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Black Cat Cigarettes, Dingley Place EC1, Clerkenwell, London – UK – Featured Fade, Dionysis Livanis

© Dionysis Livanis

Black Cat Cigarettes was first introduced to the English market in 1904 by Carreras Ltd , the company of a London-based Spanish nobleman, which was by then well-established in the tobacco market. Carreras built the art deco Greater London House in Mornington Crescent as a factory in 1926, and Black Cat was one of the first machine manufactured cigarette brands in the UK. The cat itself owes its origins to a real black cat that used to reside in Don Jose Carreras Ferrer’s Wardour Street shop. – Ghost Signs: London’s fading Spectacle of History – Sam Roberts and Sebastian Groes – Literary London Journal

Brick Lane, London with Banksy – Sandra Walker RI, watercolourist

© Sandra Walker

Sandra Walker RI (Member of The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour) is an American watercolourist living in the UK and is regarded one of the world’s finest photorealists. I am honored to have caught Sandra’s artistic eye and to have had several of my photographs reproduced by her. Above is a recent watercolor of a street artist mural on Brick Lane in East London. Sandra was also kind enough to include her working photographs used to reproduce this street scene.

According to a Wikipedia article on Brick Lane, a street in East London, England:

It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street. Today, it is the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi-Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown. It is famous for its many curry houses.

A Brick Lane not-for-profit website [www.visitbricklane.org/#/brick-lane-street-art/4537674490] touts its street art.

Old Truman Brewery – London, UK – Marie Anne O’Donnell

© Marie Anne O’Donnell

© Marie Anne O’Donnell

© Marie Anne O’Donnell

ESTABLISHED 1666

The brewery that was once the pride of East London is back. One of the greatest names in British brewing, Truman’s has been a part of London life for almost 350 years.  Closed in 1989 during dark days for the brewing industry, we have been working hard to bring Truman’s back to its former glory. (Read the full history here.) – www.trumansbeer.co.uk/about/

Brick Lane, London – Sandra Walker RI, watercolourist

© Sandra Walker RI

© Daphne Hughes

© Daphne Hughes

Sandra Walker RI (Member of The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour) is an American watercolourist living in the UK and is regarded one of the world’s finest photorealists. I am honored to have caught Sandra’s artistic eye and to have had several of my photographs reproduced by her. Above is a recent watercolor of a street artist mural on Brick Lane in East London. Sandra was also kind enough to include her working photographs used to reproduce this street scene.

According to a Wikipedia article on Brick Lane, a street in East London, England:

It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street. Today, it is the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi-Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown. It is famous for its many curry houses.

A Brick Lane not-for-profit website [www.visitbricklane.org/#/brick-lane-street-art/4537674490] touts its street art.

Vacation from the Hard Sell – from Cees Picauly's Ad Weblog

www.ceespicauly.nl/blog

www.ceespicauly.nl/blog

Sam Roberts on Panasonic ad on Sixth Avenue above W 14th

Panasonic
© Sam Roberts, UK

Quaker Oats- Washington, D.C. circa 1870s

This fading ad was originally shot by American born watercolourist
Sandra Walker who resides in London, England.

This is a watercolour by © Sandra Walker- not a photo!

Spring in London, 2001

West End Tandoori
March 21, 2001 – Soho, London © Frank H. Jump

Six Years Ago Today

Soho, London
Soho, London – March 21, 2001 © Frank H. Jump