The Llandin - the end

On Penton Mound

Refuge from the rain in Northampton Square

Bunhill Fields

Breathless at Leytonstone Film Club

Photo from the screening in the library

London Ephemera

Assortment of images taken in the last week






The brilliant D.O.C Records, Cardwell Terrace N7, tile in the Gents toilet in The Lamb pub Lamb's Conduit Street, Pre-Roman woodland deity found in Epping Forest, Anglo Saxon brooch found in South London

"The deepest problems of modern life flow from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society, against the weight of historical heritage and the external culture and technique of life."
- The Metropolis and Mental Life, Georg Simmel (1903)

SAVAGE MESSIAH WALK ALONG THE PATH OF THE RIVER FLEET.

CAUTION! THIS IS NOT A GUIDED TOUR!!!!!
SAVAGE MESSIAH WALK ALONG THE PATH OF THE RIVER FLEET.
As part of Housmans bookshop ‘London’s burning’ programme of events Laura Oldfield Ford invites you to join a collective tracing of the Fleet, one of London’s lost rivers.
Saturday 4th July
First meeting point 2pm Hampstead tube—
Second meeting point 4pm approx Quinns public house, the point where the two tributaries of the Fleet converge.. 65, Kentish Town Rd, London, NW1 8NY
--end approx 6pm Housman’s Bookshop, Caledonian Road, Kings Cross N1 where we will be showing London films, more info to follow.
This event is FREE but we will be collecting donations at Housmans for food and drink.
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Fleet road/ Gospel Oak Estate/ Irish boozers in Malden road/ Queens crescent Man of Aran pub/ Royal College stret/ Rimbaud and Verlaine’s house/ St pancras churchyard……

BRING… old maps, booze, chalk, codeine.
www.housmans.com
vach

Public Reading Rooms
5, Caledonian Road
Kings Cross
London N1 9DX
http://www.1968andallthat.net/publicreadingrooms
http://www.myspace.com/publicreadingrooms

Iain Sinclair on Ackroyd's Thames

Read Iain Sinclair's lengthy review of Peter Ackroyd's 'Thames: Sacred River' in the LRB here

The Un(known) City

"Exploring the unknown city is a political act: a way of bringing to urban dwellers new resources for remapping the city. Nevertheless, the unknown might resist such attempts at disclosure. It could be that what is known about the city has been known all along."
- Steve Pile, The Un(known) City ... or, an Urban Geography of What Lies Buried below the Surface

Sunset on the Lea

I took this photo on my phone towards the end of a 7.5 mile walk home from Kentish Town after work. As I crossed the Eastway facing the carnage of the Olympic Park construction site the sun was setting directly down the course of the River Lea.

On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972

Thought I'd share this insightful vid about the Situationist International

A Cartographic Guide to the World of Half Man Half Biscuit

Found this on the HMHB website - sublime:

"Locations namechecked in the collected works of Half Man Half Biscuit, the greatest group of recent times who are quite rightly (in the words of the late great John Peel) "A British institution".

Created by Stuart Vallantine and a band of other HMHB fans who are just as anal in picking out place names in the collected works of Messrs Blackwell and Crossley."

All lyrics Copyright 1985 - 2008 Half Man Half Biscuit.


View Half Map Half Biscuit in a larger map

Iain Sinclair: At large in a 'fictional' Hackney

Great video from The Guardian of Iain Sinclair walking, talking and reading from his Hackney book with clips from his legendary Super 8 diaries

Postmens Office

Leighton Road NW5

King Mob

Stumbled across this interesting article about King Mob by Hari Kunzru in Tate magazine. Kunzru writes about how King Mob developed "an interest in the disruptive anti-art potential of Dada and Surrealism and a hard-edged politics partly derived from nineteenth-century Russian Nihilism. In texts such as Pisarev’s The Destruction of Aesthetics, they found fundamental questions being asked about value, politics and the (lack of ) social function of art."
Well worth reading the rest of the article here

Although it's unclear what became of King Mob there is an audiobook version of Iain Sinclair's Downriver released by a label using the King Mob moniker.