Bollards Of London

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• Wapping's (World's) Smallest Bollards..?

  

  We are back at Wapping and who would have thought we may well have found that Wapping's bollards might just be the smallest in the World ? Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2011 DIARIES

• A Message on a Bollard...

  

  Every since I started this blog/site I've been amazed and yet pleased that we've not seen an explosion of adverts upon the humble and sometimes dandy bollards o... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2011 DIARIES

• The Right Balance...

  

  I was sitting on the taxi-cab rank/stand at Tate Britain, Millbank SW1 yesterday and noticed a group of rather happy looking young people standing on the very... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2011 DIARIES

• Check Mate..?

  

  Back to Highgate and Cholmeley Park and I found a bollard that looks rather like a chess piece.Square based, with small vertical sides with a lipped area that... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2011 DIARIES

• Top of the Bollards Bbc 6 Music...

  

  The Top five bollards of London follow for bbc 6 music this Saturday morning...In at number 5 with ello-ello-ello Police man bollard. the former Gerald Road... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2011 DIARIES

• Camden Gardens Bollards...

  

  What a rather peculiar looking bollard we've found on Camden Gardens NW1, north London.The bollard is cylindrical in shape and extremely simple in design until... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2011 DIARIES

• A Bollard, Cannon and Four Wonderful People...

  

  We are back in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea at the National Army Museum on the very beautiful Royal Hospital Road SW3. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2011 DIARIES

• The Highgate Two...

  

  Whilst travelling up Highgate Hill I came across these two marvellous bollards that are placed either side of a step of a rather steep kerb. Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2011 DIARIES

• 4 Green Bollards...

  

  We are back in the east of London at the junction of Wilmot Street and Three Colts Lane E2. This particular part of London is full of London taxi-cab garages an... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2011 DIARIES

• The Vauxhall Three...

  

  Vauxhall is a part of London better known for its links with the Secret Intelligence Service MI6, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) soon to be renamed... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2011 DIARIES

• Bollards-with-Chain of Parliament Square...

  

  Close to the statue of the great statesman and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) we find these rather interesting stone bollards attached to... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2011 DIARIES

• A Pair of Wapping Bollards...

  

  Welcome to Wapping where we have found two bollards with a little difference and that being they appear to have a humped base which acts like its own form of... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 DIARIES

• The Holy Grail of Bollards...?

  

  Whilst pushing (driving) my taxi-cab around the capital I end up in streets and roads that most would never walk nor even drive down and out of the corner of... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DIARIES

• Lomond Grove SE5...

  

  We are still in South East London and I'm still wandering around the streets/roads of the district area called Camberwell and my does this area throw up a few... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2011 DIARIES

• Cook's Road SE.17...

  

  We are in South East London in an area known as Walworth bordering the trendy well known area of Camberwell. Here we have come across a row of square based... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2011 DIARIES

• The Raft London...

  

  We have reached another milestone and I'm pleased to present you with the 150th bollard of London at the Raft (Rail Air Freight Terminal) which is the Gatwick... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2011 DIARIES

• A Look Inside a Lambeth Bollard...

  

  The 149th bollard was always going to be a little different and hear we have a pair that I found on Lambeth Walk a few months ago.Green in colour and tubed or... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2011 DIARIES

• London Underground Ruislip Garden Station...

  

  Ruislip Garden Station is on the central line of London's Underground and very close to RAF Northolt and bordering the car park at this suburban station are... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2011 DIARIES

• Moon Landing...?

  

  Just off Blackfriars Road you will find Union Street and a rather new small busy little community of cafes and bars serving the rather odd looking Palestra... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2011 DIARIES

• Bollards for Pimlico...

  

  We are at Pimlico Road close to the junction of Ebury Street SW.1 where we find these rather delightful concrete cylindrical flat topped flared bottom... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 DIARIES