Jools Holland and his incredible model of London

apologies for the daily fail link but the pics are good quality of a great quality model.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6491013/Jools-Holland-reveals-incredible-100ft-model-railway-attic.html

Didn’t he live in an old railway station at one time?

Superb piece of work, I love his attention to details, and the way he’s mixed eras, rather than just replicating one specific place and time.

What’s that red brick large building in the background?

What’s that red brick large building in the background?

St Pancras?

Didn’t he live in an old railway station at one time?

I think he designed / built a studio near Westcomb Park station thats a bit of a miniature Italianate folly. He’s a bit of a fan of / authority on the architecture at Portmerion and Clough Williams-Ellis – particularly the tricks of having the rooms and exteriors out of sync so that you have grand looking facades on modest scale buildings

EDIT actually – here you go

He’s done well to Squeeze in so many buildings

What no Shard? I’d have expected an inappropriate and unsubtle Piano* to take centre stage.

*Renzo.

So is it his own project that features in the credits of BBC’s Later?

He’s done well to Squeeze in so many buildings

Boom boom.

His A to Z Geographers guide to the piano is a lovely album, with a tenuous connection to this thread.

Kirsty Wark before she became a scarecrow.