Tania Cohen

@tanias.london

She/her. Londoner, historian, guide, baker, volunteer, community choir singer, charity manager. Passionate about history, charities, philanthropy & changing the world. Views my own - except shares

#LondonPics 98 Old Victorian gas holder in east London. These were feats of civil engineering as well as architecturally elaborate There are still a few gasholders around, including some which have found inventive new uses eg the guide frames at King's Cross now surround blocks of flats and a park

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#LondonPics 96 The Faraday Effect is a pocket museum that can only fit 2 people inside. It is one of London's smallest permanent museums and an immersive art installation located in a historic wooden garden shed at Trinity Buoy Wharf in East London.

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#LondonPics 94 Apparently this giant pink hatstand is a Guinness World Record installation, at 4.6m tall with 40 hats. It's currently in Leadenhall Market - beautiful Victorian architecture meets an explosion of pink!

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#LondonPics 93 The Finsbury Bank for Savings was a historic 19th-century penny-savings bank located at 18½ Sekforde Street in Clerkenwell. It was founded around 1812–1816 to serve small tradesmen, labourers, mechanics, and servants with a minimum deposit of one shilling.

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#LondonPics 92 These are former bacon stoves in Smokehouse Yard, just behind St John Street. The Grade II listing records: "Bacon smokehouse, 1877 by Charles Bell for ER Parker, provisions merchant. Converted to offices in the late C20."

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#LondonPics 91 This unassuming building on Charterhouse Street was erected in 1914 and it served as an expanded cold storage facility and offices for the Port of London Authority, holding food and meat goods arriving from the Thames docks before distribution to Smithfield Market.

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#LondonPics 89 This is Holborn Bars - the former Prudential Assurance Company Building built in the late 1800s. Prudential moved out in 1999 but still seems to own it. It was designed in Gothic Revival style by architects Alfred Waterhouse and his son Paul, and built by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts

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#LondonPics 88 I always say to look up for signs of London's past. Above my favourite silver and jewellery supply store on Greville Street, Bellore Rashbel, is a large clay pot sliced vertically in half and affixed flat against the brickwork.

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#LondonPics 87 Always worth looking up in London. This is a floral art installation in Slingsby Place near Covent Garden. On particularly sunny days, it fills the ground beneath it in coloured light

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#LondonPics 86 Two pictures in Poplar. The first is the Balfron Tower on the Brownfield Estate. Designed by Ernő Goldfinger and completed in 1967 as social housing (although no longer all social housing).

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#LondonPics 85 I always loved this view from Clerkenwell Road. - 18th century: St Paul's Cathedral completed - 19th century: Farringdon Underground station opened - early 20th century: chimney from the Citigen power station at Smithfield - 21st century: Shard complete But more than it seems....

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#LondonPics 83 The iconic mock-Tudor hut in the centre of Soho Square Gardens was built in 1925 as an architectural disguise for an underground electricity substation. It's now Grade II listed.

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#LondonPics 81 This bench is in the Lloyd's Register Building before the Chairman's Office. It was designed by the sculptor Frank Lynn Jenkins who designed the sweeping bronze frieze on the first-floor landing and the sculpture "The Spirit of British Maritime Commerce" at the top of the staircase.

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#LondonPics 80 This is the clock tower at Hampton Court Palace featuring a magnificent 16th century astronomical clock. The clock was installed in 1540 on the gatehouse to the inner court and it is still functioning - albeit with parts replaced.

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#LondonPics 79 These two photos really don't do justice to the gem that is St Mary le Strand. It's stunning in detail and scale. The original church building was demolished in 1549 to make way for Somerset House. The new church was consecrated in 1724.

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#LondonPics 77 Blackfriars Bridge during the Totally Thames Festival, with St Paul's Cathedral dome in the background. Turning the Tide was a public film and projection installation by Turner Prize-nominated artist Catherine Yass, displayed on the disused columns in the river during the festival.

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#LondonPics 75 This is 59 Greek Street in Soho - recently painted pink on what is now a shop on part of the ground floor. A bit of social and philanthropic history this time.... My interest in this was that The Soho Club and Home for Working Girls was founded here by Maude Stanley in 1883.

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#LondonPics 74 Biggest door stop I've ever seen! 6ft? This character is at the Edgar Wallace pub in Devereux Court. Caught my eye with a pop of colour and a little fun in the serious legal district.

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#LondonPics 73 This is Time Terminus by the artist, Lodewyk Pretor and was put outside Leytonstone tube station in 1999. The cone on the top was a recent addition and not part of the artwork!

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#LondonPics 72 Church of St Mary and St Joseph, a distinctive Roman Catholic parish church in Poplar. Designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott (younger brother of Giles who was the designer of Battersea Power Station and the iconic K2 red telephone box) and consecrated in 1960, it's now Grade II-listed.

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#LondonPics 70 I know it is another ceiling, but I really love this one at Temple Church. Built by the Knights Templar in the 12th century, birthplace of Magna Carta, chapel of the Inner and Middle Temples, and steeped in history. Do go and visit - especially when they have their history talks on

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#LondonPics 69 Victorian "Dolphin lamp standards" provide light on different parts of the Embankment. This is on the north side by Lambeth Palace. Installed by the Metropolitan Board of Works around 1870.

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