The Summer In The City journey continues where we left off at the end of the previous episode, Camden Lock.

We now take the canal path from the lock (where narrowboats ascend or descend between two different sections of the canal) walking towards Regents Park. The canal is a peaceful, idyllic, 'hidden' London that few tourists know about.

Half way through the episode we arrive at the north entrance to Regents Park and walk south through some beautiful floral gardens and fountains.

Finally we end up exiting Regents Park at its southern perimeter and cross Marylebone Road into Park Cresent. As this episode concludes there is a sense that this peaceful part of the journey is about to end...

LLTV’s Summer In The City 2007 episodes kick off with a tube ride on an underground train to Camden Town that starts over-ground, passing Golders Green station before entering the tunnel underground to central London.

Once we arrive at Camden Town, we take a look through this bustling suburb with its shops of ‘way-out man/groovy/hip-chick/goth� clothing!

We pass the MTV television studios (formerly the TV-AM building) and arrive at Camden Lock looking over Regent’s Canal ....where next week’s episode will continue the journey!

For more on the Summer In The City journey taking place throughout the summer, read the article in LLTV News at www.londonlandscapetv.info

Imagine you've just arrived in London for the first time from an airport or railway station, and you're taking a taxi ride. What would you see? You would be absorbing the sights of the buildings, people, shops, other vehicles, signs, advert hoardings, driving on the left, and more. When you see a city for the first time like this, it's an intense sensory experience which I hope I have been able to recreate in this episode.

This episode takes you through two districts close to the centre of London: Brixton and Victoria. The camera is set up on the dashboard and sees everything I see in front of me as I drive the car through the heart of these places.

Technical note:
You will notice that this episode has two black bands at the top and bottom of the picture. I positioned the video as a narrower strip than the standard widescreen format because at the bottom of the original video footage is a close-up of the windscreen wiper! Since this does not contribute to the scene it would only take up the attention of the video compressor and soften the more useful parts of the picture. Lowering the picture and taking out the windscreen wiper using black bands means that much less data is absorbed here and the moving images are sharper. Even so, the moving pictures are softer than a true still landscape, so I'll present you HD landscape-o-philes (like me) with a nice still landscape next week, I promise!

On a stormy Sunday (1st July 2007) and with central London experiencing a heightened security alert, I decided to head out to Alexandra Park - home of Alexandra Palace - with its views towards the distant towers in the city of London which is 6.5 miles (10 km) south of the park.

In this episode, I take in a couple of shots of the palace building (these days not much to look at except for its circular rose window) and TV tower, then I turn the camera around to point south to central London.

Alexandra Palace itself is no longer much to look at. A fire in the 1980s destroyed much of the building and it has only been partially rebuilt. However the historic BBC TV studios and (still operational) TV transmitter still exist. The tower was the first in the world to transmit TV pictures, from 1936 (for more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Palace ).

 

A selection of well known - and secret - places in London where people go to walk, relax, and see the city. Starting in the ornately covered Leadenhall Market we then head to St. Christopher's Place, a peaceful shopping and cafe 'square' with its access from Oxford Street only indicated by a tall clock! Next we head to Canada Square, Canary Wharf - the heart of the newly developed Docklands. This shot was filmed when... actually I'll leave the clues for you to find on the large Reuters news screen dominating the square! From Canada Square we move Thames-side with a set of static shots that observe the people-only spaces riverside or across pedestrian bridges.