ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS

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

Saturday, 18 September 2010

Jubilee Market Hall, Covent Garden WC2

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The market porters of Covent Garden were famous for carrying tottering piles of baskets of fruit, veg and flowers, up to six or seven, on...
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Old Admiralty (Ripley) Building, Whitehall SW1

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The 1723 Admiralty building, now the oldest surviving government offices, was originally built as apartments for the members of the Boar...
Monday, 13 September 2010

Apollo Victoria, Wilton Road SW1

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The Apollo Victoria theatre was originally built in 1928 by E. Walmsley Lewis as a monster cinema for Gaumont, whose executive architec...
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Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Gower Street WC1

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RADA was built in 1927 by Geoffrey Norman, with these actors holding masks of Tragedy and Comedy sculpted by Alan Durst over the main entr...
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Friday, 3 September 2010

4 Millbank SW1

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No 4 Millbank was built in 1912 by Simpson & Ayrton for the Crown Agents. The allegorical figures over the entrance are by Albert Hodg...
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 ...
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