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ENGLAND 2023 – VII – The Cotswolds (III)
Still in the Cotswolds just driving around.
Entrance Gates, Westonbirt School, Bath Road, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England UK
Built in 1853 it became a school in 1928.
“The Street”, Westonbirt, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England UK
Residence, “The Street”, Westonbirt, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England UK
Bridge at By Brook, Germaine’s Lane, Colerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
By Brook also known as Bybrook River Is 12 mile long tributary of the Bristol Avon.
While driving around by myself, I stumbled into an absolutely stunning little village. The village boast 91 Listed buildings with several valued in the millions of pounds.
Elm Lodge, The Green, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Elm Lodge, The Green is a 5 bedroom freehold detached house – it is ranked as the 2nd most expensive property in the village, with a valuation of £2,439,000.
Duck Pond, Cross Keys Road, Biddestone, Wiltshire, England UK
The White Horse, The Green, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
The pub is a Grade II listed building dating from the 1700s
Willow House, The Green, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
A grade II listed building dated 1730.
The Close, The Green, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
A Grade II Listed Building dating from the 1700s and largely reconstructed in 1924.
Elm Farm House, The Green, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
A Grade II listed building – Farmhouse, now two houses, late C17 and early C18, much rebuilt c1975.
Street Sign, Church Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Village Water Pump, Church Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Church of St Nicholas, St Nicholas Circle, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Church. c880 AD, possibly then cathedral, reputed to be on site of a Roman temple, and incorporating much Roman masonry and brickwork. C11, C12, C16, altered 1829-30,1875-6 and 1888-9, restored 1904-5.
Roadside Stone Wall, The Butts, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Gatepost, The Old Rectory, The Butts, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
The carving of the name is still visible in the stonework
Driveway, The Old Rectory, The Butts, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Bricked Up Doorways, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Cuttle Lane, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
A Private Lane, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Access to:-
The Little House
Paddock House
Meadowside
Greenacre
Stable Cottage
Newstone House
Willowbrook, Cnr Harts Lane & The Green, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Gable Cottage (L) & Hawthorne Cottage (R), The Green, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Both are Grade II Listed Buildings
Twitten Bend, Cross Keys Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Grade II Listed Building from late 17th / early 18th century.
Laneway, Cross Keys Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, WIltshire, England UK
Heritage Residence, Cross Keys Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England UK
Door, Wickham Cottage, Cross Keys Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wilstshire, England UK
A Grade II Listed Building early 18th century
Door, The Malthouse, Cross Keys Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, Wilstshire, England UK
A Grade II Listed Building early 18th century that was a malthouse in the 19th century
Local Resident, Lowebourne, Melksham, Wiltshire, England UK
ENGLAND 2023 – VI – The Cotswolds (II)
While in the magnificent Cotswolds, I paid a visit to the old Roman town of Cirencester.
“Llewelyn-Bowen” – Old Police Station & Courts, 2 Park Lane, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is a noted interior designer and British TV personality
Bishops Walk Arcade, Cricklade Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Church of St. John the Baptist, Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
The church is a Grade I Listed Building and originates from the 12th century
View to Church of St. John the Baptist, Cotswold Avenue, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Toro Lounge, Cricklade Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
The Wheatsheaf, Cricklade Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Just one of many, many pubs that has closed since COVID!
The Old Post Office, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestshire, England UK
The Old Museum, Tetbury Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Some interesting history of this building.
The Marlborough Arms, Sheep Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
This has been a pub since at least the 1850s and has stories of haunting.
The Mad Hatter Wine Bar, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
The Crown, West Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
The Black Horse, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Thai Emerald Restaurant, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Somewhere Else Eating & Drinking House, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Silver Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Seventeen Black Wine Bar, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Residences, Ashcroft Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Private Gate to Abbey House, Gosditch Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Porters Pub & Kitchen, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Osborne House, Cotswold Avenue, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Old Pedestrian Accessway, Castle Buildings, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
“Dollar Ward House” – Old Georgian Residence, Gosditch Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestshire, England UK
Laneway, Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Heritage Building, 38 Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Halifax Bank, Cricklade Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Guard Dogs, The Painted Furniture Company, Gosditch Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Grade II Listed Building, 6 & 8 Gosditch Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Earthwork Remains of Site of Roman Amphitheatre, Cotswold Avenue, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Built in the early 2nd Century, was one of the largest Roman amphitheatres in Britain.
