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Asked by am-em 3 months ago for 1 kudos
Best answer by cobo04
Last active about 1 month ago 10 responses

when and where have you seen the most beautiful sight in london – a perfect camera moment – that isn’t on the standard tourist trail, i.e. the eye etc etc.

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10 responses

BraveNewMaldenpremium

It would have made a great still but in fact it was a tracking shot from a football match at the Emirates. Arsenal were playing someone or other and the camera went to a crowd reaction shot. There in the crowd I saw two women, both in their early twenties, both in Arsenal shirts, both smiling and cheering madly and clearly good friends with each other. One was white and one was Asian.

I remember that image much more than the game itself.

Posted 2 months ago by BraveNewMalden

cobo04

Best view of London for me was from the resuarant at the top of BT Tower, it still revolves slowly so stand still and let London revolve round you. not only a good view but a nice feeling.

Posted about 1 month ago by cobo04

Babb

It’s not to everyone’s taste but I quite like the view from Plumstead Common. It looks down over the industrial parts of South East London, including the sewage works.

Posted about 1 month ago by Babb

BraveNewMaldenpremium

The function room at the top of the BT Tower may occasionally still rotate, but it has been closed to the public since 1980. Only BT staff ever get to see the view from there and even fewer experience the room revolving, although something remarkably similar can be experienced in any licensed premises if you put your mind to it.

Curiously, the BT Tower didn’t exist until 1993. There’s one for the pub quiz.

Posted about 1 month ago by BraveNewMalden

Babb

brain explodes

Posted about 1 month ago by Babb

Quaggapremium

I’m always taken by the view of the City Point building walking through the Barbican towards Moorgate above Silk Street…

Posted about 1 month ago by Quagga

Juvey

I quite like the view when taking someone up the Oxo tower. Invigorating, I think is the word to best describe it.

Posted about 1 month ago by Juvey

BraveNewMaldenpremium

sigh It’s like deja vu all over again.

Posted about 1 month ago by BraveNewMalden

Juvey

I consider it a personal mission. Can I finagle an Oxo reference into every thread. Incidentally, you’re good with words. Does the word subfuterage exist? If so, how do you spell it?

Posted about 1 month ago by Juvey

cobo04

BNM – I know the tower restaurant only revolves at certain times, I knew the man in charge of the Tower.

Also that until 1993 it was classified as secret and not included on maps – how something that sticks out like a sore thumb in London can be secret I’ll never know. Still that’s government for you.

I used this London fact in a pub quiz I put together last month, no one got it!

Posted about 1 month ago by cobo04