{"id":17002,"date":"2025-01-20T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17002"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:46:37","slug":"london-walk-january-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17002","title":{"rendered":"London Walk January 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

London Walk January 2006<\/strong>: I now have no idea why I spent around two and a half hours wandering around London on the afternoon of 20th January 2006, but the pictures tell the story of my route. These images are a selection from a rather larger number I actually made. [The pictures are larger than they appear in this post and you may download them, but like all pictures on this blog are copyright; they must be attributed if posted on social media and a licence is required for any commercial use.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I suspect I was going to some evening event and simply took advantage of some fine weather to go up earlier and take some pictures. The first one shows some of the sculptural detail above the outpatients entrance of the former Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women on Waterloo Road the roundabout close to the station, where I will have arrived by train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then walked on to Waterloo Bridge, pausing to take a picture of the National Theatre, with the roof of the film museum in the foreground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was an exhibition ‘after the wave’<\/em> on square pillars in front of the National Theatre which rather seemed to echo the shape of the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Waterloo Bridge I took several pictures looking downstream across the River Thames, this one concentrating on the north bank and St Paul’s Cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A wider view shows boats moored in the river and the skyline of London, now rather more crowded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another with St Paul’s at the left .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Strand I photographed this lion and two Chinese men relaxing above Twinings, providers of tea to the Queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And these fine fish on Lloyds Bank Law Court Branch at 222 Strand, then still open as a bank – it closed in 2017. It had been called the most beautiful bank in the country. The fish are presumably because this Grade II listed building was built in 1882 by Goymour Cuthbert and W Wimble for the Palsgave Restaurant for the Royal Courts of Justice opposite and was only taken over by Lloyds in 1894.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some fine ironwork and a beehive above the doorway to the bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above the doorway at 193 Fleet Street is this figure of statue of Kaled, the page of Byron’s Count Lara<\/a> by Giuseppe Grandi, dating from 1872. More about it on Ornamental Passions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The building was built for pawnbrokers George Attenborough and Son in 1883 and has some fine sculptural detail including these winged lions, on either side of the wrought iron support from which originally the pawnbrokers three balls were hung. The Latin motto underneath is ‘Sub Hoc floresco<\/strong>‘, Under This I flourish<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On each side of the clock of St Dunstan’s in the West on Fleet Street are the two mythical giants, Gog and Magog (Corineus and Gogmagog) described in the biblical book of Revelation as the allies of Satan against God when we come to the end of days, but also the guardians of London – and the City is surely on Satan’s side as the money laundering capital of the world. They strike the chimes for the clock here, said to be the oldest public clock in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My walk continued – and I’ll post some more from it at some later date. You can already see some of the pictures on My London Diary<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flickr<\/a> – Facebook<\/a> – My London Diary<\/a> – Hull Photos<\/a> – Lea Valley<\/a> – Paris<\/a>
London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a> – London Photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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