Saturday, July 21, 2007

... and saw these splendid bronze door panels at the entrance to the old ICI hq




















3 comments:

  1. The detail is quite amazing - definitely worth getting off the bus for! The bottom one looks like a photograph in itself. Presumably a loom of some kind yet looking like a scene from 1940s - Bletchley Park, the bombes that decoded Enigma.

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  2. hullo lucas, hullo dave

    great to "see" you both again

    ici was an ubiquitous british industrial giant in my lifetime ...

    http://www.ici.com/aboutus/Milestones/History

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say what you like ... his lordship will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind ...