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I quite like it when builder brighten up their hoardings with these funny figures. Usually done with quite a display of talent too. This one was in Southwrk Street, Bankside - not far from the old Hop Exchange.

Thanks to malcolm and tfp for identifying this talented guy - here is some more info:
www.ldngraffiti.co.uk/streetart/streetartists/nathanbowen...

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I do love the way major construction firms cheer us all up with these figures on their hoardings. This one was near the site of the Shard by London Bridge Station.

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Situated between the City and the East End, just outside the old Roman walls, the building at 42 Brushfield Street is located inside what used to be Henry VIII's artillery ground where soldiers once practised archery and musketry and is close to Nicholas Hawksmoor's impressive 18th-century Christ Church, Spitalfields.
Built in 1780, the four-storey Grade II-listed house has been home in the past to diamond-cutters, furriers, boot makers, drapers, book-binders and Amelia Gold, a Hungarian Jew who ran a French millinery business. Her 1880's shop sign is still visible across the frontage.

www.agoldshop.com/history.html

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Looking through some old phtos and am finding some I felt I should have put on flickr at the time. This is one of them.

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Temple Church, detail from great east window by Carl Edwards. Mary and Jesus.