I’ve just been walking around Television Centre, the BBC’s former home of 50 years, which is closing at the end of the week. With the farewell events having taken place last week, today it’s mainly full of people taking pictures – but not souvenirs: following some high-profile thefts, signs have appeared admonishing people not to remove anything from the building that isn’t theirs.
I took these two Photosynth panoramas of the inner courtyard and the front area:
Take a look at the picture below. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that the shop in question, which is the Sports Direct branch in Hammersmith’s Kings Mall shopping centre*, is closing, and that there’s a ‘closing-down sale’ going on. But is that true? I took the picture and the ones below in mid-October 2012, …
There’s a lot of interest at the moment around the London Underground, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary on Thursday 10 January, 2013 (or is it Wednesday?*). The first passenger trains of the Metropolitan Railway ran on 10 January, 1863, between Paddington Station and Farringdon Street, along what is now part of the Circle Line (although, …
I made a comparison chart that shows the overall cost of the iPhone 5 in the UK over the expected lifetime of the phone, using the announced 24-month contract pricing from the five major UK mobile networks, excluding EE. Apple charges £529 for the sim-free iPhone 5 16GB, £599 for the 32GB version and £699 …
The Guardian is reporting that the BBC is to receive a ‘significant’ amount of money from the US government’s State Department for the World Service. It’s a fascinating deal, given that until now the British government, through the FCO, has funded the World Service fully. A recent 16 per cent cut in the grant has …
I wrote this reminiscence of Queen’s fourth album back in 2002 for the Pennyblackmusic website. I’m reposting it partly because I need something to put on this blog and partly because it’s now 40 years since the band formed. A recent exhibition, Stormtroopers in Stilettos, was on show recently in east London and is to …