Welcome to every London borough

A selfie of the blog's author, standing in front of a sign that says "Welcome to the ROYAL borough of GREENWICH". The words "Welcome to" appear above, and the other words appear below, the borough's coat of arms, with motto "We govern by serving". A road sign underneath points straight ahead to a hospice. The sky is almost cloudless, and there is bright green foliage in the background. The author is scowling at the camera.
Greenwich
A selfie of the blog's author in front of another sign: "Welcome To LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY, Welling." Underneath the sign is an advert for Carlton Cars, a minicab firm that is open 24 hours. The sky is still almost cloudless, the foliage still bright green, but the author now looks slightly more red-cheeked and disshevelled, even if his scowl is less pronounced.
Bexley
The blog's author scowling at the camera, hair a mess, in a selfie next to a sign reading "Lewisham. Welcome to Forest Hill. Twinned with: Antony, France; Matagal[pa], Nicaragua; Berlin–Charlottenbu[rg]." The word Lewisham has the borough logo above it, a yellow crown where the spikes are formed by people with outstretched arms, while the twin towns show their respective coats of arms to the left of their names. The sign is made up of three panels, the top two blue with white writing, and the third reversed. The sign has a pole off-camera to the right, which arches over the sign and down the other side, finishing hovering above the ground, with the signs shaped to match the curved pole. The background shows the top of a lamppost, green foliage, and a relentlessly blue sky.
Lewisham
A selfie of the blog's author, peering in from the bottom-right of the photo with sweat shining on his forehead. To the left is a lamppost with two signs, the first reading "WELCOME TO Bromley, THE LONDON BOROUGH"; it is rectangular, with green text on a white background with a green border (except for the name of the borough, which is written in cursive writing in white on a rough green patch). The second sign, smaller and lower down, is circular and pink, with white text around the edge reading "Anerley Hill – Penge & Palace Trail"; surrounding a minimalist line drawing of a large house, a transmitter, and two trees. A tree pokes in behind the sign, and the sky, which forms most of the background, is blue from top to bottom.
Bromley
The blog's author, scowling at the camera, his hair messily held off his forehead by a white pair of headphones. He stands in front of a sign made of two parts: a white disc with a coat of arms on it (motto: "AD SUMMA NITAMUR"), and a purple sign which follows the shape of the disk for its concave upper edge, and is a horizontal line at the bottom. The text on the purple part says "Croydon" and (in smaller text) "Waddon", both in white and separated by a white horizontal line. The sign is supported by a single tube of metal, which has been formed into two vertical legs and a semicircular top part to match the disc-shaped sign. The background, other than a distant lamppost just visible at the bottom of the frame, is a blue gradient so featureless it could have been inserted in Photoshop (but wasn't).
Croydon
The blog's author looking down at the camera, unsmiling, wearing a black t-shirt and white headphones. Behind him is an elliptical green sign. The main text of the sign is "Welcome to London Borough of Sutton", in white; above this text is the borough's logo, a tree on a white disc with a brown ring near its edge, and the word "Sutton" offset in brown to the lower-left of the tree. The sign is held up by two black posts. Behind the sign is just a blue sky; the sun is masked by the sign, but a halo of its light is visible around the top of the post on the left.
Sutton
The blog's author, looking down at the camera with a scowl on his face. His hair is messy, and appears fairly short because of the camera angle. Behind him is a sign. The sign is dark blue above a curved line, and white below it (the dark blue area being much bigger than the white), with a white border. On the dark blue area "Welcome to Lambeth" is written in white. The sign is visibly coated with a retroreflective material. Behind the sign is a cloudless sky, paler at the top-right than at the bottom-left.
Lambeth
The head of the blog's author, very close to the camera. Behind him is a sign supported by a metal tube shaped into a pointed arch. The upper part of the arch holds a purple sign reading "London Borough of Merton", above the Merton Council logo (the word "merton", in lowercase, with a wavy line beneath, intersecting a waterwheel), all text and imagery beind in white. Below it, and separated by a metal pole, is a blank green sign. The camera angle is noticeably upwards. To the right of the sign is a lamppost, and three telephone wires cross the sky, which is cloudless (the sun appears to be behind the man's head).
