A while ago on Twitter I stumbled across the work of Ms Gemma Seltzer who was involved with a project called 5am London. It was a year-long fictional photoblog that charted the city in the early… Continue reading
During Open House weekend I managed to make it inside The Lloyd’s Building. It had a range of different interiors but the lighting in the Adam Room – a Georgian interior – wasn’t… Continue reading
Open House weekend this year allowed me to fulfill a long standing dream of mine: to explore the inside of Battersea Power Station. I found the whole experience very moving; awe-inspiring architecture tends… Continue reading
I learnt from my SE1 pinboard that one pinboard per postcode wasn’t going to be enough. Consequently here are two for EC1 and this is still less than a tenth of the photos… Continue reading
Today I wandered around the Blackfriars area of SE1. It’s a truly varied part of the capital. One moment you’re passing a brutalist council estate, the next you’re stumbling across a quaint, leafy… Continue reading
During my 5 day stint in Belgium I was absolutely spoilt for windmills. In Bruges there were four sitting in a row on the outskirts and when we took a tram along the… Continue reading
In 1987 a theme park was built in the North Bay of Scarborough. Named Mr Marvel’s, the theme park did well until the dawn of cheap foreign holidays when British coastal resorts promptly… Continue reading
The image above is a brick from the now demolished Ravenscar brickworks. Owned by the Whitaker Brick Company, the works were set up at the turn of the century when plans were made… Continue reading
This week I have been mostly riding cliff lifts on the Yorkshire coast. I particularly enjoyed my time on Saltburn pier. Here are a few snaps from my day in the sun. The… Continue reading
Yesterday whilst strolling through Middlesbrough I passed the entrance to the North Riding Infirmary. I read about it here in the Middlesbrough Gazette. The original infirmary stood for 100 years, 1906 – 2006,… Continue reading
