The Big Smoke

I developed a crush on the bollards of London after watching Ben Hopkins's mindbending experimental London classic 'The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz' - see the brilliant trailer here - at the ICA, back in the days when I was young and funky (do people still say funky?) enough to watch mindbending experimental London classics at the ICA.

So imagine my delight when I stumbled upon the Bollards of London blog. This site is still in is infancy but has the potential to become THE destination London blog – you could call it canonical – for all things bollardian (see what I did there?). It is the work of John The Cabby, who has a number of other blogs documenting such London ephemera, including the almost-as-essential Front Doors Of London.

I am not the only Londoner with a bollard fetish. See also Brockley Central and Greenwich Phantom and I'm sure there are many others.

I don't think the brilliant Jane's London has got round to bollards yet, but it's only a matter of time.

And if anybody can think of any more bollard-related puns, feel free to leave a comment below.