Contributions of the group Secret London

Vinegar Brewery - Tanner Street - Bermondsey - late 20th century vinegar vats

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:42:53 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

The Woolwich Ferry - London - 1 9 2008 - ‘John Burns’ loading at the South Pier

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:39:15 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

Tower Bridge Experience - pump no4 26 8 2008

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:12:26 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

This group of four photographs was taken during a guided tour of the interior of Tower Bridge, London. Some of the equipment is no longer in use and is retained for its historic interest.

Tower Bridge Experience - pistons & cylinders - 26 8 2008

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:12:22 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

This group of four photographs was taken during a guided tour of the interior of Tower Bridge, London. Some of the equipment is no longer in use and is retained for its historic interest.

Nursery Row gardens collage - photographed 26.9.2007

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:58:50 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

IMG 2899-001-Lost Mitten

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:58:44 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Bronze sculpture of a child's lost mitten by Tracey Emin, as part of her Baby Things series, outside the Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square. foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/collishaw-emin-rego

IMG 1485-001-The Watch House

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Tue, 28 May 2024 10:53:29 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Info about the Watch House from the Heath & Hampstead Society's website (with their typos corrected by me):

"On June 19 1829 the Metropolitan Police act was given Royal assent. This placed policing arrangements for the Capital under the control of Sir Robert Peel. Sir Robert organized the force on civilian lines rather than paramilitary. It became the third official non paramilitary police force in the world alongside the City of Glasgow Police and the Paris Police. A blue uniform was chosen rather than red (which was considered a military colour) to reflect the neutral status of the force. Until 1864 the officers wore top hats to maintain a civilian appearance. They were armed solely with a wooden truncheon and a rattle to attract assistance if required. Applicants had to be under the age of 35, in good health and be at least five foot seven inches in height.

Metropolitan Police patrols first took to the streets on 29 September 1829. Some members of the community regarded them as a threat to civil liberties. The original force consisted of 2 Commissioners, 8 Superintendents, 20 Inspectors, 88 Sergeants and 895 Constables, patrolling the streets within a seven-mile radius of Charing Cross. Between 1829 and 1830, 17 local divisions, each with a central police station, were established with each division assigned a letter. Hampstead was division S, and from 1830 officers from the police station in the Watch House at 9 Holly Walk patrolled its streets maintaining public order and combatting crime. After this time prisoners were confined in the Watch House rather than the single cell Parish Lock Up, which was built into the garden wall of 14 Cannon Lane."

Here's a photo of the Parish Lock Up:

Container City

nobody@ipernity.com (benastrada) — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:24:30 +0000

benastrada has posted:

From the Trinity Buoy Wharf website:
'The original Container City™ project, Container City 1 was completed in 2001. The building was initially three-storeys high, providing 12 work studios across 446m2. A fourth floor was added in 2003 to accommodate three more live/work apartments.'

Iguanodon - Crystal Palace Park - 24.7.2008

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:20:11 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

A group of photos from 2007-8 showing the dinosaur sculptures that were created for the Great Exhibition of 1854, six years before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Given the knowledge at that time of dinosaurs and their contemporaries there are some inaccuracies. They are now Grade 1 listed!

Queen Elizabeth Street & balloon - June 1999

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:13:09 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

The balloon was indeed tethered - until the day it escaped and ended up in the Nunhead area, about three miles to the south-east, I think. Scanned from a 35mm film print.

Tamesis Dock floating bar - Vauxhall - London - 30.10.2014

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:53:23 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

This was a surprise - a former dutch barge moored just upstream from the Houses of Parliament and looking decidedly tatty - certainly at superstructure level. The hull looked quite well maintained.

'Doing a wheelie' near Surrey Docks Farm - Rotherhithe

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:58:06 +0000

Phil Sutters has posted:

I do not know who the sculptor is.

IMG 9313-001-Mounted Met Police 1

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Fri, 26 May 2023 11:54:41 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Coming up Coborn Road

IMG 8400-001-Jeremy Bentham Auto-Icon

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:25:11 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Jeremy Bentham's "auto-icon" (his skeleton, stuffed and wearing his clothing, with a wax head) on display in the UCL Student Centre.

IMG 8470-001-Keystone Crescent 2

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:19:34 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Lovely crescent, built in the mid-1800s, just off the Caledonian Road near King's Cross station. It has the smallest radius of any crescent in Europe and is unique in that there are houses along both sides.

IMG 8602-001-Real Time

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:38:54 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Man stuck in a clock, where he is perpetually cleaning the glass, above the pavement of Eastbourne Terrace, Paddington. This is by Maarten Baas.

IMG 8833-001-Doorkins Magnificat Died 2020

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:25:02 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Doorkins was a rescue cat who decided to make her home in Southwark Cathedral. The cathedral is now home to Hodge, another rescue cat. cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/visiting/hodge-the-cathedral-cat/the-story-of-hodge

IMG 8835-001--Hop Exchange 3

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:25:11 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Grade II listed building in Southwark Street. Good info in this blog post by David Charnick of Footprints of London: footprintsoflondon.com/live/2016/10/at-the-heart-of-the-hop-trade

IMG 8852-001-WH & H LeMay Hop Factors 1

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:25:21 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

Grade II listed building in Borough High Street. Good info in this blog post by David Charnick of Footprints of London: footprintsoflondon.com/live/2016/10/at-the-heart-of-the-hop-trade

IMG 9074-001-4 Princelet Street

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Sun, 14 May 2023 18:11:18 +0000

MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix) has posted:

My favourite Spitalfields building.