Catching Up With Some London Images

ABOVE:  HOMELESS MAN IN CENTRAL LONDON  -  AUGUST 2017

TRAFALGAR SQUARE


Above and below are just a few pictures I took while running around Central
London during the Summer on what was a quite busy time in town. But
then it was in August, the height of the busy tourist season.
It was in fact the very day I visited the spectacular  Banqueting House in
Whitehall. I just had to go and see that Rubens painted ceiling.

I also seem to remember it being a special day. The weather was perfect
and the whole area around The Thames and Westminster was really buzzing
despite some of the recent setbacks that the Capital has endured.
I managed to watch Street performers and spoke to one or two pavement
artists. And yet I was only in Town for a whole morning happily snapping
away at everything and anything. One wonders how much photographic
images I might have accumulated had I hung around for the whole of
that happy sunny day.
It's easy to see why Central London is such a tourist magnet.

BANQUETING HOUSE

BELOW:  A BUSY RIVER THAMES PLUS BIG BEN DURING THE START OF
THE BIG SCAFFOLDING COVER UP WHILE THE WORK TO REPAIR IT BEGINS.
OF COURSE THE CHIMES HAVE BEEN SILENCED WHILE THE REPAIR WORKS
TAKE PLACE OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS. BUT WE'RE TOLD THAT THE
BELLS WILL ONCE AGAIN RING OUT SPECIALLY FOR THIS COMING NEW YEARS EVE.

ABOVE:  A BUSY WESTMINSTER BRIDGE

BELOW:  HORSGUARDS PARADE. 

Below: Churchill, Nelson and George Washington

Below:  Parliament Square and Churchill's Statue