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Friday 26 February 2016

2 Somerset Place

Number 2 Somerset place, in its new bright blue coat, is a stunning building, to my mind one of the most attractive in the city. Despite the heavily overcast weather when I saw it today, the place really stood out and cried for me to take a photograph of it. And in one those 'decisive moments' Henri Cartier-Bresson wrote of, just when I began sizing up my iphone 4S to take a shot of it, around the corner came a guy wearing red on a bike. Luckily, the camera app was already running and ready to go and I managed to capture the cyclist in his perfect spot for the pic before he wheeled on by.


The place has recently been bought and its its previous incarnations used to house Charlie's Cafe Bar. The building dates back to at least 1843 and is Grade II listed building,