Landscape photo project day 2

A beautiful day and so off out with the camera.

A theme for my landscape photos has emerged: Libraries in Urban Settings. Two down, four to go.

The photo I posted a couple of days ago featured (by sheer serendipity) Swiss Cottage Library on the right hand side of the picture and today's photo features Dulwich Library (a planned execution) on the right hand side of the picture (unplanned). The theme could be: Urban Libraries on the Right. For anyone with the curiosity of a cat I can identify some other buildings in the photo below. Next to the library, in the background, is a pub called The Plough, there since 1830 (some earlier history quoted below). To its left, more or less in the middle of the picture, is a bank. I don't like banks at the best of times so I'm certainly not going to mention whose bank branch it is. On the left are terraced houses with shops below, one an estate agent, one a chiropodist (which I've never visited - I have visited the pub on a few occasions, drinking only in moderation of course, and the library on hundreds of occasions, taking out books not in moderation and not always returning them on time). I hope none of my readers will be corrupted by the story of Thomas Jones.

In Lordship Lane, there was, in the time of William Hone, an inn called the "Plough"—an old-fashioned wooden structure—on one of the windows of which was the following inscription, cut with a diamond:—"March 16, 1810. Thomas Jones dined here, eat six pounds of bacon and drank nineteen pots of beer."
From: 'Peckham and Dulwich', Old and New London: Volume 6 (1878), pp. 286-303.