Another lost Brixton pub
Another lost Brixton pub Was out and about on my bike this afternoon, snapping a few pics around my ‘hood and came across this glorious old pub in Flaxman Road. …
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Photos, features, oddities and snapshots from the streets of London
Cabman’s shelters and a London walk, Feb 2006
Site updates.. London photos Added a page about a Saturday stroll around a wintery London here. Also new, a section about Cabman’s shelters which are Victorian ‘mini-cafes’ for London cab-drivers.
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Photos from Offline2 @ Birkbeck College
Photos from Offline2 @ Birkbeck College It was a strange night at first – I had to grimace through 45 minutes of a horribly over-enthusiastic salsa instructor whooping up a …
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‘Oval Tube Bomb’ – Curry 1 Terrorists 0
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 …
Read MoreThe quagmire returns – rain in London
The quagmire returns ‘The chances of getting a heavy downpour are quite small’, said a Met Office spokesman yesterday. Yeah, rrrright. Last night was the meanest, loudest, heaviest and longest …
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London’s docklands in the 80s, Epping to Ongar railway
Site updates I’ve been dusting off some of my old negatives and scanning in London pictures taken on my trusty Olympus OM10 35mm camera, waaay back in the 1980s. It …
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The Banjo Artshow exhibition at Cide, Waterloo
The Banjo Artshow exhibition at Cide, Waterloo Hung out with the low-trousered skateboard doodz tonight at the Banjo Artshow downstairs in the cide skateshop, 88 lower marsh street, waterloo, london. …
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Osterley Park Walk
Osterley Park Walk On a whim, we went out for a lovely walk on Sunday, through Osterley Park (west London) and along part of the Grand Union Canal. It’s a …
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Tax, curry and drink
This is going to be a short set of updates on account of the beastly bastard storm cloud looming up on my horizon. Yep, my tax return is due for …
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Le Tigre rock!
Le Tigre rock! The venue may well be one of the suckiest, most corporate, most soulless places to be found in London – it’s named after a fucking beer for …
Read MoreA feast of new photo panoramas on the site – Wales, London, Brixton…
A feast of new panoramas on the site! I’ve been swivelling about snapping photographic panoramas, and have just got around to adding them to the site. (Please note: panoramas need …
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London billboards and sandwich board men
London billboards and sandwich board men So, you’re walking along The Strand in 1838, minding your own business, when suddenly you’re confronted with a line of walking metal pots. Is …
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Photographing the Tate Modern
London weather pays off! A few weeks ago, I invested an inordinately large sum of money in a new Nikon D70 dSLR camera and I’m happy to say that it’s …
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Lewisham People’s Day…
Recovering… Saturday turned out to be a hectic one. Once I’d stopped having a hissy fit about the non-appearance of my new camera (see below), I headed out to the …
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Modstock at the Rocket in Holloway Road
Modstock Despite my bloodied hooter, I ventured up to the Rocket in Holloway Road for Modstock. Billed as a “3 Day Event Celebrating 40 Years of Modernist Culture”, it was …
Read MoreSenses working overtime: a Sunday afternoon by the River Thames
I took a walk along the South Bank today and it turned into a bit of an onslaught of emotions – from being uplifting by art, saddened by an exhibition …
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A Trip Down Tin Pan Alley, London
Tonight, I visited the 12 Bar Club in London’s West End for the first time and was mightily impressed. Conveniently situated in Denmark Street – a street long renowned for …
Read Moreurban75 walk to Chislehurst Caves
The urban75 walk I’ve just posted up part one of my report from the urban75 walk to Chislehurst Caves on Saturday.
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Going underground – Chiselhurst caves
Going underground After the uber-stress of trying to sort out a new server for urban75, a bonkers, up-for-it weekend was definitely called for – and I wasn’t disappointed. On Saturday, …
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London showers and the National Portrait Gallery
London showers It’s a windy, Spring day in London and I’ve been enjoying another of my mighty cross-town walks. I got the tube to Warren Street, walked along Tottenham Court …
Read MoreWalking through the West End
Today I had to take a series of 360 degree panoramas around Paddington for a client, and boy was the security badgers-arse tight around the station! Each panorama needs around …
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Powerpoint-tastic in the BT Tower
Powerpoint-tastic! Pie charts! Flow charts! Statistics! Strap lines! Lots of blokes in suits! Yep, I’m at an industry presentation and the air is alive with buzz words. We’re talking ‘convergence’, …
Read MoreSaturday afternoon, London
Saturday afternoon, London Cillin’ with an afternoon coffee in the Photographers Gallery, Leicester Square. It’s been a mad week – I worked out that I’d barely left the flat for …
Read MoreThe Dome, Lambeth Country Show and PROD
Skankin’ around the room… Currently glued to the office CD player is the mighty fine Linton Kwesi Johnson, “LKJ in Dub” 1980 CD. ‘Nuff respect! A quick update to what’s …
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