Changes to 19-33 Cambridge Regent Street

 I learned yesterday that this stretch of Regent street facing Downing College and backing onto Paker's Piece is due for demolition in the next couple of weeks so I took some shots with my phone before the work starts. I haven't yet investigated what is to replace the restaurant (previously Pizza Hut, Cafe Cuba Libre) but hopefully will fit in well with the new University Arms etc. Two shots at end of CCC last full survey of the area in 2001 when Pizza Hut and small Post Office in full operation.

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

 As the weather forecast was for continuous heavy rain, we changed our plans and visited the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge instead. Jane wanted to see the Made in Ancient Egypt Exhibition but I had plans for a session trying various techniques to depict the modern architecture of the museum. David Roberts was commissioned to design an annexe alongside the main museum in 1973 which contained new gallery space and an accessible entrance.

The first 5 images are single exposures - the blue and yellow tones are from daylight and artificial lights; not sure where the purple has come from on the spiral staircase. The second set of 6 images are double exposures done in camera

Commercial Road London

  We mainly used the buses to travel in and out of central London from Beckton as our Cambridgeshire bus passes give us free travel. The route included driving along Commercial Road with its mix of different era architecture and cultures. We spent yesterday walking and exploring its many interesting buildings etc. Commercial Road starts at Whitechapel High Street, heads east, crossing the Limehouse Basin, the Regents Canal and the Limehouse Cut and ends in the East India Dock Road continuing to the left and West India Dock Road to the right. It was constructed in 1802–1806 to link the West India and East India Docks to the City of London. It was fully populated with houses at this time (some still stand) but with the arrival of the railway, factories also sprung up and the area became overcrowded and polluted. WWII bombing destroyed a lot of buildings, replaced by community housing in the City of London plan. 

Battersea Walk

After a visit to the Tate Britain Museum, we walked along to the Battersea Power Station now completed as a huge shopping centre. I had fun photographing the attractive yellow and orange barges with slow shutterspeed and multiple exposures. (All images are more or less straight from camera as I don't have editing software with me - looking forward to doing some adjustments when home!)

Post-Christmas Break, Beckton

 For the past few years we have been going away at or just after Christmas with Jonathan and Sue most recent years to East London. This year they are cat sitting in North London so we are meeting them in London some days but staying on our own in Beckton (North Woolwich). We arrived mid afternoon and walked down to the Albert Dock now occupied by East London University. No sunset but the lights and lit buildings gave good colours to play with.