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Big Ben from a DUWK

Daily Photo – View from a DUKW

With news today that a London Duck tours DUKW caught fire and sank in the River Thames, I thought I’d post a view from a DUKW that I took a couple of years back.

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The Boat Quay, Singapore, 1989 from across the Singapore River near Raffles Landing and the Singapore Parliament buildings

Daily Photo – Boat Quay

As I mentioned yesterday, about a month after I took this photo, the restoration order was published in the paper and over the next several years they set about restoring this row of former warehouses and stores into cafes, bars and shops. If you were to look at the same view today, you’d notice many of the rook lines remain the same but there’s a degree more homogenization and cleanliness about the place. No more bushes growing in the gutters.

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