Year of the big smoke - Page 3

Danny · #41 Posted: **May 24, 2012, 7:50 AM**

Thanks for the pictures and threads!

London is very pretty, as you show in your nice pictures. I like the variety in your shots. Great job!

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain!

ColDayMan · #42 Posted: **May 24, 2012, 8:23 PM**

You're back!!!

muppet · #43 Posted: **May 24, 2012, 11:58 PM**

hey mate

muppet · #44 Posted: **May 25, 2012, 12:12 AM**

Children across the city have come home screaming there is something strange and glowing in the sky, UFO reports rock the airwaves, and people come outside, blinking in the light. It is HOT and SUNNY. Enough to make the headlines, 24 hr live streaming news as the drama unfolds. An unofficial public holiday grips the country as thousands call in sick with inexplicable symptoms, unrelated to the UEFA match. Billions are lost.

mawr from today, 30C.

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gritty West Hampstead, local hero

Took a walk onto Hampstead Heath, a huge area of wilderness slap bang in West London, complete with deer, mansion houses, bathing ponds, hills and woods.

chichi Hampstead-on-the-Hill, one of London's urban villages

muppet · #45 Posted: **May 25, 2012, 12:14 AM**

If you can find Parliament Hill there are amazing views to be had at the top

one of 14 viewing corridors to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites - no tall buildings are allowed to impinge on these swathes across the city,
notably from here to the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.

Canary Wharf skyline

City skyline

muppet · #46 Posted: **May 25, 2012, 12:26 AM**

Into the meadows - very easy to get lost here

then the woods, where you hardly see another soul...

...did in fact get lost in here

then back to civilisation

Bedhead · #47 Posted: **May 25, 2012, 9:43 AM**

Superb shots - I especially love the ones with the sun low in the sky, flooding the streets and bouncing off puddles - that feels like London's signature look, more than any single building.

muppet · #48 Posted: **May 25, 2012, 10:36 AM**

haha yes, we should coin a phrase. The London 'halo'?

arkitekte · #49 Posted: **May 25, 2012, 2:30 PM**

Nice work muppet! All of these are interesting and fun to view. Keep em coming.

muppet · #50 Posted: **May 27, 2012, 8:38 PM**

South Kensington

Mews houses, former stables behind grand houses that sell for millions. The tiny one or two bed houses
behind (stoop to get through the door) go for $6 million. Just a garage here can sell for $1.25 million.

the whole stables house is about a metre wide - it's not a wedge. The 40-60 bed mansion blocks these once serviced sell
for tens of millions, but almost all have been profitably subdivided up into apartments (one intact was offered $200 million
in 2007, which would have made it the worlds most expensive property - but the owners refused).

Exhibition Road - the council is experimenting with a 'shared surface' where cars and pedestrians combine. It
was once a maze for walkers and drivers alike, with repeated crossings, stop lights, noise and pollution. The result
now is many cafe tables parked where once cars used to zoom past, and the space decidedly claimed back for pedestrians.

Light vents for the Victorian tunnels that once herded pedestrians to the great museums nearby, and miss the confusing
street layout.

the cars now crawl through, while the pedestrians pay attention - and the streets are much more safer...

muppet · #51 Posted: **May 27, 2012, 9:15 PM**

Piccadilly Circus

Jubilee fever, one week to go

Eros statue

Ice cream flavours - yes you read that right

muppet · #52 Posted: **Jun 4, 2012, 12:48 PM**

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Village London

- the city is famously made up of dozens of villages overtaken over the centuries but that still survive as pockets in the urbanity.
They're closely guarded secrets by local residents in the know, and quite a surprise for a random visitor.

First clue, the tube station accessed through a wood:

Some scenes you can't believe you're in the city still

muppet · #53 Posted: **Jun 4, 2012, 12:49 PM**

Hogwart's style schools

yes, this is still central London

Metroland suburbia

muppet · #54 Posted: **Jun 4, 2012, 12:55 PM**

the Heath

No 1 The Park, London.

joggers everywhere

The boating pond, and the men's bathing pond

muppet · #55 Posted: **Jun 4, 2012, 1:27 PM**

BACK to the city

Summer Nights, land of the almost-midnight sun

Ghost station

muppet · #56 Posted: **Jun 4, 2012, 11:04 PM**

kool maudit · #57 Posted: **Jun 5, 2012, 5:03 AM**

where is this?

muppet · #58 Posted: **Jun 5, 2012, 8:28 PM**

Ah, that's the end of Old Compton St in Soho, where it bisects onto Charing X Rd. That corner building (Ed's) is taken up by a local institution - an old skool American diner.

cityscapes · #59 Posted: **Jun 5, 2012, 8:44 PM**

Perfect city is perfect.

SHiRO · #60 Posted: **Jun 6, 2012, 6:37 AM**

This is amazing...

And seems like we have the same taste in music (at least partly, I also like other shit).