London Again

Some photos I took last week but did not get round to sharing on my blog

The Shard

HMS Belfast

 Three shots of Tower Bridge and yes I did hear a tourist call it London Bridge!!

On the riverside amid the media scrum a famous face doing interviews for radio

The Mortars  on the riverside

On the north side of The Tower of London is the remains of one of the bastions of the Mediaeval Wall The City of London

And finally the sculpture of an archer on the outer wall of the Tower of London 

London 11/11/2014 a less sombre view

After visiting the tower I had lunch with a friend then went searching for some Peruvian visitors to the city

Yes you've guest it Paddington Bear is on the loose in London!!! 

To celebrate the release of the new Paddington Bear film and raise awareness of and money for the NSPCC 50 models of Paddington have been customised by various celebrities and scattered across London 

R; G; B; by Zaha Hadid at The Royal Exchange

Good Morning London by Michael Howells  at Guildhall Yard

Bear in The Wood by Rankin at St Pauls

Rainbow Bear by Darcy Bussell at The Royal Opera House

Paddington is Great by Stephen Fry at Dowing Street

Well that's all I found some are not quite where the map I had said they are as you see by the one at St Paul's by the time I got to Downing Street it had started to  rain so I push on to the station and home. 

If you want to find them yourself look click here  

So to finish Christmas has come to Covent Garden

and the final hurrah St James Park

Armistice Day London 2014 additions

I am so sorry I meant to add these at the end of yesterdays blog

In Trafalgar Square within a crystal pyramid a lone soldier stands with is gun to the ground in mourning.

As I stood looking at this image a fan in the base started cascading poppies over this unknown soldier

 then again he stand in peace

Some of the thousands of poppies that had scattered in the fountains by pupils of Eltham High School as the city fell silent at 11 o-clock that morning  

Armistice Day in London

So at 11 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th Month I was standing at the Tower of London. Many people have visited the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation at the Tower but here is my collection of photographs.

Ms Nightingale doing a piece to camera

Below is a video of Joss Stone & Jeff Becks version of No Mans Land {The Green Fields of France} by Eric Bogle. they performed this at the Albert hall in Saturdays {8th Nov 2014} act of remembrance

WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM!