New Year, New Life

By jenpedler

Little St Paul's on the Water

It's a shame that you can't really get a good view of the sculptures on Vauxhall Bridge unless you a) are on the river b)peer precariously over the bridge parapet or c) use a telephoto lens, as I did for this picture.  Binoculars would be a possibility too.
The four statues on the upstream side of the bridge are by F.W Pomeroy, perhaps better known for the figure of Justice on the Old Bailey. They represent pottery, engineering, agriculture and architecture and each figure can be identified by what they are holding. So no prizes for guessing that the figure holding this mini model of St Paul's represents architecture! It's apparently known by watermen as 'Little St Paul's on the Water', hence the title for this blip.
Taken on a recce of my upcoming Three Bridges walk which tells the stories of Westminster, Lambeth and Vauxhall Bridges and the bits in between.

(Hard to get back into regular blipping, still planning to fill in blanks with back blips...)

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