Merton
The blog's author in front of a sign supported by a metal arch. The sign inside the frame is likewise arch-shaped, and white, with a grey bar along the bottom. On the white part is the word "Wandsworth" in green, beneath a blue semicircle, the bottom edge of which is a skyline including a church tower and Battersea Power Station. Arching above the semicircle, text in green says "THE BRIGHTER BOROUGH". Below, "TOOTING" is written in white text on the grey bar. There are some stickers on the grey part of the sign. Behind the sign is foliage, with a building behind that which is hard to discern through the leaves. The sky is solid blue.
Wandsworth
The blog's author, looking down at the camera with eyes held wider but no other expression on his face. He stands in front of a sign with a silhouette Westminster skyline (including Buckingham Palace, Nelson's Column, the Eros statue, and the Houses of Parliament) against a light-blue-to-white gradient background. Above the skyline, in black, is the Westminster coat of arms, with the text "Welcome to Westminster" beneath. Below the main sign is a black strip with white text on it, with the council's web address on it. Behind both the person and the sign is a tree and a lamppost against a cloudless blue sky.
Westminster
The blog's author, squinting at the sign, his hair messy and his ears turned bright pink by the sunlight streaming through them. He stands between the two poles of an arch-shaped white sign, which is divided into two parts by a blue line. Above the line, in blue, is a coat of arms, above the words "THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA". Below the line, in black, is the word "CHELSEA"; there is also a sticker on this part of the sign. There are two smaller signs on the right-hand pole, not clearly visible. In the background is a modernist block of flats, made of dark brick and render, with windows arranged irregularly. The sky is bright blue, with the sun forming a sort of halo around the man's head.
Chelsea
A selfie of the blog's author, wearing a blue t-shirt, with a vaguely shocked expression on his face. He stands below a black rectangular sign, with quarter-circles cut of of the corners. At the top of the sign is a white box, with "HAMPTON WICK" inside it. Below is the borough coat of arms, then, in white text: "Welcome to RICHMOND upon THAMES. Twinned with: FONTAINEBLEAU, France; KONSTANZ, Germany; RICHMOND, Virginia USA." Each twin town is listed to the right of a small version of its own coat of arms (or, in the case of Richmond, Virginia, a picture of an equestrian statue surrounded by the name of the city). In the background is a busy street, with foliage to the left and a red-brick building to the right. The sky is—yeah, you guessed it—a cloudless blue.
Richmond upon Thames
A selfie of the blog's author, looking down at the camera. Behind him is a white rectangular sign with a blue border. At the top of the sign is a coat of arms, then the black text: "Welcome to the ROYAL BOROUGH of KINGSTON upon THAMES". The lower-right strokes of the R in "Royal" and the K in "Kingston" are extended pretentiously below the baseline of the text. Below this is says "Linked with DELFT", with Delft's own coat of arms shown to the left of its name; then, below a blue line, it says "KINGSTON". Beneath this sign is another, a yellow rectangle with a black border. It shows the white-on-blue P road sign for car parks, and below this is black text: "Use inside lane for John Lewis and Bentals [sic] car parks. Use outside lane for other town centre parking". In the background of the photo, behind both, some trees can be seen. The sky is, of course, a cloudless blue.
Kingston upon Thames
A selfie of the blog’s author, looking half-asleep and wearing a grey Herdy t-shirt. He stands next to a black-and-white post with red detailing, above which is an iron statue of a dragon, painted silver, with red details on the underside of its wing and a red tongue. The dragon stands on its hind legs, with one front talon aloft, and the other holding the top of a shield, which shows the City's coat of arms (a St George's cross, with a red sword in the top-left quadrant). Behind both human and dragon is the road, which is about to cross the Thames on a bridge; the river isn't visible, but some high-rise buildings are on the far embankment. Surprisingly, there are fluffy white clouds across the blue sky.
