Views From the Sixth Floor - Shaftesbury Avenue

Recently my part of The Bank's business moved up to the sixth floor. This has some rather good views over the West End. We're not going to be there for long - maybe another nine months - so I'm going to be snapping away whenever the light is good enough.

This little street behind an Odeon cinema looks a lot better in this photograph than it does from ground level...

And this is a view into an upper floor studio or store at Central St Martin's...

And who can resist - well, I can't - the sight of cranes silhouetted against an evening sky?

They moved into the space before they had a LAN wired in, so for about six weeks they were using ordinary BT broadband and VPN. For the first three weeks, they were using wireless to get to the broadband and even the colouring-in people noticed it was slow. Now we're all wired up and our Cisco VoIP phones are back on-line. So they're going to move the seats around again. Which really is moving deckchairs on the Titanic of morale they've made for themselves.