The doors of the former Hugh Myddelton school (long since converted into flats, sadly) contain a couple of unusual headings, apart from the typical 'Boys' and 'Girls and Infants' reflecting, perhaps, it sheer size.
This house in St. James' Walk has a rather narrow door ...
Whereas, not far distant, 11 Sekforde Street has a gaslight that belongs more in Mayfair ...
The arches (at the rear of a warehouse?) opposite boast an unusual metal STICK NO BILLS sign ...
Railings on Woodbridge Street, surrounding the Woodbridge Chapel ...
An inadvertent pavement abstract ...
And more railings outside the chapel ...
And a strange and mysterious piece of street furniture (ok, I know it's telephone and cable, but still) on Hayward's Place ...
The unlikely conjunction of an old (?electric?) light fitting, a stink pipe from the sewers, and a gaslight, on the border of St. James's church ...
There's something perfect about this simple bench, right down to the sagging piece of timber ...
On Clerkenwell Close, ventilating grill above window (bottom) and decorative ironwork of singular quality above ...
Easy to miss the beauty of the benches on the Green, unless you look at them exactly from the side ...
Decorative corbel on Albemarle Way ... the face is unusually well-preserved, I think ...
This Flatiron-style narrow building with semi-circular end bit, graced by clever use of cast iron columns ...
Love the proportions of this building on Clerkenwell Road, the way the windows work on each floor ...
Across the junction, some brilliant decorative interruptions to the brickwork ...
Presumably Clerkenwell guided walks operate on the Dr. Who 'psychic paper' principle ...
I like this hangover from the golden age of air travel (well, 1960s?) ...
Warehouse in the close at the bottom of Britton Street ,,,
With this strangely isolated tree in corner ...
And here's the beautiful iron finishing things that are holding that warehouse together - just beautiful ...
Disturbing geometry on St. John Street ...
Never noticed how petulant the Little Red Man looks before ...
Obligatory shot of the classic Smithfield roof ...
The lion of Justice and Strength of Herbert and Son's Weighing Machines (thanks for Alan Wylie to link http://www.herberthistory.co.uk/ ) ...
The part of Smithfield that was recently saved from redevelopment ... I think a new 'retail units' plan is going through now ...
A Victorian mid-road sewer ventilating grill, quite possibly 1830s or 1840s ...
Justice - who always looks tiny on camera but is actually rather massive ...
And some decorative work on the pub opposite ...
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