Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and
unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often
badly run city.
This is Part 2 of Leonardo in London. For Part 1 see
Leonardo Part 1: Glasgow Central to the London Eye
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2012/02/leonardo-part-1-glasgow-central-to.html
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| Our window hotel view |
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| And so we bid farewell to the Academy. Today we are going to walk to Hamleys in Regent St, then back up to this manor for the Foundling Hospital, then the 4.30 to Glasgow central at Euston |
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| Looking up Gower St |
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| looking down Gower St |
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| Looking east along Store St at University of London |
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| We are heading down Store St to Tottenham Court Rd |
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| We stop for coffee in Cafe Paradiso - excellent coffee. What a civilised street this is. |
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| Looking back; Cafe Paradiso under awning on right |
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| Looking west |
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| A quiet morning in Store St |
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| Looking into Alfred Place |
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| South Crescent with the acclaimed Imagination Gallery; describes itself as a 'teflon-coated structure'. I know people like that. |
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| Now in Tottenham Court Rd. Great building that house of the Rising Sun |
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Tottenham Court Rd is a favourite muggle haunt, as is Charing Cross Rd, where we are headed. See
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Tottenham_Court_Road
Ron: "Where are we?"
Hermione: "Tottenham Court Road. Walk, just walk, we need to find somewhere for you to change."
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry. Ron and Hermione are traced by death eaters (disguised as muggles) to a cafe along here |
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| Ah Waitrose. Before the Byres Rd branch opened, when visiting London I would bring back food from the Bloomsbury Waitrose like a brave hunter-gatherer |
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| The London Eye down there. . . |
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| . . . and there is the capsule we were in yesterday - at the top behind the empty one |
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| Now coming on to Oxford St (on right), New Oxford St (on left). We are going straight on, to Charing Cross Rd |
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| Ambulance haring somewhere |
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| It's very windy |
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| Looking back |
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| Upgrade details for the curious |
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| Now in Charing Cross Rd |
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Denmark St on left; let's have a look. We had planned to go to the 12 Bar Club here last night to see the wonderful Catherine Paver, but of course the weather stopped us. Here is Catherine's site -
http://paversongs.com/about-us.html |
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| We hear another ambulance behind us in Charing Cross Rd |
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I spent the night in a doorway in Denmark St when I came to London in 1965; can't mind which one. I remember some graffiti about Goldie and the Gingerbreads. If you want to know what the 60s were like - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsoXZMuoUp4
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| Keep on Rocking guys |
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| Back in Charing Cross Rd |
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| Never been in that bookshop |
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| Looking back at Tottenham Court Rd end |
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| Great Foyles: have been at a couple of book launches here |
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| Looking back |
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| Another ambulance |
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| The Mousetrap; I am four years older |
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| Noted snuff shop |
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Any Amount of Books, described recently by the Times Literary Supplement as the best 2nd-hand bookshop in London - I agree, wonderful place.
The owner - Nigel Burwood - does one of the best book sites on the web; see
http://www.bookride.com/ |
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I buy the book ninth from the top left: Edwin, the Boy Outlaw. And a Jacqueline Wilson.
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| Note sign top right: NO HIPPIES ALLOWED |
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| HMMMM |
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| We're going to pop over and head down through Leicester Square |
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| They have Leonardo tickets - feart to ask how much |
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| Renovation |
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| Abandon all teeth ye who enter here |
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| Looking back |
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| Now in Shaftesbury Avenue - the Trocadero there |
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| We are heading down to Piccadily Circus |
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| Looking back |
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| Ripley's Believe it or not - i think that is the tallest man but he looks like an elongated T S Eliot |
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| We are heading over to Regent St in Part 3 |
END OF PART TWO
Great lens work Edwin. A year later I find it and there's my shop Any Amount of Books and so many familiar sites. Big discount next time you come by! Nigel
ReplyDeleteHi Nigel - I seem to be engaged in an exercise to map out my peregrinations in a story by Iain Sinclair! After a while everything becomes a historical document. When I took pics of the Schipka Pass in the Gallowgate I thought a dustcart was the most interesting thing in frame, but it was the old houses behind that were the real matter -
ReplyDeletehttp://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/schipka-pass-down-and-walk-through.html
burned down in one of many of Glasgow's convenient fires removing inconvenient buildings.
I am proud to be a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Some day the trifles become significant.
In the next of the London posts
http://browse.feedreader.com/c/A_Glasgow_Album/18731422
we go through Regent St, where the Cafe Royal used to be. I was there after the dedication of the Oscar Wilde window at Westminster Abbey. From the post -
I was only in the Cafe Royal once, on 14 February 1995, the day of the unveiling of the memorial to Oscar in Westminster Abbey; a minibus took us from the Abbey to here. Lilies were laid under the Abbey window by Oscar's daughter-in-law, Thelma Holland, who died a few weeks later. Bones and silence.
Wish I had taken pics in the Cafe Royal - even 1995 is receding into antiquity.