A Saturday in London

A few snaps taken with a Ricoh GR Digital camera (currently on loan for review) on a winter’s afternoon walk around central London.

At Trafalgar Sq there was a demonstration being held against the publication of the infamous ‘cartoons’.

The beautiful interior of St Mary Le Strand – a gorgeous church marooned on a traffic island on The Strand.
St Mary le Strand website

The Roman’ baths at 5 Strand Lane, WC2. An obscure National Trust property hidden away off the main drag, the baths that lurk behind the window as described by the NT as, “Remains of a bath – possibly Roman. Restored in the 17th century, believed to hold Roman origins”
National Trust

Inside the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. This piece by Rachel Whiteread is entitled EMBANKMENT and made from 14,000 casts of the inside of different boxes, stacked high.

What’s it mean? Well, here’s what the Tate website says, “The form of a cardboard box has been chosen because of its associations with the storage of intimate personal items and to invoke the sense of mystery surrounding ideas of what a sealed box might contain.” Err, right. OK.

Browsers flip through the thousands of second hand books at the book stalls under Waterloo Bridge on the Southbank.
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