Summer n winter

1.
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2.Soho cafe, watching people watching people

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3.Faster than you think

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4.Oxford Street mess

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5.
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6.Piccadilly Circus and the Eros

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7. Didnt notice them till after...

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8.All Souls
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9.
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10.
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11.Berwick Street, home to London's vinyl stores...

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12....and street market
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13.
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14.Centre point demarcating the tacky end of Oxford St (spot the chavs)

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15.Soho 19th century grime

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16.
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17.
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18.the famous Black Street Records

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19.London's favourite meeting point, on the corner

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20. ...and the hidden statues above the fountain

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21.
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22.
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23.Crowds everywhere, gets exhausting

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24.Gay district Soho

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25.Spot the pimp

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26.
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27.Over 500 (registered) rickshaws ply the sex n entertainment district, when not taking a breather

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28.
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29.
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30.Chinatown dragon dancers

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31.Bar Italia, Jimmy's, Nino's Salon, Caffe Nero

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32.
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33.
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34. Change of scenery, the banks of the Thames


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35.
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Symmetry

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36.
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37.
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38.
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39.
40. Tate Modern

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41.
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42. Light installation (hey kidster), this gives you snow blindness in different shades of colour

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43.
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44. Back to the West End, and a caught look

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45. The 3 streets of the West End Chinatown, the closest London gets to a small ghetto,
and tiny focus for 180,000 Chinese who live spread out across the capital along with everyone else

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46.
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47.
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48.
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49.
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50.
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51.
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52.
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53. The inner city, the leafy Kurdish high street

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54.
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55.
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56.
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57. The Barbican Centre, luxury brutalism at $2million a pop

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58.
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59.
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60.
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61. Hampstead-on-the-Hill, one of Londons urban villages

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62.Follow the hat

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63.
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64.
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65.
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66.
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67.Journeys end

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WINTER 2006

1.Chinatown celebrations, the largest outside China (300,000 crowd)

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1b.
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2. Many of the palaces and grand buildings set up ice rinks, this is the vast Natural History Museum

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3.Xmas lights

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3b.
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4.Lonesome phonebox

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5.
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6.Lonesome scooter

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7.
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8.http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q49/zupermaus/DSC00029roatted.jpg





9.Hangover cure

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10.
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11.
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12.
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13.
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computerised light installation and dance @Trafalgar Square

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15.
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16.
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toilet signs

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to be continued...

these ones are off the mobile:

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Great pics - captures that London feeling very well :okay:

Simply brilliant. How can you beat that?

Very good thread bro. Very very good. Some of it made me laugh too, is that 'no stopping and staring' sign for real?

nah, just a piece of guerilla art on the Millennium bridge.

Great to see street scenes. My picks: summer #2 and 57, winter #8 (really bad luck it is overexposed, otherwise great view with SwissRE in the background) and 9.

Awesome! I bet summer in London is great.

such a wonderful blending and confluence of the worlds people.
awesome thread, two thumbs up.
captivates the true soul of london

Very good thread bro. Very very good. Some of it made me laugh too, is that 'no stopping and staring' sign for real?

It's opposite the Tate Gallery (Modern Art Museum) which should give away the idea behind it ;O)

Great to see street scenes. My picks: summer #2 and 57, winter #8 (really bad luck it is overexposed, otherwise great view with SwissRE in the background) and 9.


Thanks, yep winter no 8 is off Brick Lane, its a great view of the Gherkin but taken off a crappy phone as alot of these are - the price ya pay for opportunism. I wish I could afford a high res micro thing

More pix of the streetscape

London cacophany, retail wonderland or inhuamn nightmare depending on your wallet
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street 'furniture'
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London is looking freaking good....looks like alot of street life is going on - lovely:D

Great pictures.

God I miss London. Back in August though.

The greatest city in the world? You betcha!

Brings back memories. Very sentimental :)

Lol since when is SoHo the gay district? I wondered there drunk one night with my friends trying to find a strip club. Anyways good pics.

Soho (not SoHo, don't whatever you do confuse it with the NYC version, this is the 350 year old original) is the gay district, sex district, Chinatownand media village rolled into one, its also part of Theatreland and is chock full of restaurants, bars and cafes - anything goes here. However due to the conservative Westminster Council putting a ban on alcohol after 3am alot of the established clubs are moving out to 'the new West End', the East End. Meanwhile the gay village has half decamped to Vauxhall, south of the river. Theres still alot going on in Soho with the streets still crowded at 4am, but its not the 24hr place it once was.

No alcohol after 3am? Wstminster Council should really not interfere with these kind of matters. Why did they come up with this rule anyway?

AWESOME Thread! great pix, really does show the 'London Feeling'

awesome pictures! wow :applause:

No alcohol after 3am? Wstminster Council should really not interfere with these kind of matters. Why did they come up with this rule anyway?

The council is populated by some of the richest people in the country, yet mostly living still above shops and bars in small flats. Theyve put pressure on their elected council to curb the partying and invisioned crime associated wth the nightlife - this includes a ban on rainbow flags, pavement cafe tables and other dangerous non-Tory furniture. There is still a ray of hope though, some like minded residents recently blocked the police evicting a brothel, as the sex workers were part of the community and tradition.

56 killer... LOL :lol:

Soho (not SoHo, don't whatever you do confuse it with the NYC version, this is the 350 year old original) is the gay district, sex district, Chinatownand media village rolled into one, its also part of Theatreland and is chock full of restaurants, bars and cafes - anything goes here. However due to the conservative Westminster Council putting a ban on alcohol after 3am alot of the established clubs are moving out to 'the new West End', the East End. Meanwhile the gay village has half decamped to Vauxhall, south of the river. Theres still alot going on in Soho with the streets still crowded at 4am, but its not the 24hr place it once was.

Yea that what I loved about London no matter how late it was, there are still crowds of people wondering the city. I can't wait to visit London again.

yep, one of my memories is coming out of a club at 4am in midwinter and the streets were packed, then whilst queuing for a Japanese noodle bar these drunks started throwing bottles into the crowd - which hurt no one and everyone ignored. After the 3rd one smashed near us we decided to move to Charing X Rd and queued again for a lebanese kebab, whilst watching a couple doing impromptu capoeira for the crowd. Then a girl in front of us found her handbag had been emptied while she did the order, and thought it was us.

In short, London at 4am is thrilling, but its seedy face comes to fore. The streets are also packed with the nights detritus before the Sunday sweepmobiles start at 5am. Another thing to watch out for at night is how much more spectacular the city looks (when the night is yet young and before the rubbish, piss and vomit piles up), with the trees wrapped in fairy lights and the buildings lit from below. Also strange metal structures from the pavement will rise up automatically once darkness falls - theyre open air urinals, which pretty much embody London nightlife, the mangy and the cool.

Simply brilliant

cool thanks! How on earth did you find it again? :cheers: patachou

cool thanks! How on earth did you find it again? :cheers: patachou

London fascinates me. I enjoy combing your thread for unusual images of London!!

Love it!!!! I'll be going to London for the first time ever in May, but I'll be there for only two days...anyone has good ideas of the "not to miss" places? Cool places to just wander around and have a real London feeling?

I'm assuming these are all Spliff's own photos, so will move this to Urban Showcase section!

Love it!!!! I'll be going to London for the first time ever in May, but I'll be there for only two days...anyone has good ideas of the "not to miss" places? Cool places to just wander around and have a real London feeling?


ok after 25 years here, Brick Lane on a Sunday market. Ask directions from Liverpool Street tube, you can pop into the nearby Spitalfields arts market too.