Realism style tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder showing Big Ben, a red telephone box, a London Underground roundel and the London Eye in grey and red ink.

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London landmarks sleeve on upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo covers the upper arm and shoulder with London landmarks, including the clock tower of Big Ben, a red telephone box labelled TELEPHONE and a London Underground roundel reading UNDERGROUND. A large circular structure, possibly the London Eye, sits at the top of the arm. The linework is detailed and the shading is smooth and realistic, with the buildings rendered in greys and the phone box and roundel in red.

Realism Upper arm Shoulder Building

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody at the Ashcombe Lane reunion asked where I'd been for twenty-two years, which suited me fine. The honest answer was Hastings and a bedsit above a chip shop. Instead Gary Pettifer kept steering us back to the Year Eleven trip to London, the one where Mr Lusk lost the minibus outside Euston and we walked the whole way to Parliament Square with a guidebook that had the wrong Tube map in it.

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Priya Ramsden had sat beside me by the window that day, and she was the only one who still had the plan. She dug in her handbag and came out with a planner, its elastic gone soft as string. On a page marked with a sticker of a kestrel was my handwriting from 1999: if we get split up, meet under the roundel at Westminster, six o'clock, first Saturday in October. Beneath it she had drawn the clock tower in biro, its hands set to a quarter past, and a red telephone box with TELEPHONE squeezed along the side.

I had forgotten the Saturday entirely. I remembered the minibus and the rain and crying on the Circle line, but not that I had promised anyone anything. Priya said she had caught the train down from Leicester with a packed lunch and a cold, and had stood under the roundel until the station lights came on, watching the crowds come up the steps without me. Then she went home and never spoke to me again, because she assumed I had simply chosen not to turn up.

I had been waiting at the Bridge Street exit the whole time, on the wrong side of the scaffolding, looking for her in the wrong place. I told her so. She laughed for the first time all evening and tapped the drawn roundel with a fingernail. 'Still red,' she said. 'Let's see if it still works.'