They paid £400,000* for this? It’s graffiti isn’t it? Couldn’t they have given Daniel Halpin (the TOX-03 guy from the tube) a small grant and got him to spray LDN-12 everywhere instead? Just as much of an eyesore, but a damn sight cheaper. * Note: This number may have been pulled from my arse, but …
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A walk on the wild side – to Barking
After making good my escape from entrapment in the building yard, I carried on down River Road hoping to get back to the riverside at some point. River Road Once one of the primary industrial roads in Barking, servicing the old Barking power station and various warehouses and stores along the Thames, now the road …
A walk on the wild side – inadvertant acts of trespass.
Saturday last I decided photograph the area of Dagenham south of the A13 – the industrial heartland. Recent demolition and construction projects has altered the face of the area significantly since I’d last paid a visit well over fifteen years ago. Back then Fords controlled much more of the land around Chequers lane and the …
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Open House
Next weekend is the London Open House weekend. Saturday sees me visiting family in Tiptree for the family tree project, so I’m looking for somewhere local to visit on Sunday. That’s off now, so I might be able to do both days. The search on the website is, however, pretty badly done and, in fact, …
Family tree research
Earlier this year, I started researching my family tree with my sister. I was something we’d both always wanted to do, but never told the other. When we both realised we wanted to do it, we found in the incentive to actually go about it. Things are much easier when you have someone else dragging …