ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 14-2-2005

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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London Bridge to Canada Water is only two stops on the Jubilee Line, but the same journey by foot along the river takes longer and is a great deal more interesting. This week's set of ten pictures come from a walk on a grey February day through this historic but much changed stretch on the south shore of the Thames. Upriver of Tower Bridge, there is the oddly shaped City Hall and a new development called More London. Then, between Bermondsey and Wapping, there's a huge and strange-looking vessel moored in the Pool of London. This is the Resolution, a "jack-up barge" for building off-shore wind farms, and it's only here for a week. Very few large ships come up the Thames nowadays and the Surrey Docks in Rotherhithe are eerily calm. Even the new housing developments around them seem as if they have no inhabitants. They are, however, home to many of those who work across the river in the glass-eyed towers of Canary Wharf. Another much-altered area. More London indeed.

City Hall and Tower Bridge from the fountains of the More London development (image 2590-32)

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