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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 22, 2015 12:37:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2015 14:19:46 GMT
More please! God, I miss London.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 22, 2015 14:36:24 GMT
Oh! OK.
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Post by nycgirl on Nov 1, 2015 23:41:33 GMT
Nice photos. I love the ones of the fluffy white clouds. Looks like you had a lovely day.
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Post by chexbres on Nov 2, 2015 8:07:54 GMT
Wonderful photos! I'm going to London for the Christmas holidays, and will spend my last two nights at this place nearby, just for the hell of it: www.battylangleys.com/I was looking forward to exploring the Spitalfields area, but had no idea it had become so glammed-up. Guess I'd better re-think my wardrobe...  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 5, 2015 5:42:02 GMT
Mick, you posted this thread when I was on vacation & this is my first time seeing it. Super pictures and looks like an enjoyable place to spend some time.
In the picture above the Ten Bells, what is that very interesting combo moderne/classical building with the tall bell tower?
The old Victorian tiling is gorgeous.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 5, 2015 8:36:25 GMT
Hardly "moderne"! That is Hawksmoor's Christ Church Spitalfields, now beautifully restored and the base for spring and winter music festivals as well as a working church and charity centre working with the homeless. It also features in Peter Ackroyd's novel Hawksmoor. And my great-great-grandfather was christened there in 1798. More about the churchMy blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" |
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Post by mossie on Nov 5, 2015 8:42:51 GMT
You take me right back to 1949, when we used to walk down Commercial Road on a Sunday morning to visit Petticoat Lane, which was a real bustling street market then.
I got a shock while working for an accountants in Moorgate, to be sent to a furrier in Middlesex Street, I didn't know that was the proper name of the street!! In another throwback, my duty was to carefully remove all the papers which were stuck on a piece of wire, and bring them back to the office. Being absolutely forbidden to interfere with them in any way and, above all ensure they remained in the order that they were found.
Incidentally when I got to the shop and asked for the boss, I was ushered upstairs in what had been a standard terraced house, to find all the dividing walls had been removed and the boss was ensconced in a wooden hut in one corner. The rest of the floor area was occupied by women sewing pieces of fur together to make coats, or doing linings and other finishings.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 5, 2015 15:14:12 GMT
Hardly "moderne"! That is Hawksmoor's Christ Church Spitalfields, now beautifully restored and the base for spring and winter music festivals as well as a working church and charity centre working with the homeless. It also features in Peter Ackroyd's novel Hawksmoor. And my great-great-grandfather was christened there in 1798. ~ ! ~ Absolutely fascinating, Patrick! After reading your post and the link you included, I looked at the picture again, and again was astounded by the beautiful clean lines, by the windows that reference classical shapes without frills, and the audacious tower. Reading about its history and who the commissioners were raises all kinds of interesting speculation about what the leading architects might have done given full rein, without any constraints by patrons or popular taste of the time. Obviously I should have said "modern" rather than "moderne", but I still think the church looks as though it could have been built in the 20th century rather than the 18th. Thank you for that information! Mossie, that was a nice look at a mid-century sweatshop! |
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