Doorway, Former Capital and Counties Bank, 15 Gosditch Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
Doorway, 8 & 10 Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
WH Smith & Son, Castle Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England UK
ENGLAND 2023 – IV
Lunch at the wonderfully historic Waggon & Horses Pub in Marlborough then a visit to the Avebury Henge and Stone Circles (See previous post)
Waggon and Horses, Beckhampton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
Originally a 17th-century house, two storeys in stone with a thatched roof, is now the Waggon and Horses pub; additions in the late 19th century and early 20th are described as picturesque by Historic England.
Inside the Waggon and Horses
Field Gates on Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
Old Shed, Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
Raindrops, Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
Yard Gate, Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
ENGLAND 2023 – III
On our way to the Cotswolds, we passed the famous neolithic sites of Silbury Hill and the Avebury Henge and Stone Circles
Silbury Hill, A4, West Kennet, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
Composed mainly of chalk and clay excavated from the surrounding area, the mound stands 40 metres (131 ft) high and covers about 2 hectares (5 acres). The hill was constructed in several stages between c.2400–2300 BC and displays immense technical skill and prolonged control over labour and resources. Archaeologists calculate that it took 18 million person-hours, equivalent to 500 people working for 15 years to deposit and shape 248,000 cubic metres (324,000 cu yd) of earth and fill. Euan Mackie, a British archaeologist and anthropologist, asserts that no simple late Neolithic tribal structure as usually imagined could have sustained this and similar projects, and envisages an authoritarian theocratic power elite with broad-ranging control across southern Britain.
Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK
Built and much altered during the Neolithic period, roughly between 2850 BC and 2200 BC, the henge survives as a huge circular bank and ditch, encircling an area that includes part of Avebury village. Within the henge is the largest stone circle in Britain – originally of about 100 stones – which in turn encloses two smaller stone circles.
Avebury is part of an extraordinary set of Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial sites that seemingly formed a vast sacred landscape. They include West Kennet Avenue, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Windmill Hill, and the mysterious Silbury Hill.
London, United Kingdom 2019 XII
My last day in London involved walking to Hammersmith Bridge and then alongside the Thames River to Albert Bridge and return. Quite a walk I can tell you!
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“COFX” Coffee Shop, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London, England UK
Chapel, Fulham Cemetery, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith
Victorian Residences, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith
Victorian Residential Properties, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith
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Most of these properties appear to be upstairs and downstairs flats. They are valued in the vicinity of £650k each. Properties here are:
Berkley House
Selbourne House
Beaufort House
Sutherland House
Shaftesbury House
Salisbury House
Kings Arms, 425 New Kings Road, Fulham
Once known as “Larrik Inn”
The Temperance Pub & Kitchen, 90 Fulham High Street, Fulham
War Memorial, All Saints Church Grounds, Pryors Bank, Bishops Park, Fulham
War Memorial Sculptor: Alfred Turner
All Saints Church, Pryors Bank, Bishops Park, Fulham
Putney Bridge & River Thames, Fulham
Bridge Lamps, Putney Bridge, Fulham
Hopper Barge ACB Phoebe, River Thames, Putney
Hopper barges used to safely transport the spoil excavation from the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a 25 km super sewer running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames across Inner London to capture, store and convey almost all the raw sewage and rainwater that currently overflows into the Thames.
St Mary’s Church, Putney High Street, Putney, London, England UK
The White Lion, Putney High Street, Putney
Grade II Listed public house built in 1887. It later became a Slug and Lettuce chain pub, then The Litten Tree, then a Walkabout chain pub, then Wahoo, a sports bar. As of June 2019, it has been empty for over six years.
