The 38 to Clapton Pond

Boo! (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Painted sign for the stage door of Her Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, where Beerbohm Tree was the actor-manager and where Tommy Cooper died on stage. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

(We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

"Rome was once gay in a decadent way/But I'm sure that it never was quite like London at night." Noel Coward (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

A ransom note on behalf of your local. Do you want this to happen to your Dog & Duck? Well? (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Near Woolwich, somewhere under the Thames, an indeterminate London in the borough of… well, where? (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Canary Wharf and the City from the disused railway line at Muswell Hill. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

As seen in Mad Men ( Season Three ), the famous London Fog raincoat from Baltimore, USA. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Our shot looks like something out of the opening title sequence montage from some futuristic 1960s action adventure show. This is The City in the 21st century. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Is this the address to which one retires when too old to party? (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Can't help wondering if this was a patriotic statement gone wrong or a seditious/satirical gesture… (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

(We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Visible here – buildings from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

The old cliché goes that one will never meet a "nice girl" with whom to settle down with in a bar – but what if the whole bar is named after her? (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

…giant cutting up the Edgware Road away from Marble Arch? I could have sworn… (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

(We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

(We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

(We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

… at high summer in London. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

The Law Courts, architecturally London's secular cathedral. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

A bygone sign in Bull Inn Court, site of the wonderful Nell Gwynne pub just off the Strand and murder scene of the actor William Terris, December 1897. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

A lion guards the door of the Indian Embassy. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Street theatre oustide St Paul's Covent Garden, the actors' church. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Lunch. Get it HERE . (No Ginger pig English ham and dijon mustard sandwiches changed hands for this plug.)

Sunset on the old Port of London Authority building at Tower Hill, early autumn 2010