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#photoblog Pub Sign at the National Gallery

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From the National Gallery's entrance way mosaic by Boris Anrep.

#photoblog Another Kensington Sunset

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#photoblog Pano

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#photoblog Mosaic

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Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road Underground.

Tommy

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#photoblog The (Street) Sign Of Four

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Street named for Sherlock Muse, bitter arch-rival of the more famous Sherlock Holmes…

#photoblog Natural History Museum

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#photoblog Truly Grim Up North London

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Yesterday's post featured the sad sight of a dead pub in Fortis Green, North London . Did it die of natural causes? Or something more sinister? Perhaps we'll never know – because the cop shop across the road has gone the same way as the pub… Whodunnit?

#photoblog #DeadPub in Fortis Green

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RIP The Alexandra.

#photoblog Constant Work In Progress

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#photoblog Madia Vale Mosaic

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#photoblog Soho #StreetArt

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#photoblog St Paul Behind Bars

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#photoblog Solution to a Sticky Problem in Kensington

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#photoblog The Sun Sets in the West (End)

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#photoblog Valentine's Day on the Caledonian Road #StreetArt

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#photoblog Caff Week No.7

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Kingsley Amis once quipped that the three most depressing words in the English language are "Red or white?" "Red or brown?" on the other hand is a much more cheerful proposition…

#photoblog Caff Week No.6: Same Gag In North and South London

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A twofer today - two former public toilets turned into cafés. Toulous in Hampstead Garden Suburb… … and LooLoo's in Putney… Quite flushed with mirth I am. Tee hee.

#photoblog Caff Week No.5 Gone But Not Forgotten

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R.I.P Cooke's Pie & Mash shop on The Goldhawk Road. Famed as the caff in Quadrophenia, it is much missed.

#photoblog Caff Week No.4 Not-So-Fancy Islington

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#photoblog Caff Week No.3 See You At The Ace

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It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint… Legendary bikers' hang-out on the North Circular near Stonebridge.

#photoblog Caff Week No.2 Ken's Cafe West Ham

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It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint… Welcome to Ken's Cafe, Green Street, where Bobby Moore and his West Ham mates taked tactics after training.

#photoblog Caff Week No.1

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It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint. I'm starting on Caledonian Road… … the caff opposite Pentonville Prison. Now look at the name again.

#photoblog John Milton's Square Plaque

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John Milton London born-and-bred, as well as London-born ON Bread Street. His CV includes the job description Prose Polemicist. One seldom sees opening advertised for prose polemicists these days. There's no money it it, I s'pose.

#photoblog N2 Archaeology

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The guys at beloved East Finchley store Tony's Continental replaced their sign recently, unearthing this gem from the 70s in the process.

#photoblog High Above Oxford Street

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On the roof of John Lewis dept store…

#photoblog BB King at Elephant & Castle

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The Deep South is famed for its music… Elephant & Castle.

#photoblog 'Ello Sailor

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#photoblog How To Use A Phone Box

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"Daddy, why's there a big red cupboard in the middle of the street?" An instructional scene on Clerkenwell Green as a dad tells his daughter how we used to live.