Posts for: Royzen
Jun 26, 2021 15:13:17 #
Walworth, London. There were a number of local performers celebrating the the newly refurbished elephant statue at it's new home this weekend at Castle Square.
A little background - Elephant & Castle was the first "Mall" in Europe. The Elephant and Castle is an area around a major road junction in south London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. The name also informally refers to much of Walworth and Newington, due to the proximity of the London Underground station of the same name. The name is derived from a local coaching inn. In the first half of the 20th century, because of its vitality, the area was known as "the Piccadilly of South London". It is now being demolished and replaced.
A little background - Elephant & Castle was the first "Mall" in Europe. The Elephant and Castle is an area around a major road junction in south London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. The name also informally refers to much of Walworth and Newington, due to the proximity of the London Underground station of the same name. The name is derived from a local coaching inn. In the first half of the 20th century, because of its vitality, the area was known as "the Piccadilly of South London". It is now being demolished and replaced.
Jun 9, 2021 07:05:59 #
This family-run bakery and coffee shop was founded in 1902. The counter is long and the booths are many, but you have to get there as early as you can to avoid waiting in line. The shop fills with locals trading gossip and slowly eating their breakfasts. Try the mallorca con mantequilla (a round, flat pastry dusted with confectioner’s sugar and served with butter). In 1963, kitchens were built in the adjacent building number 261 and became a restaurant. After 110 years of operation, in April 2012, it was announced its closure. In 2016 the restaurant reactivated the activity led by the founder's granddaughter Isabel Obrador Rigo.
I took this in 2011 and hope that the restaurant is still there.
I took this in 2011 and hope that the restaurant is still there.
May 27, 2021 12:25:11 #
London's famous Borough Market has its following of trendy and hungry supporters, who are not deterred by the Corona virus. The socially responsible and wear their mask.
May 16, 2021 05:21:41 #
The Deep Purple song came to mind when I saw this. It was taken on December 30, 2011 from London Bridge and Tower Bridge in the background. I wonder how many ice creams he sold that day.
Changes, visible changes
Sky looking so forlorn
It looks like the world's been born
On one more rainy day
Trying to see the sunlight
My heart's crying out loud
I try to see through the clouds
On one more rainy day
One more rainy day
Once again my mind is gray
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
Sun starts shining on through
New world, my world with you
It's strange what sun can do
On one more rainy day
One more rainy day
Once again my mind is gray
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
Changes, visible changes
Sky looking so forlorn
It looks like the world's been born
On one more rainy day
Trying to see the sunlight
My heart's crying out loud
I try to see through the clouds
On one more rainy day
One more rainy day
Once again my mind is gray
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
Sun starts shining on through
New world, my world with you
It's strange what sun can do
On one more rainy day
One more rainy day
Once again my mind is gray
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
One more rainy day
May 8, 2021 11:07:07 #
Motor cyclists in the United Kingdom are now often older men with a good job, because the costs of insurance for motor cyclists are prohibitive. Jeff Nuttal's discription is from around 1966/7and those good old days are gone.
May 8, 2021 06:25:59 #
The leather jackets indicated a reversion, in many of their tribal conventions, the stoical mask (goggles, cultivated toughness) and the metallic severity (the motor bikes, the fierce array of buckles and studs) of the 1945 generation. Even the transfers on their shoulders were ten-year old images adopted for their very brashness and crudity from what remained of the lost war pop culture in the highway cafes and gas stations.
The American pattern, the original of this particular mode, was old and more brutal than its English counterpart. In England the pivotal still was not brutality or dancing but simply fast and dangerous riding. In the early sixties every London hospital was crowded to overflowing with motorcycle casualties. The main rendezvous were the Ace and the Busy Bee, two sprawling seedy petrol stations cafés near the London terminus of the Mi. In the tables mess of the road systems, the jungle of glittering signs, the endless hypnotic cat’s eyes, the monotonous lanes of traffic, the desolate motorway cafeterias, the rockers were strange and heartening breath of wildness and preserved integrity. They would come roaring down to London at the weekend in tribes, studs glittering, tangled greasy hair flying out behind them. There was something satisfying about the way in which a traffic stream on a hot Saturday, stalled, crammed with sweaty pink families trapped with one another as the Mini Minor was trapped in the queue, could be utterly negated, cancelled, by a column of gleaming rockers hurtling past hem to the round about.
Jeff Nuttal, Bomb Culture 1967
The American pattern, the original of this particular mode, was old and more brutal than its English counterpart. In England the pivotal still was not brutality or dancing but simply fast and dangerous riding. In the early sixties every London hospital was crowded to overflowing with motorcycle casualties. The main rendezvous were the Ace and the Busy Bee, two sprawling seedy petrol stations cafés near the London terminus of the Mi. In the tables mess of the road systems, the jungle of glittering signs, the endless hypnotic cat’s eyes, the monotonous lanes of traffic, the desolate motorway cafeterias, the rockers were strange and heartening breath of wildness and preserved integrity. They would come roaring down to London at the weekend in tribes, studs glittering, tangled greasy hair flying out behind them. There was something satisfying about the way in which a traffic stream on a hot Saturday, stalled, crammed with sweaty pink families trapped with one another as the Mini Minor was trapped in the queue, could be utterly negated, cancelled, by a column of gleaming rockers hurtling past hem to the round about.
Jeff Nuttal, Bomb Culture 1967
May 3, 2021 13:19:26 #
This photo was taken just after the first lockdown was lifted in London. Cass Art is a chain of artist supplies like paper, paint etc.
I hope he was encouraged to fulfil his artistic ambitions.
I hope he was encouraged to fulfil his artistic ambitions.
Apr 26, 2021 05:25:11 #
I took this in July 2019 (before Covid) at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, London.
Apr 19, 2021 06:08:37 #
You were probably wondering why I called you here today.
Blackbirds in a Pie Nursery Rhyme History and Origins
Our grateful thanks goes to one of our visitors who have supplied us with the following information about Blackbirds in a Pie - the Sing a Song of Sixpence Nursery Rhyme.
This song was believed to parody the relationship between King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn.
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie:
In preparation for a visit by the King to the home of Anne Boleyn, Hever Castle during their courtship, 'netters' were sent out into the fields of the estate with rye in their pockets to spread around to catch a mass of blackbirds. Two dozen blackbirds, feathers still on, were baked into a massive, pie that looked beautiful on the outside.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
But when the pie was cut open the smell was terrible '...began to sing' is a funny, way of referring to this in English slang. The 'dainty dish' was highly sarcastic.
Blackbirds in a Pie Nursery Rhyme History and Origins
Our grateful thanks goes to one of our visitors who have supplied us with the following information about Blackbirds in a Pie - the Sing a Song of Sixpence Nursery Rhyme.
This song was believed to parody the relationship between King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn.
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie:
In preparation for a visit by the King to the home of Anne Boleyn, Hever Castle during their courtship, 'netters' were sent out into the fields of the estate with rye in their pockets to spread around to catch a mass of blackbirds. Two dozen blackbirds, feathers still on, were baked into a massive, pie that looked beautiful on the outside.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
But when the pie was cut open the smell was terrible '...began to sing' is a funny, way of referring to this in English slang. The 'dainty dish' was highly sarcastic.
Apr 14, 2021 08:46:32 #
Thanks for the comment. I am new here and need some help in putting the picture in a gallery. Please let me know how to do it.
Apr 14, 2021 03:54:33 #
I was carrying my camera at hip level when he appeared in front of me. There was no time to focus and took the picture.
