Our walk to the "Walkie
Talkie" from Bank Underground station |
Two Eccentrics
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The Bank of England |
The sign of Gresham's Bank
in Lombard Street |
Layer Cake building? |
An Imposing Doorway |
Commercial Bank of Scotland Sign |
The "Spiritual Centre"
of the City |
In a Ginger Outfit |
The "Cheese
Grater" |
A Conference
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Fenchurch Street, the "Walkie Talkie" looms down |
After airport type security
check, we started our 1hr free visit to the "Skygarden". No
one was checked on! |
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HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge
from the Balcony |
In the
Jungle |
London Bridge area opposite |
Concern (there was a breeze) |
Planning their next visit |
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St Paul's Cathedral area |
The open Balcony |
The London Assembly Building |
A Tree Fern frond unfurls |
A Gang of small ones |
A trio of Skyscrapers |
An Orchid table decoration |
Three out of the Four with 4
coffees |
A White Orchid |
An uncomfortable long bench |
Blackfriars Bridge
etc |
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A formal Knot Garden on a
roof |
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Stairway and feet |
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Sofas under the roof |
Five fingers |
Could be painful! |
Someones
"Portrait". We, having queued for the Unisex loo, walked to the
South Bank along the river... |
...via The Monument |
An Alley |
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Cleaning
the windows and the shades |
Yellow
under belly building |
The Shard |
A Lamp and the Shard |
Triptych (can you see the
joins/) |
A Street Map |
Michael and a Red Flower |
A ginger
Banker |
The "Razor"
beyond at Elephant and Castle |
A "Blik" |
Swing Bridge |
Cannon Street Station |
Romance |
Our Gang in Reflection |
Part of a Mosaic story of
London |
Southwark Bridge |
I am coming for you |
The Wobbly Bridge |
Who is afraid to jump? Weee! |
“
The "Millennium Measure” , a glass obelisque
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A pile driver from Blackfriars
Bridge |
Runners by the Thames |
A Nurse |
The "Switch Room", the Tate Modern
extension |
A bustle or panniers? |
"Last Mountain Head"
artwork |
The Tate Modern, with magnificent
brickwork, then on to Blackfriars. |
More Pile Driving, before we ate
lunch in the "Blackfriar" pub. Fish and Chips for me.
Very dim inside |
Waiting for a friend? |
1 Blackfriars building |
Toilets Downstairs |
Smokers outside the "Blackfriar" |
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Workers' Lunch. After lunch
we walked to Chancery Lane Tube |
Mexican Cafe |
The Punch Tavern |
Tourists.
We walked from Lancaster Gate tube to the Serpentine Gallery... |
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...past the Italian Garden in
Kensington Gardens |
a Man and Dog |
...and Peter Pan Statue in
Kensington Gardens |
More colourful than pigeons |
A wild parakeet feeding |
The "Serpentine
Summer House" by various artists, this one by
Kunlé Adeyemi (Nié) |
by Yona Friedman |
by Asif Khan |
by Barkow Leibinger |
The Serpentine
Pavilion by BjarKe Ingels |
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We travelled home via
Lancaster Gate, Bond Street and West Hampstead Thameslink. |
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Hi Ho Silver |