Jane Liechty Photography

Londonopoly

I walked the British Monopoly board across London, from Old Kent Road to Mayfair — stations, utilities, and Go to Jail included — collecting the battleship, boot, iron, houses, and hotels along the way. A sampling here; the full set is bound for a book.

Football fans with smoke flares in front of King's Cross station
Newcastle United fans, King’s Cross Station
Pedestrians passing the front of The Angel pub in Islington
The Angel, Islington
HMS Belfast moored on the Thames in dazzle camouflage
HMS Belfast on the Thames
Victorian granite drinking fountain with a brass tap set into a brick wall at St Pancras
Water Works, St Pancras
A person asleep under a white sheet on cardboard in a shop doorway
Rough sleeper, The Strand
Woman in black walking past a wall of Dazed magazine posters, The Strand, London
Dazed, The Strand
Barbers cutting a boy's and a young man's hair, reflected in a round mirror
Barbershop, Old Kent Road
Office tower facade of grey windows and coloured panels beside a street lamp
Tower, New Kent Road (becomes Old Kent Road)
A duck upending in a fountain beside a bronze sculpted tail
Fountain, Trafalgar Square
Diner in a pink-and-white dress and metallic pink platform sandals at a café table
Pink sandals, Bow Street
Black iron fire escape zigzagging down a red-brick mansion block in low sun
Houses, Tavistock Street
Bronze Knights of Malta cannon in front of the White Tower at the Tower of London
Knights of Malta cannon, Tower of London
Battersea Power Station across the Thames with a small boat passing
Electric Company, Battersea Power Station
Tailors at work in a basement workroom seen through lettered shop glass
11 Savile Row, Mayfair
Piccadilly Circus seen from above through a leaded window
Piccadilly Circus
Boy with curly hair eating an ice cream cone
Oxford Street
Tourists browsing a £1 London souvenir stall
Oxford Street souvenirs
Shoppers reflected in the mirrored canopy beneath the Bond Street Underground sign, London
Pedestrians, Bond Street
Mirror-polished chrome sculpture of legs and high-top sneakers
The boot (my favorite game piece)
A pink McLaren reflecting the buildings above it
Racecar outside St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
Driver at the wheel of London bus LT830
Red bus, Euston Road
Trains under the iron roof of Liverpool Street station
Liverpool Street Station
Armed police officer in a blue cap looking at the camera
Go To Jail, Downing Street