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Tall Paul

At 111 metres in height, the current St Paul’s Cathedral was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962, when it was overtaken by the Post Office tower (now known as […]

-London

Plum Carousal

I admire this little beauty every time I walk past St Pancras Station – joy, with a touch of jealousy! Hex colour ref:  #8e4585 A colourful note:  in 1958, Crayola […]

-London

Big Ben

Linked to Wordless Wednesday Copyright Debbie Smyth, 16 March 2016    

-Kent

Piggy Pink for a Viking of the Day

  Hex colour reference: #fdd7e4 A colourful note: piggy pink is a Crayola name, introduced in 1998 as pig pink, but later softened to “piggy pink”.  And it seems a very close match […]

-Manchester

Ultimate Power

Hex colour reference:  #c5d0e6 A colourful note:  this pale blue-lilac shade, known as periwinkle, is named after the flowers of the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb. The first recorded use of […]

-Edinburgh

Edinburgh – or Athens?

Back in 1822, Charles Cockerell and William Playfair, created Edinburgh’s National Monument up on Calton Hill.  It was modeled on the Parthenon and made  to commemorate Scots who had died in […]