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London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

I have seen this window literally 10 billion times

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #literallyendlesstudor

A five bay within with Tudor-decorated gable above it.

December 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Feeling so #meh. Typically this view of a dilapidated shed with garbage & an overgrown lane would fill me with #aesthetic pleasure, but I just can't get into it. Oh well, after 2 years on this project, down deep in #Lambeth suburbia, you just kinda have to keep plodding along & hope joy returns.

A dilapidated shed with garbage next to an overgrown lane.

December 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

This was inevitable but I wish they had taken more care with the spelling

#funnysigns #graffiti #dirtyjoke #londonboroughoflambeth #streatham #googlemaps #googlestreetview

Pendennis Road sign has been vandalized but they missed an 'n'.

November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

More great #Streatham signage and kitties ....

Thomas Clark Launders & Dry Cleaners, recognizing that most of the soiling of your clothing and linens comes from cats walking on them.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #cats

November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Sanitarian is a job you don't hear about so much these days.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Streatham

Over a contemporary restaurant sign, carved into the stone in a font I'm having a hard time identifying with any specific era, but maybe 1940s? "Decorators Builders Sanitarians" and a x-patterned design above.

November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts.

#Streatham street scene

#photography #urbanphotography #streetart #Londonstreetart #lambeth #graffiti #bible

A series of shops on Streatham High Road lit by a watery bright light. On a blue door covering the Talash Sewing Centre, someone has spray painted Holy holy holy is the Lord of Hosts Issiah 6

November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Kitty terraces in #Streatham

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #cats #architecture #tudor

Terraces houses that have small double gables and third floor centre windows that make them look like cats. I have added line drawings to emphasize this.

November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

More great #garden #decor in #Norwood, #London. This one, a #lion that looks kinda like #ChristianBale.

A large gold bas-relief lion over a garage, terraces and shrubbery in the background.

November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

I think this is a piano? So charmingly gothic.

#landscaping #lawnornament #garden #norwood #london #googlestreetview #googlemaps

On the side of corner stucco terrace, a weather, gothic looking brown piano surrounded by greenery and vines.

On the side of corner stucco terrace, a weather, gothic looking brown piano surrounded by greenery and vines - close up.

November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Catching a #mural in progress! What a treat!

Wish I could identify the artist but this being Kinfauns Street, most Google references are to George Harrison's former house.

#londonstreetart #art #Brixton #Streatham #london #southlondon #artist

A beautiful mural in progress with a big moon and large, almost alien mushrooms, ferns and other plants growing against a dark background - the left side of the mural is only sketched out. A young man stands in front of the moon, looking down at his paint brushes - there are paint containers all over the sidewalk.

October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

So, #Halloween decorations show up on #London's Streetviews more than you would think, but I never remember to capture any good shots to save for the holiday (same with Christmas). Instead, please enjoy this photo I found yesterday of a #fox - my second London fox sighting.

A red fox comes down the laneway next to a one story, gabled house with Tudor-decoration and a large bay window. In front is a mid-height concrete wall with shrubbery coming over it, and a small wooden gate with the words "The Bungalow" on it. On either side are more modernist estate type buildings.

October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Appreciating the simplicity of this business signage, though cats giving a kind of Big Brother vibe.

#London #BoroughofLambeth #Brixton #veterinary #cats #marketing #signs

A sign over a shop with only the word VET in all capitals, with a large, close up image of a cat on either side, staring intensely at the viewer.

October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Sometimes I think that if I get dementia when I am old, or even if I don't but am just really old, that I will think I actually travelled all these London streets in real life. Sometimes when we travel, all we're left with are snapshots and moments of place and a feeling it gave us.

October 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #streetscape
#urbanphotography #photography

Centre, hoarding covered with vibrantly coloured posters. Behind, the back of a row of terraces receding in an arc into the distance. Left side, a low wooden building with a green roof. Blue sky with light clouds.

October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

London continues to delight me - this time with horses! This is a city where you truly never will know what you might find around a corner.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Brixton #EbonyHorseClub #horses #riding

www.ebonyhorseclub.org.uk

Coming to the end of an estate street, suddenly - a fenced in yard and green with black and white horses at their feeding time.

September 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Another delight. Actually I've seen quite a few of these stonework structures within post-war estates. And I really love them - modernist follies. But this is the first one I've seen with tubes.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #OaklandsEstate #architecture #urbanplanning #modernism

A mound covered by stone bricks with concrete tubes coming out of it on a few sides, and a ring of rectangular concrete pavers around it, surrounded by dead grass, green trees and tall buildings.

An aerial shot from Google Earth of a mound covered by stone bricks with concrete tubes coming out of it on a few sides, and a ring of rectangular concrete pavers around it, surrounded by grass, green trees and tall buildings. You can see in this view that there is a swirl pathway to get into the centre of it.

September 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

It's been more than 2 years now, and #London #architecture still continues to surprise and delight me in the most random corners of the city.

The alt-text was nearly impossible on this one.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #OaklandsEstate

A set of terrace houses completely shingled in wood with pointing, sloping overhanging first floor roof (but not a balcony). Modular rectangles general shape with tiny windows.

September 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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@tubemapper.bsky.social

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September 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

I call this Industrial-Classical.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Streatham #architecture #photography #streetphotograhy

A network of old pipes forms a classical pediment and arches around three narrow, boarded up windows running horizontally, topped with a flat sandstone lintel. The wall is dirty buff brick. Some HVAC equipment in the upper right corner.

September 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Great video London's boroughs by @jayforeman.bsky.social. I organize my mapping by borough. I initially did not, so only covered part of Southwark & Greenwich (I will return), before I got serious with mapping due to the confusion of streets in the Isle of Dogs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_0...

What's wrong with London's boroughs?

YouTube video by Jay and Mark

www.youtube.com

September 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM

London Street View Project

@darcymackenzie.bsky.social

Audience participation time! Post a Google StreetView screenshot of your favourite piece of #art in #London! If possible, please try to find out who the artist is & credit them. Let's share some of London's incredible public #art.
#streetart #sculpture #mural #graffiti #architecture #carving

September 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM