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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BR 70000 Britannia loco thunders through Brixton
Gleaming in the glorious Brixton sunshine is this excursion train headed up by a BR standard class 7 70000 Britannia locomotive.
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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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Offline hip hop special with The Scribes rocks Brixton!
Doubling up as my birthday party, this turned out to be a great night at the Prince Albert in Brixton, with a big crowd and the fantastic Scribes putting in …
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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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The Brighton i360 tower: ‘successor’ to the West Pier
With the remains of Brighton’s magnificent West Pier now doomed to slowly rust away into the English Channel, the West Pier Trust have lent their support to what they believe …
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Remembering the Brighton West Pier in photos, part two
By 2003, storm damage and two arson attacks had all but destroyed the entire structure of the West Pier. Although there is an active campaign to create an ‘appropriate successor …
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Remembering the Brighton West Pier in photos, part one
I fell in love with this pier when I first saw it used as a backdrop for some of the photos in the photo supplement that accompanied The Who’s Quadrophenia double album. …
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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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Save our libraries videos: Brixton library and more
Well worth five minutes of your time is this short video (below) filmed outside Brixton Library showning how the community is fighting to keep libraries open across the UK.
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Farewell then, Brixton Pope’s Road car park
Although it was undeniably useful as a car park, Brixton Pope’s Road multi storey car park was an utterly charmless slab of mean and oppressive architecture, and I’m delighted to …
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Offline Brixton weekender: Drunken Balordi and Narcotic Daffodils
Last weekend was ambitious: two Offline Club nights at the Brixton Prince Albert with the massive TUC March for the Alternative demo in the middle – but we just about …
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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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Sunday 27th March – Brixton Pope’s Road footbridge is coming down
The last standing reminder of the Pope’s Road car park is set to disappear, with the removal of the concrete link bridge coming down this Sunday.
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Photo of the day: raised manhood covers
Spotted in Thornhill, north Cardiff, February 2004.
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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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Happy Birthday to the Brixton Ritzy – 100 years old today
Today is the 100th birthday of The Ritzy, and if you get down there quick they’re marking the occasion with a special screening celebrating the birth of cinema and the …
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The Crown (Mucky Duck), 201 Coldharbour Lane SW9 awaits its fate
Loughborough Junction may be in motion, but one place that has been stationary for years is the old Crown pub at 201, Coldharbour Lane SW9/corner of Padfield Road, SE5.
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Brixton and the unexpected Coutts Bank connection
With its peeling paint, neo-brutalist lines and Cold War looks, 336 Brixton Road sports all the charisma of a soon-to-be-condemned failed council project, but this stark concrete oddity from the late 1960s has a rather …
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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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Brixton Station Road/Pope’s Road car park – flattened!
Now almost totally obliterated from the Brixton landscape is the concrete multi-story car park that loomed on the corner of Brixton Station Road and Pope’s Road.
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This video footage of the 1994-5 protests against the No M11 Link road campaign in Leyton and Leytonstone in East London brought a nostalgic tear to my eye. Claremont Road …
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