Used as the entrance to Slade Prison in the title sequence of the 1970s sitcom Porridge with Ronnie Barker. Formerly the gatehouse to St Albans Prison, the building is now used as offices. The interior communal areas of the prison were constructed inside a huge metal tank at Elstree Studios, previously used for underwater filming.

Some shots from a recent trip to Weymouth & Portland - click for larger versions. More here.

Some shots from a recent trip to Bexhill and the De La Warr Pavilion - click for larger versions. More here.

Found this little chap sitting on the window sill. I think it’s a Zebra (jumping) spider, showing two of his four pairs of eyes (and you can just see another one toward the back on the right). It was only around 4mm across.

I quite like the effect of over-enhancing the contrast here. It gives a grainy industrial look to these structures in London. I used a similar effect with the building below which suggests urban decay and dereliction.

Added some shots taken at the London museum ship HMS Belfast to my main gallery here.

Shown here at Salisbury Cathedral, this group of figures carved by artist Robert Koenig are ending a journey taken by his mother in 1942 from Poland to the German Nazi slave labour camps and on to the UK where she settled. More of my cathedral shots here.

Rising 170 metres (557 feet) above Portsmouth harbour, the elegant and sculptural Spinnaker Tower was inspired by the shape of a sail. Building costs totalled just over 35 million pounds. In the first shot below, the black rectangle at the top is the largest glass floor in Europe. More of my Portsmouth photos here.

Added some shots taken at the wartime codebreaking establishment Bletchley Park to my main gallery here.

Looking like something captured by an endoscope, it’s actually just half a lemon (with a bit of processing in Paint Shop Pro).