BLOGGING FOR LONDON

John Lewis Oxford Street

On, on they come: shoppers for England.

Beautiful but bad. Courtesy of IBM.

Places people work

from Apartment Therapy

Trafalgar Square: brilliant day out

A beautiful building, IMO, Tower Bridge House, designed by The Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP). A gremlin 'floating cushion' has crept in to the picture on the left.

Changeover time at the Fourth Plinth

National Gallery and National Gallery Extension

Going down to see the Fourth Plinth exhibition again last week, I was not pleased to find the back gates to the National Gallery firmly shut. However, when I got round to the front, it became clear why . . . the first exterior refurb of the Extension is taking place.

National Gallery visitors

A fetching 1902 building in Brewer Street. As with many cities, original street names often come from the trades that settled there: 'Brewer' is obvious, and this could be one of those buildings. Fuller's Brewery, obviously relocated for our own times, is still going strong and one of the ales they produce (London Pride) is balanced, hoppy, and deeply thirst quenching.

Cellos, lovely cellos

J.P. Guivier & Co. in Mortimer Street, the shop in London that cheers me beyond all others, reminding me that London has a cultural as well as a commercial heart, and that it still beats strongly.

Footnote: public transport: but not as we know it.