spitalfields. I quickly realised that this was not the first time this extended family of a mother and twenty babies had been to London as in 2020 they had spent a few months at Marble Arch.

these moved from Marble arch to Spitalfields either late 2020 or early 2021 to make way for the "mound" we photographed them in Spet 2021 having gone to Marble Arch in the July 2021 to see them but found them having walked off
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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Saturday 2nd July 2022*

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Shoreditch Street Art ~ 15Jun22*

Post by anthony martin » Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:29 pm

You know how to find them ,super shots

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Götheborg, Pool of London, 08Aug22*

Post by Pen Pusher » Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:59 am

Götheborg - Pool of London, Monday: 8th August 2022

The bascules of Tower Bridge were lifted at 8.30am to allow Götheborg, a full scale replica of an 18th-century tall sailing ship as used by the Swedish East India Company, to pass through into the pool of London. There it was turned around by an accompanying tug boat and slowly drifted on the incoming tide towards London Bridge. As it slowly crept back towards Tower Bridge the crew, and some of them were dressed in period costumes, sang a sea shanty for the thousands of people that had gathered either side of the Thames to watch. At 9.00am the bascules lifted again to allow the Götheborg to leave the Pool of London and head to its berth for the next few days at Canary Wharf.

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Crew singing sea shanty.

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Someone or something always gets in the way.

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Götheborg, Pool of London, 08Aug22*

Post by Pune » Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:22 pm

Superb images, thanks for sharing, love that sailing ship :thumb:
If you can keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs, you have probably completely misread the situation!!

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Götheborg, Pool of London, 08Aug22*

Post by anthony martin » Thu Aug 11, 2022 2:56 pm

Superb ,and well done to the lads in the rigging

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Götheborg, Pool of London, 08Aug22*

Post by SW Sky Blue » Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:26 pm

Excellent images

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *Disney on Stage/Covent Garden*

Post by Pen Pusher » Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:04 am

Covent Garden - ‘Disney on Stage’ - 14th July - 4th September

Covent Garden has a ‘Disney on Stage’ exhibition and along the Central Avenue are the ‘Leading Ladies of Disney on Stage’ costumes as worn by Belle from Beauty and the Beast; Elsa and Anna from Frozen; Rafiki and Nala from The Lion King and Mary Poppins.

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *4th September 2022*

Post by Pen Pusher » Fri Sep 23, 2022 12:29 pm

4th September 2022

Tower Bridge.
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Thames Beast powered by two Rolls-Royce 800hp jet engines.

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Jubilee Sailing Trust tall ship SV Tenacious at HMS President. Launched in 2000 the Tenacious was designed to be manned by an abled and disabled crew and those with mental health conditions or long-term ill-health issues.

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Jubilee Sailing Trust tall ship SV Tenacious at HMS President.

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Not often you can stand in the middle of the road on Tower Bridge and not get run over. There had been a road race in the area and was closed for that.

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Silver Tiger statue, 100 Minories, next to Tower Hill underground station.

London School of Economics and Political Science.
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‘The World Turned Upside Down’, by Mark Wallinger, outside the LSEs Saw Swee Hock Student Centre.

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The Old Curiosity Shop under restoration

St Paul’s Cathedral District.
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81 Newgate Street, a 1980’s era office block that was the former BT headquarters, is being renovated and rebuilt as a mixed-use development and there will be a large public roof terrace giving panoramic views over the city. Due to be finished late 2025.

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‘Paternoster Vents’, stainless steel sculptures by Thomas Heatherwick installed in 2002 are in fact exhaust ventilation shafts for an underground electrical substation.

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‘Wild Table of Love’, Paternoster Square, bronze sculpture by Gillie & Marc.

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Broad Court, Covent Garden
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‘Young Dancer’ bronze sculpture by Enzo Plazzotta with refurbished K2 red telephone boxes behind. Last time I passed these phone boxes, the glass panels were covered in stickers and business cards advertising ladies offering ‘personal’ services.

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *4th September 2022*

Post by Pune » Fri Sep 23, 2022 1:37 pm

Fabulous set again, love 'em.. :thumb:
If you can keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs, you have probably completely misread the situation!!

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *London Christmas Lights 2022*

Post by Pen Pusher » Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:03 pm

London Christmas Lights 2022
Oxford Street/Regent Street/Carnaby Street/Covent Garden.

The Christmas street lights and markets are being set up in London although some lights aren't officially switched on until December and those that are switched on are basically the same as last year although there does appear to be less of them about. Carnaby Street is celebrating 25 years of lights and installations with their ‘Carnaby Celebrates’ decorations from years past and Dolce&Gabbana have a very colourful pop up shop on the Covent Garden Piazza which is there until the 15th January 2023.

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Regent Street
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Covent Garden
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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *London Christmas Lights 2022*

Post by hedgerowops » Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:48 pm

Very nice shot's Brian always enjoy looking at them.

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *London Christmas Lights 2022*

Post by Pune » Thu Nov 17, 2022 6:42 pm

Fabulous images as usual, love them..thanks for sharing.
Can I ask what equipment you are using?
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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *London Christmas Lights 2022*

Post by Nighthawke » Thu Nov 17, 2022 6:49 pm

Equipment is listed under the last image...

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *London Christmas Lights 2022*

Post by raptor9 » Sat Nov 26, 2022 10:04 pm

Lovely shots Brian.

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *The Now Building - 01Dec22*

Post by Pen Pusher » Sun Dec 04, 2022 2:19 pm

Thursday: 1st December 2022 - The Now Building

At the intersection of Tottenham Court Road and Charing Cross Road and opposite the escalators to Tottenham Court Road underground station is The Now Building owned and operated by Outernet, a global media and entertainment company. Two public galleries are at street level which you can walk into for immersive audio-visual entertainment featuring giant Ultra HD screens. There is also a 2000 capacity underground live music venue as well as further music and retail spaces spread throughout the district which included Denmark Street which was once the centre of the British music industry and known as Britain’s Tin Pan Alley.

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Re: Bimbling Around London 2022 ~ *The Now Building - 01Dec22*

Post by raptor9 » Wed Dec 07, 2022 5:43 pm

Very nice Brian [as usual!].

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