Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Walkie-talkie

In my series of old and new, here we have in Fenchurch Street in London the so-called Walkie-Talkie building; perhaps it is most famous for setting fire to things because of the sun’s reflected rays off its glass… Hmmm… good idea, eh, not far from where the Great Fire of London started, have a building which sets […]

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Upstairs… or downstairs?

I saw this ugly metal fire-escape bolted onto the side of what might have been an elegant nineteenth century building except for the metal boxes bolted to the side which I guess are something to do with air conditioning or central heating or ducts for something or another… Oh and there are grills over the windows […]

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