What a day

Back in early January I wrote about the filming on Blackfriars Bridge. Well they were back again this weekend, but 300m further downstream, to the Millennium Bridge.

And I can confirm, they were filming the new Harry Potter film




How much does it cost, not only for the film crew, but all the extras walking across the bridge, security (both police and private security staff), and a helicopter (which you can just about see if you look closely at the upper photo)?

Movies don't come cheap




Moving 300m upstream of Blackfriars Bridge, yesterday morning they found a WW2 hand-grenade which the police blew up with a controlled explosion.











How can you improve on all that excitement?

Well Mother Nature can. After an afternoon shower, a brilliant rainbow over St Paul's Cathedral

Memorial day - 27

One day I'll have to count the number of memorials and statutes located in Whitehall, the centre of British Government and the road connecting Trafalgar Square with Parliament Square.

The most famous located just south of the entrance into Downing Street is the Cenotaph designed and built by Edwin Lutyens at the request of the then Prime Minister Lloyd George, (the subject of Memorial day 25 - blog).

But the subject of today's blog is the monument located in the centre of the road just north of Downing Street, unveiled by the Queen on 9th July 2005 it is to the memory of the Women of World War 2. The 22ft-high bronze sculpture depicts the uniforms and working clothes worn by women during the war.

The sculpture which cost £1million is the work of John Mill. The memorial deliberately does not depict any individual women and is a tribute to all seven million who contributed to the war effort.