Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How small the world is. I'm walking where you had lunch. Steve Barbour and I meeting on a Parisian bridge. Long live the internet. Cheers, Michiel Fokkema Douglas Sharp wrote: > Then I know exactly where it is, (Off Shelton Street) , there used to be > (maybe still is) a take-away on the corner that sold Pies n' Peas and > Savaloy sausages. I used to get back there in the summer vacations and > helped my sister and Bro-in-law setting up the "Acme Gallery" > exhibitions and we used to get our lunches there. > Douglas > > Michiel Fokkema wrote: > >> Must be around Covent garden. >> I didn't walked a lot on the south bank. >> The last picture was made very close to Covent garden. You can see a >> part of it. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michiel Fokkema >> >> >> Douglas Sharp wrote: >> >>> If you take a look at the windows below the beam this is very >>> probably an old weaving loft, or perhaps a tailors "sweat-shop" >>> (Could even be a cigar rollers shop). As there was only gas or candle >>> light at the time these houses were built the best use had to be made >>> of natural light.You still find quite a few corners like this in the >>> East End (I lived in Bow, during 1973), just south of the Thames, and >>> on the south bank, behind the warehouses. Though I must say that this >>> alley looks very familiar and could be just around the corner from >>> Covent Garden. >>> Douglas >>> >>> Jim Nichols wrote: >>> >>>> Michiel, >>>> >>>> I'm unfamiliar with city life, but it appears that those buildings >>>> are very closely set together. Is the high beam in the second photo >>>> used to hoist large furniture items to the upper floors? >>>> The Rollei does a beautiful job. If it were not such a pain to get >>>> the film processed, I would be tempted. >>>> >>>> Jim Nichols >>>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >