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living and loving in north london skip to content home about silvertiger copyright notice death of a pigeon fancier pigeons a short story other pages about the artwork and artists ari the spider brief introductions britain and the united kingdom a brief introduction freya a brief introduction listed buildings a brief introduction pronunciation of names a brief introduction the city of london a brief introduction tigger s inner pigeon a brief introduction contact silvertiger etymologies of place names nail polish for tigers the alaska factory bermondsey street artists travels travel 2006 cornwall 2006 travel 2007 cornwall 2007 isle of man 2007 paris 2007 shrewsbury 2007 tenby 2007 weymouth 2007 travel 2008 glasgow 2008 isle of wight 2008 paris 2008 torquay 2008 travel 2009 blackpool 2009 bournemouth 2009 great yarmouth 2009 jersey 2009 whitby 2009 travel 2010 chester 2010 newcastle 2010 newquay 2010 norwich 2010 telford 2010 wales 2010 travel 2011 april staycation 2011 bristol 2011 bruges 2011 july staycation 2011 manchester 2011 travel 2012 barcelona 2012 glasgow 2012 september staycation 2012 travel 2013 berlin 2013 brussels 2013 durham 2013 may staycation 2013 travel 2014 lille 2014 new york 2014 weymouth 2014 travel 2015 amsterdam 2015 marseille 2015 strasbourg 2015 travel 2016 dorchester 2016 newcastle 2016 nice 2016 prague 2016 vienna 2016 travel 2017 brussels 2017 glasgow 2017 liverpool 2017 nantes 2017 weymouth 2017 travel 2018 bourne poole and swanage bristol brussels 2018 travel 2019 glasgow 2019 newcastle 2019 travels 2006 19 older posts the time has come posted on june 3 2024 by silvertiger regular readers and followers of my blog will have noticed that i have not posted for some time the fact is that it has become harder and harder for me to find the time and energy needed in order to post regularly it seems then that after nearly 18 years the blog has come to a natural end i thank all of you who have followed my blog over the years and for the comments you have left that have added interest to the posts they refer to and have given the blog a valuble lived in feel i wish all of you the very best for now and the future i will leave the blog extant for now but will close it at some future date to be decided as i don t like the thought of leaving it floating folorn and unattnded like a marie celeste of blogs if anyone wishes to maintain contact with me please let me know by adding a comment to this post or by sending a message with the contact form and i will send you an email address make sure that your return address is valid posted in silvertiger 23 comments a random ramble posted on february 3 2024 by silvertiger it s a cool grey day but dry so far the forecast shows the possibility of rain later st john street we set off along st john street spa green garden we crossed rosebery avenue into spa green garden where a cheerful passer by wished us a pleasant walk exmouth market we walked along exmouth market which was unusually quiet for s saturday caffè nero we stopped for coffee at caffè nero and then thought to catch a bus it turned out however that for reasons i didn t bother to discover the routes were curtailed we therefore decided to go for a local ramble instead former clerkenwell fire station we set off down rosebery avenue passing the lovely old fire station though no longer serving its original purpose this grade ii building will i hope be preserved to continue charming us and future generations built in 1912 7 it incorporates two earlier fire stations no more horses we walked through a neighbourhood in which streets alternate with mews narrow roads where in times past the inhabitants of the houses used to stable their horses the horses of course are long gone and the erstwhile stables have been converted for other uses unusual art deco building we stopped to admire this art deco structure dated 1938 the design with the tall superstructure is somewhat odd we think it may once have been a maternity hospital or something similar decorative reliefs over the door are two reliefs very much in what would have been the modern style of the period house with clock as a lover of clocks i soon noticed this building now residential with a large clock on its façade suggesting that the premises were once put to commercial use in working order i was pleased that the clock is in working order and amused to see that it bears the motto you re late so many old clocks have fallen into permanent disuse that any still in running order are to be celebrated and cherished classical style doorway i enjoyed this decorative classical style doorway if you are interested it belongs to a house where writer dorothy l sayers lived from 1921 to 1929 the rugby tavern we paused to photograph this victorian 1867 pub with nice period tiling it is called the rugby not because it favours rugby football though it might for aught i know but because it resides at no 1 rugby street emerald court this public passageway is called emerald court a reasonably portly person might have difficulty passing along it the obvious question springs to mind is it the narrowest public thoroughfare in london according to londonist brydges place near trafalgar square wins that honour by being 15 inches wide at its narrowest point to emerald court s 26 5 inches once a french dairy nearby is this pretty shop today selling jewellery it was originally called a french dairy it is grade ii listed though its actual age seems problematic for one thing the large display window is obviously modern lamb s conduit street we soon arrived at lamb s conduit street which is a fairly picturesque area with shops and cafes it takes its name from the water supply engineered from a tributary of the river fleet to serve the local community financed by philanthropist william lambe frieze of mythical figures we passed this building which i think is part of great ormond street hospital and whose entrance boasts a long frieze of females figures in relief we didn t stop to identify them perhaps another day brunswick centre when we arrived at the brunswick centre which is a famous mixed residential shopping and entertainments development we felt it was time for a rest so we went to the cinema curzon cinema cafe we didn t go to see a film but to have coffee in the curzon cinema cafe the cafe is a rather bare bones sort of place but the coffee is fine in skoob photo by tigger while we were there we paid a visit to the local branch of secondhand bookshop skoob we didn t buy the book in the photo despite its intriguing title i ransacked the french section and collected three books by georges simenon euston road from there we walked down to euston road which we reached near the british library left and the picturesque st pancras station aboard the 30 here we boarded a number 30 bus that carried us up the hill back to the angel l angelo cafe photo by tigger arriving at the angel we allowed ourselves to be tempted into going for lunch at l angelo cafe this has definitely become our favourite local cafe this brought our outing to a pleasant conclusion posted in silvertiger 4 comments the barbican then lunch posted on january 13 2024 by silvertiger we or rather i have not been very active lately this is because of the cold weather that has encouraged us to stay at home except for necessary outings such as shopping tigger of course has had to go to work and on friday i spent the day with her in her office when i speak of the cold some of you will laugh at me the temperature here has hovered around 0 c while in edmonton canada where my sister lives it is 40 c our weather must seen spring like to the good folk of edmonton i cannot begin to imagine such cold and in fact would rather not think about it exmouth narket today started with a walk down to exmouth market where we had an errand to run caffè nero we followed this by going into the local branch of caffè nero for a french breakfast coffee and croissants we dawdled there some time in the warm the michael palin centre we eventually bestirred ourselves walking down pine street past this neat little building inhabited by the michael palin centre a local inhabitant on the way we stopped to greet a local inhsbitant london metropolitan archives continuing on we came to the london metropolitan archives and seeing that they were staging an exhibition went in to take a look artworks the exhibition entitled unforgotten lives is about rediscovering londoners of afrucan caribbean asian and indigenous heritage photos there were photos and artworks to view and sit and browse a seating area where you could sit and browse related books and maps a studious atmosphere the lma is also a place of study and there were numbers of people making use of the facilities hayward s place we walked through the intriguing hayward s place named after ironmonger james hayward 1801 51 who owned houses hereabouts the place was built in 1835 was destroyed by bombing in 1949 and was rebuilt in 1951 in costa feeling it was time for a warm and a beverage we went into costa for coffee the barbican in sight we set out again along goswell road towards our goal the barbican estate two of whose brutalist towers were now in view a barbican tower block photo by tigger the barbican estate is a residential complex built to replace housing destroyed by bombing there is also a public library and various other public facilities such as a cinema an exhibition hall and a cafe medium rise housing as well as tower blocks there are medium rise apartment blocks all in the brutalist style which you either hate or love prancing about on screen the first exhibition we attended consisted of various screens playing films of people performing to me meaningless movements or singing or well other stuff as well which we didn t wait to experience it was entitled chorus in rememory of flight maybe it meant something to some of the spectators but to me it seemed pretentious nonsense of which there is a glut in art circles these days if that marks me as a philistine then i am happy to wear that badge crowded exhibition the exhibition we had come to see was about popular music something that tigger is keen on i find it difficult to relate the terms popular and music in any meaningful way the exhibition was entitled from the cariibean to coventry subtitle plotting the rise of 2tone if that means something to you so well and good but it means nothing to me there were exhibits there were exhibits of various kinds but the exhibition held in a relatively small area was uncomfortably crowded and so after a quick look round we left aboard the 214 leaving the barbican we walked down to finsbury square where we soon had a number 214 bus it carried us up the hill to the angel where in l angelo cafe we found l angelo cafe open and went in for lunch a pleasant way to end our outing after this we returned home where we have made tea and where we will stay in hibernation until tomorrow 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