City of London
A selfie of the blog's author. He fills up most of the left-hand half of the frame; you can see his pretty face as he looks down at the camera, while wearing a grey jumper with a bag strap across it. Behind him is an office building, which is yellow-brick on the ground floor, red-brick on the floors above (with a large glass window spanning both), and glass-walled on the two top floors. Two flagpoles are angled out from the building, carrying the British and Ukrainian flags. Near the bottom-right of the picture, there is a black-painted recess in the wall, with two windows, a boarded-up door labelled "Entrance", and, on one of the side walls, a sign written sideways that says "welcome to h&f, hammersmith & fulham", with the "h&f" part being the council's logo. The writing described here is almost too small to read.
Hammersmith and Fulham
The blog's author, standing next to two rectangular signs that share two black poles. The top one is a grey board with square corners, and two signs on it. On the left is a small rectangular one (white with a rounded black border) that shows a red shield, depicting three swords beneath a crown. Arching above the shield are the words "County of", and mirroring the curve below the shield is the word "Middlesex". The right-hand sign is rectangular (again, white with a rounded black border), but with a hump protruding from the middle of the upper edge. Within this hump is the borough coat of arms, and in the rectangular part are the words "London Borough of Hounslow, Welcome to CHISWICK". The lower sign has rounded corners, and is white with a black border. The text says "Twinned with: Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Palestine; Lahore, Pakistan; Jalandhar, India". Aligned with each twin settlement is the corresponding flag, although most are cropped off, with the only visible parts being some of the French flag and a tiny corner of the Palestinian flag. The overall view is looking up, so the background is a solid blue sky much like the previous day of doing this pointless activity, with a small section of three visible at the bottom-right corner behind one of the black poles.
Hounslow
The blog's author in front of a sign; this time you can only see his head, the upward angle is so steep. Behind him is a rectangular sign with a black border; the top two-thirds or so of the background is green, the bottom third being white. On the green section, it says "Welcome to" in white text, then "NORTH GREENFORD" in black, and then, in white again, "London Borough of Ealing, Please Drive Slowly". At the top-right is the Ealing council logo: a tree, next to the word "Ealing" in white on a black box, and the council's web address in a white box beneath that. On the white section is a pictogram, showing a car spewing fumes at an adult and a child, all crossed through in red, inside a red circle. To the right of this it says: "NO IDLING: Please switch off engine while stationary". The text to the right of this is partly cut off, but what can be read says "Leaving your car idl… causes air pollution… could receive an £…". A small amount of foliage can be seen behind one of the black poles. The sky is blue with some fluffy clouds.
Ealing
The blog's author standing by a road, wearing a red t-shirt. Behind him are some trees, and a rectangular sign supported by two black poles. The top part of the sign shows a photograph of a green space surrounded by houses; printed over the sky are the words "Welcome to Harrow" in purple. The sign below the photo is purple, although part of this to the left is obscured by the reflection of the sun. At the right of the purple part is the council logo, which says "Harrow Council" inside an oval. Little else but blue sky can be seen in the photo, except for a lamppost and another tree in the distance to the right.
Harrow
The blog's author looming over the camera, hair flying in the wind. Two signs are visible behind him over his right shoulder, one above the other on the same grey poles. Both are rectangular, except that a hump protrudes from the middle of the top sign. The top sign is divided along a swooshing line into a white upper section and a turquoise lower one. In the white part, a coat of arms is under the hump at the top, with yellow-orange writing underneath that says "Hillingdon". The crossbar of the "H" is a similar swoosh shape to the divider on the sign. Below that, much smaller, it says "London" in turquoise, and then "South Ruislip" appears at the bottom-right within an upward-curling part of the swoosh. On the turquoise part is "Welcome", in a script font, and the council's web address. The second sign, below, is dark blue, and says in white "[La]rge City Winner, [Bri]tain in Bloom", with the Britain in Bloom logo shown on a white flower shape at the right. Nothing is visible in the background except part of a tree and part of a lamppost, and the rest is blue sky with some clouds lower down.
