Around the back of Cartwright Gardens WC.1 in the London Borough of Camden I came across a bog standard bollard with a Camden Council no dumping sign attached.
However as you can clearly see in the picture it looks like the Gods have dropped a rather large liquorice allsort and it's impaled itself upon the pavement next to the bog standard ribbed council bollard.
The bollard may well stop vans/lorries from cutting the corner but why leave the eyesore allsort sitting right darn next to it ?
Bollards of London...
PS Can I say a big hello and thank you to @davehill at the guardian for placing us in the category of "Top London bloggers" in the guardian online http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/11/bollards-london-blog?CMP=twt_fd
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...
i suspect that the allsort is actually the older of the two bollards, and as such can be said to have more historic weight (as it were) than the ribbed
ReplyDeletenext time i'm in town, i shall have to check out who cast the later one.