London 2006-09

Canal boats near Little Venice.

A part of the University College, London. Map here.[a]

The opera house.

Street near the opera house.

Street near the opera house.

The Thames.

Gallery near Waterloo station.

The last remains of British humor.

The subway corridors. One thing that struck me is how small the corridors in the subway system are. Most places corridors can only barely fit two people abreast.

Subway station.

Diesel train at Paddington Station.

Red houses.

Building near Paddington station.

I would not name my business that.

Building detail near Embankment.

Paddington station, Circle line.

Entrance to the grand lodge of London.

Detail of the entrance.

Stairwell inside the museum.

Pentagram on the floor immediately in front of the entrance. The top of the start points into the museum.

A nearby pub.

Small cottage near the Marlborough gate.

Same cottage, different angle.

Hyde park inhabitant.

The Albert Memorial between Queen's gate and Alexandra gate near the south-south-west edge of the park.

The Fountains near Lancaster Gate.

The north end of The Long Water near The Fountains. The Long Water becomes The Serpentine about half a kilometer south.

The "energy ring". The white blocks which can be seen on the underside of the beam connected to the top of the ring can move (the whole inside of the ring is essentially a giant led display), and are "injected" into the ring where they spin around and illustrate the transfer of energy.

A J-2 rocket engine[b].

The nozzles of a Black Arrow[c] rocket.

A captured german V2 rocket.

Wall covering display seen at the far end of the museum.

Interior detail.

Just beyond the entrance is this big hall with a model of the Earth. The escalator leads to the Earth galleries, where exhibitions show the structure and composition of the Earth.

Closeup of a block of hematite.

Detail of the facade.

The entrance to the museum.

Museum wing.