Hillingdon
A selfie of the blog's author, wearing a red t-shirt and staring impassively at the camera; he takes up much of the left-hand side of the frame. Behind him is a green sign, supported by a silver pole that rises to the right of the sign, arches over the sign in a semi-circle, and finishes well above the ground at the bottom-left corner of the sign. The sign itself is green with white text, and matches the shape of the pole. At the top of the sign is a coat of arms, and below it the text "London Borough of Brent, Welcome to". There is then a horizontal white line running across the sign, with the words "Willesden Green" below that. Behind the sign is a lamppost, and behind the blog’s author can be seen a small portion of a brick building. The sky is partly cloudy.
Brent
A selfie of the blog's author, who stoops over the camera. To the right of his head, behind him, is a turquoise rectangular sign with white writing, on two closely-spaced grey poles. The first line of the sign says "Welcome to", and then there is a faded image of a coat of arms. Below that the text says "BARNET, London Borough of", and then, after a gap, "Putting the Community First". Other things in the background include what looks like a CCTV camera on a yellow-ish pole, and a controlled parking zone road sign (which starts at 8am, but the end time is obscured). Behind all of those are a mid-twentieth-century office buildign, with a fascia divided into square windows and rectangular plastic panels. The sky is mostly blue.
Barnet
A selfie of the blog's author, taking up much of the frame. Above his right shoulder (the viewer's left) the top of a white-painted building can just be seen, with a decorative freize along the roofline. Above his right shoulder is a rectangular sign on a black pole. The left-hand third of the sign is white, but it appears to be peeling off, and shows a faded image of a coat of arms. The right-hand third is green, with white writing saying "Welcome to the London Borough of Hackney". There is a thin yellow line below the first three words. The sky is partly cloudy.
Hackney
A selfie of the blog's author, who looks impassively at the camera. His hair is slightly messy; he is weirding a dark blue raincoat, and the strap of a backpack can be seen. Behind him is a sign that depicts a silhouette skyline of Tower Hamlets (including Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf); the silhouette is blue on a white background. Above that the sign says "Welcome to" in blue, and then "Tower Hamlets" in red. Behind that again, and to the left, there is a tree rising above the sign. The rest of the background is sky, which is overcast.
Tower Hamlets
A selfie of the blog's author, looming over the camera. Behind him is a red sign in two panels, which is attached to a lamppost. The sign has an arched top, but the sides are then vertical and the bottom horizontal. The upper part of the sign says, in white text, "Welcome to BOROUGH & BANKSIDE". The lower panel, which is also white-on-red, shows the Southwark Council logo; this has the word "Southwark" as if handwritten, with a very large S that descends well below the other letters. Those other letters are underlined with a curved line, which ends with a separate dot. Below and to the right, the word "Council" is printed in a sans-serif font. Below the logo is the Southwark council web address. The sign is surrounded by a curved tube of metal following the outline of the sign from the bottom left, over the arch, and to the top-right corner, where it stops at the lamppost. The lamppost also has a small white-on-blue "End of bus lane" sign on it, and the circular downward-facing light can just be seen at the top of the lamppost. Next to the lamppost is another signpost, with the "No left turn" sign and a supplementary plaque that says "Except buses, taxis and cycles. Behind all of this can be seen some small parts of glass-walled high-rise buildings, and a cloudy sky.
Southwark
A selfie of the blog's author, who is wearing a green-grey winter coat with a faux-fur-lined hood. He stands in front of a Portland stone building; on the ground floor, there are deep horizontal grooves between successive rows of stones, and four signs angled out from the wall advertising exhibitions. Above the ground floor, it is just possible to see some classical-style columns as part of the wall above. In front of the building is a low wall abutting the pavement. On that wall, immediately to the right of the person, is a white street sign. It has the Camden council logo at the top (eight green hands, clasped in pairs, arranged in a circle, beside the word "Camden" in black). Below, in black, it says "Euston Road", and then, in red, it says "NW1". Further along the wall, to the right, is a yellow sign with "wellcome collection" written on it in yellow.
Camden
The blog's author, now wearing white Sennheiser headphones around his neck. He stands in front of a white sign with a blue border, held up by two grey poles. The sign is rectangular, except that there is a semicircle protruding from the middle of the top edge. Inside the semicircle is a faded image of a coat of arms. Below that, the sign says, in blue: "Welcome to the London Borough of HAVERING. Please drive carefully". Behind the sign is foliage, extending a little higher than the sign itself. The sky is grey.
