Londoners
A vicar walks his old dog in the London mews The romantic scene comes with some warnings The dog looks like one of the hounds of Apocalypse A sign on a closed door cautions about deep excavations Could this possibly be Hell ? It was a cold and sunny day… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
Sitting on a bright yellow grit container A nonplussed commuter waits to commute Probably in need for a disassembly-reassembly Life come as a kit, you assemble it Sometimes a part is missing The fur hat and mobile brain surrogate are essentials Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery Hits: 20
The Iroquois run in the streets of Hackney And the chemist sells strange substances So you may fly up and down in the sky with diamonds The quartet was the last English dream after Alice So we all sing the anthem, long live Mrs Ethel Shroake… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery Hits: 44
The streets have ears and police cameras roam free Art is the outlaw, the vandal from beyond Hadrian’s wall We marvel at the anonymous and ephemeral works They carry the message of a culture, unlike the sterile ads A penny for our thoughts, a fistful of dollars for our soul Art by talented mural artist […]
Summer in the city, girls slowly licking ice creams A bicycle and a green broom straight out of Star Wars Stand guard as Princess Leila glides by the Ali Baba cavern But we can only see the thieves and the money changers The treasures lie in our eyes beyond the Sesames’ Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
We all have dreams We speak of them not We share undercover images The fear is that the dream may come true We look at our reflection in a window But we are too shy to talk to her After so many years standing in front of this mirror We still can’t tell the real […]
View from Knightsbridge of the Mandarin Oriental fire on June 6th in London A crowd of police vans, ambulances and fire engines A ladder and fire hose, backlit smoky scene The sun burning like a dark star in the sky Hugh Ardoin The London Londoners Gallery Hits: 16
View from Sloane Street before lock-down Hugh Ardoin The London Londoners Gallery Hits: 11
Yesterday in London the Mandarin Oriental £ 182 million refurbishment goes up in smoke Girls running in the street, panic or else… The whole Knightsbridge area went into lock-down The Guardian extraordinarily silent The press freedom caught fire too? Hugh Ardoin London Londoners Gallery Hits: 12
On the London backstreets a Kombi holds a strip-show No music playing while the bared beauty shows under a curtain fold Once the iconic transport of the Kathmandu flower-power pack Preserved undercover in the splendor of its long past youth Like a vampire sipping at the rare unleaded bloods Challenging time and the whims of […]