IMG 0519-001-She Will Rock You

London 2022

Folder: Great Britain
My six-week stay in October - November, 2022. Separate albums for my daytrips to Cambridge, St Albans and Dungeness. Read all about it on my blog: trailerfulloftunes.blogspot.com. For best viewing, click on the first photo and then use the "Next" button or the lightbox view button on the upper right.
IMG 9768-001-Scales Weights Weighing Machines

IMG 9768-001-Scales Weights Weighing Machines

01 Nov 2022 44
Ghost sign, Grays Inn Road, King's Cross
IMG 9769-001-Sidney Estate Lunette 1

IMG 9769-001-Sidney Estate Lunette 1

01 Nov 2022 37
Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9771-001-Sidney Estate Lunette 2

IMG 9771-001-Sidney Estate Lunette 2

01 Nov 2022 42
Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9776-001-Sidney Estate Lunette 3

IMG 9776-001-Sidney Estate Lunette 3

01 Nov 2022 39
Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9772-001-Washing Line Finials

IMG 9772-001-Washing Line Finials

01 Nov 2022 2 47
Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9774-001-Washing Line Finial

IMG 9774-001-Washing Line Finial

01 Nov 2022 47
Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9780-001-Washing Line Posts

IMG 9780-001-Washing Line Posts

01 Nov 2022 53
Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9782-001-Mosaic 2

IMG 9782-001-Mosaic 2

01 Nov 2022 48
Phoenix Road, Somers Town
IMG 9781-001-Mosaic 1

IMG 9781-001-Mosaic 1

01 Nov 2022 51
Phoenix Road, Somers Town
IMG 9783-001-Somers Town History

IMG 9783-001-Somers Town History

01 Nov 2022 38
On a hoarding (one panel of a mural by the People's Museum Somers Town), Phoenix Road, Somers Town. The illustration depicts noted area residents Mary Wollstonecraft, her husband William Godwin and daughter Mary Shelley, along with Paul Robeson.
IMG 9785-001-Watching Eyes

IMG 9785-001-Watching Eyes

01 Nov 2022 2 40
Derelict building, Phoenix Road, Somers Town. I don't know what "Supreme Confidence Founded on Cruelty" refers to. It might be the work of Abdi Nadiif (Bashaling Crew).
IMG 9786-001-Sommers Town Bollard 1817

IMG 9786-001-Sommers Town Bollard 1817

01 Nov 2022 49
"Sommers Town" is apparently the old spelling of what is now called "Somers Town". This bollard at the junction of Ossulston Street and Phoenix Road dates from 1817.
IMG 9787-001-Victims Sculpture

IMG 9787-001-Victims Sculpture

02 Nov 2022 38
Victims of Injustice and Violence, sculpture by Chaim Stephenson, dedicated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1994. St Martin-in-the-Fields church, just off Trafalgar Square.
IMG 9788-001-Victims of Injustice & Violence

IMG 9788-001-Victims of Injustice & Violence

02 Nov 2022 42
Sculpture by Chaim Stephenson, in memory of victims of injustice and violence in South Africa during apartheid. Dedicated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1994. St Martin-in-the-Fields church, just off Trafalgar Square.
IMG 9790-001-St Martin Interior

IMG 9790-001-St Martin Interior

02 Nov 2022 1 29
St Martin-in-the-Fields church, just off Trafalgar Square.
IMG 9793-001-Charing Cross Space Invader

IMG 9793-001-Charing Cross Space Invader

02 Nov 2022 49
Streetart mosaic by Space Invader on the side of the Charing Cross Library, Charing Cross Road.
IMG 9795-001-Vivien Leigh Plaque

IMG 9795-001-Vivien Leigh Plaque

02 Nov 2022 40
Memorial plaque to the actress Vivien Leigh, St Paul's Covent Garden (the Actors' Church).
IMG 9794-001-Dame Diana Rigg Plaque

IMG 9794-001-Dame Diana Rigg Plaque

02 Nov 2022 2 42
Memorial plaque to the marvelous Dame Diana Rigg, St Paul's Covent Garden (the Actors' Church). This plaque is tucked in an indescript corner, surrounded by electrical wires. I think she deserves better.
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