Sunday, December 12, 2004

Money pots

Money pots, Greenwich Market, Greenwich Peninsula, London

Money pots
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Peninsula
London, September 2003

Saturday, December 11, 2004

Spot lights

Spot lights, Greenwich Market, Greenwich Peninsula, London

Spot lights
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Peninsula
London, September 2003

Friday, December 10, 2004

Rice paper shades

Rice paper shades, Greenwich Market, Greenwich Peninsula, London

Rice paper shades
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Peninsula
London, September 2003

Thursday, December 9, 2004

Ready to play

Ready to play, King William Walk, Greenwich Peninsula, London

Ready to play
King William Walk, Greenwich Peninsula
London, September 2003

Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Blue ostrich

Blue ostrich, King William Walk, Greenwich Peninsula, London

Blue ostrich
King William Walk, Greenwich Peninsula
London, September 2003

Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Cutty Sark bell

The bell of the Cutty Sark, King William Walk, Greenwich Peninsula, London

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, London Wall, City of London, London

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)