The last time I went to Westfield, I arrived via a different tube station, and had no idea how close it was to the BBC TV Centre.
Of course, when the BBC was founded in 1922, it was purely for radio broadcasting, and when Broadcasting House was opened in 1932, it was a piece of genuine Art Deco architecture:
Not unusually for the Deco period, it is reminiscent of an ocean liner's prow.
TV arrived in 1936, but was suspended for the duration of the war. In its infancy it was broadcast from a site high on a hill overlooking the capital, Alexandra Palace (a place which was also used as an alien detention centre during the war, where German civilians were held before being transported to detention camps elsewhere):
As I passed the BBC Television Centre on my way to Westfield, I was struck by how Art Deco this building also looks. But like so much UK Deco, it's false, a fake from the 1950s, opened in 1960.
I have no idea when various additions were made, but it seems to me that the Deco-style round glass tower in this picture is a 1950s original:
On the other hand, this rather more authentic-looking tower is an what looks like a later extension:
The outside of the building is well-known from its many appearances in photos and on TV shows, but what I wasn't prepared for was that it is situated on a really busy main road. That's one thing the broadcast shots don't show you:
At the rate Westfield is spreading over the West Coast of US, I fear we will be called the US of Westfield.
ReplyDeleteI must say they do a very good job upgrading old rundown malls.
Good luck, my guess you have many more to go.
Right you are-one would never know the Television Centre of the BBC sits on the side of a busy road. It is the same with CNN's home which is located on ONE of the MANY Peachtree Streets in Atlanta, GA.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing photos of some of London's historic sites. It's the closest I will ever be to your fair city.
You never know, Lynn...
ReplyDeleteWe have a Westfield Centre in Derby - and another one springing up in Nottingham.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of springing up, would that the BBC would 'share' what the lovely Mr D'Onofrio did for them!
HERE'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF REALITY IN THE U.S.A. THAT PEOPLE TURN A BLIND EYE TO BUT AFFECTS THEM DAILY AND WILL EVENTUALLY KILL SOCIETY AS YOU & I BOTH KNOW IT UNLESS WE STAND UP & STOP THEM!
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THE U.S. CITIZENS HAVE THEIR BRAINS SCRAMBLED VIA FLUORIDE IN THE WATER & ALL THE ASPERTAME THEY CONSUME IN POP DRINKS, BUT THERE IS MORE.....
You see, Bush Sr., & Jr., Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Obama, Ford...ALL these presidents are in what is dubbed a SECRET SOCIETY called The Moloch Axis Demoniacs (i coined the phrase myself...Dr. A.P. and i don't use my full name because WHO knows WHAT sinister crap they'd do to me IF they found out?) or M.A.D. for short.
These people, and there’s obviously more of them (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger etc.) than the ones mentioned, control KEY positions not just in government, business, finance, society etc. They not only perpetuate what will keep them in power today, but take steps to GRADUALLY erode MORAL, SOCIAL and FAMILY VALUES in society. This degradation is so gradual that it's like hair loss! You see it ever so slowly and you have to be a keen eye to boot!
For example, women in the workforce...they go to work so WHO takes care of the kids? Some goofs getting minimum wage who could care less about those kids. Family split apart because NOW both parents work and the cost of life itself purposely increased to perpetuate this separation. Kids grow up with NO moral/social/family values. Repeat this a few generations and before you know it, you have mindless zombies that don't know RIGHT from WRONG! The masses will be easily programmable to get in debt, and be anti-Christ-like etc. Add ASPERTAME, Fluoride in tap water, MSG and genetically modified foodstuffs to the mix and the process expands both rapidly & exponentially.
Also, the coming mark of the beast 666. Remember HOW it all used to be ca$h only? Then they introduced checks, then credit cards to get yourself in serious financial troubles, then ATM cards, and now that STUPID SWIPE-PASS card. What is the purpose of all this? To get people broken down enough and stupid enough through putting FLUORIDE in the drinking water and ASPERTAME in soda drinks/pop cans so we ALL can accept the 666 chip. So NOBODY can buy or sell or own ANYTHING lest he has the mark of the beast (anti-Christ) which is 666.
I can go on for days & days as to the subtleties and more examples but i think you all SEE the points i make here. It's all SUBTLE and GRADUAL negative changes day in & day out that these M.A.D. demons (because they are demonic and have placed their trust in demons in exchange for their souls and material possessions here on earth) are passing into laws in Canada, USA, UK, SPAIN, FRANCE etc.
PART 2
ReplyDeleteThey are genetically modifying the food so that the REAL NORMAL SEEDS will eventually be extinct and the modified canola, corn, soy and cotton seeds will be the ONLY ones left. Genetically modified means that these NEW seeds that are in almost ALL USA store bought products have the herbicide, fungicide, pesticide and who knows what other toxins already in the seed. THEREFORE, when you eat that mishmash, WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT IT WILL DO TO YOUR INTESTINES OR HEALTH OVER TIME! And of course, the industry (i.e. Monsanto just to mention one) TELLS US.."Ohhh..it's ALL safe to eat jajajaja". SAFE TO EAT? Just look at the bees landing on these genetically modified crops and their stomachs are being ripped apart & THEY DIE! Yet you SEE HOW funny it is on TV/MEDIA that NOBODY, including the M.A.D. payed-off demonic scientists don't even whisper/mention the OBVIOUS that i just stated here?
Like i said, i can go on and on for days giving you more & more & more examples of the gradual demonic END GAME these M.A.D. are playing with us. But like i said, i think you all reading this get the picture. And by the way, i am a Dr. and guess what? I DO NOT WORK FOR THE M.A.D. OR HAVE SOLD MY SOUL TO A DEMON! But....i live in virtual poverty somewhere on this planet with a family to feed and barely scrape by. And IF you think that sounds bad, well, this AIN'T nothing compared to what the M.A.D. have in store for ALL of us in the aforementioned countries (and more) i listed. And again, ALL their moves are subtle and gradual like a chess game being played out with the regular folks as the pawns.
I sometimes WONDER WHY the regular folks in these countries NEVER do ANYTHING TO STOP these demonic morons? It doesn't matter IF you vote Republican or Democrat because from those 2 choices, they are BOTH a part of M.A.D. Same with Canada and their Liberal or Conservatives...same M.A.D. , and on and on and on. I sometimes wonder.....you NEVER see ANY of these M.A.D. criminals go to trial or imprisoned for fraud on the people yet IF little billy J-Walks across a busy street he gets a ticket he must pay! When will Bush Jr. & Cheney and ALL those involved in blowing up 3 buildings in Manhattan and blaming it on Arabs EVER be brought to justice? NEVER because when it FINALLY is discovered what they did, they'll be safely dead from old age and the vast majority of the people in the USA will be so brainwashed with NO moral/social/family values they will have already taken up the 666 mark and be worshipping the anti-Christ.
I never realised Westfield was the name of the company, not just the shopping centre, so you've educated me again :-)
ReplyDeleteDiane: Vincent said he did 'A Streetcar named Desire' for the bbc when he was tweeting the other week..I looked but haven't found any sign of it, although as he didn't say when he did it, it's a bit like looking for a needle ina haystack
Thanks for sharing your photos. I've only been to London once and that was in 1980. I love your city. Wish I could visit again but since I can't, I live vicariously through your photos. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was a dream of mine to live in London and work at the BBC. But then I got side tracked by San Francisco and moved there instead.
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