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A gang of Four walk on 23rd September 2024. We walked from Elephant and Castle to Waterloo Station a humid dry day!
 Map of the walk |
 From Blackfriars Station, rain is forecast and it should have been colder |
 Elephant and Castle Station? It has no ticket machine! |
 Elephant Road |
 Roof Decor |
 "La Fama" Carniceria Revuelteria. (Butcher and Greengrocer) |
 New Kent Road |
 A detail |
 Advert |
 A glimpse of the "Rasor" or The Strata building |
 Infestation! |
 Prince of Wales on George Road |
 Change your life |
 Imperial War Museum IWM |
 Big naval guns |
 The breach |
 V2 flying bombs & Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka "Kamikasie" |
 V2 Engine |
 Field Gun.... |
 ....and carriage |
 Harrier Fighter |
 Press Landrover |
 Cafe Lights |
 Bagdad Car remains |
 Kamikaze Plane |
 Chinese Propaganda Leaflet from Korean War |
 Light Tank |
 Michael and Steve |
 War Artist work. Certainly not glorifying war as the Victorian artist did. |
 French Troops resting |
 War work by Women by Dame Laura Knight |
 Did this encourage volunteers? |
 Destruction? by John Nash |
 German propaganda. French Goverment "Hands off the Ruhr" |
 American WW1 recruiting |
 Spanish?? |
 "Gassed". by John Singer Sargent A huge picture. they are almost full size |
 Memorial Service |
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 Battlefield, more destruction |
 Travoys arriving with wounded at Smol Macedonia 1916 by Stanley Spencer |
 Biafra? |
 IWM roof |
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Queuing for rations WW2 |
 Liberian Civil War by Tim Hetherington I did not really like his photos which were in an exhibition |
 Lebanon |
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 Afghanistan war by Tim Herrington |
 Hill observation post Afghanistan |
 Anti Iraq War |
 Remains of a window frame from the North Tower of the Trade Centre destruction on 9/11 |
 UN Ferret |
 Russian Gun |
 The first Atom Bomb |
 Test Missile |
 Model of the Berlin Wall |
WW2 Tank |
Monti's Limo |
 German BMW |
 IWM Lodge. Could this remain from the Victorian Bethlehem Hospital? |
 A pope outside St George's Roman Catholic Cathedral |
 The Nave |
 Pieta |
 Lady Chapel |
 A strange lamp, symbolic? |
 West Window |
 100 Waterloo Road |
 Bollards |
 William Blake Mosaics |
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 Africans |
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It's quite simply the largest gallery of Blake's work in the world — all on or near the site of his former home. Blake lived with his wife Catherine on Hercules Road from 1790 to 1800. The mosaics were pieced together over many years by local volunteers, under the guidance of Southbank Mosaics. |
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 Blake's study of Isaac Newton |
 Send for a woman |
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 Makes his living repairing chairs in a hidey hole under the railway |
 Leake Street Arches |
 Dean Joel Mitchell |
 SMO Carnival |
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 Under the railway |
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 An artwork has landed. "South of the River" by Bernard Schottlander 1976 |
 A glimpse of the London Eye |
 The back of the the old County Hall |
 Waterloo Station |
