Schleger’s stops

The recent BBC series The Thirties in Colour showed footage of London before the bombing of the 1940s destroyed the continuity of building that had previously existed.

One shot showed a street more or less unchanged in its architectural and street furniture essentials from Edwardian times – the exception being Hans Schleger's request bus stop, designed 1935–7. In the shot in question, the extraordinary modernist simplicity of this sign, and its startling use of colour, shone out in contrast to the rather fusty surroundings.

(Some idea of the effect can be seen in the photograph on page 97 of Pat Schleger’s book about her husband's work; again, the only ‘modern’ thing in the photograph is the typography.)

To Big Bog from A Spoon Farm

My son David sent me this translation of the Stockholm underground map. It’s a word-by-word translation of the the place-names into English. Perhaps Swedes in London might want to travel from Tuppen Främjar on the Piccadilly Line to Hammare Svensson on the District Line …

Last days on the 159

I made this short movie about the penultimate day of Routemaster service in London - entirely shot with a Canon PowerShot G2, and mainly on board RTW 75.



There's also a Flickr set here.