Drain Pipe Cornered...

On the north side of Bryanston Street London W1 we find a church with some rather interesting corners.

Take a close look at the beautiful brick work and notice the boxed drain pipe (lead) and the wonderful rose labelled brackets hold the drain pipe in place.

The Corner Shot...

On Reflection...

I haven't really looked at the corners created by the many glass buildings that we find in London but this one certainly is a little different for the corner isn't  perfect until you get up above the 10/12ft mark and then the building reverts to the 90 degree corner.

Glass though is a material that turns many buildings into real life movie screens with many people catching a glimpse of themselves or if you drive a little in the capital I find them great at checking my brake/fog lights work correctly.

The Corner Shot...

Red Bricks/Grey Slabs...

We are at the corner of Howland and Whitfield Street just off London's Tottenham Court Road and we have a most beautiful raised corner made of red bricks and grey paving slabs.

A question for you all how many corners do you see ? Well the answer should be in the hundreds for the bricks making up either side of the wall displays four the grey slabs have corners and then the wall itself forms a rather lovely corner with pointed lines of mortar holding the hold pile of nicely tied in bricks in place.

I must say that the red bricks have formed a near perfect vertical line with the odd rough edge.

We've given the world wide web bollards can we now give the web a corner or two to look at.

The Corner Shot...

We're back with a beauty...

The Corner Shot is back with a stunning picture/shot of a beautiful corner at Queen Square and Boswell Street WC.1.

The horizontal and vertical lines of this building and windows make a very pleasing corner to the eye coupled with the magnolia and red brick colour clash that sets this building/corner off for me.

The street signs though show a time and era that is different to the one we live in today with Boswell Street displaying the "borough of holborn" and Queen Square in a near dark opaque blue.

Welcome to the Corner shot...

We're Back...

After a lot of thought and deliberation plus a conversation with an amazing graduate from Slade/UCL I' ve decided to bring back the blog "the corner shot".

Please keep an eye out for many more interesting corners...

Stone Corner...

Here we have a stone corner which forms part of the support structure of Vauxhall Bridge.

Notice how the wall/corner is discoloured by the Thames water which this far upstream would be a mixture of salt and fresh water. This is a very simple grey/green corner with vertical/horizontal lines of the stone blocks that form the structure to support the bridge/embankment.

The Clash of Colours...

Well this corner certainly tests your eye sight but in a very odd way it works...

If you happen to be walking up or down Bermondsey Street SE1 you can't miss this building for it and many others have chosen paint jobs that remind us of a georgian past or like this corner of the very bright present.

The pink and orange certainly clash but the black just looks out of place however the blend works...maybe this is because of the grey paving slabs ?

Cornered...

Here we are at the junction or should I say corner of Arundel Street and Temple Place WC2 near Victoria Embank-ment.

This is a beautiful corner for we see the wonderful horizontal lines created by the brickwork enhanced further by the sun light which is gleaming down on Temple Place. The near perfect verticle line created by the contrast between the two walls is just majestic and only further enhanced by the boxed shaped drain pipe on the right hand wall of Temple Place. What I do like though is the iron fence/railing has a propoer corner too and with a little better camera work from me we could have got a really good shot of both corners....one day.

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.

What's in a Corner...

What's in a Corner ? Well here we find a small tree/plant in a nice looking blue glazed pot.

This corner just happens to be in St Christopher's Place W1 where a couple of shops happen to converge. The colour orange the dark brick work along with the grey all brought together by the green and blue of the plant/pot really make this a rather interesting corner and very pleasant on the eye.

The grey stone floor along with the square glass inserts into paving just top off this corner and certainly make St Christopher's Place not just a great place to shop but a nice place to take a stroll down away from the chaos of Oxford Street.

What's in a Corner ?

Welcome to the new decade and more of the Corner Shot but what is it we find in a corner?

Here we are at the Strand just by the taxi-cab stand with the side of the RAF St Clement's Dane Church. What a beautiful stone corner we have here with a pretty old cylindrical drain pipe in the actual corner with looks like it is well bolted to the stone. Look a little closer and we can see that the building is earthed by following the cable and seeing that is disappears under the ground.

We can also see that some of the stone work has been pointed and some remedial work has been done on this most wonderful of church's.

Is that a Boat in this Corner ?

Having a wander around the OXO tower the other evening and what should I come across but a corner of a rather old building with a boat sticking out !

I love corners of buildings and London certainly has many more to offer but I never thought I'd find a boat sticking out of won but then again being this close to the Thames could come in handy....

Camden NW1.....

Welcome to the corner of Albert Street/Delancey Street in Camden NW1.

What do we see but a great house with beautiful stone and wonderful windows with small ledges and wrought iron borders. The road or should I say street signs are actually painted on the brickwork !

However did you notice the windows that have been bricked up ? In the past people were taxed based upon the amount of windows and therefore many were just bricked up and never to see the light of day again.....

More Than Just a Corner...?

Looks like a simple corner with a cement render on the lower half and brick work on the upper part of this building. I should let you know we are in fact at the junction of Tufton Street and Horseferry Road.

Now the traffic cones and notice board are here not for artistic effect but because we are close by the local magistrates court of Horseferry Road which somebody renamed Westminster.

But back to this corner notice the how the shade changes the colour and tone of the magnolia render and admire the lovely small paned window with curved arch. What though is within that frame ? Well it turns out this site was once a home for the needy, the poor and orphans in other words it was a boys home. The Stone which is covered and framed is a foundation stone and was laid by a Lord Kinnaird.

Who would have thought a plain simple corner would hold a local piece of history and all that is left of the home is this foundation stone. The site now is in fact residential property of a sort after nature...

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...

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...