There are many coat of arms on the walls of this building, these are the representative shields of each country that had students reside here during its first years. Quite a number of these are former Commonwealth countries, and perhaps more surprising, there are some countries that no longer exist. […]
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Today is the anniversary of the topping out of the BT (or Telecom) Tower and for some its still known as the Post Office Tower. Besides the images showing early designs for the tower itself, the structure was going to be known as the Museum Radio Tower. The rather grandiose […]
Being the second part on how Euston got a new tube entrance. This post features the actual work to build the new entrance itself. In the first part we looked at the long term preparation works – with a substantial part of that work involving the filling in of the […]
Tower Bridge’s one-two-five (125th) anniversary is upon us and this post discusses the bridge’s ‘one thro’ five’ – a subject that’s never been written about! What’s that then? Its the furthest Tower Bridge can be seen from central London. Inevitably its a view straight down the the river through five […]
Being the one about Euston’s new tube entrance and its a special two-part article. The entrance has been open nearly two months and a look is taken at how construction of the new entrance came about. A large part of it is actually work for HS2 thus any ‘improvements’ is […]
Hammersmith’s high line – that bit of viaduct in the centre of the town left over from the number of lines that once threaded their way through here! Since 1916 when the last connections at Ravenscourt Park were removed – the viaduct has been left to stand on its own. […]
Wales’ so called ‘highest slum’ – the old Snowdon summit building – was replaced in 2009 with a brand new design by Ray Hole, and called Hafod Eryri, which means roughly summer residence. It was built to better match the summit of Snowdon than the old building did and has […]
In the light of attitudes by the Greenwich Peninsula management and their security, I have withdrawn this post and instead replaced with the following text and picture: Below is a picture of the security who made my most recent visit to The Tide on 8th July 2019 a most miserable […]
Britain’s answer to the Eiffel Tower and only five years younger, is the famous tower at Blackpool, for many decades the tallest building in the British Isles (besides the somewhat taller, short lived one at New Brighton.) The Blackpool Tower was inspired by the enormous success of the Eiffel Tower. […]
I wrote about the vandalisation of London’s one and only memorial to the former US President John F Kennedy. The shocking act was barely reported in the media, and not one important blog mentioned it either – very unheard of. That is why I wrote a piece on the matter. […]
The oldest most upstream road bridge on the fully tidal section of the Thames suddenly closed a few days ago much to the anger of many. It however provided an opportunity for me to go and investigate exactly what ailed the bridge, especially as I have taken a number of […]
The controversial 305m Tulip Tower was approved by by the City of London Planning and Transportation Committee held in London’s Guildhall yesterday – with 18 votes for and 7 against. The next stage is to see whether The Mayor approves it too. He has approved some rather objectionable buildings so […]