Tiger Force! We salute you! [videos]
Man, I loved this band. They played Offline a couple of times – at our Brixton Dogstar and Brixton JAMM gigs – but they seem to have split up several …
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The Shard rises! Iconic London skyscraper underway
Originally called the ‘London Bridge Tower’, and then the ‘Shard London Bridge’ and ‘Shard of Glass’ before most people settled on describing it as ‘The Shard,’ this elegant skyscraper is …
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A walk along Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London
I like Lower Marsh in Waterloo. Although it’s smack bang in the centre of London, with the bustling railway station just yards away, it retains a 1960s feel, with traditional …
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The Brixton Evangelist, Brixton tube, 2000
Anyone remember this guy? He used to be a regular fixture outside Brixton tube station ten years ago, belting out ‘Fire and Brimstone’ platitudes through a horribly loud megaphone.
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Brixton Station Road railway arches – photographs of a disappearing Brixton
I’ve just posted up a set of photos I took of the railway arches along Brixton Station Road, back in 2001. I liked the distinctive, time-battered look to the various …
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Mayor’s Thames Festival celebrates London and its river
We popped along to the Thames Festival this afternoon and had rather a splendid day of it all.
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Massive Brixton police chase: Coldharbour Lane/Moorlands Road
Walking back from the pub tonight, we saw a black Mini car hurtling west at dangerous speeds down Coldharbour Lane, swiftly followed by a deafening flotilla of siren-wailing feds, numbering …
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Club Duckie’s 15th Birthday Party at the Southbank Centre
This was a fantastic night – the Southbank was packed, the floor sticky with spilt beer and the music was fabulous – any club that plays Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” …
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Greenwich Comedy Festival: Actionettes at the Silent Disco
Performing last night at the Greenwich Comedy Festival was the fabulous 60s go-go dancing troupe, The Actionettes.
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Atlantic Road, Brixton – archive photos from 2001
Looking back through my photo archives, I came across these old photos taken of the old ‘Frontline’ in Atlantic Road, Brixton back in 2001 when large chunks of the road …
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Brixton photos: a unicycling busker, street architecture and coffee
You’ve got to give him points for effort here. A unicycling, guitar playing busker wearing rabbit ears sings it out loud outside KFC in central Brixton.
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Brixton: Guyana Roti, tree trousers and a little envelope
Three photos for you from my wander around Brixton today. The first is of the Guyanese roti caravan on Brixton Station Road, which has proved a hit on the urban75 …
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Covent Garden photos: market views and curious street artists
Covent Garden is a ruddy weird place to be on on a busy Saturday afternoon. To get to the market, you have to pass rows of bizarrely painted ‘human statues’ …
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Tube strike: no Brixton tube today (7/09/10)
Anyone looking to travel to/from Brixton tune today, be advised: the tube station is only open for topping up Oyster cards and there are no tube trains running.
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Battle of Britain flypast as London remembers the Blitz
Apologies for the shonky photos – trying to capture the Battle of Britain flypast over St Paul’s reminded me of just how small the World War 2 aircraft were – …
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Urban Green Fair photos, Brockwell Park, south London, 2010
I spent a pleasant afternoon at Brockwell park on Sunday at the Urban Green Fair, hanging out and chatting to friends.
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Federation Coffee, Brixton – London’s finest coffee?
For Brixton’s coffee cognoscenti and caffeine-quaffing connoisseurs of the coffee bean, there’s one truly unmissable place on London’s cafe map, and that’s Federation Coffee.
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A curious night sky over London
Is it just me, but does this 2.30am scene look rather odd? It’s like a low, semi-illuminated white cloud has descended over central London. The pictures don’t really do the …
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Morris dancing on the Southbank – 110 photos!
Most people may deem them to be as cool as a heatwave on Planet Mercury, but I rather like Morris dancers – I mean, they drink a lot, dance about …
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London: Waterloo Bridge, Centre Point and road works
Six views from my wander around central London on Saturday. Above is Centre Point, photographed against a late summer sky.
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Brixton scenes: Rasta van, Mr Biggs, truck graffiti and Grosvenor banjos
One of the best things about living in Brixton is that there’s always something interesting going on, or a scene to catch the eye – like this fabulously named van …
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Coborn Road railway station: a long abandoned East London station
Located on the main line out of London from Liverpool Street, Coborn Road station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1865.
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Breakfast at the Polo Bar 24 hour cafe, Liverpool Street, London
It’s not often we get invited to a press event at a traditional British ‘greasy spoon’ cafe, but when the offer of a free breakfast at the Polo Bar cafe …
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Olympic stadium walk – Mile End to Victoria Park and Bow along the canal
On Saturday we caught the tube to Mile End for a six mile walk through east London to check out progress on the 2012 Olympic site. It’s a lovely walk …
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The Counter cafe, Hackney Wick, E3 – another great London coffee house
I love it when we stumble across a fine coffee in an unlikely place, and we definitely came up trumps on Saturday when we visited the Counter cafe in east …
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Umbrellas in London: a rainy summer afternoon in the capital
I like rain (although not at festivals!), so grabbed a few photos on my Lumix LX3 compact camera when I wandered around town on a wet summer afternoon in August.
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Coney Beach amusement park, south Wales: 90 years old
Built on an old ballast tip, the amusement park at Coney Beach in Porthcawl, south Wales, dates back to to April 1920, when its first attraction arrived in the shape …
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The Goodbench – another independent Brixton coffee bar opens!
Caffeine freaks are getting very spoilt in Brixton, with another independent coffee shop opening up in SW9 this week.
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Coney Island archive photos: 1986 and 1999
Dug up from my photo archives is this series of photos of the faded seaside town of Coney Island, Brooklyn, which I visited in 1986 and 1999. I was terrified …
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A stunning rainbow over Crystal Palace, south London
We’ve just been treated to a stunning scene over south London, with a beautiful rainbow filling the skies.
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