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This morning I scanned another dozen colour slides from the Streets of London series. These were produced in July 2004.
On this corner of Riding House Street W1 stands the landmark Arts & Crafts home of T.J. Boulting & Sons, manufacturers of heating equipment. Adopting the name in 2011, a contemporary art gallery, T.J. Boulting, was established in the building.
The address of the Crown & Sceptre pub, seen here in Foley Street W1, is actually 88 Great Titchfield Street. They currently advertise watching the Six Nations rugby with specially chosen beers. Like many of our historic public lavatories, the one outside the building has been chained shut.
Zoopla currently quotes the average price of a property in Mansfield Mews W1 as £1,703,118. Note the tall chimneys and television aerials reflected in the upper window. What a pity that a splendid stained glass window has made way for an extractor fan.
A similar value is place on properties in Molyneux Street W1.
I was only beginning my photography of public places at this time. I do wish I had had the confidence to ask this group alongside Ossington Buildings W1 what they were up to. But, I didn’t. Now I have learned that most people are only to willing to talk, and often to pose.
This church seen from Crawford Street W1, is St Mary’s Bryanston Square, an active element of the evangelical wing of the Church of England. Designed by Robert Smirke, it dates from 1824. A young lady on a bench made herself comfortable in the sunshine.
In Wyndham Place opposite, the Duke of Wellington, tankard in hand, possibly wondering how long he would be there, gazes from a side window of his eponymous pub. Built in 1812 in Crawford Street this establishment closed last year.
Warrington Gardens W9 is in Little Venice, close to Warwick Avenue tube station. Does the little girl here have a brother or sister in the buggy pushed by her mother, and does she have a doll in her own? I guess I’ll never know.
Wikipedia tells us that
‘St Augustine’s Church of England High School is a Voluntary Aided Church of England comprehensive school in the West London borough of Westminster, Kilburn. The school is also a Science College and has a sixth form. St Augustine of Canterbury is the patron saint of the school. It is located adjacent to its affiliated primary school and parish church St Augustine’s Church.’ It dates from 1870, when it was opened with 7 pupils.
Garfield the Movie was released in 2004. It is a spin-off from the famous cartoons featuring Garfield the cat created by America’s Jim Davis in 1978. This style of telephone box is a more recent version of the iconic red telephone boxes. I wonder if it is still in use, especially as I doubt that there is a single pupil without a mobile phone.
For many years I ran or walked from Little Venice to lunch with Norman at his home in Harlesden. Ridley Road NW10 was on one of my routes. This corner pillar had obvious got in the way of a stray vehicle. Or maybe the young lady gave it a passing kick.
Oldfield Road NW10 has brought us into graffiti land. A far cry from where we began in Fitzrovia. Norman lived in this road, which was around the corner from
Ashdon Road NW1, the walls of which also suffered desecration, and where robbers and Dumpers were also warned off.
This afternoon I watched a very keen Six Nations rugby contest between France and Scotland in Paris, screened by the BBC.
The evening we dined on second helpings of yesterday’s tasty casserole, with potatoes sauteed with garlic and herbs, and carrots vying with curly Kale for brightness of colour and flavour. Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I drank Cimarosa Limited Edition Shiraz 2014.
Derrick, thank you for sharing…you carry your followers on the adventures with you with each photo. You allow us into your world, what a treat. Have a great day. Ann
Very many thanks for this lovely comment, Ann
Thanks for the fun walk. I love the old buildings. My favorite is the first one!
Thanks a lot, Luanne. I really like that building, and had not known of its current use – thanks to Google.
I absolutely love your London pictures … so many memories sparked and so many new delights uncovered. I am inspired to attempt to take some ‘street’ pictures during this 6-month stay in Grenoble though I think in comparison to yours they won’t be ‘mustard’ at all!
Try it and see, Osyth. Thanks a lot.
It certainly adds to our enjoyment now you have the experience to chat to the folk you photograph, something that might never occurred to me if you hadn’t mentioned it!
🙂 Thanks very much, Pauline.
Well – who won? France or Scotland?
Great pictures, it’s good to save them on-line for others to see.
Thanks very much, GP. I need to hold back on the result, for fear of spoiling it for some who will have recorded the match.
I understand.
France won, it is now probably safe to say 🙂
Oh well, I was hoping for Scotland, but thanks for coming back to tell me.
Scotland have really improved. This time they’ll have players chosen for the British Lions
I’m happy you got over your shyness, Derrick. You’ve come a long way. 🙂 Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos with us.
Thanks very much, indeed, Jill
Tripping down memory lane … love it.
I’m pleased Miriam. Thank you.
No pun today – 🙁 – but you have given us much to mews on.
Good to see you haven’t lost your touch, Bruce. You are streets ahead of the rest of us.
🙂 Any road, you’re pretty clever yourself….
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Hate to be a grumpy old man, or a whinging Pom to my Australian mates; but two things always irk me, referring to a railway station, as a train station, it is a station built along the railway for trains to either stop at or pass through, whichever is their wont, and calling the London Underground Railway Stations, tube stations! 👿
There used to be BIG signs outside and splashed right across the middle is the word UNDERGROUND; if you doubt me!
https://www.google.com.au/search?
q=LONDON+UNDERGROUND+SIGNS&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXyYOu8YvSAhVHy7wKHZx0AT8QsAQIJw&biw=1366&bih=672
Toothpaste comes in tubes! 🙁 😈
Having got that off my chest, I am enjoying these photographs from the past very much indeed 🙂
Well I’m buggered if I know what happened there! 🙁
Jeez, has the heat got to you, you whinging Pom? (Just kidding, really.)
Must admit that for once it has, I’ve always enjoyed the heat, but since mislaying 23 kg, and being down to skin & bone, the heat does seem to be taking it’s toll, been bloody hot in Sydney that’s for sure, haven’t seen it like this before.
It was 42 at 2 a.m. when we arrived in Perth on Christmas Day 2007, but a little cooler in Sidney a couple of weeks later.
You are worse than I, Brian. Vernacular rules, innit? Thanks very much.
It’s SYDNEY not Sidney? Whatever would his Lordship have said.
When I lived in WA I spent some time up in the Pilbara, 70 miles north of Marble Bar, at a mining town called Shay Gap ( I did some posts on Shay never got around to finishing them).
The hottest day we had when I was there was 53°C in the shade, don’t know what it was in the water bag. (Old Australian saying) come to think of it, it may have been 57°C over 40 years ago and I usually remember such useless info.
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I meant with a pen! Now be a good chap and do it properly,
Pen & paper, then photograph it and paste it into your website. XD 😈
Don’t push your luck 🙂
You can’t count either XD 🙄 😈
I liked the lettering on many of the buildings. My favorite is the stove and range manufactory “establishment.” Such a cool signage!
Derrick, you share such a beautiful collection each time that you do this blog. It always gives me something to think about, too.
Very many thanks, Robin
Sometimes it is fun to speculate about people who pass by 😊 Thanks.
And thank you, Lakshmi
The architecture in the first set of photos is definitely eye-catching. We don’t do buildings like that these days, more’s the pity. Mind you, maybe they’d be rather difficult to live in.
I approached your evening meal with caution, for some reason. Is the wine from Australia, but any chance? We have a wine maker with a name like that.
Cheers!
I trust you noticed I omitted the evil word, Yvonne. The wine is Chilean. Thanks a lot.
Another interesting walk round the streets of London. Thanks Derrick.
Thanks a lot, Quercus
What a great post so full of history and charm! Thanks for sharing Derrick!
Thanks very much, Lynn
Thank you for another tour, Derrick. I like the reflections in the Mansfield Mews window, and the Duke of Wellington image perhaps gazing at his name. I wonder if the little girl with the stroller is grown, and if she has a real baby?
Thanks a lot, Merril. Such a poignant question, as always when looking back at these older pics.
Well, you know how I like to make up stories. 🙂
Thank you for sharing the interesting walk, Derrick!
Thanks very much, Amy