How Many Corners...?

I must say I have got plenty of mileage out of the walk around Hyde Park Corner and here we have a corner shot of Wellington's Arch.

This is a very simple corner with a rather lovely but plain wrought iron railing/fence that protects a service area of the arch. I must say the pale green paint job does the trick here for it doesn't detract from the beautiful grey stone.

If we look closely at the picture you'll notice we actually have a number of corners here. The corner of the railing/fence, the internal corner within the confines of the railing and then at the end of the railing we have a corner with a column upon it plus the solid stone wall corner which forms a much larger part of the triumphal archway.

Just in case you do wish to see a few more shots of Hyde Park Corner please log onto http://www.freelondonevents.co.uk/talkthewalk.htm and click on Hyde Park Corner...

French Place E1...

This is a very interesting corner for we are in the heart of Shoreditch E1 which is a very newish trendy place & cetainly different to the usual places that people tend to visit here in the capital.

Looking at this beautiful dark brick corner with offset windows just makes me wonder what this area would have been like a hundred years ago. I love the fact that the box sash windows are still in place even if it appears the lower ground window to the right needs a security grill. But look at the perfect vertical drain pipe and the lone bollard to our right (http://www.bollardsoflondon.blogspot.com/) and notice the really dark looking bricks with a slight curve on the actually corner of the building.

In fact the name of this little street/place eg French Place E1 just makes me wonder of the past in this rather gritty, grey part of the newish London pub/club scene that is all around this ever so quiet corner...

Bricks you can't beat them...

Barton Street SW1 and the junction with Great College Street SW1 and we see a corner that is just literally made from beautiful red brick.

If you look closely at the window on the left hand side you'll notice above the stone window frame a semi-circle in the brickwork. We also see a window closed off and a extraction unit in next window. Yet on the the right hand side you see the windows at a different level altogether. It's not until we look up to the first floor do we see the windows set up make a little more sense.

Funny looking at the lamp post and road sign look at the damage to the warning triangle...

The Colour Grey Just Beautiful...

Here we are in the heart of the capital, the land of Government for all around us are buildings of national importance.

This is a corner of substance the building is solid and so to is the iron fence which turns the corner and leads to a solid stone square column which then transforms into a balustrade. Now admire the horizontal and vertical lines which then merge into the semi-circular tops of the ground floor windows.

We move up to the first floor and we can see the street sign identifying Whitehall Court. Notice the small decorative balconies and the rectangular with decorative stone masonry work dividing the windows apart.

Don't let the colour grey distract you from noticing the beauty that actually surrounds you...

A Corner of Westminster Village SW1...

This corner in the village of Westminster is rather like a negative image of each of the buildings. The house to the right is predominately made of red brick the house to the left is built of mainly dark brown bricks.

The houses here are similar in build the area is just stunning and you will think you are travelling back in time to an era when boys swept chimneys. For a moment staring into this corner only the upgraded drain pipes lead you to realise that you are actually in a much more modern time/era.

So make your way down to Cowley Street and the junction of Barton Street SW1...

Who's Looking at You ?

What a wonderful corner we have here a lovely solid stone building on the corner of Millbank and Dean Stanley Street SW1 (leads to Smith Square). I do love a good street sign and yet again the Westminster City Council do us proud by placing clear informative street signs on the building which negates the need for street furniture and clutter.

Anyway did you notice the title for this post, "Who's Looking at You" for if you look up at this corner you'll notice the faces of those chubby boys that we call cherubs looking down upon us. I travel past this building almost daily and I never noticed it before, just goes to show what you can find if we pay a little more attention to the urban environment.

Must say also I do love that Taxi sign and it shows the business within this building knows a little about the surrounding area. Lovely bracket nice design of sign and it compliments the stone work which is both clean and decorative. We have though nice horizontal groves, rather nice sash windows and faces looking down at us, you may notice on the upper tier the introduction of brick and not just grey stone.

What a corner looking down at us here then...

Druid/Tanner Street and a World War II Bomb...

We have a very old looking corner here at the junction of Druid and Tanner Street. Notice the different colour brickwork and the wonderful Bermondsey Scrap sign and just look at the vertical drain pipe on Tanner Street with the conduit running over the street sign.

I've also noticed how the street signs came after the scrap merchants sign for they are placed at different heights and look rather new. Take a closer look at Druid Street and you'll notice a blue circle with some writing upon and here at this corner of a railway bridge support is a little piece of local London World War II history.

The plaque was placed by the local borough council of Southwark and it tells a very simple story of the Druid Street bombing back on the 25th of October 1940 when a bomb hit the railway arch and killed 77 people who were sheltering from the air raid. That was over 68 years ago and who would have thought a site dedicated to corners would find out something like that.

May they rest in peace...