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Queens Marry University.
Honestly. |
Not to mention St Pancreas. |
I think they also need a bit of help on local bus services too. I wonder when the 425 was extended to Central London? |
I guess by the time you had moved to Bow the Bromley Arms (opposite the bus garage) had shut.
Is the Bow Bells still that garish orange? |
On google street view it is still a pub, still open, and people are sitting outside on the benches on a nice sunny day day enjoying a drink! How old is THAT then? |
.....not to mention Padington!
"these buses run 24 hours to and fro on Bow Road" - so, probably not very quiet then! Beware of hotels which tell you more about where they are than what you will find when you get there! |
Vinyl lettering - ugh. The bane of boats as well. Let's hope the craft of signwriting does not die out completely. |
The "Bow Bells" is still orange, and indeed was repainted as such in 2011 - though last night there was the bizzare sight of Morris Men dancing outside it. |
The King's Arms' marketing blurb sounds like it's been written by Borat! |
Images on Bing show just what you'd expect for £60, maybe a little better. Considering the location, they could have covered the place in Gold Leaf and still made money. It's within walking distance of the Olympic grounds!
I enjoy these hotels, especially in the K&C area. A great value in actual "livable" areas of the city. That said, I don't know if this bodes well or poorly if you need a room next summer. Just doing a "paint & patch" short term commitment for a few hundred a night for the games is tempting. |
Thanks for teaching me a new word today - now to try and slip 'kerned' into conversation. |
ps @Kim - not sure whether Borat wrote the blurb but it definitely reads as if it was written by someone who doesn't have English as their native tongue. |
@geofftech, @DG, how often do Google take photos then, as this is obviously well out of date? Seems like a missed opportunity here to make some serious money. |
Tacky! Definitely a missed opportunity though. |
The timelapse sequence shows just how much planning DG puts into our entertainment..... Superb! |
Hotel CityStay just up the Bow Road has identical kitchen furniture - I wonder if they are related? |
@Whiff
I don't think the blurb was written by a person at all - it looks like a babelfish translation from some foreign language - or possibly something very badly spellchecked |
I see there's going to be a pop-up pub called The Diamond Geezer in Battersea Park on June 3, as part of the pageant along the Thames for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. |
If you look at the bottom of Street View, you'll see that (most?) of the London ones are from 2008 or 2009.
Looks like the grey paint came from a naval base. |
I've had a look at some of the reviews on booking.com and found one from a Danish traveller that may be of interest:
"The exterior looked old and shabby. When I arrived I worried my stay but interior was well designed and clean. Hotel clerk said They couldn't fix it because of the law which preservs landscape." |
Stick on tape lettering! I luv it! Even though it's the definition of tacky... it still won't quite stick.
Ugh. |
"The location of the guesthouse also suites to the students ..."
The youth of today have never had it so good. No-one ever did that to me when I was a student ... we all lived in a shoebox and licked crumbs off the road, and thought ourselves lucky! |
Tried to get the frontage restored.. owner didnt return letters, calls or business cards. Called up 6 months after we've restored the others further east up Bow Road and asks to have this one done. Missed. The. Boat.
Real shame.. |
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