Postcards - Around Waterloo Station and Southbank, London.

This post was ready to publish and simply disappeared so here we go again.  F has worked in offices on one or other end of London Bridge, lived in a boat on the Thames, and travelled back and forth to various houses and marinas on the South Coast from Waterloo Station for nearly 30 years and never taken any photos of the area.  I have agreed to review a series of postcards which might go into her photo albums as well and we start with Waterloo Station and the Southbank in the area close to the station. 
This is the OXO Tower which is a stand-out landmark in the area.  The OXO letters are actually backlit windows on each of 4 sides.  They were designed that way to circumvent 1930's regulations banning rooftop advertising in that part of the city.  These days no longer a meaty extract producer's premises, the towers and its associated buildings are a trendy art centre and restaurants.
Waterloo Station - War memorial Entrance at 1800 hours in Winter - and a London Black Cab

Movies sometimes have that 'meet me under the station clock' line and this is the station clock at Waterloo.  Usually lit in white, on these evenings is was in fetching Green or Red. 

This next is for Sandra-Aunty (Madsnapper) - Wilhelmina plants backlit in the stairwell of a local building
Famous red telephone boxes.  They are increasingly difficult to find (who uses them these days?).  In rural parts of the country they are being repurposed with public access defibrillators.  This one is still a telephone box and is outside a university building.  The defib unit gets an altogether more modern look just along the street.
I will review these when I have finished inspecting the garden.



Comments

  1. WFT Nobby22 February 2023 at 13:37

    Oh Tigger, you are taking Gail back to a past era, the 1980s and 90s, when she lived in SW London and at one point had an office (in the Adelphi building) overlooking the Thames and down to Waterloo Bridge on one side and Westminster on the other. How the skyline has changed since then.
    In Aberdeenshire the favourite use for the old red phone boxes seems to be as book exchange sites, which we think is a great idea.

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  2. Yamini MacLean22 February 2023 at 13:59

    Hari OM
    What a lovely set of night shots... Thank you, Tigger, for pawmitting F some archive space for these postcards. Sandra-aunty will be chuffed and needs a bit of cheering up as her back is very poorly this week... Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx

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  3. JayCee22 February 2023 at 14:20

    There is still a battered old red telephone box at the corner of our Market Square here but the windows are broken and the inside is none too fragrant these days.

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  4. jabblog22 February 2023 at 15:24

    How often we forget to take photographs of the most familiar things. The London skyline has changed so much, not necessarily for the better.

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  5. Boud22 February 2023 at 15:51

    I like to think that those old phone boxes are being reused. I hope they've also been deodorized, too, powerful memories.

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  6. northsider 22 February 2023 at 16:35

    What super photos Tigger. I would love to read about F living on a boat on the Thames.

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  7. angela22 February 2023 at 20:15

    Love the pictures. Our flinders street station is pretty famous and we always meet under the clocks when ever we used to go to the city.
    It’s just what everyone does I guess

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  8. At Home In New Zealand23 February 2023 at 19:31

    I have a few postcards in my photo albums from the days when it was so expensive to have film developed - it was much easier to just buy a postcard!

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  9. Aril23 February 2023 at 19:46

    My son works in that area. There is so much to see. Arilx

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  10. Cathy23 February 2023 at 21:10

    Well I’m trying again….fingers crossed you receive this.
    I see Angela has mentioned ‘our clocks’ - set above the steps leading up to Flinders Street Station. Steps that alway seem to be filled with travellers going up and down just like yours are.

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