Sunday, December 12, 2004
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Friday, December 10, 2004
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Cutty Sark bell
The bell of the “Cutty Sark”
King William Walk, Greenwich Peninsula
London, September 2003
“In 1953 Cutty Sark was given to the Cutty Sark Preservation Society and in 1954 she was moved to a custom-built dry dock at Greenwich. She was stripped of upper masts, yards, deck-houses and ballast to lighten her before being towed from the East India Import Dock to the special dry dock at Greenwich. The skipper on this occasion was 83-year-old Captain C.E. Irving, who had sailed the world three times in her before he was 17. The river pilot was Ernest Coe. Thereafter the entrance tunnel to the dry dock was filled in, the river wall rebuilt and the work of re-rigging began. The foundation stone of the dry dock was laid by The Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the Cutty Sark Preservation Society, in June 1953. The restoration, re-rigging and preparation for public exhibition was estimated to cost £250,000.” (Cutty Sark, Wikipedia)
Monday, December 6, 2004
125 London Wall
Alban Gate by Terry Farrell, 1992
London Wall, City of London
London, September 2003
“125 London Wall, also known as Alban Gate, is a postmodernist building on London Wall in the City of London. Along with Embankment Place and Vauxhall Cross, it has been described as one of the three projects that established designer Sir Terry Farrell's reputation in the late 1980s-to-early 1990s period. In 2004, writer Deyan Sudjic described it as ‘postmodernism at its most exuberant’, placing it at number 5 in a list of Ten Triumphs of recent UK architecture.” (125 London Wall, Wikipedia)
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