London 2009

The other Italian church, Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell. I wanted to look inside, but mass was going on. The smell of incense wafting out the front doors was competing with the smells of the food vendors in Exmouth Market. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Nothing significant about this except that I live in Northampton, Massachusetts. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Originally posted to Guess Where London. See where this picture was taken. [?]

The former Finsbury Bank for Savings, Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Sekforde is a small street of beautiful Georgian houses. See where this picture was taken. [?]

So easy to get lost; so hard to get out. The yurt is part of the Radical Nature exhibition at the art gallery. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Last time I was here, there was some awful metal mesh stuff over the fountain. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Postman's Park is one of my fave places in London. See where this picture was taken. [?]

The new tiles explaining the significance of the memorials. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Leigh Pitt's plaque was just recently added to the wall -- the first new plaque in many, many years. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Carved wooden piece, taken down for a while and now securely remounted. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml It was on the steps of the old bridge that Nancy’s fateful meeting with Mr Brownlow and Rose Maylie took place in Oliver Twist. Here she betrayed Fagin, Sikes and Monks and was overheard by Noah Claypole. When Sikes learned what she had done, he murdered her at his house in Bethnal Green, not on the steps of the bridge, as the plaque on the wall (which I couldn't find) states wrongly. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml The old London Bridge had several of these niches along it, and young David Copperfield often took shelter in them. The niche dates from 1176; it was purchased by Guy's Hospital for 10 guineas and installed in this courtyard in 1861. The bronze statue is of the poet John Keats, who trained at Guy's as a surgeon-apothecary from 1815 to 1816. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Old style street sign, dating from c. 1900-1910. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml Borough High Street near White Hart Yard. Nothing, save the name of the yard, survives of what was, until its demolition in 1889, the largest of the coaching inns that lined Borough High Street. It was to the White Hart Inn that Mr Pickwick followed Alfred Jingle and Rachel Wardle, following their elopement, and in so doing first met with Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml These pages of Little Dorrit are in Angle Place, near the one remaining wall of the Marshalsea Prison. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml These pages of Little Dorrit are in Angle Place, near the one remaining wall of the Marshalsea Prison. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml Angel Place, called Angel Court in Dickens's time, is just off Borough High Street, next to the John Harvard Library. See where this picture was taken. [?]