Unlike many patient photographers, huddled in huts at unsocial hours waiting for a rare visitor to frame in a perfect shot, my encounters with birds are mostly completely random. They’ve been mainly in and around Victoria Tower Gardens, where crows rule and seem to coexist with the gulls, pigeons, ducks and parakeets. I have, over …
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The Vauxhall Bridge statues
…and mostly ignored by river users focussed on navigating safely through the arches, Vauxhall Bridge has eight large bronze statues, four on each side, allegorical figures representing, Science, Fine Arts, Education, Local Government, Agriculture, Architecture, Engineering and Pottery. Commissioned by the London County Council, they were installed in 1907. The sculptures are mounted on plinths …
Reach for the sky…
Not for the fainthearted, this. The RNLI Tower Run on Saturday, February 19th, will involve climbing 1,120 steps to the top of 22 Bishopsgate, on the 56th floor. It’s in aid of a new Tower Lifeboat Station, London’s busiest Thames lifeboat station, which many of you will have seen by Waterloo Bridge. And support is …
Looking back at 2021
… mostly taken on Thames-side walks in Victoria Tower Gardens. Cory tugs are a familiar sight along the tidal Thames. As well as performing a vital daily waste-removing service for London by barge, their tugs brighten up the river. As this one sailed upstream under Lambeth Bridge, with leap of the imagination, it could have …
The Twelve Days of Christmas
…to the traditional tune of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ with a few deviations from the original rhyme and rhythm. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: a super yacht on the Thames, yippee! On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me: two fieryboats and a …