The challenge this month is to post a photograph of a metal bench. Actually the benches I’d like to photograph are in Westminster, and sit outside a house where Lord Reith, first DG of the BBC, used to live. But September is racing to a close, and the chances of me being in that part pf London, with a camera, in daylight, are slim.
So these are from the neighbouring London Borough of Camden, famous for its music venues and its market. These are from the market.
I prefer the black bench but you can see the details more clearly on the silver one, so I am posting both.
Silver
Black
What you should see in the middle of each bench is a pair of horses heads in profile.
This part of Camden market is called The Stables. You’ll find a not very good sculpture of Amy Winehouse close to these benches.
In the past The Stables Market was the site of an equine hospital maintained by Pickford’s, a transport firm still going, which used horses to pull barges along the Regent’s Canal. Those horses injured in the course of their work were treated here.
Et voilà !
The Stable Markets are so very interesting, I have seen quite a few photographs from there, but have to confess that on my one and only visit to Camden I didn’t see the horses! Thank you for sharing your benches 🙂
Thanks Jude. I did finally photograph the benches I was thinking of in Westminster, but it was night, so in the end I didn’t post them. Then yesterday, a few days too late, I admired some more metal benches!
In December it is an open theme so you can post any type of bench then 🙂
What ornate work. Too beautiful to cover up with a body sitting on it!
Or to leave covered with discarded coffee cups and food wrappers, which seemed to be a common theme…
I like the silver one the best, but both are lovely. I have only once been to the stables market, a few years ago, but loved it. I’d thought it was a livery stables for hackney carriages. I’d no idea it was an equine hospital!
I am not a midnight fan of Camden market these days though when I worked in that part of London I used to enjoy it. It is so busy now, and self-consciously hip that I find myself rebelling against it. Wonderful setting of course.
I also like the silver one best, but I wouldn’t have noticed the horses if you hadn’t said!
So it seems I have a clear run on the black ones!
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I love the Stables. 🙂 Not easy to get a shot there without people on them. Might have one for Jude’s challenge this month if I have a look. 🙂
I was a bit mystified by the last part of your remark, but have now checked out what this month’s challenge is!