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Tuesday 30th Aug 2016 a Gang of Four visit to the Supreme Court and Westminster
We took the Jubilee Line to Westminster |
The empty platform... |
![]() ...and a train arrives |
Massive pipes |
The Palace of Westminster opposite |
St Stephens Tavern lantern |
Big Ben looms above |
A turret of Portcullis House |
Westminster Abbey across Parliament Square |
Decorated Keystone |
Some sort of sale? I declined a golden tag. |
Supreme Court Entrance, the third Guildhall or court on this spot. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Supreme Court front |
Lady Jane Grey offered the crown |
The Queen, Elisabeth II |
The Library |
One of the portraits |
The moulded library ceiling |
Looking Upwards |
The Librarian's hatch |
Front Staircase used in many films |
A Tapestry (it enlarges) |
Carved Supporter |
Court Room Two, note the arms |
A Novel Clock Design |
A curtain plus Ghurkha Security |
Michael explains the court system |
Window catches |
The Judges' Bench |
Eleanor Roosevelt quoted "Justice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both" on the glass screen at the rear |
A Carved Screen |
A view of Parliament Square |
Court Room One where a recording of a real case was playing |
Examining a seat |
The Windows |
![]() A rabbit arm rest |
Some idiot is in her shot |
![]() Eagle, all arm rests are different. |
![]() The carpet with the symbols of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland |
Law books |
![]() Angel Judge |
![]() Bench end |
Exhibition Room in the cellar, robes in the background |
![]() Brougham, established the Central Criminal Court etc |
![]() Middlesex County arms |
![]() The corridor to the Cafe |
![]() A Newsprint portrait by a young offender |
![]() Hedgehog? |
![]() Dream in a book |
![]() The Cafe in the light well |
![]() Looking up in the Cafe |
![]() Edward VII King and Emperor |
![]() Foundation Stone of the original Middlesex Crown Court |
![]() A Judges Warrant |
![]() Exterior Wall detail |
![]() Balcony Supports |
Central Hall Westminster and.. |
...its entrance. The cellar was a wartime shelter. |
![]() The Chapel that was a bank |
![]() Looking out at Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre |
Michael besides a life size statue of John Wesley |
![]() Staircase |
![]() Original Electric Light from 1905 |
![]() Steve snaps the staircase |
![]() Inside Europe's Largest Domed ceiling |
![]() A lion supporter |
![]() The four manual organ. It is a Methodist Church on Sundays |
![]() Westminster Abbey, from the balcony, and... |
![]() ...the clock |
![]() and Barclays Bank, next door |
![]() Looking towards the London Eye |
![]() The Lobby of this building where the inaugural meeting of the UN took place in 1946 |
![]() A typical "William & Mary" house door in Old Queens Street |
![]() The narrow Lewisham street |
![]() The Chilean Ambassador's car |
![]() Reflection of Queen Anne's Gate in the car's rear window |
![]() The Two Chairmen (Sedan chair) |
![]() The Two Chairmen pub |
![]() An old single bar pub for our lunch |
![]() I did not notice the cock fighting memorabilia on the walls |
![]() An Old Advert |
![]() The pub in its habitat with.. |
![]() ,,,Lewisham Street next door |
![]() Queen Ann |
![]() House detail 1 |
![]() House detail 2 |
![]() Typical "William & Mary" house in Queen Anne's Gate |
![]() House detail 3 |
![]() Typical Doorway |
![]() They are all probably wood painted white |
![]() Falcon House, most expensive house in London,£120million |
![]() Falcon house belongs to a Middle Eastern Royal |
![]() Hurrying by |
![]() Birdcage Walk with Wellington Barracks on the left, Green Park on the right |
![]() Strollers in the sun |
![]() General Alexander |
![]() The Guards Chapel |
![]() Stained Glass |
![]() A detail |
![]() Engraved Glass |
![]() Welsh Guards alcove |
![]() The Cafe Outside the Chapel |
![]() Ferret Armoured Car |
![]() Band Practice |
![]() Watching the Band Practice |
![]() An ancient Guardsman and.. |
![]() .....another |
![]() Wellington Barracks |
![]() The Mounted Band in the Toy Soldiers Shop |
![]() WW2 Soldiers |
![]() Indian Soldiers |
![]() Enjoying the music |
![]() The band wheeled and counter marched |
![]() Hurrying for a snap |
![]() Victoria Memorial |
![]() Various summer styles |
![]() Office of the High Commission of the Kingdom of Swaziland in a building designed by Reginald Blomfield in the late 19th century and features by Henry Pegram |
![]() But why a galleon? Even Pevsner could not find out |
![]() Chinese style |
![]() Barracks Camouflage? |
![]() The Adam & Eve, Steve inspects |
![]() Pub Sign |
![]() St James Tube station |