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Today I visited Oxford Streets HMV shop to buy the new Moonlandingz LP on vinyl cos I fancied it. I walked back to Waterloo railway station to get a train home via Regent Street, Carnaby Street, Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall and across Westminster Bridge.
Whenever I walk about anywhere in central London it brings back many many memories, so much time spent here in my youth and then through parenthood and beyond. As I strolled I rattled off a few snaps, my walk took me to where 4 people were murdered by an insane twisted evil being recently.
I saw police officers with guns, to me that's quite an unusual sight but quite understandable.
Pictured here is The London Palladium Theatre where my parents took me to see Tommy Cooper when I was about 8 years old, I saw Victoria Wood there in the 1990s with ex-wife # 2 and in 2000 fitted a sound system in there whilst a rehearsal for Grease was going on. Ok, it was only a sound system for people with hearing aids to pick up the stage sound on a sound loop but hey, it was the Palladium, right?
Carnaby Street has changed, in my opinion it's quite awful now, very commercial selling overpriced togs to tourists. The little specialist tobacco shop has gone. I can remember visiting a mate of mine who was working in a shop here in '69 and the place was buzzing. Now the shop staff are all hanging around bored in empty shops, they are not doing good trade.
There was a posh arcade in Regent Street that used to sell expensive goods but is now closed and all boarded up. I took a snap of a couple having a snog in there, nicely sillouetted. Nope, I'm not a perv, take a look at the pic, I quite like it.
There's a pic taken at Piccadilly Circus with a number 13 bus on it's way to Golders Green - Oy Vey! When I was about 12 or 13 6 of us travelled all around London using Red Rover bus tickets and were at Piccadilly about 10pm. We were 4 boys and 2 girls. The police pulled us up, one fella and one lady copper and expressed concern that we youngsters were out and about in Piccadilly at such a late hour. We, of course, didn't realise the area was rife with naughtiness and villainy.
The officers of the law appealed to us males to safeguard and look after the girls and head home. They appealed to our sense of chivalry so that's what we done. Innocents abroad eh?
I walked across Westminster Bridge, hard to believe what happened not long ago, very sad. I took a pic at Waterloo Station and on that concourse in 1969 was a branch of WH Smith where I bought my very first Captain Beefheart LP 'Safe As Milk'.
The first pic is Oxford Street.
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Whenever I walk about anywhere in central London it brings back many many memories, so much time spent here in my youth and then through parenthood and beyond. As I strolled I rattled off a few snaps, my walk took me to where 4 people were murdered by an insane twisted evil being recently.
I saw police officers with guns, to me that's quite an unusual sight but quite understandable.
Pictured here is The London Palladium Theatre where my parents took me to see Tommy Cooper when I was about 8 years old, I saw Victoria Wood there in the 1990s with ex-wife # 2 and in 2000 fitted a sound system in there whilst a rehearsal for Grease was going on. Ok, it was only a sound system for people with hearing aids to pick up the stage sound on a sound loop but hey, it was the Palladium, right?
Carnaby Street has changed, in my opinion it's quite awful now, very commercial selling overpriced togs to tourists. The little specialist tobacco shop has gone. I can remember visiting a mate of mine who was working in a shop here in '69 and the place was buzzing. Now the shop staff are all hanging around bored in empty shops, they are not doing good trade.
There was a posh arcade in Regent Street that used to sell expensive goods but is now closed and all boarded up. I took a snap of a couple having a snog in there, nicely sillouetted. Nope, I'm not a perv, take a look at the pic, I quite like it.
There's a pic taken at Piccadilly Circus with a number 13 bus on it's way to Golders Green - Oy Vey! When I was about 12 or 13 6 of us travelled all around London using Red Rover bus tickets and were at Piccadilly about 10pm. We were 4 boys and 2 girls. The police pulled us up, one fella and one lady copper and expressed concern that we youngsters were out and about in Piccadilly at such a late hour. We, of course, didn't realise the area was rife with naughtiness and villainy.
The officers of the law appealed to us males to safeguard and look after the girls and head home. They appealed to our sense of chivalry so that's what we done. Innocents abroad eh?
I walked across Westminster Bridge, hard to believe what happened not long ago, very sad. I took a pic at Waterloo Station and on that concourse in 1969 was a branch of WH Smith where I bought my very first Captain Beefheart LP 'Safe As Milk'.
The first pic is Oxford Street.
The pics:
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