London September 2008

Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works, Southwark Street. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works, Southwark Street. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works, Southwark Street. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works, Southwark Street. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works, Southwark Street. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works, Southwark Street. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Hopton Street, next to the Tate Modern. See where this picture was taken. [?]

by Cartrain. Next to St Paul's, which makes me wonder how long it will last there. See where this picture was taken. [?]

I can't say where I took this cos it was a No Photos Allowed building. But I just had to have a snap of something to prove I was there. While I was in the loo, Spooner was in the inner sanctum, gazing at the golden throne where the Grand Poobah sits, and he just might have taken some surreptitious shots of the ceiling. Maybe. I'm not saying.

It's a huge hulk of art deco splendor. We wandered through the whole building -- the lobbies with incredible stained glass, the massive bronze doors, the inner sanctum where the Masons convene, lounge, library, museum, etc. No photos allowed inside, although we've all probably seen bits of the interior as it's been used in many movies and made to be a hotel, train station, restaurant, etc. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Museum Street, Bloomsbury. Pasteup on the door by D*Face. See where this picture was taken. [?]

St George's Bloomsbury. See where this picture was taken. [?]

St George's Bloomsbury. See where this picture was taken. [?]

There are cities beneath your pavements, cities behind your skies. Let me see!!! See where this picture was taken. [?]

Only one still standing. See where this picture was taken. [?]

There used to be 8 gasometers behind King's Cross station (they were built around 1880). All but this one have been taken down to make room for the construction sites. See where this picture was taken. [?]

There used to be 8 gasometers behind King's Cross station (they were built around 1880). All but this one have been taken down to make room for the construction sites. See where this picture was taken. [?]

The other gas holders are being stored in pieces on the site. I heard they'll be put back up sometime in the future, but I'm not sure where or as what. This area is now prime real estate. See the aerial view of the pieces of the gasometers. [?]