Thames: Heart of London
Wonderful exhibition at Blackfriars Station of panoramic photographs by Henry Eeichhold shown as part of the Totally Thames Festival. These were stunning pictures of London all taken from high viewpoints. They were made up of hundreds of separate images pasted together and showed exceptional detail. Most just showed views such as the Embankment from the Shall Building or a night view from St Paul’s full of purple and yellow lights. Others showed events such as the New Year fireworks and the Jubilee river pageant. However best of all was that if you viewed them from one of the outer platforms of the station (the display was repeated on all four platforms) you viewed them against a real panorama of the river heading off up or down stream depending which way you were looking. What a great idea!