War Memorial, Putney High Street, Putney
The Boathouse, Brewhouse Lane, Putney
River Access, River Thames, Putney
Putney Bridge, River Thames, Putney
Fulham Railway Bridge, River Thames, Putney
“Motherfigure” by Alan Thornhill, Deodar Road, Putney
Yellow House, Deodar Road, Putney
“ER VII” Mailbox, Deodar Road, Putney
Thornhill House, 78 Deodar Road, Putney
Recently on the market for Guide price £2,650,000 (See Advertisement)
Wandsworth Park, Putney Bridge Road, Wandsworth
Battersea Bridge, River Thames, Battersea
In 1879 the original and dangerous wooden bridge was taken into public ownership, and in 1885 demolished and replaced with the existing bridge, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette the man responsible for the revolutionary London Sewer system. . It is the narrowest surviving road bridge over the Thames in London, it is one of London’s least busy Thames bridges. The location on a bend in the river makes the bridge a hazard to shipping, and it has been closed many times due to collisions.
Albert Bridge, River Thames, Battersea
This Grade II Listed bridge crosses over the Tideway of the River Thames connecting Chelsea in Central London on the north, left bank to Battersea on the south. It was built as a toll bridge and operated as such for 6 years.
The toll booths are the only surviving booths in London today.
London, United Kingdom. 2019 XI
Continuing the Hammersmith walk.
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Girls Entrance Gate, Old School Building, St Dunstan’s Road, Hammersmith
Boys Entrance Gate, Old School Building, St Dunstan’s Road, Hammersmith
Residential Block, Gliddon Road, Hammersmith
Beryl Road, Hammersmith
Residential, Margravine Gardens, Hammersmith
59 & 61 Margravine Gardens, Hammersmith
Barons Court Railway Station, Margravine Gardens, Hammersmith
St Paul’s Studios, Talgarth Road, Hammersmith
**Look inside one of the studios**
Rik Mayall Memorial Bench, Hammersmith Bridge Road, Hammersmith
St Paul’s Hammersmith, Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith
The original church dated to 1629 but in 1880 a decision was made to rebuild it to allow it to a growing congregation and update its appearance. A significant portion of its land and graveyard were reclaimed in 1957 to build Great West Road and the Hammersmith Flyover.
Old Drinking Fountain, Hammersmith Bridge Road, Hammersmith
Digby Mansions, Hammersmith Bridge Road, Hammersmith
Jetty, River Thames, Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Entrance, Kent House, 10 Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Built in 1762, was first known as the Mansion House and was the home of the Hammersmith Working Men’s Club for the next 150 years. It became a boys’ school in the early C19th because it was felt its airy spaciousness was well adapted for the accommodation of young gentlemen. The house was owned by the Hammersmith Club Society for many years, whose members enjoyed its elegant interior, including ballroom, theatre and snooker hall.
It is now the premises of the Hammersmith Club, with half of the building available as a private hire venue, and the rest available to the traditional members.
Furnivall Sculling Club, Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Furnivall Sculling Club was founded as Hammersmith Sculling Club in 1896 by Dr Frederick James Furnivall, and it was originally a club for women only. It opened its doors to men in 1901.
River Moorings, River Thames, Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Waterman’s Cottage, No. 20 Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Floating Debris, River Thames, Hammersmith, London, England UK
Westcott Lodge, Lower Mall, Hammersmith
A Georgian building c.1746 and originally built as Turret House in the late-C17th and was once the official vicarage for the incumbent of St Paul’s Church.
Furnival Gardens, Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Furnivall Gardens was created in 1936 after clearance of the old Hammersmith Creek and its cluster of industry and commerce.
Hammersmith Creek was a spur from the Stamford Brook and once linked the Thames to King Street. The only evidence of this once thriving waterway is an outlet in the river wall, towards the upstream end of Furnivall Gardens – named after Dr Frederick Furnivall who founded the sculling club for women on Lower Mall.
In about 1780, Joseph Cromwell founded the Hammersmith Brewery alongside The Creek near King Street. The western side became monopolised with malt houses, built to serve the brewery, and the area became increasingly populated. The Creek was a magnet for traders and watermen of all professions. The waterway, navigable by barge, was crossed by the High Bridge, rebuilt in the early C18th, and also known as Bishop’s Bridge. This feature is still marked by a raised hump in the gardens and a flowerbed.
The only other remaining connection with the Creek is the Friends’ Memorial Garden, on the site of an old Friends’ Meeting House. The Quaker movement had gained popularity in Hammersmith and established its Meeting House close to the Creek in the late C17th. Both the Meeting House and the Caretaker’s Cottage were late C18th. They were bombed during the last war and in 1955 were rebuilt on the north side of the Great West Road. The little garden surrounded by a low wall remains historically important to the movement and marks its old burial ground which, in line with Friends’ traditions, never featured memorial stones.
Entrance, Beach House, 7 Lower Mall, Hammersmith
An old property dating to 1734 was demolished to make way for this property in 1811. This property (No.7) and No. 6 were recorded in 1865 as beonging to Rev. Peter King-Salter.
Garden Gate, Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Statue, Lancelot Capability Brown, Thames Path, Hammersmith
Inscription:
The Hammersmith Society
Lancelot Capability Brown
1716-1783
Father of the English Landscape Garden
Lived by the river in Hammersmith 1751-1764
Sculptor: Laury Dizengremel
“Figurehead”, Thames Path, Hammersmith, London, England UK
Harrods Furniture Depository, Barnes
Built on the site of an old soap factory in 1894 to store items too large for their Knightsbridge store is now a residential estate consisting of 250 townhouses and penthouse suites known as “Harrods Village”.
Properties in the “Village” don’t come cheap with many in excess of £1 million. The pentouse sold for £6,500,000 in 2010.
Entrance, Brandenburgh House, 116 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith
Brandenburgh House was built in the Arts and Crafts style in 1905 by Henry Saxon Snell as a nurses’ home for Fulham Infirmary.
Road Name Sign, Manbre Road, Hammersmith
King George V Postbox, Margravine Road, Hammersmith
King George V – reigned 1910-1936
Entrance, 51 Winslow Road, Hammersmith
62 & 64 St Dunstan’s Road, Hammersmith
London, United Kingdom. 2019 X
After returning from Italy, I spent the last couple of days wandering about Hammersmith in London.
Entrance Gates & West Lodge, Margravine Cemetery, Margravine Road, Hammersmith, London, England UK
Opened in 1868 on a site previously occupied by market gardens and orchards, known as Fulham Fields. The first burial took place on 3 November 1869 and closed for new burials in 1951.
The cemetery grounds are also the location of a War Memorial.
Lyons and Company First World War Memorial, Margravine Cemetery, Margravine Road, Hammersmith
See the story of Lyons and Company
Memorial, George Thomas Brown & Amelia Brown, Margravine Cemetery
Memorial, John Francis Taylor Ware, “Little John” – Margravine Cemetery
Died 11 December 1904 – Aged 6.
Memorial, George Robert Broad & Caroline Broad, Margravine Cemetery
In Memory, Abraham George Smith, Margravine Cemetery
In Memory, James Frederick Fletcher, Margravine Cemetery
Memorial Wall, Margravine Cemetery
Inscribed: Those Honoured Here Dies in the Service of Their Country and Lie Buried Elsewhere in this Cemetery
A Child’s Grave, Margravine Cemetery
In Loving Memory of George J Dyett Jan 5, 1882 Aged 5 months also his Father William Dyett 7 Jan 1904
The Parker Family, Margravine Cemetery
Squirrels, Margravine Cemetery
Cemetery Grounds, Margravine Cemetery
Chapel, Margravine Cemetery
Hammersmith Bridge, River Thames, Hammersmith
This is the second Hammersmith Bridge, built on the pillars of the first which had opened in 1828.
At the turn of the 19th century Hammersmith was still a hamlet of Fulham. To cross the river you had to use the ferry service at either Chiswick Mall or at Ferry Lane in Barnes. A bridge to cross the river at Hammersmith had been mooted for many years and, once an approach road on the Surrey side had been established, the Hammersmith Bridge Company was formed and a brief for an iron bridge was drawn up.
