The Victorians seem to have been big on building local corner shops into the fabric of their terraced housing, where the entrance is set into the cut-off corner itself, on a diagonal to the rest of the walls – we actually live in a flat where the original building was once a Victorian corner shop plus accommodation (converted to three individual flats in the 1980’s) 🙂
Tag: city life
A Post About Post
Here in the UK, our postal system livery is red – Pillar Box Red, to be exact! You post your letter in a post box, often found outside a post office, then a postman (male or female, because let’s face it postperson just sounds silly) in a van comes round at set times to empty the box and collect the post to be taken to the sorting office. After sorting all the post into individual delivery rounds, more postmen walk their rounds street by street, positioning their large lockable trolley at the end of each somewhere to keep the post secure, and delivering your post (via a heavy shoulder bag) directly through your door 🙂
Images taken in and around Leytonstone, East London 🙂
Plane, Train, Automobile… Just!
I was really chuffed that I managed to capture a plane, a train, and more than one automobile in this shot – but on getting home I realised the plane looks no more than a tiny white speck in the sky, at the very top of the image about half way across. But a plane it is, nevertheless! 🙂
Cee’s B&W Challenge: Lines and Angles
Some monochrome urban-architecture lines and angles captured this afternoon in Leytonstone, East London for Cee’s B&W Challenge this week 🙂
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Three
Three rolldown doors from the entrance to the Imperial Venue building, three sets of double bi-fold doors on the front of the Fire Station, three Victorian shop-fronted terraced properties, and three pots of geraniums in front of a modern church window, all taken in Leytonstone, East London this afternoon especially for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Three 🙂
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: B&W
Monochrome views of everyday Leytonstone for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week 🙂
Leytonstone Lit Up at Night
I went out for a little wander tonight to try to take some new images of Leytonstone all lit up at night – so here we have a local Moroccan cafe, the underground station, the bus station, McDonald’s, and the Walnut Tree pub 🙂
PS The reason I’ve grayscaled them all is that I had my white balance all wrong tonight so they all had a yellow tinge to them – oops!
Photo A Week Challenge: Bridges
As well as the Underground system, London also has an Overground railway, and so here in Leytonstone there are lots of little bridges like these dotted around all over the place 🙂
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Places People Live
Here in London, tower blocks are a common place where people live 🙂
Fred Wigg and John Walsh Towers, Leytonstone, East London, looking out onto Wanstead Flats
Freight Train and Foliage
I love all these urban juxtapositions of nature and engineering 🙂
Image courtesy of my smartphone – taken in Leytonstone, East London this afternoon 🙂
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