Queen Victoria Street,EC4-TWWSI

Sometimes you think you're going to enjoy a location...but don't! This was one such street. A decent stretch, from Bank to Blackfriars, but I couldn't find much to snap.

The Battle of Cable Street

was when the East End of London stood up to the fascists in the 1936.

Commemorated in this magnificent mural.

On your bike!

So French!

I spotted this billboard outside a cinema in Paris. Nobody bats an eyelid. Can you imagine the furore if someone put this up outside an English cinema? We may be far superior to the French...but I'm ashamed of our prudity compared to them.

Calling HQ

French worship

This is the French Catholic Church in London, just off of Leicester Square. A modern building, nothing exceptional about it. About a month or so ago I stuck my head through the door to have a nose...

And you thought libraries

were just for books!

Blackberries

Starting to ripen up. These could be from absolutely anywhere, actually from a field by the Thames, near Thamesmead. It brought back childhood memories of blackberry picking every summer up at 'Dulwich Woods', when my mum used to make up lots of jam in old ice cream tubs each year when I was young kid in the seventies.

All a blur!

This poster teased me, as it was splashed all over the adverts on the Prague Metro escalators last year! Unfortunately it came out a bit blurred.

Paint my waggon!

These are municipal waggons, for roadworkers, I think.

Dirty street art!

Both of these bits of graffiti were snapped across the road from each other. Weird!

A relic from World War One

A mate of mine called Roger recently told me that at the end of the First World War old tanks were presented to Englsih towns, as gratitude for their municipal fundraising efforts in the First World War. The vast majority were taken away for scrap, to help the war effort in the '39 to '45 War that followed, a couple of decades later. There is a rare, surviving one in Ashford, Kent. For the simple reason it had been converted into an electricity sub-station, and although just a shell, was 'restored' a few years ago.



















And if you can't find the tank, if ever you're in Ashford...it's 'right by the cafe'!