Please Do Not Climb On The Horse

Dec 022013

Horse

Please Do Not Touch The Walrus

or 1001 Things To Not Do In London

No. 7: climbing on the horse in Spring Gardens

photo © Matt Salusbury

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Tagged with: Animals, Please Do Not Touch The Walrus, Sculpture, West End, Westminster

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Twice a day, when the tide is high, the Thames floods the broad, low-ceilinged underground channel from which the Granville emerges. During the autumn and winter, as the temperature drops, these back surges create localised fogs that linger along Upper and Lower Thames Street. The river that London buried alive rises like a ghost through the porous layers of paving to reassert its claim upon its former overground course. [read more...]