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Tag Archives: Architecture
Open House London
Open House London has long been my favourite cultural event in London each year, despite the fact I’ve always been busy working and never got to enjoy the fun myself but it is the concept of it that I love … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Life, London, Uncategorized
Tagged Architecture, Downing Street, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, Open House London, Tours, Travel
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York Watergate – The ceremonial gateway to the River Thames, out of sight of water.
Following on from Mondays post on the Lions of the River Thames, not to far away is one of the last remnants of an era of grandeur on the Thames that has largely been swept away. The York Water Gate. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, history, Life, London, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Architecture, Embankment, London, River Thames, The Strand, York Watergate
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Introducing The Tulip – Londons slightly erotic looking skyscraper
It says something about how much development is occurring in London and also for the longevity of my blog that my 2014 post entitled Looking Up At London is now thoroughly out of date. I’ve written other blogs about the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cool Britannia, Life, London, News
Tagged Architecture, Construction, London, Skyscapers, The Scalpel, The Tulip, Towers
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Rising like a Phoenix from the ashes.
At this time of year, my back garden so often looks like it has taken a real battering from months of incessant rain, sometimes snow and many weeks of seemingly constant gales or worse. Sometimes a tree will blow … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, history, Life
Tagged Architecture, Bam, Chicago, Disasters, history, Iran, Life, Lisbon, London, Manchester, Phoenix from the ashes, Reconstruction, V1 Vixen
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Looking up at London
On Saturday I did one of my Jack The Ripper walks with a particularly brave and sporting Australian lady who wanted to combine an amazing history walk and a way to see a bit of London that most tourists wouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, London, Photography, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Architecture, history, Jack The Ripper, Life, London, Photography, The Gherkin, The Shard, Travel, Whitechapel, Ye Olde England Tours
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Photos from St. Paul’s Cathedral
This Monday I had the chance to do something I don’t get to do very often and that is enjoy London as a tourist. It’s easy when you live and work here to get bogged down with the traffic congestion … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Britannia, history, London, Photography, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Architecture, Culture, history, Life, London, Photography, Pinterest, St Pauls Cathedral, Tours, Ye Olde England Tours
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Qasr Amr – pleasure palace of the Caliphs
Qasr Amr is located on the desert road to Azraq and only a short distance from Iraq. It is possibly the highlight of the chain of desert castles built in eastern Jordan. It was built by Caliph Walid I around … Continue reading
Posted in history, Travel
Tagged Architecture, Caliph, castles, Culture, Desert, history, Islam, Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia, Middle-East, Tours, Travel
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The destruction of historic Mecca by Saudi Arabia
Below is another article which I have recently written for the Muslim Academy site which is run to increase East-West understandings. If the first church of St. Paul was to be destroyed or the house of Mary, mother of Jesus, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, history, News, Politics
Tagged Architecture, cultural vandalism, Culture, history, Islam, Mecca, Middle-East
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A Soliloquy to my childhood city or a brief guide to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Though I have lived in the London area for most of my life, I still don’t really consider myself as being at home here. No offence to anyone but home is always home and the city I consider home is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, history, Northumberland and Durham
Tagged Architecture, Culture, engineering, history, Newcastle, nostalgia, Travel
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