This photograph was taken from Greenwich Park looking
west towards the City of London. At first sight all looks perfectly normal. The
Shard is to the left, in South London, St Paul’s is central with the
ugly Willkie Talkie building (or ‘fry scrapper’ as it is known due to its ability to melt cars with a
‘death ray’ produced by its curved windows) both being in the
City. Behind this are the 'Cheese Grater' and the 'Gherkin'. I'm sure architects
only erect large buildings to fulfil their comedic ingenuity on a
nickname.
The scene changes in close up. A plague of cranes (I’m
sure that’s the collective noun) seems to have descended on the city as if in a
Sci-Fi movie. Strangely they are all pointing in the same direction as if drawn
by a mysterious grand master calling the cranes to observe a masonic ritual.
London is either in need of major repair, in the process
of rebuilding itself or Boris Johnson has bought a job lot of cranes.
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