Philip Downer
@philipdowner.bsky.social
Heritage volunteer, retired retailer. Reads, writes, tour guides, listens to ancient music, observes, posts pictures of buildings (etc), mostly London (etc) each morning, accompanied by mostly helpful text.
Indeed it was. Sort of.
April 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Indeed it was. Sort of.
The Editor’s Picks: Tony Gallagher, editor of @thetimes.com, really likes a diet of unadulterated junk, doesn’t he?
April 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Editor’s Picks: Tony Gallagher, editor of @thetimes.com, really likes a diet of unadulterated junk, doesn’t he?
The splendour of Amin Taha/Groupwork’s 15 Clerkenwell Close. Which Islington Council, who approved much of the garbage on City Road, tried to get demolished. Twice.
April 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The splendour of Amin Taha/Groupwork’s 15 Clerkenwell Close. Which Islington Council, who approved much of the garbage on City Road, tried to get demolished. Twice.
Lewisham’s Riverdale Centre, ten thousand years ago. sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemo...
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Lewisham’s Riverdale Centre, ten thousand years ago. sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemo...
The man himself, turning restlessly in Kensal Green.
March 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The man himself, turning restlessly in Kensal Green.
WH Smith himself is not available for comment.
March 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
WH Smith himself is not available for comment.
Very droll from The Critic magazine.
March 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Very droll from The Critic magazine.
Sunshine at Brompton.
March 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Sunshine at Brompton.
And in similar vein (I’ll stop now):
March 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
And in similar vein (I’ll stop now):
1970s Mateus Rosé advertising was just lovely.
March 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
1970s Mateus Rosé advertising was just lovely.
Bad days at St Katharine’s Dock.
March 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Bad days at St Katharine’s Dock.
Premise: I really should enough staples to last for the rest of my life.
March 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Premise: I really should enough staples to last for the rest of my life.
Wapping reverie: a gentle vernacular PoMo on the site of the old London Docks.
March 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wapping reverie: a gentle vernacular PoMo on the site of the old London Docks.
I appreciate that I’m massively over-simplifying here, but… 1500 personnel per usable plane?
February 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I appreciate that I’m massively over-simplifying here, but… 1500 personnel per usable plane?
Reading the obituaries in @thetimes.com today. Perhaps it’s for the best that The Jam never reformed.
February 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reading the obituaries in @thetimes.com today. Perhaps it’s for the best that The Jam never reformed.
Kerbside London.
February 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Kerbside London.
Big guys: Aberdeen Park off Highbury Fields.
February 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Big guys: Aberdeen Park off Highbury Fields.
Highbury hallelujah.
February 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Highbury hallelujah.
London Wall: the Terry’n’Richard show.
February 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
London Wall: the Terry’n’Richard show.
Nice pedways though.
February 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nice pedways though.
The magnificent and threatened Bastion House, and all the crunched-up modern clutter on the rest of London Wall.
February 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The magnificent and threatened Bastion House, and all the crunched-up modern clutter on the rest of London Wall.
Travel halfway round the world (at vast monetary and environmental expense) to have a go on our roller-coaster.
People do baffle me sometimes.
People do baffle me sometimes.
February 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Travel halfway round the world (at vast monetary and environmental expense) to have a go on our roller-coaster.
People do baffle me sometimes.
People do baffle me sometimes.