Old Church Street SW3...

We have a number of corners here but what really strikes me with this corner shot isn't the brickwork or the vertical pipe but the clash of the red and olive green colours.

Old Church Street SW3 in Chelsea is a beautiful pleasant mainly residential street. Here we have found a shop next to a home and the difference in use and colour creates a stunning setting let alone corner. Please forgive the bollard in the shot they seem to breed in Chelsea.

The corner for me here though is the small corner at the base of the two buildings were the colours clash of should I say collide...

Pavilion Street and Road SW3...

What a corner we have here at the junction of Pavilion Street and Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea SW3.

Just look at the wonderful clean lines created by the brickwork which travel off into the perspective. On closer inspection we find that on the left hand wall a number of windows have in fact been bricked up (was this over the window tax) with just a slot and an air brick providing ventilation. On the right hand wall we see the window is in place but a wrought iron grill is placed across for security.

At the top of the window frame notice the angled brick work which is giving strength to the construction of the opening and taking up some of the load weighing downwards, today we would just place a lintel across opening. The terracotta colour of the bricks certainly work well when you introduce a lighter shade allowing a pattern to develop around the whole of this building. The ridge that juts out also makes a very handy window ledge and don't worry I haven't forgot the bollard...

Savage Gardens E.C.3...

What a corner and what a sign "Savage Gardens E.C.3." with a very 1960's look. The Corporation of London just get the signage right for the era and the area of the square mile. This corner is actually under a railway bridge and with the trunking and metal duct we have a sort of working functional corner complete with plastic binbags and a telecoms hub.

The walls themselves are pebbled dashed and painted a rather off white with all the usual London dirt and grim attaching itself over the months if not years.

For me though this corner is made because of that one old road sign, a piece of modern history under a railway arch...

A Welbeck Corner...

This is a very different corner to what I've noticed recently for we have a house that is converted into apartments/flats but the look design of the property is very different when looked at from a corner perspective.

From the front elevation we notice the beautiful smooth greystone with a short iron fence/gate yet from the side and the corner we see the rather nice red brick just merge with the grey stone. In fact the drain pipe seems to draw a line where this change takes place and the box sash windows are a must for period properties like these. My only critisium of this place is that it appears the road sign could be better placed just seems to close to the window ledge.

Oh let's not forget those tiles...