#st james's

[mymonochromeplace]

The Naval and Military Club in St James’s Square, London

It is also known as the In and Out Club

[englishshops]

[vintage-london-images]

The north gatehouse, main entrance of St James's Palace seen from St James Street. Today St James Palace has been cleaned and restored back to its red terracotta brick, but this is 1960 and we see it here looking black from air pollution.

[aneverydaything]

Day 1300, 13 January 2022

[sometimeslondon]

The Golden Lion pub in St James’s

[wrooom]

Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 

"Sackville Street. West End. London. UK."

By Standhisround in Westminster, UK

[metrocentric]

No, no, no. This is not 'Mayfair London': Floris is on Jermyn Street, which is in St James's. People in Hayes, Middlesex know that; people in Hayes, Kent know that. Mayfair being the other side of Piccadilly which is in turn the other side of the churchyard of, seen here to the right, St James's Church. This is almost physically painful. You may be Killing Eve, but you are also Killing Metrocentric.

That disproportionate spasm of pedantry discharged, the baby in the bin scene was class, keep it up!

[londiniumlundene]

The Pelicans of St James’s Park

Ever since Charles II received some as a gift from a Russian ambassador in 1664, pelicans have had a central London home in St James’s Park. Though they might be huge, having the second largest wingspan of all living birds – up to 3.6 m – and rather fearsome looking beaks, the pelicans are rather sociable, and quite friendly towards the human visitors to the park.

Not that they are like this towards other creatures in St James’s Park. Whilst child-eating pelicans may be a myth, at least one pelican has been caught on camera showing a taste for pigeon – swallowing the unfortunate bird both whole and still alive. Mischievous pelicans of the past were also known to fly over to nearby Reagent’s Park, where they would help themselves to the fish given to the animals in London Zoo. 

Three pelicans currently reside in the park, going by the names of Louis, Vaclav and Gargi (some websites give other names, but these are the three from the Royal Parks’ own page so one hopes they would be correct!). They can be seen getting their lunch of whiting, mackerel or herring every day between 2:30 and 3:00pm, when they gather near Duck Island Cottage at the eastern edge of the park.