LondonLife – Snow day at ZSL London Zoo…
February 5, 2019
ZSL London Zoo recently experienced its first “snow day” for 2019. Pictured are Kiri the Kune Kune pig (above) and (below), Humboldt penguins and Asian short-clawed otters. Fun, apparently, was had by all! For more, see www.zsl.org. ALL PICTURES: © ZSL London Zoo.
LondonLife – Millennium Bridge by night…
January 8, 2019
Looking across the Thames toward South Bank and the Tate Modern. PICTURE: JJ Jordan/Unsplash
LondonLife – River bend…
October 30, 2018
Looking across the O2 Arena towards the Docklands. PICTURE: Claus Grünstäudl/Unsplash
LondonLife – Sunset on Millennium Bridge…
October 9, 2018
LondonLife – The life within revealed…
September 25, 2018
Looking at Two St Pancras Square. PICTURE: Dylan Nolte/Unsplash
LondonLife – St Paul’s Cathedral rises over the City…
August 28, 2018
St Paul’s Cathedral and the City of London. PICTURE: Brunel Johnson/Unsplash
LondonLife – Waiting for the Tube, Baker Street…
August 14, 2018
PICTURE: Jack Finnigan/Unsplash
• Some of the first photographic images of London and Londoners – depicting everything from Victorian families living in slums and the construction of the capital’s first underground railway to well-known icons like Tower Bridge and the Crystal Palace – have gone on show in Aldgate Square. Presented by the City of London Corporation’s London Metropolitan Archives, Victorian London in Photographs also features a daguerreotype (the earliest form of photograph) dating from the 1840s which depicts a view of The Monument (pictured) and is the earliest photograph of the City of London in LMA’s collections. The free exhibition can be seen until 12th August at Aldgate Square after which it moves to Paternoster Square next to St Paul’s Cathedral, where it can be seen from 14th to 23rd August. For more on the London Metropolitan Archives, follow this link. PICTURE: London Metropolitan Archives, City of London Corporation
• A selection of works documenting CRW Nevinson’s experiences during World War I feature in a free exhibition at the British Museum. CRW Nevinson: Prints of War and Peace commemorates the centenary of the artist’s gift of 25 of his prints to the British Museum in 1918 and a number of the works featured on show for the first time. They include a self-portrait while Nevinson was a student at the Slade School of Art, A Dawn and Column on the March, both of which show massed ranks of French soldiers marching to their doom, The Doctor and Twilight which show the conditions wounded soldiers had to endure, and dynamic cityscapes such as Looking down into Wall Street, Looking through Brooklyn Bridge, Wet Evening (depicting Oxford Street in London) and Paris Window and Place Blanche (both dating from 1922 and depicting Paris). The display can be seen in Room 90a, Prints and Drawings Gallery, until 13th September. For more, see www.britishmuseum.org.
• On Now – Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers. This exhibition at the Guildhall Library marks the 450th anniversary of the granting of the Tylers and Bricklayers’ Company’s charter by Elizabeth I in 1568. As well as tracing the company’s history from its first master in 1416 through to the company today, it also looks at the life of the company’s most famous son, playwright Ben Jonson, and how the company was instrumental in the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666. Runs until 31st August. Admission is free. For more, follow this link.
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LondonLife – Tower Bridge opening…
July 31, 2018
PICTURE: Sandy Kemsley (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
LondonLife – Taking flight…
July 24, 2018
LondonLife – Still waters at Hampstead Heath…
April 17, 2018
PICTURE: Amadeusz Misiak/Unsplash.
LondonLife – Trafalgar Square…
April 10, 2018
PICTURE: Kevin Grieve/Unsplash
LondonLife – Sunrise over the City…
February 20, 2018
PICTURE: David Holt (licensed under CC BY 2.0)
LondonLife – Curved facades…
February 6, 2018
PICTURE: Ed Robertson/Unsplash
LondonLife – Dawn by The Shard…
January 9, 2018
PICTURE: Tom Coe/Unsplash
LondonLife – Moody sky…
November 14, 2017
London from The Shard. PICTURE: Genevieve Perron-Migneron/Unsplash
LondonLife – Phone boxes…
October 10, 2017
PICTURE: Marko Pecic/Unsplash
LondonLife – Rainy day…
July 11, 2017
A rainy day in Marylebone. PICTURE: Anjana Menon/Unsplash.
LondonLife – Camden Lock…
June 27, 2017
PICTURE: Clem Onojeghuo/Unsplash