Tag Archives: London
london-hq-sunny
Here’s another cheery post-apocalyptic cityscape, in much the same vein as the New York image from a while back. This time, as you see, it’s London, and if you’re as visually pedantic as yr hmbl bloggr, you will notice that … more…
Ackroyd: Disappearances can be deceptive
Peter Ackroyd, on the pretext of reviewing Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances, stories of vanishings in London — strikingly, he barely mentions the book, and offers no opinion at all as to its quality — expatiates nevertheless on … more…
Satellite picture of London at night
Remarkable satellite picture at APOD of London at night, taken in February this year. (via Boing Boing)
Prehistoric London exhibition
We finally made it to the Museum of London on sunday, mostly to see the new London before London exhibit I posted about weeks ago, although we made it through history up until the Fire of 1666 before hunger and … more…
Happy Birthday William Blake
I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every … more…
Museum of London – the Thames in Prehistory
This is a flint handaxe, reckoned to be 300,000 years old, discovered during the construction of the Regent Palace Hotel in 1912, in Glasshouse Street, Picadilly. The site advertises the opening of a new gallery, London before London, which I … more…
Baby ‘attacked by fox’
Baby ‘attacked by fox’ in Dartford!
London blog map
I don’t remember if I blogged the nycbloggers map-guide a couple of weeks ago, possibly I did. Anyway, the redoubtable Cal Henderson has put together an equivalent for London which you can find here. I don’t know how many blogs … more…
Rapist could be fellow patient
BBC News | ENGLAND | Rapist could be fellow patient – shocking, grim news from a former place of employment.
London Underground Tube Station Maps
A collection of London Underground Tube Station Maps – actually a lot of these images are more graphical depictions of the layout of various tube stations in three dimensions, and some of them are disturbingly reminiscent of the horrendous dreams … more…