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Animals of London

“But I like the animals better than the ‘best people’,” said the Doctor.

Boissenvain & Osmond's Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant & Castle, Southwark, SE1

“You are ridiculous,” said his sister, and walked out of the room.

Yolanda Vandergaast's Penguin, Clare Market, Holborn, Westminster, WC2A

So, as time went on, the Doctor got more and more animals…

Kenny Hunter's I Goat, Spitalfields Square, Old Spitalfields Market, Horber Square, Tower Hamlets, E1

and the people who came to see him got less and less.

Battersea Park, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW11

Till at last he had no one left…

Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Somerset House, Strand, Westminster, WC2R

except the Cat’s-meat-Man, who didn’t mind any kind of animals.

Nic Fiddian-Green's Horse at Water, Marble Arch, Westminster, W1H

But the Cat’s-meat Man wasn’t very rich and he only got sick once a year–at Christmas-time, when he used to give the Doctor sixpence for a bottle of medicine.

Regent's Canal, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, E2

From Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Dr Dolittle (1920)

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Battersea Park Station

By day the banished sun circles the earth…

Battersea Park Station, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW8

…like a grieving mother with a lamp.

From Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)

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Albert Bridge

Among the long, black rafters

Albert Bridge, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW11

The wavering shadows lay,

Albert Bridge, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW11

And the current that came from the ocean

Albert Bridge, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW11

Seemed to lift and bear them away

From Henry Wadsowrth Longfellow’s The Bridge

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