Knightsbridge
I've been talking about some of London's hidden rivers recently and how ten rivers used to flow into the Thames in and around the centre of London. Way back when, if you were travelling you were at greatest danger at the points where travellers were concentrated by the landscape. You would often find robbers at bridges, the Knight's Bridge (which crossed the river Westbourne) was one such. Nothing changes, does it?
For those who don't know, Harrods is in what is now called Knightsbridge.
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post a commentJust like Macy's in New York...the Peta people are always outside with a boycott...I had no idea Harrods is now Knightsbridge.
harod's is the big shopping centre that lights up at night right? very pretty but i never stepped inside. the pubs had taken all my money :-)
Don't get the fuss about Harrods at all. Give me John Lewis any day of the week.
Just for the record Harrods used to be a proper shop. These days, you can find all the names there but the place is now more like a jackdaw's cache of glittery things. Just the sort of place a footballer and his girlfriend would shop.
I called in on Saturday because Santa's grotto had just opened and I thought to get a shot of the queue. However, it is on the 4th floor. I got up there, but became so increasingly revolted as I rose through the building that I had to get out, quick.
Maybe it was my fault for travelling up the Egyptian Escalator, a thing of that hits 12 out of 10 on the tacky-ometer.
The Egyptian Escalator, OMG, tacky++++ indeed!
Regarding the fur trade, I thought there had been a ban on all this stuff year ago. It's back IN, is it? Blondes couldn't hold more than a couple of years without a furry thing round their necks?
I want to know how that guy attached the sign to his head. He does not appear to be in much pain as one would expect if a grove had been cut in as it appears....ok, let me get going on my 2nd cup of coffee before I leave any more comments. :)
Sneaky introduction! I thought you had the wrong photo, until I reached the last paragraph. Very clever.
i don't get it.
is he saying the anti-fur lot are robbers?
or the big department stores?
or is that the point of this art : )
Anon - I'm implying that robbery still goes on in Knightbridge, only these days it's done in store. Mind you, people that shop regularly at Harrods (sweeping staement warning) have got more money than sense so deserve to be robbed blind.
I can understand tourists going there and there =is= good stuff to be bought. An awful, awful, awful load of bad stuff, too. I'd just hate for people to go away thinking that it represents the best of British retailing.
I don't care that much about the boycott - I wouldn't shop there (these days) anyway.
Ahh I've seen those protestors around but the real fact is, do Harrods seel real fur? I thought it was illegal to sell fur in the first place!