Welcome to bollards of London (incorporating bollards of Britain), a site dedicated to those rather odd looking pavement objects you find in the most interesting of places. Bollards have a history richer than most objects placed upon the pavement and we can easily find some from the earlier part of the 19th Century. Welcome once again to bollards of London and please do follow/contact me on the twitter @BollardsEngland or via gmail john.bollards@gmail.com #thankyou...
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Barbican Bollards of Bridgewater Street...
The City of London must be the bollard capital of London/UK and maybe the world.
Just off Beech Street and the Barbican Estate you'll find Bridgewater Street and at the junction with Viscount Street you find this rather odd collection of 1960's concrete bollards.
The Barbican Estate is a rather swanky 1960/70's concrete estate for the wealthy what is completely logical is the bollards match the design of this large residential/arts centre. Take a close look at the picture and you'll notice that we have in fact three different types of concrete bollards on display. One tall thin rather smooth domed bollard, then two rather stumpy more coarse bollards with a rather large channel near the base. The last bollard in the background is rather almost shell like and actually looks like a hybrid of the other types on display here.
On a rather odd but funny note we are pleased to announce that this blog is fast approaching it's 100th post (sorry bollard) yes this is no.91. Can we assure you all we have plenty more to come, in fact hundreds.
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Hi John, would it be possible to get a link from your blog to my bollards site? Feel free to email me (manperez2009@googlemail.com) :)
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the things I've always liked about the Barbican. Whatever someone's feelings on the actual design, you always have to respect the thoroughness and consistency of it all.
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