Recording Session Test
Tag: London
The Strand
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Crossing the River
We walked down Lower Marsh, across Waterloo Bridge, past Somerset House (we’d been hoping to visit Photo London and in to the Strand at Aldwych. Click any image to see them all enlarged (in your browser).
The People Write to Their Leaders
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Hotel Room View
The skyline of the City and the Square Mile has changed since my last visit.
Serpentine
I’m assuming this is the Serpentine. Read the full story of these Kodachrome slides of my father’s restoration here.
We are the hollow men
A couple of London street shots from my father’s collection of Kodachromes from 1955-56. You can read the story of their digitization here. I really like the feel of the top image with its cool blues and grays and the backs of only a few people and no cars in the streets. A definite sense of urban desolation.
Parliament
My mother poses on an empty pavement before the Houses of Parliament. Full story here.
Port of London
Back when London was still a very active port city. The story of these Kodachromes by my father can be found in this post.
Eros Lone Patron
Back when the streets were clean and empty. Another of my father’s Kodachromes from 1955-56 (story here).
The Square Mile
Little changed today. the lorries are a bit different though. Story on these Kodachromes by my father in 1955-56 can be found here.
The Gathering
Back in the day it was Londoners rather than tourists. Methinks Boris would do well here. Kodachrome by my father sometime in 1955-56 while he was in the (US) Army – full story here.
Beetle
Where are all the people? And only a single Beetle on the street?
Another shot in front of Buckingham Palace from my father’s collection of Kodachromes shot in the mid 1950s on his Voigtländer (see the full story here).
The Tower
I wonder if the top image isn’t at Windsor but judging from the hodge-podge of slides there’s nothing to suggest a trip to Windsor so I’m assuming this is also at the Tower. See this post for the story of these slides my father shot in the 1950s. I like the bowler and brolly man in the top image and the little boy out of an Enid Blyton story in the bottom one.
Update: my mother confirms (see comments) that the top photo was indeed taken at Windsor. So I suppose I should update the post title. The Two Towers?
Victoria Memorial
Looks to me like the Spur Rd approach to Buckingham Palace (above) and The Mall (below). Another of my father’s Kodachromes from 1955 or ’56 (see full story here). Note the absence of throngs of tourists or cars or even lanes painted on the road.
A Cricket Match
Another of my father’s Kodachrome shots (see the full story here). Is that Father Brown observing?
Guardin’ of Eden
Another of my father’s Kodachromes from 1955-56, when Sir Anthony Eden was Prime Minister. The only interesting thing about this shot to a contemporary audience is the fact that you could then walk down Downing Street and stand in front of the PM’s place and there were no crowds of tourists (or hecklers or well-wishers). See this post for the story of these kodachrome slide scans.
Nelson
Returning to the Kodachromes my father shot back in the ’50s (see this post for the background on this project) we’ll start with some London street scenes. This one’s a fairly unremarkable tourist shot of Trafalgar Square but I rather like the brownish fog, evocative of a T S Eliot poem.
Piccadilly
See this morning’s post for the full history of these Kodachrome scans of my father’s pictures from the 1950s. One more at Piccadilly Circus and a London cab.
More London Street Scenes…
See the last post for the long-winded description of these scanned Kodachrome pictures my father took in the 1950s:
I I can’t quite place the top image – I thought I saw the outline of Whitely’s in Queensway in the background but a quick look at Google maps reveals that’s wrong. And the bottom picture provides a nice street vantage of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Update, thanks to Agnes Ashe: top photo is the Cenotaph and St Paul’s from Ludgate.