Bricks...

With the advent of glass has a material used to make buildings what a throw back to the past this corner is in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

In fact this corner is part of a wall to a National Grid Gas Holder site on Imperial Road near London's trendy Chelsea Harbour.

The corner though is a rather robust brick column with two walls extending outwards. I do love the street sign on the left hand wall letting us know of the whereabouts of Imperial Square. The bricks though look old even dirty but they have character and strength.

This corner is certainly in need for a little bit of a repair and a bit of pointing too.

Russell Square North West Corner...

In the north west corner of London's Russell Square you may come across one of the few remaining taxi-cab shelters. So with me being rather busy with others matters relating to the world's finest taxi trade I thought we could re start this blog with a look at the corner of one of these amazing shelters.

We can see on close inspection that the shelter is of wooden construction which makes it very easy to repair and maintain. I love the vertical lines mixed with a few but much stronger horizontal and vertical beams that obviously give this structure its integrity. The contrast of the green and the grey kick board or should I say skirting board works well too.

If you do happen to be in Russell Square pop along to its North West Corner and have a butchers at a building and corner of a bygone Victorian era.