Amsterdam bicycles 3: front light

in an attempt to differentiate their bicycles from all the others some cyclists decorate their bikes...

Amsterdam bicycles 2: stand

someone even named a bicyle after the country/city

Amsterdam bicycles 1: rear mudguard

 

i  recently spent a few days in Amsterdam and the city must be the most bicycle friendly in the world, in fact statistics produced by the city estimate that the 780,000 people who live in Amsterdam own an estimated 881,000 bicycles – there are so many that I’m sure that some people must just forget where they parked their bicycle and they are left to slowly rust away...

it is a city built for pedestrians – sporting such car-unfriendly features as narrow streets and canals, far too few parking spots (at premium fees), and single-lane one-way only traffic mazes so a bicycle is the most logical form of transportation

they are everywhere

 

sculpture: 'you' by Antony Gormley, the roundhouse, camden town, London, England

sculpture: 'witness' by Antony Gormley, the British Library, Euston road, London England

don’t you just hate it when you’re about to take a photograph of a sculpture and this happens?

sculpture: 'one and other' by Antony Gormley, Yorkshire sculpture park, West Bretton, Wakefield, England

sculpture: 'resolution' by Antony Gormley, leather lane, London, England

looks familiar?

sculpture: 'feel' by Antony Gormley, the Wellcome foundation, Euston road, London, England

sculpture: 'reflection' by Antony Gormley, 350 Euston road, London, England

 

these two figures face each other through a sheet of plate glass, one inside the building, one outside - it is the rusty one that is inside

 

 

 

sculpture: part of 'event horizon' by Antony Gormley this is one of 31 sculptures (casts of his own body) which together make up the whole piece - this one was at the national theatre, the southbank, London, England

beam inside one of the shipbuilding workshops, Arsenale, Venice

death announcements board, fondamente nuove, Venice, Italy

 

 

the fondamente nuove is the point where boats leave the northern waterfront and head out for San Michele – the cemetery island, it is midway between there and the hospital – an ideal place to have death announcements!



boat mooring, arsenale, Venice, Italy

stove, arsenale, venice, Italy

water bus-stop mooring, grand canal, Venice, Italy

wind vane atop the dogana di mare, Venice, Italy

door lock, Rialto market, Venice, Italy

piaggio vespa

railings, queen Mary's garden, the regents park, London, England

container at petrol station, Waltham Forest, London, England

something to do with boats, smeaton's pier, St Ives, Cornwall, Enland

 

does anyone know the correct name for these things? i was going to call it a 'capstan' but i don't think that's correct

 

 



disused cable carriers, regents canal behind kings cross station, London, England

saws, the 'lost' gardens of heligan, Cornwall, England

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railings, st. Martin in the fields, trafalgar square, London, England

balustrade and window, norwood grove mansion, south London, England

norwood grove was originally part of the great Streatham common, which was recorded in the Doomsday Book as Lime Common, in 1635 part of the common was enclosed by the Duke of Portland to form an estate around the shooting box which was presented to him by King Charles II

 Roques Map of 1746 indicates that there was a house on the site of the grove called "copgate" gibson's hill and in 1800 the driveway past the house was important as the only road across the common

the mansion or "white house" as it is locally known is early 19th century and by the end of the century was considerably larger than now with the west wing and its identical bow front extending almost to the stable buildings, there was another wing running off this at an angle, during the war one wing of the house was bombed and part of the garden also suffered damage

the ownership of the mansion was passed to Croydon council and since then the state of the building has seriously declined and now risks becoming unsafe and unusable as the council cannot fund essential repairs

the council claims they don't have the funds to repair the building and so they do nothing whilst the place falls apart - are they hoping it will fall down so that they will no longer have any responsibility other than to clear the rubble?

thing for strengthening walls, clink street, Southwark, London, England

 

does anyone know the correct name for these things?

thank you David (see comment below)

 



grating, near Ransomes dock, river Thames, London, England

steps to the Hayward gallery, southbank centre, London, England

trawlers, Whitstable harbour, Kent, England

railings, whipps cross hospital, Leytonstone, London, England