This startling image is from the new documentary film Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle. It follows artist and shaman Marcus Coates on a search for animal spirits to help gain insights into a possible future for the area. It’s a provocative idea. Elephant & Castle – a giant roundabout, shopping centre and clutch […]
Crossrail’s Phyllis & Ada (London’s most voracious worms) are the latest in a long line of giant worms that have nibbled their way under the city. The family tree (or should that be root?) goes back at least as far as 1825 to the tunnelling shield used to bore the Thames Tunnel between Rotherhithe and […]
Spotted on safari yesterday. Here on a brief visit, for the filming of Les Misérables with Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman.
I’m very excited about Crossrail. The tunnelling started last week. Over the next two years Phyllis & Ada (pictured), Victoria & Elizabeth, Sophia & Mary and an unnamed couple will bore 21km of twin tunnels through the centre of London. The 148m long machines will pass below Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Whitechapel […]
On the Greenwich Safari we ponder the small fry served up at popular nineteenth century whitebait dinners. There were those those who mocked these faddish fishy feasts. Among them was playwright John Maddison Morton. He is best known today for Box and Cox, a story about an ingenious landlady who rents out the same room to […]
On our Safari we admire the inanimate animals dotted about Greenwich. But the town also has many wonderful live specimens. Like this gull perched watchfully on the coaling pier by the power station.
