Brixton Splash street festival, 2010
Now in its fifth year, Brixton Splash is a one day free street festival in the heart of Brixton. The weather was good, the beer tasted fine and the bass …
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Croydon Summer Festival 2010 – photos
Here’s a few pics from the Croydon Summer Festival yesterday. The weather was perfect, the location pleasant, the beer flowed and the Damned put in a top set. Result all …
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Is this the narrowest doorway in London? 60, Union Street, SE1
I haven’t been able to find anything on the web about this (hopefully some of you lot will be able to help out) but this surely has to be one …
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Street signs, stickers and graffiti, London July 2010
A collection of street signs and graffiti seen around London. Can’t complain about the sentiments contained in this sticker seen near Carnaby Street, W1.
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Urban orchard and and community garden, Union Street, SE1
Following the London Festival of Architecture and lasting through the autumn, a derelict site at 100 Union Street in SE1 has been transformed into an urban orchard and community garden.
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Ping Pong London – 100 tables pop up across London
Between the 4th July and the 22nd August, a hundred ping pong tables will be popping up across “London’s landmarks, squares, stations, estates, pubs and even airports.”
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Devonshire Road nature reserve annual Open Day, London SE23
Located along one side of the Forest Hill to New Cross Gate railway cutting, Devonshire Road Nature Reserve is a delightful place to spend n afternoon.
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Protest archives: J18 Stop The City, 1999
As mass protests go, J18 was certainly one of the last of the big ones in the City of London, with a huge turnout causing all sorts of mayhem around …
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Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle and Gay Pride, Trafalgar Square
Standing above the crowded square and immune to the thumping cheesy Eurodisco of the Gay Pride celebrations below is the latest artwork on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square.
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Gross Indecency, Camden, with The Actionettes + Club Duckie
We’ve always been big fans of the folks at the Duckie Club, and we went along to their ‘Gross Indecency’ night in the delightful Camden Centre. The event took place …
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West End photos with a Lumix GF-1
After selling a few photos recently I was able to justify shelling out for a Lumix 14mm-45mm zooms lens for my Panasonic Lumix GF-1 camera.
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Lost London 1870 – 1945: stunning unpublished archive images
Stuffed full of over 500 incredible photographs of London taken between 1875 and 1945, this coffee table book from English Heritage is an absolute treat. The previously unpublished images show …
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Whoosh! Red Arrows flypast over London
Troubling my hangover with an unexpected burst of noise and colour was this flypast of the Red Arrows in London a few moments ago.
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Dan Sartain at the Garage, north London
It’s always a risky business taking to the stage in dark glasses, but Dan Sartain just about pulled it off last night.
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Beggar on Mods Mayday 79 – another blast from my past [video]
I was pleased to see that someone had gone to the trouble of posting up a YouTube video of one of our live recordings from the Mods Mayday 79 album.
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Take heed! Britain’s first fatal car accident, Harrow, 1899
En route to the boozer before Saturday’s Championship play off final at Wembley, I passed this plaque on a wall in Grove Hill, Harrow on the Hill. The roadside plaque …
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Piccadilly, South Bank and Green Park, May 2010
I love wandering around London wth my trusty Lumix X3 camera – here’s a few pics from a Friday ramble, starting with a photo of the cranes around Piccadilly.
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Orbital Comics, Great Newport Street, London
It was a real shame when the Photographers’ Gallery moved from its site on Great Newport Street in central London, but I’m happy to say that the building has been …
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A trip to the Dead House underneath Somerset House
On Saturday, we popped down to see ‘A Flow of Words,’ a spoken word event in the Dead House, underneath Somerset House.
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Yumchaa tea rooms, Soho: possibly the finest tea in London
This is a lovely tea shop/cafe in the heart of Soho. You can smell the leaves of the many blends on offer before ordering, and they do some pretty fine …
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Some truly top notch heckling here. The man deserves a pint. Sky’s news anchor was heckled while presenting live on Sky News this afternoon, with a enraged protester repeating chants …
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Crap London jobs: the sandwich board man
Sandwich board men have been on the streets of London for centuries, providing cheap and effective advertising for local businesses. Go back two hundred years and you would have seen …
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As part of the campaign to bring the World Science Fiction Convention to London in 2014, a four minute video montage of movie invasions has been put together. Dr Who …
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The Rookery, Streatham Common, London
This attractive, formally-landscaped area at the top of Streatham Common used to be known as Streatham Spa and once stood in the grounds of a large house called The Rookery.
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The Streatham Common Annual Kite Day
This was a fantastic day out and the weather was near perfect (apart from the nadger-freezing temperature).
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Behold! Hendon Broadway and station
I had to take a trip to Hendon last week. It wasn’t very nice.
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My mate Marcus at the ICA
My mate Marcus Oakley is an ace artist so we popped along to the ICA by Trafalgar Square to watch him do a live drawing thing with two of his …
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Gas lamp, Green Park
I love gas lamps: so here’s one in Green Park, central London. See more London gas lamps here.
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Remembering Broad Street railway station, London
Closed in 1986 after a long and lingering death, the once bustling terminus at Broad Street was in a parlous state at the end, with its extensive canopies cut back, …
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Bright light over London. Are we calling Batman?
There’s a very bright blue light shining up into the central London night sky from what must be somewhere around the Southbank. I don’t think we’re in need of Batman …
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