Category Archives: england

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green

16 Jul Filed under design, england, london, places, urban. No comments.

thames bar­rier park is a mod­ernist park design which com­bines for­mal mod­ernist geo­met­ric top­i­ary with wild­flower mead­ows. the hedged ‘wave’ fea­ture, and danc­ing foun­tain, nod to the area’s dock­land past. you can visit from the dock­lands light rail­way, float­ing pon­toon sta­tion, next to lon­don city … Read More →

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bethnal green museum of childhood

1 Nov Filed under architecture, design, england, london, places. No comments.

 

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london

24 Oct Filed under england, london, places. No comments.
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down in hoxton

11 Sep Filed under england, london, places. No comments.
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down by the canal in clerkenwell

21 Aug Filed under england, london, places. No comments.

all the per­for­mances of human art, at which we look with praise or won­der, are instances of the resist­less force of per­se­ver­ance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyra­mid, and that dis­tant coun­tries are united with canals. samuel john­son

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garden, london

24 Apr Filed under england, london. No comments.

 

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st pancras london

17 Apr Filed under england, london. No comments.
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london

14 Feb Filed under england, london, places. No comments.
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y i like camden

24 Oct Filed under england, london. No comments.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees And I found her bitter And I reviled her. arthur rim­baud

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bucolic in britain

11 Oct Filed under england, the lakes. No comments.

decided to escape lon­don for a few days at the end of august. rain in the lake dis­trict? who’d’ve thought it? the most rain sod­den week­end of my life, but these few dry moments in keswick (home of the coloured pen­cil) gave us some respite