This tremendous photo was taken by my friend Asher; many thanks to him for letting me put it up. I was very fond of these high-rises when I used to live in London. What am I saying? I'm still very fond of them. I particularly like the fact that they are colour-coded in primary colours. Also, they're sufficiently tall that you can catch sight of them from all kinds of unlikely places. I like the pigeons too, even though they're being so sinister. And I'm a sucker for the red-brown glaze of the tube station, whose centenary you might like to celebrate on 22 June. But who is it a statue of? I ought to head along to londonstatuarylog.co.uk and find out ...
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The statue is of James Cobden. It's in honour of the repeal of the Corn Laws. It was sponsored by public subscription, but the primary donor was Napoleon Bonaparte III.
I may have misremembered this slightly, but I walk past it every day, so it may well have sunk in.
A friend of ours used to work for Camden Housing Services, and he had to come up with a plan to stop the panels falling off those tower blocks in the wind. I think the coloured bands are left over from the strapping they put up then.
Lovely to have you both stay, and I'm glad you like the picture.
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