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My gps failed; this is Steve's map of the day out


Gees Court - alley to St Christopher Place

St Christopher Place

We rejected this loo as it cost 50p per pee

Lamb and Flag PH

Brown Hart Gardens

This street-level garden was dug up in 1903 in order to construct the sunk electrical power sub-station for the Westminster Electric Supply Corporation that has remained in situ to the present day. Thanks to the prevalence of good taste, the sight to the public was not forgotten and the opportunity was taken to transform visually an industrial artefact into an architectural feature. To the designs of T Stanley Peach, and with George Trollope & Sons as contractors, around the whirring machinery rose an imaginative composition in Portland stone with a raised, paved Italian garden, providing seating along both sides, and enhanced by a domed neo-Baroque pavilion at either end.

Dog in the garden

Brick-built Greek Catholic place of worship, serving Ukrainian expatriates.

Michael checking his dog picture

Water was trickling down the copper, but it does not show

BELOW LEFT _ The clunky, stainless-steel brute squats atop the facade of London's new Beaumont hotel, as if it had just rocketed down from space and was surveying the area for people to squish under its massive feet. Titled "ROOM," the sculpture is just that – a fully operational bedroom, whose interior walls are paneled in classy, ammonia-fumed oak. Of course because it's London, where real-estate insanity knows no bounds, an overnight stay inside the invader isn't free. The cost of entry is £2,500, or about $4,200 for Americans who wish to incinerate their savings accounts.