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Sunday, 29 November 2009
Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue WC2 (now Odeon Covent Garden)
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No pageant called Drama through the Ages could omit a Shakespeare section, not in London anyway, and Gilbert Bayes included some of the mo...
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue WC2 (now Odeon Covent Garden)
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Gilbert Bayes had a wonderful eye for animals. Look at the way these horses stretch and strain against the control of the charioteers in t...
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue WC2 (now Odeon Covent Garden)
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The Odeon Covent Garden wasn't an Odeon and has never been in Covent Garden: when it was built in 1931 it was the Saville Theatre in the...
Saturday, 21 November 2009
3-5 Bishopsgate EC2
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When the Royal Bank of Scotland decided to build a grand City of London office in Bishopsgate in 1877, they knew they had to compete with th...
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Saturday, 14 November 2009
Croydon Public Library, Katharine Street CR9
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Under the balustrade of the Braithwaite Hall is the usual line of portrait busts of the great and good, so familiar a feature of Victorian l...
Monday, 9 November 2009
Croydon Public Library, Katharine Street CR9
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The Braithwaite Hall above Croydon library is adorned with as much symbolic sculpture as could reasonably be fitted in, commissioned from ...
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Friday, 6 November 2009
Croydon Town Hall, Katharine Street CR9
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Eric Aumonier, sculptor of one of the invisible winds on 55 Broadway, came from a dynasty of architectural carvers founded by his grandfat...
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