Beginning in Bedford Square, I notice this grand Victorian edifice - I'd guess 1860s - on the corner of Bayley Street and Tottenham Court Road. What was it - answers below, if you know?
Rathbone place boasts what looks like a parish boundary marker, obscured by paint, but I'm not sure of the parishes, if so - anyone know?
This is a rather brilliant pub sign in 3D - note the projecting nose.
I tried to take this shot so it looked like the gaslight was photobombing its 20C cousin ...
Nearby, some decorative corbels again - this time with built-in pineapples ...
A parochial or borough bollard on Goodge Street. St Pancras?
Not a triumph of art, but nonetheless eminent figures of Fitzrovia, tower included, depicted on Goodge Place ...
Beautiful turret of the King and Queen public house, corner of Riding House Street ...
A pleasantly peculiar street name ...
The Post Office Tower remains, for all my love of things Victorian, perhaps my favourite London building ...
And here it is in close-up ...
Wondering when this pub sign might date from - 1930s-1950s?
Sorry; I just sniggered at the name. I am a bad person.
Various rather ominous-looking Greek Gods adorn a building in Bolsover Street ...
On the Hampstead Road, one of the few grand Victorian wrecks still in central London. Most have been converted into flats or offices or something - but this somehow malingers on - the LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL. So many things to photograph here ...
At the back of Euston Station, some rather attractive stairs
And a view of those Camden tower blocks which suggests a militarised zone ...
In the nearby park, formerly church burial ground, a Georgian memorial with some quirky biographical detail ...
On the old tube station, closed, opposite Euston, the sinuous ?1970s? letters above an abandoned advertising hoarding ...
Meanwhile, this shrieks 1980s to me ...
Whilst George Stephenson, relocated from the 19C, looks on in dismay ...
And finally a memorial to the largely forgotten 'Silver Jubilee Walkway' whose silver plaques still dot the South Bank (and perhaps a few other places) ...
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