Contemporary

 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 view towards King's College using the Victorian aspects of sepia colour and an oval shape. Image taken directly from life on a tripod camera.

On Saturday, Dickens came to the Strand – in the ambitious form of Dickensfest! ~ an event co-organised by The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s (where Strandlines lives) and Westminster Archives. Many thanks to  Ruth Richardson and Judith Bottomley for inspiration and organisation. Read more »

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.

 ...Catching Up

 

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The Strand is London’s greatest thoroughfare, its huge volumes of human traffic easily eclipsing the throngs of cabs, cars and buses that provide its restless soundtrack. As a pedestrian on the Strand, the predominant feeling is often one of swimming against a tide of people, one of having to anticipate the movements of the onrushing hordes in order to successfully permeate their ranks and emerge unscathed. Read more »

 ‘Discover a local Golden Moment’: advertisement for Symonds cider, on the bus stop outside the entrance to King’s College London, April/May 2011 (now removed). Read more »

Personally, getting back to Fordham the 2009 week have been surreal: not simply because I am a senior (when did that happen?), but in addition because it's been about nine months since i have last set foot on campus. I spent my spring semester studying abroad london. It absolutely was an event that I'll never forget. Being an English major and an Anglophile since age 12, I needed always imagined moving into London, of strolling up and down the Strand, of visiting Sherlock Holmes's famous 221B Baker Street flat, of their studies at the ivy-covered walls of the prestigious British university.

Composed by Michael Caines, runner-up of the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize.

Your three islands 

You lose your language in the church:

A stillness island, traffic-bordered. Read more »

Composed by Molly Olguin, winner of the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Competition, 2011. 

In Vitrio

You're standing under the Savoy when it starts. Read more »