The Turret on Tabard Street

The Turret on Tabard Street

For most of its history, the Thames in London possessed only one crossing, that at London Bridge. It was only in the 1750s that a second was built at Westminster. So up until that point, London Bridge’s southern approach along Borough High Street, was a hugely...
Converts

Converts

A bowling hall, an underground public toilet and a garage, have all featured on this blog. Homes have been converted from the most unlikely of uses, but now finally I have shot a less unconventional conversion, namely a former Weslyan chapel in Lincolnshire. This...
No Parking

No Parking

A typical London street of restrained but elegant late Georgian terraced houses, that many of us might aspire to live in. Strange then, that it was the poky derelict garage at one end of the street that caught the eye of Adrian Wright, a former member of Human League,...
Shopping Mall-ady

Shopping Mall-ady

The Central Line is effectively now “The Shopping Line”, with Oxford Street at the centre, increasingly overshadowed by London’s two largest shopping malls. White City in the west, recently joined by Stratford in the east. The economic effect of...