Nine Elms Cold Store - 3
Ballardian splendour The flag of St George is raised over our vanquished friend
Cor luv a duck! Does anyone ever read these ALT tags?
In a year or so the Saint George Wharf Apartments development will be here.
The Vauxhall Balloon.
Soon to be the St. George Wharf apartments
There is a similar view to this at the Visual Guide to London which shows the Cold Store still intact. That's about all there is on the web, apart from a reference to the site's planning permission, and a child's reference to the "Gold store" in someone's novel.
The world's largest tethered passenger helium balloon - from £12 for 15 minutes at 400 feet above Vauxhall Bridge. Call 0171-587 1111.
MI6. So where's MI5?
A view from a bridge - of a building site.
A few hundred feet along the River Thames is this example of crypto-babylonian architecture known locally as "Spooks' Castle" or Spook Central: it's the HQ of MI6, the UK intelligence service. Being paranoid, I always find that red funnel thing in the middle rather alarming when I'm driving over Vauxhall Bridge - is it where the blood runs down?
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