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number 7 you then have the whole bank holiday weekend to email the location to elephants peterberthoud co uk the first person to locate each weekend s elephant will be rewarded with a glorious mention sometime on tuesday when the location will be officially revealed so this week s somewhat titillating weekend elephant is happy hunting during next week the new blog should be up and running at a new self hosted site http www peterberthoud co uk for those of you who are technically minded a quick glance at the new site will demonstrate conclusively that i am not a feast of broken links odd typography poor layout and limited functionality awaits you i am relatively confident that bit by bit i will develop a basic mastery of ftp css rss php html widgets and all the other tools i would currently struggle to define let alone be able to use this confidence i must stress is the kind born of blissful ignorance rather than that born out of experience and ability whether i can remove the irritating auto link to a romanian car dealership that has embedded itself into every single imported post remains to be seen i hate you piese auto i don t even drive i should however be able to remove the other annoying feature of the import the use of the symbol at the beginning of every headline and first line so why the move well i have been advised that if i am to develop this blog in the way i want and have the ability to integrate a couple of new london related projects then i will really need to set up my own site so i have taken a leap of faith in a quest to deliver more and better content august seemed a good time to immerse myself in utter bewilderment double my nicotine intake and lose what little hair remained on my head the fruits of my new found obsession and physical deterioration will hopefully be worth it it will certainly be good to be back blogging more regularly i have been missing the daily ritual and have collected quite a backlog of posts i haven t been publishing too many this month as it would just have given me more stuff to import to the new site and of course provided more free advertising opportunities for that dratted car dealer in romania anyway if i can master the mystery of a 301 redirect and get my rss into gear then this blog should pop up at the new site automatically over the next few days if my innate technical incompetence gets in the way then i may have to ask anyone who has kindly linked followed or bookmarked me to amend their links any feedback on features you would like to see on the new blog would be very welcome at hopeless peterberthoud co uk any advice on how to implement them even more so have a great bank holiday the author of this blog is a qualified city of westminster tour guide who runs unique walking tours throughout westminster see tabs for details labels elephant london sign posted by peter berthoud 07 33 0 comments monday 22 august 2011 a lebanese elephant nailed by claire from the old kent road there was a bumper crop of entries for friday s weekend elephant thank you to all of you who correctly located it in notting hill gate outside newcombe house near waterstones but one entrant was especially quick off the mark and is a clear winner within moments of me hitting the publish post button barely before the pixels had coagulated into an image sharp eyed claire of the old kent road had emailed me her winning entry congratulations to her carnival elephant dates from 2003 and was produced by nadim karam and his firm atelier hapsitus the artist was born in senegal and works from his company studio in beirut he describes his studio as a satellite grouping of young architects and designers around happenings and situations check out the link for details of their many worldwide projects the elephant here was commissioned by the notting hill improvements group and land securities on the roof of the nearby waterstones are two more of his figures these date from 1999 the author of this blog is a qualified city of westminster tour guide who runs unique walking tours throughout westminster see tabs for details labels elephant london nadim karam sculpture posted by peter berthoud 12 45 0 comments friday 19 august 2011 i am not a number i am a free elephant each friday we publish a picture of one of london s enormous herd of elephants this week s is number 6 you then have the whole weekend to email the location to discoveringlondon hotmail co uk the first person to locate each weekend s elephant will be rewarded with a glorious mention sometime on monday when the location will be officially revealed this week s weekend elephant photo has been cropped a fuller view might lead to an instant winner happy hunting the author of this blog is a qualified city of westminster tour guide who runs unique walking tours throughout westminster see tabs for details labels elephant london sculpture posted by peter berthoud 17 19 0 comments friday 12 august 2011 an obscure weekend elephant as calm returns trivia is palatable once more each friday we publish a picture of one of london s enormous herd of elephants you then have the whole weekend to email the location to discoveringlondon hotmail co uk the first person to locate each weekend s elephant will be rewarded with a glorious mention sometime on monday when the location will be officially revealed this week s weekend elephant is a particularly obscure one and merits a clue this elephant has an sw1 address and can be found above the door of an defunct insurance company happy hunting update monday 15th august last week s elephant has stumped everybody uniquely there has not been a single correct entry with no winner to announce it only remains to put those of you who may have wondered out of your misery the particularly obscure elephant is to be found above the doorway of 29 buckingham palace gate the building is currently occupied by an insurance company who are in the process of winding up municipal mutual do not appear to have any elephantine element to the company logo and i can offer no explanation for why it is there this week s upcoming friday elephant should be far more familiar the author of this blog is a qualified city of westminster tour guide who runs unique walking tours throughout westminster see tabs for details labels elephant london plaque westminster posted by peter berthoud 08 01 0 comments monday 8 august 2011 royal beasts at the tower completed by weekend elephant this week s