Taking advantage of the new Government advice ’Stay local if possible, but you can travel to anywhere to visit a place or someone as long as you return home the same day’ and complying with existing covid rules of mask, social distancing etc., I set off for the first time in 120 days for a bimble in the sunshine along the south bank of the Thames taking tourist type photo’s as I got used to the camera.
01 ‘Girl with a Dolphin’(1973) by David Wynne, St. Katharine Docks, with Tower Bridge behind.
02 A people free view from the pedestrian steps up to Tower Bridge.
03 City of London office blocks from Tower Bridge.
04 City Hall, office of the Mayor of London, More London and the Shard from Tower Bridge.
05 HMS Belfast.
06 Entrance to 6 More London Place an offices & amenities block.
07 Planters outside The Founder’s Arms pub.
08 Passenger pods on what used to be known as the Coca-Cola London Eye but is now the lastminute.com London Eye after a change of sponsorship.
09 Westminster Bridge with the Palace of Westminster behind.
10 From Left to right ~ Portcullis House, opened in 2001 to provide offices for members of parliament and their staff. New (Old) Scotland Yard, former Headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police from 1890 to 1967 and The Curtis Green Building which from 2016 has been the home of the Metropolitan Police or New Scotland Yard, again.
11 The Covid Memorial Wall, a kilometre-long section of wall on the south bank opposite the Houses of Parliament, with hand painted hearts to represent each person to die with Covid-19 on their death certificate during the pandemic .
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15 The Palace of Westminster.
Sony A7C + Sony FE 28-60mm F4-5.6 retractable full-frame zoom lens.