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...

Manchester Square W1...

Here we are in Manchester Square home to Hertford House & London's famous Wallace Collection but if you take a walk around this square you will find architecture & corners like no other.

Just look at the excellent horizontal lines of the brickwork the vertical drains pipes and the fine box sash windows. Even the iron railing with its kerb forms a corner and this just adds to beauty of this era & age when we really started to get things right and build to standard and quality that surpasses some of what we build today.

In fact the only thing out of line here seems to be the paving slabs which seem to resemble crazy paving in parts...

Welcome to the Corner Shot...!

Yes welcome to a brand new blog dedicated to the world of corners. Here in london we have more corners than most due to vast urban expanse that London has become so let us celebrate one part of this and look at the various interesting corners we can find all over the capital.

For the purposes of this blog I will define a corner as 90 degrees & the corner in this picture is St John's Wood Hight Street & Wellington Place. Here we have a brick built wall and a iron fence which allows us all a view of the trees, scrubs and flowers in the gardens held within.