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11 days ago

• LondonGuy54 says: British Secret Intelligence Service HQ, Vauxhall, London. July 2008
  
  This is the HQ of the British secret intelligence service ("M.I.6") at Vauxhall in London. As I stood taking the photo I imagined the organisation's most famous employee, James Bond, sitting at his desk, filling out the paperwork after his latest operation. They never include that bit in the movies.
  
  It's funny how the secret service has a website:
  http://www.sis.gov.uk/output/Page79.html

12 days ago

• LondonGuy54 says: Battersea Power Station (disused). July 2008
  
  I took this photo last week and the building looked good in the early evening sunlight.
  One day Battersea Power Station will be turned into something wonderful as has happened with the Tate Modern (which was also previously an electricity generating station). But probably not during my lifetime!

13 days ago

• LondonGuy54 says: Thames sailing barge. Greenwich, London, June 2008
  

22 days ago

• ruby says: Nelson Mandela 90th birthday concert at Hyde Park
  I wish I were in London now.
  
  And I miss Freddie by the way.....
  
  

29 days ago

• ruby says
  
  The things I noticed during my London trip last week are:
  
  Immigration officers were severer than the last year.
  Tubes have no air-conditioning, YET.
  The Swiss centre was gone.
  Carol Vorderman lookes much younger than before (but has a huge bottom).
  Jamie Oliver put on weight.
  G. Bush likes T. Blair more than G. Brown.
  M&S sells "Edamame salad".
  A pint of milk costs 80p! (65p last year)
  
  I still love London, of course!!!

Jun 15, 2008

• LondonGuy54 says
  
  This is in the middle of London, St.James's Park. If you missed the buildings in the background you'd think it was in the country, right?
• LondonGuy54 says
  
  Another photo today...
  
  Some guards marching through St.James's Park.
• LondonGuy54 says
  
  Here are some photos I took in London today.
  
  The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, riding in their carriage on the way back to Buckingham Palace.

Jun 08, 2008

• LondonGuy54 says: London Open Squares
  
  This weekend every year is London Open Squares when a number of private gardens open their gates and allow the public to come in. I'm not especially interested in plants and gardens but I love getting to visit these secret places. In past years I've visited a garden created on moored boats in the shadow of Tower Bridge, Lambeth Palace, the Westminster Abbey gardens and some amazing places I'd never otherwise get to see.
  This year I decided to concentrate on the area around Regents Park. I started at the Royal College of Physicians' medicinal garden (photo). The college has existed since somewhere around 1500 although the current buildings are 18th and 20th century. Then on to a big private garden that belongs to the Queen, a small communal garden (where I discovered Bob Marley had lived in the 1970s) and finally the Japanese-inspired roof garden at the School of Oriental and African Studies. While I was at SOAS I took the opportunity to see some wonderful little exhibitions...fantastic old Chinese and Arabic calligraphy and a photographic exhibition of Taureg people living in the Sahara.

May 04, 2008

• LondonGuy54 says: I'm in London!
  Tags: london
  I'm a Londoner in London! If anyone wants to be in contact just send me a message. If you are in London we can meet up for a warm beer!