#North Kensington

[londonedge]

Another piece of iconic social architecture, Trellick Tower in North Kensington designed by Ernő Goldfinger

[federer7]

Southam Street Corner, North Kensington, London. 1957

Photo: Roger Mayne

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70’s squat in Frestonia

[its-sophia-isabella]

Day 15 in London (7/16)!

Today started with Deren and I grabbing a tiramisu latte and pink meringue Japanese pancake! They were both super yummy and super pretty. Unfortunately, the place where we went was about 30 minutes the wrong way from our first destination on the tube, so we had to get up a little early.

After eating, we took the bus instead of the tube so we could get see some sites of London and met up with Elizabeth and Nishtha at the British Museum, which was really interesting. Deren was telling me (and I read a lot online) that a lot of the artifacts in the British Museum are being held without permission of the countries they belong too. I also noticed that despite the name, of the over 30 rooms only 2 of them were actually artifacts and information from British history. Some of the coolest things we learned:

- Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC and founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BC. After his death, the Macedonian general Ptolemy took control of Egypt and proclaimed himself king in 305 BC.

- The Rosetta Stone was discovered in mid-July 1799 by soldiers in Napoleon's invading army at the port city of Rashid (Rosetta). After Egypt became Christian, the Egyptian temples were closed and some of their building material reused. At some point, the Rosetta Stone was moved to Rashid, where it was repurposed as part of a fortress built for Egypt's Muslim rulers. It was discovered years later while the French were improving their defen against the Ottoman-British naval forces and its importance was immediately recognized.

- Across Neolithic Europe people expressed themselves by decorating pottery in different ways. In parts of eastern Europe painted styles of pottery appeared. Clay models of humans and animals played an important part in regional traditions. Further west, for example in Britain and Ireland, people decorated their pots by incising and impressing marks into soft clay with a range of tools before it was fired. Although there are no clay models of humans or animals, a few examples of simple human figures in other matenals, such as wood survive from this period.

Next, we hopped on the Picadilly line tube directly to the Natural History Museum. Everybody stopped for a second to eat a snack and relax, and then it was off to see the exhibits that cover about 4.6 billion years of history. We noticed they weee heavily focused on climate change. Some of the most interesting highlights:

- The Polar Bear is the world's largest land carnivore. Best known for hunting seals, polar bears occasionally kill walruses and beluga whales. With a dense, water-repellent coat and a thick layer of fat, polar bears are superbly adapted to the harsh Arctic conditions. They can swim long distances through icy waters. Generally polar bears are solitary except in the breeding season. However, after an exceptionally warm summer, the area of ice shrinks and large numbers of the bears are forced to live and hunt in close proximity

- Geothermal power plants are used to generate energy from heat naturally created underground in Iceland. When water runs through hot rocks under the Earth's surface it heats up, leading to hot springs on the surface and pockets of steam below ground. Naturally occurring hot water can be used to heat homes, while power plants transform hot steam into energy that is used for various purposes. The large amount of geothermal energy in Iceland means that less fossil fuels are used.

- Climate change is starting to catch up to us. It will affect both human communities and animals of all types. With the solid ice melting earlier each year, polar communities cannot travel across it and animals cannot hunt on it. As global warming continues, this problem will worsen. About 14,000 years ago, natural global warming began killing off mammoths as their food and habitat began to disappear, which now is the problem that polar bears and reindeer are facing. Melting Arctic ice will result in rising sea levels. This will have an impact across the globe. A rise in sea levels puts many cities at risk. This doesn’t even take into account it’s effect on aquatic species.

I left the museum before everyone else to take an afternoon break, and walked through Hyde Park to go back to the tube station. It was beautiful to explore Kensington!

After everyone else returned, Deren and I went into the canalside study space to prepare for our evermore discussion we were leading in class the next day. I left to get some water and this is the story that emerged:

Me: *leave to go get water, and finds a cake in the store that I want and buys it*

Deren: "so you disappear for 30 minutes and show back up with a cake and drinks... that's my kinda person"

Looking forward to seeing how our discussion goes!

[whenthewallfell]

Working on my Everlark-on-the-run fic and trying to plan out their getaway/roadtrip route for ~authenticity~ and it's driving me nuts like

America is so big. IT'S SO BIG. WHY IS IT SO BIG.

It takes me five hours by train to get from Edinburgh to London. That's two whole countries, at almost opposite ends of the UK.

I'M NOT EVEN SURE THAT WOULD GET THEM OUT OF THE COUNTY?????

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[bestseasonsoflife]

Christmas Lights at the Mormon Temple 2023-5 by Amaury Laporte

[rowanhoney]

Hiiiiiiiii now taking recommendations for how to use my week off!

[marcowalker148]

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[londonedge]

Graffiti at the foot of Trelick Tower, North Kensington

Whilst some of the graffiti is completely random, the wall also contains the names of those who died in the nearby Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.

[federer7]

Southam Street Group, North Kensington, London. 1956

Photo: Roger Mayne

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[londonedge]

Trellick Tower rising up above surrounding blocks in North Kensington