Map of our walk |
Holy Sepulchre Church |
Car bonnet |
Guard tower to Holborn viaduct |
Cheese and Pickle |
My Ball! |
A bit gaudy? |
Farringdon Street |
Excuse me! |
City Arms |
Sir William Walworth |
Prince Consort Albert |
The Prudential |
Staples Inn |
The Cittie of York |
Art in Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Iris bucharica |
Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Giant Plane Tree |
Studying |
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The Gate |
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The Ship Tavern |
A donation? |
Loo French Style |
Variety |
Outside Holborn Tube Station |
New Hat |
Brick Work "Saw Hock Student Centre" |
LSE Plaza |
"Baby Tembo" in LSE Plaza |
LSE Globe "The World Upside Down" |
Ye Old White Horse |
Corvus Corvus |
Sir John Soane's House and Museum.
Look up , look down! |
Chaise Longue |
Painted Ceiling |
A mirror not next room. There were artefacts
in every conceivable space with little care their display |
Sir John Soane at 72 with wig and flattering painting |
Dining Room |
Emma Hamilton |
One of very many mirrors |
Chinese |
Design for wife Eliza's mausoleum |
Shallow bowl ceiling with skylight |
Surrender of Field Marshal Tallard to the Duke of
Marlborough after Battle of
Blenheim |
Hanging Staircase (cantilevered) |
Our guide shows ceiling's construction |
The Great Belzoni who sold looted Egyptian antiquities
to Soane and the British Museum |
The Sarcophagus of Seti 1 |
A Light Dome |
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Repro Greek, Soane was not fussy |
Smart Phone Photo and flattering bust of
Soane |
I thought it was a Mermaid! |
One of four ivory chairs |
Hogarth's "Election 1" of 4 |
There were 200 odd pictures in the
small room behind several
screens |
A Turner watercolour. There were several
Canalettos, Turners etc |
Up to the bedrooms with a bath! |
Shakespeare looks shocked |
The Sitting Room |
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Off High Holborn |
"Sir Christopher Hatton" pub for lunch |
Looking back from Leather Lane |
Mostly food stall's now in Leather Lane! |
The diamond district |
Moved out from Bleeding Heart Yard where no one could
find it. |
"The One Tun" pub |
Farringdon Station |