On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:13:36AM +0100, Bob W wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:30:42PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > > > From: "Bob W" > > >> Here's a small gallery of photos taken with my phonecam > > while commuting: > > >> > > >> http://www.web-options.com/Commute/ > > >> > > >> Bob > > > > > > I like the light in the power-plant photo (I'm guessing > > that's a power > > > plant of some sort with what looks like four chimneys). Has > > a kind of > > > hand colored post card quality. > > > > It was a powerstation for around 50 years. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station > > > > Nowadays it houses a modern art gallery > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Modern > > John, they are different buildings, by the same architect - Giles Gilbert > Scott, who was one of the people who defined the look of 20th C Britain. > Battersea has been empty for years. > > Bob
Yep - I was using "houses" rather loosely, to suggest that there were other things of potential interest in the vicinity besides the iconographic power station shell. Although there is some amount of overlap, IIRC - the turbine hall part of the power station is an exhibit area for Tate Modern. I remember Battersea from when it was a working power station. For that matter I went to Battersea Fun Fair, and the Dogs Home (well before they opened up a subsidiary at Brands Hatch, which is much closer to where I grew up). The Tate was definitely my favourite London gallery, so I was a little disappointed that I never found time to visit Tate Modern the last time I was in the UK. But I'll probably have to make another trip in the next few months - my aged mother has just had to move into a nursing home - so maybe I'll find some time then. The old power station is a definite candidate for favourite icon on the London skyline, although I have to admit that one of the routes for the train ride up to Victoria, with glimpses of Tower Bridge and St. Pauls, adds other possibilities. I'm not sure that the Gherkin improves the view. Then there's the London Eye, the Post Office Tower (I remember when that first opened ...), the South Kensington museums, the Millenium Bridge, the Thames Flood Barrier - too many choices! I think I'm developing a theme for my next London visit. A bit touristy, but I'm not proud. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
