West End in the Rain

I've a thing about London in the rain, and looking back on photographs I have taken there I realise that so many of them have been taken under wet conditions that one could be forgiven for thinking that it always rains in London – but that, of course, is not true, and one day I promise to prove it by sharing some pictures taken while it's sunny. But in the meantime here's another one in the rain! There's something about reflections in puddles and on shiny pavements that awakes a sort of romanticism as well as creating interesting textures and pattens of fractured colour and light. Here we are in the heart of theatre-land, alongside the Noël Coward Theatre, which used to be the Albery Theatre, and before that the New Theatre. It is an area seeping qwith theatrical history and it is one of my favourite areas of London; the absence of cars here makes it doubly interesting, and at the end of the lane is a favourite actor's pub –The Salisbury, and across the road, on the corner of the lane leading to Covent Garden, is another: The Angel & Crown, both nearing closing time as the clock says 11, but there may still be time for one quick drink if you hurry... Location: London, England