And not just in London. There's a building opposite a restaurant in Nottingham that we've been to a couple of times. If you walk past, it's just a drab looking pub, but viewed from the other side of the road, there's an ornate balcony, with carved lion, that has absolutely no function, but is splendidly evocative of the 30s. It cheers me up every time I go past. I've looked out for this sort of thing since I was a child, as a result of an annual Christmas quiz in the Oxford Times, which involved an artist sketching little architectural details from around the city centre, (and there are plenty in Oxford). We never managed to win, but always enjoyed looking around to find them. An alternative is the geologist's game of finding various rocks and minerals in buildings and pavements, but my geological skill isn't good enough to do that properly.
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Faded Glory
Date: 2005-08-14 10:07 am (UTC)John