weekend elephant came from the tower of london the first person to correctly identify the location was matt he of that encyclopaedic london resource the londonist congratulations an honourable mention to marc too for providing the most complete answer thank you the elephant is by sculptor kendra haste and was installed last monday at the qeii gate the elephant completes her excellent series of wire animal sculptures produced for the tower of london s royal beasts exhibition i have blogged about this exhibition several times now the first animals installed in april were the lions in may came baboons and the polar bear later in may some more baboons were introduced and i wrote about some of the missed opportunities of the exhibition now at last the exhibition is complete i think kendra haste s sculptures are magnificent and have visited them as they arrive about a dozen times i am a member of historic royal palaces so i can nip in and see them whenever i like and i don t have to queue whether i would make a special journey if i was not a member and pay 19 80 each time to see this very small exhibition is highly unlikely however if i had never visited the tower before i would probably enjoy this additional temporary attraction for locals that haven t seen the exhibition and would like to i would suggest that a year s membership is probably the best bet that way you can nip in and out avoiding the crowds and you get to do the same at hampton court banqueting house kensington and kew palace s too annual membership is 43 so if you only visit a palace or two it will soon pay for itself details of individual and family membership from hrp website can be found here labels baboon elephant kendra haste lions polar bear sculpture tower hamlets tower of london posted by peter berthoud 11 25 0 comments friday 5 august 2011 weekend elephant 5 london s newest each friday we publish a picture of one of london s giant herd of elephants you then have the whole weekend to email the location to discoveringlondon hotmail co uk the first person to locate each weekend s elephant will be rewarded with a glorious mention sometime on monday when the location will be officially revealed honour is all that is at stake so without further ado here is london s most recent addition to the herd happy hunting the author of this blog is a qualified city of westminster tour guide who runs unique walking tours throughout westminster see tabs for details labels elephant london sculpture posted by peter berthoud 12 15 1 comments wednesday 3 august 2011 the oldest inscription in london this mercers maiden in corbet court was reinstated in 2004 as with all her sisters she marks property held by the mercers company she is dated 1669 and so this inscription is seven years older than the one beneath the bust of lord essex in devereux court the devereux court inscription of 1676 was commonly held to be the oldest one in london but clearly the maid of corbet court now has a stronger claim to that title does anyone know of an even older inscription anywhere in london if so please drop me a line update 10 15 sharp eyed pepys from the excellent london peculiar just tweeted me an image of grafitti from the tower of london that takes the earliest inscription title back nearly 200 years thank you can anyone beat this labels city of london corbet court devereux court inscription mercers maid sculpture posted by peter berthoud 06 52 0 comments tuesday 2 august 2011 van gogh s living wall the movie in may i posted a short piece on the van gogh living wall outside the national gallery in trafalgar square digging around the net i have found this short film about the creation of the wall it was produced by the sponsor of the wall ge apparently it took 500 hours of work to precisely position each of the 8 000 plants the computer generated template that was used being based on van gogh s wheatfield with cypresse s this 2 minute corporate film does however have some interesting behind the scenes shots of the wall being assembled and then erected on site if you have taken your own photos of the wall you can tag them gelivingwall and add them to an online mosaic of images being created on ge s facebook page www facebook com ecomagination i must say the wall looks better each time i pass it as the plants mature and their colours become ever more distinctive i hope it sets a trend labels gardens living wall national gallery street art trafalgar square van gogh posted by peter berthoud 11 11 0 comments monday 1 august 2011 weekend elephant 4 the result this weekend s london elephant is probably passed by more people each day than any other it took until sunday morning though for one reader to correctly identify it congratulations to helene from brixton for not only supplying the location but also the sculptor asia henry hugh armstead the elephant comes from the asia spandrel on the whitehall frontage of the foreign and commonwealth office formerly the foreign india colonial and home offices all the continents were carved by henry hugh armstead for the building s architect george gilbert scott africa henry hugh armstead america henry hugh armstead australasia henry hugh armstead europe henry hugh armstead henry hugh armstead 1828 1905 also provided large scale sculptures for the palace of westminster and over 80 figures for scott s albert memorial but my favourite work of his in london is on a far smaller scale prior to the building of the albert memorial george gilbert scott commissioned a scale model this is now in the victoria and albert museum for the model armstead provided all of the miniature sculptures scott was so pleased with armstead s work that he wrote i doubt whether either the central figure or a single group as executed is superior to the miniature models furnished by mr armstead on a different note sharp eyed readers may have noticed the swastika patterns surrounding each sculpture the building dates from 1861 1875 well before the ancient symbol became associated with the nazis there are many other innocent uses of the symbol in london a recent article and reader comments on the excellent great wen blog describe these and also investigate the rumour of nazi swastika just off the mall labels buffalo elephant george gilbert scott henry hugh armstead hippo horse kangaroo sculpture sheep swastika posted by peter berthoud 07 18 2 comments friday 29 july 2011 the museum exhibit that serves as a memorial inside the london transport museum is an unusual if not uni...