Havering
A selfie of the blog's author, standing in front of foliage and a red-and-white pole marking the location of a gas main. Behind him, next to some foliage along the edge of the road, there is a white rectangular sign held up by two grey poles; it is quite a long way away, so appears small. There is a red strip along the top of the sign that says "Welcome to" on it in white. Below that, the sign says, in various shades of red, "London Borough of Barking & Dagenham", followed by the council's web address. There are two thin crescent shapes arcing around the name of the borough on the left. There is then a horizontal line across the sign, and writing below which is mostly hard to read. What can be made out is a logo made up of a red square and three grey triangles, the space between them forming an approximate "M" shape; and text reading "Myrene Signs Limited". Behind the sign, between its poles, there are some houses with mock-Tudor frontages. The sky is grey.
Barking and Dagenham
A selfie of the blog's author, standing on the edge of a road. Across the road are Victorian yellow-brick terraced houses. On this sign, behind the person is a sign for a controlled parking zone. Behind that, there is a white rectangular sign with a black border, on grey poles. It is partly hidden by the branches of a bush. It shows a coat of arms, to the right of which is written "London Borough of Newham" in black. Below that, in black, it says "Forest Gate".
Newham
The blog's author, standing next to a grey signpost carrying two rectangular signs with rounded corners. The upper sign is red, with a white border, and says "New zebra crossing ahead" in white. The lower sign is white, with a black border; it says "London Borough of REDBRIDGE", with the word "Redbridge" in red and the rest in black. To the right of this is an image of five leaves of a horse chestnut tree radiating from the same point on a stem. Behind the person and the sign is a row of bare trees, one of which has a cluster of sticks indicative of a bird's nest. The sky is full of white clouds.
Redbridge
A selfie of the blog's author, standing next to a green sign on a green pole. The pole is topped by a decorative ball. The sign is rectangular, with a quarter-circle cut out from each corner, and has a raised border painted gold. The top half of the sign shows a coat of arms in bas-relief, painted in the appropriate colours. The shield is divided by a wavy line into white and green parts; on the white part at the top are three trees, and below that on the green part is the head of a stag with a crown between its horns. The supporters are two stags, and the motto is "Fellowship is Life". On the sign, below the coat of arms, are words embossed and painted gold: "Welcome to the LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST, Birthplace of William Morris". Behind th person and the sign are some bare trees and other foliage.
Waltham Forest
A selfie of the blog's author, wearing a thick coat and with a camera bag over his shoulder, standing in front of a sign. The sign is supported by two closely-spaced black poles. The sign itself is a rectangle, with a semicircular "bump" protruding from the midle of its upper edge; it is white, with a black border. Within the bump is a coat of arms, on a circular sticker with a white background. Below that, in black text, the sign says "Welcome to HARINGEY". Underneath again is the borough's web address, bottom-left, and "Bounds Green", bottom-right. Behind the sign are some trees with few-to-no leaves. The sky is mottled blue and white.
Haringey
A selfie of the blog's author, next to a sign. It is a portrait-orientated rectangle with rounded corners, placed off-centre on a black pole (the pole is at the right-hand side of the sign). The sign is white with a black border. A large silhouette image (in red) of a heraldic beast takes up most of the sign; it has a fox's head, forelimbs like an eagle's legs, and a wolf's body and tail. Beneath the image are the words "London Borough of ENFIELD", in black. Behind the sign is a street with cars parked along the near side, and property visible on the far side—a yellow-brick Victorian house, and a building partly obscured by scaffolding. The sky is partly cloudy.
Enfield
A selfie of the blog's author, now holding a Pret coffee cup. He is standing in front of a brown-brick wall, which is topped by a wooden fence. On the wall is a small sign, which is barely legible, but you can make out that it says "Islington" at the top-right", and "Welcome to Highbury Corner Gardens" below. There are branches growing up the wall and the fence. Behind the fence at the upper parts of some buildings and a tree.
Islington