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The Last Englishman to Win Wimbledon

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Fred Perry at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club.

Olden Days Amazon

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St Bartholomew-the-Less

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Weller & Wren

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Paul Weller modelling in the window of DAKS on Jermyn Street – with a reflection of St James's, Piccadilly, Christopher Wren's most westerly London church. Weller follows in the Jermyn Street footsteps of Jarvis Cocker (click HERE for earlier pic).

All Hallows By The Tower

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All Hallows by the Tower – spire bought and paid for by the Canadians after the Blitz – captured through a temporary gap created by demolition.

Long Gone Fleet Street

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30 years and more since the papers started to leave Fleet Street. I wonder Fleet Street will cease to exist as a metonym for the business of publishing papers.

A Tiny Skyscraper

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Senate House, by Charles Holden. Considered to be a skyscraper back in 1937. It's 210 feet (64 metres) high. Diddy. The building is the inspiration for Orwell's Ministry of Truth in 1984 .

An Upright Sort Of A Fellow…

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…on High Street Kensington.

Because It's Making Lots of People Very Cross…?

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Work continues on Crossrail at Tottenham Court Road – where once stood the Astoria Theatre. Much missed.

311 Steps

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Down the stairwell of The Monument.

Aftermath

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St Dunstan in the East

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A bombed-out church in The City.

That London. It's Just Too BUSY For My Liking…

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Nitey-Nite Waterloo…

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If only somebody could write a song about this…

We're SO Over It

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Opened to the public a year ago today. We can see it from all over London, clamouring for attention. Are we bored with The Shard yet?