The brief was fulfilled by William Tierney Clark in 1824 when he designed a “bridge of suspension with a view to the strictest economy”. Clark was a respected engineer, apprenticed at one time to Thomas Telford. He designed part of the West Middlesex Waterworks nearby, where he lived and worked as chief engineer.
He was appointed to work as consulting engineer on the bridge, and there is a fine memorial to him on the North Wall of St Paul’s Church, Hammersmith, depicting the original bridge. The foundation stone was laid on 7th May, 1825, by the Duke of Sussex (Not Harry!) and it was opened in October 1827 to a fanfare of fireworks and music. The Bridge was a wonder of its time, an impressive feat of engineering and described as ‘as handsome as it was useful’. It had two large York stone arches and graceful white chains and ironwork. At each end were a pair of toll houses, painted white and manned by liveried toll men managing the passage of people and livestock.
It was a huge success and justly received much admiration, but it was not terribly practical. The walkways ended at the arches so that pedestrians had to join the busy carriageway, and it was also rather narrow. The Toll was scrapped in 1880 and the huge increase in traffic put a strain on the already inadequate structure. It was decided to re-build the bridge rather than repair it and so the bridge was replaced.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette was Chief Engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works from 1858-1889, during which time he designed new bridges at Hammersmith, Putney and Battersea, oversaw the construction of the Thames Embankment and built 83 miles of intercepting sewers throughout London. In 1877 he began to question the safety of the original Hammersmith Bridge and recommended that urgent repairs take place. After 1880, when the toll was scrapped and traffic increased, the repairs became even more urgent. In fact in November 1881, Police Constable Bullock was leaving the footway to pass through the tower arch on the Barnes side and he fell through a hole in the footway into the river!
After a full assessment it was decided to re-build the bridge and a design by Bazalgette was approved. Traffic was diverted onto a temporary wooden bridge in 1885 and works began. The new bridge was opened by Prince Albert Victor of Wales in June, 1887. However, it was built on the same piers as the previous bridge and is therefore of the same narrow dimensions and unsuitable for heavy loads. Inevitably, and again, this bridge too has proved insufficient to cope with modern traffic; a weight and width restriction has been imposed. Nevertheless, the bridge is an attractive feature in the river landscape, traditionally painted green and gold with colourful coats of arms.
There was an attempt to destroy it by the IRA in March 1939, mainly averted by the quick thinking of a pedestrian who threw the bomb, in a case, into the river where it exploded, damaging one of the pillars, and more recently in 2000. The bridge has had to be closed to traffic for structural repairs, which creates a backwater from what are generally very busy approach roads. It is currently closed to all traffic both motorised and pedestrian and it is expected to take another six years to effect repairs. (Announced Mar 2021)
The Blue Anchor, Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Originally titled the Blew Anchor, this is one of the area’s oldest pubs, licensed in 1722 but probably on the site for many years before. It was a popular watering hole of watermen.
The Old City Arms, 107 Hammersmith Bridge Road, Hammersmith, est: 1827
Rutland Arms, 15 Lower Mall, Hammersmith
Built in 1849 and lost its top floor and balcony during the German bombing of London during “The Blitz”.
Lower Mall, Hammersmith
The Pear Tree, Margravine Road, Hammersmith
London, United Kingdom. 2019 IX
Window & Doorway, The Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Spiral Stairway, The Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Corner of The Jewel Tower & Old Palace Yard Residential Building, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
The Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
The Jewel Tower is a 14th-century surviving element of the Palace of Westminster, in London, England. It was built between 1365 and 1366 to house the personal treasure of King Edward III. The original Tower was a three-storey, crenellated stone building which occupied a secluded part of the Palace and was protected by a moat linked to the River Thames. The ground floor featured elaborate sculpted vaulting, described by historian Jeremy Ashbee as “an architectural masterpiece”. The Tower continued to be used for storing the monarch’s treasure and personal possessions until 1512, when a fire in the Palace caused King Henry VIII to relocate his court to the nearby Palace of Whitehall.
Police Presence, Old Palace Yard, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
BREXIT Protest, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
“‘ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, ‘ello!”, Police Patrol, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
House of Lords, Palace of Westminster, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Government Offices, 100 Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
St Stephen’s Tavern, 10 Bridge Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Street Performer, Bridge Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Big Ben & Elizabeth Tower Maintenance, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England UK
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the striking clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London and is usually extended to refer to both the clock and the clock tower. The official name of the tower in which Big Ben is located was originally the Clock Tower, but it was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. On 21 August 2017, a four-year schedule of renovation works began on the tower, which are to include the addition of a lift. There are also plans to re-glaze and repaint the clock dials. With a few exceptions, such as New Year’s Eve and Remembrance Sunday, the bells are to be silent until the work is completed in 2021.
“Boadicea and Her Daughters”, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London, England UK
Boadicea and Her Daughters is a bronze sculptural group in London representing Boudica, queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe, who led an uprising in Roman Britain. It is located to the north side of the western end of Westminster Bridge, near Portcullis House and Westminster Pier, facing Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster across the road. It is considered the magnum opus of its sculptor, the English artist and engineer Thomas Thornycroft. Thornycroft worked on it from 1856 until shortly before his death in 1885, sometimes assisted by his son William Hamo Thornycroft, but it was not erected in its current position until 1902.
Tube Entrance, Westminster Underground Station, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London, England UK
Across The Thames, Victoria Embankment to Queen’s Walk, Westminster, London, England UK
Panorama From London Eye to Westminster Bridge, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London, England UK
Vintage Bridge Lamps, Westminster Bridge, Westminster, London, England UK
Bagpiping Busker, Westminster Bridge, Westminster, London, England UK
“South Bank Lion”, South Bank, London, England UK
The South Bank Lion, also known as the Red Lion, is a Coade stone sculpture of a standing male lion cast in 1837. It has stood at the east end of Westminster Bridge in London, to the north side of the bridge beside County Hall, since 1966. Painted red between 1951 and 1966, the paint was later removed to reveal again the white ceramic surface underneath.
Westminster Bridge, Westminster Bridge Road, Bishop’s, London, England UK
Archway, London Marriott Hotel, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, Bishop’s London, England UK
50 Blackheath Road, Greenwich, London, England UK
84 Blackheath Road, Greenwich, London, England UK
Advertising Sign, Papyrus House, Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, London, England UK
Stone Carving, The George & Dragon, Cnr Blackheath Hill & Lewisham Road, Greenwich, London, England UK
Side Door, The George & Dragon, Cnr Blackheath Hill & Lewisham Road, Greenwich, London, England UK
“Rainbow” Pub, The George & Dragon, Cnr Blackheath Hill & Lewisham Road, Greenwich, London, England UK
“Duver Court”, 12 Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, London, England UK
(Duver - not Dover)
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NEXT STOP – ICELAND!
Skógafoss Waterfall, Skógarfoss, Iceland
London, United Kingdom. 2019 VIII
Methodist Central Hall, Storey’s Gate, Westminster, London, England UK
The Sanctuary, Westminster, London, England UK
Bagpiping Busker, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, England UK
Westminster Abbey, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, England UK
Statue of Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Statue of Robert Peel, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Robert Peel was Prime Minister of the UK from 1841 – 1846. The statue was commissioned in 1876.
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British Rule, and in turn inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Statue of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Prime Minister of UK 1868 & 1874 – 1880. Commissioned in 1883.
Statue of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Millicent Fawcett (1847 – 1929) was an English political leader, activist and writer. Known as a tireless campaigner for women’s suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until 1919 she led Britain’s largest women’s rights organisation, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). She would famously write: “I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government.” Fawcett also sought to improve women’s chances of higher education, serving as a governor of Bedford College, London and a co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge in 1875. In 2018, 100 years after the passing of the Representation of the People Act, Millicent Garrett Fawcett became the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square.
Statue of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Prime Minister of UK 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868. Commissioned 1874.
Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Was Prime Minister of UK for the final 118 days of his life. Commissioned in 1832.
