![I have to admit that I’m not exactly what you’d call a foodie – I like greasy spoons and old cafes best of all – but over on our sister […]](http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/FOODGUIDE-620x300.jpg "Eating out in Brixton? Here’s the best guide for cafes and restaurants")
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Heavy rain on a train window, England
There’s something wonderfully melancholic about gazing out of a train window on a gloomy winter’s afternoon and hearing the heavy rain hitting the window.
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A Saturday afternoon on Enfield Playing Fields, north London, November 2013
Containing numerous football, rugby and baseball pitches, Enfield’s King George’s Field can be found a short walk from Enfield railway station.
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Folkestone Harbour branch line – closure proposed, consultation open until Feb 2014
Network Rail has announced that it wants to close the one mile long Folkestone Harbour branch line and its terminus at Folkestone Harbour.
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The short life and swift death of a Foxtons estate agent sign, Brixton
Yesterday, a sign advertising the controversial estate agents, Foxtons appeared tied on to a wall of a council housing estate in Brixton, south London. The sign was positioned next to the entrance […]
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![With rents and house prices going through the roof across London, activists are campaigning hard to highlight the hardships being created by government policies and to fight for the provision […]](http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/stratford-halo-housing-protest-5-115x115.jpg "Renters occupy luxury flat in the Stratford Halo development, east London")
Renters occupy luxury flat in the Stratford Halo development, east London
Posted on Friday, Nov 22, 2013 | 2 CommentsWith rents and house prices going through the roof across London, activists are campaigning hard to highlight the hardships being created by government policies and to fight for the provision […] -
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Fat White Family headline the Antifolk Festival at Soho’s fabulous 12 Bar venue
Posted on Monday, Nov 18, 2013 | No CommentsLocated by Tottenham Court Road tube station, the 12 Bar in Denmark Street is one of the very last rock’n'roll venues left anywhere near Soho, and it’s one that’s well […] -
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Posted on Sunday, Nov 17, 2013 | No CommentsI rather liked how the Centre Point building in central London looked last night, with the letter ‘O’ from the sign at the top seemingly broken so that the words […]
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