ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS

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

Sunday, 25 August 2013

St Alban, Brooke Street EC1

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Hans Feibusch was the Church of England's favourite artist in the post-war years. Not only was he a convert from Judaism, his art had ...
Saturday, 17 August 2013

Sienna Buildings, Hatton Garden EC1

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These vigorous horses are racing in the palio di Siena, the famous races round the Piazza del Campo in that city. They were made in 1999 b...
Saturday, 10 August 2013

62 Trafalgar Square WC2

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This pair of panels show an ocean liner plowing the Atlantic heading for Canada and a locomotive thundering through the mighty Rockies, i...
Saturday, 3 August 2013

The Intrepid Fox, Wardour Street W1

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The Intrepid Fox was Charles James Fox, the Whig politician, controversialist and rake. One of his most vocal supporters was publican Samu...
Saturday, 27 July 2013

Beaufoy Institute, 39 Black Prince Road SE11

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The Beaufoy Institute grew out of the Lambeth Ragged Schools, set up in 1846 to give a secular education to local children who had previou...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Jolly Gardeners, Black Prince Road SE11

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The Jolly Gardeners (1890) has a rather superior sign in the form of a cast stone relief of two very jolly gardeners, one holding a scyth...
Thursday, 18 July 2013

Waterloo War Memorial Arch, York Road SE1

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Waterloo Station was in the throes of a rebuild when war broke out in 1914, a war that claimed the lives of 585 members of the railway ...
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