Statue of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
B. 1784 D. 1865 – Prime Minister of UK 1855 – 1858, 1859 – 1865. Commissioned 1876.
Statue of Jan Christian Smuts, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts PC, OM, CH, DTD, ED, KC, FRS (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military leader, and philosopher. He was Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948.
Statue of David Lloyd George, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1916 and 1922. He was the final Liberal to hold the post.
Statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England UK
The Right Honourable
Sir Winston Churchill
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He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was a member of the Liberal Party.
Government Buildings, Cnr Great George Street & Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Doorways, St Margaret’s Church, St Margaret Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Victoria Tower, Palace of Westminster, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Westminster Abbey, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Statue of George V, Old Palace Yard, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India. 1910 – 1936
The statue was sculpted prior to World War II in a quarry in Portland UK. It was hidden there until after ther war. The statue was placed in the original proposed spot opposite the House of Lords, which required the demolition of No. 5 Old Palace Yard. It was unveiled by King George VI, on 22 October 1947 and was attended by Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
Preparing for Brexit Protest, Abingdon Street, Westminster. London, England UK
The Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
The Jewel Tower is a 14th-century surviving element of the Palace of Westminster, in London, England. It was built between 1365 and 1366 to house the personal treasure of King Edward III. The original Tower was a three-storey, crenellated stone building which occupied a secluded part of the Palace and was protected by a moat linked to the River Thames. The ground floor featured elaborate sculpted vaulting, described by historian Jeremy Ashbee as “an architectural masterpiece”. The Tower continued to be used for storing the monarch’s treasure and personal possessions until 1512, when a fire in the Palace caused King Henry VIII to relocate his court to the nearby Palace of Whitehall.
Vaulting, The Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Internal Doors, The Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Windows, The Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, England UK
London, United Kingdom. 2019 VII
Entrance Gwydyr House, 26 Whitehall, Westminster, London, England UK
A mansion built in 1772 at a cast of £6,000. It is currently used as the Office of Secretary of State for Wales.
This entrance was featured as the fictional Department for Administrative Affairs in the BBC sitcom Yes Minister.
Cnr of Gwydyr House, 26 Whitehall, Westminster, London, England UK
Memorial to The Women of World War II, Whitehall, Westminster, London, England UK
Vintage Street Lamp, Whitehall, Westminster, London, England UK
(That’s “MONTY” in the background)
Gates, Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, Westminster, London, England UK
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, Westminster, London, England UK
The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England. Its origin is in a temporary structure erected for a peace parade following the end of the First World War, and after an outpouring of national sentiment it was replaced in 1920 by a permanent structure and designated the United Kingdom’s official national war memorial.
Close Parking, Police Vehicles, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Doorway to Former Grindlay’s Bank, 54 Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Doorway, 53 Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
The Red Lion, Cnr Parliament Street & Derby Gate, Westminster, London, England UK
Empty Coffee Cup, The Red Lion, Cnr Parliament Street & Derby Gate, Westminster, London, England UK
Triple Arched Bridge Entrance to King Charles Street, Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
This enclosed bridge, added in 1908 , links the New Government Offices (Treasury) of 1898 and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of 1875.
Street Sign, Parliament Street – Whitehall SW1, Westminster, London, England UK
Doorway, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Window Pillar, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Entrance to Downing Street, Westminster, London, England UK
(Residence of the Prime Minister)
Mounted Police Patrol, Parliament Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Sign to Cabinet War Rooms, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Doorway, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Ornate Railing, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Gate, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Doorknob, Government Building, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Doorway, Government Building, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Vintage Street Lamp, King Charles Street, Westminster, London, England UK
“Clive of India”, Clive Steps, King Charles Street, Westminister, London, England UK
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He began as a British military officer and East India Company (EIC) official who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by seizing control of Bengal and eventually the whole of the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar.
The statue was unveiled in 1912 outside Gwydyr House, also in Whitehall, and was moved to its current location in 1916.
Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, Westminster, London, England UK
Street, Sign. Great George Street SW1, Westminster, London, England UK
The Westminster Arms, Storey’s Gate, Westminster, London, England UK
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England UK
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