I was particularly interested by the bull's head decoration on one of the buildings. I work just by Smithfield Market in London, which has been the main meat market here for hundreds of years. Nowadays it is a conservation area, although the market is still active, and most of the surrounding buildings are no longer involved in the meat trade. But the Rookery, a very lovely boutique hotel next door to my office, and a converted warehouse as far as I can tell, has some very similar cow heads adorning the walls. It is on Cowcross Street, one of the oldest streets in London, where cattle used to cross the Fleet River to get to the market.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Christine Nielsen > Sent: 26 August 2013 21:38 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff > > Thanks for the tour! Seems you are finding your groove again... Yay! > > I am just back from Chicago (& other points Midwestern)... > We dropped Nick off there on Friday. Maybe you passed him on > your Sunday drive...! He did a 13+ mile run from Hyde Park > that took him at least that far... When I saw the photo of > the guy & his dog out for a run, I was hopeful you had. But > it's a big city, lotsa runners. :) > > I'll catch you next time, Christine! > > :) > -c > > On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Christine Aguila > <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone: > > Here's the PAW for this week > > http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html > > Darrel & I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, > which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a > National Landmark. > > > Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the > area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. > http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html > > Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just > street scene stuff. Paul & Ann--check out what's on the > corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! > > http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html > > Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also > drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the > Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some > quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and > walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. > > Cheers, Christine > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
