A staircase I've walked up most of my life. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture

I've seen this described as the 'worst staircase in London' because the steps are diagonal and interfere with perception, making you reach for the rail. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #LondonBridge #London

The entrance staircase of where I'm staying was begging for it this morning. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #stucco #NottingHill #London

A staircase down to the Norman crypt at Bayeux Cathedral. It was lost for 2 centuries and rediscovered in 1412. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #crypt #Bayeux #Normandy

A modernised spiral staircase in an C19th building in Rennes. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #spiral #Rennes

A spiral staircase artwork in the lounge of my hotel. #photography #b&w #staircase #spiral #London

A twin curved staircase leading to a two-sided pulpit at Bayeux Cathedral. An C18th addition. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #Bayeux #Normandy

A twin curved staircase leading to a two-sided pulpit at Bayeux Cathedral. An C18th addition. I also see a simple crowned, bearded figure with open arms, maybe a king (of the Jews even). #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #Bayeux

The west wing spiral staircase at Seaton Delaval Hall. Sir John Vanbrugh 1728. #photography #b&w #architecture #Baroque #staircase #spiral

The staircase and empty lift shaft of a former Manchester warehouse, built in 1904. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #16mm #Manchester

The spiral staircase of my hotel in Paris, in a Haussmann building. From the top, you can see the Eiffel Tower. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #Paris

Another looking down the spiral staircase of my hotel in Paris, in a Haussmann building. From the top, you see the Eiffel Tower or this. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #spiral #Paris #LookingDown #Haussmann

I became a little obsessed, looking down the spiral staircase of my hotel in Paris, in a Haussmann building. From the top, you can see the Eiffel Tower, but I just kept looking down. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #spiral #Paris #LookingDown #Haussmann

Looking down the spiral staircase of my hotel in Paris, in a Haussmann building. From the top, you can see the Eiffel Tower. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #spiral #Paris

The spiral staircase in my hotel in Paris, in a Haussmann building. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #spiral #Paris

A staircase from Bon Secours beach through the fortified wall of St Malo, which gets battered by the highest tides in Europe. #photography #b&w #staircase #StMalo #Brittany

The staircase access to the remaining pier of the artificial port on Omaha Beach at Vierville-sur-Mer. #photography #b&w #staircase #OmahaBeach #Normandy

The staircase of the smallest house in France, in Bayeax, Normandy. #photography #b&w #staircase #Bayeax

A modernised spiral staircase in an C19th building in Rennes. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #spiral #Rennes

A staircase up to the control tower of William Armstrong's Swing Bridge, crossing the River Tyne. 1876. #photography #b&w #staircase #Newcastle

A foot and cycle staircase. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture

Staircase into the Mauritshuis in Den Haag, home of Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', Hans van Heeswijk Architects 2009. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #TheHague

A communal staircase for foot and cycle. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture

Staircase down to a brewery in my hotel, which is a useful addition to the place. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #London

A C21st staircase access to the 1960's Brutalist Herschel Building designed by Sir Basil Spence in 1962 for Newcastle University. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #NewcastleUniversity

A stone staircase accessing a section of Hadrian's Wall you 𝘢𝘳𝘦 permitted to walk on. #photography #b&w #staircase #TheRomanWall #Northumberland

Staircase up to Old City Hall in Bermondsey. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #NormanFoster #FosterAndPartners #London

A spiral staircase in Sitges. #photography #b&w #staircase #spiral #architecture #Sitges

When steps from different centuries meet. #photography #b&w #staircase #Hvar #Croatia

Murder! #AuschwitzBirkenau #Oświęcim #genocide #fightfascism

A foot and cycle staircase. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture

A 28-metre staircase to a panorama of Den Haag, at Binnenhof viewing tower. #photography #b&w #staircase #TheHague

A double staircase connecting platforms at Blaak station in Rotterdam. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #Netherlands

Staircase into the Mauritshuis in Den Haag, home of Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', Hans van Heeswijk Architects 2009. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #TheHague

The escape staircase into the field of stelae from the Holocaust Information Centre beneath Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas ( Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe). They said never again would stand by and watch a genocide, and yet... #photography #b&w #staircase #Berlin #genocide

Staircase up to the Sudhaus, containing 6 giant copper vats, once the largest of their kind in Europe, at KINDL, the former Berlin brewery, now KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art. Hans Claus and Richard Schepke architects, 1930. #photography #b&w #architecture #staircase #Berlin

Main staircase at night, at the Newcastle Law Courts. Architect Napper Collerton 1990. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #Newcastle

An outside spiral staircase at the now demolished Preston Indoor Market. Barry Pierce Architect 1973. #photography #b&w #staircase #Brutalist #architecture #Preston

An outside spiral staircase at the now demolished Preston Indoor Market. Barry Pierce Architect 1973. #photography #b&w #staircase #Brutalist #architecture #Preston

A Gallowgate end staircase at St James' Park, home of Newcastle United football club. #photography #b&w #staircase #NUFC

The staircase access to the refuge hut on the Holy Island causeway. From here you can observe the incoming tide surround you, leaving you perched over the sea, as your car floats away. #photography #b&w #blackandwhitephotography #staircase #Lindisfarne #Northumberland

The Tulip Stairs in Queen’s House, Greenwich. Designed by Inigo Jones in 1635, it is the first self supporting spiral staircase in Britain. #architecture #photography #b&w #staircase #spiral #London

Staircase in Olympiastadion, Berlin. Designed by Werner March in 1936. #photography #b&w #architecture #Berlin #staircase

A staircase in the Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) in Berlin. designed by August Tiede 1875. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #Berlin

A Victorian staircase at Makeney Hall in Derbyshire, UK. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture

A staircase on the Get Carter car park (Gateshead multi-storey car park) 2008. Demolished 2010. Owen Luder Partnership 1967 #photography #b&w #staircase #Brutalist #OwenLuder #architecture

I wonder if Gregg Wallace will make next year's IACGMOOH or if it will be too soon for the wrath of 'middle-class women of a certain age' to dissipate? I imagine he looks like Munch's 'Scream' right now. #Masterchef #EesNotAvinIt

Staircase, after staircase after... 'Vessel' at Hudson Yards, New York. Sadly, no longer accessible on the upper levels after repeated suicides. Thomas Heatherwick architect 2019. #photography #b#w #staircase #architecture #NewYork

The grand staircase of the former Mather Hotel, built as a temperance hotel in 1899 in Dundee. (An all seeing eye checking you weren't drunk as you climbed it.) #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #Dundee

The two staircases leading up to the control room of the Swing Bridge which spans the River Tyne. Designed by William Armstrong, 1876. #photography #b&w #staircase #architecture #bridge #Newcastle #Gateshead