Images George Rex: May 2023

Wednesday 31 May 2023

Coal Office / 2023

Architect: Lewis Cubitt, 1851-1860s, to accommodate clerks monitoring freight through the goods yards. Refurbishment by David Morley Architects, 2018, providing office space, retail units and a restaurant. London Borough of Camden.

Tuesday 30 May 2023

Esperance Bridge / IV

Moxon Architects and Arup, 2021. Red-painted steel truss bridge over the Regent's Canal. Provides a slightly quicker pedestrian access to Coal Drops Yard from Pancras Square. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

Monday 29 May 2023

One Pancras Square / 2023

David Chipperﬁeld Architects, 2013. RIBA Regional and National awards. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

Sunday 28 May 2023

Orange Street / Congregational Church

Standing upon part of the site of a Huguenot chapel established in 1693. This much smaller chapel was built in 1929 [source: The London Encyclopaedia 3rd Ed.] City of Westminster, London.

Saturday 27 May 2023

New Hall / II

Architects: Philip Hardwick with P.C.Hardwick & John Loughborough Pearson, c.1843-5. Banqueting hall, library and offices in a Tudor historicist style. A.k.a. Great Hall. Grade II* listed. Lincoln's Inn, London Borough of Camden.

Friday 26 May 2023

Porters Lodge / WC2A

Small, porter's lodge, late C19, Grade II listed. In a Tudor-Gothic Revival style with stepped gables. Lincoln's Inn, London Borough of Camden.

Thursday 25 May 2023

New Hall / Lincoln's Inn

Architects: Philip Hardwick with P.C.Hardwick & John Loughborough Pearson, c.1843-5. Banqueting hall and offices in a Tudor historicist style. Grade II* listed. Lincoln's Inn, London Borough of Camden.

Wednesday 24 May 2023

8 / Old Square

Part of a terrace of legal chambers by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1874, in a Tudor-Gothic style, Grade II listed. Lincoln's Inn, London Borough of Camden.

Tuesday 23 May 2023

Old Square / Sign

Sign on diaper-patterned brick wall in Old Square, just west of Chancery Lane. Lincoln's Inn, London Borough of Camden.

Sunday 21 May 2023

Temple of Jupiter / Print

Scan of a print in my collection, the building now more often known as the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Athens, Greece. [Original source unknown. Must be out of copyright, bought in a shop in Plaka, Athens.]

(Public Domain)

Saturday 20 May 2023

NT / Woodgrain

Woodgrain impression left by the concrete-pour shuttering of a pillar supporting the National Theatre. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

Friday 19 May 2023

QEH / South

Detail of the south elevation of the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room building. Architects: Norman Engleback et al., LCC/GLC Department of Architecture, 1967. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

Thursday 18 May 2023

RFH / 2023

Royal Festival Hall designed by architects of the LCC, 1951 and 1964. In the modern style of the Festival of Britain, with Scandinavian influenced interior. This east (Belvedere Road) elevation is on ten columns with a window strip at high level. The cladding is Portland stone. The first post-WW2 building to be Grade I listed. London Borough of Lambeth.

Wednesday 17 May 2023

QEH / 2023

Queen Elizabeth Hall seen from Waterloo Bridge. Architects: Norman Engleback et al. LCC/GLC Department of Architecture, 1967. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

Tuesday 16 May 2023

Sailmakers House / Rear

One of the Grade II listed warehouses built circa mid-C19 on Narrow Street, with rear facing Limekiln Dock. Sailmakers House, number 136, has green-painted weatherboarding. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Monday 15 May 2023

Warehouses / Limekiln Dock

Victorian warehouses with their frontages on Narrow Street. The green-painted building is Sailmakers House (No.136), next is 136½, then Dunbar Wharf (138) , No.140, finally Dunstans Wharf (142) which has a date stone indicating 1878. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Sunday 14 May 2023

Heron Quays / E14

View from Dundee Wharf including the Newfoundland residential tower, One Bank Street and the Landmark Pinnacle. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Saturday 13 May 2023

The Sipping Room / WIQ

Tequila-based cocktails terrace at West India Quay. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Friday 12 May 2023

Saffron Street / MSCP

Cast-concrete openwork wall at rear of a multi-storey car park, entrance on Saffron Hill. London Borough of Camden.

Thursday 11 May 2023

NYX / Dan Kitchener

Mural outside a hotel in Holborn, by Dan Kitchener. London Borough of Camden.

(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Wednesday 10 May 2023

Old Gloucester St / Mural

"Futuristic Tokyo" mural by street artist Dan Kitchener. London Borough of Camden.

(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Tuesday 9 May 2023

Sculpture / Patricia Finch

Mother and child sculpture by Patricia Finch (London, 1921–2001), installed April 2001 in Queen Square Garden. Purchased by the Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street Hospital in memory of Andrew Meller. London Borough of Camden.

Monday 8 May 2023

Queen Square Garden / WC1N

Once the garden of a private house, brought into public ownership in 1949. The statue is thought to be of Queen Charlotte. London Borough of Camden.

Sunday 7 May 2023

The Rugby Tavern / WC1N

Built in 1867 according to PubHistory.com, on land donated by the founder of Rugby School. Currently being refurbished. 19 Great James Street, London Borough of Camden.

Saturday 6 May 2023

24 Gt James St / WC1N

Georgian style frontage actually rebuilt c.1970 but in keeping with adjacent Grade II* listed terrace of the 1720s. Dorothy L Sayers had a flat here between 1921-29. London Borough of Camden.

Friday 5 May 2023

16 Northington St / WC1

Ex London pub last known as the Dickens Inn when it closed c.2000. Formerly known as the White Lion, listed as such back to 1805. Charles Dickens lived in nearby Doughty Street for a couple of years, so presumably he was a customer. Now residential and offices. London Borough of Camden.

Holy Trinity Wallington / 2023

Architects: E. Habershon & E. Loftus Brock, 1867, in Gothic Revival style finished in flint with Bath stone dressings, 110ft limestone spire. Renovations completed 2017, Thomas Ford & Partners. Grade II listed. Wallington, London Borough of Sutton.

Thursday 4 May 2023

Dolphin Tavern / WC1

Wedge-plan public house on Red Lion Street. Rebuilt after the original pub was destroyed by a Zeppelin bomb in 1915, according to wall plaque. London Borough of Camden.

(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

Holborn Library / Wall Detail

Architects: Ernest Ives, I D Aylott and E L Ansell at Holborn Borough Council Architects’ Department, opened 1960. Detail of stone panelling under a glazed façade on Theobalds Road. London Borough of Camden.

Tuesday 2 May 2023

22 Theobalds Rd / WC1

Part of a Grade II listed terrace c.1750, restored 1989 (Thirdway Architecture). LCC plaque says Benjamin Disraeli born here in 1804. London Borough of Camden.

Monday 1 May 2023

The Hayward, June 2011

[from the archives of 2011]

Art gallery in the Brutalist style at the Southbank Centre. Designed by the GLC Department of Architecture, the Hayward Gallery opened in 1968. The principal summer exhibition, coinciding with the Southbank Festival of Britain's 60th anniversary, is a major survey of the work of British artist Tracey Emin (b.1963). Southbank Centre, London Borough of Lambeth.

St Alban / S.Courtyard

Architect: William Butterfield 1862, post WW2 restoration Adrian Gilbert Scott, 1961. 'Jesus being Raised from the Dead' sculpture of 1985 by Hans Feibusch. Grade II* listed. London Borough of Camden.