Kaledo Art
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Xuebing Du
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shark vs the universe
occasionally subtle
trying on a metaphor
Show & Tell
we're not kids anymore.
Kiana Khansmith
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almost home
Janaina Medeiros
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Regent Street packed with traffic as new Christmas chandeliers hanging from the middle of the street are turned on in 1959.
The Regent Street lights in 1960.
Regent Street decorations in 1961.
We've never had it so good! Christmas lights in Londons Regent Street 1959 to 1961
Millbank, London; 17.7.2021
Bettmann. Trafalgar Square. London. 1952
Patches of ice
Camden Square in London, 2024, acrylic on canvas paper, 508x405mm, available
Paul O'Gorman Research Centre.
Fighting childhood Leukemia at the institute of child health and Great Ormond Street hospital.
Lamb's Conduit Street, London.
Odeon Cinema, Elephant & Castle
1966
Erno Goldfinger
Modernist London
Photographed on the 30th January 1975 as the Thames overflows its banks at Putney, a mounted policeman, PC Rushmer, rides on his horse Redwing through the flood, looking for people caught unawares. An exceptional tide, over 25 feet at London Bridge had been predicted, and was further swollen by heavy rain upstream.
On a personal note. My sister lives in a lovely flat overlooking the Thames at Putney, and on one rainy Saturday afternoon after a few gins and whilst peering through a rain speckled window, i'm sure I saw the Loch Ness Monster swimming majestically up the Thames. My sister pointed out that after a boozy night out, she once saw pigs flying over the houses of parliament...
Oh well, I'll have a top up please.....
Southbank Brutalism
Alexander Fleming House, Elephant & Castle
1960
Erno Goldfinger
Modernist London
Postcard; showing a painting of Charing Cross Station by Duncan Lamb, 2000
Via
Isle of Dogs
Phoenix Wharf.
Queens Cinema, Paddington
1932
J. Stanley Beard and A. Douglas Clare
Image from The Underground Map
Modernism in Metroland
The Waterloo Air Terminal Photographed in 1956.
The Waterloo Air Terminal was a passenger reception, check-in facility and heliport on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It was used by British European Airways (BEA) and other European airlines between 1953 and 1957. Passengers checked-in and were issued with a boarding card and transported to either London or Northolt Airports using a fleet of coaches.
In 1952 British European Airways announced that it was to build a new London air station to replace the premises at Kensington. The three-acre site had been used for the 1951 Festival of Britain and was adjacent to London Waterloo station and connected by escalator to Waterloo tube station. The terminal building was created by modifying the festival’s Station Gate building. The site was owned by the London County Council and the airline took a five-year lease on the site, it was expected that the conversion of the Station Gate building and the preparation of a coach park would cost around £90,000.
The terminal began operation on 19th May 1953 with the first coach leaving for Heathrow, it was officially opened two days later by Alan Lonnox-Boyd the Minister of Civil Aviation. The terminal allowed passengers to check in for flights of not only British European Airways but other European airlines and was designed to cope with 2,000 passengers an hour. In the first year 900,000 passengers passed through the terminal.
The London County Council had plans to re-develop the south bank site and BEA notified the council that it would hand back the site in 1957 when a new West London Air Terminal was built to replace it. The new terminal was opened on 6 October 1957 and the Waterloo Air Terminal was closed. Bearing in mind this was over sixty years a go, it appears a really modern concept.
Odeon Cinema, Morden
1932
J. Stanley Beard and A. Douglas Clare
Image from dusashenka
Modernism in Metroland
Shuttleworths chocolate factory in Galleywall Road Burmondsey seen here in 1971.
W S Shuttleworts & Co began in 1830 when William Sewell Shuttleworth started to trade in tea in Lincoln. The Company began producing chocolate products at the beginning of the 20th century which soon far outstripped the dwindling sales of tea and this side of the business closed down.
In 1881 the company had diversified into trading in coffee and a small one storey building was bought in Debnams Road, Rotherhithe New Road where six coffee roasters were installed. The coffee trading part of the business was not as successful as had been hoped. In 1890 the fortuitous decision was made to enter the chocolate and cocoa business.
In 1892 the land the factory stood on was required by the South-Eastern Railway and Shuttleworth’s found a new site in Galleywall Road. After being taken over by Rowntree and transferring part of the production of the hugely popular After Eight Mints to Shuttleworths in the 1960s, Rowntree now began to view the factory in Bermondsey as a declining asset but no buyer could be found for the business or the site. Sadly, W S Shuttleworth and Co ceased trading in 1973 and the factory has long since been demolished.
On the corner of Galleywall Road and Southwark Park Road is an open space called Shuttleworth Park, named after the W S Shuttleworth factory that stood nearby. The area of open space had originally been created in 1944 after a V2 had destroyed or damaged a row of houses that had stood on the site.
