Curry 1 Terrorists 0


So the tubes were in a chaos, the buses weren't running and chunks of London were sealed off with police tape - but we had a date with a curry!


We decided to walk the 4-odd miles to the Strand, and it turned out to be a very pleasurable experience indeed.

With many roads closed and no buses running, walking along Kennington Road felt like a trip back to the early 20th century, with lines of commuters walking back in the early evening sunshine.


Crossing Waterloo Bridge. In central London, everything was back to normal, with the bustling streets punctuated with al fresco diners and groups of people enjoying an apres-work drink or two.

We enjoyed a lovely curry - another impromptu meal for the urban75 Book Club - at the gloriously down-at-heel India Club. The food isn't the greatest, but it's a good old fashioned no-nonsense curry house, where you can bring in your beer and take your time.

Recommended.

London Bombs (part 2)

The fuckers are it again, but this time it looks like the bombs didn't go off properly.

Four minor explosions took place on three underground trains and a bus this afternoon, thankfully with no fatalities.

I'll leave it 'Badger Kitten' - who was caught up in the Kings Cross bomb two weeks ago and wrote her experiences on urban75 - to sum up my feelings best:

"That freaked me the fuck out. Again. Motherfucker bastard shitheads"

BBC story

Site updates

If I say so myself, there's some great new stuff on the site.
Taking pride of place is my spod-tastic Abandoned stations and disused railways section, offering photo reports on long forgotten lines.

Did you know that a remote Dyke near Brighton once had its own branch line, a 'Steep Grade Railway' and an aerial cable car, attracting crowds of up to 30,000?



It's all long gone now, but it must have been an amazing place to visit in its heyday.



Elsewhere on the site, I've add a chapter from Chris Robert's superb Cross River Traffic Project book, called 'Gods of the River and Bridge' and a chapter from Andy Worthington's book documenting the 1985 clash between police and the Stonehenge Peace Convoy, known as the Battle of the Beanfield


I've finally finished updating my New York photo gallery, adding a new Shops, Signs and Graffiti section and the Glastonbury 2005 photo gallery is now online.

In response to the ever-growing range of urban75-related activities, there's now a Community homepage and a separate section for the Walks In And Around London.

Readers can also keep up to date with the blogs of urban75-ers via a new Blog Listing.

Finally, coming up next Thursday (28th July) is the next Offline Club night, featuring the infamous 'comedy terrorist' Aaron Barschak and highly rated electro-poppers ROC.

See you there!

London hit by terrorist bombs


Brixton tube station has stayed closed all day

It's been a terrible, terrible day in London after a series of bomb attacks has killed more than 30 people and injured around 350 others.

Three explosions on tube trains left 33 dead and they're stil trying to work out how many people were killed when a blast on a double-decker bus blew out the top floor.

The entire tube network is closed until tomorrow night.

But will the actions of these terrorist scumbags make me live in fear, want to move out of the great city of London or change my life in any way at all?

Like fuck.

UPDATE: One of the urban75 regulars was on the bombed King's Cross train. You can read her harrowing tale here: Terrorist attack on London, 7th July 2005.
A survivor from the King's Cross tube bomb tells her story