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Burne Street, LONDON, NW1 5DR

The current street name signs show Bell Street on the left and Daventry Street ahead. Faint traces of earlier names remain in the walls above the newer signs. Bell Street was formerly Bendall Street and Daventry Street was formerly William Street.

From here, traffic heading westwards soon finds itself on the elevated Westway.

Above Edgware Road tube station.

The Marylebone and Euston Roads have high levels of pollution of dust caused by traffic, engine emissions and tyre and brake wear. An experiment is under way of spraying a solution of Calcium Magnesium Acetate on the road. The dust is supposed to stick to the treated road surface, which is swept, washed and sprayed several times per week in the early hours. See press releases from the Mayor of London http://www.london.gov.uk/media/press_releases_mayoral/uk-first-innovative-trial-reduce-london%E2%80%99s-air-pollution-gets-underway and Transport for London http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/17246.aspx . This photo is on the Marylebone Road as traffic comes down from the Marylebone Flyover, or in from the Harrow Road.

Looking down onto the Bakerloo Line entrance from the 12th floor of the Hilton London Metropole Hotel. The front of the building is covered in glazed red tiles whilst the interior is decorated with many Art Nouveau details. The ticket office windows are particularly fine.

This easily-missed plaque is fixed to the side of the Marylebone Flyover which carries the A501 over the A5 (Edgware Road), just before it becomes the A40(M) Westway. The plaque dates from a time when such a structure was considered a matter for civic pride, rather than an ugly monstrosity; the unattractive white building in the background does nothing for the aesthetics of the scene either. Desmond Plummer was leader of the GLC between 1967 and 1973 - effectively the equivalent of the modern-day mayor. He was a strong advocate of urban motorways, and this flyover was intended to be part of a 'motorway box' - a series of concentric motorways that would have ringed London. The scheme involved the compulsory purchase and demolition of a large number of houses and was deeply unpopular - contributing to the defeat of the Conservatives at the GLC elections in 1973 shortly after which Plummer left politics and the motorway box was never completed.

Looking north-northeast.