ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS

Devoted to the unexpected details that help to make life in the city worth living

Thursday, 19 August 2010

Thames House, Millbank SW1

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When the Security Service (better known as MI5 despite being renamed as far back as 1931) moved into the former ICI building just down the...
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Sunday, 8 August 2010

Methodist Missionary Society, Marylebone Road NW1

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The trees along Marylebone Road are very nice and all that but they make photographing the sculpture jolly difficult. I think I will have ...
Monday, 2 August 2010

Ferguson House, 15 Marylebone Road NW1

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This self-effacing 1957 office block stands on the site of one of Charles Dickens's favourite houses which he occupied from 1839 to...
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Friday, 30 July 2010

Former Woolworth HQ, Marylebone Road NW1

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Woolworth's UK headquarters is a dull building by that very dull architect, Colonel Seifert. In 1955 it was believed that covering the...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

42-46 Wigmore Street W1

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This pair of very relaxed putti is above the central arch of an 1882 shop designed by George & Peto in the Dutch style, in red brick w...
Friday, 16 July 2010

Victoria Palace Theatre, Victoria Street SW1

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I have been given a great advance birthday present - a Fujifilm Finepix HS10 with a 30x zoom . This brings even the most skyward sculp...
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Friday, 9 July 2010

Stanford, 12-14 Long Acre WC2

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Stanford was Mecca for explorers, empire-builders and travelling salesmen, supplying maps of the world when a third of it was coloured pin...
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