Tourists
Stanley Gibbons's stamp shop was not the only mecca for nineteenth-century collectors, as Dr Adelene Buckland (English Department, King's College London) demonstrated at the 'Shows of London' seminar series on Monday night at King's (see http://showsoflondon.wordpress.com/). On the opposite side of the street to Gibbons's establishment, at 149 Strand, was a mineral shop from 1804-1881. Read more »
Montage based on photo of Kean and Kemble Streets with added material derived from photos, drawings and doodles.
This image is evocative of an Alfred Hitchcock tension laden film frame, with the predatory pigeons lurking above in the tree branches above the people on the ground. Read more »
An atmospheric snow scene, 2012, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, located near the former Land Registry Office and the entrance to New Square. The blues and browns creating a quiet harmony.The snow reflecting the sky above.
A sister photo to the similar one that employed sepia tones and oval viewfinder. Taken directly from life on a evening using a long shutter format.
A deliberately overexposed photo of the Embankment taken from Somerset House. The people in the image provide a scale for the setting. Picture was one of a series of overexposed photos.
Ink and wash sketch drawn from life in Lincoln's Inn Fields park in 2010. The scene reflects two people enjoying and using this open green space only a few minutes away from the busy Kingsway and Strand.
A view towards Fleet Street from the Strand using Victorian style formats of sepia colour and an oval frame. Picture taken February 2012 early evening.
A watercolour drawing from location featuring the transitional changes from autumnal to spring colours and there is a sense of scale with the walking figure on the right contrasting with the large trees.
A few doors down from the Adelphi is the pretty building which houses the Vaudeville Theatre.Built in 1870, Henry Irving acted on this stage for a while, as Ronald Bergan's book The Great Theatres of London tells us.
Vaudeville Theatre today.
Interior of the newly-opened Vaudeville Theatre in 1870. Westminster Archives Centre.
