Blue, red and grey: tube train, Tottenham Court Road
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The view from Westminster Cathedral’s Campanile Tower
I didn’t even know it was possible for the public to go up this huge brick tower until recently, but we took a trip to the top recently and I grabbed …
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London Bridge rail redevelopment charges across Borough Market
Blasting its way over Borough Market and thrusting its metal loins over Borough High Street is Network Rail’s rail improvement works. Tasked with improving the old Victorian track layout around …
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London’s changing skyline, seen from South Bermondsey
The changing skyline of central London, as seen from South Bermondsey tube station, next to Millwall’s football ground. To the left is the unfinished Shard, with Tower42, the Gherkin and …
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London Life: Piccadilly Art Market, Green Park
Every Saturday and Sunday in central London, a huge and rather ramshackle art market rises up on the railings surrounding Green Park, on the south side of Piccadilly.
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Spring has sprung in Green Park, London
After a long winter, it only takes a few beams of sunlight breaking through the cloud to get London’s parks filled up with picnickers, suntan seekers, loungers, drinkers and newspaper perusers. With …
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London Victoria railway station – the refurbished roof sees the light
Costing a cool £24m and the result of several years work, the roof renewal project at London’s bustling Victoria railway terminus is finally reaching completion.
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Streatham struggles to keep its leisure and entertainment venues
Things aren’t looking too good for Streatham residents at the moment, with the High Road peppered with closed down swimming baths, cinema and clubs.
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Streatham Kite Day 2011 – photos
This was a lovely day out – the weather was fantastic and there was enough wind about to keep most kites up.
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The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion
Work continues apace on The Shard tower at London Bridge, which will be the tallest building in the European Union when completed next year.
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A walk down Petticoat Lane Market, London E1
One of the oldest surviving markets in Britain, records show that second hand clothes and bric-a-brac were being sold and exchanged around Petticoat Lane as far back as 1608.
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The Heron rises in the City, 36-storeys for the well heeled in EC2
Not physically related to the Heron Tower at 100 Bishopgate although built by the same people, this posh residential development is apparently set to “redefine standards of luxury living in …
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urban75 celebrates 10 million posts
Blimey! When I started urban75 way back in 1995, I never thought it would still be going strong in 2011, and today sees the bulletin board hitting the astonishing total of …
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Museum of London: London Street Photography
Well worth a visit is the Museum of London’s ‘London street photography’ exhibition, showing over 200 candid street scenes from 1860 to the present day.
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Pics of the day: graffiti train, Farringdon, London
Seen earlier today at Farringdon station, central London, was this heavily graffiti’d train carriage on a northbound train. Only the last carriage had been painted. Scroll down for more.
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NHS blood-spilling direct action at Charing Cross – photos
With Friday, April 1st being ‘All Together for the NHS Day‘ actions are taking place all across the UK to raise awareness about and protest against the Health and Social …
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Brixton pub quizzes: a handy list
I’m fairly partial to a beer-fuelled pub quiz or two, and there’s always quite a few going on around Brixton in the week. There doesn’t seem to be any official …
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March for the Alternative, London demo: 220 photos
It’s been one hell of a weekend, but I’ve finally got around to posting up my photos from the huge march on Saturday. Scroll down for a selection, with links …
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Photos from the TUC March for the Alternative, 26th March 2011
Just got back in from the huge anti-cuts march in central London today. I took hundreds of photos but seeing as I have to get ready for the free after …
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Abandoned Victorian mansions, Windsor Walk, Denmark Hill SE5
Left empty and criminally deteriorating are these fine early Victorian mansions on Windsor Walk, right next to Denmark Hill railway station, London SE5.
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Celeb-compacted launch for The Shed Cafe, Walham Grove SW6
I’ve been along to some cafe launches before, but there’s no doubting that the launch for The Shed in Fulham last night was the liveliest of the lot.
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March for the Alternative demo, Sat 26th March 2011 – info, legal help, chat and after-party
The Government is introducing spending cuts that will damage public services, put hundreds of thousands out of work, have a terrible impact on the vulnerable, damage communities and undermine much …
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A walk through ‘in motion’ Loughborough Junction, south London
Laughably labelled as “in motion” by some Frappuccino-fuelled over privileged rich-kid overheard in a cafe, Loughborough Junction remains a pale shadow of its former self.
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Fantastic London transport map is a rail buff’s delight
If you’re as cartographically obsessed as me, you’ll quite happily spend long hours poring over Ordnance Survey maps, archive maps, route diagrams and rail maps, and if you’ve any interest …
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Ruskin Park in the spring, south London
One of south London’s lesser known parks, Ruskin Park is situated between Camberwell, Brixton and Herne Hill (and right next to Denmark Hill station), and I took a lovely stroll through it …
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London’s 288m Pinnacle Tower gets back on track
After reaching just six floors high, work stalled on the Pinnacle Tower (formerly known as the Bishopsgate Tower) last year after a half-billion pound shortfall in funding looked set to consign the …
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A trip to the South London Gallery and No 67 cafe, London SE5
One of London’s lesser known art galleries, the South London Gallery lurks in deepest Camberwell – right next to Camberwell School of Art – and is well worth a visit.
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Brixton riot 30 years on: Windrush Square event, Sun 10th April 2011
It’s been thirty long years since the streets of Brixton responded to increasingly heavy handed policing with a full blown riot, involving up to 5,000 people. Described as “Bloody Saturday” …
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Unfinished London and the Ring Roads that never were
Written and presented by the ever-entertaining Jay Foreman, I’ve rather enjoyed this video about the 1970s motorway-crazed London ‘Ringways’ project that – thankfully – never fully came to life.
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March 26th: March Against The Cuts, Kennington Park, 11am
The 26th March, 2011 will see Trade Unions, Pensioners’ groups, Unemployed organisations, students and local residents, march against the cuts and in defence of public services.
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