Following on from –
#1209 theoldmortuary ponders.
Aerial views with love involved.
What a gift to a love of places blog, is a workplace called The Heart Hospital, under the small arrow. So much love for many of the people I worked with there, who are now spread around the world. Love for Marylebone the London village where it was located. Love also for Selfridge’s on Oxford Street which was always on the way home. A corner shop to beat all corner shops. The big arrow is Barts Hospital. The location of my seventeen-year-old self starting a career and also where I finished my professional life 43 years later. An unplanned circularity which is strangely satisfying.
The next picture is looking south to our London ‘home’s’. Dulwich Village, Brixton,Gipsy Hill and Crystal Palace. The greige makes them impossible to point out, but trust me they are there.
Similarly, on a greige day my daughter’s home village of Wimbledon is lost in the mist.
As is the destination of Harrow-on-the-Hill where my son began his international teaching career below the red arrow.
The large green space which is also below the red arrow on the north riverbank is the Chelsea Hospital, home of the Chelsea Flower Show.
And so to conclude my day trip to London. The Shard and the man we surprised there, photographed from Lift 109 at Battersea Power Station. The Shard is on the horizon above his head.
Farewell London Day trip.
Fortunately art can create colour out of greige.
And our friends got giddy and bright after we left. An evening with Abba while we sat on a train.
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