#rectangular

[spongefunny]

OTOTO Clean Dreams Kitchen Sponge Holder - Plastic Dish Sponge Holder for Kitchen Sink, Fits Any Standard Size Sponge - Kitchen Sink Organizer, Decor, and Unique Gift Idea - Sponge Included

[habatour20]

Mockup-travelmug-Colorful flowers - Modern floral digital pattern design 5

Rectangular Pillow

[redhoodinternaldialectical]

Okay I’m reading Countdown to Final Crisis and like I know we love to call Jason “built like a fridge”

But this is getting a little ridiculous lmao

[toyastales]

This staircase is a whole mood!

Wooden Rectangular Frame Staircase

[feralchaton]

Mercer41 Romang Rectangular Light

[snipejaeg]

Pool - Modern Pool

[londiniumlundene]

Lost London: Walking the Covent Garden Drainage Ditches

Part 2: The Cock and Pye Ditch

Up until the 17th Century, St Giles-in-the-Fields was just a small group of houses in the grounds of a leprosy hospital; between these dwellings were marshy fields known, perhaps unimaginatively, as Marshland, surrounded by a rectangular drainage ditch. These fields were covered by the development known as Seven Dials in the 1690s, and the fields and ditch would in time take on the name of Cock and Pye – the origin of which will become clearer as the walk along this lost watercourse continues.

The route from Drury Lane to Seven Dials requires a walk through an unnamed and (at time of walking) well-enclosed alleyway, leading onto Shelton Street. My guidebook says a small gradient can be found on this road where the subterranean waters of the Cock and Pye flow towards the Bloomsbury Ditch, but this is somewhat difficult to detect.

At the junction of Shelton Street and Neal Street, my walk turned right, in order to follow the eastern edge of the Cock and Pye’s rectangular outline (the ditch also continues straight ahead, so the circuit could in theory be completed in either clockwise or anticlockwise fashion). Neal Street takes it name from Thomas Neale (forgetting the last “e”), the Stuart courtier who was responsible for the development of Seven Dials.

As Neal Street is fairly typical of the area – expensive shops and pricey bars, cafés, and restaurants – a diversion to the centre of Seven Dials is recommended. Here, the seven roads radiate out from a central column, which surprisingly only has six sundials; the central column and surrounding roundabout functions as the seventh. The original column was erected as part of the initial development, though was taken down in 1773; the story that it was pulled down by a mob looking for gold rumoured to be buried beneath it are just an urban legend. The current column is a replica installed in the 1980s.

Turning back to Neal Street, the route then turns left at Shaftesbury Avenue. It is hard to imagine that the surrounding streets here were once the infamous Rookery of St Giles, some of the worst slums in the country. During the 18th Century, at the height of the gin craze, the squalid conditions of the streets of St Giles inspired Hogarth’s etching Gin Lane. Nowadays the most prominent artwork on Shaftesbury Avenue is Drama Through the Ages, a frieze on the Odeon cinema, originally the Saville Theatre. Very few traces of the Cock and Pye Ditch are left, though a small grate at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Mercer Street reveals trickling water below.

The third side of the rectangle is completed by walking along West Street, apparently so named because it was the western boundary of the Cock and Pye fields (a convention not applied to the other three sides though). At the time of walking, the Ambassadors Theatre was also running a rather appropriately named play; its more famous neighbour, St Martins Theatre, has meanwhile been showing the same play, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, for 70 years.

We shall end this section of the walk where West Street meets Upper St Martin’s Lane. It was in this vicinity that the Cock and Pye Inn once stood, and gave its name to the surrounding fields and ditch. Some say that the inn gained its name from serving elaborate peacock pies, though more likely it was simply named after a cock and a magpie – at the time, spelt magpye.

[rendezvousordie]

Infinity Pool in Hawaii

[xfairydrawing]

Pool - Fountain Image of a small, contemporary backyard fountain with a rectangular pool

[bbellabug]

Rectangular

[spongefunny]

Hello Hobby 5 Pack Synthetic 1" Craft Brown Sponges

[habatour20]

Modern abstract digital pattern design 1078

Rectangular Throw Pillow

[kalid796]

NOBODY CARES but not always!

[toyastales]

The geometric rectangles on the stair railing is a unique design element

[andimthedad]

Squarular

Beth: [age 14, browsing through a recipe book] "Do we have a glass baking dish that's a square?" Me: "We used to, but I think it broke. We only have glass baking dishes for bread loaves and pies." Beth: "Well, what size is the loaf pan? Like, how... squarular... is it?" Me: "Squarular?!" Beth: "You know: squarish, squarey, squarelike... squarular." Me: "I don't think that's a word." Beth: "But why isn't it a word? If it's a circle, it's circular. If it's a rectangle, it's rectangular. So if it's a square, why isn't it squarular? Why is it just 'square'?" Me: "Hmm. All those other shape words end in 'cle' or 'gle' — maybe if it was a squarcle or squargle, then it would be squarcular or squargular?" Beth: "Neither of those is squarular. I think we just need to invent this word." Me: "You're using it already, so it's been invented. And I bet others have already thought of it. We may be crazy, but we're not the only ones."

[willabee]

a beast blocks the path ahead

what will you do