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I know this isn't #gothic #architecture, but that #crow (or #raven?) lined up in decoration of the lintel with the bare branches and looming gray #clouds ...

#GoogleStreetview #BoroughOfWandsworth
#London #TootingBec
A (Georgian? Honestly I'm having a hard time typing this house, but certainly there are Georgian elements sits fairly close to the street on a small lawn. Bare trees form a lacey pattern in front of it. On a branch sits a black bird perfectly framed in the semi-circular decoration over a second floor window. There is a patch of blue sky but mostly white and grey heavy clouds passing overhead.
May 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#GoogleStreetview #BoroughOfWandsworth
#London #Tooting #church #architecture
There is something so charming about this church. The frontage on this street is a low, yellow brick building with a deep set wooden green door and a window with 28 small panes of glass. The left side of the building has curved. The classic church gable is peaking out behind. In front are bushes, a pale greenish white tree and pink hydrangeas. A rustic wooden fence with an open gate lines the sidewalk. A massive cloud edged with blue sky and the blank wall of the end of a townhouse row are in the background, with a bit of the red brick townhouse in the right side of the image. A big deep green tree is in the back of the right side.
May 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
A #bathroom with a view in #Battersea - a view out and a view in!

#GoogleStreetview #BoroughOfWandsworth
#London #toilet #funny #ARoomWithAView
As part of a renovation, a toilet and sink are lined up against a standing wall on the ground, but the only other walls as wire fencing.
May 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
The #daffodils are blooming and I happened upon The Daffodil King, Peter Barr, #Tooting.

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#GoogleStreetview #BoroughOfWandsworth
#London #EnglishGarden #Gardening #Flowers #Narcissus #RoyalHorticulturalSociety
A blue plaque recognizing Peter Barr, the Daffodil King, on the side of a small apartment building. A close up of a Blue Plaque that reads "Peter Barr 1826 - 1909 'The Daffodil King' Pioneered new daffodils at plant nurseries in Tooting Placed by public subscription" A sepia-toned portrait of Peter Barr. He is wearing a black beret far back on his head, small oval glasses, and has a tremendous salt and pepper beard with wildish white curls of hair over his ears. He is white skinned with piercing small, pale eyes and is looking off into the distance with a serious expression that is the tiniest bit playful around the edges. A black and white engraving of a daffodil.
May 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Folks who follow this account know I love lions and various other #garden #sculptures. I've never seen this before on Streetview or IRL: a male and female #lion guarding the home together.

#GoogleStreetview #BoroughOfWandsworth
#London #landscaping #equality #feminism
Two stone lions on pedestals in front of a red brick house and behind a white Georgian fence. The lion on the left is male and the lion on the right is female.
May 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Just passing by #ThomasHardy's place today! My primary literary interest is, not surprisingly, description & in particular #landscape. I love Hardy b/c his descriptions are vivid and his characters are inextricably a part of their landscapes.

#BoroughOfWandsworth #London #authors
May 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Dreaming of a #party in #Summerstown

#GoogleStreetview #BoroughOfWandsworth
#London #TheBalloonAndKiteCompany
A little girl with red hair wearing a white dress seen from behind looking at a party store with lots of colourful balloons out front.
May 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Inspired by Rob's London's video which lists media that features #BatterseaPowerStation, I'm trying to do a full watch through. #UptheJunction last weekend, #Hitchcock's #Sabotage next!

#boroughofwandsworth #london #film #cinema #musicvideo

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Battersea Power Station: From Coal to Culture
YouTube video by Robslondon
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April 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Spent Sunday afternoon watching Up the Junction (1968) and enjoyed comparing locations in the film then to that which I can see on the map now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3OK...

#googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london #kitchensinkdrama #britishfilm
Up the Junction (1968) - Opening Scene and Title Sequence
YouTube video by Classic Movie Trailers
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April 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Something about this part of the #PatmoreEstate developed in the 1950s/60s feels almost medieval, like a castle courtyard.

More on the Patmore Estate: www.patmorecoop.org.uk/about-the-pa...

#architecture #modernism #bombsite #postWW2 #googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london
April 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london #tunnel #archway #gothic #railway #photography #mysterious
April 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Secret "The Cool S" in #Battersea.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S

#graffiti #middleschool #metal #rooftopgarden #architecture #skyscraper #boroughofwandsworth
#london #thames
April 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
A perfect #Romantic #composition in #BatterseaPark.

#googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london #landscape #romanticism
April 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Quoted from "Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning or Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Theory" (1864) by Walter Bagehot. I've never read anything that more perfectly describes how I feel when I travel these virtual roads.

#putney #boroughofwandsworth
#london #robertbrowning #poet #nostalgia
A view from 142 Priority Lane, down a road curving into a field in the distance, with trees, hedgerows, an ornate brick house and iron fencing in the middle distance. Text under the image reads: ... and a soft melancholy came over us, of which the shadows fall even now, when we look back upon that ... journey. And why? Because every object which met us was unknown and full of mystery. A tree of two in the distance seemed the beginning of a great wood, or park, stretching endlessly; a hill implied a vale beyond, with that vale’s history; the bye-lanes, with their green hedges, wound on and vanished, yet were not lost to the imagination. Robert Browning
April 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Just a cool shot of a hot car in #Battersea.

#googlestreetview #boroughofwandsworth
#london #sportscar #car
The entire streetview is covered by a big white truck. Its side door is open and we see the middle and back end of a sports car (sadly I do not know what type as I'm not a car person). It's blue, curvy, low and sleek.
April 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Cows in the sky

#googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london #pubs
Sculptures of Holstein calf and cow peer out from the wrought iron balcony of the Prince Albert pub in Battersea, London. The sky is a uncommonly piercing blue.
April 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Thrifty Free

#googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london
April 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
omg I can't even, this is the best #mural. The more I look, the better it gets.

#googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#londonstreetart #toothless #howtotrainyourdragon #dinosaur #hungryhungrycaterpillar #monster
April 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london #art #advertising #billboard #horse
April 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
In a city with a lot of hedges, this is the uber-hedge. The Hedge-Lord, if you will.

#googlestreetview #battersea #boroughofwandsworth
#london #landscaping
April 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Enjoying some "Tiffany Twiddles" today in #Southfields.

Nourish & Flourish, Art Nouveau fans!

#streetview #boroughofwandsworth
#london #architecture #factory #design #artnouveau

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March 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#googlemaps #streetview #boroughofwandsworth
#london #landscape #clouds #sky
March 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
There is something about the colour and shade of this building that I really love.

#googlemaps #streetview #boroughofwandsworth
#london #architecture
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#googlemaps #streetview #boroughofwandsworth
#london
March 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#googlemaps #streetview #putney #boroughofwandsworth
#london
February 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM