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Staple's Inn, Holborn. (Probably twice as old as anything in Washington)
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It's the Lincoln Memorial for me. At night.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I like the Durham Cathedral viewed from this angle: it means you are at the train station and I won;t be in Durham for very much longer.
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.Comment
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The White Tower, Tower of London. An evil symbol of Norman oppression, but an impressive building all the same. Nearly five times older than anything in Washington.
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The Roman City Wall, City of London. Nearly ten times older than anything in Washington.
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Unfortunately, it's no longer in that location. It's on some lame hotel land downriver.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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that's too bad, I remember going there when I was younger and really liked the settingComment
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This thread needs some more Art Deco. Hopefully a Noo Yoiker will post some soon, but meanwhile here's the Senate House / Library building of the University of London. There's a story that Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe not to bomb it because he wanted it to be the post-war Nazi headquarters in London. :-/ There's no verification for this that I'm aware of, but the surrounding Bloomsbury area had very little bomb damage, compared to Holborn just to the south which got heavily splattered. Also said to have been the model for the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984.
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Psst...London Bridge.You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.Comment
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More Art Deco - the Oxo Tower. Permission for the intended adverts on the tower was refused, so it was architecturally designed with windows depicting the logo.
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Sure. Why not?Originally posted by Cort Haus View PostI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Of course, legend recalls that those who bought it thought they were getting this - Tower Bridge - though this myth has supposedly been disproven.
Scarily though, confusion still exists, and the internet is full of pictures of Tower Bridge wrongly labelled as London Bridge.
The best thing about Tower Bridge is not the middle-age facade draped over the iron skeleton inside, but the giant hydraulic lifting mechanism.Comment
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