New River Walk

Headed down the New River Walk between St. Pauls Road and Canonbury Road, right in the heart of Islington. It was so cold, the river was frozen. And there was no one else there, not even a dog walker.

Kings Cross New Roof

I saw this photo in the Evening Standard of the new roof at Kings Cross, so I thought I'd head down to take a look myself.

So I headed off on my bike. Didn't actually get to see much. The area was still closed off. Duh. I did see the roof, but only over some hoardings.

Still, the outside looks nice.

I then headed off to take a skek of the rest of the area. They've done up the German gymnasium at the back very well, and turned a granary store into the new building for Central St. Martins schools of Art.

On the way back, I looped into town via the Brunswick Centre, which is a building a bit like Rowley Way from a previous post. Bit scrubbed up a bit.

Outside the paving slabs have some interesting bits of antique metal inlaid in them. First time I've noticed them, don't know what they mean.

And just a couple of streets away from the Brunswick Centre is London's very own Guggenheim. It used to be a bus depot, now done up and is the McCann Erickson office.

Rowley Way part 2

Some more of Rowley Way. There's a good short film done of the estate, here it is http://www.rowleyway.org.uk/part2.html

Rowley Way, part 1

The famous Rowley Way, in the Alexandra and Ainsworth estate in north west London. I used to cycle past this on the my route to work up Abbey Road. Designed in 1968, work started in 1972 and finished 1978. This is one of my favourite streets in London. It reminds me of a 1970s, pre Star Wars sci-fi film. Like Rollerball filmed in the new concrete buildings of Munich or Logans Run shot in downtown Dallas. It has been the location of quite a few movies and TV programmes, from the Sweeney to Prime Suspect.
It has a definite community feel, with exhibitions and talks on the design and history of the estate on at the residents association.

Just cycling around London

A sign on a building just off Clerkenwell Road.

Big silverback seen just off Kingsland Road

A very fine example of the peeling sign

Down Bermondsey Street

I'm sure someone somewhere must understand these pavement markings.

Near Petticoat Lane

Just off Hackney Road 

Nicely faded sign close to Borough Market

Southwark Street.

I love concertina style doors 

Bad architecture off Hackney Road 

First Post

First post, a bit of a test. An abandoned newsagent in De Beauvoir Town. This blog is just going to show photos of stuff I see as I cycle about London, that I think are interesting. Like a thousand other blogs.