Last week’s Weekend Elephant was to be found on the side of a building in Brunswick Square.
It can be seen at International Hall, “an intercollegiate hall of residence of the University of London. Home to some 850 students, partners and children, it’s one of the largest and most diverse halls of residence in the UK.”
The 60′s accommodation blocks are nothing remarkable but they do bear attractive decorations of emblems from around the world, including this Gambian elephant.
Thank you again to the kind people at London Remembers for submitting it. I have been enjoying their new look site all weekend. Did you know that they are now on Facebook too? You can find, and naturally “like” them from here. There are also rumours, currently doing the rounds of London’s bloggeratti, of a soon to be launched LR Twitter account!
This week’s elephant was not only submitted by a London net-meister, it was also spotted by one!
Caroline, she of Miscellany fame, was the very first person to correctly locate it, and she did so in person, quite unique!
We were both taking part in an excellent London Historian’s day out in Chiswick. No sooner had I got out of Turnham Green Station to begin the day than Caroline stopped me and in a loud a triumphant voice she correctly located it with a flourish!
Public congratulations now go to Caroline! In case you haven’t seen Caroline’s Miscellany it is an excellent site, full of keenly observed and beautifully photographed, observations in Deptford, London and Brittany. I suggest you take a look. Recently she has organised her considerable collection of photos of “ghost signs” making them far easier to dip into whenever the mood takes you.
The next Weekend Elephant will be published, as ever, on Friday.
Readers will then have the whole weekend to email the precise location to me. The first person to identify each weekend’s elephant is always rewarded with a glorious mention sometime on Monday when the location is officially revealed.
If you would like to nominate an elephant for future inclusion please drop me a line; all publicly visible, permanent or semi-permanent, London-based elephants, regardless of size, medium or location will be considered!
The author of this blog is a qualified City of Westminster Tour Guide who runs unique walking tours throughout London, see tabs for details.
