After seeing Hadestown, we decided to walk back to our flat, West End through Trafalgar, Waterloo Place, St. James Park, and west to Pimlico. It was our last walk of the campaign.
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| West End sights |
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In Waterloo Place, the latest Banksy...placed amid scores
of monuments and statues from the days of Imperialism |
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Installed on April 29th; we were surely among the first 20
million people to see it; I interpret it as more a statement
about nationalism than imperialism...walking off a cliff,
blinded by the flag... |
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Monument to Chief Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, leader of
11th Fighter Group, defending London during the Battle of
Britain; much more on him in Auckland...he was a Kiwi |
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Speaking of imperialism...statue of Sir Colin Campbell,
Lord Clyde, hero in putting down the Indian Mutiny of 1857 |
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Duke of York column; army chief during the Napoleonic
Wars; the monument was paid for by his troops, who each
committed a day's wage to its construction
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Speaking of flags...the Mall, with Buckingham Palace at the end;
the Trooping of the Colour had occurred just a few days before |
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| Helpful map of St. James' Park |
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| Horse Guards Parade Ground |
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| One of the more beautifully landscaped of the royal parks |
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| A bit close to the rodeo grounds, perhaps |
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| Still pretty nice |
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| Homage to New Zealand; seemingly |
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| On patrol |
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| The Drinking Boy fountain |
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55 Broadway, London's original skyscraper, home of St. James tube
station; for years the administrative offices of the Underground |
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| Prom at one of the high schools in Pimlico |
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Churchill Gardens, site of our flat, is (was) unique when it
was built in the late 1940s, in that it utilized hot water effluent
from the Battersea Power Station (just across the river) for
heating; this is the old hot water reservoir, just a block or so
from our unit in the Keats Building (OK, of interest to Mark
and perhaps a few historians of civil engineering) |
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