John Madden

25 photos I've taken in 2025 🧵 Mostly London with a smattering of Cheltenham and Gloucester in between. Enjoy! ------ 1. View from The Shard, London - November 2025

@LFC @Carra23 Appalling timing. Appalling optics. What a bizarre choice.

Liverpool’s Greatest: @Carra23 picks his top 10! 🔝🔟 🔴

@onioncityblues @HLTCO Yep - gets my vote too 👍🏻

@HLTCO It isn’t even close Thank me later 👍

A question for my followers… If you could only recommend one football book for people to read, what would it be?

@TheBiancaFox 😍

Sunny Bethnal Green this afternoon ☀️ #London

Having seen the track listing for Morrissey's new album, this still works well

National Portrait Gallery, London - March 2026

@GingerBriq Thank you!

@ja_madden @PaintingsLondon @LondonPubMap Love your work!

The Grove, Ealing, London - March 2026

@nbcsnl Yeah, you should be deeply ashamed of this. Firstly because it's devoid of anything that could even be considered as comedy. It's a comedy vacuum. Secondly, it ruins the once great reputation SNL had. Thirdly, most importantly, you're mocking a disabled person.

brought to you by the national workforce of rethinking disabilities

@PpeterPeter Hi Peter. Where in Dagenham is this? Looks great.

social housing for Dagenham cottages for older people around a shared mews… people got neighbourly pretty sharpish

The Nell Gwynne, Covent Garden, London - January 2026

@laloulabelle Spot on

@CaittheRat That's glorious 😀

I need a playlist of this music cos its cheered me right up

Absolutely love @AlwynTurner's books and his analysis of the 20th century. Go buy it.

@Karensm03757774 Thank you! I hear it'll be colder ❄️

@ja_madden Great shot. Hope it not as wet when I’m staying in London next week tho

Earl's Court Road, London - January 2026

@OskarWernerF451 Thank you!

@ja_madden Great shot.

@stoughton_p It covers all one's basic needs 😀

@MeansB4Motive @GingerBriq Thanks for sharing!

@GingerBriq Yes, what a great find and make part of your great post. 🙂

Every taint of the touristic was wiped away by the freezing November evening: the seventeenth-century façade of the Old Bell Tavern, with its diamond windowpanes aglow, exuded a noble antiquity; the dragon standing sentinel on top of the Temple Bar marker was silhouetted, stark and fierce, against the star-studded blackness above; and in the far distance the misty dome of St. Paul’s shone like a rising moon. High on a brick wall above him as he approached his destination were names that spoke of Fleet Street’s inky past—the People’s Friend, the Dundee Courier—but Culpepper and his journalistic ilk had long since been driven out of their traditional home to Wapping and Canary Wharf. The law dominated the area now, the Royal Courts of Justice staring down upon the passing detective, the ultimate temple of Strike’s trade. #TheSilkworm

St James's Church, Piccadilly, London - December 2025

@ZippieSteve I just saw! 😀

@ja_madden You definitely need to look in my gallery 😂

After finding myself at a loose end a few weeks ago, I decided to take a walk from Highgate Underground station, through Kentish Town and Camden and down to Russell Square. Here are a few of the sights on the way... 🧵