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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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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
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. 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
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
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
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
What a beautiful mural!

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Brixton #murals #streetart #royaldoulton #ChristineThomas #art #artist #rivereffra

www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/12/big-...

www.instagram.com/christinemai...
A mural painted on the side of a terrace featuring a river, a mill and local residents enjoying the space.
September 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
This one is for the #Tartarians.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Brixton #conspiracytheory #architecture
A picture of the south facing side of St. Mathew's Church, Brixton. A doorway with a classical pediment looks sunken into the ground with only the top quarter showing.
September 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
I live for this sort of unexpected urban discovery.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Clapham #ClaphamCommon #history #TheOrangery

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In the middle of an estate park, an unexpected classical building with pediment and columns.
September 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Camberwell #film #set
A photosphere of a film set, stone walls, set painted pale green with three bright white lights in the centre, two cameras, one on either side.
August 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Brixton #AngellTown
A view between two buildings (left building, two storey International Style with an oddly Tudor feel to it due to overhanging second storey and slanted window bars, run down, boarded up; right building, contemporary, with a beauty salon on the ground floor, balconies above) down a concrete path with rough metal gates, a small figure all in black, walking away from the camera; in the distance, between the buildings, the tower of St John the Evangelist Church, Angell Town. Clouds banking from the south.
August 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
I'm on #ElectricAvenue today. I'm learning a lot these days about #BlackHistory in #Brixton.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuwx...
Eddy Grant-Electric Avenue
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August 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Only the most cunning linguists live on Clit Heroe Street.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth
A screenshot of the north end of Clitheroe Street.
August 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
More #lion guardians! Two are doing their duty, but one seems to be asleep on the job.

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth
#ClaphamCommon
Two stone lions guards the door of a terrace; on the same spot on the neighbour's stairs, a dark brown tabby cat lies curled up in sleep.
July 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#Coleridge didn't compose this in #London, but it certainly speaks to how I feel when I (virtually) encounter one of the many green pockets of this city.

#GoogleStreetView #BoroughOfLambeth #poetry #poets #nature #CharlesLamb
A image of a small lot between low-(60s era) and mid- (20s era) rise buildings, a concrete square with overgrown weeds and flowering bushes in the centre, with a Brutalist bench nearly swallowed by grass. Text below reads: “Henceforth I shall know / That Nature ne ’ er deserts the wise and pure; / No plot so narrow, be but Nature there / No waste so vacant, but may well employ / Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart / Awake to to Love and Beauty!” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison: Address to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London (1800)
July 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
Storm over #TheOval featuring #TheOvalGasholder

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #Vauxhall #Kennington #cricket #SurreyCountyCricketClub
#weather #clouds
A view across the bleachers with a bit of green on the bottom right corner, looking into looming, darkening clouds, with the Oval Gasholder in the centre ground over the bleachers.
July 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#Secret #garden

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth
A darkened archway in a buff-brick wall. A white window next to it, in which there is a pale blue curtain. The arch is barred by an ornate metal gate and inside the darkened space, there is a long vertical rectangle of an opening, where a door is cracked and you can see the smallest bit of a garden with luxuriant greenery, purple flowers, a blue-gray wall and a delicate yellow-red leaved tree catching the sunlight.
June 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
darcymackenzie.bsky.social
#Fox in #London

#GoogleStreetView #London #BoroughOfLambeth #animals #urban #magical
In the grey light of morning on brown and grey-purple stones, down a narrow street with very little green, observed by many windows but only two eyes, a reddish-brown fox on a Theed Street.
June 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM