Holland Park – Photo of the Week

Some midnight digging on Holland Park Avenue.
This stumpy iron thing used to be twenty feet tall and was a vent for methane from the sewers. There used to be many of them around London, apparently.
(Taken on a mobile phone.)

Westfield Welcomes you to its Gridlock

Westfield, Britain’s third biggest indoor shopping mall, opened Thursday. Though the real opening was today, Saturday.
It’s cold, grey and raining but that, seemingly, has not deterred anyone.
A huge number of people have been drawn to this new place. There are stewards, as you might find at a football match, guiding the crush in an improvised [...]

Shepherds Bush – the end of Ginglik

 

Shepherds Bush Green

I’m sure somewhere there’s a society whose aim is to get time and tide to stop and wait for someone. There’s probably one dedicated to getting moss to grow on stones that are constantly being turned over.
Then there’s certainly a group called The Shepherds Bush Common Improvement Project. These people have been granted [...]

Holland Park – Photo of the Week

Holland Park – Photo of the Week

Shepherds Bush Roundabout, Blue Thing Explained

Having stared at it on and off for nearly 10 years, I thought I knew what this odd looking thing was.
Plonked on the edge of Shepherds Bush roundabout, like some giant chemical toilet, I always thought is was simply a solar-powered water feature.
Sun shines, blue water cascades. That simple.
I’ve also heard many people explain it [...]