When photographing on Streatham High Road I, for the most part, prefer blue skies and sun in the early morning or evening hours in order to bring out the colours and texture of the shop fronts and buildings. Unfortunately, the weather forecasts have proven to be not exactly something one can call accurate. Thus, I have had to be a bit more spontaneous with the planning- i.e. set the alarm-clock at an early hour and look out of the window to see what is happening with the weather.
One building I wanted to capture in the early morning sun is Streatham Ice Rink. So, when I woke up at 5:30am on Friday morning and spotted a blue sky I jumped out of bed, got on my bike and spent a couple of hours photographing the ice rink.
Streatham Ice Rink is a fine Art Deco building, which was designed by Robert Cromie and opened its doors on 26 February 1931. It is the second oldest ice arena in London. However, its days seem to be numbered as there is a multimillion-pound regeneration scheme planned to create a new ice rink, leisure centre and housing development (www.sisag.org .uk).
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